VN Ren'Py My Dorm [v0.27.3 S3 Ch.7] [Tropecita Games]

[Trope95]

so when the song was mentioned, I thought to myself "I remember a song, but didn't pay attention to it, so don't know what the lyrics were" then watched the linked video and was like "okay, now I remember"

but yeah, I was too engrossed in the scene to know what the lyrics to the song were

That's one of the reasons why I stopped using songs with lyrics. You can read the dialogue or listen to the lyrics, but not both or you get distracted.
Better to use instrumental music.

 

[FatGiant]

Ok so I need to ask this random question as I'm playing through this for the first time...

Just got through the first "overnight" experience with Martha and the fucking song that plays throughout the whole thing is either A+ level satire or some kind of massive bad translation/drug ignorance. It's called "Put the needle down" or I'm assuming thats the title since they say that a hundred times. The title OBVIOUSLY looks like a giving up heroin story, and the music and arrangement also sounds like it should be a super sad song about either redemption or temptation from said needle...

But no. it's about all the different types of record you can play on a turntable. They're just fucking naming off genres of music and making vague references to how big playing records was for them. Dude it even ends on this part about how you gotta share this music and I swear they started to share this needle.

There is a saying: "When you hear hooves, you don't think of Zebras", unless you are a Zebra farmer...

The issue here is related to the Listener experience. My wife, listening to this, being a Nurse, would interpret Needles in a whole different context. I, being raised with turntables and vinyl records, had to replace a stupid amount of needles through the years, had to clean them, adjust them, even had to put coins on the head of the arm... so, putting the needle down, is never anything else but the careful lowering of the arm on the correct place to listen to my music.

Your interpretation, well, it says more about your experiences than what you probably wanted to advertise. Your Zebra farming is your issue.

Because everyone else, when they heard the hooves, they thought of Horses.

Funny how things sometimes say more than we want to.

Peace

 

[The Pull Out King]

OK, can't tell if you are a troll or just ignorant. The part of the record player that touches the vinyl is called the needle. The automatic arm puts the needle down on the track to play the record. The needle senses the variations in the track which cause it to vibrate at the right frequencies to reproduce the music that was recorded in the groove.

I appreciate you trying to be as politely patronizing as possible, but without giving away my age I can promise you I'm well aware of how record players worked.

My post was obviously a little tongue-in-cheek, but it seemed to me the song may have been doing a bit of the same thing. So, in case you weren't actually aware, the phrase "put the needle down" is a very common expression for someone trying to give up a heroin addiction. It seemed like they may have been intentionally misleading with the title and that the song was a double-entendre. Either way it's just a funny song to me, especially for where it was put in the game, so I wanted to know if maybe there was more to it.

 

[OfficiallyGames]

Just wondering, I know that S2 and onwards has a built in gallery and that S1 previously didn't. Has S1 been updated with a replay gallery, is that something planned or not?

 

[blkcrow20]

Just wondering, I know that S2 and onwards has a built in gallery and that S1 previously didn't. Has S1 been updated with a replay gallery, is that something planned or not?

Season 1 will have a gallery when released on Steam.

 

[Trope95]

 

[xapican]

I appreciate you trying to be as politely patronizing as possible, but without giving away my age I can promise you I'm well aware of how record players worked.

My post was obviously a little tongue-in-cheek, but it seemed to me the song may have been doing a bit of the same thing. So, in case you weren't actually aware, the phrase "put the needle down" is a very common expression for someone trying to give up a heroin addiction. It seemed like they may have been intentionally misleading with the title and that the song was a double-entendre. Either way it's just a funny song to me, especially for where it was put in the game, so I wanted to know if maybe there was more to it.

Well, that might be but for one instance the "put the needle down" as refering to quit Opiate addiction is a term or a saying used in a English spoken country, thank you for the heads up, a lot of us here in the thread, not being from an anglo - american culture won't even notice the subtle implication.
and would asociate, with turntables and vinyl discs.

 

[Sinndallas]

I've used up all of my brain power today, and I don't recall if I've ever played this or not. Am I correct in my thinking that I need to download Season 1, Season 2, and the in progress Season 3 all separately as of right now? If I haven't played before should I just wait for the Steam release?

 

[wookie ookie]

I've used up all of my brain power today, and I don't recall if I've ever played this or not. Am I correct in my thinking that I need to download Season 1, Season 2, and the in progress Season 3 all separately as of right now? If I haven't played before should I just wait for the Steam release?

Yes you have to start with Season 1 (It is worth playing you'll love it) it's not one you forget after a little while so I'm guessing you haven't played yet Give it a try

 

[Jaga Telesin]

I've used up all of my brain power today, and I don't recall if I've ever played this or not. Am I correct in my thinking that I need to download Season 1, Season 2, and the in progress Season 3 all separately as of right now?

Be sure to save in each when it prompts you to!

 

[Jaga Telesin]

* There was ONE untranslated dialogue line (out of 21,938), so it wasn't "completely in English".

You're slipping Trope. Tsk. Put on the hat and sit in the corner to think about what you've done now.

 

[johnny0183]

I've used up all of my brain power today, and I don't recall if I've ever played this or not. Am I correct in my thinking that I need to download Season 1, Season 2, and the in progress Season 3 all separately as of right now? If I haven't played before should I just wait for the Steam release?

You are correct.
You could wait for the Steam release but that would still just be season 1 for now though it will be reworked in the framework of season 2 and up. What this means is that the walkthrough & incest mods are already integrated and to unlock the incest/clone selection in the settings you just need to place a text file in the game folder. You could for now get the same result by just installing the multi-mod in the current season 1. The story itself is not changed in any way.

