VN Ren'Py Mastering the Pink Box [v0.09] [Studio 68 Games!]

[Toukebri]

Does anyone know who these might be? Devon with Hugh? Devon's mother with MC's mother?

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

Does anyone know who these might be? Devon with Hugh? Devon's mother with MC's mother?

Those are Devon's parents.

This scene with Aimee was so stale in the vanilla route compared to the Bob route. Also in the post sex scene why is she saying MC has pictures of Ms Hatcher and a pic of Debbie with Bob in the non Bob route on his phone? Debbie is supposed to be with MC if he doesn't hook her up with Bob and Ms Hatcher is out of the question without getting her pics from Bob. That doesn't make sense right? Is my save file messed up or is this how it's supposed to be?

yeah i sent a dev report

 

[HoM11]

This scene with Aimee was so stale in the vanilla route compared to the Bob route. Also in the post sex scene why is she saying MC has pictures of Ms Hatcher and a pic of Debbie with Bob in the non Bob route on his phone? Debbie is supposed to be with MC if he doesn't hook her up with Bob and Ms Hatcher is out of the question without getting her pics from Bob. That doesn't make sense right? Is my save file messed up or is this how it's supposed to be?

Started game from scratch and, yes, got the same result even though I decided to have nothing to do with Bob.

 

[Justaphase]

I'm genuinely curious about that. Are there any girl with just wholesome, somewhat romantic and no sharing/swinging content? I'd so not want to share Devon but apparently she agrees if the MC tells her he gets excited over people groping like a cuck.
I'm also curious as to how Charlie and Misty are considered major love interests when both of them are already in a relationship. I'd see Charlie breaking up with Hugh but not Misty no she's head over heels for Todd.
One more question, are Liz and Debbie mutually exclusive girls? You can get one but not the other depending on if you're friends with Bob or not?

Honestly if you're against sharing then this game isn't for you. I have a feeling that even Devon's path will feel incomplete or severely lacking without sharing content, as that is what this game is essentially about. There are plenty of vanilla romance games out there with no sharing involved.

 

[HoM11]

I'm genuinely curious about that. Are there any girl with just wholesome, somewhat romantic and no sharing/swinging content? I'd so not want to share Devon but apparently she agrees if the MC tells her he gets excited over people groping like a cuck.
I'm also curious as to how Charlie and Misty are considered major love interests when both of them are already in a relationship. I'd see Charlie breaking up with Hugh but not Misty no she's head over heels for Todd.
One more question, are Liz and Debbie mutually exclusive girls? You can get one but not the other depending on if you're friends with Bob or not?

Well, if by wholesome and somewhat romantic you mean that you won't have to share them, then yes. The dev has stated several times that "sharing who you are with is completely optional". But if you want it more traditional, then... I doubt it. Currently even if you try to reject everyone you can, you still get unavoidable scenes of:

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And I am not sure that trend will change. Most people, I reckon, won't consider it "wholesome and romantic" when a guy is in a relationship but gets to play around. Wanting a traditional romance from this game is kinda like going to a wine bar but asking for a cup of coffee. Sure, they have it, but it's only a couple of positions in the 3 page carte and everyone around you is still drinking wine.

I don't think we've had a confirmed list of major LI's. Original devnotes say that "currently [there are] 5 [girls you can be with]. 3 are single when you meet them and 2 are not". Also "some of the other girls may also become Love interests in the future".
Charlie obviously seems to be one of those 2, since her relationship with Hugh is an arranged marriage set up by their parents and she isn't fond of him. I doubt Misty will break up with Todd but there are signs that Todd may not be exactly the Brochacho MC thinks he is.

 

[Prokopije]

Don't rely much on what dev's notes say or not say, this dev proved that he can't be trusted and that his word means nothing.
As going from "everything depends on your choice" to almost full scale kinetic novel mode. At least I see dev finally had decency to remove that lie from game description, so he don't lure people into false promises anymore.
Just take everything he says with huge reserve.

 

[MagicShoppe]

All my saves are getting lots of type mismatch: 'bool' object is not callable when I try to load 0.8 saves into 0.9. Is this a known issue?

 

[Klopdwerg]

I can't find anything about it in this thread but is there a sollution to fix that blinking textbox?
It's pretty damn annoying, good thing i ain't epileptic

 

[TonyMurray]

I can't find anything about it in this thread but is there a sollution to fix that blinking textbox?
It's pretty damn annoying, good thing i ain't epileptic

I've seen a few people ask, but I've not seen anyone point to a solution. It bugs me too. I've had a look in the files, but haven't come up with the answer myself (I'm not a coder, so my attempts were limited).

