VN Ren'Py Paracosmic Reality [v1.11.0 Main] [Jiggly Stone Studios]

4.20 star(s) 33 Votes

Who's your favorite character? (Pick 1-2)

  • Jade

  • Emma

  • Orra

  • Sylvie

  • Lily/Lotus

  • Chloe

  • Thicc Brat

  • BigTittyGothGirl

  • Me? (Neko in intro/outro's)


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JigglyStone - Fero Seele

Paracosmic Reality Dev
Game Developer
Apr 27, 2018
426
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I have been looking forward to the plot of Futa on Fem in the ending trailer, hoping to see that part as soon as possible. Thank you for making it
The futa on fem stuff in the outros are just fun little animations/scenes that I poke around with. They aren't canon plots or anything of the sort.

That being said, the "futa" in that scene is my persona, a rather curvaceous femboy that a lot of people have shown a lot of interest in seeing them be an actual character in the game. So they will more than likely be coming to the game. Just understand that they'll be functioning as a character in the game, not as a player character of any kind.
 
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Hordragg

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Apr 2, 2019
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While I appreciate it for what it is, that is really the main compliant I'd expect anybody to have for this VN. The characters and quality is there but each update feels like it's only 5-15 minutes after waiting several months. But if I'm remembering correctly somewhere it was mentioned that this is your first attempt at making a VN, so smaller updates are to be expected especially when it's easy to tell the amount of effort put into making the renders look good like this.
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RyukXaos

Member
Aug 29, 2020
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Yeah, I get it. It's just frustrating when people take a month or two worth of my time and condense it into "barely anything was added". Most often comments like those tend to come from people who basically spam through the game looking for lewd content and completely ignore the actual story that I'm writing.

It is my first VN and it's not been an easy ride. All of the development that's been done so far has been while I've been working a full-time contract carpentry. I'm now at a point where I've just been hired on part-time at a job that's affording me $20/hr. This means that I'm now finally in a position that I can not only afford my entire cost of living but I'll also still have 70% of my time free to continue working on the game, which is a lot better than the like 20% I had working my other job.

In short, I've evolved from FulltimJob+GameDev to ParttimeJob+GameDev. Which is huge. Getting to a point of being able to quit your dayjob is actually really REALLY difficult.
I can imagine how frustrating it is, and people also suck at their wording and phrasing for a lot of things. They forget that most of them are getting this for free. I also think that seeing the quality of your renders compared to most others on here they assume that it's not your first. I can't fully comment on the story, I think it needs to build more, but from what is there it feels natural to read. So at least I think you're hitting majority of the checks.
 

JigglyStone - Fero Seele

Paracosmic Reality Dev
Game Developer
Apr 27, 2018
426
1,174
I can imagine how frustrating it is, and people also suck at their wording and phrasing for a lot of things. They forget that most of them are getting this for free. I also think that seeing the quality of your renders compared to most others on here they assume that it's not your first. I can't fully comment on the story, I think it needs to build more, but from what is there it feels natural to read. So at least I think you're hitting majority of the checks.
Thank you for the kind words lol. I think you're definitely on to something with the render qualities xD it's sorta kinda sorta "suffering from success". I see it as a success cause I'm a creator, I want to offer the best product I can lmao.

But yeah, trust me, I'd absolutely love to be able to just pump updates out en-masse with the quality that I currently have. People don't realize that for some 120 (give or take) renders, each one "on average" takes an hour apiece. Sure, some renders take 5 minutes, but others can take hours or days of setup or trudging through creator block. I can easily spend 5-45min setting up a scene, render for 10min, notice issues, fix them (5-30min depending on severity), render again for 10min, etc.

(The above is mostly just conversing, I'm not nagging or trying to convince anyone. It's just nice sharing these details sometimes so people can understand some of the struggles that are a daily occurrence.)
 

Zennanon

Formerly 'ZimmyForever'
Sep 24, 2023
1
1
I usually just lurk but this has made me want to come out and say my piece as someone who's likely to be frustrated when he gets to the update shortly...

But you keep doing you, people will never understand how much time effort and sweat goes into most creative outputs and you'll go insane if you try compare your work time to how quickly people devour your content.