It does makes me wonder what Trope intends to do with the Steam release though; will season 2 and up be DLC or seperate games?

 

[Trope95]

I've used up all of my brain power today, and I don't recall if I've ever played this or not. Am I correct in my thinking that I need to download Season 1, Season 2, and the in progress Season 3 all separately as of right now? If I haven't played before should I just wait for the Steam release?

As other players said, if you are new to My Dorm, the recommended way to play it is:
Download and play Season 1 until the end. The game will do an autoexport (it can fail depending on your Android device)
Download Season 2 and IMPORT your Season 1 savegame. If it failed, start a New Game and answer a quick questionnaire. Play until the end. Save your game.
Download Season 3 and LOAD your Season 2 savegame. There isn't a questionnaire.

I don't think waiting for the Steam release is needed. It's only a change in the interface, some re-rendered images/animations, and re-proofread script. The story will be the same.

It does makes me wonder what Trope intends to do with the Steam release though; will season 2 and up be DLC or seperate games?

Each season will be sold as an independent game (that will force me to add a questionnaire to Season 3 ).
Why? Because devs who know about this better than me say it's the way to do it. DLCs for adult games have a selling ratio of 10-35% with respect to the original game. Seasons as "Independent games" have a ratio of 60-90% and even push the sales of previous seasons a bit. That's because (among other reasons) Steam doesn't advertise DLCs. I don't know if I will sell zero, 1, 100, or 100,000 copies of Season 1, but giving up 25-80% of those sales for Season 2 (I think Season 2 is better than Season 1) isn't a good perspective. And it would be even worse for Seasons 3, 4, etc.

Let's go nerdy (and optimistic) and think Season 1 will sell 1,000 games, and use the average retention is 22.5% for DLCs and 75% for independent games for the math.

As you can see, Seasons 4 and 5 would only report losses after Steam cuts and fees. The totals would be 1,290 sales with DLCs and 3,051 with independent games. In neither case will I become rich, it isn't the goal, but doing it as DLC doesn't make any sense.

 

[johnny0183]

Each season will be sold as an independent game (that will force me to add a questionnaire to Season 3 ).
Why? Because devs who know about this better than me say it's the way to do it. DLCs for adult games have a selling ratio of 10-35% with respect to the original game. Seasons as "Independent games" have a ratio of 60-90% and even push the sales of previous seasons a bit. That's because (among other reasons) Steam doesn't advertise DLCs. I don't know if I will sell zero, 1, 100, or 100,000 copies of Season 1, but giving up 25-80% of those sales for Season 2 (I think Season 2 is better than Season 1) isn't a good perspective. And it would be even worse for Seasons 3, 4, etc.

Let's go nerdy (and optimistic) and think Season 1 will sell 1,000 games, and use the average retention is 22.5% for DLCs and 75% for independent games for the math.

As you can see, Seasons 4 and 5 would only report losses after Steam cuts and fees. The totals would be 1,290 sales with DLCs and 3,051 with independent games. In neither case will I become rich, it isn't the goal, but doing it as DLC doesn't make any sense.

That completely makes sense. I didn't realize there was such a big gap between DLC & seperate game sales, I was more thinking from a technical point of view and what would be most beneficial for you (curse of being a programmer, marketing side gets automatically ignored by my brain ).

 

[Trope95]

That completely makes sense. I didn't realize there was such a big gap between DLC & seperate game sales, I was more thinking from a technical point of view and what would be most beneficial for you (curse of being a programmer, marketing side gets automatically ignored by my brain ).

As an IT guy, I was thinking about DLCs, too. Easier and cleaner. But then I read an article by a dev studio who is selling A LOT on Steam and even opened their own store where other devs can sell their games. I can't say the name of the studio or the store because F95 seems to hate that page. I can only say that their most famous game has Fresh Women in it.

Back to the article. They talked about those numbers (I have refined them with information I have gleaned from other articles) and why they discarded their original idea of selling the second season as a DLC of the first one.
I'm talking about a dev who was bragging some months ago (showing proof) about having sold more than $320,000 on Steam. So they are people who know what they are talking about.

Back to topic, I love Betty and Kiara's scenes in the last update.

 

[HornyyPussy]

Back to topic, I love Betty and Kiara's scenes in the last update.

Does it hurt your back, kissing your own ass like that?

 

[Trope95]

Does it hurt your back, kissing your own ass like that?

Only when my beard entangles with the hair in my ass .

 

[HornyyPussy]

Only when my beard entangles with the hair in my ass .

 

[blkcrow20]

As an IT guy, I was thinking about DLCs, too. Easier and cleaner. But then I read an article by a dev studio who is selling A LOT on Steam and even opened their own store where other devs can sell their games. I can't say the name of the studio or the store because F95 seems to hate that page. I can only say that their most famous game has Fresh Women in it.

Back to the article. They talked about those numbers (I have refined them with information I have gleaned from other articles) and why they discarded their original idea of selling the second season as a DLC of the first one.
I'm talking about a dev who was bragging some months ago (showing proof) about having sold more than $320,000 on Steam. So they are people who know what they are talking about.

Back to topic, I love Betty and Kiara's scenes in the last update.

I second that opinion - Betty and Kiara's scenes are very hot. Kiara being my fave of the two. She has also risen on my list to the #2 spot behind Martha. But Martha will always be #1.

 

[HornyyPussy]

But Martha will always be #1.

I knew there was something I liked about you.........