VN Ren'Py Jezebel [Ep. 2 v2.02] [Mr. Pengo]

[Mnemnosyne]

Like some of the other comments, I found the Jasen situation irritating. I did not mind having to go investigate the debt - I didn't even mind how Duvessa decided that the moneylender was disrespecting her and felt compelled to get one over on him, even if it was to the benefit of Jasen.

However, for the only choice to be to give in to at least one of his demands for himself, or burn down the village, was the frustrating bit. It didn't seem particularly reasonable; there was no logical reason presented why Duvessa should've felt constrained to either torch the village or give in to his demands. All the other decisions feel right for her personality at that point in the game, but in this situation, there's no good reason for her not to agree to Dariusz's requests and have her soldiers attempt (and presumably fail) to capture Jasen.

Other than this, however, it is looking to be an amazing game and I love Duvessa as the protagonist, she's exactly the kind of character I love to play. I'm very glad I ran across it here, and will definitely be looking forward to more.

 

[Mr. Pengo]

Like some of the other comments, I found the Jasen situation irritating. I did not mind having to go investigate the debt - I didn't even mind how Duvessa decided that the moneylender was disrespecting her and felt compelled to get one over on him, even if it was to the benefit of Jasen.

However, for the only choice to be to give in to at least one of his demands for himself, or burn down the village, was the frustrating bit. It didn't seem particularly reasonable; there was no logical reason presented why Duvessa should've felt constrained to either torch the village or give in to his demands. All the other decisions feel right for her personality at that point in the game, but in this situation, there's no good reason for her not to agree to Dariusz's requests and have her soldiers attempt (and presumably fail) to capture Jasen.

Other than this, however, it is looking to be an amazing game and I love Duvessa as the protagonist, she's exactly the kind of character I love to play. I'm very glad I ran across it here, and will definitely be looking forward to more.

Yeah all the feedback has made me feel that my biggest failure in writing Ep. 1 was not properly conveying that the villagers were not totally united in a coherent plan, and as such that Jasen was a neccesary evil in order to neatly solve the problem on a time limit. I'd probably flesh things out to that end if I could do Ep. 1 all over again.

 

[Mnemnosyne]

Yeah all the feedback has made me feel that my biggest failure in writing Ep. 1 was not properly conveying that the villagers were not totally united in a coherent plan, and as such that Jasen was a neccesary evil in order to neatly solve the problem on a time limit. I'd probably flesh things out to that end if I could do Ep. 1 all over again.

That does make a lot more sense in context, then. It felt like Dariusz clearly communicated the villagers' desires, and everything else was coming from Jasen. With that knowledge, it definitely feels a lot less out of place for Duvessa to have to choose to work with him.

 

[omen777]

Yeah all the feedback has made me feel that my biggest failure in writing Ep. 1 was not properly conveying that the villagers were not totally united in a coherent plan, and as such that Jasen was a neccesary evil in order to neatly solve the problem on a time limit. I'd probably flesh things out to that end if I could do Ep. 1 all over again.

In fact it seemed artificial to me the way Jasen is seen by Duvessa as a necessary evil. The villagers who said something other than the "crowd" are Dariusz and Erica and they both were sceptical with him.
I very much like the game so I want to see more for now but in time if you think to rewrite some part I have the feeling this could be a much much better stories.

 

[Buletti]

Yeah all the feedback has made me feel that my biggest failure in writing Ep. 1 was not properly conveying that the villagers were not totally united in a coherent plan, and as such that Jasen was a neccesary evil in order to neatly solve the problem on a time limit. I'd probably flesh things out to that end if I could do Ep. 1 all over again.

I think the main issue for you as author or the story progress with this is that a big Portion of the players will just choose to ignore his plot for the rest of the story.

I am certainly very thankful to you that you give us the option and also make pretty clear what we have to do to get rid of that fucker.

For you as author this creates the conundrum that you have to create content a lot of your audience will not see or like but you still have to do it for the sake of the story.

