VN Ren'Py Our Red String [Ch. 13.1 BETA] [Eva Kiss]

[mommysboiii]

Lena: "the real harem was all the people i fucked along the way."
Ian: "..."

Lena is CHAD CHAD

Lana supremacy

 

[Andrea9999]

Hey everyone sorry to break your flow and ask this stupid question but it's bothering me so much and trust me from itch devlog to patreon notes to reddit posts i didn't find it anywhere and I was wondering is there a estimated timeline of when the game will be finished? Like released in final version?

I believe your question is answered about three quarters of the way through the Book of Ezekiel.

 

[Roderick2]

Changing a little the common subject... does anybody made a "lawful good" rout with Ian and Lena?

 

[Dromedari]

It's one of my favorite routes: Lena and Ian supporting each other and growing together as a couple, standing up to the old bullying oligarch, helping the small business prosper, helping their friends grow and succeed in their lives.

It really is a very wholesome route.

 

[Geigi]

I'm sorry but since good girl gone thread is almost dead, and this game far from finished, I know I feel stupid asking this and maybe this is not a thread to ask it but I would really appreciate if you guys know any similar games to this of gggb of ors where there's is branching storylines and your choices matter, you can be a good person or straight up evil please answer if you played a game that's this good cause after playing Eva kiss I'm really struggling to play any game as this set the bar way to high

Try this, but it's so difficult to find an actual fmc game and from a woman dev that's good aside from otome games, yuri and josei which have their target audience, respectively. https://f95zone.to/threads/newlife-v0-8-8b-splendid-ostrich.293/

 

[noturiah]

Hmm the only art style that sort of gives me a revulsion is the one with insanely overblown body proportions (and even then i'll still play Superhuman, literally for the plot) so i don't get this mentality pretty much at all.

Discarding any game with anime/manga style, that's probably missing out on half of the porn games out there if not more, right from the start. Which i suppose could also explain why you don't know any games better than EK's.

You might be surprised, but I actually agree with most of what you've written. My aesthetic mentality is specific and yes I know that I discard not half but pretty much 90% for the porn production. I take ownership of this fact. I am just not into this, I came onto that forum pretty much for EK and becaus of Covid. You can say it: I am not a porn game fan, just an EK fan.

It's interesting, I'm similar to both of you in some ways. I've never been into manga and my anime knowledge begins and ends with Akira and Cowboy Bebop, so that limits the games I'll look at. Outlandish body proportions also turn me off, and as the graphics for "regular" games get better all the time, I even find myself not bothering with games using Daz, unless it's someone who really knows what they're doing. That limits me to what, drawn and Unreal productions? Pretty much.

I started exploring porn games during Covid and found three I really liked and was impressed with: Our Red String, Areas of Grey, and Jessica O'Neil's Hard News. I kept looking around and followed maybe half a dozen seriously for a while, things that finished like Melody, Pine Falls, and City of Broken Dreamers (which just finished a few months ago), Dr. Amana, and Seeds of Chaos. AoG and Amana got abandoned by their devs, JOHN might as well be abandoned by how little its dev has released in recent years, and I faded away from Dreamers a few years ago but now that it's done it's been on my list to get back to - but I still haven't done it yet. SoC is an utter mess with some great art and writing underneath, but is so bogged down with an overstuffed story and clunky game mechanics, I find it unplayable now.

How often do you get someone who can write interesting characters in interesting sexual situations AND have strong visual design and game design skills (or at least unique ones) AND maintain at least a semi-reasonable production schedule while working a real job as well? It's pretty rare, and even more rare to be able to maintain it over the often several years it will take to deliver a completed game. I feel like we all see the same things on this site time and again. A new hotshot with good skills and a great idea, and they fizzle out after a year or so. Or worse, they get popular on Patreon and they bottleneck, milking subscribers and releasing content only drop by drop. Or someone with a mediocre idea and skills that churns out content on a regular schedule, but it's all half-baked and they're spinning their wheels without the game ever getting better.

I'm not the first to say it and won't be the last: Eva's a bit of a unicorn around here. She threads the needle pretty well overall, and sure we all probably have a gripe or two, but they're small complaints compared to what we've endured (or decided not to endure) from other devs. I used to be more of a porn game fan, but now I'm also only on this forum because of EK and ORS.

 

[lucadiadis]

Not more games come to my mind that are not harem logic

I hope you did not choke yourself while playing them

 

[Dp-gangbang]

- long story short ( lot of branches)
- seeds of chaos( a lot of branches/ corruption)
- where it all began ( promising future)
- home prisoner ( drama/ sad but good story telling in sad way)

.....

