Ren'Py Completed Milfy City [v1.0e] [ICSTOR]

[RC-1138 Boss]

parico65 shoed yet another rat from the fetid, rotting mound of raw hamburger meat he found in the dumpster behind the Taco Bell. That damned ICSTOR, he thought to himself. It's all his fault! I had a life once! A house! A career! A family! If only he hadn't been such a lazy, freeloading bastard!

Milfy City 0.6 had been delayed again, and because of that, he had lost everything. And now here he was, his boner raging, fighting with the rats for scraps of putrid, disgusting offal to sate his hunger.

I'll have my revenge! He told himself as he shoveled the meat desperately into his mouth. I'll file a massive lawsuit! He'll be sorry! They'll all be sorry they did this to me!

parico65 bent his spine backward 90 degrees and laughed with maniacal fury, maggots writhing between his teeth.

You should ask Icstor for a job as a writter.

Not trying to offend him, his renders are top notch but his stories are as shallow as a brine.

 

[Viressa]

You should ask Icstor for a job as a writter.

Not tryinf to offend him, his renders are top notch but his stories are as shallow as a brine.

ICSTOR already does have a writer, actually, he posts here as Onyxdime. And I honestly think the story in this game is pretty good, by the standards of other porn games on this site.

Onyxdime literally has to put words to the pictures for the entire update within just a few days before an update's release. Producing good work quickly under a tight deadline is not my strong suit: It takes me months to produce anything good. Plus, because he has to work with pre-made renders, it's very Marvel Method-y, and it's much harder to do good storytelling this way than writing a script that the artist then puts pictures to.

(Also I work purely in prose and have no experience writing for comics or VNs, unless you count my fanfic mod for KoD. All in all I'd be a bad choice.)

 

[DaweFan69]

Well Milfy City doesn't really have a story, at least not in the conventional sense. Though the writing is pretty good, but I wish it would have a deeper story. That would make it go from a 9/10 to a 10 for me depending if they can make it really good

 

[JamieSadistic]

Come back at the end of September.

Another delay? damn, that sucks hopes dashed yet again another month give or take if we are lucky.

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[Viressa]

Well Milfy City doesn't really have a story, at least not in the conventional sense. Though the writing is pretty good, but I wish it would have a deeper story. That would make it go from a 9/10 to a 10 for me depending if they can make it really good

It does, each girl has their own storyline with a coherent arc. There's no overarching story that ties all of these sub-narratives together, but this is what you have to do in a sandbox-style game like this, where you can do routes in any order and ignore girls you don't like.

 

[RC-1138 Boss]

ICSTOR already does have a writer, actually, he posts here as Onyxdime. And I honestly think the story in this game is pretty good, by the standards of other porn games on this site.

Onyxdime literally has to put words to the pictures for the entire update within just a few days before an update's release. Producing good work quickly under a tight deadline is not my strong suit: It takes me months to produce anything good. Plus, because he has to work with pre-made renders, it's very Marvel Method-y, and it's much harder to do good storytelling this way than writing a script that the artist then puts pictures to.

(Also I work purely in prose and have no experience writing for comics or VNs, unless you count my fanfic mod for KoD. All in all I'd be a bad choice.)

The writer has to write the story after the renders are done? What the hell was Icstor thinking when the made that decision? No wonder things on the story look so absurd.

 

[DaweFan69]

The writer has to write the story after the renders are done? What the hell was Icstor thinking when the made that decision? No wonder things on the story look so absurd.
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Most games are done like that actually, specially in the AAA game industry. They first decide the mechanics, gameplay, style, locations, length, etc and the story comes last. But yea I don't like that model

 

[Viressa]

The writer has to write the story after the renders are done? What the hell was Icstor thinking when the made that decision?

Here's basically how it works.

ICSTOR comes up with a broad outline for how the next chapter in a particular girl's arc will go in an update. I believe this is actually written down and given to Onyxdime later, but it might just stay in his head.

ICSTOR then makes renders for the story as detailed in the broad outline. When these renders are done, they're sent to Onyxdime, who writes dialogue to go with each image into a script. Finally the script is sent to a coder who actually implements the script + images into a playable VN.


