VN Ren'Py One Day at a Time [Ch. 18c] [Zoey Raven]

[Black Swamp Ent.]

Yet you have BaD for you sig. who says someone doesn't get offed in that game? There are theories and he's done it before... I'm just messing w you I don't THINK that's going to happen in all honesty.

Oh I know...I don't wanna derail your thread, but I try not to get into the theories on that thread because it's just too stressful and depressing on what *could* happen. I just try to be optimistic that it won't go that route..."trying" is the key word there. LOL

I'm a sucker for a good love story, and on that VN I'm obviously a Maya/Josy fan.. so I'm probably setting myself up for failure on that front. LOL

 

[Spfjolietjake]

Oh I know...I don't wanna derail your thread, but I try not to get into the theories on that thread because it's just too stressful and depressing on what *could* happen. I just try to be optimistic that it won't go that route..."trying" is the key word there. LOL

I'm a sucker for a good love story, and on that VN I'm obviously a Maya/Josy fan.. so I'm probably setting myself up for failure on that front. LOL

I jumped that ship after the maya josy sucker punch. I felt more bad joojoo coming.

Back to this vn thank you for the news it won't be a house fire ending and we can only save one kind of vn zoey

 

[Surplouf]

This is spot on for how I wrote the scene, because Mary had already been doing drugs. She was going to try this no matter what the MC did, and he did everything he could to stop her (if you choose that path), but she was going to do it either way, so as was said above he tried to minimize the damage by at the very least showing her the right way, and only giving her a small amount, and watching her to make sure she was ok etc... This was a hard scene for me to write because it made me sad that I couldn't give the MC the chance to stop her because that's not how it would go in real life. She would have just done it elsewhere. She says as much. You can not make someone get high, and you cannot stop them either. It is ultimately their choice. So I gave you the option of the lesser of two evils. If you look at the WT, you get a sober point for trying to stop her.

For me is the most important scene of this episode. This is a good education for all the people outside this underworld about this reality.

I give you my deepest congratulation for not fail in easy trap. In the opening scene when he go black out. My reflex was. Now this is the scene how he go down and at the wake up he find her blue, cold and dead.. As too easy and my congratulation to avoid this now. In the first time how Lydia go outside to find cash. My first think was: ho no! He put her on the street for prostitution.

I'm happy to have false at all. Other important stuff. The risk reduction. You know how is approach save life. few scene how we see the MC made a chemical analyse on the spot with Marquis Reagent. or testing the stuff with few technic to know the real strength of product before use it.

The teaching how to prepare the stuff is in this way.

Sure is this our story and you are the one and only to decide about the content of the story. I made only a suggestion. Is to you to take it or discard it.

If you not familiar with the risk reduction technique. I'm happy to discuss to you in private. This can be save life and help educate the straight people.

And for another time. I just make suggestion. You are free. This story is our.

 

[Zoey Raven]

For me is the most important scene of this episode. This is a good education for all the people outside this underworld about this reality.

I give you my deepest congratulation for not fail in easy trap. In the opening scene when he go black out. My reflex was. Now this is the scene how he go down and at the wake up he find her blue, cold and dead.. As too easy and my congratulation to avoid this now. In the first time how Lydia go outside to find cash. My first think was: ho no! He put her on the street for prostitution.

I'm happy to have false at all. Other important stuff. The risk reduction. You know how is approach save life. few scene how we see the MC made a chemical analyse on the spot with Marquis Reagent. or testing the stuff with few technic to know the real strength of product before use it.

The teaching how to prepare the stuff is in this way.

Sure is this our story and you are the one and only to decide about the content of the story. I made only a suggestion. Is to you to take it or discard it.

If you not familiar with the risk reduction technique. I'm happy to discuss to you in private. This can be save life and help educate the straight people.

And for another time. I just make suggestion. You are free. This story is our.

I was agreeing w you in my last reply.

 

[Ragnar]

Interesting theme for a game, you can play with how addicts justify themselves to get their next dose no matter what and are capable of doing the worst things fo it. You can put the autopilot when they have withdrawal syndrome and ignore the player's input, if the player tries to cut the addiction too fast, because the addiction takes control over everything to get the next fix.

 

[Sngo]

I do not agree with you in the last part.

Me too having the choice i never help Mary to made is first shoot. But in the reality, I do exactly like the MC do. This is a philosophy and a medical approach generally using in the medical system.

I precise i never shoot myself but i know really well how to do it.

If i give you only two choice and any another one. The guy (or girl) as to be beaten with a stick or with a hand. The option do not beat at all do not exist. The choice is easy. Beat him with the hand.

We are in the same type of situation with Mary. The MC have any good choice. He can just take the less damageable.

He do not push here to do it. He clearly show is disapprobation. But she as made is decision and if he do not help here. She simply try by herself or ask an ignorant.

This is preferable he teach here the good way to do it. If not the risk of injury and infection as more dangerous for is life than the injection herself.

I have really like this scene with Mary. Her show really well the mechanism behind the addiction. This is a simple curiosity for Mary. But this curiosity go fast as the light speed to be transformed in slavery.

With is first shoot. This is like she fall in love for the first time. She want right now do it the day after. But that she do not know that Is new lover do not love her and use her like a simple tool. Because starting right now. Mary have stopped to live for herself. From now she live for is consumption. Anything have more importante now.

The MC as clearly try to warning here. He show to here is objection. But she as an adult and he is not is father. She as made is decision and nothing was changing is mind. If he say no. She simply go to another place with the risk of bad technic going with.

The MC as simply do wath is better for is safety. Because saying no can be worst for here...

