Hurrah! Lets gooo.
can't wait to see the .8 changes and what he is going to do. Love this slow grilled story.
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can't wait to see the .8 changes and what he is going to do. Love this slow grilled story.
Yeah take your time man. This is always a very hard thing to balance especially in game design, having designed a visual novel, I know its pretty hard to like map out all the choices. Idk if you have yet, but a user journey map might help with this especially for you to track everything a player can do. So that way you can narrow down some choices or merge out so you don't have giant spider web of choices.
Its okay for some choices to just end entire scenarios! Which you seem to be doing with Ashley!
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This is mostly the result of the intent of the game I suspect. The game's premise is about a fully consensual NTS relationship that you, the player, are in control of to some degree every step of the way. But realistically, that's impossible. You can't give players the option to say no to getting cucked, for example, otherwise your NTS game is no longer an NTS game. If you give the player the power to say no to anything and everything, then they may end up at the end of 0.7.1 with Laura only going as far as kissing--it's too many variables to keep track of, and too many scene variants to make.
On the other hand, there are certain things that currently must happen when they probably should be optional (such as going raw)... if the MC is meant to be a self-insert.
Right now, he's not. He's a weird mix of faceless insert and independent character, so it leads to discord like this. You can influence his decisions in some ways, but he's still making his own choices at the end of the day. Unless Stag is planning on adding and editing a ridiculous amount of content for story already touched on, it'll probably be best to think of the MC as his own character with his own agency that you occasionally can direct instead of a full self-insert.
In this light, I strongly suspect we are meant to believe the conversation about limits actually did happen, just offscreen. Same as all the reclaiming sex--MC and Laura have a very active relationship, but we haven't seen one scene about it yet because that's not what the game is about.
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Blows my mind when people play these type of VNs and try to avoid the main theme, not sure what they expect
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I mean I can see the appeal of it. Being able to say no to everything (even if it leads to an immediate game over because heyo, you say no to all the content you get no content) is a hell of a good way to make the player feel like they're in control of the situation. And I think that's what most people are afraid of with this kind of subject matter--losing control. For the fantasy to become reality, despite what they want. When the fetish is about playing with fire, it's inevitable different people will have different ways of avoiding getting burned.
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I like the game. It took me a while to figure out how to save the game, but once I did, it's simple. I have not been able to figure out how to make it windowed rather than full screen. That would be nice.
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the fuck? a western-made game that's getting consistent updates? a texting game with prose that doesn't make the player consider suicide? ai art usage that actually looks good? humiliation and sph even but the mc and gf can still have fun one-on-one?
what selection of endangered animals was sacrificed to get this game into production?
my only comment is that i think the submissive endgames should still incorporate a good amount of "vanilla" scenes with laura. without a believably wholesome relationship running in parallel to the debauchery, nts can feel too close to proto-ntr. from what i've played the game is doing a very good job straddling the balance so far.
what selection of endangered animals was sacrificed to get this game into production?
my only comment is that i think the submissive endgames should still incorporate a good amount of "vanilla" scenes with laura. without a believably wholesome relationship running in parallel to the debauchery, nts can feel too close to proto-ntr. from what i've played the game is doing a very good job straddling the balance so far.
The plot is wonderful, but unfortunately the dom/sub line is weak... Only a few additional sentences.
Even though I chose not to "reclaim" her, it still happens.
Even though I chose not to "reclaim" her, it still happens.
yea im not offended by the dom/sub stuff but it feels soooo tacked on. it doesn't change the overall tenor of the conversation, it just sprinkles lines in. very unconvincingly implemented
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I'm still a bit "shy" on the dom/sub lines because I feel Laura would, at that point, still be a bit shy herself about it. But now that Part 1 is finished, I plan on pushing it more, starting with Chapter 19 (that will release with 0.9), that will put the emphasis on that specific side of the relationship.
But if, in the future, you still feel it's underwhelming, I'll try to improve that.
But if, in the future, you still feel it's underwhelming, I'll try to improve that.
Will 0.8 have no new content and be fully about improving the current chapters?
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Next version will have a toggle in Settings to toggle Fullscreen.
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It's mostly improvements, but that includes a bit of new content. Nothing major, but about the size of an additional chapter of new content sprinkled at different points of the existing story. With a few new pictures on top of the "remastered" ones.
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Good, because at this point while playing on my computer I have to hit the Windows button on my keyboard to make the taskbar visible, so I can check other apps on my computer such as email and Facebook. It's just more convenient to be able to window a unity game. Ideally I would be able to select the resolution, window it, and maximize it so it fill the screen except the task bar. That's one way in which RenPy is better than Unity for me.Next version will have a toggle in Settings to toggle Fullscreen.
several attempts to restart the game and load a previous save will not help stil in same place game stop
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I completely rewrote the messages system for 0.8, to avoid the softlocks. I hope it corrects the issue definitely.