VN Ren'Py Our Red String [Ch.13.3.6] [Eva Kiss]

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dontcarewhateverno

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For me is is 5€ so I just guessed the $ price.
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Yeah. Wasn't sure if there was a site with more or different statistics per game, like subscriber base broken down by country, currency or tiers. All those help with better calculations (as 5€, 5$, GBP, ect with different totals and conversion fees, ect) & help to see a little better where to target your audience re: ads, localization, tastes, ect.
 
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I see where you are coming from but the story is definitely not that complex that 10 writers couldn't complete it in 4-5 years like someone else mentioned. You basically have 2 stories, Ian's and Lena and you write those two mostly separate from one another. You decide where you want to go with them and then write all of the supporting characters depending on how you want them to interact/react with the two protagonists.

Lets use the example of Ian asking Lena for them to be an official couple. The whole idea behind the scene is that Ian asks Lena to be his girlfriend and then you go from there writing the variables. For example, If Lena had sex with Jeremy she will say no to the request, and so on. Maybe writing the dialogue for all of the different scenes is time consuming and hard but figuring out the variables shouldn't be that hard as all of the supporting characters already have a role to fulfill which was assigned to them.
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Of course its not in the point where 10 writers cant complete it even after 4-5 years, and i agree with you... but its also not as easy as you said, even if you already plan everything like side character and their roles in the game, its still hard to makes good story for it, its always easy to figure it out the outline of the story, but to makes the dialogue and the narrative for it is the hardest part, if you dont believe me, try it yourself and write any kind of novel, its always easy to figure it out the outline and at start its easy, but after around 100 chapter, you will see that the difficulty will gone up, you need to makes chapter 101 base on 100 chapter before that you already made, if you made a mistakes in the previous 100, you can easily encounter writer block, cuz i experienced it myself, even though i only write my novel for fun and when i got bored with all that programming stuff at college, but i still plan to release my novel on novel platform like webnovel in the future...

I always create the outline for every chapter first and plan it as good as i can before writing it, and my friends that has popular novel in different platforms also do that so they can create the novel more easily, but its still hard for us, cuz outline its nothing if we compared it to the story in every chapter even if we plan everything in the start, i can come up with the outline for 100-150 even 200 chapter ahead in matters of few days and its easy, but writing it? it takes a month if im fast, or few months if i got writers block, chapter 1-100 its always easy for me and my friends, but after that its became tricky, how you write the story as good as you can, how the writing makes the reader felt interested and how to makes the dialogue felt natural without any cringey line that doesnt even sounds natural and you need to take a note on everything that happend in previous 100 chapter so that the new story still had correlations with previous chapter...

For me who doesnt publish my novel on any platform its rather easy to fix writer blocks problem, i just revised the chapter that blocking the idea that i wanna uses in new chapter so that idea can be used in new chapter. But for my friend that already published their novel in different platform, they cant do that, and they need to used the story that already published as good as they can, thats why they faced more writer blocked than i am.

Even for author of novel that has a multiple popular novel in different platform (not like 100k, but 2-5 million views for each novel) its still very hard to come up with new and good story, so i cant agree with you for millions years that said writing its not that hard, but the reality is, IT IS very hard, try it yourself if you dont believe me
 
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Hi everyone,

I've started (almost) falling behind with my weekly status reports, but I'm gonna try to avoid that happening! I'll keep this one super-short because this weeks I've been very focused on writing, making slow but constant progress (at least slower than I'd like, but that's always the case).

I'm finishing writing Ian's part, one major scene and a few secondary ones remain, and I'll start writing Lena's part as soon as I'm done with that. So far the written content is as long as the entire Chapter 5, so this one will also be a chunky update.

I finally have some completed artwork, and that boosts my morale too. I took note of your observations about Emma's illustration and you were right, as sexy as she looked with that defined musculature, Emma's a bit chubbier than that. My colorist did a great job rendering those volumes, but I softened them down so they correspond to the character as seen on her sprite.
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Goodbye buff Emma, your shine was intense and fleeting :cry:
 
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Oh, but that only accounts for the branches present in the script, and doesn't account for those that are not but should be. Or vice versa, some branches are in the scene, but the context within does not match with what actually happened in the story, resulting in a plot hole... This game can be polished and bug-free gameplay-wise, but it's a massive pain in the ass to ensure there are not any plot holes or missed branches either, resulting in an event set up several chapters ago, but never acknowledged past a certain chapter. Eva should be the one maintaining narrative consistency, naturally, but I guess I pay more attention to details...

For the perfect testing to be done, you need to have a save collection so big, that you'd basically account for every combination of choices (per path) that have consequences (even cosmetic, because those result in dialogues or changes in sprites). And in order to build that save collection, you'd need at least a month of simply playing through the game. The alternative to save management is a database with every possible active path, but it's easier to switch a save and go through the chapter than each time manually enter values in the console.
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Hey, I thought about it and decided I might try translating a dynamic project like Our Red String. Can you please ask Eva if she's still interested in an official localization?
 
