VN Ren'Py Kingdom of Deception [v0.14.2.2] [Hreinn Games]

[RandomServant77]

Anyone got the notes for 14.1? It's been like 9 months or some shit, I'm sure it's a great, bountiful update.

I don't even think leakers are around, the months scared most of them away. Hope springs eternal though.

Also, impressive work with the AI. People are usually extremely wary of it (and for good reason) but KoD had an interesting setup and it would be bloody hilarious to see more content from here than the creators proper. Is Viressa still around? Man could write for sure.

 

[Great730]

Anyone got the notes for 14.1? It's been like 9 months or some shit, I'm sure it's a great, bountiful update.

I'm sorry I'm so sorry

 

[ronadan]

Can we include Akali and Fiora?

man you got a certain taste. dominant, athletic, sassy women I assume?
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Gimme my Samira and we got a deal

 

[DreamingAway]

man you got a certain taste. dominant, athletic, sassy women I assume?
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Gimme my Samira and we got a deal

Were you serious about making a "development thread / group chat" ?
I typed a really long post about this topic.. then deleted it.. and started digging into renpy code to see how it works instead.

 

[Azazin]

hero ?)

 

[scheriel]

and started digging into renpy code to see how it works instead.

I think at this point you are already better than the coder of the main game

 

[TERES]

 

[helllover]

Doesn't sound worth a download...

Also i'd like Kindred, Soraka and Sona to appear.... mostly in a minotaur or tentacles ending

 

[CourierNPC]

Who you calling a mfer?

If you don't feel like you're one then don't

 

[CourierNPC]

a piece of Sabia's mother

Pretty sure a backstabbing bitch wouldn't blue ball no MILF lover

But you know, as they say in the book: Whatever's wrong is way hotter

 

[OnyxWolfx]

Well here you guys go... 14.1.1 not much to show for it, big surprise

You must be registered to see the links

 

[big_shl0m0]

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Soooo... Virtually no new scenes, and some cringe text? Way to go Hreinn, what an update.
Till next year boys!

 

[poopsmith88]

Well here you guys go... 14.1.1 not much to show for it, big surprise
Mega

How do you trigger the new events at the Brothel? The gallery says we need to make either of the people dissatisfied to make the scene happen but no idea wtf that means.

 

[Partyboy78]

I don't know how to start the Brothel quest either, but judging by the Gallery, it's naturally the same assets from the group in the slums you gather info from for Kira.

 

[Abc3192]

Well here you guys go... 14.1.1 not much to show for it, big surprise
Mega

Pls mac ver

 

[ronadan]

Were you serious about making a "development thread / group chat" ?
I typed a really long post about this topic.. then deleted it.. and started digging into renpy code to see how it works instead.

honestly, I have my doubts. I'm very busy with my life (as you can probably guess from my commenting schedule) and personally, I'd think twice before promising anything. Besides, I believe we're kind of underestimating the scope of the work required to create an actual, functioning game (tho as I said before, I know nothing about coding and have never done any writing).

I speak from experience when I say "I don't want to commit to something I have next to no idea about", but creating a thread here could be a good start to see how much support we can get from the community. you know, because it's gonna be "community work".

ps: your SD works are awesome. even if we never get to create anything for KoD, I rly encourage you to follow it up and make something out of it for yourself. I personally follow it mostly as a hobby (a few pics a week when I'm bored), but you went DEEP into the rabbit hole.

 

[Brother Penetrātus]

Annual reminder: 1021 days have passed since the announcement of the revamped and modular clothing system.



This surely means that it must be ready at any time. (Soon™)

 

[DreamingAway]

honestly, I have my doubts. I'm very busy with my life (as you can probably guess from my commenting schedule) and personally, I'd think twice before promising anything. Besides, I believe we're kind of underestimating the scope of the work required (tho as I said before, I know nothing about coding and have never done any writing).

I speak from experience when I say "I don't want to commit to something I have next to no idea about", but creating a thread here could be a good start to see how much support we can get from the community. you know, because it's gonna be "community work".

ps: your SD works are awesome. even if we never get to create anything for KoD, I rly encourage you to follow it up and make something out of it for yourself. I personally follow it mostly as a hobby (a few pics a week when I'm bored), but you went DEEP into the rabbit hole.

