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This is a story about redemption and getting one's life back from drug abuse. Naturally there are rough points in the beginning, but if you persevere, I believe you might really enjoy this game.
I will say that it takes some time for the MC to get serious about his recovery. Most of the LI's have similar problems and follow similar routes toward their own recoveries. There are some serious bumps along the way, but things do work out.
There is a path where the MC can fail, but it's not hard to avoid, and if you use the walkthrough you should have no problem.
I cringe when drugs are a part of a game, but this one is a must-play for me. I might not have played this if it had been developed by anyone else. But I'm sure glad I tried it.
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BigBlob69, I can strongly confirm this:
tl;dr: Try it. It's hard in the beginning but you'll love it.
I don't want to spoil you, if you want to try this. But if you want to know, when the plot turns and the story really begins, feel free to ask. But don't make the mistake to skip until that point. You'll kill yourself many background you need to enjoy the game.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm fangirling. Sorry. Can't help it.
Just give it a shot. I'm honest with you. At my first try I ditched the game because it wasn't for me, but I read that other players enjoyed it and why they did. So I gave it another shot and it turns out to be my favourite AVN because I learned much about things and struggles I didn't had any clues. But all in all it's a very positive AVN which really helped me to see much more positive in my life. It's a story about hope and redemption, like Walter Victor said and I can't point this out strong enough. I regreted ditching the game at my first try. Turns out I stopped literally five minutes play time before the good times started and with them the whole point which makes this game so great.
tl;dr: Try it. It's hard in the beginning but you'll love it.
I don't want to spoil you, if you want to try this. But if you want to know, when the plot turns and the story really begins, feel free to ask. But don't make the mistake to skip until that point. You'll kill yourself many background you need to enjoy the game.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm fangirling. Sorry. Can't help it.
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It's not much. It depends on how fast you read and click. It begins in Chapter 3.
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No, she is not part of the game, she is from before when Zoey was more of a walkthrough&wtmod maker.
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Are all off the girls still alive?
It's been a long while since I last played this game and i recently started watching Breaking bad lol. When i got to the part where Jane dies of an OD i for some reason thought of this game and Lydia ODing that one time so i thought I'd check in to see if hopefully none of the characters shared the same fate as Jane
It's been a long while since I last played this game and i recently started watching Breaking bad lol. When i got to the part where Jane dies of an OD i for some reason thought of this game and Lydia ODing that one time so i thought I'd check in to see if hopefully none of the characters shared the same fate as Jane
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i have a question about the game, does the mc gets clean at some point in the story or is this just a SOL about selling/pawning things to buy drugs?
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You can choose to try and get clean, or choose to continue destructive habit, even if the people are trying to help you. And thus also keep others addicts also.
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I just went with a bottomless shot of Lydia this month. Figured I couldn't go wrong there!
Will have a dev update for you guys on the 30th. Whole lot of animating so far, but more on that then. Cheers!
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A fire on the beach, looks like they've reached their destination. Where exactly on the beach though...
It's going to be hard for me to show you guys promo's of this update without giving away where MC took them. Because, they're going to be there until the evening of the second day of the update. I even had to change the file name of the image I uploaded, because that would have done it!
Ok, so we're at let's say roughly 1200 lines of code, we have 297 static images rendered "Zoey you're usually further ahead than this at three weeks!" and 21 Animations! Yes, that's why we don't have as many lines of code or renders yet. Because, the amount of animations I normally do for an entire update, I've been doing in the last week and a half (actually the last update only had 11, but I've done more in the past). The 21st should finish rendering during the night tonight, so tomorrow I can finally start finishing the other parts of the scenes, then move on! Don't get me wrong, I like doing them, but gheesh! Also, I couldn't write ahead much, because of the way these are laid out. I need to know exactly what happened during them in order to reference dialogue via variables in the content that comes after. There wasn't going to be any moving forward, then going back and finishing the dialogue for these later, like I normally do. Too many moving parts for that (no pun intended).
What are the animations of? Umm... Sexy times of course! 3/5's of the planned H scenes for this update are very close to the beginning (I'm sure you could have probably guessed that with them leaving together early in the morning from the club, so I don't see it as very spoilery telling you). The reason there's so many is because of pathing. You'll be able to see two of them if you've met the conditions (or all three if you've met the conditions and wanna save before I give you the option for the first two, more on that below). But, at the very least you'll get the one with Lydia by herself. If you don't qualify for the other two, or simply don't want to see them. I'm giving you a choice this time, if you want the two of them together, or just Lydia alone, whether you have the variable for both of them or not.
There will be no penalty with Mary, if you choose just Lydia. And, speaking of Mary, wonder what the third scene is, and when it will happen (it's very soon after the first two, but time wise it'll make sense)? I'm also giving you a choice on this scene as well. Again, if you qualify (usually I'd base it on points and likely still will in the future, but in this scenario a choice makes sense). I'm trying to be as vague on details as possible, but I also want you guys to understand just how huge of an undertaking and time sync these scenes have been. .
