Ren'Py Harem Hotel [v0.18.2] [Runey]

[TheDevian]

maybe upload and post the links to older version to the off-topic thread for posterity?

Need my current hosts for my game, but I will look into that, sadly I had to delete some of the older ones when I was running out of space, but I still have a handful.
Looks like the oldest one I have still packed would be 13.2, doing 10 would require me rezipping the folder I have, and then deleting all the saves, persistent, screenshots, notes and memes. XD

The problem being that the best of the free hosts I have found gives like 10gig free, and the smallest one I have in that folder is 7.33gig. XD
I am open to suggestions though...

 

[Sprungler]

some kinks deserve to be shamed

Like hand-holding and female protagonists.

 

[c3p0]

Need my current hosts for my game, but I will look into that, sadly I had to delete some of the older ones when I was running out of space, but I still have a handful.
Looks like the oldest one I have still packed would be 13.2, doing 10 would require me rezipping the folder I have, and then deleting all the saves, persistent, screenshots, notes and memes. XD

The problem being that the best of the free hosts I have found gives like 10gig free, and the smallest one I have in that folder is 7.33gig. XD
I am open to suggestions though...

Mine going back to 0.9.2.

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[RuslanZelya]

what is the Cheat Password in version 0.18.2

 

[TheDevian]

what is the Cheat Password in version 0.18.2

truestory
ifuckedlucy
and I can never remember the last public one. changename maybe?

 

[{Jeizaguretokanteishi01}]

v0.19 should be out soon right

 

[TheDevian]

v0.19 should be out soon right

Haven't used one of these in a while...

Hard to say, we don't know how many more scenes he is planning to add.

 

[Opa Wants]

Haven't used one of these in a while...

Hard to say, we don't know how many more scenes he is planning to add.

My Fav

 

[c3p0]

Haven't used one of these in a while...

Hard to say, we don't know how many more scenes he is planning to add.

Soupe with fairy flavour.
If that isn't enough you can then season it more with crushed dry fairy wing powder.

 

[Noah Neim]

Haven't used one of these in a while...

Hard to say, we don't know how many more scenes he is planning to add.

What if someone just hates fairies and abuses this cosmic law?

 

[Opa Wants]

Soupe with fairy flavour.
If that isn't enough you can then season it more with crushed dry fairy wing powder.

You You Sadistic Monster!

 

[ZenoMod]

That brings me to another point, you can't have more than one copy of the game on your pc, at least on the same profile, as they will try to use the same folder in AppData, and the persistent file will not like the older one.

This Ren'Py feature is utterly annoying. More than a feature, I would call it "a bug by design".

It creates more problems than it solves. That transparently overwriting the persisten file is demential. It should at least prompt for confirmation.

Even better, there should be a native way to keep persistent files separate for different releases.

How could the Ren'Py developers not foresee that many players would like to be able to have more releases of a game on the same computer?

 

[BigCosyStoryFan]

This Ren'Py feature is utterly annoying. More than a feature, I would call it "a bug by design".

There are ways around it, but it requires the developer to deal with it.

For example, using the slotname callback (

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), which was added a couple of years ago, and mixing that with a regexp when listing saves or slots. The other options are more complex, but revolve around swapping the config.save_directory value.

But it does require the developer to implement it, because anything more complex than a basic 'save' option requires a lot more work.

As it applies to Harem Hotel beta releases, it's not really worth Runey's time/effort. If someone wrote a workable solution, and stuck it up for everyone to use, then maybe it'd find its way into testing patterns for games, but there's little point.

 

[c3p0]

What if someone just hates fairies and abuses this cosmic law?

Been there, done that.

 

[TheDevian]

This Ren'Py feature is utterly annoying. More than a feature, I would call it "a bug by design".

It creates more problems than it solves. That transparently overwriting the persisten file is demential. It should at least prompt for confirmation.

Even better, there should be a native way to keep persistent files separate for different releases.

How could the Ren'Py developers not foresee that many players would like to be able to have more releases of a game on the same computer?

If they would remove the AppData folder crap, it would not be a problem, but then players might have to learn to not delete their saves, and I guess that is too hard.

 

[ZenoMod]

If they would remove the AppData folder crap, it would not be a problem, but then players might have to learn to not delete their saves, and I guess that is too hard.

LoL... People still lose their saves nonetheless the AppData automatic backup, so...

 

[TheDevian]

LoL... People still lose their saves nonetheless the AppData automatic backup, so...

That is because they are used to that being there, and depend on it. They got lazy.

 

[markus T]

LoL... People still lose their saves nonetheless the AppData automatic backup, so...

I'm sure it does happen every once in a awhile. For example....Some times I purge my renpy save folder in the apdata and sometimes I forget about a certain game and it ends up being deleted with the rest. lets face it....that folder gets pretty hefty after awhile lol. I started saving my actual saves now instead of relying on the backups.
But I will say that probably 95% of the ppl claiming that they lost their saves are lying and just want an easy mode save so that they don't have to put the work in their self.

 

[Incendax]

95% of the ppl claiming that they lost their saves are lying and just want an easy mode save so that they don't have to put the work in their self.

What usually happens for me is I delete everything to save space, then wait a dozen updates before downloading again / signing back up to Patreon. But I've never asked for saves. I just Skip/Fastforward the whole thing again. It admittedly gets pretty painful for longer games like Superhuman, or games with lots of clickable choices. I should really just keep manual saves somewhere!

 

[grey_shadow]

Without the appdata saves, you'd need to do more work for players upgrading to a new version - the in-folder saves work if you can patch or overwrite the previous install, but you'd need to teach players how to manually transfer saves, or how to clean out old files, whenever you have a new version that isn't easily patched. And even if it can be done as a simple overwrite, you'd have to make sure players copy the new version over the old one properly rather than just hitting "extract here" and creating a new folder for the new version.

The appdata saves do introduce some downsides in some circumstances, but they also lower the barrier to entry for most use cases.