jackofshadows

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So I've been holding on this game since it was first announced, like 25 years ago or something, is it worth it for me to give it a go now or I'm just better off waiting some more until the end of times ? (in short can I actually corrupt someone ala akabur style or not?)
In short - not yet :HideThePain:

At length - developing process delays more and more because they've decided to add more animations. They allegedly hired animator for that and another artist for debottlenecking but whether it makes a difference remains to be seen.

More importantly to your question - no matter the overall developing progress there's a big problem with the corruption theme: it's badly written even compare to Akabur's games where bar was not exactly high in that regard. Basically, it's not MC who's corrupting girls here, but almost like the other way around which is fucking ridiculous. It varies a bit from girl to girl and there's also some branching (speaking of dev delaying) involved now so technically there's still hope but I'd say not with this writer anyway.

They threw really nice scene with secondary character few updates ago but it's hardly worth to play the game solely for that.
 
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Freyr

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At length - developing process delays more and more

After they rewrote the game, after they remade the engine, after X, after Y, etc. etc. those guys (imo) are one of the worst offenders in term of milking their patreon. This game was supposed to be done one year after they started, they had made a post being very explicit about it, and then all this shit happened.

TBH if it wasn't for the similarities with Akabur game, and the nice art I wouldnt bother anymore, wich is probably what I should do anyway ...
 
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its safe to assume they didnt expect getting money for nothing that long so they milk it until they can, for some reason artists started to think making less art will make them worth more and more ehm akabur ehm, god i hope someone like uberpie or summertimesaga pick up the genre and steal all of the paypigs so clowns will start making content
 
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Oriandu

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After they rewrote the game, after they remade the engine, after X, after Y, etc. etc. those guys (imo) are one of the worst offenders in term of milking their patreon. This game was supposed to be done one year after they started, they had made a post being very explicit about it, and then all this shit happened.

TBH if it wasn't for the similarities with Akabur game, and the nice art I wouldnt bother anymore, wich is probably what I should do anyway ...
I would recommend holding off until 2025 when you see this game randomly pop up in the latest section with a "Complete" tag on it. If it ever gets finished mind you, we are nearing four years of development and it still has less sexual content, which is what 100% of all people are playing it for, than most Patreon released projects do after two updates. Shit, most games have more content in one update than this thing has had in its entire existence, and I don't actually think it's due to the developers trying to milk its patreon of all it can. That may have been the result, but I'd say it's more due to gross incompetence than it is anything else.

The people making it have no idea how to design a game. They seem to be lock step focused on this idea that the game has to be developed on a particular course, and that it has to feature "gameplay", and that specific plot events must occur. Noble sentiments, but in reality this just limits what they can create. This style of development might work for a professional project, but a professional project has dozens to hundreds of people working on it, with multiple people in charge of particular aspects, and are built in an asynchronous style that allows for milestones to be met consistently that do not wholly rely on other development branches to have completely their sections. It might have worked if they didn't have to release content on a semi regular basis to keep people playing. It only works for professional game development because you're releasing a primarily completed project all at once. They should be focused on building content for individual plot lines instead of building entire plot lines. Fans want Hermione? Focus on her for an update. Then move to another character and so and so forth. Then once everything reaches a certain point you spend an update weaving that together as a chapter. More games should be looking to Summertime Saga as an example of how to do things. Not necessarily the speed at which DC and company works on the game, but how they focus on individual characters per update instead of the entire game.

Unfortunately they're never going to learn their lesson because Patreon encourages incompetent buffoonery by allowing funding to go through regardless of whether or not a project shows progress.
 
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foe those who want galley unlocked
Here is my saves just replace yours.(I played light path ) gallery is pretty much unlocked expect McGonagall.
Gallery is not unlock to me, everything is locked there, is there a specific folder I got to paste it in, I tried the saves folder, then the appdata>renpy>iw folder but nothing
 

deskitteh

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I would recommend holding off until 2025 when you see this game randomly pop up in the latest section with a "Complete" tag on it. If it ever gets finished mind you, we are nearing four years of development and it still has less sexual content, which is what 100% of all people are playing it for, than most Patreon released projects do after two updates. Shit, most games have more content in one update than this thing has had in its entire existence, and I don't actually think it's due to the developers trying to milk its patreon of all it can. That may have been the result, but I'd say it's more due to gross incompetence than it is anything else.

