VN Ren'Py Intertwined [v0.13] [Nyx]

[LSC82]

7 HOURS AGO

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Progress Update - Gallery - Re-Coding


Back to business.

The gallery is finished and everything seems to work.
I've also finished all of the re-coding, and now I'm testing as many routes as possible.
There's one little oversight I couldn't change solely with coding. I will need to create extra scenes for that, but I'll do that once I do the re-rendering for that particular episode. So for now, it will stay the way it is.
It's when you are on the Alexis path, help Erynn, don't tell Erynn about Alexis and kiss her in her apartment. Then go training with Layla, meaning Erynn and Alexis won't meet the day after. And after training camp, you have the choice to stay with Erynn or go to Alexis, and so on. Meaning, those choices don't have consequences (except heavy point loss for Erynn) for now. They will though in the future, but that's for another time.

The re-rendering of episode 1 and partly episode 2 is almost done. Just a few renders left. But I'm thinking about re-rendering the whole first day as long as I'm testing all those routes. So depending on how long the testing takes, I might be able to finish the whole first day, else I'll keep it where I originally planned.

I'll probably release episode 10.5 at the end of next week, else the week after. After release, I start working on episode 11.
Just a reminder. The story does not continue in 10.5! Your saves won't work!

About something else.
What do you guys think about background/ambient sounds? For example chatter in a bar or in the hallway at school, street noise while walking in the city and so on? Let me know your thoughts about that.

That Erynn-Alexis situation was a criticism of mine, on one episode you don't say anything and kiss Erynn and in the next you tell her that you are dating Alexis(no option to continue lying) and everybody is fine with it, Alexis is fine if you ditch her for the second time straight, Erynn is fine with you messing around with both her and Alexis... curious how it will play out in the future.

As for sounds, moaning sounds should be first priority(yeah i'm a pervert).
Students walking around, just not too loud and annoying.

 

[Ilhares]

As for sounds, moaning sounds should be first priority(yeah i'm a pervert).

There are many reasons I mute all audio. Shit moaning was one of them. Nothing worse than an amazingly hot poa and then it sounds like a moose in heat.

I vote noa on all audio unless it is rigorously tested and respects settings.

 

[TheRealJohnCena69]

Well said, it's such good craftsmanship. I really like the scene afterwards too when she's

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I know that I am late to the party but I wholeheartly agree. I'm not usually a sucker for "slow burns" but the nature of MC and Val's relationship has developed in a very good pace. I'm looking forward to seeing more content of her. Personally the best girl in Intertwined for me, right now at least.

 

[Jericho85]

That Erynn-Alexis situation was a criticism of mine, on one episode you don't say anything and kiss Erynn and in the next you tell her that you are dating Alexis(no option to continue lying) and everybody is fine with it, Alexis is fine if you ditch her for the second time straight, Erynn is fine with you messing around with both her and Alexis... curious how it will play out in the future.

As for sounds, moaning sounds should be first priority(yeah i'm a pervert).
Students walking around, just not too loud and annoying.

I'm not particularly a fan of the canned sex noises in VNs, myself.

Good music selection always makes a big difference in these things. Well placed sound effects and ambient sounds are good too if not too distracting. But sex noises, nope nope nope. When I read, I kind of develop a head canon of what the characters sound like and the sex moans or character vocalizations of any kind fuck that up for me.

 

[LSC82]

I'm not particularly a fan of the canned sex noises in VNs, myself.

Good music selection always makes a big difference in these things. Well placed sound effects and ambient sounds are good too if not too distracting. But sex noises, nope nope nope. When I read, I kind of develop a head canon of what the characters sound like and the sex moans or character vocalizations of any kind fuck that up for me.

Fair enough, but personally i prefer to hear a moan than to read "characters XXX moans", but it's a controversial topic and it can go wrong when it's too "porntastic".

 

[Ilhares]

Fair enough, but personally i prefer to hear a moan than to read "characters XXX moans", but it's a controversial topic and it can go wrong when it's too "porntastic".

