Oh, I'm not going anywhere near LiL event length, don't worry. I think a happy medium would be around the 2k words/event mark, whilst my current average is somewhere in the vicinity of 1.2k-1.3k. But I'm not going to needlessly pad events just to increase word count either, so reaching that 2k mark would be through more substance.
Obvious ones are so obvious that I didn't even try to point on them. But yeah, problem is not that there are 1 or 2 copied features, but problem is in their quantity. Too many copied elements from a single game will make you look as a blatant plagiarist, even if you try to not be one.
I'll read and enjoy your work even if it partially copied, but I really want it to be much better, cause it has good potential.
But yeah, you need more original characters, longer (and engaging, obviously, don't write just for word count!) events, and new, original plot twists, so you won't be compared to LiL (cause this comparison totally won't be in your favour, and you obviously wanna be respected and recognized by people for your own creation, and not for "meh copy of another one" ).
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This feels like a Kimba vs. Lion King kind of situation where some obvious choices are repeated in both. I don't think AtrX is atypically uncreative, it's that all new creations are derivative of past ones and LiL itself isn't incredibly creative in its choices already. This is not a bad thing at all, of course, neither in LiL or LiY. What's bad is how self-righteous Sel is about anything related to LiL. Man needs to chill.
LiL using popular themes and features is the reason I’ve been quite confused about it, too. Everything mentioned by this guy is well established in japanese manga culture as well as associated animes, games and so on, and yet, none of these clowns is accusing Sel of stealing them for his game
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The guy kinda showed his ass when he tried to claim that Sel invented the concept of love and lust points. Like at that point you have to wonder if he's ever played any other dating sim/vn. It's a bit obvious he's a sel fanboy who came from his discord when his points and arguments are so dogshit, like he's just repeating talking points.
He's either engaging in very bad faith or he's the dumbest person alive.
It's... weird that nearly all the female characters seem to have the same makeup. Does anyone else think it kinda looks iffy? Pushes them a little bit close to the uncanny valley in a "stepford wife" kinda way and not the fun denpa kinda way.
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I- Hmm, yeah. That sounds about right.Peak male dev skills.
We dont really know how girls makeup works.
The one that plays when you launch the game? It's just a bunch of disclaimers. They'll pop up again if you relaunch the game (unless you enable skip intro in the settings menu).
Just so you know, All these Ideas have been done before LiL. It's also not a bad thing to use others Ideas, if you think a plot point you created is unique, it's been done before and you were influenced by something. Just look at TV Tropes, no idea by itself is unique. Plot resets are LiL thing? You and Me and Her came out in 2013. Buried beneath your feet is not that strange of a phrase for it to need to be related to something else. Bar owner that's going under? Hinamasturi did that in 2010. Both You and Me and Her and Hinamatsuri have strange god like girls.
You also list mundane things like Beach shinanigans, DnD, God (allusions are literally references too other mythical literature so... that's LiY stealing plot points but not LiL somehow???), and love points... which existed since dating sims existed... Taking Ideas is normal. You can copy ideas and be transformative. It's like record labels suing over similar chord progressions and style, it's a non-issue.
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Can somebody confirm whether the game is supposed to end at the part where a black mist starts showing up? There were definitely quite a few events left, but after picking a choice the game just booted me back to the main menu.
Speaking of, if the dev happens to read this, please change the way you do this.I just lost 2 hours of progress because you forcefully booted me to the main menu and I had forgotten to save. You could've given a warning or a prompt for this.
Speaking of, if the dev happens to read this, please change the way you do this.
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Gee if only there was an autosave feature that creates an autosave at every choice menu. Oh well,
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- Dec 29, 2021
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That's great, didn't know this existed since it doesn't usually show up in other VNs I've played.
Still doesn't change the fact that it's horrible practice to boot the player without letting them save first though.
It's in almost every renpy game. Out of a TB of renpy games on my computer I can count on probably one hand the amount that don't have an auto save folder.
I'd disagree that it's shitty, but even if it was and even if there weren't autosaves it'd still be your own fault for not saving regularly.
0.8 will have a continue button on the main menu (not because of this specifically, but I guess it's killing two birds with one stone). As pointed out, for now you can rely on auto saves (which is what the continue button does under the hood as well).
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I don't play that many renpy games, I play regular VNs and pretty much all of them only have regular slots plus the quicksave one.
And no, when the game itself boots the player to the main menu out of nowhere, it's intentional (as every choice except the last one will end your run right then and there) and it hasn't done that before (meaning it hasn't set a precedent), the responsibility falls solely on the game. It'd have been my fault if something had happened that was completely outside of the game's control, like me shutting off the game without saving.