Ren'Py Love and Evil Things [v0.1.5] [Petals]

[LaETDev]

Can we decide that we aren't romantically interested in a LI and prevent evil things from happening to her?

You can still be friends with the girls no matter what. For example, you can shoot down Kumi's sexual advances and still help her in the future.

I will be sure to make it more obvious where your relationships stand in the next couple episodes. I can also edit the existing scripts a bit to make it a bit more clear when you make those decisions.

 

[BlasKyau]

You can still be friends with the girls no matter what. For example, you can shoot down Kumi's sexual advances and still help her in the future.

I will be sure to make it more obvious where your relationships stand in the next couple episodes. I can also edit the existing scripts a bit to make it a bit more clear when you make those decisions.

Ok, I see that you got one of them right.

Otherwise, it's good to know that you can help them anyway.

 

[LaETDev]

Ok, I see that you got one of them right.

Otherwise, it's good to know that you can help them anyway.

Here's what I'll say in regards to the planned future content and story-arcs...

When you hear me talk about "evil" content, I'm referencing strictly horror scenes that can be turned off entirely. They're purely for horror fans and it's stuff I personally enjoy developing and setting up. They will be replaced with a short text description instead for people who do not enjoy them.

You will only see sexual content with a LI if you're flagged as being in a romantic relationship with that character. If you see an act in the future that feels a bit short, it's probably because it ended sexually but you don't have that kind of relationship with them.

As for the sad stuff. I will be addressing all sorts of depressing themes that many teen girls deal with as they grow up. I will not make light of those themes or use them to punish the characters for no reason. My editor was once a teen too and wouldn't lend her voicework to a game that treated them lightly, especially since she's gone through a lot of it. If that's too much for you then that's your call, but I'm not interested in writing a story that's just happy thoughts all the time. At the end of the day I want my characters to overcome personal battles and find themselves.

Programming-wise, these are the flags:

• Horror on/off
• LI Romancing on/off
• LI Friend on/off

 

[hoshimota]

Depends what lines you mean are cringe. I'm sure I've dropped the ball in a couple spots.

I do not care if people translate it.

IDK man I played through the whole release 2x and the only "cringing" I did was when the MC got kicked in the balls

 

[BlasKyau]

If the explicit parts of book club don't really happen, I'm not going to be interested in watching any of them.

 

[hoshimota]

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If the explicit parts of book club don't really happen, I'm not going to be interested in watching any of them.

You are missing out dude, the book club story scene where the MC railed Mei in bed was hot as fuck

 

[Skeltom]

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If the explicit parts of book club don't really happen, I'm not going to be interested in watching any of them.

Yeah if it's just in your head it's just as bad as those cheap as shit dream scenes. Just something to push completely irrelevant sex scenes that don't actually progress anything. It's something I'm perfectly fine with "missing out" on.

 

[hoshimota]

Yeah if it's just in your head it's just as bad as those cheap as shit dream scenes. Just something to push completely irrelevant sex scenes that don't actually progress anything. It's something I'm perfectly fine with "missing out" on.

They can't please everyone dude. Early on there were a few people in the thread losing their damn minds over a 5 second kissing scene between two girls in the locker room. The book club system allows the dev some flexibility, they can include some content and make it optional without everyone getting a hair across their ass. IDK I think it was a genius move.

 

[Skeltom]

They can't please everyone dude. Early on there were a few people in the thread losing their damn minds over a 5 second kissing scene between two girls in the locker room. The book club system allows the dev some flexibility, they can include some content and make it optional without everyone getting a hair across their ass. IDK I think it was a genius move.

To each their own but to me the flexibility you speak of is just a very lazy way to put sex into the game. They don't have to worry about if it makes sense or if the character is the type that would even be doing whatever is happening. After all it just make-believe, right?

 

[BlasKyau]

You are missing out dude, the book club story scene where the MC railed Mei in bed was hot as fuck

I'm still not interested. I actually don't want to see any of those scenes, and I don't care who's in them or what they do, or really anything about them.

Yeah if it's just in your head it's just as bad as those cheap as shit dream scenes. Just something to push completely irrelevant sex scenes that don't actually progress anything. It's something I'm perfectly fine with "missing out" on.

I share your opinion, for me they are irrelevant and I'm fine skipping them.