I also don't have a spare 5 years to spend on making a Noxian Nights of Deception 3..

My ~*~Master Plan~*~ was to create a Renpy framework that writers could add dialogue / events / images to without needing to write code. If I could lower the bar for the community so they don't need to write code or draw art, then we could create a crowd sourced game that people could drop in and out of, so it didn't depend on any one person to commit to it.

~*~The Master Plan~*~
1) Create an open source git repository
2) Let people write their own stories / quests / content as a community effort - remove artwork & code as barriers.
3) Let them push Images + Text to the project.
4) [OPTIONAL] Have a team of people vet their pull requests for typos / canon breaking / whatever..
5) ???
6) Come back in 6 months and play it myself to see what the community created


Risks
- Looking at Renpy (for the first time) it doesn't seem possible to easily remove *all* coding.
(I can make it very very simple for people to copy and paste templates, but there will be a small amount of in-lining)

- Lack of interest

- Nobody wanting to contribute to a project that doesn't have financial incentive

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Those last two are a killer.
This only works if people at scale care more about creativity / storywriting / lewd than $$.

My motivation ultimately - was to learn & try new things and give the community something interesting to engage with.


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Master Plan-B
Help Nomo to do this to speed up their workflow / help with motivation.

 

[nyqz]

I also don't have a spare 5 years to spend on making a Noxian Nights of Deception 3..

My ~*~Master Plan~*~ was to create a Renpy framework that writers could add dialogue / events / images to without needing to write code. If I could lower the bar for the community so they don't need to write code or draw art, then we could create a crowd sourced game that people could drop in and out of, so it didn't depend on any one person to commit to it.

~*~The Master Plan~*~
1) Create an open source git repository
2) Let people write their own stories / quests / content as a community effort - remove artwork & code as barriers.
3) Let them push Images + Text to the project.
4) [OPTIONAL] Have a team of people vet their pull requests for typos / canon breaking / whatever..
5) ???
6) Come back in 6 months and play it myself to see what the community created


Risks
- Looking at Renpy (for the first time) it doesn't seem possible to easily remove *all* coding.
(I can make it very very simple for people to copy and paste templates, but there will be a small amount of in-lining)

- Lack of interest

- Nobody wanting to contribute to a project that doesn't have financial incentive

--

Those last two are a killer.
This only works if people at scale care more about creativity / storywriting / lewd than $$.

My motivation ultimately - was to learn & try new things and give the community something interesting to engage with.


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EDIT:

Master Plan-B
Help Nomo to do this to speed up their workflow / help with motivation.

Making it possible to add new scenes without any coding would be a huge amount of work, and if you were able/willing to invest the effort to do that you shouldn't be wasting the effort on KoD. A no coding interface for renpy would have a lot of demand from people who aren't interested in figuring out basic scripting to play around making vns.

It also probably wouldn't speed up making new scenes that much. Yes, the basic scripting for a scene is tedious, but it isn't very difficult. The hardest part is still just coming up with an idea, writing it and editing it.

From what I've learnt looking around in the game files and talking to people who understand it better than me, it seems like the main problem is that it's a huge pain in the ass to incorporate new scenes into the existing game, not to actually make those scenes. Partly because of how it's structured, partly because there's so little documentation. It's very frustrating.

 

[ronadan]

This only works if people at scale care more about creativity / storywriting / lewd than $$.

My motivation ultimately - was to learn & try new things and give the community something interesting to engage with.

I respect your resolve, but I'm a bit of a cynic overall. I say we can try creating a thread at least to brainstorm ideas (what we want to do, what's the general story, who are the characters, etc) and then see how people react. just to get enough engagement to know we're not just circle-jerking.

your idea is similar to a lot of chatbot services like character.ai where instead of creating a chatbot from scratch, they provide a platform for their users to create something simple and then interact with it until the ai learns more and develops itself. if they can be successful (which they are), who am I to say yours doesn't have potential? you have the passion to do it and I can get behind that.

fun? absolutely.

is it going to be easy? nope.

is it worth a try? sure.

are we going headfirst into an impending burnout? I... don't know honestly

also, tho I like your optimism, don't bother with Hreinn games. they're way beyond lacking motivation and the game is basically clinging to life at this point just to make more money for them. if it was a free game it would have been abandoned months ago.