It makes sense to do things this way if you're an artist, not a writer, but you still want to be the one with full creative control over the story and where it goes. The main problem is, other than the constraints it puts on the writer, the other members of the team have nothing to do but sit on their hands until the renders are all done. This can be fixed to a degree with some assembly line-style production: Sending renders to the writer in bundles rather than waiting until they're all done. This is apparently what they've started doing: ICSTOR mentioned that his coder has already completed some new minigames, which implies they were sent the renders used for those games before the whole set of renders was finished.

 

[RC-1138 Boss]

This seems more doable than waiting for the writer to come up with everything on a few days.

 

[Addy Da Daddy]

anyone mind telling me what is update .7 and .8 scheduled for? like for what characters?

 

[goobdoob]

Christmas standalone doesn't count

0.5c was released on November 20. It's about 3 months from November 20 right now. It would be 4 months if I was counting the Xmas release.

The HalfLife 3 of adult games

Nah, that's Dual Family.

I get a bit, a tiny bit, carried away at times.

Must be awesome to be your girlfriend! A carried away redhead...yum!

 

[Viressa]

anyone mind telling me what is update .7 and .8 scheduled for? like for what characters?

0.7 - Sara and Judy, ETA October 2019
0.8 - Linda and Aunt/Yazmin, ETA December 2019

 

[chungocanh12]

News #16
- Update
Hey everyone, it’s almost the end of the month so I wanted to give you guys a quick update. The progress is going really well. Since my last update we have doubled the size of the next release to over 2000 images (and still growing!)

Unfortunately, we haven't managed to get everything completed this month so we have to push this release a little bit. But as I said before you can cancel your pledge for the next month and you’ll STILL get the update. I promise that this is the last delay and we’ll try to release the updates every 2-3months just as it used to be. I can’t wait for you guys to try this new version, there’s a lot of hot stuff and a lot of surprises and bonuses. If you can give us just a little more time to finish the remaining 10% of the game, you'll be impressed by the results

When it comes to the version 0.7 and v0.8 at the moment nothing has changed. Those updates will be smaller, but they should be released on time. At least, that is the plan and I hope that everything goes smoothly. Thanks again for your continued support. The end is in sight!

 

[Elinan]

I did not masturbate for 2 weeks. Just to wait until the end of the month as promised by Icstor.

Blueballs incomming.

 

[fried]

Here's basically how it works.

ICSTOR comes up with a broad outline for how the next chapter in a particular girl's arc will go in an update. I believe this is actually written down and given to Onyxdime later, but it might just stay in his head.

ICSTOR then makes renders for the story as detailed in the broad outline. When these renders are done, they're sent to Onyxdime, who writes dialogue to go with each image into a script. Finally the script is sent to a coder who actually implements the script + images into a playable VN.


It makes sense to do things this way if you're an artist, not a writer, but you still want to be the one with full creative control over the story and where it goes. The main problem is, other than the constraints it puts on the writer, the other members of the team have nothing to do but sit on their hands until the renders are all done. This can be fixed to a degree with some assembly line-style production: Sending renders to the writer in bundles rather than waiting until they're all done. This is apparently what they've started doing: ICSTOR mentioned that his coder has already completed some new minigames, which implies they were sent the renders used for those games before the whole set of renders was finished.

It's essentially a variant of the "

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," IMHO. The big difference being that the plot is fully derived here by the artist instead of from collaboration with the writer.

 

[Q Who]

The poor writer. IMHO Icstor just makes his renders based on whatever assets become available. Then the poor writer has to make the story from the pictures. He seems quite nice but I do not envy his job at all. He said it was not too hard for him. But I do not care for the writing personally. I would bet that he can write a better story if he did not have to conform to a storyboard.

 

[newchecker33]

Is there anyway to enable the auto mode, or any mod that has it? I saw it in other renpy games but not in this game, would be great to fap without touching my keyboard.

 

[Joe8]

Meanwhile

 

[Jim Webb]

I did not masturbate for 2 weeks. Just to wait until the end of the month as promised by Icstor.

Your The Hero we don't deserve, but the one we surely need.

 

[Volta]

"At least that is the plan" yeah, i don't expect two decent updates after the current one this year, better two good ones than a good one and two rushed half arsed ones. I know i've said it before but ICSTOR shouldn't give these over optimistic release dates, better to say "nah it'll be in October" and then blow the patron's minds by releasing in September, right?