VN Ren'Py My Dorm [v0.25.2 S3 Ch.5] [Tropecita Games]

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We moved together 4 months after that. I couldn't blame the Uruguayan restaurant for my weight gain anymore. 21 kilos in 4 years and a half! She said that, if she fatten me enough, I would be harder to kidnap or to be stolen from her. :ROFLMAO:
I said Martha's sentences are based on my wife's, right? Her cooking skills are too. :D
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My friend's wife was working at local restaurant. Had to resign, because of family. While leaving she took the skills and, what's more important, passion for cooking. Forgot her house was with but a few people and it ain't a restaurant where you need to cook hundred different meals daily. So when my family accepted new year's eve invitation she was very happy to have an opportunity to show of more of her cooking skills without getting overboard... She went overboard.

When we arrived we were welcomed with kitchen full of food. Kitchen, because there wasn't enough room on the dinning table to fit anything more. Freshly baked three loafs of bread, two soups, various meats in different forms of which I like the most breaded chicken breasts, meatballs in a sauce she ain't giving me recipe for :( and huntsman's stew.

The second day we were basically eating everything she made on the first day. But, on the third day, she noticed. She noticed I am not a simple glutton, but a black hole capable of swallowing everything thrown at me. So, for the next week I was "guilty forced" into eating 5-6 freshly made different meals a day, because "It's going to waste if you won't eat it".

I ended up gaining around around 7 kilos within almost two weeks! I think I would gain more, but luckly there was quite a lot of work to be done around the house and smokehouse. And thier pets were also energy consuming.

Damn... now I'm hungry. I'm going to eat something. Cheers. :)

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No. I'm not fat.
Yes, my friend is somewhat fat. How he couldn't be with such a wife?
 
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Yesterday I finished writing the next update. It will fall a bit short of 30,000 words and 4,000 renders. No, it isn't a typo. Almost 30,000 words.
My goal is to publish it in the first half of next week on Patreon and SS. If it can be earlier, it will be!
 
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TropecitaGames said:
Yesterday I finished writing the next update. It will fall a bit short of 30,000 words and 4,000 renders. No, it isn't a typo. Almost 30,000 words.
My goal is to publish it in the first half of next week on Patreon and SS. If it can be earlier, it will be!
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Wait, how many are you?

I don't know if you are aware but there is a contest every November, called NaNoWriMo (it stands for National November Writing Month) where the purpose is to write a minimum of 10,000 words. People from all over the world struggle to do it... You wrote 3x that while posing and rendering 4,000 images? Are you a fucking AI ?

What the Fuck dude... what...the...fuck...

Peace :(
 
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TropecitaGames said:
Yesterday I finished writing the next update. It will fall a bit short of 30,000 words and 4,000 renders. No, it isn't a typo. Almost 30,000 words.
My goal is to publish it in the first half of next week on Patreon and SS. If it can be earlier, it will be!
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Tell us the truth... You are building the matrix and soon we will all be trapped inside... Am I right? Right? Oh well... I'm thinkin' your matrix may be better than what's out there these days... Jus' Sayin':cool:

Should we start calling you... The Architect?
 
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Wait, how many are you?

I don't know if you are aware but there is a contest every November, called NaNoWriMo (it stands for National November Writing Month) where the purpose is to write a minimum of 10,000 words. People from all over the world struggle to do it... You wrote 3x that while posing and rendering 4,000 images? Are you a fucking AI ?

What the Fuck dude... what...the...fuck...

Peace :(
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Only one writer/renderer. And it's the same person. :ROFLMAO:

No, you misunderstood it. I rendered 3,410 images in 5 weeks (35 days), although last week I almost didn't render anything since I focused on writing the last scenes (~11,000 words last week). There's still ~525 to render, that's the work for this week.