I usually do four of five H scenes over the course of an entire update, and they are spread out. But not this time, you'll only get two more after these. Also, I had to render these at 5000 iterations per frame, (I normally do 2000-3000 depending on the location). But, because the environment was too noisy to do them lower, and they would have looked bad, I did them at 5000. So, I've done the equivalent of 1260 regular renders (I do them all at 5000), time wise in the last week and a half. Now, they'll be postworked, then made into video files and compressed as normal, but it's still gonna add to the size of the update a little bit, having done this many. Plus, we have the other two scenes with animations, that will happen later in the update.
Once dialogue is written for these first three and the foreplay stuff is done, the lines of code will be much more! I'd say it's possible it could get to around 2000 at that point (probably not that much, but close). Like I said before, as much as I enjoy doing this part of it, I'll be happy to have the chance to move the story forward (not that they aren't part of it, but you get what I'm saying).
Lot's of really cool stuff planned for this one, including Barb's birthday party at the end of the second day, which MC and Mary talked about in the last update. Also they'll be scenes that take place away from this location of course, as well as some visitors who stop by. There's also the lunch with Mary's Mom, more info to come on MC's Dad, and a whole lot more stuff than that I won't mention. Plus, I'm sure some things I don't even have outlined that will be added!
Think that's about it for now, I'll check back in with you guys in a couple of weeks. Hopefully this time on Wednesday like normal, but I figured since I couldn't really do much but wait for these animations to finish tonight, I'd go ahead and do the dev update today.
As always, hope you are all doing well! Cheers!
P.S. - I can type freely now for as long as I want with very little pain, so that's no longer going to be an issue! No ones happier about that than me, I assure you! I was a little concerned about a month ago if I'd have pain forever in this finger, but it looks like that's not going to be the case. Which is a relief!
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There will. Ok going back to lurking now.
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I said it would be almost 2000 lines of code once the scenes I mentioned in the dev update were fully completed.
I was pretty close to spot on. Like I said I'm a few scenes ahead of this now. Just wanted to further prove how big of an undertaking the beginning of this was, and if you remember. I almost included this stuff in the last update. Really glad I didn't now! Ok, I'll leave you guys be til the next dev update. Just had to share this.
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The following Patreon post has nothing to do with Zoey Raven's wunderful AVN. However, I still wanted to show it to you:
I apologize if this post looks like advertising and is just bugging you when you see it. However, I openly admit that I'm a real fan of Zoey's work and would love to see him have more supporters. There are so many AVN that are really not good (in my opinion) but have tons of supporters. Even the "small" devs deserve to be noticed. The same goes in my opinion for Cenc's Dreams of Reality and MoonlightDevCorp's Glowing Stones: Heroes' Awakening. Fantastic works that are a lot of fun and wonderfully crafted, but incomprehensibly receive little attention.
As I always write in my signature: "Please be fair and support the devs if you like their games." I'd like to add "Do not forget the "little ones" and help them to be able to create great works. The whole genre AVN and its players benefits from diversity."
In my personal opinion, Zoey's work is worth supporting. 3$ per month (-10% if you support directly for a year = $32.40/year) is certainly worth this fantastic game, and let's not forget his walkthroughs and mods too. And when I see what he's already shown us of his next work (ODaaT: The Production) coming after this, boy.... I'm looking at you, Isobel!!! *gasp*Zoey Raven's Patreon posting said:
I apologize if this post looks like advertising and is just bugging you when you see it. However, I openly admit that I'm a real fan of Zoey's work and would love to see him have more supporters. There are so many AVN that are really not good (in my opinion) but have tons of supporters. Even the "small" devs deserve to be noticed. The same goes in my opinion for Cenc's Dreams of Reality and MoonlightDevCorp's Glowing Stones: Heroes' Awakening. Fantastic works that are a lot of fun and wonderfully crafted, but incomprehensibly receive little attention.
As I always write in my signature: "Please be fair and support the devs if you like their games." I'd like to add "Do not forget the "little ones" and help them to be able to create great works. The whole genre AVN and its players benefits from diversity."
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Wonder what Barb's thinking right now...
Like I said I wouldn't be showing a lot of images of where they're staying for promos. So, I have to use ones elsewhere. Not that it's someplace super special he took them, like another state or something. But, I want it to be a surprise for everyone. Even thought it was an obvious choice for MC.
Ok, I'll keep this one short and sweet, we are at 2662 lines of code (with two scene yet to be rendered, so that'll be more like 2800 or more), 21 animations, and 685 renders (I'm really trying to keep them down this time, but there's just so many characters in the game now, and to not see them or at least talk to them in each update is not going to happen. I'm pushing into the afternoon of the first Day. The first day will likely be the longest (I've said that before), so there's still a bit left to go, but we're trucking ahead at this point. Full steam ahead!
That''s about it (bet you didn't believe I could keep it short, I couldn't either)! I'll check back in with you guys in a couple of weeks.
As always, hope you are all doing well! Cheers!