Your story is cool, I'm loving your renders and characters and I'm excited for more. So stay mentally healthy and keep doing your thing. There's surely plenty of others like me who never comment but appreciate the hard work.
 

watela32

Newbie
Jan 9, 2025
18
25
Enjoyed the update, despite the short length it's obvious you put a lot of effort into the overall quality and posing/composition of the renders, which will pay off in the long run. I really liked the new characters (especially the big tiddy goth) and can't wait to see them become more involved in the story!
 

Enigemm

Newbie
May 30, 2024
50
32
Hey Jiggly, I enjoyed the update. Although you caught me by surprise despite your earlier pitch of the changes and expectations. Frankly, based on your explanation of "phat ass" and "jugs" I was expecting one of those blown ups that I see popping up like whack-a-moles all over the place (hate those over-inflated balloons people call jugs).

Kudos (y) you hit the bull's eye with what's humanly acceptable in my own humble opinion. So to all the kink fans, don't go flaming me for my personal preference. A few issues though I've spotted:
  1. Without a backdrop story, we've made to assume a lot, hence, on the issue of driver's license - do we assume everyone above 18 owns one? What's the criteria? We don't have a back story to Jade compared to the little bit we have of the MC or maybe I just missed her age. But despite they being good friends, do we assume they're the same age and of driving age at that?
  2. Parking lots, lol...do they just park on a street corner or side walk. They've got police so no traffic police?
  3. There's a mix-up with either the speaker or gender mismatch during the dialogue: MC speaking while carrying Sylvie just outside of the store before entering:
    "Don't listen to him, he's just a big baby"
    Was it the MC or Jade speaking here? The caption says it's the MC speaking. Jade isn't a shemale as far as the story goes so it should be "she" or it is Jade speaking.
That's all for this update that I've spotted. Oh, if you rather I post those on discord, which channel should I use? Haven't opened discord for the past few days as I'm trying to complete the final two chapters of my novel.

Talking about novel and writing, I find it quite weird for non-content creators who hardly ever pay for a game to come here bitching as to how short an update is. I'm not a developer. Heck, the little code I know outside of writing shell and bash scripts as a former Linux Sysadmin, is html and css for web development when I first got started and then python which I gave up on because my former job had sucked all energy out of me at the end of the day that I could not focus on learning another programming language. So, it's just the basics. However, I am a writer. There are days when you can't even complete a chapter due to a plethora of reasons.

All that time and barely anything was added. Really wasn't expecting that extreme abrupt ending.
People who are not in the know how has no idea the effort, energy and time to create something out of nothing whether it is a game or book. They compare each content output not realizing that there are some games are done by teams and others by individuals. There are some who adapt a story already published to do their game hence it's way easier compared to someone creating their own story and coding. Each game takes a huge effort especially when one has a full-time job that pays their bills.

It's these kind of folks who chase the new developers away that do not know how well to coast through the mountains of criticisms. People forget that content creators are humans too. None of us are perfect. In fact, some developers do it as a form of escapism. So what happens when content creator X is thrown back into a life he used his game development to escape from? We forget the psychological impact of our misplaced criticism. And I'm talking from experience here. I was a publisher on on a web novel website that eventually caved in and it was negative comments like that which the owner eventually caved in under. He just wanted to provide a platform for budding writers to expose their work hence aiding them not only to promote their writings but gain experience as well. However, the "expert readers" out there who never wrote a book came down with hellfire and brimstone.

Anyhow, I've ranted enough. You have my support Jiggly along with the others who are impressed with the work you've done thus far. Keep up the good work.
 
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Brannon

Well-Known Member
Nov 2, 2017
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1,698
Yeah, I get it. It's just frustrating when people take a month or two worth of my time and condense it into "barely anything was added". Most often comments like those tend to come from people who basically spam through the game looking for lewd content and completely ignore the actual story that I'm writing.

It is my first VN and it's not been an easy ride. All of the development that's been done so far has been while I've been working a full-time contract carpentry. I'm now at a point where I've just been hired on part-time at a job that's affording me $20/hr. This means that I'm now finally in a position that I can not only afford my entire cost of living but I'll also still have 70% of my time free to continue working on the game, which is a lot better than the like 20% I had working my other job.

