Ren'Py Abandoned Hope Is For Fools [v0.01] [Einherjar Studios]

Dyhart

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Yeah i didn't think this was sims 4 either. I mean there is a sims 4 game on here somewhere and it doesn't look nearly as nice as this. Surprised this wasn't done before, honestly.
 

balvenie1401

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@ Einherjar.. Dev..

As far as proof on cencepts go, it was fine.. Go a bit of a Palmer/DH/DfD vibe but with SIMS graphics sort of..
Would like to see some additional info regarding planned content, will this be a vanilla dating/romance sim or will there be more interesting options along the way?
Any additional info would be apprieciated to help deceide if this is something to watch, support or overlook. Thank you.
 

meigame

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like the art. does character fuck anything? it's college - shouldn't he be expanding his sexual skills and tappin some ass?

also another game with the back up wheel disabled - is this a trend? Don't see why dev would want to disable that...
 
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somebodynobody

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Small bug.

If you have Ava show you around, then reload a save, all the places she showed you are still named. Similar thing happens with the spending of money in cafeteria and reloading, money is still gone.

Unsure if a similar thing would happen if you meet Ava over and over again.

Some characters show high on the screen (above the bottom) then move down later.

Using H to hide things makes everything go black.
 
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Henshinvolt

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The animated main menu is a very nice touch especially with the audio just before it. There should be more window UI to icons etc though. Transitions are a bit too fight gamey I feel it's a bit surreal? The animated clickables look great. The portraits cutting off at the bottom of the screen isn't a great look I feel. The game could do with a native English speaker working on the script to clean stuff up. Overall it looks like this has a lot of potential though getting the sex scenes to look good will be a challenge I feel.

Typo Example
The monthly rent is cheaper there than the dorm.

Other odd english grammer stuff is things like studyload.
 

einherjargames

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Hey, everyone. Dev here. First, thank you X0R for putting up this thread and for everyone who had tried out my game. It's a bit late but I'm just popping in to answer some questions.

Dev might get in trouble for using a stolen image of Grumpy Cat.
Yeah... I've kinda deleted the image. I just used him as the mascot for the dark & broody character. I didn't know the full story about grumpy cat til you guys brought it up. I just heard that it's some legal squabble. To think that the owner actually got more than half a million usd. Tsk. I feel bad for

it's a little wonky but holy geez this is a graphic step up....we've entered a new realm of higher porn folks...i hope the future story and play matches the graphics...if they do..this will be the next phase of porn :O
To be fair, I was inspired by some of the games here that uses movies. After working on the first version, I now understood why it's quite difficult to have fully animated movies for the scenes and why some devs preferred to use Unity or Unreal instead. Making fully animated sprites and cutscenes for Renpy is quite a chore.

Looks good definitely going to give it a try:)
Thanks! There's still a lot of things I have to work on though.

with a title like that.. dev aint gonna have much support...
*stupid laugh* HU HU HU HU :KEK:
Hahaha. Yeah, I had to address that in my patreon page too. It can sound a bit too insensitive during a time like this.

Grumpy Cat is dead. Long stay dead, Grumpy Cat. (Yes, be worried about a lawsuit from the owner of said trademark. Only way to make more money now.)
Yeah. I deleted the image before some opportunistic lawyer calls up grumpy cat's owner.

It looks like you arent aware, but these models are just Sims 4 characters with clothes and skin mods, any animations this game will have in the future will be courtesy of the 9000+ sex animation mods Sims 4 currently has
"Any animations", really? I do use Wickedwhims for sure but as you may know, using it for the game and using it to capture animation for renpy is different. If you actually played my game, you'll realize that the animations used are looping masked movie sprites. I use Sims4Studio to be able to work with the poses in Blender in order to smoothly loop them for recording. And those animations had to be composited and post-processed in a video production pipeline to get the right video for renpy. So it's really unfair to imply that all the animations used is thanks to the game and modding community alone, completely disregarding my effort into producing those art assets.

tldr: ffs, it's not a screenshot, much effort has been done to make it look nice.

is it me or do the MC look like a young Jurgen Klopp with makeup? :ROFLMAO:
I didn't notice that. :p I thought that the face was generic enough.

@ Einherjar.. Dev..

