VN Ren'Py Move the Chains [v0.3.5] [MissFortune]

[moonshadow]

I'm going as fast as I can with a full time job taking the horse's share of time. I'm thinking I might start splitting each Episode into two updates of a thousand or so renders to get them out a bit faster. Will have to see how supporters and such feel about it, but it feels like it might be better than waiting nearly a year per update at this point.

No abandonment. Not unless one of these services come after me like they did Drifty with Leap of Faith, or something like that. Closest thing happening to a remake might be some rewrites of early portions, and slowly replacing renders from the first release to get rid of anime-face MC, but both are just background WIPs that'll just get some sprinkles and are nothing that'll change the current development of then game.

Noice, appreciate you, both your work on the VN, but also for actually giving a f-ck and responding to my not-so important comment
The whole shorter but more often updates is a can of worm I probably shouldn't open. BUT, here's my 2 cents for what it's worth. We (the players) have our wishes and preferences. Some of us prefers one silly big update once a year. Some of us(read: ME) prefer way shorter updates that comes out, if not monthly, then every 2-3 months. IMO every one wins. If it's doable for the person making the VN aside though. People wanting just one big update every year? Well they can then *choose* completely by their own free will, to skip the next 3-4 updates, and tadaa, they'll have a massive update once per year(even if it's technically 3+ updates they're catching up on). Meanwhile, an update once every 12+ months, is - and again I must stress, this is MY opinion only - just damaging for *my* interest in the long run. Simply because I keep forgetting what the hell happened or what the story is even about lol. I wont mention other games for many reasons here, but there's a couple of really 'big hitters' that has maybe an update once every year if even that - I have honestly stopped playing them. One of them I've skipped the last 2 updates, I just can't be bothered sinking so much time into a 'story' I barely remember (game in this case is..well, let's just call it BaD - and if you know you know) I just lose interest as I said. Plus I'm personally more willing to support a project where I can actually get 'gameplay' *several* times per year. Preferably monthly but not all stories are built in a way I guess where you can just find a sweet spot to 'cut off' the update.
Again, all this is probably meaningless rambling from me. But wanted tho throw my 2 cents at ya. In the end, do what feels best and right for *you*, and even if 'money' is a factor, what current or potential supporters might say, should always come second to what you can, will, and are able to do.
I will 100% support the idea of more than 'once a year update'. It would truly help keep the interest for MtC up. And less risk of the classic "is it abandoned? oh noes, another one bites the dust..blahblah".
For me, I rather have lets say 100 renders update each month, than a million every 12 months. Yes exaggaration to get my point across only. But again, that's just me and my preferences. I know that every single (which is not many tbh) projects I've supported, have *all* been releasing updates either every month or every 2. Once they started drifting towards 3-4 months, I pulled out.
I dunno, it's partly because as I said, easier to remember and get into the 'flow' of the story etc if you dont have to wait forever for the next 'chapter'. And partly because if I'm 'throwing' money at something to support, I like to actually have something to show for it, more than once a year.
Maybe I make zero sense here, so I'll shut up lol.
For what it's worth, and as I already mentioned, really like MtC, and I wish it would pop out an update soon - not saying that as something negative or 'rushing' you - just that..well you know how it is when you wait for something. Gimme gimme! lol

Well, I've done my deed for the day, managed to put people to sleep with this wall of text. I'll see myself out

 

[Havoc_313]

I dont understand what you mean, dev confirmed trans will fuck the LI (optional). Its not really a misunderstanding. I dont play games with swinging even with futa. Good luck

So like.......did you purposely miss the word OPTIONAL? The character only dos what you choose lmao

 

[sp4ckj4rr0w_420]

Wow ok, so I come from europe and when I hear the word "football" I think of "soccer" not american football =P

I have little to no knowledge about american football so it's nice that this avn has a glossary to explain the words used but... even the explanations uses words I have never heard of xD

Please dev, rewrite the glossary in a way that people who are totally ignorant about american football, know what which word means.

I mean if I read this; "a defender is positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers."

I can only understand half of it and a quarter is guess work, the rest I have no clue; First what is scrimmage? what is a pass receiver? Is it seriously a player that's only there to catch a ball? what are linemen and linebackers? how many of them are there?

It's just, the explanation of the glossary sort of assumes that you know a little bit about american football and doesn't go too deeply into the explanation itself nor is it simplified for people like me who have no clue about the game. Even though it's in english, I feel as if I read a dialect I can't understand xD

 

[Crashbullet]

Even though it's in english, I feel as if I read a dialect I can't understand xD

I first went to Wikipedia, then I was like, "fuck it," and I just had a great time reading AVN)

 

[sp4ckj4rr0w_420]

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I first went to Wikipedia, then I was like, "fuck it," and I just had a great time reading AVN)

I haven't done that to be honest, I just tried to guess what some words meant by context. Still reading it, it's just when the subject comes to football, I only understand half of it but I don't mind. Story has me hooked =)

 

[Silent_Dreamer]

I'll never understand why developers are shy of putting a face for the main protagonist. Is it too much work to have a face for MC?

