VN Ren'Py My Sisters and Me [Ep. 1.1] [CursedSavinkov]

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Great game. However : minor spelling mistake. Therefore : 0/20. (jk)
Good going so far. Just a few spelling mistakes and an annoying bug...
How in the year 2025, when spellcheck is built into just about every digital application that uses text, do we end up so many AVNs being absolutely riddled with typos and general grammatical errors?

I get that grammar can get skewed, owing to the fact that a number of devs are non-native English speakers and some translation apps do not additionally offer advice on grammatical structure.... but spelling mistakes? How does this happen so fucking frequently for anybody? Just run the text through a spellcheck before adding the text to the code of your game. JFC it would take 2 minutes.
 
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I mean, I have only seen one error... He's only human after all !
True and apologies to CursedSavinkov if it is indeed just one error. I took the other person's comment about there being "a few" quite literally.

That said, my rant was more about it being a common issue among all AVNs than it was about this one in particular.
Just run the dialogue through a spellcheck. Even this forum has a built-in spellcheck... it cannot be hard to find one.
 

Enigemm

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True and apologies to CursedSavinkov if it is indeed just one error. I took the other person's comment about there being "a few" quite literally.

That said, my rant was more about it being a common issue among all AVNs than it was about this one in particular.
Just run the dialogue through a spellcheck. Even this forum has a built-in spellcheck... it cannot be hard to find one.
There are indeed more than one. I'd like to point out something though. For the developers who are not native English speakers, they depend on translation programmes to do the translating in English. It not only results in some grammatical mismatches but can result in some spelling issues as well. Most people do not treat it with a grain of salt and believe that everything present is correct as presented. I'm a native English speaker and writer. Even your standard word processors aren't perfect with spotting spelling errors. Sometimes, it mixes up things like "it's" vs "its" and so having an editor is a must.

I can see young budding developers who're just starting having problems accessing paid services of editors. It's why I volunteer to be an editor for some developers who're looking for such help on their discord servers. I wasn't in any way criticizing the dev, I was just spotting the issues I noticed hoping that the dev would fix them.
 
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There are indeed more than one. I'd like to point out something though. For the developers who are not native English speakers, they depend on translation programmes to do the translating in English. It not only results in some grammatical mismatches but can result in some spelling issues as well. Most people do not treat it with a grain of salt and believe that everything present is correct as presented. I'm a native English speaker and writer. Even your standard word processors aren't perfect with spotting spelling errors. Sometimes, it mixes up things like "it's" vs "its" and so having an editor is a must.

I can see young budding developers who're just starting having problems accessing paid services of editors. It's why I volunteer to be an editor for some developers who're looking for such help on their discord servers. I wasn't in any way criticizing the dev, I was just spotting the issues I noticed hoping that the dev would fix them.
I appreciate you saying that and that you are willing to volunteer to help others. I would be as well and will - at some point - make that offer directly to some devs whom I see are needing the help. Not saying this dev specifically, btw.

To your point, I am less concerned with grammatical errors (like your example of it's vs its) and more about instances of outright typos where words are misspelled to a point that NO translation service would output that spelling. Even a previous comment with a screenshot showing the word "toungue" isn't a good example as that is a much older, antiquated spelling of the word tongue. Therefore, it is technically correct though no native English speaker would spell it that way.

Similarly, I am also aware and unbothered by the differences between American English and British English. When you wrote the word "programmes" above, that was correct, but every American-based English speaker would write it as "programs."

For the sake of clarification, my rant was about outright and egregious spelling mistakes. I did not catch any examples in this game but have seen some terrible mistakes in others - mistakes that NO word processor would miss.

In the future, I will try to restrain myself from any similar rantings unless I find outright examples that demonstrate a complete lack of effort to edit the text before offering the game/ update for public consumption.
 

Enigemm

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Hey, don't take it personally. I was just clarifying my point. And you're correct on many fronts. I've seen some outright and outlandish spelling mistakes that made me wonder which processor spat such a word out. I was just speaking out loud as to the possible reasons for such atrocities. I'm reminded of a quote by a certain professor back when at college "a guy with a doctorate in mathematics doesn't make him an English genius".
 
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Scyths

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Played this today, and I quite like what's in the game at the moment, albeit it's quite a short one so far. I am however wondering if you can get anything better than "Curious" for Maddy at the end of the episode and anything better than "Conflicted" for Katie. I haven't chosen the choices for Maddy that made me lose Katie points so I dunno if it matters for now.

Good game so far, keep it up.
 

TonyMurray

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Played this today, and I quite like what's in the game at the moment, albeit it's quite a short one so far. I am however wondering if you can get anything better than "Curious" for Maddy at the end of the episode and anything better than "Conflicted" for Katie. I haven't chosen the choices for Maddy that made me lose Katie points so I dunno if it matters for now.

Good game so far, keep it up.
Not sure, but the options for Katie appear to be "apprehensive" or "conflicted", and for Maddy it's "content", "curious", and "unsure". Of those, the pictures of the girls appear more favourable (IMO) in conflicted and curious. Whether that means they are the "best" results so far though, is perhaps personal opinion. Those are the two results I got, and I went for plus points with every option, with the exceptions being where one cancelled out the other (e.g., a choice gives + to one girl but - to the other).
 

Saphfire

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Not a bad update, though i am asking myself how he can reconnect with Wendy, she is clearly a li.
 

Stifler's Mom

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Good going so far. Just a few spelling mistakes and an annoying bug: auto forward speed gets reset every few seconds or if you do anything like selecting a choice. Defaults back to the one from the install which is too slow for me. So every few seconds I have to readjust especially if I pause to do something else.
And text speed, please fix.
 
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