 

[hoshimota]

To each their own but to me the flexibility you speak of is just a very lazy way to put sex into the game. They don't have to worry about if it makes sense or if the character is the type that would even be doing whatever is happening. After all it just make-believe, right?

It's also a way to create a lot of funny scenes, and it seems pretty spot on to have girls making up wild sex stories about other girls. There are a lot of possibilities, for example characters being mortified at the story that was made up about them, jealousy being stoked, characters who don't participate in the book club finding out through the grapevine that the other girls are telling a fucked up story about them doing something naughty, etc...

I thought it was hilarious to see the reactions of the girls as the story was told, their facial expressions, the sidebar comments, etc.

But anyways if you are that adamantly against the whole thing, they did include a function to skip it so... there's that.

 

[Skeltom]

It's also a way to create a lot of funny scenes, and it seems pretty spot on to have girls making up wild sex stories about other girls. There are a lot of possibilities, for example characters being mortified at the story that was made up about them, jealousy being stoked, characters who don't participate in the book club finding out through the grapevine that the other girls are telling a fucked up story about them doing something naughty, etc...

I thought it was hilarious to see the reactions of the girls as the story was told, their facial expressions, the sidebar comments, etc.

But anyways if you are that adamantly against the whole thing, they did include a function to skip it so... there's that.

It's just way too mindless for me and yes... there's that.

 

[BlasKyau]

It's also a way to create a lot of funny scenes, and it seems pretty spot on to have girls making up wild sex stories about other girls. There are a lot of possibilities, for example characters being mortified at the story that was made up about them, jealousy being stoked, characters who don't participate in the book club finding out through the grapevine that the other girls are telling a fucked up story about them doing something naughty, etc...

I thought it was hilarious to see the reactions of the girls as the story was told, their facial expressions, the sidebar comments, etc.

But anyways if you are that adamantly against the whole thing, they did include a function to skip it so... there's that.

I don't know, it's possible that I'm weird, but now I'm even less interested than before.

 

[LaETDev]

The book club scenes are currently polling at 97%. They're more popular than Mei.

 

[crustlord12]

Ok, this sounded pretty bad to me, so I'll most likely pass.

So, good luck with the game.

I'm not a big fan of sad stories.

If the explicit parts of book club don't really happen, I'm not going to be interested in watching any of them.

I don't know, it's possible that I'm weird, but now I'm even less interested than before.

You know ... You don't have to play this game, right? I'm kind of getting the vibe that it doesn't sound like it's your kind of game

 

[BlasKyau]

You know ... You don't have to play this game, right? I'm kind of getting the vibe that it doesn't sound like it's your kind of game

Ok, I'll proceed to ignore your comment. And I will continue playing because I feel like it.

And thanks for reminding me that I had to delete the first post you cited.

 

[BlasKyau]

The book club scenes are currently polling at 97%. They're more popular than Mei.

I don't know, I don't particularly like having sex scenes with the LIs before they have a relationship with the MC, even if those scenes don't actually happen in the game. So I'm not going to see them.

 

[Skeltom]

I don't know, I don't particularly like having sex scenes with the LIs before they have a relationship with the MC, even if those scenes don't actually happen in the game. So I'm not going to see them.

We're of a similar mind in that regard. Just read though any of the threads here and you will see the vast majority of people around here are just looking for instant gratification. That's just boring to me, if that's what I wanted I wouldn't bother with VNs and just watch porn.

 

[-Agito-]

To clear that up - that was the dev acknowledging that the delay between when the prototype was showcased, to the first actual release, was too long. They dropped a very tantalizing tech demo a year ago, and some of us were dying waiting for the actual game to launch after that. The dev has discussed it in this thread before, and realizes they should have waited until having a better handle on the whole workflow before releasing the demo. I think the whole point of the scene you are referencing, was to kind of do a mea culpa / tongue-in-cheek acknowledge this mistake, and assure us things are straightened out now. In other words, it should not be so long for the next release to come out.



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I agree about the Japanese phrases, I think it gives the game character and I like it. I did not understand what some of them meant initially but after seeing them used in context a few times I started to pick up the meaning - sort of how you learn a language in real life. Over time it absolutely became part of the 'charm' aspect of the game.

Thank you very much.

 

[ArhraCole]

The book club scenes are currently polling at 97%. They're more popular than Mei.

I admit I am curious if the book club scenes were /are intended to basically get some of the LI's thinking about the MC in a new more romantic light than they might have otherwise thought of him before.