whoabacha
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Just keep in mind that in terms of getting some money out of GOG they are absolutely atrocious. If your game only sells a little you won't be able to pay anything out, and it takes quite a while (per quarter, and must be above 500€). You also can't decide on discounts yourself. And update process is a pain.
... I always took GOG as the "friendlier" platform but after listening to some devs rant about it I honestly gotta say Steam sounds way better for devs (of course, censorship issue now is what it is, but I mean more generally ^^).
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I currently did the first step to add it to the dream list. Since it was not in their database when typing Light of my life I had to provide a link to where I found the game so I sent them a link to Itch's season one page. I'll have updates when I hear back from them.
whoabacha
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This isn't meant as a troll post, but when is your next appointment at the opticians?
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This week in one sentence: Put up a long overdue dev blog and almost finished the current scene, with one more scene to go to wrap up the demo content (but not all work on the demo). Not sure two heads will cut it for that last scene there as there's a few things going on, but we'll see, we went through the last couple of bars pretty quickly.
Haven't played since Chapter 6, but are there any animations in the game? I know it has had the tag since the start yet I haven't seen any. Just wondering if now is a good time to jump back in for the story and newly added animations.
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I played it until ch 8, I'm waiting for the AVN to get completed. So, about animations up to ch 8, it's not like 30/60 fps, it's what people call here "fake animations" - around 3 fps with the help of transitions, but I do enjoy them anyway.
Oh that is a shame. I really love the story of this game and was hoping for some great animations to go along with it. I think I will do the same and wait for the finished product.
I always wondered about the "fake" animation thing and how some people (not in the current discussion) get really upset by it. There isn't a scene in LomL that isn't animated, with people blinking, and moving around, and independent backgrounds where stuff is also moving and animating sometimes, and all the lewd scenes have movement of some sort going on. In that regard, it's much more animated per the definition of the word than many other games out there.
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Yeah, I fail to mention a lot. There is a unique atmosphere in this AVN on non-lewd scenes due to animations, which gives a lot of immersion in the plot, but yeah, I was only talking about the sex scenes. I always said that: This AVN is a masterpiece, but there are no videos in the sex scenes. However, it's excellent "fake animations" on scenes (again, meaning no harm in calling them fake, just stating that the scenes are not videos). Some of the best AVNs I've played don't even have animations, by the way.
And about that... Well, some people just want to fap and don't care about the plot, so 30/60 fps animations are a must-have for them.
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Then they should frequent PornHub, not F95.
Yeah. They're not really my core demographic, so to say.
Which is not to say I wouldn't do animations on principle, it's just, you gotta pick your battles and I simply don't have the time to do them and do them well on top of everything else.
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Can you not just forgo any personal hygiene and eating to give us 2 second 4k 60 fps animations so I can bust a nut quicker? What exactly am I paying you $0.00 for?? I'm done with these selfish devs!Yeah. They're not really my core demographic, so to say.
Which is not to say I wouldn't do animations on principle, it's just, you gotta pick your battles and I simply don't have the time to do them and do them well on top of everything else.
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Here is a confession: when I get too horny playing an AVN, I quit, go to my fav porn site, do the worst, wash my hands, and go to sleep. I like AVNs because of the adult content in general, and I like a good read. I'm just unable to fap to an AVN. I'm a weird old guy. So if the plot sucks, I'm out, no matter how good the renders or the animations are.
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I have some personal issues with Light of My Life, none of which are on the AVN or the developer. I started this at the wrong time in my life. My mother had passed away less than a year prior, and while I thought (and still think) LoML's story is beautiful and touching, it was too raw and brought up too many emotions.
No, my mom and I didn't have relations like the MC, Macy, and Denise; that isn't my point. One day, I may return to LoML, but I can't for the time being, even though time is healing me after my loss.
What I am saying is that, for an AVN, the story was more than a run-of-the-mill, seen it, done it, fap fest. For that, I commend the developer. I got more out of Macy, Denise, and the MC losing their mother and wife, and it touched a nerve.