Have you ever listened to a JAV? I don't know why Japanese culture is that fucked up, but I want my women to moan, nit squeal like 8 year olds. That shit ain't sexy at all.

 

[LMMFAO]

I wouldn't mind some background music in some scenes. But as far as sex sounds go, I would probably be against them. They always sound weird & tacky.

 

[robrize2169]

can't recall the name but i played a game where the dev added some female voices to the game which made it a lot more fun imo. not many devs do this though, but i would love to see more of it. esp in games that have no music in it.

 

[AchedCroissant]

7 HOURS AGO

Unlocked
Progress Update - Gallery - Re-Coding


Back to business.

The gallery is finished and everything seems to work.
I've also finished all of the re-coding, and now I'm testing as many routes as possible.
There's one little oversight I couldn't change solely with coding. I will need to create extra scenes for that, but I'll do that once I do the re-rendering for that particular episode. So for now, it will stay the way it is.
It's when you are on the Alexis path, help Erynn, don't tell Erynn about Alexis and kiss her in her apartment. Then go training with Layla, meaning Erynn and Alexis won't meet the day after. And after training camp, you have the choice to stay with Erynn or go to Alexis, and so on. Meaning, those choices don't have consequences (except heavy point loss for Erynn) for now. They will though in the future, but that's for another time.

The re-rendering of episode 1 and partly episode 2 is almost done. Just a few renders left. But I'm thinking about re-rendering the whole first day as long as I'm testing all those routes. So depending on how long the testing takes, I might be able to finish the whole first day, else I'll keep it where I originally planned.

I'll probably release episode 10.5 at the end of next week, else the week after. After release, I start working on episode 11.
Just a reminder. The story does not continue in 10.5! Your saves won't work!

About something else.
What do you guys think about background/ambient sounds? For example chatter in a bar or in the hallway at school, street noise while walking in the city and so on? Let me know your thoughts about that.

I don't care about the sounds it's a waste of time unless Nyx does the moans so it would be 10/10

 

[tombeir]

Hes saying the saves won't work... So i should wait till release or can I play now?

 

[anonnyscouse]

Hes saying the saves won't work... So i should wait till release or can I play now?

You can play now but you'll have to start again in the new release. Playing now would get you a feel for the game though.

 

[LSC82]

Hes saying the saves won't work... So i should wait till release or can I play now?

Since it's expected in just one week, i'd say wait, this next version is gonna be a "patched/reworked" version but won't move the story forward from the current episode 10.

So you would just be playing mostly the same thing one week apart.

 

[AngryBob2]

Is there any way things don't end in shit for Andrés? he seemed to be a good father and the whole thing about him being unfaithful and the MC blocking him from his phone and ending their relationship seemed abrupt, silly and just a way for the author to say "Yeah, fuck that asshole."

 

[AngryBob2]

This whole part of the story is a bit of a mess because the intent is to make Emily and Santiago come out as the good guys and Andres the villain. There's a scene in the restaurant where you can see Emily on the phone with Andres where he presumably tells her that yes he started dating her to spite Santiago but only at the start and voilà, instead of Emily realising that eh, he might have wanted to get back at Santi but he still married me and took care of my kid, but no- now she has a reason to really hate Andres.
Meanwhile the plot almost completely ignores that the dude raised a child that wasn't his own (Emily does bring it up but the MC doesn't ever show any gratitude) and he for some reason attacks and throws out the kid he lived with and was a father to for who knows how many years over a fight that was his own fault. And to top it all off he's cheating on (or at least lying to) the woman he wants to marry. Oh and not telling your son that he's not really your son within this specific timeframe is bad because reasons.
Most of these older characters, if not all of them, did questionable shit as youths (Santiago most of all) but Andres seems to be the only one who's getting the shit end of the stick by being made the scapegoat for Emily and MC's problems.
But hey, DRAMA!