Not more games come to my mind that are not harem logic or quick fap material

Exited dor this 4 storys to unfold

Thanks man I will check it out

 

[Dp-gangbang]

Try this, but it's so difficult to find an actual fmc game and from a woman dev that's good aside from otome games, yuri and josei which have their target audience, respectively. https://f95zone.to/threads/newlife-v0-8-8b-splendid-ostrich.293/

Thanks man appreciate it

 

[lucadiadis]

Someone mentioned Katie's Corruption as the game that made EK think about developing porn games. I have just downloaded it, and it seems the path to corruption is...a very sick parent that forces Katie to drop college and find alternate sources of income. Rings a bell to anyone ?

 

[Yuna0069]

Nice

 

[DeemLeem12]

I tried Ian and Lena having low relationship points (reaching red angry emoji in stats). It didn't affect the story much. While relationship stat on other characters remain reflective on the story, Ian and Lena still remained good friends despite the stat not reflecting this. This seems an oversight that could be fixed. While it's hard to expect that EK is going to fix this, it really wouldn't affect the other paths should this be given attention. In a fixed path where Ian and Lena have a bad relationship, there should be different dialogue reflecting their bad blood and less scenes where Ian and Lena are talking. A potential for this is Lena can cuck Ian with Holly earlier, not caring that Ian is dating her and only wants Holly for herself. The scene where Lena kisses Holly in her room while Holly is dating Ian would actually make sense.

 

[Xupuzulla]

I tried Ian and Lena having low relationship points (reaching red angry emoji in stats). It didn't affect the story much. While relationship stat on other characters remain reflective on the story, Ian and Lena still remained good friends despite the stat not reflecting this. This seems an oversight that could be fixed. While it's hard to expect that EK is going to fix this, it really wouldn't affect the other paths should this be given attention. In a fixed path where Ian and Lena have a bad relationship, there should be different dialogue reflecting their bad blood and less scenes where Ian and Lena are talking. A potential for this is Lena can cuck Ian with Holly earlier, not caring that Ian is dating her and only wants Holly for herself. The scene where Lena kisses Holly in her room while Holly is dating Ian would actually make sense.

This is something i noticed too in saves where they never fuck and they are rude to each other but i guess EK cant really break the "red string" that connects the two MCs and thats why they are going to be at minimum neutral with each other.
It would be cool to have a save where the MCs hate each other through

 

[Turret]

This is something i noticed too in saves where they never fuck and they are rude to each other but i guess EK cant really break the "red string" that connects the two MCs and thats why they are going to be at minimum neutral with each other.
It would be cool to have a save where the MCs hate each other through

That would be very much self-defeating! This "red string" theory which is actually around under other names as well, is based on a deep connection, which cannot really be cut.

 

[dolfe67]

The Ian/lena relationship is forced since it's kinda the main plot of the game. But if you can't manage to write bad relationship between them, don't give choices to do that and not reflect it later on

 

[Andrea9999]

I hope you did not choke yourself while playing them

Well these games are required by law, if applicable, to state plainly that they contain choking hazards. Little parts, you know, can be choking hazards.

 

[ffive]

The Ian/lena relationship is forced since it's kinda the main plot of the game. But if you can't manage to write bad relationship between them, don't give choices to do that and not reflect it later on

The relationship score is something that ORS doesn't use much in general. About the only cases where it comes into play that i can remember are minor text variations about Ivy and Jeremy (from Lena and Ian, respectively) and some options for Lena re: Axel.

It's probably a feature that made sense when EK was planning the game, but then it turned out too generic to be really useful, and the game uses dedicated flags to track the state of various relationships instead.

 

[GokutheG]

The relationship score is something that ORS doesn't use much in general. About the only cases where it comes into play that i can remember are minor text variations about Ivy and Jeremy (from Lena and Ian, respectively) and some options for Lena re: Axel.

It's probably a feature that made sense when EK was planning the game, but then it turned out too generic to be really useful, and the game uses dedicated flags to track the state of various relationships instead.

It also prevents Lena from opening up to Ian about Axel if you don't let Lena kiss Ian during the earlier dates.

 

[Socrambus]

The Ian/lena relationship is forced since it's kinda the main plot of the game. But if you can't manage to write bad relationship between them, don't give choices to do that and not reflect it later on

We have to be reasonable to what realistically can be developed, this is not Baldur's Gate 3. You can't make Ian leave Perry's house even if their relationship is bad or just tell Jeremy to fuck off and not seeing him anymore either. Same thing for Lena with Louise, Stan and Ivy. If you want total freedom, play a tabletop RPG with a good DM. Writing and development are already quite messy with the current pre-determined points to choose different paths and how different decisions mix. If anything, I would suggest to cut out some NPC paths like Cherry, Robert or Jess. They don't bring out a lot to the table, it would simplify things and allow more focus on the other paths.

 

[ffive]

I would suggest to cut out some NPC paths like Cherry, Robert or Jess.

I'm neutral on Jess, but Robert is hilarious and a lovely hate target, and Cherry brings interesting dynamics with her association with Lena and Axel. Not to mention she provides some actual alternative in the early game for people who aren't interested in getting their Ian involved with Alison and all that entails.