Dragon59

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I kinda missed a bunch of stuff I guess, either because some mod had to wade in to clean the mess or some troll that I put on ignore is bleating, but this is my take.

All this sort of stuff kinda depends on what you want from this place I guess. I don't think of this place as a piracy forum. I put Light of my Life out for free, publicly, and I make it available myself, here and on itch.io where you can get it for free. It's not a slimmed down version either; there's no game content behind a paywall.
What I'm looking for is supporters that are willing to chip in to fund the development of this free game, and that's why I like F95, because if offers a platform for a dev to find such fine people and create something special together.
I definitely use F95 as a way of discovering new properties and if it hits a certain threshold of interest for me, I'm definitely going to contribute.
I'll tell you this though, what gets really tiresome is the noise of entitled brats screeching for their free lunch, demanding it NOW and trying to chase off those that would support it if they're not treated as first class customers. Or the basement dwelling curmudgeons who're just kicking up dust in the hope of starting a brawl because nothing's more satisfying than ruining the mood of a group of people that are having a good time; everyone should be as miserable as they are.
Those can STFU and go straight into my ignore bin, and then the place starts to be fun again.
Because of the way Patreon works, I usually add new developers in the first week of the year. You're assuredly on the list. Seeing your attitude here was a definite push.
 

Silvialicius

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Ehi guys, can I change the girls names without restart the whole game? I renamed the girls the first time I've played and now I regret that choice. I'd like to use Macy and Denise like the dev and all of you like. Is it possible?

Thanks.
 

naughtyroad

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Ehi guys, can I change the girls names without restart the whole game? (...)
Yes. Load your game, go to the preferences menu, there's an option in there (it only shows after you load).
For a little more detail, go to the OP, open up the spoiler under Change Log and scroll all the way down. There's a screenshot there.
 

Bill_Buttlicker

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Jul 13, 2018
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It's released for and should be publically released in a few days.

Besides that, anyone still asking for an update should try breathing and relaxation exercises.

Enjoy life, smell the roses...
Or enjoy the roses, smell life...(sniff)...smells like shit.
 
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Skantarios

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Keep looking at the art and trying to figure out why it stuck to me so much. I remembered it days later without ever playing it. I feel like the art could fit as a stylized "slice of life" type of cartoon from later childhood. Daria is the only example that comes to mind right now frustratingly.

naughtyroad did you take inspiration from anything in particular for your artistic vision? I dont think you where going for realism in a traditional sense (and the look and feel of the characters is stronger for it,) but did you just start with a particular look in mind or did you really just fiddle with sliders until you where happy and go from there (no idea about game development).
 

agesilaus

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Keep looking at the art and trying to figure out why it stuck to me so much. I remembered it days later without ever playing it. I feel like the art could fit as a stylized "slice of life" type of cartoon from later childhood. Daria is the only example that comes to mind right now frustratingly.

naughtyroad did you take inspiration from anything in particular for your artistic vision? I dont think you where going for realism in a traditional sense (and the look and feel of the characters is stronger for it,) but did you just start with a particular look in mind or did you really just fiddle with sliders until you where happy and go from there (no idea about game development).
This has literally been answered in first few pages of this thread. Characters based on real life people who do soft porn.
 

naughtyroad

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(...) I dont think you where going for realism in a traditional sense (and the look and feel of the characters is stronger for it,) but did you just start with a particular look in mind or did you really just fiddle with sliders until you where happy and go from there (no idea about game development).
Yeah I did and no it's not real life characters from soft porn. :D

I do take inspiration from people that surround me, from friends and family to co-workers and just people I see in the street every day, and I try to reflect that in my character designs. Which means adding imperfections, because I feel those are the
pillars that'll allow you to latch on to a look, and grow attached to it.

So yeah, after that initial idea for a look, then there's a lot of fiddling with sliders, but that was a learning process for me as well, and after landing smack dab in the middle of the uncanny valley try after try I finally found out what worked for me and what you see in LomL now is the result.

As to the why, well after seeing the same boringly perfect faces every time in every VN I played, I got so tired of it that I decided that if I ever created a VN I would not go with OotB beauties straight from the Daz3d store.
 

Miðgarðsormr

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Oct 1, 2017
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well after seeing the same boringly perfect faces every time in every VN I played, I got so tired of it that I decided that if I ever created a VN I would not go with OotB beauties straight from the Daz3d store.
And that's the bottom line cause Stone Cold... i mean naughtyroad said so. All joking aside. I live near the hungarian border and i see women who look similar almost everytime i have to cross boarders or go shopping near it.

To me it was not only a fresh look for women in a VN game but i literally thought to myself "Wait a minute, that waitress at Sopron has her own game?" only to find out they just look alike by accident. xD
 

agesilaus

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May 28, 2017
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Thank you for the answer but I don't quite get the point about it being answered over 200 pages ago. Surely you don't expect me to read through hundreds of pages of replies?
There are hundreds of pages because half are repeating the same questions and demands over and over again. Literally you merely had to type your question in the search function. You're just like the people asking,"what are the incest games?" Neither they nor you ever had to ask nor read. Just type question in search function. Kind of like google! Miraculous huh?
 

Nemodow

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Mar 29, 2019
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Keep looking at the art and trying to figure out why it stuck to me so much. I remembered it days later without ever playing it. I feel like the art could fit as a stylized "slice of life" type of cartoon from later childhood. Daria is the only example that comes to mind right now frustratingly.
I named my wards after these two unnamed.png
 
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