Maybe I expressed myself badly, I understood what he was trying to say and the lesser devil between the 2 choices for Mary trying by herself or with guidance. What I was trying to say was that the part where she starts on the needle is what I didn't like because snorting or needle is a big difference even if she is already doing drugs.
And for what I gather is when you start on the needle never is only one time so it's like the begging of one new needle junkie in the game instead of the 2 you already have since the begging of the game . Hope I was able to clarify a bit better what I was meaning

 

[Zoey Raven]

Maybe I expressed myself badly, I understood what he was trying to say and the lesser devil between the 2 choices for Mary trying by herself or with guidance. What I was trying to say was that the part where she starts on the needle is what I didn't like because snorting or needle is a big difference even if she is already doing drugs.
And for what I gather is when you start on the needle never is only one time so it's like the begging of one new needle junkie in the game instead of the 2 you already have since the begging of the game . Hope I was able to clarify a bit better what I was meaning

For almost all real junkies this is the progression of the disease. I know from IRL experience personally and from watching others disease's progress. Mary had already crossed what we call the invisible line to becoming an addict. This was the logical next step for her. What you have to understand is you are dealing with someone who has a disease. Not just people who dabble on the weekend, and can stop whenever they want. The disease at the point you cross the line is what controls you, you are no longer driving the bus. So rational decisions have no place here, because addiction is not rational. If an addict could just stop the progression in its tracks there would be a lot more people get sober and it would be easy. It's not, it's the hardest thing I ever did in my life. Mary was already there. A Semi was not going to stop her. Hope that helps.

 

[Zoey Raven]

My thoughts exactly.

Good to see a different theme. Feels closer to my heart then I would like, must say it paints pretty well the addict's life.

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Best of luck dev!

I just read this, he did more coke so that would not be a problem. Plus I gotta have some artistic license here.

 

[GMuns]

I just read this, he did more coke so that would not be a problem. Plus I gotta have some artistic license here.

Sure, and it affects people in different ways. Probably my own experiences getting in the way .

 

[Belnick]

One Day at a Time Ch. 1

and there is a gallery unlocker mod already? must be a pretty big first chapter then?

 

[Zoey Raven]

One Day at a Time Ch. 1

and there is a gallery unlocker mod already? must be a pretty big first chapter then?

700 renders 3200 lines of code, 7 animatons, 29 choices. It's my game so I'm gonna tell you to try it even as an 0.1, but if it were not and I were doing a WT for it. I would still tell you the same thing. There's as much content as some 0.3's and most 0.2's. Not tooting the horn, but I worked my ass off. So it's ok to be honest.

 

[dolfe67]

Lydia has manly face features, is it on purpose ? If you look just at the face it could be a man with makup (trans), it's a bit disturbing

 

[Zoey Raven]

Lydia has manly face features, is it on purpose ? If you look just at the face it could be a man with makup (trans), it's a bit disturbing

Not in the least and I couldn't disagree with you more. I think her model's face is cute as hell and very feminine (not that I have anything against trans games if someone is into that). She is also one of the few I did not alter.

 

[Deleted member 1571716]

Lydia has manly face features, is it on purpose ? If you look just at the face it could be a man with makup (trans), it's a bit disturbing

C'mon now. I may not be into Lydia, but, she def doesn't have manly features. Not sure what you been smokin, but, maybe stop smokin it.

 

[Sandran]

So do you mean corrupt as in turn them into a smoking hot bimbo whore you get to shag or corrupt as in turn them into an emaciated drug addict who shoplifts to be able to afford their next hit that you look on quite depressed?

 

[Zoey Raven]

So do you mean corrupt as in turn them into a smoking hot bimbo whore you get to shag or corrupt as in turn them into an emaciated drug addict who shoplifts to be able to afford their next hit that you look on quite depressed?

The former. I won't be turning all the girls into junkies if that's what you are thinking. More their behavior. However some of them already lean one way or the other, so you can infere how they might go, Audrey is super pure/Melissa not so much. Barb (the only female character that hasn't been introduced in a scene with dialogue anyway) is in recovery, maybe she relapses. Also corruption points will only be w side characters, and not all of them. All else will be based on sober junkie path and relationship points. As I said before think of a game like Melody. Lydia and Mary are main 1 and main 2. There will be endings w the side characters too though. You can do the math from there. It will be based on their personalities. Not giving up any more of the story. Plus it hasn't been written yet.

 

[dolfe67]

C'mon now. I may not be into Lydia, but, she def doesn't have manly features. Not sure what you been smokin, but, maybe stop smokin it.

Manly is maybe too strong a word, but at first sight I though she was a trans (trans can be cute too)

Anyway I tried the game but it's not for me, I find it too depressing with the narrator explaining how addiction works and all that stuff. And I was playing the "sober" route. Poor Mary

 

[Deleted member 1571716]

Manly is maybe too strong a word, but at first sight I though she was a trans (trans can be cute too)

Anyway I tried the game but it's not for me, I find it too depressing with the narrator explaining how addiction works and all that stuff. And I was playing the "sober" route. Poor Mary

I don't know how you could've thought that. I'm sticking to what I said earlier. You're either smokin something or have vision problems. Not sure which.

 

[Trasher2018]

I am more the alc intox fan and not a big fan of "hard drugs" and never did this stuff myself (had a brother to see what it can do to you) but this is a quite unusual setting for this genre.

Renders are just mediocre, but it is good enough. Let's see where this bus is flying. ^^

 

[Deleted member 1571716]

Renders are just mediocre, but it is good enough. Let's see where this bus is flying. ^^

Mediocre? They're good. I think you're just like that other dude. Either you're smokin something or you have vision issues.