Ren'Py Monster Girl Dreams [v26.8a Alpha] [Threshold]

[iamnuff]

Not sure what's going on. I'm trying to run the game but i'm just getting a white screen that says 'Not responding'

I've tried closing and rebooting it multiple times.

 

[decker2]

ignoring the fact that it mostly CG-less,

Okay, I just had a somewhat decent look at the Patreon(only the news titles, because the dev is finding it a very good practice to hide the major selling points such as big teasers behind the paywall) and the discord.

Perhaps it's not the scummy-scummy kinda thing going on, but it does seem like the dev is not very good at setting priorities straight. I don't know what's gonna be in the next game mechanics update, so I can't exactly judge how necessary it is nor can I predict it, but I do know for sure that the... map rework is coming. And that baffles me. Why would one dedicate their time and resources to something so completely arbitrary when the core game itself is not finished? I just cannot fathom that.

not to mention the €2,161 per month "Goal"
Approximately 2-6 art a month based on complexity.
but i guess it's up to thres what counts as "art"
(not cgs that's for sure)

but reaching these "goals" means shit anyway
since there is no limit to how much money a dev can milk

i've already asked thres how much cgs costs and he answered:

That severely ranges between artists and the thing being commissioned. As well as variants.
A lot of artists have commission sheets you can look at, but I'd say the 'average' commission I get is probably 100$-150$?
But depending on multiple factors that can sometimes go 300+$.
But that's more in regards to character cgs.

he is currently at 2,676$ per month. no idea what he's spending all that money on..
(but i hope it's not horse cum or cups)

and i don't care about the map rework...
i was hoping that we would finally reach the labyrinth with a big halloween update
but all we get is a map. this makes me sad man
(all that free money corrupts, i hate patreon)

also

What I wonder is, did he freeze his patreon when he had his burn-out phase?

no he did not..
(and im sure patreon will only stop milking if they ban or delete the account)

 

[HumanRug]

Don't you think it's a little too late for that?

I just thought you were planning on deleting your game, I didn't realize you in fact deleted it.

Also your 4th instruction confused me as to how Mods and game/Mods work.

Actually, the useful part of step 4 is:

"4 - To make things easier for you, do the same as me: grab a mod's folder, put it in game/Mods/ (WITH ALL ITS CONTENT), then copy such mod's folder to Mods/."

The rest of that step are just things that you must be too unlucky to be in the need of doing them. Don't pay them attention, nobody fills their phone's storage at the point of having to save on a few megabytes just for the sake of installing a mod for a game.

 

[Lazyrick]

Like actually added or it's just placeholder markers or something like that? Because if it's the former, then it's more than just mere rework.

Just placeholder markers for now. Thresh is still busy working on the Labyrinth mechanic that has no business being in a Renpy game. I swear, it's like it's his life's purpose to push the engine to it's limits and beyond.

 

[HumblestRanger]

Just placeholder markers for now. Thresh is still busy working on the Labyrinth mechanic that has no business being in a Renpy game. I swear, it's like it's his life's purpose to push the engine to it's limits and beyond.

To be honest I was quite surprised when I found out that the game is on Renpy. I mean, it's not impossible to make something like this(as this game is the pristine example), but it's still quite finicky. I wonder if there's some underlying reason for why it was chosen in the first place.

Maybe it was something along the lines: "Hey, I wanna make a cool game but Renpy is the only engine I can kind of figure the knowhow how to use, so I guess I'll go with this. Surely I won't go too far with this, right?". And then he went too far. And then it was something like: "Eh, I feel kinda lazy to learn how to use another, more flexible engine to remake this whole thing in there, so I guess I'll just obliterate Renpy instead and then'll glue all the fractured pieces together with the glue as I see fit. Anything goes."

Regardless, the final result is admirable. Though I do wish there was an option to change fonts. Maybe I can mod this in somehow? Gotta look into it.

 

[Deleted member 1510770]

So anyone ever did a no nut challenge run? (Normal or Hard mode, 1 spirit and no geting spirit enhancing perks, anything else goes)
how masochistic was trying to complete everything possible in these conditions?

Seems like an appropriate challenge for No Nut November, which starts in a few weeks.

