Ren'Py Abandoned Highschool Rosewood [v0.358] [Arpibald]

Arpibald

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I plan to add them sooner-later... but now it's 2d cg's.. yeah. :| I want to finish some mechanical stuff before I begin to work on actual animations for the characters.
 

gshaxmyuc

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Hey Arpibald gj on the game it's just I have some pointers. First of all the game works slow . Everytime I try to navigate I have to wait 5 seconds for loading now 5 secs may look less but it's such a turn off. Then everything is designed to be tedious as possible. I have to navigate because of this tediousness and the loading just tires me out
 

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Hey gshaxmyuc thank's for sharing that, I wouldn’t have thought that the 'Loading' would have such a demotivating effect on someone. I might remove it in the future versions. I'm sorry you find my game tedious :(
 

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ecoli the PIN for your phone is the year of birth of your character (it's in the tutorial also), and about the trash... I have to create a separated screen for the items which's not easy but I'm working on that too, that's why you have to type the Item name now :| Please be patient the game is still in development.
 

gshaxmyuc

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The thing he and I don't like is the chore of the game. Why is there a password on the phone ok it makes sense but its just a chore . The game looks promising please keep working on it but playing it right now feels like a chore. I cant even walk aroundw ithout injuring myself and there is this survival type which okay a lot of the games have it but still its bad
 

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If we are based on reality you can't skip just days without taking a shower or eat properly, that's why I thought it's a good idea to feed your character once a day you know.
 
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gshaxmyuc

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Like why is there a carrying limit? Am I playing skyrim ? It's such a waste seeing this game blocked by things like these . I understand where all these mechanics are coming from its okay to have a hungry bar but gameplaywise it's tiresome. Like to eat something I have to check my hunger level go down wait loading get injured go to the nurse get your foot fixed go back wait more get to the vendor eat something.
 
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user84

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... why is the password in the tutorial. There's no way to know the password if you skipped the tutorial...

the art is great tho. Do make it more streamlined.
 

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gshaxmyuc our Discord is open, you can join and discuss some stuff, share your ideas, I'm glad if someone has some good idea. Let's talk about them. :)
 

cabano40

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Hey. I have to say I was a bit worried about this launcher and the fact that you only have comments from literally one guy on itch.io, but I just thought I'd give it a shot and so far (after first 20 minutes) this game in terms of concept/mechanics is brilliant and really rare to find.

Maybe its just me, but i really like the concept of girls from cross-realms in one game and the overall "sandbox" felling.

I also really like the combination of "School setting, Female domination, Footjob" tags and i hope you will focus on them instead of creating another generic porn game where after 3 dialogs with a girl you can see her fully naked.

I would only reccomend you to keep your artstyle as simple as possible for now, so you can focus on new content and keep interest in the game going with the frequent updates. Game speed could also be a bit better, because this ruins the overall experience a bit.

Implementing launcher with convinient way of updating the Ren'Py game is really innovative and i really wish that it will inspire other creators to implement this in their games.

I have some experience in terms of game development (especially in porn genre) and i have to say - that this one looks really polished so far. I will create a full review later, but you just have gained a new supporter on a Patreon :D

Sorry for any mistakes. English is not my native language
 

pussyreaperxxx

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Idk man, I really like the art style and I'm fine with the gameplay as well, but some elements make it borderline unplayable unless you have the patience of a saint.
I think this game is overall really well made but it just encourages cheating with how the mechanics go together. But I think it is really well polished for an early release and it has a lot of potential, please just make it a bit smoother.

Firstly, I save the game as I want to make a choice that I know is bad, but I just want to see the consequence, then I realize you literally have to Alt+F4 and restart the game every single time you want to load, because there is no load button or no main menu button. Please add that.

Then, the amount of times you have to knock gently is just ridiculous (highest I got is 5) I have no idea why that is even an option unless you hate a character that badly.

Then the bathing mechanic just blows my mind that it even made it into the game, if you don't bathe, your character will lose relationship points every single time you interact with a character, meanwhile gaining relationship points is so hard. Then, you have to literally travel to another floor to bathe, take out stuff for cleaning up from the locker, take a shower, then put the stuff back and then travel again to where you want to go. It is a 5 step process just to take a bath, and by the way, in case your character collapses because he's hungry, you have to do all that again, or you'll infinitely lose relationship points every time you talk to someone.

I'm not sure if there are other ways to eat than the vending machine but I'm instantly cheating to buy stuff from the vending machine because I don't want to keep travelling around the whole game. It's a bummer.

If all these things are fixed, I think this game has ridiculous potential to become one of the best on the site. Loving the characters and the overall art style.
 

dark_dragon7

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is this a game where you can choose if you want to be dom or sub am a sub my self so if it got femdom content this game looks like fun but am just asking so that i know i can be sup :D soor if its stupid question saw that the game had a female domination tag so thats why i clicked it :)
 

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Hey pussyreaperxxx , thanks for sharing your critics and opinions. I'll definietly look after that stuff you wrote down and fix them as soon as possible! :) I already started writing a list of stuff people brings up in here and I'm already working on these.
 

Throwawaay22

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I'm trying to pick the lock to the reception, and man this QTE is ridiculous. I type at 100+ wpm easily and in like 20min of trying my best attempt failed at like 80% of the way thru.

Edit: Well I finally got past it right after writing that, but I definitely think the timer needs to be a bit more forgiving. I don't wanna sit up straight and focus my ass off while tryna play an adult VN.
 
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