VN Ren'Py Completed Mech Academy [v1.0.0] [Space Samurai Games]

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MrBenny

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DarkDaemonX said:
Dev said this though:

as a reply to the harem route and ending question.
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Thanks for sharing the information.

Though, it would be good for this title if the harem tag was also included with the other planned tags, which was already posted. It could aid with potential new harem fans knowing that relationship type will happen later in the story. Instead of having to search through many posts in the forms for their answers.

Most of the other successful titles learn to add first glance information to their gene sections (provide future tag info, and how controversial content will be handled, or if present. It can also save the dev their time from answering many of the same repeated questions, that has been known to cause a shit show in the forms...if ignored, and left for the trolls to spew their BS.)
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DarkDaemonX

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MrBenny said:
Thanks for sharing the information.

Though, it would be good for this title if the harem tag was also included with the other planned tags, which was already posted. It could aid with potential new harem fans knowing that relationship type will happen later in the story. Instead of having to search through many posts in the forms for their answers.

Most of the other successful titles learn to add first glance information to their gene sections (provide future tag info, and how controversial content will be handled, or if present. It can also save the dev their time from answering many of the same repeated questions, that has been known to cause a shit show in the forms...if ignored, and left for the trolls to spew their BS.)
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I do agree with you there, it's what the genre and dev notes section can be used for too.
 
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Hildegardt said:
Their only other game supposedly is Criminal Attraction. But tbh this one, Monster College and Sassy Girl(and the other two games by the same dev) are all very very similar and not just in the visual department. All of these games also have this ironic matter-of-factly dialog and unexpected bdsm as the only kink.
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I remember sassy girl.
What's suss is that they were all created in 2023.

You're telling me the developer has 4 (Could be even more) + games being developed at the same time?
What's going on here?
 
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You mentioned in your review of sassy girl that "It honestly almost feels like two different devs worked on the game because I refuse to believe that the same person who made the pretty solid start of the game is the same making the latest chapters that are very subpar."

Any thoughts? Maybe they are rotating writers or just throwing out shit into the story to see what increases the patreon subscribers so they can then use that to calculate engagement and implement it into the other games ad hoc.
 
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as22 said:
ProjectSkywardFan
You mentioned in your review of sassy girl that "It honestly almost feels like two different devs worked on the game because I refuse to believe that the same person who made the pretty solid start of the game is the same making the latest chapters that are very subpar."

Any thoughts? Maybe they are rotating writers or just throwing out shit into the story to see what increases the patreon subscribers so they can then use that to calculate engagement and implement it into the other games ad hoc.
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Fair critique: that plot took the train to crazy town a couple of releases back. It went so far so quickly i stopped following it. Maybe I'll come back one day but no time soon.
 
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I honestly enjoyed monster college and mech academy even criminal attraction is good, silver samurai made intruder on the bridge so IMO they are a team who made several game in the last few years so kudos to them I hope they continue to make these game 'cause the render detailed.are very good.
 
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as22 said:
ProjectSkywardFan
You mentioned in your review of sassy girl that "It honestly almost feels like two different devs worked on the game because I refuse to believe that the same person who made the pretty solid start of the game is the same making the latest chapters that are very subpar."

Any thoughts? Maybe they are rotating writers or just throwing out shit into the story to see what increases the patreon subscribers so they can then use that to calculate engagement and implement it into the other games ad hoc.
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I am almost positive its someone totally different writing the latest updates the main reason is why the hell is the writing so much worse and makes less sense then at the beginning, unless the dev went totally crazy or something I refuse to believe a dev getting worse over time instead of the opposite.

It just doesnt make sense almost all devs I see in the AVN space either stay the same or get much better with time but honestly Sassy Girl is an anomaly where the dev has just gotten worse as time goes on the latest updates are like a fever dream so the only logical guess is that its someone completely different writing the game now.
 
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as22 said:
I remember sassy girl.
What's suss is that they were all created in 2023.

You're telling me the developer has 4 (Could be even more) + games being developed at the same time?
What's going on here?
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Honestly? It seems like a lot of people (mis-)use Patreon as a marketplace for unfinished games, so it kinda makes sense for devs to capitalize on that and create several pages in parallel for their individual games. Space Samurai certainly wouldn't be the first and some devs are a lot less scrupulous about it, like e.g. Inceton and this one dev, who makes the same ntr game over and over again under like four different aliases.

And now that dev cycles from six months to a year or even longer are seen as normal, a beefy setup and solid pipeline for rapid content creation is something you could really cash in on. There's a lot of wiggle room for cutting corners, since all the devs in this niche are amateurs or hobbyists with varying degrees of quality anyway, so why not make your games about quantity instead.
The truth is that Mech Academy and the other games mentioned look pretty good, even if technically sloppy. (And I don't want to bring up the use of AI, but it would kind of explain why Sassy Girl reads like a fever dream.)
 
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Hildegardt said:
(And I don't want to bring up the use of AI, but it would kind of explain why Sassy Girl reads like a fever dream.)
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Completely forgot about this. The sudden start of 4 new games in mid 2023 completely coincides with the start of mainstream chat gpt use so you could be onto something here.

Get chat gpt to give you a summary for an erotic fantasy visual novel. Then get it to write out a plot script. Keep asking it to add onto the plot when needed.
I don't know how far you can use AI in this sphere.... maybe there's a specific AI plot creator out there for novelists?

Just googled, there are heaps. One such as
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would do the trick.
There you go. That simple.

To think Mech Academy and the other games could just be the result of an AI script is just depressing tbh
 
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Really seems like the dialogue has gone from bad to worse. And I'm beginning to agree with people's theories that the script is AI generated because this is embarrassing.

I don't think I'm going to bother following this one anymore. It's a shame because it started out with an interesting setting.
 
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Renders are still nice in this but sigh nothing is happening story wise. Game has become Elara has a tantrum the game. Updates are also tiny at this point I know the dev started another game so I assume that is why splitting dev time up. Lets hope this game bounces back but who knows we started with alt history,cryostatis,secrecy, galactic war,mechs and now like stated ealier I think the last 3? Updates has just been Elara is jealous and bitchy. It is what it is I guess just a shame I was really into the intial release.
 
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Eonor said:
Made a compressed Android port of Mech Academy v0.4.18 with RiamMar's multi mod.

Got some basic gestures loaded in: swipe up for save menu, swipe down to hide UI, swipe left to rollback and swipe right to skip. Save files are now stored in the Documents folder. This sometimes means that you may need to close and re-open the port after installing so the save folder is properly created.

Please let me know if you encounter any issues with the ports and I'll see what I can do to get them sorted.

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Can you update your android port to the latest version of the game?
Thanks anyways ☺
 
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