This is very true, man I'm loving the game, but I just can't with the lazy, sh*tty writing the author did with Andrés. I mean, at first he seems like a nice guy who was a good father (Emily mentions it a lot, like he cried when the mc called him Dad) but then it seems like the author had a stroke and decided to make him an absolute asshole. It seems like he just did it for the haha or because he wants to portray Santiago as a good guy, fuck, many times I've heard "The One Who Who Raises A Child Is Called A Father. Not The One Who Helped Make It".

 

[AngryBob2]

And I really hope he got called out for this bullshit on Patreon, because when an author commits such writing scum, it usually means he'll use the same nonsensical trick in the following updates to justify other plots.

 

[AngryBob2]

Maybe if you end up the romance with Nikki/Cara before the MC leaves to live with his mom (they won't call you because there's nothing between them). Haven't really tried that one, but that's my guess.

Apparently not, in the previous pages someone commented that anyway Andrés is cheating and ends his relation with MC.

 

[robrize2169]

yeah i kinda felt bad for Andres too when they suddenly revealed him to be cheating on his fiance after raising the mc by himself after his mom sent him there. but after Andres punches him, i had no problem with mc cutting him out of his life.

 

[liberatorus]

This is very true, man I'm loving the game, but I just can't with the lazy, sh*tty writing the author did with Andrés. I mean, at first he seems like a nice guy who was a good father (Emily mentions it a lot, like he cried when the mc called him Dad) but then it seems like the author had a stroke and decided to make him an absolute asshole. It seems like he just did it for the haha or because he wants to portray Santiago as a good guy, fuck, many times I've heard "The One Who Who Raises A Child Is Called A Father. Not The One Who Helped Make It".

I don't even think it was done just because. I think this is very common when the author has an idea that pushes them into a corner and they need some plot trick or dramatic character changes to get out. I don't know if this Santiago stuff was always in the work. But it seems like we just needed a justification to hate Andres so that Santiago can appear as a good guy in comparison and the mom won't come off looking horrible.

But tell you what, this thing is so transparent that it is actually doing the opposite. This deliberate villainifcation of Andres is breaking immersion since it's so clear what's going on and it makes me hate Santiago and the Mom even more.

 

[AngryBob2]

Has anyone found a path to any scene with Sienna?
I've been wondering since the name "Sienna" randomly appeared to be the answer if you choose the "Guess" option when Tori says "Guess who I am?", although at that time MC still didn't know Sienna...
I always believed that was a clue to something more...

Leaving aside the issue of Andrés. This also puzzles me a lot

Why does the mc mention Sienna's name if he literally hadn't met her in the game at that point?

Sienna is an enigma to me, because let's be honest she has the most attractive model in the game, she is introduced in the story fairly early on, but from there on she is relegated to the total background. She literally has no interaction with the MC until the camp, where we can notice how attractive she is and when she licks the MC's nipple, but then she disappears again. We also know that within the game there is the variable of "Sienna points", so obviously there must be something.

 

[Raziel_8]

Maybe if you end up the romance with Nikki/Cara before the MC leaves to live with his mom (they won't call you because there's nothing between them). Haven't really tried that one, but that's my guess.

No, then you get a scene where Andres and Nikki/Cara's mother are fighting.
The MC is like ''so you cheat on her like you did on mom'' Andres slaps him for the comment end.

But tell you what, this thing is so transparent that it is actually doing the opposite. This deliberate villainifcation of Andres is breaking immersion since it's so clear what's going on and it makes me hate Santiago and the Mom even more.

Yeah pretty much this. It's not that Andres was perfect before or anything, but he did really just get the stick so Emily and maybe Santi look good, it just doesn't work imo.

Sienna is an enigma to me, because let's be honest she has the most attractive model in the game, she is introduced in the story fairly early on, but from there on she is relegated to the total background. She literally has no interaction with the MC until the camp, where we can notice how attractive she is and when she licks the MC's nipple, but then she disappears again. We also know that within the game there is the variable of "Sienna points", so obviously there must be something.

The MC is just saying a name and is surprised as he meets her afterwards.
Yeah she is attractive and seems overall nice and funny, but the game has already a large cast. I wouldn't hold my breath that there will be any content with her, she also has a bf iirc.