About the writing, I learned about NaNoWriMo some months ago, when a player told me about it and that his story there ended up being the seed for an AVN he is doing.
It's easier to continue a story you know where it is going, with characters that you know how they think and talk, than starting something from zero. The dialogues almost write themselves (no AI here) because the scenes and the characters call for some things to be said. Most of the time, I need to stop the MC from saying a long speech. Or Emma to go on a rant, or Martha to become too emotional.
I always have been a fast writer, with an average of ~650 words/day during the whole My Dorm development. The highest average with normal development (0.3 and 0.4.5 don't count) was 0.7A (835 words/day) and the lowest was 0.10A (335 words/day). Right now, 0.16 is at 843 words/day, but that number will decrease; I won't write more but some days will be spent in wrapping the update. It would be the fifth (normal) update with over 700 words/day if I publish it next Monday.


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4,000 renders in less than a two months? How?!
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Not 4,000 this time. ~3,950.
The last two updates went beyond that:
0.14: 4,199 renders in 42 days (99.98 renders/day)
0.15: 4,487 renders in 45 days (99.71 renders/day)
If I publish 0.16 next Monday, it would be ~3,950 in 42 days (94,05 renders/day). I was eager to get to 100 renders/day being so near for two updates, but it wasn't possible without adding unneeded animations.

How? Sleeping very few hours, sacrificing some social life, and working on My Dorm every free minute I don't spend with my family or at my job. Oh, and having a dedicated rendering machine.

motseer said:
Tell us the truth... You are building the matrix and soon we will all be trapped inside... Am I right? Right? Oh well... I'm thinkin' your matrix may be better than what's out there these days... Jus' Sayin':cool:

Should we start calling you... The Architect?
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Technically, it can be considered The Matrix for the characters, right? :ROFLMAO:
 
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This is just the result! I play various games. Most of them have bigger or smaller problems. Only in this game everything is regular and at a great level.
 
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FatGiant said:
I don't know if you are aware but there is a contest every November, called NaNoWriMo (it stands for National November Writing Month) where the purpose is to write a minimum of 10,000 words. People from all over the world struggle to do it... You wrote 3x that while posing and rendering 4,000 images? Are you a fucking AI ?

What the Fuck dude... what...the...fuck...

Peace :(
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Wasn't it a minimum 50k words in a month, though? writting 10k words is rather small amount of words to achive if you ask me. For example, I could write "Praise Martha, because she is the one and only Goddess you will ever need in your life!" which is 17 words and paste it around 3k times. Your second paragraph is around 50 words. I could write a fanfic, 10 chapters, each one having around 1k words within a week or few days more without a problem.

Also, beside what TP said about writting, having Lady Inspiration on your shoulder is quite helpful. Especially when you can use the narrator to simply pour all the words into him, which you couldn't just put into the mouths of your characters, because having 500 words long speech in the middle of battle ain't the greatest idea.

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Wait, how many are you?
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TropecitaGames said:
Only one writer/renderer. And it's the same person. :ROFLMAO:
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With his wife feeding him that much I would say TP is two people. :v

TropecitaGames said:
No, you misunderstood it. I rendered 3,410 images in 5 weeks (35 days), although last week I almost didn't render anything since I focused on writing the last scenes (~11,000 words last week). There's still ~525 to render, that's the work for this week.


About the writing, I learned about NaNoWriMo some months ago, when a player told me about it and that his story there ended up being the seed for an AVN he is doing.
It's easier to continue a story you know where it is going, with characters that you know how they think and talk, than starting something from zero. The dialogues almost write themselves (no AI here) because the scenes and the characters call for some things to be said. Most of the time, I need to stop the MC from saying a long speech. Or Emma to go on a rant, or Martha to become too emotional.
I always have been a fast writer, with an average of ~650 words/day during the whole My Dorm development. The highest average with normal development (0.3 and 0.4.5 don't count) was 0.7A (835 words/day) and the lowest was 0.10A (335 words/day). Right now, 0.16 is at 843 words/day, but that number will decrease; I won't write more but some days will be spent in wrapping the update. It would be the fifth (normal) update with over 700 words/day if I publish it next Monday.



Not 4,000 this time. ~3,950.
The last two updates went beyond that:
0.14: 4,199 renders in 42 days (99.98 renders/day)
0.15: 4,487 renders in 45 days (99.71 renders/day)
If I publish 0.16 next Monday, it would be ~3,950 in 42 days (94,05 renders/day). I was eager to get to 100 renders/day being so near for two updates, but it wasn't possible without adding unneeded animations.

