VN Ren'Py Origin Story [v0.6.0] [JDOR]

[Jacquesdor]

Thanks Rehwyn for the reply. Yeah I was thinking that the correct variable could trigger at some point in the game, like when I started chapter 2 or the next chapters but it seems I have to wait more hehehe not a big problem, just itches a bit my brain (not an OCD but sometimes it seems close to it ) not being able to check that entry hahaha.

I'm at chapter 2 atm and I'm enjoying the game and story so far. And I read all the info in the OP about the game including the developer notes and I'm aware that Jacq (guess that is their name since you used that?) that they are self taught and usually their forte is more screenplay or the visuals and not the coding part (one good example is every time we leave the character menu it moves one image/dialogue further, it is kind of annoying haha), but pretty good so far overall.

Glad you're enjoying so far.

Yes exactly what Rehwyn said with what is happening with Ev's profile is correct and is already fixed for future updates. And yes, you are also correct... my forte is definitely not the coding element. You'll be pleased to know that the exiting the character menu progressing dialogue is fixed as of a few hours ago.

 

[pitao]

Glad you're enjoying so far.

Yes exactly what Rehwyn said with what is happening with Ev's profile is correct and is already fixed for future updates. And yes, you are also correct... my forte is definitely not the coding element. You'll be pleased to know that the exiting the character menu progressing dialogue is fixed as of a few hours ago.

Yes just ended chapter 2 and it is very good on the writing and visuals, btw the no animations on sex scenes is never a problem for me, the scenes I saw so far were very well written and hot, animations just give it an edge like you said in the OP but when they are done with quality, for example if you look at my sig Eruption Imminent also has no animations and is on my favorites, there are other very good ways to make those scenes work without them, and oh boy they work hehe.

The coding part yeah it is not a problem, I know that usually isn't solo developers forte, or even duos, usually one writes better and the other is good with visuals/graphic programs. That is why I usually also encourage developers to collaborate with modders that excel for example because usually that is what their strength is, I know a few that colab or even are now in development teams. What matters is that you are evolving in every department of developing a renpy game.

The game so far is on the right track to enter my sig list but you will forgive me if not for a while LOL signatures have a characters limit and it is on the limit, have to find a way to put more games there that I consider Tier S. Probably AtemX will forgive me if I take out later their first game that is completed since it is the only developer there that have 2 games in the sig . That is a good example of a developer that learned a lot from their first game and their second game probably (mostly I'm sure) that was the best first release of a game I ever played, again what matters is that you as a developer want to tell your story getting constructive feedback and getting better thru it .

Cheers and keep up the good work, now I'm "off" for a bit to play chapter 3 hehe.

Edit : I also love good humor in this stories, this scenes and particularly those renders made me laugh out loud hehe also saw good humor overall in other little details and dialogue. But those made me laugh louder.

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[Igetby]

I just discovered the game yesterday, but to me this whole thing with Parker seems to be using every shred of info, substance or other that she can to find a cure to stop all of this.

 

[Rehwyn]

I just discovered the game yesterday, but to me this whole thing with Parker seems to be using every shred of info, substance or other that she can to find a cure to stop all of this.

Personally I think she wants the opposite. Early on she complains about the company wasting 70% of their resources trying to find another vaccine to remove powers. I suspect she actually wants to find ways to give or evolve powers (though removing powers for people that get a bad one might also be a motive).

 

[S1nsational]

I just discovered the game yesterday, but to me this whole thing with Parker seems to be using every shred of info, substance or other that she can to find a cure to stop all of this.

Nah, she still feels somewhat guilty over the guy who killed himself after having his super healing powers taken from him.

I can't see her working on something that would start that happening all over again.

 

[romo-ice]

Personally I think she wants the opposite. Early on she complains about the company wasting 70% of their resources trying to find another vaccine to remove powers. I suspect she actually wants to find ways to give or evolve powers (though removing powers for people that get a bad one might also be a motive).

Parker was quoting the board when talking about 'wasting' money. She was leaving to convince the Board to not defund the vaccine work and when Parker talks to MC after he returns from the HQ, he asks her about the Board's decision and she relays that not only will they not defund it, they will divert more money/effort to it -- i.e., she's pushing harder for work on the vaccine. Or at least, that's what she tells the MC. If you believe her, she's working on removing powers. It's possible that he's a guinea pig in her experiment for removing powers, since if you can de-power someone with every power it should work on everyone.