But anyway this is all critique on the highest Level imho. It just shows how good the writing of EP. 1 actually is when this topic is what most people talk about.

You are creating a masterpiece and the only real Problem I have is that I have to wait for the next EP.

 

[Mr. Pengo]

I think the main issue for you as author or the story progress with this is that a big Portion of the players will just choose to ignore his plot for the rest of the story.

I am certainly very thankful to you that you give us the option and also make pretty clear what we have to do to get rid of that fucker.

For you as author this creates the conundrum that you have to create content a lot of your audience will not see or like but you still have to do it for the sake of the story.

But anyway this is all critique on the highest Level imho. It just shows how good the writing of EP. 1 actually is when this topic is what most people talk about.

You are creating a masterpiece and the only real Problem I have is that I have to wait for the next EP.

I'm willing to accept that tbh. Didn't anticipate Jasen being so disliked for some reason, despite the fact that I intentionally designed him to be the one character with no redeeming traits whatsoever, but audience input isn't gonna impact the story itself.

I think the underlying issue is that you have to cooperate with him somewhat in ep 1, which I can understand people not being cool with. As I've said before, you won't have to side with him again whenever he pops up.

 

[omen777]

I'm willing to accept that tbh. Didn't anticipate Jasen being so disliked for some reason, despite the fact that I intentionally designed him to be the one character with no redeeming traits whatsoever, but audience input isn't gonna impact the story itself.

I think the underlying issue is that you have to cooperate with him somewhat in ep 1, which I can understand people not being cool with. As I've said before, you won't have to side with him again whenever he pops up.

Well maybe as a writer you could use the hatred the character received to make him a recurrent adversaries with Duvessa winning most of the time but getting beatten or delayed some other times. Just a thought.

 

[Infinite77]

How much context

 

[Infinite77]

How much content

 

[Mr. Pengo]

How much content

People tell me the first episode is around 5-10 hours depending on how fast you read.

 

[Ethernetwork]

People tell me the first episode is around 5-10 hours depending on how fast you read.

Can verify, took two separate days to finish it. I wasn't in a rush though.

 

[Buletti]

Status Update #24 - June 29, 2025

9 hours ago

I've had kind of an unproductive week outside of directing the art production as normal. I'm at a scene that I'm not particularly enthused about writing atm, and so I've been putting it off day by day. The good news is that, with how the art schedule is panning out, it shouldn't actually affect the release date at all. I imagine I'll be more than finished with writing the first part of Ep. 2 by the time it is ready to be put together.

On the bright side, I continue to plug away at my ideas document whenever something comes to me, which is pretty much every day. It's around 45,000 words long at the moment, which is bordering on novel length territory lol. A lot of the stuff in there is future conversations that will be included in the game eventually (including stuff from episode 2) so, even when I'm unproductive, it would seem that I'm productive.

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported me once again. I think that, considering the game only just launched a little over a month ago, the Patreon has been a big success so far, which is extremely encouraging for me! I appreciate everyone who has contributed immensely.

 

[Buletti]

Status Update #25 - July 6, 2025

Just now



Hey all. Since last week, I have finished writing the scene that I was meh on having to do (in all it's various forms...this can be a drawback to writing a branching story lol) and am now back on schedule doing things that I am more excited about. I will say, even when I don't want to write something, coming up with Duvessa's dialogue ends up making the experience fun anyway.

My artists are still producing stuff as per usual...I think my priorly-stated projection of a September release is the most realistic at the moment. I think people will be more than satisfied for the level of content that will be in the release, given that it's just half the episode. I've recently recieved the sprites for a lot of new girls who are debuting in Ep. 2, but I'm thinking I'll hold off on sharing them until the release. I have no reservations about posting yet-to-debut male characters, though, so one is featured in this week's preview. Five stars to anyone who can guess who this is.

Thanks and have a great week!