As far as proof on cencepts go, it was fine.. Go a bit of a Palmer/DH/DfD vibe but with SIMS graphics sort of..
Would like to see some additional info regarding planned content, will this be a vanilla dating/romance sim or will there be more interesting options along the way?
Any additional info would be apprieciated to help deceide if this is something to watch, support or overlook. Thank you.
You got me. I was inspired by it. Yes, I was going for a sweet cheesy, typical rom-com kind of game. But don't worry, about supporting it now or later. I'll still appreciate it if you would be interested at a later time when it's more "complete".

like the art. does character fuck anything? it's college - shouldn't he be expanding his sexual skills and tappin some ass?

also another game with the back up wheel disabled - is this a trend? Don't see why dev would want to disable that...
Yeah, the truth is, I'm planning to add some sex mini-game for the stats, like the "focus" stat determines how long the foreplay is before the heroine is ready for a good banging, "will" determines how long he lasts before he cums, and "energy" depends on how many times he can make "love" to the heroine before he sleeps. not sure whether I should add a skill tree yet.


Small bug.

If you have Ava show you around, then reload a save, all the places she showed you are still named. Similar thing happens with the spending of money in cafeteria and reloading, money is still gone.

Unsure if a similar thing would happen if you meet Ava over and over again.

Some characters show high on the screen (above the bottom) then move down later.

Using H to hide things makes everything go black.
Thanks, I'll look into this. I've experimented with a lot of things so I might have been unable to refactor some code.

The animated main menu is a very nice touch especially with the audio just before it. There should be more window UI to icons etc though. Transitions are a bit too fight gamey I feel it's a bit surreal? The animated clickables look great. The portraits cutting off at the bottom of the screen isn't a great look I feel. The game could do with a native English speaker working on the script to clean stuff up. Overall it looks like this has a lot of potential though getting the sex scenes to look good will be a challenge I feel.

Typo Example
The monthly rent is cheaper there than the dorm.

Other odd english grammer stuff is things like studyload.
Thanks. I'll look into fixing those. I actually meant course load for that, I just forgot the term. But yeah, my writing's a bit weak. I'm working on negotiating an arrangement with a writer friend for that. Let'see if it improves the content in the next versions.
 

balvenie1401

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Dec 29, 2017
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Hey, everyone. Dev here. First, thank you X0R for putting up this thread and for everyone who had tried out my game. It's a bit late but I'm just popping in to answer some questions.



Yeah... I've kinda deleted the image. I just used him as the mascot for the dark & broody character. I didn't know the full story about grumpy cat til you guys brought it up. I just heard that it's some legal squabble. To think that the owner actually got more than half a million usd. Tsk. I feel bad for



To be fair, I was inspired by some of the games here that uses movies. After working on the first version, I now understood why it's quite difficult to have fully animated movies for the scenes and why some devs preferred to use Unity or Unreal instead. Making fully animated sprites and cutscenes for Renpy is quite a chore.



Thanks! There's still a lot of things I have to work on though.



Hahaha. Yeah, I had to address that in my patreon page too. It can sound a bit too insensitive during a time like this.



Yeah. I deleted the image before some opportunistic lawyer calls up grumpy cat's owner.



"Any animations", really? I do use Wickedwhims for sure but as you may know, using it for the game and using it to capture animation for renpy is different. If you actually played my game, you'll realize that the animations used are looping masked movie sprites. I use Sims4Studio to be able to work with the poses in Blender in order to smoothly loop them for recording. And those animations had to be composited and post-processed in a video production pipeline to get the right video for renpy. So it's really unfair to imply that all the animations used is thanks to the game and modding community alone, completely disregarding my effort into producing those art assets.

tldr: ffs, it's not a screenshot, much effort has been done to make it look nice.



I didn't notice that. :p I thought that the face was generic enough.



You got me. I was inspired by it. Yes, I was going for a sweet cheesy, typical rom-com kind of game. But don't worry, about supporting it now or later. I'll still appreciate it if you would be interested at a later time when it's more "complete".



Yeah, the truth is, I'm planning to add some sex mini-game for the stats, like the "focus" stat determines how long the foreplay is before the heroine is ready for a good banging, "will" determines how long he lasts before he cums, and "energy" depends on how many times he can make "love" to the heroine before he sleeps. not sure whether I should add a skill tree yet.




Thanks, I'll look into this. I've experimented with a lot of things so I might have been unable to refactor some code.



Thanks. I'll look into fixing those. I actually meant course load for that, I just forgot the term. But yeah, my writing's a bit weak. I'm working on negotiating an arrangement with a writer friend for that. Let'see if it improves the content in the next versions.
Thanks for replying :) from what you wrote I take it I was fairly spot on about vanilla rom/date sim, not my cup of tea personally but ut's a popular genre nonetheless and I wish you all the best. Cheers
 

Jimayo

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Juses christ. I've never seen that movie but I find it slightly disturbing people love it after seeing that.
That's the the set up for one of the best scenes.