Ren'Py Harem Hotel [v0.19.1] [Runey]

[ZenoMod]

I really wish Runey would make more repeatable actions, especially with the elves in the sanctuary. Like the event with Sylvia in the kitchen. There's absolutely 0 reason why that shouldn't be a repeatable. And rather easily done, as well.

But he seems really hellbent on trying to write war and peace in a Honey Select porn game.

This coming from someone who patreon'd HH off and on for years.


On a sidenote with the buggy beta I can't get Ellen beyond level 2. I got everyone else maxed but just can't get her next event to fire. :|

I'd also would love repeatable scenes. It would be great if all scenes were repeatable. I guess the reason why they are not is basically what Runey himself defines "spaghetti code":



About "War and Peace"... I do appreciate the story.

It’s not that I want a pure fuckfest with no story (I came for the sex, but I stayed for the story). That said, I’d really appreciate if the story were a bit less dragged out. Right now there’s a lot of reading that doesn’t really move the plot forward quickly enough. I’d really value a faster-paced style.

But since 99% of Runey's pledgers are okay with Runey's style, I don't think that this is going to happen.

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About the beta... It's a beta, it is not meant to be played for entertainment by the general public, but just by the beta testers precisely to find bugs.

EDIT: apparently saying that a beta is not meant to be played for the general public is forbidden, so I retract what I have said before. Feel free to play the beta. Of course it is not bug free, otherwise it would not be a beta. But be warned: DO NOT OVERWRITE THE SAVES YOU MADE WITH A FULL RELEASE WITH SAVES YOU MAKE WITH THE BETA. Saves made with the beta are not guaranteed to work when the full release is out, so once the full v0.19 release is out (if some object in the beta has been changed as it frequently - but not always - has happened) you might be forced to load from the last save you made with a full v0.18.2 release and discard all the saves you made using the beta. So, if you play the beta MAKE SURE YOU DON'T OVERWRITE NOR DELETE THE OLD SAVES YOU MADE USING THE FULL v18.2 RELEASE . I hope that phrased in this way it is considered legitimate to express it.

Beta testing is a job, not a pleasure. And since in this case is an unpaid job, I just don't do it and wait for the regular release to be out.

EDIT: As far as I am concerned I consider beta testing to be a job, and not a pleasure, and since in this case it is an unpaid job I personally don't do it and wait for the full debugged release to be out. But of course, anyone willing to give their contribute to the beta testing is free to do it.

 

[KhaiFirst]

Game have Slave but! can't tell slave to do "Garden" ? ? or am i missing something ?

 

[Glavenus09]

save file 18.2?

 

[GamerDaddy]

Game have Slave but! can't tell slave to do "Garden" ? ? or am i missing something ?

only jinn can work the garden after she gets "clean" IIRC

 

[shadowtempered]

About the beta... It's a beta, it is not meant to be played for entertainment by the general public, but just by the beta testers precisely to find bugs.

Beta testing is a job, not a pleasure. And since in this case is an unpaid job, I just don't do it and wait for the regular release to be out.

Per a mod, it appears to be heavily discouraged from telling people not to play the beta. Basically point to the big letter head in the first post and let them sort themselves out.

Actively posted misleading and false claims such as "the beta is not meant to be played" and "this isn’t an update," contradicting changelogs and moderation posts. Admitted to stirring panic intentionally, and repeatedly spammed warnings that directly contradicted official mod instructions.

While there were more reasons directly impacting this, the verbiage is still there. Just safer to avoid discussion on it.

Mod post in off-topic where others discuss being banned

 

[moonbaby]

Kali is one of the most beautiful girls.

 

[GodOfMercy]

would love too have the little one running around the hotel playing hide and seek

all so a bit sad there are basicly nothing going on with the 3 tiny girls

 

[jeppertankers]

one of my favourite games!

 

[holyknight3]

I'm not a Ren'Py professional, but I have read dozens of Ren'Py scripts from the major Devs on this site and since they ALL use Ren'Py jump instruction, I have to assume that Ren'Py script doesn't provide a more structured flow control.
After all, it's understandable: Ren'Py was designed with Visual Novels in mind. A visual novel require branching, but it doesn't require anything like while - do, do - while, or for loops.

@torresm is right: in a Ren'Py game all the Dev's work is in the game folder, specifically in the .rpy scripts. The code in the other two folders (namely lib and renpy folders), is standard code provided by the Ren'Py SDK, and it works out-of-the-box so the Dev typically doesn't change it.

