It seems like sequenceses are big no-no for the android port. That's a lesson learned.
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My definition of a sequence is "An unlooped series of renders that create the effect of something or somebody moving like it's a video.". The reason why I didn't use video for this stuff and animations is that the quality of the videos when converted is shit, I tried it and almost had to wash my eyes after watching one of the animations.
There is a moment in the game, the scene where MC goes to his father's office when the car approaches the building and MC walks out. there are two sequences, one is 10 renders long with the car getting into the frame and the second one is him walking away from the car which is 50 renders long.
Before that, there is a sequence where a Spanish professor walks into the frame (50 renders long). It seems that these sequences eat up the memory really fast on the android and the system decided to close the game to save memory. That's not something unusual but sure is irritating. In the code, there are lines that hide these sequences, so I don't know why they create problems.
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I like this game and although the English is not great it's not half as bad as a lot of games .
It might want a proofreader to go through it before you mark it complete.
I like the plot and the fact i'm not for the most part playing an MC thats writen as if he's is an imature pervert in both his internal and external dialogue.
there's a couple of undeifined calls to the MC's name
in game but thats not an issue.
But what is A big Issue for me is.
What the fuck is he wearing and why the fuck would anyone go out dressed like that.
Anna can't even pull that look off and he just looks like a total dick did they lose a bet?.
And i'm sorry but even when he takes the hoodie off he still looks like a twat.
Has this turned into some sort of syfy or something.
Whats up do they not make normal cloths or shirt and tie for this Model?.
For heavens sake Dev put him back in normal clothes.
Because even If he didn't get locked up for killing his dad.
He should definatly do a 10 strech for his crime against fashion.
Just Sayin.
It might want a proofreader to go through it before you mark it complete.
I like the plot and the fact i'm not for the most part playing an MC thats writen as if he's is an imature pervert in both his internal and external dialogue.
there's a couple of undeifined calls to the MC's name
in game but thats not an issue.But what is A big Issue for me is.
What the fuck is he wearing and why the fuck would anyone go out dressed like that.
Anna can't even pull that look off and he just looks like a total dick did they lose a bet?.
And i'm sorry but even when he takes the hoodie off he still looks like a twat.
Has this turned into some sort of syfy or something.
Whats up do they not make normal cloths or shirt and tie for this Model?.
For heavens sake Dev put him back in normal clothes.
Because even If he didn't get locked up for killing his dad.
He should definatly do a 10 strech for his crime against fashion.
Just Sayin.
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I would like to address both problems you mentioned. The first one with the undefined calls to the MC's name. It's not something that should've happened, I take a close look and I try my best with the organization of variables not to get anything missed out on. But I'll fix this, and thanks for letting me know.
The outfit is out. I won't use it anymore. I don't know why, but I found it amusing and patrons had nothing against it, even voted for this outfit for Anna against some emo doll outfit. But yeah, burned myself, and learned that lesson the hard way.
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Ok my apologies I believe I traced the first fault to a possible corrupted relationships.rpy so that ones my fault.
However the second part your right it is very definitely all you and possibly some patrons very iffy sence of humour
You asked for it, I played through the game and I have a few things to say and I think you won't like it.
These are the notes I made while playing.
- the MC has a face that should never be seen
- the story is overly complicated and just not good, the game just throws more and more Mafia-like groups at the MC
- the writing is bad almost every scene feels rushed and the translation has some problems too
- the renders look like they were made years ago
- there are a few models I like but also some that look terrible, should I make a list of the good and bad ones?
- there is a textbox slider but you can't make the textbox disappear entirely
- what is the point of getting sex pics on the phone if you can’t zoom in on them
- in the character gallery, the switching background is annoying and it would be better if their names were next to the girls
- the character gallery shows information about the girls the MC/player hasn't received in-game
- not all sex scenes are animated but even the ones that are animated are a bit disappointing
- too many characters, there is so much going on that the MC can’t even spend any significant time with his family, whom he hasn’t seen in 10 years
- the further I got into the game writing got worse
- whoever the proofreader is get a new one
It feels like the game doesn’t know what it wants to be, story-focused or porn-focused because both parts are not good enough for the game to live on.
