Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.53.0] [Selebus]

[butterfly boy]

I wouldn't even mind that there's a bit of a scavenger hunt to find the events, but there are SO MANY characters and SO MANY locations, and SO MANY events that are locked to a specific order/place/time that I legitimately can't even imagine trying to play the whole game without some kind of guide to tell you where to go. The guide mod feels like it's basically required if you don't want to turn figuring out how to progress into a full time job.

Funny how so many VN devs write about nerd culture and gaming yet doesn't understand anything about game design, it's like they never tried to play their game
Though if you know how to read renpy code tracking events becomes a lot easier and renpy is like the easiest language out there

 

[hth2m1]

Funny how so many VN devs write about nerd culture and gaming yet doesn't understand anything about game design, it's like they never tried to play their game
Though if you know how to read renpy code tracking events becomes a lot easier and renpy is like the easiest language out there

It's funny because a lot of devs who make games with obtuse requirements for triggering events like this will recognize that it's a horrible user experience and just add the equivalent of a walk through directly into the game with "hints" that basically just tell you exactly what to do next. Like it's still not good game design, but at least they are willing to admit it's unreasonable to just tell their players "fuck you, figure it out".

 

[ElukiaTV]

Spoiler: Lavender

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She.. probably did the same thing she does to herself... i doubt the "Otoha is a regular cheater" theory is a thing.

 

[Angiboat]

Well damn, Ami....

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[worthlesspeon]

I wouldn't even mind that there's a bit of a scavenger hunt to find the events, but there are SO MANY characters and SO MANY locations, and SO MANY events that are locked to a specific order/place/time that I legitimately can't even imagine trying to play the whole game without some kind of guide to tell you where to go. The guide mod feels like it's basically required if you don't want to turn figuring out how to progress into a full time job.

Yeah it's a pretty poor design. I don't know why he bothered with a sandbox if everything is linearly gated. But there's no point complaining, Selebus is going to Selebus. Thankfully people post guides pretty quickly.

 

[Deleted member 4468429]

I need a 0.30 Save, for some reason my saves dissapeared AGAIN after using DRM patch previously, I'm gonna start copying saves, I shouldve started earlier...
I hope someone can come in clutch

Guys please
I just hope someone can help me out here, If anyone has a 0.30.0 save it would be much appreciated
I don't wanna be annoying, I just think my message has gone unnoticed

 

[Juice86]

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Let's GO! Yasu updates finally.

She's my next fav character after the God trinity of the 3 girls in my sig.
Such an interesting character!

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

With Kaori's eyes turning red was she possessed by Sekai maybe?
also I found this in an early Ami event:

Spoiler: Ami's Shadow is wrong

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[SadCoomer]

With Kaori's eyes turning red was she possessed by Sekai maybe?

Most probably yes. Sekai seems to have an interest in forcing girls to be with Akira. See also the threesome scene with Makoto and Futaba

also I found this in an early Ami event:

Nice catch. It's probably the shadow of her mother, the hair seems to match. Either that or the dev left a character in the scene by mistake. Which event is this from?

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

Most probably yes. Sekai seems to have an interest in forcing girls to be with Akira. See also the threesome scene with Makoto and Futaba

Nice catch. It's probably the shadow of her mother, the hair seems to match. Either that or the dev left a character in the scene by mistake. Which event is this from?

It's from the event "Cute girls and stuff".

 

[barglenarglezous]

Most probably yes. Sekai seems to have an interest in forcing girls to be with Akira. See also the threesome scene with Makoto and Futaba

That's a level of direct control beyond what we see in Toys.

Considering Kaori talks about "spare parts inside me" or something very similar in her hex text rant, I think she got one or more organs from Sekai after the accident that's enabling so much direct control.

 

[fdsasdf_p]

Some speculations about Nodoka’s “influencers”

Can the lavender person be Futaba?
Point:
old friend and forever love of hers, not lavender-colored hair but lavender scented perfume (I mean I really can't tell what hair color Fubuta has), repopulate book shelves like a librarian, busy saving someone else as a selfless person she was and is
Counterpoint:
the name Yuko; even if Nodoka has the tendency of changing the name, the change isn’t that major if the trend followed through (but I doubt Yuko is this person's real name regardless)
Futaba is basically too low on any sort of trippy-ness from herself other than perhaps Clam's Tongue

It's a stretch; but with Nodoka describing herself:
- using a potentially fictionally modifed version
- using a third person POV
- and with how things are always trippy and unexplainable to her the entire time, it's just too hard to land on a solid answer

Other more obvious influencers to her are Akira and Sekai; there is no way that she hasn't read any of their creations, but it's now she knows Sensei IS Akira. Maybe she found the "something isn't right" feeling from their works resonated with hers.

Also at this point I believe the published upside down house story is basically one of her creations (which also got movie adaptation, but she apparently is renowned enough). It's creepy but at the end of the day it's a human-made piece of creation, perhaps telling whatever past she experienced via the hyper-perceptive senses she has.

 

[ladguru]

After Selly added DRM to the game it was quarantined to some degree, it's not eligible for promotion any more as both a punishment for such dickery and to protect the site users, only those who already follow this game are going to look for it (for the most part) and so the chances of folks getting fucked over by DRM is drastically reduced. The links to his support websites were also removed, basically the game has malware built into it now and so the game no longer gets any assistance from this site. What's left is pretty much just here for the users who were already here and also as a big middle finger to Selly.

