VN Ren'Py My Dorm [v0.28.4 S4 Ch.1] [Tropecita Games]

[Satou Pendragon]

ZSA moonlanders

Seen them but haven't tried them ever so I'll withhold any Opinion until I try them out.

 

[Jaga Telesin]

What Satou and Jaga said.

Hey... now THERE'S a meme I can get behind! (yeah, my requirements aren't high)

 

[Satou Pendragon]

Hey... now THERE'S a meme I can get behind! (yeah, my requirements aren't high)

There's also this version if that's enough for you

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[Trope95]

is there a patch second season wont load for some reason i use sparks since i lost my pc sadly plz help

What is sparks? Sorry, haven't heard about that. Season 2 (0.19) worked fine for all players on Windows/Linux/Mac/Android.

 

[TigerWolfe]

Seen them but haven't tried them ever so I'll withhold any Opinion until I try them out.

Saved my wrists, so I love them. That and thumbball mice. Apparently working 8 hours a day on a computer so I can afford to spend all my available non family free time also on a computer, when paired with my ehlers danlos = really really bad ulner nerve damage by the grand old age of like 33.

 

[DaFinker]

Just one?
This reminds me of an anecdote about one guy:
- You know, he bought himself a super car.
- Right? And what kind?
- Lamborghini Oneday.
- There is no such model!
- Because it's not a model! He bought it yesterday and today it no longer exists.

Another play of the same type is the guy that drives a Rolls Canardly: it rolls down one hill and can hardly get up the next.

 

[snakeplisskin]

I took care that the "most neglected girls" in the pool party (Daphne, Lisa, Erika, Emma, and Saira) got the spotlight in the previous update, but I agree that a small cast per update is better for developing the stories. Although all those big group events since 0.14 (Beach party, Eva's lunch, Amanda's dinner, Amanda's lunch, Jazz Corner, and Pool party) were needed to create the family bonding (and show how it's created), so things that happen at the pool didn't come out of the blue. But it will take a while to do another big group event. They are exhausting to do.

Kim's feelings were clearer after that scene. In this case, it was the anti-trope "roommate falls for the MC but thinks it's wrong because what would the landlady think?". She is hesitant because, for her, the anchor in the family is Martha, not the MC. Why? It's also clearer during the scene Martha/Kim/Samantha.

Eva and Amanda (and Kiara) provided the (more) emotional parts in this update, at least as a writer. They are loose guns, and that contrasts a lot with her ultra-professional usual stance. But they are little girls too in a lot of aspects. Especially when it comes to their feelings. I'm eager to develop their stories.

Kate needed a push, and Norah was there. Norah is Betty's niece after all, so she notices a lot of things. She was happy to provide the push Kate needed.

Simone was more worried about Emma than about herself. Since Sam knew about the kisses, we can imagine she heard something, but in this case, after the MC and she decided not to test the waters, she thought it wouldn't include her. That was her surprise.

Alexia's scene wasn't "as good" originally. Had to re-render 1,512 animated renders because of the negative feedback from some patrons. The water movement was a lot worse initially. But thanks! I'm still learning. And one thing I learned from that scene is that making water behave realistically is almost impossible without postwork (and that's beyond my skills).

The DnD game will be a bit personal. My wife and stepson (both of them DnD players since we moved together) said when tested the first scenes that they conveyed the feeling of playing without overwhelming the player with rules that mean nothing in an AVN. I hope you like it.


What Satou and Jaga said. I would add (re-)playing the intro once again, even if you don't rename the characters to get the family backstory.

You do a great job balancing all the girls, big family events are just hard since even if they are not the focus everyone gets some screen time. Which of course means i want more from my favourites.

I am super pumped for the D&D game can't wait to see what you have cooked up.

 

[Vendovah]

I always mix up Scarlet and Daphne without accompanying pictures, because Scarlet in AVNs is almost always a redhead's name.

I do better at remembering the names of the LIs I'd be interested in IRL, which is basically never the young'ns.

It's easier to remember Daphne's the redhead if you remember that she's also the redhead in Scooby-Doo

 

[TigerWolfe]

It's easier to remember Daphne's the redhead if you remember that she's also the redhead in Scooby-Doo

That'd require me to have eyes for someone besides Velma.

 

[Elhemeer]

No no no... not going to start a WSS meme/art folder!! I've already seen nearly a dozen.. Break the mold, be different!!

Spoiler: You could try an alternative method ... works faster too

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[Elhemeer]

ZSA moonlanders, with modified switches and a smorgasboard of swapped out keycaps.

Well that looks interesting. I'd need a desk setup that would work with that, but its on my radar now (I don't think I could re-learn how to type on anything other than a QWERTY setup though ...).

Also, I prefer the thumb trackball myself.

 

[buttsman69]

The DnD game will be a bit personal. My wife and stepson (both of them DnD players since we moved together) said when tested the first scenes that they conveyed the feeling of playing without overwhelming the player with rules that mean nothing in an AVN. I hope you like it.

Feel free to ignore this if it's too personal, but was it tough to get to the point where you could be open with your family about creating adult content (and letting them play it)?