Nitpick time
- Emma's face looks too old, after the kidnapping, her face looks like she is at least in her 30s and on crack
- Emma's masturbation scene, the virginities of sisters are for their brothers to take
- specific renders that look bad kitchen top-down shots
- Suki's flashback is too short, the picture is barely noticeable
- supersoldier drugs really?!?!?!
- GPS chip implants?!?!?!
- Anna is supposed to be the second-best mercenary but dual wields non-silenced pistols on an undercover rescue mission
- the game has the same problem so many other harem games have too many girls I can’t remember them all
- WTF was that partner outfit with Anna
In its current state, I would have to rate the game 1 star, 2 stars at most with both eyes closed.
It simply wasn't fun to read through.
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I'll answer all of the comments one by one, maybe I group some because I don't want to repeat myself in the same comment.
I'll reply to the nitpicks and the rest, but first, I need to recharge my own batteries. Expect the rest of the reply tomorrow.
I've seen this comment a few times, and I'll talk with patrons on my Patreon page about it. I personally don't see the problem, but this kind of stuff is very subjective. First, it was the problem with the hair, now the face, if I change that, it will be some other model (like Emma, and somebody else after her) or even his dick or something like that, there isn't a perfect MC I can build so everybody likes him. There's a lot more of POV in the next update, so don't worry.
There is a small survey at the end of the game and a link where players can post text files generated by that survey. It helps a lot to see what I need to focus on when it comes to fixing the game. The reviews as I call them (on Dropbox) were all positive and people didn't complain, so I take that as a major improvement. I see these comments as comments from someone who didn't like the game and I simply can't rewrite the whole game, rerender everything with different models that everybody will like so I can appease everyone.
I think that my renders are above average, not top-tier, but not bad. You can see a lot of games with grainy renders or something critically wrong with them. I'm proud of the post-rendering work I do (denoising, Photoshop, Lumion...). I simply can't step over my on work, and that's why this comment might sound little unpleasant, but here we are.
There was a textbox, but it crashed the game for some people, and I spent 16+ hours a day just to fix a problem that didn't happen to me. I used the version that had a textbox as an idea for future updates. And after I got too stressed to fix everything in as small a timeframe as possible because people were starting to get angry and saying what they were saying just because they couldn't play my game, well, that only leaves me to patch up some stuff and say fuck it, it works now.
There is only one pic as I remember and that was fairly early in the development, for future sexting I'll have this in mind.
The switching background is the main menu background and I don't know how it all works, tbh. I'll try to learn as much as possible regarding Python and its connections with Ren'Py so I make it as good as it can be. Putting names besides the images will require time because of how the gallery is coded so if the time is kind to me I'll try and change that. And regarding the extra info in the character gallery, it's just a bonus for the people who wanted to look, and it gives more info about the story.
No, I don't think the animated scenes are disappointing. Not every part of the scene is animated, but that's the norm devs are following. Plus there are games that don't have animated sex scenes and people still don't hate those scenes.
It's a harem game with a big diversity of characters, I need to introduce them now, so I can work with them later with the peace of my mind. When I tried to introduce them faster, I got backlash that the game is fast-paced, now that I slowed down, I get this kind of criticism. Let the game evolve and everything will make sense.
I was very clear that the game is more focused on the story, but with me getting more comfortable about working on sex scenes of course there will be more sex scenes, plus more LIs means more sex (simple equation).
I'll reply to the nitpicks and the rest, but first, I need to recharge my own batteries. Expect the rest of the reply tomorrow.
I don't have a problem with his body or his dicksize but I don't like his face. This is a problem that could at least be limited by not showing his face all the time, good example of this is the game Now & Then the face of the MC is never shown because the Dev knew that HS male models are ugly as sin.
I simply wanted the textbox gone so I used a mod for it.
If it wouldn't be a harem game I would have never played it but this game is already at a point where there are so many girls that each one of them barely has any screen time. I haven't counted them so how many girls are there already, I'd say at least 25 and that is too much.
