Ren'Py Maeve's Academy [v0.7.1] [Hatchet Games]

[backupshiv]

After giving this and one other erotic VN on this site a try, I'm really starting to like VNs.
So dev if you're reading this, keep up the good work.

 

[bamsayford]

a new favorite for me! super cute character art and writing. excited to see where it goes. really hung onto the tease that celine is a nudist (or at least hangs out naked when you're not around), really hoping for more there. have such a crush on her!

 

[Witchy_T]

I really don't know. As far as I'm concerned it only involves any appearance of minors in a game, in any shape or form, no matter if they appear as an NPC background character for one second.

To this point I'd rather not risk it. It's not the first time they change rules out of the blue and we can't know if it was the last time.

And it sucks, we actually had something planned for Lilith.

We had in mind Lilith being a mother and reveal the daughter later on (one of the reasons she's so sleep deprived). We totally threw it to the trash bin after those policy changes.

Well that fucking sucks. The idea sounds really nice and gives her interesting character depth, so fucking annoying that you have to deal with these rules
Hope there won't be more things ruined by something like that

 

[mamasecrets.ca]

y'all having problem with angelika socks??

I'm having problem on Dahlia's eyes View attachment 4041904

you have to replay from the very beginning, old save bug

 

[Femed]

people should stop using patreon, expecially the consumers, it's a BS that you should cut your ideas for stupid rules that seems to serve no purpose.

 

[Bassrodimo]

Most likely nope. After Patreon's addition of new rules I decided to remove any plans related to impregnation.
God knows what other rules they could implement out of the blue.

Its ongoing issue with Patreon for many years.
Unfortunately Patreon is only half to blame as the issue is with larger Payment services like MC or Visa.
Over the years many platforms that had Adult stuff had issues with them.
That's why many devs release "soft" versions of their game on Patreon (etc.) and then post free patches on different sites (for full content).

 

[Ramen Rena]

could someone explain why they still exist?!? biology 101 the D = kids = having a future = MORE PEOPLE; so if they've never seen a guy and they are all women with no hermaphrodites, then 'how' exactly are there still people populating this world???? what do they just pop out of holes in the ground?!

 

[goloro1122]

could someone explain why they still exist?!? biology 101 the D = kids = having a future = MORE PEOPLE; so if they've never seen a guy and they are all women with no hermaphrodites, then 'how' exactly are there still people populating this world???? what do they just pop out of holes in the ground?!

I have the answer you're looking for, lizards, these are lizard people. (joking of course)

 

[shmurfer]

could someone explain why they still exist?!? biology 101 the D = kids = having a future = MORE PEOPLE; so if they've never seen a guy and they are all women with no hermaphrodites, then 'how' exactly are there still people populating this world???? what do they just pop out of holes in the ground?!

You don't know enough about the lore yet. Something has stolen the memory of male witches but the instincts women have about men are still active apparently. It could be a eldritch horror. It could be the light elves and their obsession with converting people to not use magic. Could be whatever Maeve really is.

Men might have existed in this world until a month ago. There's also something about why Annie doesn't know she's a succubus (or do all demons emit horny pheremones in this world)

 

[csk45]

Still, I'm thankful that there's people that has such love and respect for the project that even in a piracy site, they are willing to wait for the public release.

honestly shocking

 

[FP00]

Its ongoing issue with Patreon for many years.
Unfortunately Patreon is only half to blame as the issue is with larger Payment services like MC or Visa.
Over the years many platforms that had Adult stuff had issues with them.
That's why many devs release "soft" versions of their game on Patreon (etc.) and then post free patches on different sites (for full content).

That may or may not work in hatchet's case, depending on how anal Patreon wants to be about this and if they would react to off-site content.

If the depiction of a minor in any context is right out (impregnation and pregnancy seems to be allowed so long as you never show the resulting baby), then maybe the plot could be reworked into caring for a young animal? Similar themes but less likely to cause a stink from Patreon.

Hopefully, a solution can be found because it sounds like a lot of interesting plots were planned around pregnancy, and it would be a shame if they were all cut due to Patreon being morons.

 

[Deleted member 7873030]

I feel with the current talk of character designs changing mid-development, that I should point out that a character changing their appearance three, four, even five times during the development is not abnormal, even in VNs. For example, Emi in Katawa Shoujo changed her appearance like three times during the development of that project, including a full-on change of artist. Saber from Fate/Stay Night had several design changes, one of which included a penis. Mercy from Overwatch was two different characters at one point!