 

[Sossse]

I'll never understand why developers are shy of putting a face for the main protagonist. Is it too much work to have a face for MC?

i think it it due to the fact that many a player (me included) like to identivi with the MC of a work at least on some lvl. helps them to get more immersed in it. giving the MC no face is a tool an author can use to enchance this

 

[MissFortune]

I'll never understand why developers are shy of putting a face for the main protagonist. Is it too much work to have a face for MC?

Sounds like you're still pretty early in. Keep playing.

 

[MissFortune]

Hi, I finally caught up with my steam game the other day. I never went to see Devon because I have no interest in Ria, but later on when you're with Maya and Ria, she asks you what happened, the scene ends very abruptly going straight to another scene, I don't know if that's what you were looking for or if there's some dialogue missing.

The scene is a bit broken variable-wise. Episode 3.5 basically fixes the variable there. The scene itself will be fixed at a later date. Probably once the game is finished to avoid forcing more restarts.

 

[Seccac]

Didn't want to be that guy but... Literally every time Renee tries to say anything it results in an error, it makes any scene with her in it absolutely unbearable, just becomes a fest of renpy errors and pressing ignore. PC version btw

 

[MissFortune]

Didn't want to be that guy but... Literally every time Renee tries to say anything it results in an error, it makes any scene with her in it absolutely unbearable, just becomes a fest of renpy errors and pressing ignore. PC version btw

https://f95zone.to/threads/move-the-chains-v0-3-5-missfortune.167178/post-17189913

The post below that linked one (with the directions) has a new link.

 

[Radnos Salazar]

https://f95zone.to/threads/move-the-chains-v0-3-5-missfortune.167178/post-17189913

The post below that linked one (with the directions) has a new link.

I wanted to vote on this but couldn't, I wouldve voted for making them smaller as well. Did you come to a decision about this one?

 

[MissFortune]

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I wanted to vote on this but couldn't, I wouldve voted for making them smaller as well. Did you come to a decision about this one?

Yeah, that closed on the 4th. Make them smaller won by a fairly large margin between the two polls, so it's highly likely we'll be rolling with that provided there's no unseen circumstances for whatever reason.

 

[jak1165]

Bro this is fucking insane. I just started. Never thought I'd be threatening to kill Nick Saban right off the bat, WTF LOL!!!!!

Dev is absolutely wild. They've definitely played football on some level, or if not they're a really damn good researcher/are very close with a good source.

This is the most insane player character out of any game I have ever played. CB jumping in at QB, bombing a thousand yards, then shrugging it off "those were just shit teams" LOL bro

Downloading the game I was snickering just a bit "wait he's a corner, shouldn't it be *stop* the chains?" and shit bro this has knocked me on my ass

Ready to see where this goes, also +1000 props for including a Streamer mode. Goes to show your ambitions of not just making porn, it's ridiculous how the biggest names in this visual novel world don't include a streamer mode.

The "CB actually being the best QB on the roster" legit happened at my high school. My sophomore year, the actual best QB on the team was 2nd on the depth chart but he broke his foot in August playing pickup basketball. And after 4 games (which we won because of me and the rest of the defense) they benched the starter and just made the starting RB the starting QB and we just ran every down. The guy who got hurt came back towards the end of the season but they just had him play mostly CB and S (less chance of getting hurt I guess),

The next year he's back at QB and our school had our best season in like decade

 

[Seccac]

https://f95zone.to/threads/move-the-chains-v0-3-5-missfortune.167178/post-17189913

The post below that linked one (with the directions) has a new link.

Ye thats the thing I had already downloaded the patch and nothing changed but just for good measure I did it all again, pasted the game file of the mod in the game file of the game, it asked me if i want to rewrite some files and all that, I said yes and that was it, didnt fix it, so i went back to the game's game file, i noticed the patch brought 4 files that the game folder already had before, the episode rpy file, example S01E03.rpy, S01E02.rpy etc, so I took out the old files of this and left the new ones (the ones I downloaded with the mod) didnt work again and the game automatically made new files like these 4, so i deleted the new ones and brought back the old ones (the ones i got when downloading the game for the first time). So ye I dont know what to do the patch didnt fix the issue.
Current state: the game folder has both RPY episode files of the patch and of the game after downloading normally

 

[MissFortune]