Nothing against a story-focused game but the story isn't interesting enough, I can't see myself continuing playing for the story and again the sex scenes aren't that good either in my opinion. Also, the game needs a better proofreader.
Did I see worse renders than yours yes but to claim your renders are above average I have to ask what is your definition of average?
When it comes to your models it's all personal preference but there are some I like and some I don't like.
The game needs more choices. For example, there is no choice if the player wants to fuck Ellena.
Nah nah. Don't ignore animations. "Astral lust" is full of those & my even my old android device was able to run it without problems.
By the by, any info on update ??
Well about the animations, I think there will be at least 20 in the next update alone. I love doing them and they are the easiest part of the rendering, to be honest.
When it comes to ETA or any info about the update, I think ETA will be around the middle of September, For the public a little bit later, but I can't say it will be the 15th or any specific date, I'm working non-stop and I think it will be something people will love.
From Patreon;
Hey guys,
How is it going? There is a lot to talk about for this week and how close we are to seeing this "annoying" update come to life.
When it comes to the size of the update, it's quite hefty. It will have around 700 renders and around 30k words in it, plus up to 25 animations. All of this is quite sizable for the update, and I think this might even be a new norm, but the style of writing won't be like in the past, because I learned the hard way that it will not be possible with how my own day is organized.
A little bit of insight into my day: ( You don't have to read it if you don't want to)
I wake up at 5 AM, do some exercises, after which I prepare a coffee, and start writing as many dialogues as I can before going to work. For work, I leave at around 7:30 AM and for about 9 hours I'm at the office working. I come home around 7 PM and go back to writing the dialogues. That was my day from Monday to Friday, before that I had some additional stuff for college, but that's delayed for now. After I come home, I continue working on the game, which can end around midnight.
I really want to get this update out for more than one reason, but I feel like the game will be much better with this update. When looking at the number of words in the update, it's almost half of the current game that is online. With that, I know that this update will be good, and because I'm writing dialogues without any additional stress to finish it in the next 10 hours, for example, my writing skills are getting much better, which can be seen in the game.
The characters that we'll get introduced in this update will have much more life than previous times I introduced new characters, and that's because I'm writing everything with such ease that even I'm pretty happy while doing the most tedious job in the development.
When this update is done, everything will have to change. Instead of writing dialogues at the end, I'll do them while rendering the scenes and animations. I'll return to my previous activity on Patreon and Discord to some extent, and there will be much more content to see.
If after I finish college I see that the lack of stress allows me to do some more stuff, I'll probably evolve this game to some more platforms, like a comic for example, that will show some untold stuff from the game.
After the update is live, I'll give a much bigger post that will contain a lot of my thoughts regarding the game, the development, and everything I've been through while working on this update.
The weekly animation for Patreon will be published tomorrow after I wake up.
I wish you all the best,
Yours truly King of the Jungle
Hey guys,
How is it going? There is a lot to talk about for this week and how close we are to seeing this "annoying" update come to life.
When it comes to the size of the update, it's quite hefty. It will have around 700 renders and around 30k words in it, plus up to 25 animations. All of this is quite sizable for the update, and I think this might even be a new norm, but the style of writing won't be like in the past, because I learned the hard way that it will not be possible with how my own day is organized.
A little bit of insight into my day: ( You don't have to read it if you don't want to)
I wake up at 5 AM, do some exercises, after which I prepare a coffee, and start writing as many dialogues as I can before going to work. For work, I leave at around 7:30 AM and for about 9 hours I'm at the office working. I come home around 7 PM and go back to writing the dialogues. That was my day from Monday to Friday, before that I had some additional stuff for college, but that's delayed for now. After I come home, I continue working on the game, which can end around midnight.
I really want to get this update out for more than one reason, but I feel like the game will be much better with this update. When looking at the number of words in the update, it's almost half of the current game that is online. With that, I know that this update will be good, and because I'm writing dialogues without any additional stress to finish it in the next 10 hours, for example, my writing skills are getting much better, which can be seen in the game.
