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Ren'Py KonoSuba - The Harem Adventures [v2.1b] [EmperoXXX Anime]
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- Oct 27, 2019
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Not really. There's a lack of content, and unless you'd like wasting your time for a game that calls itself version 2.1 with content equivalent to a version 0.1-alpha, or version 0.2-alpha if you're being generous, I think I can safely say your time is valuable enough to be spent elsewhere.
It has the beginnings of something decent. But is severely lacking in content, and there's a lot of dangling story lines all over the place. All in all, pretty bad. Wouldn't recommend.
Well, if you're a burgeoning, self-taught developer only having read/watched how to write the code and nothing about the practice and discipline involved, then yes. And while there isn't a "rule" against it—Because who is going to police it anyway? Aside from morons like myself—I do find myself more inclined to the opinion of Lord_Silver. It's not even an unspoken rule anymore, there's existed a
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for some time now.A 1.0 version means that a product is complete, any changes on top of that is non-breaking and usually just fixes. Having an initial release candidate already above it, is just plain pathetic given the lack of content in the game. This is barely even a v0.2 release, and honestly, I'd even go so far as to simply say it's a v0.1-alpha release.
Learn to version your shit first, before you get defensive about people complaining about a lack of content when you're using versioning that would imply more content than there is. If you'd actually cared much, you'd realize there is actually something to be gained from people complaining about a lackluster game when it's supposedly beyond it's finished release candidate, if you go by versioning numbers. And instead of listening to one of them, like Lord_Silver, you instead got defensive about it.
The way I see it:
- Currently, there's a lot of unnecessary grind.
- There is a lack of content, which makes the grind feel worse than it is.
- A lot of scenes are just . . . slow. And not in a good way. Conversations feel stilted, transitions are quicker to move along by going backwards by one and forwards by one, than actually waiting for scene transitions in many cases. The mere fact that this is even remotely a thought should be self-explanatory for why it's a problem.
- Some scenes are extra slow for the forced manual transition between multiple sub-shots. Like characters picking up stuff, and so on. This is fine, were it not so slow. A delayed transition is fine in some places, and not fine in others. Do consider where they fit best.
- For a game calling itself a version 2.1b, with the content equivalent to a version 0.1-alpha, it sure loves plastering ways to pay up whenever you get to the end of content threads or just to have basic features like skipping mini-games. Ignoring your lack of ability to version for a moment, it is important to consider that "we," the users/consumers, have no obligation to pay up nor are you displaying any proper incentive for us to do so. Users should be incentivized by a good product, not by you begging for money.
If you do not have the money to even develop alpha builds on the side til the point they reach a beta at minimum, you don't really have anything to complain nor beg about. Actual, real development of games require a lot of cost because of the uncertainty. You job as the developer is to try and make a product good enough that people will want to give money for either its purchase or continued development. Not that I expect a random internet indie to know that, given the lack of focus and code quality, I'm assuming you're self-taught. Though, props for trying. - Speaking of; this project suffers from both a lack of direction, lack of proper planning and code quality and organization.
There is already a drought of content for a game supposedly at version 2.1, and you need to consider how you'll organize code before a project becomes too big, or you'll suffer the consequences of having to refactor a lot because of a lack of forethought. Given what little code there is here, I can already see it becoming more of a tangled mess if nothing is done. A lot of code has unnecessary dependencies on each other, and there's probably more that is hard-coded than isn't. Though, assuming you've only dabbled in Python before and that this is your first "real" project, Ren'Py likely doesn't make that easy. And given that this has already been "in development" for so long and it hasn't gotten any better, well, I think that speaks for itself.
In regards to a lack of direction, I say that because you're adding a lot of content threads that literally go nowhere, but will someday supposedly go somewhere. Currently, they all just fish for money instead. This is a problem in many indie projects, where developers mistakenly focus on adding "more" content, instead of fleshing out existing content. I call it a mistake, because it leads to frustration for users, who never actually get anywhere. You can look to Giant Guardians for a similar example. That game is further along its development cycle, but suffers from many of the same problems that this one already does. For example in the sense of story lines just being left dangling without a sufficient conclusion.
You may say that it's hard, or even unreasonable, to expect a game to finish individual story lines before moving on to other story lines. And you'd be correct also, if only in part. Yes, you shouldn't just focus on an individual story line, but you also shouldn't just add and add and add without fleshing out anything. You can consider it as an inverse pyramid: You start from something small, but if you just build one direction the entire structure will go out of balance, and it'll be harder (in the analogy) to complete the parts you ignored. Fleshing them out properly, over time, instead of focusing on one thing, and then another, and another, will leave you with a more "complete" pyramid.
Honestly, this has the exact same issue as Giant Guardians in the sense of a really slow update cycle too, which I'm at minimum half-convinced is to milk any potential Patreon subscribers for as long as possible.