 

[bamachine]

Mr. Pengo Just started playing your game. Really like it so far. I am trying to keep her as dominant but not totally evil, if possible. One problem I had though was both of the night scenes, where she was laying down on her bed, facing the ceiling and the rain/thunder was playing, it froze up for like 5 minutes before it would move to the next frame. Same thing happened at the end of this build, after she said her last piece to a certain person. The eerie music started playing, screen froze, 5 minutes later I heard a thud, then finally got a screen of her saying "Huh". Only a few more frames after that before the notification of the end of current content.

Something about those audio files seem to be major resource hogs, especially on a non-gaming pc like my laptop.

 

[Mr. Pengo]

Mr. Pengo Just started playing your game. Really like it so far. I am trying to keep her as dominant but not totally evil, if possible. One problem I had though was both of the night scenes, where she was laying down on her bed, facing the ceiling and the rain/thunder was playing, it froze up for like 5 minutes before it would move to the next frame. Same thing happened at the end of this build, after she said her last piece to a certain person. The eerie music started playing, screen froze, 5 minutes later I heard a thud, then finally got a screen of her saying "Huh". Only a few more frames after that before the notification of the end of current content.

Something about those audio files seem to be major resource hogs, especially on a non-gaming pc like my laptop.

Thanks for the kind words! Yeah, it's not a problem with the audio files; there's a motif in the first episode where we see Duvesssa's eyes, and then a certain other individual's eyes, closing in the first person. For whatever reason, it seems like your game is just freezing up when this animation hits rather than showing it to you. That's happened to me in testing when I was hitting CTRL to skip thru dialogue, but never when I was going at normal speed. Either way, it won't be a problem for you in future episodes.

 

[GodTrinity]

Will we see more of Scars in episode 2, or will there be new femdom that might happen? I was also intrigued by her threat of ''One of her boys could put a baby in ya'' Is that something that might happen in the future, or was that just a threat in the moment that won't be expanded upon? Love the game and can't wait to see what will happen in the next update regardless!

 

[Mr. Pengo]

Will we see more of Scars in episode 2, or will there be new femdom that might happen? I was also intrigued by her threat of ''One of her boys could put a baby in ya'' Is that something that might happen in the future, or was that just a threat in the moment that won't be expanded upon? Love the game and can't wait to see what will happen in the next update regardless!

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Glad you like the game and excited for you to play more!

 

[Buletti]

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Glad you like the game and excited for you to play more!

I am not too sure about to which question the answer goes, so I would like to clarify:

is preg content planned? Because it is not in the planned tags list. And if so, will it be avoidable? And I mean very easily avoidable on each route so that it is unmistakable which choice would lead to preg stuff?

 

[Mr. Pengo]

I am not too sure about to which question the answer goes, so I would like to clarify:

is preg content planned? Because it is not in the planned tags list. And if so, will it be avoidable? And I mean very easily avoidable on each route so that it is unmistakable which choice would lead to preg stuff?

None planned. Most likely way it will ever manifest is if I do a bonus scene about it or I come up with something later on. If there ever is pregnancy stuff I'll make it abundantly clear how to trigger or avoid it.

 

[Buletti]

Status Update #26 - July 13th, 2025

5 hours ago

I don't have too much to report other than the norm; all the artists are currently working on things, and writing proceeds as usual. The spreadsheet I made for scheduling production/budgeting has helped me to get a good idea of when everything is going to come together, which is why I'm fairly certain about the Sept. release at this time. Came up with a bunch of super spicy ideas for future H-scenes this week as well, all of which have been at least partially written down for the future. I am proud of the NSFW stuff that exists for this game so far, but I really think it will reach another level altogether once the character development starts paying off. So much stuff I can't wait to will into existence, both in terms of the story and the sex scenes. The future is bright!
This week, we have what I think is a first? The preview image is of a scene that I am actively writing at this very moment. In fact, I'm planning on going back and finishing it once this update is out! No rest for the weary!

Have a good week!