Ren'Py Life's Payback [v1.8] [Vinkawa]

[Vinkawa]

I've been a big of this project for a while, so far I've been cool with most of the reworked/changed storylines and scenes(although I do miss some of the other settings they were set in)
However, with all due respect I do think the Sarah change wasn't needed and one I like less compared to the original

This new storyline and look just seems less unique, the tomboy style prior was so pleasing along with the progression in the hot tub segments. She seems a bit too similar to Lucie now and the pacing to her current quest is a bit odd IMO(this one might just be recency bias, take it with a grain of salt)

I feel Diana's look also matched Sarah's old pre-rework one more too. Sorry, I don't wanna harp on any longer about this since it is coming as negative

My suggestion or feedback to this would be to make sure you're satisfied with a characters design and story plans prior to adding them in
I think more small scale reworks such as updating animations or setting changes are fine and you do seem great at improving in areas like this so I won't discourage it if you feel it's needed, that being said I personally believe you snubbed a good thing before it got a chance to really flourish with the OG Sarah you had going

Again, I'm a big fan and have been following this since 0.1 or 0.2? I honestly last track you update this game at an insane rate haha, but overall this is still a great game and a solid update

Hey, I'm perfectly aware that absolutely nothing I do will be well received by 100% of the players.
Which is why I only bet on my horse, and this is how the game development is going to be.

When I'm not satisfied with something, I delete it from my game. As simple as that.

As well structured and polite as your message can be, I won't change the slightest thing about me.

A lot of devs here are a genuine failure.
They made the porn game industry boring, effortless, tasteless.
They bend the knee to the players wishes and their game gets even worse.

As honest and brutal as it's gonna sound, I don't consider any of you as a good advice, unless indicated otherwise in my changelogs when a user provided a great idea which got implemented in the game. This happened three times, and this never questioned any of my decisions. It was purely mechanics and QoL.

I highly advise all the killjoys (not talking about you but just taking this opportunity to make this message more global) who don't like me to rework stuff, to click on "Ignore Thread" and patiently wait for the devs of the other games they play to deliver two crappy 24fps animations every 3 months and call it an update. Then we'll see if those guys keep complaining about my reworks.
They'll run back here and they'll say nothing, because I could do two reworks out of three updates and I would still give more content than a regular dev.

I'm well aware you guys will portray me as a self-centered dude full of himself, but I simply chose to only trust myself.

 

[cook_ie]

Hey, I'm perfectly aware that absolutely nothing I do will be well received by 100% of the players.
Which is why I only bet on my horse, and this is how the game development is going to be.

When I'm not satisfied with something, I delete it from my game. As simple as that.

As well structured and polite as your message can be, I won't change the slightest thing about me.

A lot of devs here are a genuine failure.
They made the porn game industry boring, effortless, tasteless.
They bend the knee to the players wishes and their game gets even worse.

As honest and brutal as it's gonna sound, I don't consider any of you as a good advice, unless indicated otherwise in my changelogs when a user provided a great idea which got implemented in the game. This happened three times, and this never questioned any of my decisions. It was purely mechanics and QoL.

I highly advise all the killjoys (not talking about you but just taking this opportunity to make this message more global) who don't like me to rework stuff, to click on "Ignore Thread" and patiently wait for the devs of the other games they play to deliver two crappy 24fps animations every 3 months and call it an update. Then we'll see if those guys keep complaining about my reworks.
They'll run back here and they'll say nothing, because I could do two reworks out of three updates and I would still give more content than a regular dev.

I'm well aware you guys will portray me as a self-centered dude full of himself, but I simply chose to only trust myself.

Is what this message portrays
Good shit tho...

 

[Josh!!]

Hey, I'm perfectly aware that absolutely nothing I do will be well received by 100% of the players.
Which is why I only bet on my horse, and this is how the game development is going to be.

When I'm not satisfied with something, I delete it from my game. As simple as that.

As well structured and polite as your message can be, I won't change the slightest thing about me.

Most devs here are a genuine failure.
They made the porn game industry boring, effortless, tasteless.
They bend the knee to the players wishes and their game gets even worse.

As honest and brutal as it's gonna sound, I don't consider any of you as a good advice, unless indicated otherwise in my changelogs when a user provided a great idea which got implemented in the game. This happened three times, and this never questioned any of my decisions. It was purely mechanics and QoL.

I highly advise all the killjoys (not talking about you but just taking this opportunity to make this message more global) who don't like me to rework stuff, to click on "Ignore Thread" and patiently wait for the devs of the other games they play to deliver two crappy 24fps animations every 3 months and call it an update. Then we'll see if those guys keep complaining about my reworks.
They'll run back here and they'll say nothing, because I could do two reworks out of three updates and I would still give more content than a regular dev.

I'm well aware you guys will portray me as a self-centered dude full of himself, but I simply chose to only trust myself.