One day, I will likely continue this AVN, and thank you for treating the subject with respect, even if there is AVN content and wacky relationships.
I will genuinely be sad if and when the mother fades from the story.
No, my mom and I didn't have relations like the MC, Macy, and Denise; that isn't my point. One day, I may return to LoML, but I can't for the time being, even though time is healing me after my loss.
What I am saying is that, for an AVN, the story was more than a run-of-the-mill, seen it, done it, fap fest. For that, I commend the developer. I got more out of Macy, Denise, and the MC losing their mother and wife, and it touched a nerve.
One day, I will likely continue this AVN, and thank you for treating the subject with respect, even if there is AVN content and wacky relationships.
I will genuinely be sad if and when the mother fades from the story.
TheOneAnnOnly
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Is there any way to be dominant or is the mc supposed to go along with the daughters pace, because I see some options that give a alternative but it fails and it goes to the other option anyway.
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I think you confuse dominant for controlling. Also, remember, Lou is a parental figure - whether you choose to go family or tenant route. There are assertive and confident choices spread throughout, as well as choices to empower confidence and trust from the other characters in the story.
This may not be the VN for you.
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for lack of a better word I said dominant but assertive is the word I wanted to use. I like the game, it’s cute for a porn game. I’m just confused about the choices, that’s the reason I wanted to make this post. When Macy and Lou finally had sex for the first, there is two options, consider breaking free or don’t. In my mind I assumed Lou was going to take some control in the interaction (since he none) because what is the point of having that option if not to take control or escape. The option had no effect. Then I realized Lou had almost no sexual sway up until then. When Lou had the option to asks for a little bit more during their massage sessions Denise would always say no. All I’m saying is why give me a option if there’s no way of it being a yes. Edit: I don’t mean physical force a yes, I mean having the game say “you don’t have enough love points”
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It's an interesting take-away from that moment. My intention with that particular choice was to convey a sense of "at this point, there's no way Macy will back down, she will see this through, one way or another". So in that sense, the option isn't useless just because it doesn't change the outcome, it just has a narrative purpose, not a mechanical one. But I can see how, if you're hoping for a more domineering angle, you'd come away with a sense of disappointment in not getting what you want.
There's a few good reasons why some of this stuff isn't really in the works for this game at least. Lets roll with this scene a bit more and look at the alternatives:
So say, at this point, you could be given an option to be more domineering. For that particular scene, it wouldn't be just a matter of different dialog, because dialog is cheep, more or less. But in this scene, Macy is visually quite dominant, literally backing the MC in a corner while she has her way for a good deal of it, and pulling him close for the other part. So that would mean creating a second set of images to have the MC be more dominant visually. And since that scene already clocks in at many hundreds of images (it's really huge) and took over a month to produce IIRC, that's just not in the cards.
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Nor is it an option to tone down Macy being the domineering one, so the images become multi-purpose, because that was the emotional theme of that scene, it was the moment she allows her feelings to be unleashed and the monster to come out.
And finally, allowing the MC to actually break free and then end the scene is also not an outcome that is fun.
So, in the end, there's no great alternatives here for how it does play out.
Btw, I did a behind the scenes about all the paths and different ways into and out of this scene, so adding a domineering path even just in dialog is quite a bit more complicated than it would normally be, hence the "more or less". See here for a bit of a deep dive into that scene:
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Coming back to the argument at hand, this was just one example, but at other moments in the game, there's other reasons not to let the MC become too domineering.
In the example mentioned for Denise, allowing the MC to "get more, sooner" when being domineering also falls into the "mutually exclusive content is a no-go" category, and it would turn the dominant path into the "right" path as a player misses out on content for not taking it, which is also not ideal.
And often, in order to let the girls play out their shenanigans and get to some sexy payoff, the MC must let them have free rein, and be kind of oblivious to what is going it. If he cut through their BS, that would just put an end to it, and we'd be left without a path to get our pay-off. And since we don't want to add mutually exclusive alternative pay-offs, as explained above, that isn't an option either.
So, I get your point. But there are reasons why I don't go in that direction in many cases.
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