Ren'Py Interns of Ecstasy Island [v0.342] [Usagitriplesix]

[UsagiTripleSix]

Hi! I am sincerely sad that your family and friends would not like the game you make. Even if the topics in "Interns" are not their cup of tea, they could at least acknowledge the creative desire and work going into it.

I've had past "success" as a creative professional, and they've been perfectly supportive with that (so long as I'm earning a living either from art or in addition to it). They've never been interested in what I make, though, and long since stopped wanting to see what I'm up to. In a way, it's pretty hilarious that they know I'm doing something these days, but it's been years since someone asked me to show them what it is.

Past that, though, there's the sentiment in my family of "people who look at porn are sick and should be avoided," so I'd imagine creating erotic art/fiction wouldn't go over too well.

I am a hobby writer, so I know a lot of your creative woes. As for bodily woes, luckily I never had to battle depression, but as I told you in another place, I stood on Death´s doorstep a couple of years ago too. It saped a lot of my energy and with the changes that Covid brought to my workplace, it nearly halted progress on my stories. While I have time to write, very often I need this free time to regenerate.

I know that feeling, 100%. I say that I work on Interns on "nights and weekends," but it's pretty rare that I get off work for the day and want to bang out a CG in the time between eating dinner and doing mandatory exercise. It does happen... but I have to be having a pretty good day, and be excited about whatever aspect of the project I'll be working on.

Interestingly, the start of COVID worked pretty well for me. Terrifying, on one hand, since my health status put me in number of high-risk categories, but my day job schedule was reduced to 2 days a week, giving me a long periods of time to focus on what ended up being the biggest rounds of code clean-up I've been able to do. (Trying to tackle the rest of it, right now, but it doesn't go nearly as smoothly when I can only focus on it for a couple days and then have to stop for the rest of the week.)

 

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decent diet

The problem with that is that experts .. what do they know?

For years they were telling people they should limit their egg intake, bc cholesterol. Allegedly, saturated fats are bad because heart disease, but then you get glaring paradoxes such as the modern country with the least saturated fat intake (Israel,due to religion) and highest intake of 'healthy' vegetable oil has some of the worst cardiovascular disease statistics. Then there were trans-fats, only found to be a problem very recently.

The entire 'plants are healthy' thing is an artefact, a

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which eats whatever and doesn't care about health much, with people who're into vegetarian food bc they're health conscious.

About the only thing that's certain is that sugar ought to be limited, and veganism is not optimal.


According to biologists who went and evaluated human digestive tract by comparing it with animals, we're near carnivores. Our digestive system is almost as acidic as that of scavengers, and theorised people were

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[FookU2]

I tend not to want to give out too many details, lest people I know in IRL figure out who I am (and it's happened before). Friends and family wouldn't react too well to the kind of content I make.

Hi! I am sincerely sad that your family and friends would not like the game you make. Even if the topics in "Interns" are not their cup of tea, they could at least acknowledge the creative desire and work going into it.
I am a hobby writer, so I know a lot of your creative woes. As for bodily woes, luckily I never had to battle depression, but as I told you in another place, I stood on Death´s doorstep a couple of years ago too. It saped a lot of my energy and with the changes that Covid brought to my workplace, it nearly halted progress on my stories. While I have time to write, very often I need this free time to regenerate.

95% of my family is religious. I think it's safe to say porn doesn't fair too well with them. lol .. Aside from porn itself, sex changes, prostitution, corruption, etc...a lot of things that go on in games like these are very big no-nos to people like those in my family...religious, far right, traditional ways, can't be anything but straight, boy on girl, penis to vagina sex, and has to be after marriage. lol .. So I completely understand the need to keep things anonymous on here.

And, Patreon trying to control everything, even what's outside their site, is enough reason for me to never go back to them. I was both supporter and creator on Patreon, years ago. I left due to their shenanigans.

 

[Quardiex]

hello can anyone help? daddy i can't start master key

 

[Brannon]

I have the feeling the game has potential but is "a bit" buggy.
Examples:
I found scarlet and clint at the beach and stood watch for them. She thanked me later at the club personally and by name. Shortly after that Gabby introduced me to scarlet who had no idea who I am. A while later she referenced her experience with clint once more and thanked me. Since scarlet is not inhibited by any means that can't be explained by "modesty".
I got a semi-permanent work assignment to the beach and an urgent assignment in the morning announced it was replaced with a mandatory meeting. Shortly after finishing (Cynthia is there no matter what and I can't tell her off) I went to the beach for Davids photoshoot whose event apparently took precedence. He tried something and after that event was done I got to work. At the front desk. The next morning it is "business as usual" at the beach again. Essentially the mandatory meeting (IIRC from where I played quite some time ago it is crucial for the story) seem to have been skipped.

