That's not what's happening here, but your conclusion may still apply. Ren'Py assumes there to be a working audio playback device which your setup obviously lacks. So you could either set up your hardware correctly, set
config.debug_sound = False (
I have thousands of games, none have this issue. My devide is set up perfectly and I choose to turn off sound, except when I turn on my bluetooth headphones, then it automatically activates. Not my job to modify the games. I just unren and have the images.
Other than that the game is fine thus far.
Apologies, then. I'd say it could be an issue with Ren'Py 7.3.5, but given the widespread use it saw (and in part still does), it's highly unlikely that you shouldn't have come across another 7.3.5-title trying to play audio. *shrug*
Actually, Proud Father 0.11 does. Renpy offers us a choice to control volume or mute audio, thus this is counterintuitive.
For some reason the scene with Iris does not unlock if you choose clean shaven
This would be a valid response if there weren't other games that look incredibly more realistic.
And this would also be a valid response if you couldn't be off playing one of those games instead. Everyone is different in how they make a game. Not everyone focuses on hyper realism. Go play one of those instead if you dislike the style so much.
A logical guess is that giving an option at all already means they have to render 2 versions of all applicable scenes, so choosing 2 most popular options was efficient.
