Ren'Py Monster Girl Dreams [v26.7a Alpha] [Threshold]

[ankhtar]

Even if he hadn't taken December off, 4-ish months is still within the expected waiting time between updates for the vast majority of games here.
Well, far be it from me to tell anyone what to do with their time and money. If people become impatient and choose to cancel their pledge, they're well within their right to do so. Although I'll say that publicly stating that fact as if it were a threat of some variety isn't going to make the dev work faster.

 

[Bronzeswagger]

So MGD is slowly dying too? I guess it's time to cancel patreon pledge , for the time being. No content update since November 13. Next update is most likely bug-fixing again.

Its not dying, its just mainly a bump in the road due to how complex the next part is. And as others have said, Thresh took a small break in December because he got burned out, which is pretty much normal when doing games of this size. Just be patient. Regardless of when, he'll get done when he gets done.

 

[Bronzeswagger]

Small update to my prelude mod, but it may be a week or so later than what I initially planned on for the prelude mod. I think I'm going to be taking a small breath of fresh air and try my best to just make it through this week/weekend. My mom was...um...she was having problems last night while we was asleep and had to be emergencied to the hospital around 1-2am this morning, and by the time they got there with her, she had died of heart failure, and honestly I've been in a state of shock all day, melted down sometime around 2pm today, both irl and kind of in the discord servers and personally if I'm honest with myself, I'm still melting piece by piece.

I had already lost my Dad back in 2018, which was right after I had a successful surgery removing brain cancer that December in 2017, and a lot of my memories are just piling on top of me in general, and I wouldn't of believed that'd now I'd of been by myself only 3 years later, and having to live with my sister and her family. Of course, my Mom was also hers too and the entire house in general has just been a huge period of grief, but if anyone was to say who got hit with it harder, it'd probably been myself cuz after losing my Dad, Idk what I'd of done without my Mom, and if I'm truthful, she had prepared me all this time in case something ever happened and well, today was the first time in a year that I wanted a bottle of rum after trying to quit the stuff due to medical issues, and really the only thing that's been keeping me calm today and my stress down has been my meds & my cigars.

I'm going to try my best to get through all of this, Idk what's fixing to take place and Idk how I'll be trying to pick things up from here, but my Mom would've wanted me to at least try and probably would've quoted a few bible scriptures to me for this very occassion knowing her. I'm not very religious myself but I do hope she'll can be at peace knowing I'm going to give my best shot.

 

[ThresholdMGD]

It's been stated many times that he took December off due to being burnt out, and in January returned to working on the labyrinth part. That is taking so much time due to it being heavily puzzle-based.

Its not dying, its just mainly a bump in the road due to how complex the next part is. And as others have said, Thresh took a small break in December because he got burned out, which is pretty much normal when doing games of this size. Just be patient. Regardless of when, he'll get done when he gets done.

I dont know where people keep getting that I'm working on the Labyrinth??? By all means ive gotten some art pre-emptively and have a solid plan for for it.
But I'm still working to finish up the venefica/elly quest.
I'm pretty sure ive said this before on here...

Also like, to clarify on the months...
December: okay im burned out, i should take time off and do smol update.
Jan: ...wait shit I'm still kinda burned out to hell, and not really being productive at all. So- This is another month off.
Feb: Okay I'm actually starting to feel better! Oh hey I need to get all the managerial(mostly art) stuff caught up on and planning cause Ive been burned out, also setting up a better schedule for breaks/work so I dont implode again. As well as fix some assorted other bugs and junk and even some of the vene/elly stuff. Also my sleep schedule exploded for no real reason.
March: This month. Sleep schedule still kinda imploded to hell, but improving. Getting the vene/elly stuff worked on as well as sorting out art stuff.

I say one plus side to me losing all that time is that I might actually get the art for all 4 sisters for when i work on the labyrinth, cause some of it is taking longer than planned for an assortment of reasons.

 

[Maizemallard]

Burnout is a very serious issue for game developers I hope you get back in the groove of things on your own terms. I just want you to know I really do appreciate your work and have thoroughly enjoyed the game and the characters in said game!