In short, I've evolved from FulltimJob+GameDev to ParttimeJob+GameDev. Which is huge. Getting to a point of being able to quit your dayjob is actually really REALLY difficult.
I appreciate the effort.
I really do.

Many if not most of the players complaining fall in one of two general categories.
The first is "It was too little content. I want MOOOOOOORE" i.e. like the content and don't want it to end because of that. It is a "high praise in disguise" so to speak.
The second is "What is this? Other developers release more content faster!" and are under the impression that THAT is normal. (Spoiler: It isn't!)
Look at My Dorm for a perfect example of that. He is a first time developer and releases sizeable updates on a roughly monthly schedule.

To be clear the complaints in category 1 are way more numerous.
 

Kyle Randall

Newbie
Jul 30, 2021
81
113
Yeah, I get it. It's just frustrating when people take a month or two worth of my time and condense it into "barely anything was added". Most often comments like those tend to come from people who basically spam through the game looking for lewd content and completely ignore the actual story that I'm writing.

It is my first VN and it's not been an easy ride. All of the development that's been done so far has been while I've been working a full-time contract carpentry. I'm now at a point where I've just been hired on part-time at a job that's affording me $20/hr. This means that I'm now finally in a position that I can not only afford my entire cost of living but I'll also still have 70% of my time free to continue working on the game, which is a lot better than the like 20% I had working my other job.

In short, I've evolved from FulltimJob+GameDev to ParttimeJob+GameDev. Which is huge. Getting to a point of being able to quit your dayjob is actually really REALLY difficult.
Just don't give up, please. Do your best to ignore those comments.
Bcs, as long as you keep up the good work and don't give up, we can wait whatever it takes. your story is so cool, it has the perfect pacing of the narrative, the dialogues, the mistery, the characters, the wholesomeness, the tags (that i personaly love) etc. it's just slow in the process of creation. but you make it up with the details and care that you put in this game. Sincerely, most of this isn't even that bad, bcs you always put new content a lot more frequently than other creators, so we alway are having something to see, even if it's short, while waiting for other devs.
i would like to help in the development, but rn i'm unneployed, myself. but eventually i intend to buy this game, even if it has to be in the steam (if you plan to put it in there, idk).
 

JigglyStone - Fero Seele

Paracosmic Reality Dev
Game Developer
Apr 27, 2018
426
1,174
Alright, so there are a lot of comments since I conked out for the night lmao. I order to maintain conciseness, I'm going to attempt to reply to them all, but contained within spoilers/dropdowns to this message here.

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Thank you to all who are jumping in with massive support/love for the game. It's genuinely very very appreciated after the absolute ringer that Dec/Jan have been for me.
 

StrawberryCheese83

Active Member
Jan 13, 2021
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Can we swap this Sylvi-thingy for an actual cat, because she s making me very uncomfortable...How old is she? 12? :confused: She s just looking far too young....! :unsure: Otherwise this Game is good tho...:)(y)
 

e6mill

Engaged Member
Aug 4, 2022
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Can we swap this Sylvi-thingy for an actual cat, because she s making me very uncomfortable...How old is she? 12? :confused: She s just looking far too young....! :unsure: Otherwise this Game is good tho...:)(y)
She's actually like 900 or something if you pay attention. You might notice she alone of the nekos has a tail.
 

JigglyStone - Fero Seele

Paracosmic Reality Dev
Game Developer
Apr 27, 2018
426
1,174
Can we swap this Sylvi-thingy for an actual cat, because she s making me very uncomfortable...How old is she? 12? :confused: She s just looking far too young....! :unsure: Otherwise this Game is good tho...:)(y)
Don't be a wank and dehumanize someone over their size. Yes, Sylvie is an NPC/Character, but if you're willing to call them a "thing" over their shorter stature, that says a bit more about you than it does me. As mentioned by e6mill, if you had paid attention to the story, you'd know that Sylvie is one of the oldest characters in the game and she's got just as much curve as Jade does just in a smaller form factor.
Jade and Sylvie.png
 
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