All good, I wouldn't say my advice is concrete in all honesty and it could be a recency bias thing for some aspects like I mentioned earlier

And I appreciate the straight forward responses you provide. I did like the original direction you had going with Sarah, but I know it won't be coming back which is ok with me

I guess my advise which I wrote at 1:00 AM so might be a bit fuzzy to me now lol, is more centered towards having to save the trouble of doing less reworks on a more grand scale

Although, it might not be really troublesome since this update includes more than just a rework and the overall rate of updates(with new content) is quite high

 

[Vinkawa]

All good, I wouldn't say my advice is concrete in all honesty and it could be a recency bias thing for some aspects like I mentioned earlier

And I appreciate the straight forward responses you provide. I did like the original direction you had going with Sarah, but I know it won't be coming back which is ok with me

I guess my advise which I wrote at 1:00 AM so might be a bit fuzzy to me now lol, is more centered towards having to save the trouble of doing less reworks on a more grand scale

Although, it might not be really troublesome since this update includes more than just a rework and the overall rate of updates(with new content) is quite high

Well, I was about to answer what you just perfectly summarized in your last sentence, so yeah that's pretty much my opinion on this.

I think you guys can rest assured that I'm no longer changing the models as I am now satisfied with how the girls look.
If the old Sarah had a special place in a lot of people's heart, she'll simply come back as a new character, which should make them happy since she'll have her own story and won't be stuck in a infinite pool with the hot tub scenes.

Anyway, to conclude on this, I intend to sit on the throne of maledom/corruption games, so expect this year to have banger updates.

 

[KINGK13PRO]

loved the update! also loved the new sarah model the final anal scene was amazing can't wait to play next update!

 

[RexDaGod]

A lot of devs here are a genuine failure.
They made the porn game industry boring, effortless, tasteless.
They bend the knee to the players wishes and their game gets even worse.

Not going to lie this probably applies to way more than just the indie vn scene here. As someone who played a lot of private server for some old mmorpg this is something I see all the time. Whenever the dev has no sense of direction and just listen to any advice they hear it always goes to shit.

In the end any game need a solid creative vision from its lead developer to have any success and naturally be willing to take good idea when they do come up as you said.

Keep up the good work! Definitely most high quality and effort game by far and honestly its amazing how much you gotten done in this short period of time. Not only does the game have a lot of high quality content you also mange to mix in major rework as well. This feels like a game that been out for years rather than like what 7 month so far? Insane quality and progress!

 

[Nicophaes]

Love the game, and I wanna keep playing, but I think ima wait till the game is complete. I think I haven't DL'd any of the last 3-4 patches, but from what I see and read, you pump out content pretty frequently which is rare these days. Keep up the good work Sir and you could have another donor in the future (currently fixing my financials before a big life change atm, so it's a no-go for now).

 

[Th3Espr3ss0]

getting a bug where everytime I load my save after closing the game it says I downloaded a 1.4 save and it reverts all of my progress with diane and sarah.

 

[mr.kontrabida]

100% save

how to use it ? i can't use it in joiplay

 

[Vinkawa]

getting a bug where everytime I load my save after closing the game it says I downloaded a 1.4 save and it reverts all of my progress with diane and sarah.

That's simply impossible.
Once you trigger the dialogue telling you that you loaded a save older than v1.4, your v14 variable is immediately set which prevent anyone from triggering this dialogue again.
So you're doing something very wrong.

Edit : Or maybe not but then you'd be a very specific case.

 

[Vinkawa]

Here is a public post where you can vote to help me choose a dominant direction in the game for the next five versions of the game.

You must be registered to see the links

 

[yolo4jesus420]

Whats the futa content of this game?

 

[Vinkawa]

Whats the futa content of this game?

One scene, with Nina the cat girl.

 

[ThtsMyScrtCapImAlwysHorny]

There a way to edit the relationships after the beginning? I ask because my save got borked somehow - picking it up for the first time since probably october or so, everything's right where I left off except suddenly it thinks I chose the default step- relationships, which I definitely did not.

 

[Vinkawa]

There a way to edit the relationships after the beginning? I ask because my save got borked somehow - picking it up for the first time since probably october or so, everything's right where I left off except suddenly it thinks I chose the default step- relationships, which I definitely did not.

The only way is during the prologue.

 

[ThtsMyScrtCapImAlwysHorny]

The only way is during the prologue.

Okie-doke. Fixed it with unren. For future reference, for anybody else this happens to, stick unren in the game's root folder, run it, type '3' and hit enter to enable the console, hit enter one more time to close unren, start the game and load your save, hit shift+o to open the console, and type "anna_ref = 'mom'", hit enter, type "alice_ref = 'sister'", enter again, hit escape to close the console, and you should be good.

ETA: that's IF Vinkawa isn't kind enough to implement an in-game repair function so you don't need to mess with the variables directly like that, now that they are aware this can happen.

 

[Vinkawa]

ETA: that's IF Vinkawa isn't kind enough to implement an in-game repair function so you don't need to mess with the variables directly like that, now that they are aware this can happen.

Yeah, no problem, really easy to implement.

 

[tsontakias21]

Why are you keep "updating it". Every time i try to play, my save is broken and I see content missing?

 

[Th3Espr3ss0]

That's simply impossible.
Once you trigger the dialogue telling you that you loaded a save older than v1.4, your v14 variable is immediately set which prevent anyone from triggering this dialogue again.
So you're doing something very wrong.

Edit : Or maybe not but then you'd be a very specific case.

I found your game while it was in version v1.5, I've never downloaded any other version. It's not possible that my saves are not v1.5 and yet I get the error all the same.

 

[yolo4jesus420]

One scene, with Nina the cat girl.

damn only one