 

[Rehwyn]

Parker was quoting the board when talking about 'wasting' money. She was leaving to convince the Board to not defund the vaccine work and when Parker talks to MC after he returns from the HQ, he asks her about the Board's decision and she relays that not only will they not defund it, they will divert more money/effort to it -- i.e., she's pushing harder for work on the vaccine. Or at least, that's what she tells the MC. If you believe her, she's working on removing powers. It's possible that he's a guinea pig in her experiment for removing powers, since if you can de-power someone with every power it should work on everyone.

Ah, right. Had been a while since I played the first chapter so misremembered.

In that case, I do think she's interested in finding a vaccine, but likely not just a vaccine. Powers are effectively a curse for a lot of people that get crappy ones, so I can understand wanting to find a way to remove them for people that want to. But on the other hand that type of research may also tie in to modifying metagene in other ways.

 

[Hungover00]

Ah, right. Had been a while since I played the first chapter so misremembered.

In that case, I do think she's interested in finding a vaccine, but likely not just a vaccine. Powers are effectively a curse for a lot of people that get crappy ones, so I can understand wanting to find a way to remove them for people that want to. But on the other hand that type of research may also tie in to modifying metagene in other ways.

What could be a cure for some, would be a weapon towards others. Free Amber from being sent to Tokyo, or disable the Sisterhood with the same formula.

 

[Rehwyn]

What could be a cure for some, would be a weapon towards others. Free Amber from being sent to Tokyo, or disable the Sisterhood with the same formula.

Precisely. An optional vaccine for people like Amber or the girl that knocks out people around her could do a lot of good. But I think Parker comments at one point about the doctor who had his powers to heal by touch removed and later committed suicide, and seems quite regretful about that.

Now that I reviewed her comments about the vaccine budget, I do think she actually wants a vaccine. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if she's secretly funneling some of that funding to research involving evolving, controlling, or giving powers as well. That would be another reason that she's upset with the board for wanting to reduce it.

 

[anothernameonthewall]

way to much forced sex. let me just jerk off in her hand and leave if i absolutely have to give her cum. i dont want to suck her tits, or do anything with her. at least let me just go no emotions, no feelings, no kissing, no changing positions, etc. purely doing it for science and thats it nothing more. stick dick in, pump, cum, put dick away and leave if i have to do forced sex scenes. but i guess you get around that by making the MC a desperate kid whos spent his life fantasizing about what is basically a bunch of kpop e-girl whores.

 

[Elhemeer]

Whelp, someone didn't read the writing on the wall after the first chapter. Guess I don't need to read anymore of their writing on these walls ...

 

[S1nsational]

way to much forced sex. let me just jerk off in her hand and leave if i absolutely have to give her cum. i dont want to suck her tits, or do anything with her. at least let me just go no emotions, no feelings, no kissing, no changing positions, etc. purely doing it for science and thats it nothing more. stick dick in, pump, cum, put dick away and leave if i have to do forced sex scenes. but i guess you get around that by making the MC a desperate kid whos spent his life fantasizing about what is basically a bunch of kpop e-girl whores.

Anyway, onto the list with you

 

[blkcrow20]

way to much forced sex. let me just jerk off in her hand and leave if i absolutely have to give her cum. i dont want to suck her tits, or do anything with her. at least let me just go no emotions, no feelings, no kissing, no changing positions, etc. purely doing it for science and thats it nothing more. stick dick in, pump, cum, put dick away and leave if i have to do forced sex scenes. but i guess you get around that by making the MC a desperate kid whos spent his life fantasizing about what is basically a bunch of kpop e-girl whores.

 

[Jericho85]

way to much forced sex. let me just jerk off in her hand and leave if i absolutely have to give her cum. i dont want to suck her tits, or do anything with her. at least let me just go no emotions, no feelings, no kissing, no changing positions, etc. purely doing it for science and thats it nothing more. stick dick in, pump, cum, put dick away and leave if i have to do forced sex scenes. but i guess you get around that by making the MC a desperate kid whos spent his life fantasizing about what is basically a bunch of kpop e-girl whores.