And regardless, these are just symptoms of a lack of planning. A lack of planning out the story, a lack of planning out the structure of your code, and a lack of planning out how to go about to tackle it properly. - This last bit is just a personal gripe: Even considering that this is a porn game and set in an anime-setting, the use of pseudo-Japanese—In the sense of being onomatopoeia—instead of just plain English in many places is just . . . yuck. It genuinely just feels like
You must be registered to see the links; it's just plain bad. This is subjective, of course, but I'd change it if I were the developer of this game.
Also, I find locking skippable mini-games behind a paywall while begging for money all around rather scummy, so for those of us who'd like a little quality of life, here's the codes:
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Well, if I ever needed proof of me being a moron, you have it now. At least, if it's the version 2.1b code you mean.
I've edited the message now, the actual code is 69explosions. I don't know how I convinced myself that it was in reverse while writing, but eh. Brain smooth, clearly.
- Nov 18, 2016
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Um EmperoXXX Anime shouldn't these tags be changed? Played most recent update, and well.. there be no anal, vaginal sex, or incest.
O wait, if you count that hentai that was on the TV at the start then I guess you'd have anal, but tentacles is missing. (weird scene to throw in tho given that i believe you won't be doing any NTR, so won't be any more content like that, although seems MC was watching NTR hentai
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- Feb 3, 2018
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So from what I understand after a full year there's barely any content involving the girls, no offense but maybe try and develop the main story alongside maybe 2 to 3 scenes per maybe 3-4 heroines or just 3 of them for each release? At the very least I guess it'd help deliver something more compact, like post a poll to decide which heroine to focus on first for one release, make 2 to 3 scenes, then make another, depending on the popularity of the girl you may finish up whatever event you got planned with her and then focus on the others in the next polls and that's IF you want people to help decide which girl to focus on, if not then do it yourself, this game sounds interesting but eh, try and take inspiration from Adventurer's Trainer, guy knows what he aims for and adds events with the girls while also optimizing the combat system and adding whatever improvement he feels is needed. Slow and steady wins the race as long as you have a good grasp of what you're aiming for and already got a plan mapped out, spreading yourself too thin can only lead to a subpar product.
Couple of sidenotes, for the tags you should only put those that ACTUALLY happen like the aforementioned footjob and body types for characters like MILF or monster girl, for the rest just put planned tags and then write the rest there, a bad practice is to misinform the potential player or patron of stuff that isn't in yet, that'll only cause friction with them and doubt over supporting you in this and future endeavors. The other thing is that if minigames are truly obnoxious (maybe people like the grind, maybe they don't) then you should put some QoL that helps the players overcome the feeling of annoyance, like say a mastery level, play the minigame enough times until reaching level 5 in that difficulty (or however you want to structure it, just make it feasible and not obnoxious) and then you get the option to skip it for free while your patrons still get the choice from the get-go to skip it entirely, win-win anti-frustration feature.
I honestly will bookmark this because you can never have too many Konosuba games and I'm not too keen on NTR so this is up my alley if there's none planned, though I will play this only after there is more content, try also not to alienate people, feedback is always good to help you understand how to make everything flow better, try to map out the direction you want your story to take while also considering which event to add during each release, preferably it'd be best if structured like first scene a tease for example a skirt lift or damaged clothes that don't go fully explicit yet, second accidental grope, third romance (kiss the gal), from the fourth onward sex be it straight up or by step, like fj, hj, bj, etc. These are just suggestions I'm making, I honestly wish you good luck with this and hope that you can release more often. Peace out.
Couple of sidenotes, for the tags you should only put those that ACTUALLY happen like the aforementioned footjob and body types for characters like MILF or monster girl, for the rest just put planned tags and then write the rest there, a bad practice is to misinform the potential player or patron of stuff that isn't in yet, that'll only cause friction with them and doubt over supporting you in this and future endeavors. The other thing is that if minigames are truly obnoxious (maybe people like the grind, maybe they don't) then you should put some QoL that helps the players overcome the feeling of annoyance, like say a mastery level, play the minigame enough times until reaching level 5 in that difficulty (or however you want to structure it, just make it feasible and not obnoxious) and then you get the option to skip it for free while your patrons still get the choice from the get-go to skip it entirely, win-win anti-frustration feature.
I honestly will bookmark this because you can never have too many Konosuba games and I'm not too keen on NTR so this is up my alley if there's none planned, though I will play this only after there is more content, try also not to alienate people, feedback is always good to help you understand how to make everything flow better, try to map out the direction you want your story to take while also considering which event to add during each release, preferably it'd be best if structured like first scene a tease for example a skirt lift or damaged clothes that don't go fully explicit yet, second accidental grope, third romance (kiss the gal), from the fourth onward sex be it straight up or by step, like fj, hj, bj, etc. These are just suggestions I'm making, I honestly wish you good luck with this and hope that you can release more often. Peace out.
liked the game so far, but its lacking too much content... Maybe need to wait several years or so before I can properly enjoy it, assuming its not abandoned ofc
- Oct 1, 2018
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I thought so too, but the dev replied to my comment on ichio. The next update will come in January 2025.