Throwing in some additional oddities like dressing in a housekeeping uniform for pool assignment or the only occasionally accessible phone in the room that vanishes on the hit of cancel, events that leave you drunk and essentiall passing out on the bed with no recollection of how you got ready for bed have the dialogue afterwards to get ready for bed ...

/edit roughly a week later the crucial event restarted.
Nevertheless all events that should be after this are moot as the next day Godzilla had different plans ...

 

[Schrodingers Cat]

Which is why Usagi is rewriting most of the base code to get rid of these scheduling errors.

And why its all running annoyingly late

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In the “making things more complicated to make the more simple” category, I’ve been working on doing more with classes.

Specifically, I was finding that I was doing some stupid things to track work events, when they start, when they end, etc. What’s in the game right now is so convoluted and disorganized (some parts are set up during the intro days, others are hidden away during Mallory’s evaluation scenes) that I can’t seem to figure out how it works at all…and I’m the one who wrote it!

 

[UsagiTripleSix]

I need to get an update post out before too long, but things keep coming up that cause me to revise it.

Short(-ish) version: Twi on the Discord, who offered me coding assistance, finally has time to work on the project now and has begun completely rebuilding the game with a radically-different system on the back-end. If it works, it'll render a lot of what I've been doing moot (though some of the scene reorganization will at least help facilitate the transfer.)

So far, we've managed to purge the existing content while keeping all of the menus and graphics, and the new build has re-added content up to the first day on the resort.

I'm currently scrambling to assemble my notes into design documents that will be legible to other humans. Twi's expressed interest in coding in a lot of the game mechanics that I've been struggling with for years, so I'd like to explain my ideas as clear as possible in the hopes that it might actually look somewhat like I've envisioned it.

So, potentially very exciting stuff, here. Or it could all end up being a big mess. Hard to say, but it should be interesting to see how it turns out.

 

[Brannon]

As I said.
It has potential but has bug issues.
So in essence not really that much different from a few years back.

I hope that "revising" stuff turns out good.



And btw. I understand the struggle to document that other humans can at least read it.
Especially a pain when I was programming, I made the plans after being done. Always. The colleagues, bosses and teachers did not like it but they were correct. Mostly.

 

[Varik8876]

And btw. I understand the struggle to document that other humans can at least read it.
Especially a pain when I was programming, I made the plans after being done. Always. The colleagues, bosses and teachers did not like it but they were correct. Mostly.

Think the worse version of that I have seen was where every variable was either a character or number, with nothing in the documentation saying what the hell each of them was being used for.

 

[Brannon]

How do you think my savegames are called?

1, 2, 3, 4, ...

 

[Ninja of Death]

I hope there is more sex soon - enough to make MC a total slut and also lesbian, especially with Cyn.

 

[FookU2]

I hope there is more sex soon - enough to make MC a total slut and also lesbian, especially with Cyn.

Do you actually mean lesbian, do you mean bi? lol

 

[J1215]

I like the creation of the character (choosing in the options for preferences in appearance)! - I like to watch how the appearance of the character changes!

 

[J1215]

It would be great if there was an opportunity for MC to have relationships and contacts only with girls

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[J1215]

It would be great if there was an opportunity for MC (Brianna) to have relationships and contacts only with girls

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I liked MC+Tatum's hot scene! I hope they will have a relationship with each other!

 

[Schrodingers Cat]

For a quick update it looks like Usagi put a new version out on patreon a week ago so the free version isnt too far away.

On the downside it looks like its been stripped down to basics to rebuild the coding so there arent any updates there is actually LESS plot than there was before.

 

[Ninja of Death]

He was all but starting over.

 

[J1215]

It would be great if there was a path where MC (Fem) became dominant, confident, strong; wherever she would have achieved authority and power!

 

[Schrodingers Cat]

0.301 is out in public. a few more bits of art, a little less content.

 

[new brave]

How to buying a copy of Skyrim in this game?