Just curious. Obviously there are plenty of creatives who have their family test things, I was just curious if there were major differences in this sphere.

 

[TigerWolfe]

Well that looks interesting. I'd need a desk setup that would work with that, but its on my radar now (I don't think I could re-learn how to type on anything other than a QWERTY setup though ...).

Also, I prefer the thumb trackball myself.

Mine is still qwerty, the biggest hurdle was learning layers, since it doesn't have as many keys as a standard keyboard.

 

[Elhemeer]

Mine is still qwerty, the biggest hurdle was learning layers, since it doesn't have as many keys as a standard keyboard.

what did you swap out the keycaps for then?

 

[MarsUltor]

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Never seen those, I'm using my good old QWERTZ Keyboard...

Funny story about the Dvorak keyboard layout...

Years ago, I used to be the designated "tech support" guy in my department at work; the guy folks in my department would call for help with minor tech issues before taking the next step of contacting the I.T. department for help. Anyway, I discovered that the Dvorak keyboard layout setting was an optional keyboard setting in Windows (dating back to Win98, IIRC), so on April Fools Day each year, I would pick somebody from my department to switch their default keyboard layout setting from QWERTY to Dvorak before they came in to the office for the day (I'd always make sure to select a victim with a good sense of humor). Invariably, I'd get a call on the morning of April 1st from my targeted co-worker in a panic, convinced that their computer was possessed. It was all I could do to manage keeping a straight face as I'd tell them that I hoped we wouldn't have to replace their computer, then I'd log in to it and "poke around" for a bit, covertly switch it back to QWERTY, and then tell them I had managed to "fix" it (much to their relief).

Now you all know how truly evil I am...

 

[Jaga Telesin]

what did you swap out the keycaps for then?

 

[TigerWolfe]

what did you swap out the keycaps for then?

Just various color ways I liked better, it's not even a full swap cause some of the keycaps are weird shapes that 4 years ago I couldn't find good fits for, so it's a real hodgepodge. Like the one on my gaming pc has the textured wasd keycaps from an old corsair board I had cause I got used to those as my wasd. And my favorite color is blue so where able I've swapped in blue caps. I've got super clicky switches on both boards though cause I love me some click.

 

[e6mill]

I've got super clicky switches on both boards though cause I love me some click.

It's the big red lever power switches that I miss.

 

[Trope95]

Feel free to ignore this if it's too personal, but was it tough to get to the point where you could be open with your family about creating adult content (and letting them play it)?

Just curious. Obviously there are plenty of creatives who have their family test things, I was just curious if there were major differences in this sphere.

It was easy for me. I played a bit with Poser (and a bit of Daz) more than 10 years ago, mainly to do character portraits for the RPG games we played. I've lost most of them, but here you have...

Spoiler: A couple of 2013 renders

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In 2021 (or perhaps earlier) my stepson discovered Daz AVNs. He played a lot of manga AVNs and tried to get me into them, but I never got the feeling. But he recommended a game to me and that's the story's start! My first game was Sisterly Lust and fell in love with that game.
And that was a problem. The next games I tried weren't at the same level. Every one of them had something I didn't like (sandbox, NTR, having to choose one girl over another, unclear choices, etc.).
Since he was the one recommending the games, we chatted a lot about them. And one day he told me "Why don't you convert one of the stories you wrote into a game? You know how to code and how to do Poser graphics". And that was the spark for My Dorm.
I talked about it with my wife (she loved my little stories) and she chose one after my stepson explained to her the different genres. "This one can become a harem incest game", she said. It was a (non-adult) sci-fi story with clones and a shady company trying to get the protagonists' family farm on a distant moon.
I started re-writing the whole story (several times) on my 49th birthday until it became unrecognizable. Changed the farm for a Dorm, then added NTR not only as the "bad guys" but as the object of desire (instead of the farm) and kept the Dorm. Changed the family tree, etc.
After a couple of weeks, I had a schematic of what the story would look like. Explained it to my wife and stepson and they loved it. Then I needed to re-learn Daz (I'm still in the process), learn how to code in Ren'py (luckily, I got a lot of help from RiamMar when the game was already running), and then I started writing the new story dialogues and rendering.

I can say I couldn't (or wouldn't) do it without my family supporting me. Doing this takes a lot of time My Dorm "stole" from the family time. I even had a (small) marriage crisis because my wife thought (correctly) that I was spending more time with "the dolls" than with her. We adjusted. I still spend more time with "the girls" than with her, but she loves the story and, sometimes, she even pushes me like "Isn't a new scene to test yet?". She and my stepson became the testers. My goddaughter got an alter-ego in the game and also became a tester ("That sentence said by (insert a young girl here) looks like written by a 50 y.o. guy").
I named my "company" (Tropecita Games) after a nickname I use for my wife.

I guess some devs can do this behind their families' backs if they spend little time on it or if they live alone. I spent more than 40 hours doing the gallery on Friday-Sunday last week. I can't (nor want to) hide it.

Sorry for the wall of text.

 

[MAGO-DAG]

Sorry for the wall of text.

Trope – when shoot long and smart texts and at the end you get this: