VN Ren'Py Not Going Back [Ch.2.2] [Cicada]

[Bill Temple]

Yep "spot" on with your assessment...(see what I did there with the words? )

Squat racks have safety bars and someone has apparently removed those. Also, what the heck kind of bar clamps are those?!? And how is the bench supporting all of that weight without legs/frame? (I know, it isn't really a bench...)

If I am doing the math correctly, (plates are colored for competitions - I don't believe they are necessarily bumper plates), he's pressing 329.06 lbs or just a shade under 150 kg.

Regardless of the nitpicking on details, it is a wonder both of his wrists aren't completely tweaked...at least he isn't using a suicide grip.

Heh! Nice one.

I wondered about the collars too, they look heavy. And I assumed that the black bench legs were just hard to make out from the black floor. My math was on the weight was: (25 +20 + 15 + 10) + (25 + 20 + 15 + 10) + 20 = 160kg (ignoring the massive collars) 160kg * 2.2 = 352. If they're regular training bumpers, I think the tolerance on those are around 1-1.5%, so +/- 5 lbs, but you're right they certainly could be competition plates, which would be calibrated within 10 grams, I think.

 

[drifter139]

Well, I gonna be honest here, I wasn't expecting a college VN being as decent as this one.
The writing is good and the dialogue is natural and easy to follow. So far we don't know much about MC's past, but judging by the little pieces we've gotten, it's advancing smoothly.

It's great to see dev buts attention to males as much as as female models, it helps getting the feeling that MC is in a real place and not sorrounded by 'cardboard' people whose only role is to fill a background.

The only thing that worries me is the amount of girls we're meeting in so little time: Usually it means more development time and devs struggling to keep separate diverse paths for each. Time will tell what will happen,for now I gonna keep following this VN closely.

I can agree. it would be nice to get a few flashbacks to MC past in a future update to see what he dealt with as a kid and while he had his own addictions to work through. hearing that he dealt with it is one thing but to get a flashback or two would show his overall growth from the past till now. also I'm sure the dev has plans on the girls paths

 

[Boehser Onkel]

sooo

do i get it right - the mc is storywise forced to join the frat
and while pledging to fuck around as part of ?


any more infos on that ?

 

[fishbrain]

I know that, aside from a joke from rKnight and a "thx" from xmilteach, the first few pages of comments are supposed to be dedicated to crying about fear of NTR tags and compliments about how hot the girls are, but what caught my eye was...
350lbs... That's a good lift, but:

Spoiler: nitpicking

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Thank you so much for this. Funniest shit I've read here in a while and I saw the picture first and had to analyze it for a minute. That dude clearly has a death wish. Not to mention the bench has no support under his head, is he ready for some declines?? Dope shoes though!

 

[Rey1966]

is it that hard to list all future/planned tags so people knows where this is going

 

[FatGiant]

sooo

do i get it right - the mc is storywise forced to join the frat
and while pledging to fuck around as part of ?


any more infos on that ?

Yes, and the girls pledging PSY have to "Do" who they tell them. Interpret this how you want.

Peace

 

[drifter139]

sooo

do i get it right - the mc is storywise forced to join the frat
and while pledging to fuck around as part of ?


any more infos on that ?

I imagine some of the elements will be similar to Being A DIK in regards to dating and pledging to the frat just minus the overly arrogant pricks

 

[El Tanque]

So yeah, it was.. alright? Kind of just simple slice of life. No crazy shenanigans or insane moments like a typical exaggerated college game with goofy humor. This is seriously just a day (months, years?) in the life of MC. Walking around, going to class, talking to people, sleep and repeat.

As for the characters and game itself? They are alright. Though it feels like NTR is coming if you go down certain paths.

Spoiler: what I mean

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Eh, or maybe I'm just reading into it too much. Been burned too many times on other games, so these kind of things stood out for me. But don't know the future tags so no idea if it is the case or not. That's my thoughts on it at least.

Spoiler: some story stuff

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Could use some transitions though to better show the elapsed time. It's rather jarring going from one scene to another. Game jumps around a lot and skips time, and you have no idea when it does it. Need some sort of transition or something to show time passed instead of having a conversation and then jumping ahead several hours to another conversation with different people.

But otherwise, I guess it's not bad. Just felt like every day life at college. Nothing exciting or surprising happening, just a simple regular day (or days I should say). Average MC, doing average things, talking to everyday people, sitting in class listening to the teacher, etc. There is a party scene, but it's just the MC having regular conversations with regular folks and that's it. Still, while it may not be for me, I wish you the best of luck with your project and thanks.

Well, you are a time and effort saver, thank you for your comment.

 

[HerkkuPeukku]

I don't like games where you have to constantly chase the dicks away from the women as if they were my daughters. So I think I'll watch a few updates to see if there's potential or if the dev is lying to our faces by bringing some shit into the game after the fact. We're already on the edge and it's looking bad, so better to be prepared than disappointed.

 

[Ghost'']

Not Going Back [Ch2.1] Unofficial Android Port + MurrayMods WT Mod

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[fishbrain]

is it that hard to list all future/planned tags so people knows where this is going

Usually depends on the developer and how much of the game they have mapped out. You'll see a lot where they have polls to determine content, but this to me can be a red flag if the developer doesn't know what he wants to do I won't expect the game to get finished. Then again they could just be wanting to keep their subscribers interested and since they're the ones financially supporting the project that does make sense.

 

[cicadaNGB]

Hello! Game dev here, for some reason didn't expect the game to be here this quickly, so I've got a bit of catching up to do.

First, and most importantly, thanks to anyone who's tried the game so far. If you didn't hate it, hopefully you'll stick around for chapter 2 (and hopefully I'll get that finished within a reasonable timeframe).

I appreciate all the feedback I've got so far, and I'll be replying directly to the ones where I've got a more specific answer/explanation/more information etc.

Overall, though, the big thing to address, I suppose, is tags. The comment I put on itch, that someone was kind enough to post here, is accurate, in that, with the main 8 LIs, there will be no NTR/sharing etc., with male characters. There will be the possibility for multiple girls scenes, however. The presence of so many male characters thus far in the game is purely for world-building; this game (I know some people will roll their eyes at this) is genuinely more about the story than the sex scenes, and I wanted to ground it in some vague form of reality. So, multiple male characters, female characters, pre-existing and previous relationships, etc. You probably already know if this is something you like or dislike in a game, so hopefully outlining it like this will help people decide whether to keep an eye on the project or not. As for future tags, the sexual content will be relatively vanilla. I don't expect to explore many, if any, wild kinks/fetishes.

I forgot to add, there will be no harem path. The game will, at some point, definitively split onto routes for each of the 8 main LIs. So, yeah. Sorry about that if you're really into harem.

 

[cicadaNGB]

Just finished playing. It's a decent start, mostly an intro to all the characters. By my count, 13 women and 14 men named so far. That's a big cast.

I really like the frat life theme, the large cast of characters fit the theme pretty well.

As feedback for the dev, I'd recommend a couple of things:

• character bios. Like I said, at least 27 named characters so far (not counting the characters named but not shown), and from the preview screenshots, there's at least another 6 to be introduced.
• transition scenes. You need a "1 hour later" or "At the classroom" type fillers in between your scenes. Without it, it gets really jarring. In one example, the MC is talking about studying to his roommate at 6pm. The next click, you get a minor jump scare representing a nightmare the MC is having, and then the next click it's morning.

Character bios is something I could definitely consider adding. May be difficult to implement (would have to design and code UI etc.) but you're definitely right that it will be useful in the future.

As for transitions, I never really thought of a way to implement them that didn't itself feel jarring. I think I fell into the trap while testing of thinking scenes were flowing well because I knew what was coming, but that was probably just because I already knew the path

 

[cicadaNGB]

I know that, aside from a joke from rKnight and a "thx" from xmilteach, the first few pages of comments are supposed to be dedicated to crying about fear of NTR tags and compliments about how hot the girls are, but what caught my eye was...
350lbs... That's a good lift, but:

Spoiler: nitpicking

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Yeahhh ... the unfortunate flaws of using DAZ assets sometimes. The gym didn't come with weights that moved, didn't have many better options to put in. The posing, tbf, is just on me. Will have to pay more attention to any future gym scenes ...

 

[cicadaNGB]

only issue i have is that you pick the frat i join .... or is that limited to what you had in mind for a storyline ?
only 1 frat and a couple others for the babes you want to see ?
renders not bad ... story ok

Yeah, the frat decision being forced is part development reasons, part story. It would have been interesting to give a choice on frats in some way (maybe think College Kings), but functionally it just not too feasible (already throwing in too much variance on scenes). Originally, interestingly enough, I had the idea to let the player choose which accommodation to join, but quickly ran into similar problems. It developed into a relatively important plot point, though, as it happens, so it is better this way in the end.

