Create and Fuck your AI Slut -70% OFF
x

VN Ren'Py Friends in Need [S1 v0.85c] [NeonGhosts]

4.50 star(s) 248 Votes
Discussion Reviews (248)
S

Sereni

Newbie
Nov 16, 2019
89
216
194
patreon (public post)




You must be registered to see the links

Dev Update! 7/31/23
Hey, hi, and howdy! Hope everyone's doing well this week.
At long last I'm winding down work on the next update. Renders stand at 1284 as of now. By this Friday I'll be posting the Beta version of Friends Indeed, with the final version to follow not long thereafter. As always, it'll be released in tiers, staggered by patron level, before finally being opened to the public. I know it's been a long road, but we're nearly there.
This week's been spent primarily working on erotic scenes, so I don't have a ton of images I can display here on the public post. So, I thought I'd whip up a few HD pics of Madison and Pepper, as a little bonus. We don't get to see a lot of Madison, but her time is fast approaching.
Besides the always-fun (and often-tedious! :D ) work of completing the art, I was also working to resolve a nasty little bug I'd made for myself. Folks at the $5+ support level will be aware of this, as I briefly explained my frustrations in last week's Sneak Peek post. I've said it many times, but I'm not a strong coder. Technical stuff just ain't my bag! Fortunately, I have an absolutely amazing community of supporters here, and had two different people offer me a hand with it. So big ups to fans of the game, Nyyppa and MasterOfPuppets. Y'all the real MVPs.
So, yeah! Not really much to say at this point. I'm just keeping my nose to the grindstone as I gut this one out.
I'm super excited to finally get this into everyone's hands, but I'm really excited to move onto the next update. See, when I began this project, I'd actually written a four-chapter outline. I wanted to get ahead of the curve, and have plenty of scripts in the can before I even started rendering.
But, things changed, as they tend to do. I added a lot of characters, a lot of new story hooks, got better at coding, and refined my whole production process. So, all that stuff basically got chucked in the trash. But, the original Chapter Four ended with a big story beat, which would have reverberated through following chapters. Now, finally, I'll be getting back to that moment. This means nothing to you folks, but for me it's kind of a big deal. I'm coming to the end of the road I'd initially laid out, and moving off into uncharted waters.
(Except I've totally be charting those waters, in the interim.)
So, stay tuned and watch this space, and I'll have some new stuff for you soon enough. As always -- I sincerely appreciate everyone who supports this little project of mine. Without you folks, I couldn't do it. Much thanks and eternal gratitude to all of you fine folks.
Take care of yourselves, and see you back here soon!
 
  • Like
  • Yay, update!
  • Thinking Face
Reactions: PHIL101-YYouPPHard, Mikey_Boy101, Mpkstroff and 18 others
K

Karana

Newbie
Feb 8, 2017
77
246
218
RC-1138 Boss said:
Damn Guy those are some ugly pants. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Nice to have a release date already. :cool:(y)
Click to expand...
I think they're hilarious. I imagine it like she's standing there in her little black dress and stiletto heels lecturing him on the finer points of why blackmailing girls into intimate acts is wrong while he's just sitting there in his kiddy boardshorts complaining that it's Turtle Time and her ass is blocking the television. How absolutely degrading that this is what her life is now and this complete manchild has absolute control over it. I love it. Spoon me up another heaping of that.
 
  • Haha
  • Like
Reactions: drisarter, PHIL101-YYouPPHard, abgazil and 1 other person
P

pyrolisk

Member
Jan 16, 2021
233
338
187
Just leaving this here so I can find it again without scrolling through 40 pages of updated games..
 
P

PHIL101-YYouPPHard

Well-Known Member
Jan 11, 2022
1,191
2,555
386
imnotoverhere said:
I could be mistaken but I recall there being very little interaction with Pepper and Viola unless you select specific paths. There could be others as well but those are the two that jump to mind when I was thinking about characters who can be easily avoided. It's possible they'll be getting more content similar to other characters but I sort of viewed the game as having a few primary characters that got a lot of attention (Ashe, Gabby, Nikki, etc) and some minor characters.
Click to expand...
Whoops, sorry I'm so late replying. Yeah, I could also be mistaken in my memory, but I'm pretty sure Pepper and Viola give you the same scenes, bar the romantic/sexual stuff.

So, last update, you finally encounter Pepper in the restaurant and deal with her little drama or w/e, trying to get to the bottom of the missing money, and at this point you can decide what path you're going to take with her. It's the usual, ofc, basically: friend/nice, corruption/findom, and psychopath grapist. I don't recall any particular romantic path there, I think you have to pick the friendly stuff for now which ofc increases her happy points (which is the goal in romance, as we all know). Pepper's official romantic path might be established in the next encounter with her, as romance tends to be more delayed than the other stuff. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please.

As for Viola, the only encounter with her so far is at the clothing store where, as with most other initial major encounters, you can set her routes up. It's the same for her, though: corruption/findom, psychopath grapist, or friend/nice where you just help her and increase her happy points. We'll see her again in the next update according to Neon, though it seems it'll be brief.

So, yeah, I think with all the girls, friend route isn't shutting you out of any of their actual plots and dramas, it only re-frames everything and of course removes the romance/sexual stuff. Also, it's important to keep in mind that Neon has written and scripted his game to allow a lot of route flexibility, which for us means we are allowed to change our minds regarding the women, within reason. We can go from friend route -> romance or findom or grape, or from corruption/findom -> romance(?)/friendlier findom? (lol, never tried to do this and the game is still far from completion, so still a little fuzzy on the execution details), and so on. If the drama stuff was totally taken out, this would basically remove these opportunities for the friend route, which imo would be a loss.

Also also, Pepper and Viola are considered main characters according to Neon. I think all the women in the game's banner picture on the front page are the main cast. The screen time of course doesn't reflect that so far, but the game is young :p
 
  • Yay, update!
Reactions: SlapE
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
4.50 star(s) 248 Votes