I don't think it's fair to accuse Hatchet of milking the game just because they changed designs partway through. That shit happens all the time. Most of the design changes in AAA games just aren't visible to people outside the development cycle because they aren't Early Access.


My take on it is that Hatchet should be happy with the character designs. If that means changing them, fine. I, personally, think the designs we currently have are more than sufficient, especially considering the competition, and redesigning the characters is not a particularly fruitful use of time. However, it is certainly not scamming or a distraction - considering most of the time on the latest update was likely spent in code or writing considering the tens of thousands of words also added - and if Hatchet feels it's necessary, he's the fucking dev and I intend to shut up and color.

If Dwarf Fortress can spend literal decades in active development using fucking ASCII glyphs, Maeve's Academy can afford two or three months every year or so updating character designs and artwork. Something tells me Hatchet is not planning on including eyelash simulation for Maeve's blink cycle.


...
Hatchet, put the pen down, that was not a request for eyelash simulation-

They should pin this comment somewhere. I agree that it is not fair for people to accuse Hatchet for milking the game. God forbid when a dev is trying to improve a game for our enjoyment.

 

[ClanDroid]

Is there a way that i can download v0.3?

 

[Hatchet Games]

It almost looks as if it was thrown together last minute.

I wish we could cook a sprite like Elizabeth's at the last minute.

 

[Hatchet Games]

Then maybe the plot could be reworked into caring for a young animal?

I also thought about this alongside making the daughter older (+18) but it's just not the same thing. I'd need to think about it. But I wish I could go with the original plan

 

[Hatchet Games]

who will be claiming Arthur's virginity first (A lust crazed Anges, a feral Maeve or Elizabeth with the steel chair!).

The best question, indeed.
I've talked this with users on discord. There's a high chance I'll give a current love system a little gimmick.

Long story short, as story goes on, you have the freedom to get off-story events with a girl that will lead to sex at some point, as long as you increase love points with her, but I don't want to make any grinding here. I'll need to think of better ways to execute the idea here.

I might put a warning when these events come to let the player know a vaginal sex scene is coming.

Dialogue will have little changes depending on the girl you decide to spend your first experience with (and just with this girl) to make it more special. Agnes enjoyers will have a good time here, we all know what kind of stuff she's saying.

 

[Hatchet Games]

Wait, is that a good wow or a bad wow regarding what I wrote about Patreon pregnancy rules?

Good one, good one . I need to give the rules a second pass, but I'd rather not risk it since they've changed multiple times.

I'll really need to think of what to do there, partially due to pregnancy, mainly due to Lilith's story.

 

[Azeric]

Good one, good one . I need to give the rules a second pass, but I'd rather not risk it since they've changed multiple times.

I'll really need to think of what to do there, partially due to pregnancy, mainly due to Lilith's story.

I had to uninstall the game, my characters where have white clothes when they are not supposed to. This has happened to some other renpy games I've played so I know my phone can't support it anymore so I'll wait till I fix my laptop to play.

 

[Azeric]

Good one, good one . I need to give the rules a second pass, but I'd rather not risk it since they've changed multiple times.

I'll really need to think of what to do there, partially due to pregnancy, mainly due to Lilith's story.

Oh and also I just wish you stuck with the older design(the first one) and just ignored many peoples ranting for a change since that is mostly a game killer nowadays.

I just hope you stay true to your ideals for this game and choose the best advice from your team and players(good ones) and also ignore the ranting of some people cause they can make your game "WOKE" (as I didn't like the design change for the girl with glasses, her face looks fatter not likable as compared to the old design which gave more personality and Maeve outfit became too simple and less sophisticated like before.) as they have terrible ideas.

This is just my opinion ignore it if it sounds mean to you(apologies if so) and if not I'll be happy. I just don't want this game to Fuck Up majorly.

 

[Karnewarrior]

Good one, good one . I need to give the rules a second pass, but I'd rather not risk it since they've changed multiple times.

I'll really need to think of what to do there, partially due to pregnancy, mainly due to Lilith's story.

I don't think pregnancy would be an issue, so long as the story here is presumed to take place within 9-10 months, and as such the girl never gives birth.

Even then I seriously doubt Patreon would have an issue with it. But if you want to be cautious, you can just keep it to a belly bulge/hentai ovum X-ray/etc.