Optimization is not an issue talking about a VN.

What may be an issue is maintainability.

It's not a matter of writing code in a machine-friendly style. Quite the opposite: it's a matter of writing code in a human-readable style - and as ordered and structured as Ren'Py allows to do - to be able to add new content seamlessly, that is without any new content potentially being incompatible with previous code.

I'm not assessing that Harem Hotel does have such an issue (I'm not qualified enough to confirm it nor to deny it), but I am sure that as long as a Ren'Py VN is concerned saving CPU or GPU cycles is not an issue; maintainability is the issue, if you are going to publish the game by incremental updates.

That explains why everything was so well commented, lol! The majority of my amateur game dev experience is in Unity and Godot. I only have a mild interest in creating a visual novel, and have not really looked into RenPy that in depth. I'm not sure I want to go read about how the jump command is implemented in engine, for my own schedule and sanity if nothing else. I will probably go poke into the scripts files to see for myself, and thank you for the insight. I love this game, (and have contributed to their Patreon in the past)and want it to succeed. I was initially thinking about just seeing if I could sort out their python code, but I don't have the desire (more like the spare time) to learn the ins and outs of a new game engine to ease someone else's technical debt when I could (and probably should) be fixing my own.

 

[moonbaby]

patiently

 

[Nezron]

Not really a game about the MC.
The MC in this game is more of just a wallet, a free ride, and sex.
A lot of interaction between characters happens without the MC actually there.
Hell the MC pays for a sanctuary for elves and half of them don't have sex with him.
The MC is not important in very much. He just pays for everything, and gets sex for it (from most of the girls)

Lin is trying to organize a revolution
Kali is preparing to run the richest company in the world
Pixel is creating new AI life (might take over the planet)
Autumn is going to become some kind of saint

etc etc...
and what is the MC? the boyfriend that runs (hell he just inherited it, and really does not run it) a Hotel in the middle of nowhere, and does not charge most of the people staying there. But when anyone needs something the MC jumps up and helps... usually by paying for it.

Now I like the game ok, and really like a couple of the girls. But game can get pretty preachy about slaves, AI, and even religion.

Please don't take this as some sort of hate or attack on the game. I just would like it if the MC can maybe feel a bit more important to the story. The only skill the MC seems to have is some money and he is good at fucking.

Just my opinion on how I see things.

 

[lolicon777]

Hello, can someone help me, how do I do the girl event at the sanctuary that says it will only activate if she is not there?

 

[iJamesWolf]

i havent touched any of the games on here for the last 2 years and cant believe this game still getting updates

 

[MalLiz]

i havent touched any of the games on here for the last 2 years and cant believe this game still getting updates

What a weird freakin' statement. Especially the first part. If you have not bothered with "any of the games on here for two years" then... Why even bother with still visiting the forums? Especially since you have not posted anything in over five years prior to this. I would like to stress that I'm not judging, but you, good sir, are a bonafide strange dude!

-Mal

 

[moonbaby]

What a weird freakin' statement. Especially the first part. If you have not bothered with "any of the games on here for two years" then... Why even bother with still visiting the forums? Especially since you have not posted anything in over five years prior to this. I would like to stress that I'm not judging, but you, good sir, are a bonafide strange dude!

-Mal

o.o yea ikr? i mean could you imagine the implications lol molesting games

 

[ChaanChann]

How do I use cheat codes?

 

[QuestionableNinja]

How do I use cheat codes?

The notepad icon on the computer

 

[ChaanChann]

The notepad icon on the computer

Thanks! but why does the code "makeitrain" not work?

 

[GamerDaddy]

Thanks! but why does the code "makeitrain" not work?

cause ur playing the beta and codes have been changed

 

[BunnygirlBoobies]

Not really a game about the MC.
The MC in this game is more of just a wallet, a free ride, and sex.
A lot of interaction between characters happens without the MC actually there.
Hell the MC pays for a sanctuary for elves and half of them don't have sex with him.
The MC is not important in very much. He just pays for everything, and gets sex for it (from most of the girls)
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Like many games of the ero genre the MC is meant to be a self insert for the player, and is generally very passive and doesn't have a personal story. There's plenty of games that do have an MC with a story but Harem Hotel is a good example of a game that's generally meant to be a self insert story, later in the main arc your character has more opinions but it's mostly a reaction to how you've developed the stories for your girls. I feel like there should be a "self insert" tag but I'm not really sure how many games that would fall under.