Ye thats the thing I had already downloaded the patch and nothing changed but just for good measure I did it all again, pasted the game file of the mod in the game file of the game, it asked me if i want to rewrite some files and all that, I said yes and that was it, didnt fix it, so i went back to the game's game file, i noticed the patch brought 4 files that the game folder already had before, the episode rpy file, example S01E03.rpy, S01E02.rpy etc, so I took out the old files of this and left the new ones (the ones I downloaded with the mod) didnt work again and the game automatically made new files like these 4, so i deleted the new ones and brought back the old ones (the ones i got when downloading the game for the first time). So ye I dont know what to do the patch didnt fix the issue.
Current state: the game folder has both RPY episode files of the patch and of the game after downloading normally

The mod might be conflicting with the patch itself. Not sure when or if the mod was updated after the 3.5 update. Works fine for me with no mod.

 

[TheOneWithThePorn12]

Wow ok, so I come from europe and when I hear the word "football" I think of "soccer" not american football =P

I have little to no knowledge about american football so it's nice that this avn has a glossary to explain the words used but... even the explanations uses words I have never heard of xD

Please dev, rewrite the glossary in a way that people who are totally ignorant about american football, know what which word means.

I mean if I read this; "a defender is positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers."

I can only understand half of it and a quarter is guess work, the rest I have no clue; First what is scrimmage? what is a pass receiver? Is it seriously a player that's only there to catch a ball? what are linemen and linebackers? how many of them are there?

It's just, the explanation of the glossary sort of assumes that you know a little bit about american football and doesn't go too deeply into the explanation itself nor is it simplified for people like me who have no clue about the game. Even though it's in english, I feel as if I read a dialect I can't understand xD

The line of scrimmage is where the play occurs. Neither time can pass this line until ball is in play.

The offence (the one with the Quarterback who throws the ball or hands its off) and defense line up on either side of the line of scrimmage. The guys who line up directly in from of the QB are the offensive lineman and their stop is stop the defensive linemen from getting to the QB or the runner (usually the Running Back, but can be QB).

The QB if they keep the ball will throw the ball to the wide receivers or tight ends. The counterpart to these players are going to be the Linebackers, Safeties, and Corner Backs (i havent played the game yet but this the MCs position) on Defense. Their objective is to stop these players from getting to the endzone. They are allowed to tackle them if they catch the ball, or disrupt the catch attempt so that the offense has to try again.

The cornerbacks usually shadow the receivers so that the QB cant make a throw to them. The safeties and Linebackerss try to read the offense and make moves based on that and again are trying to prevent the offense from gaining yards.

That brings up the concept of downs. The offense has 4 downs to move the ball 10 yards (or more yards just trying to keep it simple). Usually if the third down fails they will kick the ball (in this situation its called a Punt) to the other team and try to keep them as far back from their endzone (this makes it harder for the other team to score). Occasionally teams will go for it on the forth down, if it fails the other team gets the ball back at the current line of scrimmage. This contiues until either team scores.

Then you have Field Goals. If a team does not make it to the endzone they can opt to have their kicker kick the ball through the uprights. If they miss the other team gets the ball where the play initiated (line of scrimmage. Its treated like a fourth down.

This will be easier if you watch an explainer on Youtube. Its a little hard to grasp without watching a some football.

 

[TheOneWithThePorn12]

The "CB actually being the best QB on the roster" legit happened at my high school. My sophomore year, the actual best QB on the team was 2nd on the depth chart but he broke his foot in August playing pickup basketball. And after 4 games (which we won because of me and the rest of the defense) they benched the starter and just made the starting RB the starting QB and we just ran every down. The guy who got hurt came back towards the end of the season but they just had him play mostly CB and S (less chance of getting hurt I guess),

The next year he's back at QB and our school had our best season in like decade

The corner needs to know how the read the opposing WRs well. It makes a lot of sense that one could switch to QB since the QB needs to know his WR and TE routes very well.

 

[PickerLewd]

The corner needs to know how the read the opposing WRs well. It makes a lot of sense that one could switch to QB since the QB needs to know his WR and TE routes very well.

Hi, I was looking at the scorigami table (which is a display of all possible results, where in black are impossible results, in green those that have already happened and in white those that never happened but possible) and I see that the losing team can lose scoring 1 point, for example 6-1 or 8-1, with results like 7-1 or 5-1 being impossible .

How is that possible? I thought the safety play gave you 2 points and that's where you get the least points .

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[FillyPunk]

Hi, I was looking at the scorigami table (which is a display of all possible results, where in black are impossible results, in green those that have already happened and in white those that never happened but possible) and I see that the losing team can lose scoring 1 point, for example 6-1 or 8-1, with results like 7-1 or 5-1 being impossible .

How is that possible? I thought the safety play gave you 2 points and that's where you get the least points .

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Conversion safety. Pretty damn rare.