The people making it have no idea how to design a game. They seem to be lock step focused on this idea that the game has to be developed on a particular course, and that it has to feature "gameplay", and that specific plot events must occur. Noble sentiments, but in reality this just limits what they can create. This style of development might work for a professional project, but a professional project has dozens to hundreds of people working on it, with multiple people in charge of particular aspects, and are built in an asynchronous style that allows for milestones to be met consistently that do not wholly rely on other development branches to have completely their sections. It might have worked if they didn't have to release content on a semi regular basis to keep people playing. It only works for professional game development because you're releasing a primarily completed project all at once. They should be focused on building content for individual plot lines instead of building entire plot lines. Fans want Hermione? Focus on her for an update. Then move to another character and so and so forth. Then once everything reaches a certain point you spend an update weaving that together as a chapter. More games should be looking to Summertime Saga as an example of how to do things. Not necessarily the speed at which DC and company works on the game, but how they focus on individual characters per update instead of the entire game.

Unfortunately they're never going to learn their lesson because Patreon encourages incompetent buffoonery by allowing funding to go through regardless of whether or not a project shows progress.
I'm playing a VN for plot. I'm a patient pervert. If you want a cheap, sketchy porn game to fap to more power to you. But something about this game gets me. Maybe it's the nice art, or the facial expressions, or the pacing, but I ENJOY the pacing of this plot. If I want to get a quick wank I'll open up 4chan's H or ACO boards, I'll find a random post and wank.

I play these games for fun AND to wank. Between Akabur whose sprite art I detest, and MiTY whose work I adore, this is solid.

I was enjoying the slow corruption mechancs and sly protagonist just as much as MiTY's wacky loony toon-esque protagonist. I want you to give the damn artist time to draw.

I don't know if you've ever held a pencil in your life but these backgrounds they make in 3 different time locales- one of those would take me a week. They're working but good art takes an assload of drawing. You know how Shounen jump does like a chapter a week? 20 black and white pages a week is an 80 hour endeavor with a mangaka and 4 educated studio employees.

Give the guys here a damn break. Art and code takes time.
 

tc_lurker

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I'm annoyed by my own stupidity, but i've finally figured out why Ginny wasn't getting fully naked: I had to ask her to look for the snitchy under the curtain and she showed she wasn't wearing her panties. Simply put, do that and you'll unlock scene (5/5). Cheers.
 
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I'm playing a VN for plot. I'm a patient pervert. If you want a cheap, sketchy porn game to fap to more power to you. But something about this game gets me. Maybe it's the nice art, or the facial expressions, or the pacing, but I ENJOY the pacing of this plot. If I want to get a quick wank I'll open up 4chan's H or ACO boards, I'll find a random post and wank.

I play these games for fun AND to wank. Between Akabur whose sprite art I detest, and MiTY whose work I adore, this is solid.

I was enjoying the slow corruption mechancs and sly protagonist just as much as MiTY's wacky loony toon-esque protagonist. I want you to give the damn artist time to draw.

I don't know if you've ever held a pencil in your life but these backgrounds they make in 3 different time locales- one of those would take me a week. They're working but good art takes an assload of drawing. You know how Shounen jump does like a chapter a week? 20 black and white pages a week is an 80 hour endeavor with a mangaka and 4 educated studio employees.

Give the guys here a damn break. Art and code takes time.
Brother nothing personal but you sound like a shill. You know damn well its not the art needing time that's holding the game back. And with all the years spent, there's not much "code" to show.
 

Oriandu

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I'm playing a VN for plot. I'm a patient pervert. If you want a cheap, sketchy porn game to fap to more power to you. But something about this game gets me. Maybe it's the nice art, or the facial expressions, or the pacing, but I ENJOY the pacing of this plot. If I want to get a quick wank I'll open up 4chan's H or ACO boards, I'll find a random post and wank.