I just noticed too, that I apparently missed a couple of updates. And what are these "care packages"??
But since there are now "DRM" shenanigans, I actually did not miss anything.
Screw it, I'll join the middle finger crowd and I get plenty of free disc space in return.

 

[Deleted member 2223621]

(Poor Ayane got excluded)
Though the choice of skin tone in the design indeed implies a connection to Tsuenyo especially in default Japan (hopefully this sentence doesn't sound like a racist...), but is Nao's hair really from Yumi other than black/long/not very straightened, or just by process of elimination if Tsuenyo is here than so should Yumi? (her braided hairstyle does seem eerily familiar though; where've I seen that???)

(Poor Ayane got excluded)
Though the choice of skin tone in the design indeed implies a connection to Tsuenyo especially in default Japan (hopefully this sentence doesn't sound like a racist...), but is Nao's hair really from Yumi other than black/long/not very straightened, or just by process of elimination if Tsuenyo is here than so should Yumi? (her braided hairstyle does seem eerily familiar though; where've I seen that???)

rewatch untitled, (be prepared for answering things) ayane WAS singled out and excluded, hair reminds me of yumi's because besides being long and black it has that sort of white fading effect at the tips she has... though i guess kaori also has that, but none of the other girls do, yumi and kaori are related though.

Some speculations about Nodoka’s “influencers”

Can the lavender person be Futaba?
Point:
old friend and forever love of hers, not lavender-colored hair but lavender scented perfume (I mean I really can't tell what hair color Fubuta has), repopulate book shelves like a librarian, busy saving someone else as a selfless person she was and is
Counterpoint:
the name Yuko; even if Nodoka has the tendency of changing the name, the change isn’t that major if the trend followed through (but I doubt Yuko is this person's real name regardless)
Futaba is basically too low on any sort of trippy-ness from herself other than perhaps Clam's Tongue

It's a stretch; but with Nodoka describing herself:
- using a potentially fictionally modifed version
- using a third person POV
- and with how things are always trippy and unexplainable to her the entire time, it's just too hard to land on a solid answer

Other more obvious influencers to her are Akira and Sekai; there is no way that she hasn't read any of their creations, but it's now she knows Sensei IS Akira. Maybe she found the "something isn't right" feeling from their works resonated with hers.

Also at this point I believe the published upside down house story is basically one of her creations (which also got movie adaptation, but she apparently is renowned enough). It's creepy but at the end of the day it's a human-made piece of creation, perhaps telling whatever past she experienced via the hyper-perceptive senses she has.

lavander historically can range anywhere from blue to outright purple. this is because when you make a natural dye with lavender the product comes out more blue than purple.
look up 'lavender blue'
that is the old traditional color of lavender

Spoiler: lavender blue

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most people that are poetic refer to it this way
nowadays though, most people just mean the plant when they say lavender which is a purple close to wakanas hair depending on the season it also is the color of futabas but most stock images show lavender when it is more purple

Spoiler: colors amirite

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so it could mean wakana, it could mean futaba

 

[barglenarglezous]

nowadays though, most people just mean the plant when they say lavender which is a purple close to wakanas hair

Nodoka also has a strong obsession with Wakana.

 

[derekthered56]

Btw, can we, like, talk about the chicken in the room?

Spoiler: Chicken in the room

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Any ideas? I'm not usually at a loss for words.

Clearly John is User4. With the coming of Spring he grows stronger.

 

[Deleted member 2223621]

Nodoka also has a strong obsession with Wakana.

does indeed and both like books

 

[SadCoomer]

I think people here are missing one big thing about this lavender's stuff: "Lavender's Blue" is the name of an event where Molly tries to force-kiss (again) Rin after lashing out at Otoha, while "Lavender's Green" is the event where Sensei rapes Molly. It even shows the nursery rhyme in the first one.

Now, how does this connect with Nodoka and Yuko? Fuck if I know. But it would be weird to have the same thing be a metaphor for two different things, there must be some sort of connection

 

[Deleted member 2223621]

I think people here are missing one big thing about this lavender's stuff: "Lavender's Blue" is the name of an event where Molly tries to force-kiss (again) Rin after lashing out at Otoha, while "Lavender's Green" is the event where Sensei rapes Molly. It even shows the nursery rhyme in the first one.

Now, how does this connect with Nodoka and Yuko? Fuck if I know. But it would be weird to have the same thing be a metaphor for two different things, there must be some sort of connection

oh... crap i didn't even realize the old song made an appearance in this game. hell I was just trying to point out color facts
that is on me because i barely pay attention to what events are named
and here i linked the wiki to it before someone even said this
with that i'd def say he meant futaba, it'd just be weird to me for sel to know this and then outright make it about the color purple

edit:
i need to go through the event names sometime nexxt week and see if i see any other things like this.

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green, When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen: Who told you so, dilly dilly, who told you so? 'Twas mine own heart, dilly dilly, that told me so.

 

[schesty11]

Anyone know how to start the first event with rika? I have 11 affection with her but i havent gotten her number yet.