- Dec 25, 2021
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$ JPDESoF-4.17-PC/game $ find . -name "*.rpy" -exec grep -iH '{' {} \; | wc
grep: ./.#script.rpy: No such file or directory
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Agreed with basically all of this. I'd also add that the text - specifically who's speaking - can be very difficult to read at times because of the colour.I thoroughly love what I've played of this so far. I enjoy the writing, I enjoy the character interactions, this feels like an adult novel in a world I want to keep seeing. That being said, I do have a few suggestions for improving this for the future, just as a thing really.
1) Make the time limit optional/Give us more opportunities for progressing with characters beyond saturdays. I enjoy the concept of only being able to make progress on saturdays, I really do. But if you actually check the time properly, you can get about 5 characters maxed out if you're lucky, and while I enjoy the game, I'd be losing a lot of enjoyment for playing it over and over again.
2) Make the gallery actually work. I can understand it not working right now since you're still adding cg's and such, but it'd definitely be useful going through certain character's storylines and such, getting through and getting the lewds, and then having those in the gallery so that I can "appreciate" what I've gotten.
3) (temporarily) give us a warning if a character isn't fully finished yet. this is just a personal bugbear, but when I'm looking at a character like glynda or peachy and then find out they don't actually have anything beyond the first two saturday events, it gets quite sad and I feel like going back and not bothering with the characters until they're finished, so I can see an actual conclusion. Obviously when this is actually finished it won't matter anymore but it does right now.
4) Give us a couple hints as to how and when we can progress with other characters. The first time going through this, I had no idea characters and even interactions were gated behind time progressing, so I spent way too much time amping up my stats in useless areas when things were already good to go. Either let us know that things are gated with a tip screen or something, or for some characters, stop them from being gated on saturday so much.
5) Personal request, give me a harem ending. I'm a greedy bastard who enjoys all the female characters, and I want them all. This somewhat ties into the lack of time to actually explore all the characters in one single playthrough, because I don't want to play through this three or four times just to see what each different character does. Make it an optional thing, make it super difficult with required paths, I don't care. I'd rather it be difficult to achieve but possible and rewarding, even just an extra bonus of sorts compared to the actual endings than not have it at all considering your game is built around fooling around with multiple characters.
6) Fix ozpin. His character looks weird and that strange chin gives me ptsd. Not major, but at least make him look similar to the actual ozpin instead of looking like his jaw is lower than it should be and in an almost perpetual troll-faced grin.
7) Please keep working on this. I don't know if the creators would even look at this site or anything, but if they do, I truly appreciate how much time and effort you've put into this project, and I enjoy the new additions of CG's and such. I want this to finish, to be made and finished so I can play it through in all it's glory, enjoy the world of remnant and more.
8) (Bonus) Make more lewd cg please. I like what you've done with the amber stuff, if possible rework all the other lewds too, that would be awesome!
I honestly gave up with some namings. especialy with pairs (since it tends to mix the colors of the respective speakers it tends to end with black on dark background)Agreed with basically all of this. I'd also add that the text - specifically who's speaking - can be very difficult to read at times because of the colour.
according to color theory purples/violets, with reds and oranges being close second.Thanks for all the feedback on the UI. This has been a long time coming, seriously.
Since you guys seem knowledgeable on the subject, what colour would you say works best against the green background?
And sorry for the CPS but I was trying to write the dialogue like spoken word and different people speak differently at different times (Also comedic effect)
Thanks for all the feedback on the UI. This has been a long time coming, seriously.
Since you guys seem knowledgeable on the subject, what colour would you say works best against the green background?
And sorry for the CPS but I was trying to write the dialogue like spoken word and different people speak differently at different times (Also comedic effect)
To be fair, that's kind of a 'just you' issue.And that brings up a final point for me. Don't expect your consumer to have audio. In fact, I don't even know if you have audio in this thing. I play in a sandboxed user account on Linux that has no permissions given to it for the audio device. These games run in a window or browser tab that are separate from my normal desktop user login. So I don't have to worry about some jerk or newbie dev blowing out my speakers with a full volume barrage of whatever DMCA clickbait music the rent seeking corporate parasites favor to steal away the monetization of your YouTube videos. This is also a SFW mode a lot of people use to sneak in a little joy into our lives while toiling away in the salt mines of our corporate overlords.
To be fair, that's kind of a 'just you' issue.
90% of the people playing this game aren't going to be linux-users with a sandboxed no-permissions account that they use specifically to play games because... what? You intend to steam this or put it on youtube or something?
No. The vast majority of the people playing this game are going to have a normal setup. That is, windows (probably win10) and headphones.
You know, normal people.
DMCA claims aren't something that regular users give a shit about. We aren't being recorded while we play and if we're on F95zone we presumably already thought up some kind of solution to the 'I don't want porn-noises blaring out of my computer where my family/neighbours can hear.' issue.
Which is... to just use headphones, obviously.
TLDR: This part of your post, at least, feels like something that the developer doesn't need to care about.
You occupy a rather obscure niche that most people don't care about.