I play these games for fun AND to wank. Between Akabur whose sprite art I detest, and MiTY whose work I adore, this is solid.

I was enjoying the slow corruption mechancs and sly protagonist just as much as MiTY's wacky loony toon-esque protagonist. I want you to give the damn artist time to draw.

I don't know if you've ever held a pencil in your life but these backgrounds they make in 3 different time locales- one of those would take me a week. They're working but good art takes an assload of drawing. You know how Shounen jump does like a chapter a week? 20 black and white pages a week is an 80 hour endeavor with a mangaka and 4 educated studio employees.

Give the guys here a damn break. Art and code takes time.
Bullshit you're playing a VN for the plot, you're playing it for the porn. If you're playing a VN for the plot you should go play Ever17, Danganronpa (only the first one), Zero Escape, Steins Gate, or any of the dozens of other fantastic VNs with storylines that are, well, actually good.

The game is a few months away from being four years old. We are well past the " Duh, me am want gam 2 b giv tiem 2 b gud." excuse. They've had plenty of time. Indie projects made by a few people in their spare time are completed in less time to a higher level of quality.

As for your Shonen Jump excuse... Did you ever notice how comparing a hand drawn comic chapter that requires most things to be redrawn from cell to cell with a game that has maybe eight backgrounds, around ten characters, characters with limited poses that can be recycled, and artwork that can simply be tweaked for your vaunted day to night transitions is stupid? You might have had a valid point if mangaka took two months to make a single chapter, and each chapter was only ten pages long. Unfortunately outside of extremely rare circumstances most monthly or bi-monthly manga tend to have much longer chapters per release.

Point is, four years is plenty of time and not a valid excuse for bad game design and a lack of progress.
 

jackofshadows

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I'm playing a VN for plot. I'm a patient pervert. If you want a cheap, sketchy porn game to fap to more power to you. But something about this game gets me. Maybe it's the nice art, or the facial expressions, or the pacing, but I ENJOY the pacing of this plot. If I want to get a quick wank I'll open up 4chan's H or ACO boards, I'll find a random post and wank.

I play these games for fun AND to wank. Between Akabur whose sprite art I detest, and MiTY whose work I adore, this is solid.

I was enjoying the slow corruption mechancs and sly protagonist just as much as MiTY's wacky loony toon-esque protagonist. I want you to give the damn artist time to draw.

I don't know if you've ever held a pencil in your life but these backgrounds they make in 3 different time locales- one of those would take me a week. They're working but good art takes an assload of drawing. You know how Shounen jump does like a chapter a week? 20 black and white pages a week is an 80 hour endeavor with a mangaka and 4 educated studio employees.

Give the guys here a damn break. Art and code takes time.
It is possible to argue that story/writing in IW somewhat good/decent among the other porn VNs (except it's not but that beside the point) but by itself?! Come on, dude, you can't be serious. If you ARE, then please, go play some fucking Disco Elysium for a change to learn how a good writing looks like.

As for art bottlenecking, it was fairly mentioned above - there's tons of recycled assets. The most time-consuming are backdrops and yes, devs did promise some new locations in the future updates but for now they're all the same as in the old ones.

Also, you're speaking about devs as if they some kind of professional team with a tight schedule, hard-ass team lead and they're having an overall established production process there. Well, guess what - it's fucking not like that ;) And it's fine, really, as long we're calling a spade a spade.
 

jowishg

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So apart from Minerva can you bang another girld atm ? Last time I've played was like 2 years ago :unsure:
 

Nocdub

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I constantly get an error on chapter 5 when i talk to the portrait about Class Activities. Any Help? Been playing this for a shitload of hours for just 1 H-scene...
 

Herysa Archie

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Sep 17, 2017
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could someone make the minigame.rpa for dark path abit more longer? the 90seconds from the discord is still not enough to make the girls shows their assets
 
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