 

[cicadaNGB]

Does the game will have a lot of choices and does the choices will matter for the game or its a linear path?

There's going to be a lot of choice. Some will just influence dialogue, a lot will influence whether characters like you, and some will end up being significantly more important down the line. The story will have a linear path, to a point, because you kinda need to keep things linear to make it all work, but I'm hoping for a decent number of endings with each girl, influenced by choices made. (For what it's worth, I don't intend on making any 'game overs' or bad endings. Some paths may get cut off by choices, but the story's end will never be a 'bad' ending, if you get what I mean)

 

[cicadaNGB]

So yeah, it was.. alright? Kind of just simple slice of life. No crazy shenanigans or insane moments like a typical exaggerated college game with goofy humor. This is seriously just a day (months, years?) in the life of MC. Walking around, going to class, talking to people, sleep and repeat.

As for the characters and game itself? They are alright. Though it feels like NTR is coming if you go down certain paths.

Spoiler: what I mean

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Eh, or maybe I'm just reading into it too much. Been burned too many times on other games, so these kind of things stood out for me. But don't know the future tags so no idea if it is the case or not. That's my thoughts on it at least.

Spoiler: some story stuff

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Could use some transitions though to better show the elapsed time. It's rather jarring going from one scene to another. Game jumps around a lot and skips time, and you have no idea when it does it. Need some sort of transition or something to show time passed instead of having a conversation and then jumping ahead several hours to another conversation with different people.

But otherwise, I guess it's not bad. Just felt like every day life at college. Nothing exciting or surprising happening, just a simple regular day (or days I should say). Average MC, doing average things, talking to everyday people, sitting in class listening to the teacher, etc. There is a party scene, but it's just the MC having regular conversations with regular folks and that's it. Still, while it may not be for me, I wish you the best of luck with your project and thanks.

First, thanks for the long, detailed comment. Lots to unpack here, I appreciate it.

The slow start, for lack of a better way of describing, is deliberate. You basically nailed the fact that, yes, this is just the first week of college for the MC, and what happens. But I felt like that was important for setting the scene. I wanted the first release to establish most of the characters early on, almost like a pilot of a TV show would, I guess. This kinda goes back to me desire to create a somewhat feasible world the characters are existing in, to hopefully make the game and story overall feel more compelling. Will this work? I hope so, but that's on me to deliver. If I'm bad, then the slow start is even less worth it, if it doesn't amount to anything.

The first spoiler section is all fair assumptions, and, similar to above, in the game to establish the surrounding world of people outside of the MC and main LIs. I completely understand the hesitation over what some of those conversations means, but yeah. This isn't going down an NTR path. Unless, as I say, side/minor characters forming relationships is something you don't like. Which is fair enough, but may be a problem for this game.

Hard to comment on the

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really. It'll make sense when it makes sense. (again, as long as I don't fuck this up)

Again, thanks for checking it out and leaving the feedback, and I appreciate the good luck for the future

 

[Old Grumpy Wolf]

there will be no NTR/sharing etc.

So, that whole thing about Chloe liking surfer boys and pairing off with surfer boy himself was what, misdirection?

 

[cicadaNGB]

So, that whole thing about Chloe liking surfer boys and pairing off with surfer boy himself was what, misdirection?

Chloe isn't a main LI. She's a side girl. If you're counting side characters *potentially* having/forming their own relationships, then fair enough, yes, that will happen in this game. Didn't intend to misinform. For further clarity, some side female characters are also already in relationships and won't have scenes at all. Sorry for any confusion

 

[cicadaNGB]

Well, I gonna be honest here, I wasn't expecting a college VN being as decent as this one.
The writing is good and the dialogue is natural and easy to follow. So far we don't know much about MC's past, but judging by the little pieces we've gotten, it's advancing smoothly.

It's great to see dev buts attention to males as much as as female models, it helps getting the feeling that MC is in a real place and not sorrounded by 'cardboard' people whose only role is to fill a background.

The only thing that worries me is the amount of girls we're meeting in so little time: Usually it means more development time and devs struggling to keep separate diverse paths for each. Time will tell what will happen,for now I gonna keep following this VN closely.

Thanks for the comments, appreciate it. Fair to be concerned about the amount of girls. All I can really say is that the side girls stories, naturally, won't be as complex. So, hopefully, there won't be too ridiculous a level of branching to navigate. But, ultimately, that a bridge I'll have to cross at a later date. What I can say is that I believe the main LI paths are fully planned and diverse