How? Sleeping very few hours, sacrificing some social life, and working on My Dorm every free minute I don't spend with my family or at my job. Oh, and having a dedicated rendering machine.


Technically, it can be considered The Matrix for the characters, right? :ROFLMAO:
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I can tell you from the experience that sacrificing sleep and family ain't good. You already doing well enough beyond the "Call of game making duty", no need to push yourself more just for the sake of making a game.
 
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99/day is a rather impressive workload, renders dont come from nowhere thats a lot of imagination and staging by itself. its just as draining as writing.

on a related note: the casual animations in the last couple updates have been really good and immersive, how much of the 4k goes into those?
 
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johnpouljones said:
This is just the result! I play various games. Most of them have bigger or smaller problems. Only in this game everything is regular and at a great level.
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Every game has its issues. My Dorm is far from perfect, but I work every day to make it better. Sometimes I manage to improve and sometimes don't, but there are a lot of great games out there!

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Wasn't it a minimum 50k words in a month, though? writting 10k words is rather small amount of words to achive if you ask me. For example, I could write "Praise Martha, because she is the one and only Goddess you will ever need in your life!" which is 17 words and paste it around 3k times. Your second paragraph is around 50 words. I could write a fanfic, 10 chapters, each one having around 1k words within a week or few days more without a problem.

Also, beside what TP said about writting, having Lady Inspiration on your shoulder is quite helpful. Especially when you can use the narrator to simply pour all the words into him, which you couldn't just put into the mouths of your characters, because having 500 words long speech in the middle of battle ain't the greatest idea.




With his wife feeding him that much I would say TP is two people. :v



I can tell you from the experience that sacrificing sleep and family ain't good. You already doing well enough beyond the "Call of game making duty", no need to push yourself more just for the sake of making a game.
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Yes, Nanowrimo's goal is 50k words, I just checked, so no winning it with a My Dorm update :D
If I had to write a 50k word update in 30 days, and I had someone who rendered it, I guess it would be "easy". In the first week and a half of development for v.0.16, I wrote 19,065 words, and then stopped writing for almost 3 weeks while I rendered the 3,307 renders needed to get those 4 scenes to life. Last week I wrote ~10,500 words because I stopped rendering. And translated the first 19,000 words.
Being passionate about what you do, having most of the story already thought, and wanting to provide a quality game are powerful driving forces.

My wife stopped fattening me when I arrived at 100 kg (220 pounds). Too much for a 1,70 m (5'7") guy. Since then I lost ~15 kg. Now I'm fat, but once again is easier to walk around me than to jump over me.

COVID lockdown messed with my sleeping cycles and I haven't recovered from it. I sleep 4-5 hours daily + a 40-minute siesta 5 days a week. Making use of those extra wake hours to develop is a good way to not waste them.
I sacrificed family time in the first stages of development. A lot of family time. It didn't go well. I (logically) only managed to get an angry wife. So we negotiated. Now, family time is longer than a year ago and everyone is happier.

El Pene Del Diablo said:
99/day is a rather impressive workload, renders dont come from nowhere thats a lot of imagination and staging by itself. its just as draining as writing.

on a related note: the casual animations in the last couple updates have been really good and immersive, how much of the 4k goes into those?
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v.0.14 had 2,196 animated frames. The casual animations (Kim and MC dances) added up to 376 animated frames. The other 1,820 were during the Norah+Erika/Norah/Erika's scene at the pool.
v.0.15 had 2,874 animated frames. The only casual animation I remember (the panoramic view of the "castle room") had 559 renders. The other 2,315 where in Daphne and Eileen's lewd scenes.
v.0.16 will have 2,272 animated frames. 1,728 in Martha+Emma scene, 244 in Meemaw's (pseudo-lewd) scene, and 300 in a casual, but needed, scene with Debbie.

So 1,235 out of 8,342 renders: around 15% of the animated frames have been casual animated frames in the last 3 updates. Around 10% of the total renders (1,235 out of 12,621)
 
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