 

[New Kid]

Addicts don't generally stop just because doing what they are addicted to is illegal though. I remember that someone (can't remember who) said that at the time there was a concern that because she was so much more powerful than anyone else that there would be no way to enforce the law and stop her if she chose to keep on doing it. So 'she stopped because it was banned' is technically true, but really it seems like she had already decided to quit and the ban was just convenient timing.

Yeah, I meant that eating souls probably became more of a hassle to Sofia than it was worth it after it was considered illegal, not that she stopped because "oh no now there is a law forbidding it". She technically could keep going if she really wanted to, but most people would start shunning her despite not being able to stop her by force, and who knows what would happen if the queen got pissed off for real and decided to get serious about her despite the difference in power.

 

[Master of Puppets]

Yeah, I meant that eating souls probably became more of a hassle to Sofia than it was worth it after it was considered illegal, not that she stopped because "oh no now there is a law forbidding it". She technically could keep going if she really wanted to, but most people would start shunning her despite not being able to stop her by force, and who knows what would happen if the queen got pissed off for real and decided to get serious about her despite the difference in power.

Most likely she would have got her butt kicked and Sofia would be queen again. If anything would have been a hassle it would have been being queen again, which she hated.

 

[Suwi]

I just thought you were planning on deleting your game, I didn't realize you in fact deleted it.

The rest of that step are just things that you must be too unlucky to be in the need of doing them. Don't pay them attention, nobody fills their phone's storage at the point of having to save on a few megabytes just for the sake of installing a mod for a game.

It's really faster than the Android version. I deleted it for convenience's sake of my phone storage and it's easy to just put the mods and delete them as well just like using RimPy for Rimworld.

Not related but I have 209 mods in Rimworld on a PC. It's just that I have bad storage management in my phone that I keep filling it up with whatever I find interesting.

 

[Succubus Hunter]

Seems like an appropriate challenge for No Nut November, which starts in a few weeks.

I will have to make a note to try this as well. I get the feeling challenges like this will be the F95 versions of the Nuzloke Challenge.

 

[Deleted member 1510770]

I will have to make a note to try this as well. I get the feeling challenges like this will be the F95 versions of the Nuzloke Challenge.

But instead of calling it Nuzlocke Challenge like Pokémon players do, it's called, uh... Nutlock Challenge. Pretty cringe, but I said it anyway.

Nothing says "Why yes I'm a masochist, how could you tell?" like kicking off NNN with a 1-spirit no nut challenge run in MGD.

 

[Succubus Hunter]

But instead of calling it Nuzlocke Challenge like Pokémon players do, it's called, uh... Nutlock Challenge. Pretty cringe, but I said it anyway.

Nothing says "Why yes I'm a masochist, how could you tell?" like kicking off NNN with a 1-spirit no nut challenge run in MGD.

Nutlock - I love it! I am going to start using that term from now on. I think we should come up with a set of modified Nuzloke rules that can be applied to h-games.

I haven't started on Monster Girl Dreams yet but I can imagine a playing taking quite a beating from the girls with those rules.

 

[Quintilus]

Any info on update?

 

[troll29209029302930293]

would love to see more paizuri hypnotism like with villi. kinda kool.

 

[gent777]

would love to see more paizuri hypnotism like with villi. kinda kool.

You sort of get one with Himika at full power (in both solo and fighting her with Mizuko), although it's only for a status effect that can screw you over in the fight.

 

[Master of Puppets]

would love to see more paizuri hypnotism like with villi. kinda kool.

Did you stare at Vivian's tits? There's a lengthy scene there if you didn't see it. (Not the first time at the very beginning, later when talking to her in her club)

 

[Oluap-Player]

Any info on update?

As we know from the Discord, Threshold has been on a break until yesterday for family reasons, and up to that point he only claimed to have done one of the four Hellhounds. I think it's safe to assume the update won't be ready until late next month.

 

[Mustang Flex]

Unless the old school release schedule was so incredibly taxing that no sane dev should put themselves through it, things are starting to get a little concerning with how long it's becoming between updates.

 

[decker2]

i have the feeling that the next update will just be the "map rework" and some bug fixes..

 

[thrownawayburger]

break until yesterday for family reasons

Am I the only one who read this part? Like, I get how we're all starved for a juicy update at this point but family reasons can really take their toll on a person you know. When I see that being cited as the reason, my first thought isn't "damn updates delayed again" its "I hope things are alright."

Might just be me though, idk.