 

[Monty10]

Does this game have sharing scenes ?

 

[HoM11]

Does this game have sharing scenes ?

So far it has scenes of other guys sharing their girls with the MC. MC got the option of starting a relationship with one of the LIs only in the latest update.

 

[blkcrow20]

And you can potentially share the gf in the future.

 

[TonyMurray]

So far it has scenes of other guys sharing their girls with the MC. MC got the option of starting a relationship with one of the LIs only in the latest update.

MC can also share a girl with someone else, in one scene at least (Aimee in the trailer during the car wash). Depends on the line between "unexpected threesome" and "sharing" I guess.

 

[HoM11]

MC can also share a girl with someone else, in one scene at least (Aimee in the trailer during the car wash). Depends on the line between "unexpected threesome" and "sharing" I guess.

True. I guess we could call it subsharing, like subcontractor or sublicense, since Graham shares her with MC and MC then shares her with Bob

 

[TonyMurray]

True. I guess we could call it subsharing, like subcontractor or sublicense, since Graham shares her with MC and MC then shares her with Bob

It's a nuanced one, perhaps, because Graham shares her with MC, for sure, but then MC has a threesome with her and Bob, so although it's sharing in a literal sense, I'm not sure it counts in a sexual sense (that's not getting into the whole "can it be sharing if they are not in a relationship to start with" conversation...).

 

[HoM11]

It's a nuanced one, perhaps, because Graham shares her with MC, for sure, but then MC has a threesome with her and Bob, so although it's sharing in a literal sense, I'm not sure it counts in a sexual sense (that's not getting into the whole "can it be sharing if they are not in a relationship to start with" conversation...).

Well, if that wasn't sexual, then I don't know what is

 

[TonyMurray]

Well, if that wasn't sexual, then I don't know what is

I know, I just meant it might not count as sharing in the usual way the word would be used in a relationship/sexual encounter (just in case my comment was unclear as opposed to your comment being a joke).

 

[HoM11]

I know, I just meant it might not count as sharing in the usual way the word would be used in a relationship/sexual encounter (just in case my comment was unclear as opposed to your comment being a joke).

I get you, I get you.

On a side note, going back to one of the previous posts about wholesome/romantic and sharing, I like how Kyuw tells Jammy that for him she'll do anything with MC and then asks him about the details of what he desires; Misty asks Todd for reassurance that he won't hate her if she has sex with MC and then later talks about how important to them mutual trust is; even with Aimee and Graham — he tells MC that her being happy makes him happy, she immediately goes to check the footage at the trailer to send him, hopes that her being spitroasted didn't change MC's opinion of her and thanks him for making her so happy. I hope when we get to sharing our LIs, there will also be that kind of dialogue, together with a more wild side of things.

 

[TonyMurray]

I get you, I get you.

On a side note, going back to one of the previous posts about wholesome/romantic and sharing, I like how Kyuw tells Jammy that for him she'll do anything with MC and then asks him about the details of what he desires; Misty asks Todd for reassurance that he won't hate her if she has sex with MC and then later talks about how important to them mutual trust is; even with Aimee and Graham — he tells MC that her being happy makes him happy, she immediately goes to check the footage at the trailer to send him, hopes that her being spitroasted didn't change MC's opinion of her and thanks him for making her so happy. I hope when we get to sharing our LIs, there will also be that kind of dialogue, together with a more wild side of things.

It's ridiculous, isn't it? How can a game this balls out be wholesome at the same time? And yet it somehow feels it.

 

[HoM11]

It's ridiculous, isn't it? How can a game this balls out be wholesome at the same time? And yet it somehow feels it.

Well, in most other games if a woman has sex with several men/someone other than her bf/husband, it's usually tied to her character or immoral behavior in general. She's either 1) cheating 2) a "dumb slut" who can't resist cocks (often said cocks belong to some lechers/abusers) 3) being blackmailed/raped/abused. Not too wholesome situations. So when you get rid of that, it already does a lot of heavy lifting towards "normal" relationships. The rest is good dialogue.

In a somewhat related topic: there are 74 pages of games with the "harem" tag (as expected), 60 with "netorare" (and a lot of those,if not most, are hard NTR, not NTRS) (26 if you add "cheating"), and only 14 with "swinging". Interesting how, at least on this site, way more people prefer to see a girl taken from "them"/the protagonist, then being willingly shared to everyone's pleasure.