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Waaahtaa said:
View attachment 1913449

Chapter 10 weekly status report (9)

Hi everyone,

I've started (almost) falling behind with my weekly status reports, but I'm gonna try to avoid that happening! I'll keep this one super-short because this weeks I've been very focused on writing, making slow but constant progress (at least slower than I'd like, but that's always the case).

I'm finishing writing Ian's part, one major scene and a few secondary ones remain, and I'll start writing Lena's part as soon as I'm done with that. So far the written content is as long as the entire Chapter 5, so this one will also be a chunky update.

I finally have some completed artwork, and that boosts my morale too. I took note of your observations about Emma's illustration and you were right, as sexy as she looked with that defined musculature, Emma's a bit chubbier than that. My colorist did a great job rendering those volumes, but I softened them down so they correspond to the character as seen on her sprite.

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Ah shit... 4th in a row "focusing on the writing" update...but at least we got a tangible progress with writing for Ian's story almost being done.
 
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Waaahtaa said:
View attachment 1913449

Chapter 10 weekly status report (9)

Hi everyone,

I've started (almost) falling behind with my weekly status reports, but I'm gonna try to avoid that happening! I'll keep this one super-short because this weeks I've been very focused on writing, making slow but constant progress (at least slower than I'd like, but that's always the case).

I'm finishing writing Ian's part, one major scene and a few secondary ones remain, and I'll start writing Lena's part as soon as I'm done with that. So far the written content is as long as the entire Chapter 5, so this one will also be a chunky update.

I finally have some completed artwork, and that boosts my morale too. I took note of your observations about Emma's illustration and you were right, as sexy as she looked with that defined musculature, Emma's a bit chubbier than that. My colorist did a great job rendering those volumes, but I softened them down so they correspond to the character as seen on her sprite.

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No more BUFF Emma :LOL:
 
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Waaahtaa said:
View attachment 1913449

Chapter 10 weekly status report (9)

Hi everyone,

I've started (almost) falling behind with my weekly status reports, but I'm gonna try to avoid that happening! I'll keep this one super-short because this weeks I've been very focused on writing, making slow but constant progress (at least slower than I'd like, but that's always the case).

I'm finishing writing Ian's part, one major scene and a few secondary ones remain, and I'll start writing Lena's part as soon as I'm done with that. So far the written content is as long as the entire Chapter 5, so this one will also be a chunky update.

I finally have some completed artwork, and that boosts my morale too. I took note of your observations about Emma's illustration and you were right, as sexy as she looked with that defined musculature, Emma's a bit chubbier than that. My colorist did a great job rendering those volumes, but I softened them down so they correspond to the character as seen on her sprite.

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I am changing my way of supporting EK.... I've been thinking about this for a while now and the previous discussion about the earnings on Patreon and this weekly status report has confirmed my decision. Thusfar I have been a on-and-off Patreon supporter since the latter days of GGGB but mostly consistent throughout ORS. I am still an avid fan of the game and will sporadically create some fanart...

However I feel like the release windows and recent updates are no longer in line with what I get from the game (nor what I want it to be) and merit continous support. Or rather I have gotten to the point where I think some drastic changes are required to right this ship. If there was an option to support/donate per release I would do that and I might re-up my patronage on every other release. But this has become a circle-jerk of "EK is abusing her supporters" and "She is still one of the best creators, trust in EK" during every break between releases, followed by a latency period of praise - rinse - repeat.

I am not sure what the way forward is. A per release model might incentivise small (cash-grabby/lackluster) releases but I can't remember the last time a post on patreon was suggesting a shorter release window. It's always "[I'm] making constant progress (at least slower than I'd like, but that's always the case)".
 
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Eva has the solution in her hands. Each release corresponds to an entire chapter. Break in two. Finish and release the Ian perspective so she'll have time to work on Lena. 2-3 months, Ian release. Then another 2-3 months, Lena update and end of chapter.
 
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Waaahtaa said:
View attachment 1913449

Chapter 10 weekly status report (9)

Hi everyone,

I've started (almost) falling behind with my weekly status reports, but I'm gonna try to avoid that happening! I'll keep this one super-short because this weeks I've been very focused on writing, making slow but constant progress (at least slower than I'd like, but that's always the case).

I'm finishing writing Ian's part, one major scene and a few secondary ones remain, and I'll start writing Lena's part as soon as I'm done with that. So far the written content is as long as the entire Chapter 5, so this one will also be a chunky update.

I finally have some completed artwork, and that boosts my morale too. I took note of your observations about Emma's illustration and you were right, as sexy as she looked with that defined musculature, Emma's a bit chubbier than that. My colorist did a great job rendering those volumes, but I softened them down so they correspond to the character as seen on her sprite.

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I for one am thankful for the change. She was looking like a bodybuilder and it just felt a bit off
 
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