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

[acowasto]

Nah I understand, I am sorry too. My comment was a bit insensitive, since we the audience usually don't think much about the work put on the content we consume, and we usually don't have direct communication with the creator too. So I didn't think how it'd feel for you to see someone insulting your hard work.

What TigerWolfe said.
Having the knowledge about the "behind the screen" work on animations (and indie game development) is certainly a eye opener. Well, as it goes, the grass is more greener on the other side.
Some of Tropecita's animations look... weird or simply funny. Like "Martha's drop", for example. Or Daphne's left arm twitching on a date.
But what makes those animations more comfortable to watch is Tropecita himself, because he's active with community.

I would rather have a good, or even a medicore at start, indie game with a developer interacting with community, learning as he's making his game, taking the criticism and player's opinion's and improving upon the game, than another beautiful AAA soulless title.

I did a test with AI animation just for fun with free software some time ago. The video was 1280x720 instead of 1920x1080 I use in my manually rendered animations. The movement looked better than my animations, but it didn't loop correctly. It took less than an hour to "render". It took around 7 hours to get the MC's dick correctly aligned in each frame during Simone's "ball eating" animation(s), and almost 18 hours to render the three animations I did with that set (453 frames, 151 per animation).

AI just a tool, much like DAZ or Blender. It's still the man behind the tool that makes all the work. In my honest opinion AI is not advanced yet to fully replace the "by hand" approach. The greatest problem is the consistency. Out of 100 animations made, 10 is workable, but maybe 3 are consistent enough.
Still, I get it why you got a bit angry. "I just did your 34 hours bad animation by writting 2 sentences in AI!"
Sadly, with AI development going forward, no matter how much we can hate it (And I do hate the AI assistant, because it's simply bonkers!), but "by hand" approach is going to be replaced... maybe not sooner, but certainly later.

Also...
Not
Enough
Martha!

 

[TonyMurray]

Is it me, or does the "iPatch" doesn't work on the new version? Also, it doesn't loads the gallery for the girls. It shows this huge X for everyone.
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That gallery works fine for me (the replay gallery also does, I think, I've not actually tested that one yet though...).

 

[Verasmile]

Did you happen to install the season 1 patch? That one isn´t recommended for the later seasons. Just create a an empty textfile in /[gamefolder]/game named patch.txt and the game is patched.
The non-functioning gallery might also come from this same incorrect patch (I just checked and it works for me, on pc)

No? Or maybe I did, but long ago and I don't remember. But I tried the patch.txt and didn't solve anything.

Could it be that I have the season 4 in the same folder, but in a different subfolder? I've been updating the season 3 since its release and now with the season 4 I made a new subfolder.

 

[milfkiller]

The Steam version has it.

so at this thread we have steam version?

 

[Trope95]

Thanks for another amazing update Trope. I'm always amazed by how well you manage to keep the quality high, especially with such a relatively short development time between updates.

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Also thanks for the double treat; a game update and a Norah render?

Thanks, Johnny

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Something like this?

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[MagicMan753]

It breaks my heart that we will never get anything between Kiara/Eileen, I mean there are many great combos and possible fun to be had between some of the girls during group sex, but that is one combo I wish we could get, so a bit sad.

In other news, still excited beyond belief for Lisa, her evening date and maybe much more I Love her, and can't wait, its been one of my biggest anticipated things. And I hope once it starts we get a BUNCH, BUNCH more of cute moments and sex throughout the rest of the game, cause can never get enough of her.

 

[Trope95]

so at this thread we have steam version?

No, the version on the thread is the original version. I won't post the Steam version here, at least for a time. The point of going to Steam is to sell games. Giving them for free is incompatible with it.

And it's prohibited by Steam ToS. If I gave the same version for free, I could be banned from Steam.

The story remains the same, but the Steam version of Season 1 features Season 2's interface, which includes the gallery, the profiles, etc.

 

[Trope95]

It breaks my heart that we will never get anything between Kiara/Eileen, I mean there are many great combos and possible fun to be had between some of the girls during group sex, but that is one combo I wish we could get, so a bit sad.

In other news, still excited beyond belief for Lisa, her evening date and maybe much more I Love her, and can't wait, its been one of my biggest anticipated things. And I hope once it starts we get a BUNCH, BUNCH more of cute moments and sex throughout the rest of the game, cause can never get enough of her.

Patreon rules (and now also Steam rules) prevent Kiara and Eileen from having anything sexual. It's a shame, but, for story reasons, they needed to be mother/daughter (same with Simone/Sam, Debbie/Lisa, Saira/Kaly, and Norah/Meemaw/Betty). Their story wouldn't make sense if they were landlady and tenant.

Lisa's date will take around 30% of the next update. I hope not to disappoint with what I have in mind. It won't be what most players expect.

 

[Cra1g281]

Thanks, Johnny

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i would love something that tope, would make it feel more special

 

[johnny0183]

Thanks, Johnny

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Lisa's date will take around 30% of the next update. I hope not to disappoint with what I have in mind. It won't be what most players expect.

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[Elhemeer]

Is it me, or does the "iPatch" doesn't work on the new version? Also, it doesn't loads the gallery for the girls. It shows this huge X for everyone.
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I actually had that happen to me when checking a couple characters after first starting the update, but after I played for a bit and checked again the images were there.

 

[mypossiblepast]

Hey Trope95, maybe it was always like that, but I just noticed that loading this into this screen requires rolling back, which might be confusing for some, maybe? Just fyi.

 

[Domdeyso]

thers some diference in the quality in the full game and compressed one.

 

[mypossiblepast]

thers some diference in the quality in the full game and compressed one.

you would not believe what compressed means!

 

[Elhemeer]

thers some diference in the quality in the full game and compressed one.

you would not believe what compressed means!

 

[ImperialD]

dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmit .... i hate when awesome games updates end .......

love this update ....

 

[ramvivat]

Hi!

guys, can you tell me how many days ago the compressed version was posted?
Thank you.

 

[Trope95]

I actually had that happen to me when checking a couple characters after first starting the update, but after I played for a bit and checked again the images were there.

It happened with the nude images. I changed the filenames for the profile images and forgot to change a reference in a legacy place. It was fixed in 0.28.3 or 0.28.4.
The "funniest" thing is that it happened to Crow during testing, but we chalked it to a corrupt save, since I sent him my save and it worked fine.

Hey Trope95, maybe it was always like that, but I just noticed that loading this into this screen requires rolling back, which might be confusing for some, maybe? Just fyi.
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It's always been (almost) like that. The menu is a courtesy thing for people who press CTRL or Tab, to prevent the game from exiting to the main menu without them being able to save. Until this version, it only showed "Return to main menu". I added the "support the dev" links in this one. It's always recommended to rollback from the End of Content screen to the last in-game image before saving.

thers some diference in the quality in the full game and compressed one.

A loss of image quality of around 25%.

dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmit .... i hate when awesome games updates end .......

love this update ....

Thanks, Imperial!

Hi!

guys, can you tell me how many days ago the compressed version was posted?
Thank you.

37 33 hours ago.

 

[Trminator]

Is it me, or does the "iPatch" doesn't work on the new version? Also, it doesn't loads the gallery for the girls. It shows this huge X for everyone.
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That's a bug that got fixed, since ... You might want to make sure you reload your save, in a clean install of the season4 version, of the game, tho ...

 

[Verasmile]

I actually had that happen to me when checking a couple characters after first starting the update, but after I played for a bit and checked again the images were there.

Yeah, I checked that as soon as I opened the game and closed it as I couldn't play it (I wanted to be sure that it worked) and when later on I actually played, after few scenes it unlocked everything back.