 

[Wanideretz]

@ThresholdMGD
There are many lewd games in the making. But:

• most of them are pure garbage and aiming for fast money
• many of them are stuck in developement hell
• only a few get regular updates

You:

• are building a multi-variant game with huge content gameplay wise and in lore. Even in this state it is fully playable with content for weeks.
• are charging nothing for the actual version and even your Patreon provided a 1$ pledge only in the past. Only recently with your artist you provide a higher pledge option. Where other developers getting greedy and pump up the numbers you do not.
• clearly spend the patreon money for game improvements
• keep regular monthly updates rolling without noticeable breaks since 2017!

Hell after all this constant work and engagement for years you deserve all the breaks you want.

 

[decker2]

i just hope that one day we get to battle fuck all the girls and headpat the goddess in to submission
besides not like waiting cost me anything
i never do patreon shit

 

[Nevart]

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Thoughts

Will there be named NPC level scaling in the future?
I'd really like to fight against characters like Ancilla at higher levels without completely destroying them with one lucky critical hit.

It would be nice to have the option to fail certain skill checks on purpose. - Like the one where you stay the night at the inn (Trisha) or walk past the mountain slime. At the moment it's almost impossible/very hard to fail these at higher levels without nerfing yourself with equipment, cheats, ...

Wouldn't it be better to have stats cap out at 100 altogether instead of being able to go past 100 with perks and/or equipment?
...Or is that intended?


Are there/Will there be more Perk/Skill/Equipment/Rune/Item ''Uses'' outside of combat besides the collars, the talismans, the -Escape Artist/Expert- perks and the -Teleport- skill?

...And no, I don't mean perks like the -Mushroom Head- one or others given to you by monster girls. - Only perks you can attain by leveling up. - Hence their name in the wiki: Leveling/Level-Up Perks

The ''Uses'' I'm referring to with the -Escape Artist/Expert- perks and the -Teleport- skill:

Escape Artist/Expert:

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...Would rather not have to cheat perk points and/or other things just to make sure I don't miss any fun or interesting options in future versions of the game.


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[ThresholdMGD]

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When reporting typos please point out the issue directly or add in the presumed fix, cause I am not great at noticing what issue is being pointed out in a line and likely will miss it entirely even if I look it over like, 5 times. xD

Will there be named NPC level scaling in the future?
I'd really like to fight against characters like Ancilla at higher levels without completely destroying them with one lucky crit hit.

This is a planned optional feature I intend to add yeah.
Just dont expect it soon. xD

It would be really nice to have the option to fail certain skill-checks on purpose. - Like the one where you stay the night at the inn, (Trisha) or walk past the mountain slime. At the moment it's almost impossible/very hard to fail these at higher levels without nerfing yourself with equipment, cheats, ...

A lot of skill checks have alternate options prior that are basically the same as failing. Such as asking for more food from trisha.
But I do get if that's not quite what you want. Not sure if there's an ideal solution that would be similar to the above scaling tho that would be really hard to balance...

Wouldn't it be better to have stats cap out at 100 altogether instead of being able to go past 100 with perks, ...? ...Or is that intended?

That's intended. Gear can also do that.

Are there/Will there be more Perk/Skill/Equipment/Rune/Item ''Uses'' outside of combat besides collars, the talismans, the Escape Artist/Expert Perks and the Teleport Skill?
...And no, I don't mean perks like the -Mushroom Head- one or others given to you by monster girls, ... - Only the perks you can attain by leveling up, - hence their name in the wiki: Leveling/Level-Up Perks

The ''Uses'' I'm referring to with the -Escape Artist/Expert- perks and the -Teleport- skill:

Escape Artist/Expert:

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Maybe?
Im not exactly consistent atm with the use of such bonuses in anyway.
It's a bit of extra work to add them in, and I do think the game could use some more instances of stuff like that as solutions or boons to situations,
But with how many things there are it's not easy to recall everything that could apply to one situation, and also not potentially overcrowd the list

But most of these are pretty minor changes anyways and have alternate solutions.

 

[indyc]

Has anyone requested a faster way to mass sell items? A sell all button or being able to hold the mouse down would be a great QOL change.

 

[Emperor_Arcturus]

Hey Threshold, I've got a question you've probably answered, I was probably the one who asked it a long while back lol, will there be any more Kotone stuff in the future? Kotone best waifu, fight me.

 

[tony_redgrave]

Hey Threshold, I've got a question you've probably answered, I was probably the one who asked it a long while back lol, will there be any more Kotone stuff in the future? Kotone best waifu, fight me.

If i recall correctly... he has wanted to do more Kotone stuff. But, due to the amount of content she already has when compared to other girls, he's been forced to put her in "sad Kitsune jail" so that he can work on other girls.

 

[FenoxoFenfen]

Burnout is the fucking devil when it comes to smutwriting, and I wish the dev the best in overcoming it.

I just finished binging through most of the existing content, and I have to say, it's a pretty fabulous game.

 

[Dushar67]

How do you enter the forest dugeon? I've beaten the red slime girl and don't know how to progress?

 

[JLP603]

How do you enter the forest dugeon? I've beaten the red slime girl and don't know how to progress?

There should be a somewhat tall, protruding grey tower with trees surrounding the base on the world map. Click on it to enter the forest dungeon

 

[Emperor_Arcturus]

F

Well at least he wants to do more, so hopefully he'll do more eventually, though whenever he responds we'll hopefully get a more definitive response

 

[Dushar67]

There should be a somewhat tall, protruding grey tower with trees surrounding the base on the world map. Click on it to enter the forest dungeon

Thanks just found it.

 

[Dushar67]

Can you actually kiss Mika by building her affection? Or am I just wasting my time trying to farm the eros ?

 

[bigblack]

Can you actually kiss Mika by building her affection? Or am I just wasting my time trying to farm the eros ?

Yep, you can kiss her. I think giving her eros builds affection faster.

 

[ThresholdMGD]

Hmm... how about adding a simple ''choice window'' after succeeding at these skill checks? One choice would be to simply ''Proceed'' and the other could be something along the lines of ''You don't feel very lucky today...'' - which would prompt the scene as if you had failed the skill check.

I feel like something like that would kinda slow/bog things down a bit too much?
I'm still a little uncertain on some of the stuff for surpassing failed stat checks lol

True. Still, I'd at least like to know about them. I just have to... know this... juicy information... *cough*
...How do you feel about adding a single line for perks/skills that do/can help you in certain situations?
In the level-up/shop windows I mean. Right below their respective descriptions.

For example: Escape Expert

''Become even more elusive, increasing the chance of getting out of stances by 20%, your ability to break out of restraints by 20%, and your chance to successfully run away from fights by 20%!
Requires the following perks: Escape Artist.
You need 40 Technique to learn this perk.
This perk may help you in certain situations outside of combat.''

Teleport:

Costs 25 ep. Uses Intelligence.
Teleport a short distance, freeing yourself from any restraints or grasps.
Removes all stances and restraints.
You need 40 Intelligence to learn this skill. You only have 1.
This skill may help you in certain situations outside of combat.
Status Effect Chance: 68%

Yeah smol notifications on some skills/perks like that would probably be a good idea... I'll need to consider it for sure.

Has anyone requested a faster way to mass sell items? A sell all button or being able to hold the mouse down would be a great QOL change.

Holding shift will make it increment by 5s, but obvs not the ideal fix for what people want on clearing out loot items and stuff. xD

Hey Threshold, I've got a question you've probably answered, I was probably the one who asked it a long while back lol, will there be any more Kotone stuff in the future? Kotone best waifu, fight me.

Yeah as has been mentioned by others, I'd like to add more, but really shouldn't until I round out some of the other characters who need stuff more.
And catch up in the things ive wanted done for a while.
But there will be more mofu eventually.

Burnout is the fucking devil when it comes to smutwriting, and I wish the dev the best in overcoming it.

I just finished binging through most of the existing content, and I have to say, it's a pretty fabulous game.

Yes it is! xD
I think I'm through the worst of it now and it's just getting things moving again.

Thank you very much for checking out the game, glad to hear you enjoyed it so much! : D