I think the issue you've got there is that you're asking the developer to take the time and effort to allow you to watch and enjoy his porn content while you're at work. The developer doesn't need to fix things at that point, you need to get better at hiding it, or take steps so that you can enjoy your erotic content while at work.
many genres of games are heavily dependent on sound weather to alert you of shit going on or threats out of vision. most can be played on mute with reduced experience. accessibility options do exist on some games (mincraft comes to mind surprisingly) but not all. and while i sometimes play on mute or even listen to my own music (headphones irritate me if used for long and i binge some games, also sometimes i'm just in the mood for different sound) it wouldn't occur to me to demand devs of free games to accommodate my niche.Actually I'm just pointing out that devs should never assume audio to be important to their work. Doing things like spending time and resources on it like voiceover actors do nothing for us. If anything, following our suggestions will cut time and effort that will be better spent somewhere in your earlier releases for developing fans. Note that video and animations are still quite useful without associated audio.
many seasoned VN players are used to backgrounds and ui beeing of "games color" (greenish in this case). it is considered good and adds to a games feel. everything is fine as long as text collor isn't atrotious (similar to your sugesstion us dark text on light backrounds like lite blue or pink or yellow and vice versa). text display speed is usualy adjustable in options alowing instantaneous display of text and texboxes being not completely filled is the norm rather than exception. since this isn't a deadtree book (something i still partake in on occasion to be fair) it can afford to not fill every part of a page with text for pacing, dramatic reasons and characterization (things that make the medium shine) restricting development and art due to our inability to adapt is backwards thinking and shouldn't be encouraged. the famous dots (...) of VNs existed since at least early 2000 and where used to create dramatic pauses and general scenes since at least then.Go with the flow used by e-book readers. High contrast black font on white or off-white background like good 'ole dead tree books or white font on black or dark grey. You can make the hud partially transparent but there's a point where the blend into the scene makes things hard to read somewhere between say 75% solid down to 50% or so.
I am making suggestions not demands. As I have noted, this suggestion is a good way to maybe even lighten their workload.it wouldn't occur to me to demand devs of free games to accommodate my niche.
I guess you don't understand what all of those cps overrides in dialog do in Renpy. No matter what you set in the menu, it will be ignored. In this case, by the thousands of lines of dialog. I don't want to have to treat a static VN like some twitch mode FPS.text display speed is usualy adjustable in options alowing instantaneous display of text and texboxes being not completely filled is the norm rather than exception.
I guess you never heard of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). Elon Musk may be a lightning rod of controversy. There's times I just want to meet him personally in order to tell him to just "shut up and build your fucking rockets." He's good at that you know. It's because one of his basic design drivers at SpaceX is to see what they can take out of the design because needless complications get in the way. Over my long career as a software and systems developer, technical sales guy and Linux security guy, I've seen the new folks ignore this as they bring in all sorts of code bloat (ie "Framework du jour") and complicated code (ie "unreadable code") just to do some form of dick waving about what they learned at school. Just look at this guy's project and what happened to him as I warned him about what was probably going on. Notice the warning in yellow on his OP talking about how the programmer skipped on him.restricting development and art due to our inability to adapt is backwards thinking and shouldn't be encouraged.
I am not the only person in the world with this opinion. Balls in your court dude. Also look up the use of the concept of "the Royal We" as it applies to the way a klng or queen never refers to "themselves" as an "I" because, in their mind, they are the kingdom. It's also a great way to cut out the use of gender specific pronouns so as to not cut out half of the human population when referring to the concept. Apparently this is now a concept under attack by the right wing grifter media in the USA because they are desperate to deflect attention away from some blowback they are suffering about abortion, attempts at sedition and future attempts at authoritarian rule.also you might wish to us singular I in your personal opinion statements in the future since you never know how many people will agree with you.
considering English is my third language... tell me how many languages did you master.Finally... Your spelling and grammer are "atrotious" (sic).
"Normal people" generally don't play porn-games at work, bruh.Now think about normal people at work. And you even mention it yourself when 'I don't want porn-noises blaring out of my computer where my family/neighbours can hear.' I may not be as a rather obscure niche as you may think. Using headphones at work may be an instant tell to your corporate overload that you are goofing off. That jerk dev that blasts at you at full volume when your cans aren't fully enclosed may broadcast those screams of climax all around your pod prairie.
Yeah, and you're wrong. They absolutely should assume that 90% of people who experience their media aren't trying to jerk off at work, and are probably willing to play with sound on.Actually I'm just pointing out that devs should never assume audio to be important to their work.
"Normal people" generally don't play porn-games at work, bruh.
Yeah, and you're wrong. They absolutely should assume that 90% of people who experience their media aren't trying to jerk off at work, and are probably willing to play with sound on.
Again, you are a tiny tiny niche of the player-base and your experiences and requirements are not representative of the userbase as a whole.
Telling the developer that the entire audio medium should be ignored or removable from his game just because you're a niche weirdo who uses his product in bizarre and likely unintended ways is absurd.
considering English is my third language... tell me how many languages did you master.
I'll respond to the more substantive parts a bit later