This is from the dev notes on the OP:


TL; DR, there is only one sex-scene that is "forced" because it is story relevant. If you don't like the scene then just ctrl skip through it.

On the other hand, it seems like you have a fetish for completely passionless dead fish sex, in which case I don't think this VN is for you, buddy

 

[pitao]

Jericho85 This people just have to find always something to complain about, its worthless to argue with them really specially when they use that kind of tone and arguments, if something isn't 100% in conformity with their vision of things and what they deem to be the "right way" they always come to game threads and spew their incredible vision . They always could start doing their own visual novel but if even reading the OP and developer notes in this is a great effort from their part then imagine doing a AVN from scratch with all the work that entails hehehe.

Edit : By the way I just finished Origin Story yesterday and it is great so far and worthy to enter my favorite games list (now have to find a way to put it on my sig with characters limitations that exist hehe). My only little "con" is the lack of humor in chapter 6 compared with the ones before, maybe this was on purpose and a more serious tone in it was needed, but I noticed much less giggles and laughs from my part in the last chapter but still great humor overall.

 

[Nafig]

TL; DR, there is only one sex-scene that is "forced" because it is story relevant. If you don't like the scene then just ctrl skip through it.

Technically there are three forced scenes with the whore Moonsong.
The first one is when the player chooses to refuse her, but gets forced sex.
The second one is a visit to a fast food place with a mandatory dialogue that can't be skipped with ctrl, the player has to press all the buttons. There is no "end dialogue" option.
The third one is the second forced sex with meaningless point and click that can't be skipped with ctrl.
The author has made every effort to make all the scenes unskippable.
This is not a complaint, as you would like, it is a statement of fact.

 

[HornyyPussy]

Technically there are three forced scenes with the whore Moonsong.
The first one is when the player chooses to refuse her, but gets forced sex.
The second one is a visit to a fast food place with a mandatory dialogue that can't be skipped with ctrl, the player has to press all the buttons. There is no "end dialogue" option.
The third one is the second forced sex with meaningless point and click that can't be skipped with ctrl.
The author has made every effort to make all the scenes unskippable.
This is not a complaint, as you would like, it is a statement of fact.

Kinda hard to take you seriously when you start of with "the whore Moonsong".......

 

[TigerWolfe]

Technically there are three forced scenes with the whore Moonsong.
The first one is when the player chooses to refuse her, but gets forced sex.
The second one is a visit to a fast food place with a mandatory dialogue that can't be skipped with ctrl, the player has to press all the buttons. There is no "end dialogue" option.
The third one is the second forced sex with meaningless point and click that can't be skipped with ctrl.
The author has made every effort to make all the scenes unskippable.
This is not a complaint, as you would like, it is a statement of fact.

 

[e6mill]

Kinda hard to take you seriously when you start of with "the whore Moonsong".......

On the other hand, why bother?

 

[Rehwyn]

Had a pretty lengthy discussion in the Discord about this and my theory has grown a bit. I'll go into detail, but the TL;DR is that MC might be able to give unpowered people powers and/or make other powered people stronger by having sex with them.

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Circling back to Parker's comment, she's very knowledgeable about the specific workings of the Superflu virus and metagene DNA from her work. If my theory is correct, her comment might be because she's interested to see if Riley gets powers from sleeping with MC or if nothing happens.

Circling back to this same theory, I replayed some of the early game where Moonsong is first researching MC's power and a few of her comments stuck out to me. In her testing, MC's DNA latched on and merged with her DNA and not the other way around. This makes sense to me because MC's semen is on a "donor", not the other way around, so if there is a merging of DNA it makes sense that it occurs in the donor's body. When asked how this could transfer powers to MC, Moonsong compares it to how Todd can "imprint" on people by transferring his metagene DNA into them with a touch and that it's best to think about his metagene DNA as a tiny wireless transmitter. She also mentions specifically that MC's metagene DNA "harmonizes" with others.

So there's definitely some precedent there already where MC's metagene might be able to merge with someone's DNA that's been vaccinated and introduce the metagene into them, or as possibly hinted with Evelyn continue to evolve her power afterward since her DNA has been altered already at least a bit by MC's metagene.