The characters that we'll get introduced in this update will have much more life than previous times I introduced new characters, and that's because I'm writing everything with such ease that even I'm pretty happy while doing the most tedious job in the development.
When this update is done, everything will have to change. Instead of writing dialogues at the end, I'll do them while rendering the scenes and animations. I'll return to my previous activity on Patreon and Discord to some extent, and there will be much more content to see.
If after I finish college I see that the lack of stress allows me to do some more stuff, I'll probably evolve this game to some more platforms, like a comic for example, that will show some untold stuff from the game.
After the update is live, I'll give a much bigger post that will contain a lot of my thoughts regarding the game, the development, and everything I've been through while working on this update.
The weekly animation for Patreon will be published tomorrow after I wake up.
I wish you all the best,
Yours truly King of the Jungle
Thank you for sharing this post. This is one of the weekly updates (33) that are public posts, so anyone who stumbles upon the page can read them. I just want to say thank you for sharing it, and I will give some more updates on the game soon. All the writing of the fictional dialogues left me without real-life words. Hahaha.
Haven't even played it yet but I gotta say "Please install me.zip" is the most sus shit I've seen since the Kazaa days.
It's just an I-patch. The game doesn't show the real story if the roles are different if you understand what I'm saying. All in all, it's just a patch.
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Now will try this update been loooking forward to it good luck with upcoming updates
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I am itching for the mod to be updated to play it............. I only wish that Walkthroughs would be optioned by the dev's so we wouldn't have to depend on third party modifications all the time.
Obviously, optional and turned off by default. Yeah, I know, I'm a dreamer... ah well, back to waiting...
Peace
Obviously, optional and turned off by default. Yeah, I know, I'm a dreamer... ah well, back to waiting...
Peace
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KingoftheJungle009 No offence but I'm not that far into the newer content you added since the last time I played and already this one jumped out at me.
In one of my playthrough's The MC wakes up next to his little sister and puts on a white hoody to go for a morning run (no Issue sofar) when he reaches a small park square.
He mentions that he is aware that a woman has been watching him all night and is now following him to the park (again no Issue).
I in my game I decided to picked NO to calling her out.
Which aparently means You still call out but its not to let her know you know she's there and you want to talk.
But just to warn her that you know she's there so she is forced to retreat without you meeting her (no Issue either).
The Issue comes Later my MC go's to meet Angela, Rachel and Mia And he tells Mia "This morning I went for a run, and there was this girl following me". (all good sofar however) "After I confronted her" (Issue is here MC warned her off not the same thing as confronting)"she was all mysterious." (Issue here also How is she all mysterious my MC warned her off they never actually met?.)
Now had I said YES and my MC had called her out.
My MC would of actually met her and then "After I confronted her she was all mysterious." would of actually made sense.
You need to watch out when giving Branching choices that the later scene totally match's the choice.
Or just don't give the choice to start with.
This is not a complaint just an observation and comletely meant as friendly advice.
You are more than welcome to take it or leave it.
Hope this helps.
In one of my playthrough's The MC wakes up next to his little sister and puts on a white hoody to go for a morning run (no Issue sofar) when he reaches a small park square.
He mentions that he is aware that a woman has been watching him all night and is now following him to the park (again no Issue).
I in my game I decided to picked NO to calling her out.
Which aparently means You still call out but its not to let her know you know she's there and you want to talk.
But just to warn her that you know she's there so she is forced to retreat without you meeting her (no Issue either).
The Issue comes Later my MC go's to meet Angela, Rachel and Mia And he tells Mia "This morning I went for a run, and there was this girl following me". (all good sofar however) "After I confronted her" (Issue is here MC warned her off not the same thing as confronting)"she was all mysterious." (Issue here also How is she all mysterious my MC warned her off they never actually met?.)
Now had I said YES and my MC had called her out.
My MC would of actually met her and then "After I confronted her she was all mysterious." would of actually made sense.
You need to watch out when giving Branching choices that the later scene totally match's the choice.
Or just don't give the choice to start with.
This is not a complaint just an observation and comletely meant as friendly advice.
You are more than welcome to take it or leave it.
Hope this helps.
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