Ren'Py Abandoned Heavy Five [Ch.2RS] [Nottravis]

[Arigon]

you can whomp me up anytime Notty! ANY TIME........

Just use your British voice and maybe Becca and Vampy tag team though... Need that in a big way!

 

[Akamari]

I also usually turn off voices in games (on the rare occasion that there are any), but this time I'm genuinely interested to see what Notty would come up with; just look at the other things Notty's introduced that you don't see in most other games; where else can you get fully fleshed out mini-games that could effectively be games in their own right? Plus, you know the writing would be spot on!

Even if by some miracle the voice actress that does the role isn't terrible, I still can't envision an outcome I would be happy with. Because, if it's good, then...

1) ...it's a shame it happens only in this path and only during the sessions. As fun as the domme minigame is, I find the romance route with Chris far more interesting.

2) ...it's a shame she's the only main character with a voice.

I just don't see a scenario where I wouldn't turn it off because it is disruptive one way or another to the whole game experience. I'd love to play Heavy Five with quality voice acting, but it would have to be done properly on a much larger scale, and that of course isn't plausible (yet) because it'd be enormously costly (and time consuming).

 

[ZTex]

I also usually turn off voices in games (on the rare occasion that there are any), but this time I'm genuinely interested to see what Notty would come up with; just look at the other things Notty's introduced that you don't see in most other games; where else can you get fully fleshed out mini-games that could effectively be games in their own right? Plus, you know the writing would be spot on!

I'm not doubting Notty's ability.
I just can't with VN's. I've tried and it usually horrible clashes with what i think they should sound like.

As an example for this game

For me Annie is a mix of a girl i used to know named Laura (depsite not being asian) for pitch and tone, and Scotty from Star Trek as far as speaking patterns go.

Similar story for Chadwick...With that name i don't envision her being American. I think South African or British but not a hard Cockney accent. With a stern tone like Scarlet Johannson's Black Widow.

 

[Nottravis]

I totally get where you guys are coming from. Really. I think part of the problem is I'm being so bloody opaque about what it is it'll entail as I don't want to spoil it. But that of course means you don't have enough information to make a judgement.

Maybe if I do a version for the testers voiced by me? Then they'd have a better idea of the concept? I dunno. It does seem as it's not something anyone is really keen on.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

 

[kinkyshin]

best game. no lie

 

[Nottravis]

best game. no lie

Thank you

 

[Huitieme]

I totally get where you guys are coming from. Really. I think part of the problem is I'm being so bloody opaque about what it is it'll entail as I don't want to spoil it. But that of course means you don't have enough information to make a judgement.

Maybe if I do a version for the testers voiced by me? Then they'd have a better idea of the concept? I dunno. It does seem as it's not something anyone is really keen on.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

I don't know. I say if you want to try something, go for it, especially since when you have an idea, it usually turns out to be a bloody good one. As long as it doesn't become too much in terms of finance, effort or time.

 

[Arigon]

I totally get where you guys are coming from. Really. I think part of the problem is I'm being so bloody opaque about what it is it'll entail as I don't want to spoil it. But that of course means you don't have enough information to make a judgement.

Maybe if I do a version for the testers voiced by me? Then they'd have a better idea of the concept? I dunno. It does seem as it's not something anyone is really keen on.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

Notty,
I have total faith, and to demonstrate total commitment, I volunteer to listen to your voice as much as you wish in any way you wish......
For the good of the cause... deriving no pleasure from it at all..... just dedicated to the cause....
yeah...... that's me! taking the hit for the team!
<3

 

[LoganP]

I totally get where you guys are coming from. Really. I think part of the problem is I'm being so bloody opaque about what it is it'll entail as I don't want to spoil it. But that of course means you don't have enough information to make a judgement.

Maybe if I do a version for the testers voiced by me? Then they'd have a better idea of the concept? I dunno. It does seem as it's not something anyone is really keen on.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

I agree with the others, don't think I would prefer any voice acting. Much more interested in getting some actual hands on content. Loved the idea of losing bets and having a forfeit to pay. Just waiting for some spanking/bondage/anal to show up in that storyline.

However, it's your game and your vision. If you have something you're that keen on trying out... Then you should 100% try it with your testers, I think that's an excellent idea. None of us know any more than you how it's gonna go. It might as well be the next big thing or a swing and a miss. You'll never know without trying and you definitely seem to want to scratch that itch and then you should.

You write a very captivating story (maybe a bit long without a "reward" in the above mentioned one), and I wish you good luck!

 

[Dreadder]

While I'm personally not a fan of recorded voices in games in general, I still think that it could work great in this particular case.

Chris' domme path isn't really my thing but I tried it out just to see the mechanics and I must say that I really liked how it all works out. I do however believe, that a sensual voice would improve it even further. And by quite a bit at that.

The main trick would of course be to find an appropriate voice actress. And perhaps you could add an option to turn the voice off to make everyone happy?

 

[NeimadFR]

I'm against the voice acting simply because if it's as good as you imply I'll never win another session

 

[Cabin Fever]

Good point.

I can set the image to last on screen as long as I want. By breaking down the voice script into timed segments I can link the audio and the images presented in sync. Since the domme module is a hands-off affair (well hands off the keyboard/mouse at any rate... ), this shouldn't be a prob - and I can whomp up a test before I hired anyone to check it out.

I might be the only one doing this but the first thing I do whenever I try a new game is change auto-forward time to max. So the Chris-Domme path wasn't working well at all for me until I realized why. In some cases (I think it was when "Chris said let's look at some pictures") it took literally minutes before it'd auto-advance.

 

[Nottravis]

I might be the only one doing this but the first thing I do whenever I try a new game is change auto-forward time to max. So the Chris-Domme path wasn't working well at all for me until I realized why. In some cases (I think it was when "Chris said let's look at some pictures") it took literally minutes before it'd auto-advance.

*put a warning screen up and everything!*

 

[NeimadFR]

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[Nottravis]

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Didn't expect settings to be tweaked for that. But fair point. I'll tweak it.

 

[NeimadFR]

Didn't expect settings to be tweaked for that. But fair point. I'll tweak it.

There's probably a way to force a speed otherwise and have it go back to the previous settings afterward.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Didn't expect settings to be tweaked for that. But fair point. I'll tweak it.

Or better yet, is there a way to ignore the auto-forward setting and advance at a pace pre-determined by you? That'd also help with any audio sync issues if you do go that route.

 

[Huitieme]

Or better yet, is there a way to ignore the auto-forward setting and advance at a pace pre-determined by you? That'd also help with any audio sync issues if you do go that route.

By the way, I've never really got what this auto-forward thing was for. Why are you setting it to max when you start a game? Is it like the "text speed" dial where it simply is awful when it's not all the way to the max?

 

[Cabin Fever]

By the way, I've never really got what this auto-forward thing was for. Why are you setting it to max when you start a game? Is it like the "text speed" dial where it simply is awful when it's not all the way to the max?

Essentially that's how it works. Can't remember which game it was, but there was one in which there was a lot of text and occasionally it would move on before I finish reading.

And so by default now I just move it to the max for any game, which basically gives me a "don't move on until I say so" setting.

Like I said, I might be the only one doing this.

 

[Rinbael]

In the game I have absolutely zero interest in going down the Chris Domme path it has no appeal to me but I think the voice acting could possibly help make it less annoying.

It might just be me but I briefly tried it to see what it was and found the ticking noise got on my tits pretty quick so if you are able to use voice acting instead of only having a ticking noise it may be less irritating for some people.