Ren'Py Abandoned Patronus [v3.2.72 Final] [DVE Games]

[Vealis]

Keeps crashing every time I try to sleep.

 

[saltySpeedo]

Looking at their site and own forum, It doesn't really give the impression its a big studio. I rate it as any other Patreon game out there tbh. There is examples of games on the site here that swapped from Renpy to Unity. Or from RPGM to Renpy, or from qsp to renpy and whatever really. Most common for all these adult games, the payout come when they gain traction and pick up interest. Few of these bankroll these projects on their own. It take place on their spare time.

Well you just made a stellar example unwittingly of why doing an engine swap is infeasible in their current form, unless you think they have an army of supporters?

 

[Joshua Tree]

Well you just made a stellar example unwittingly of why doing an engine swap is infeasible in their current form, unless you think they have an army of supporters?

No? If any it would more suggest do changes early on, rather than run yourself into a ditch have to redo a lot of work later.

 

[saltySpeedo]

No? If any it would more suggest do changes early on, rather than run yourself into a ditch have to redo a lot of work later.

I think asking the creator would clear up alot of the confusion because im 100% sure this is being bankrolled if that's the case and they can't find supporters making it economically infeasible, mind you this is conjecture. In point doing an engine swap regardless of their current position just doesn't make sense without support. "make it good now no support till then ugg ugg" And I'm pretty confident in assuming this because the creator said some time ago that only 1 person supported the project. You cant tell me it makes sense to do an engine swap if A. its being bankrolled and B. There's no concurrent support.

 

[Joshua Tree]

I think asking the creator would clear up alot of the confusion because im 100% sure this is being bankrolled if that's the case and they can't find supporters making it economically infeasible, mind you this is conjecture. In point doing an engine swap regardless of their current position just doesn't make sense without support. "make it good now no support till then ugg ugg" And I'm pretty confident in assuming this because the creator said some time ago that only 1 person supported the project. You cant tell me it makes sense to do an engine swap if A. its being bankrolled and B. There's no concurrent support.

You can make commercial games with the Unity "Free" Personal edition though. All it come down to is skills to actually use it.
Lookinga their website, it seems like the release they just did was intended for May/June release, then delayed even further as one of their coders went back to study. So, maybe there is a small team working on this, but on their spare time outside other work and school whatnot.

I found a interesting thing on their website though. They offered the ability for other game developers to use them as a payment gateway portal. Then with a list of content restrictions, which one of is incest. Funny enough their own game carry that tag.

 

[saltySpeedo]

You can make commercial games with the Unity "Free" Personal edition though. All it come down to is skills to actually use it.
Lookinga their website, it seems like the release they just did was intended for May/June release, then delayed even further as one of their coders went back to study. So, maybe there is a small team working on this, but on their spare time outside other work and school whatnot.

I found a interesting thing on their website though. They offered the ability for other game developers to use them as a payment gateway portal. Then with a list of content restrictions, which one of is incest. Funny enough their own game carry that tag.

I can't be bothered to argue with you anymore you are being dense for the sake of being dense, goal post movin subject changing gat dang o gat dang.

 

[Kendra]

Somewhere at the point of day 5 ending & day 6 begining i've got few floating messages on the lesft side ou game UI and then game just dies for me with a spam of errors not matter what i do...

 

[Arden4702]

Cant do anything after initial quest, any hints

 

[2GM/c2]

Game has promise, but currently is extremely broken and limited. Look forward to seeing further development though.

 

[ThL]

Cant do anything after initial quest, any hints

go to Rome

 

[Baharomont]

Mmmm... Setup? Serious? Setup?
Nooooooo... F*** this Shit!
I not wanna Install anyones what i can trust...

 

[Akarthus]

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/engine/main_engine.rpy", line 819, in <module>
File "game/engine/main_engine.rpy", line 737, in main_loop
File "game/bordello.rpy", line 473, in new_half_hour
File "game/bordello.rpy", line 396, in new_day
File "game/bordello.rpy", line 874, in update_occupant_mood
AttributeError: can't set attribute

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "engine/main_engine.rpyc", line 818, in script
File "D:\Games\Patronus\renpy\ast.py", line 862, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "D:\Games\Patronus\renpy\python.py", line 1888, in py_exec_bytecode
exec bytecode in globals, locals
File "game/engine/main_engine.rpy", line 819, in <module>
File "game/engine/main_engine.rpy", line 737, in main_loop
File "game/bordello.rpy", line 473, in new_half_hour
File "game/bordello.rpy", line 396, in new_day
File "game/bordello.rpy", line 874, in update_occupant_mood
File "D:\Games\Patronus\renpy\python.py", line 713, in do_mutation
return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "D:\Games\Patronus\renpy\python.py", line 1014, in __setattr__
object.__setattr__(self, attr, value)
AttributeError: can't set attribute

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.14.3.3347
Patronus Trunk
Tue Dec 25 00:01:08 2018


UMMMMM

 

[eugenene]

Mega is down. Happy new year.

 

[crustycrustacean]

mega link is gone

 

[Sh4ark]

the game crashes everytime a reputation decrease happens, which can happen as soon as day 2 or 3 after brothel. Basically unplayable

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/engine/main_engine.rpy", line 819, in <module>
  File "game/engine/main_engine.rpy", line 737, in main_loop
  File "game/bordello.rpy", line 473, in new_half_hour
  File "game/bordello.rpy", line 396, in new_day
  File "game/bordello.rpy", line 874, in update_occupant_mood
AttributeError: can't set attribute

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "engine/main_engine.rpyc", line 818, in script
  File "D:\Games\Patronus A2\renpy\ast.py", line 862, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "D:\Games\Patronus A2\renpy\python.py", line 1888, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec bytecode in globals, locals
  File "game/engine/main_engine.rpy", line 819, in <module>
  File "game/engine/main_engine.rpy", line 737, in main_loop
  File "game/bordello.rpy", line 473, in new_half_hour
  File "game/bordello.rpy", line 396, in new_day
  File "game/bordello.rpy", line 874, in update_occupant_mood
  File "D:\Games\Patronus A2\renpy\python.py", line 713, in do_mutation
    return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "D:\Games\Patronus A2\renpy\python.py", line 1014, in __setattr__
    object.__setattr__(self, attr, value)
AttributeError: can't set attribute

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.14.3.3347
Patronus Trunk
Sun Jan 06 23:29:22 2019

 

[Sonicfanx1]

Looks like i'll have to wait for this game to update more before it becomes playable.

 

[ltpika]

I lost my saves, anybody willing to lend me theirs?

 

[dvemail]

Some random comments -

• This was / is our first game and we picked RenPy as the engine. That was a mistake. If we ever get enough support for the game, we'll switch to unity, but that's a cash issue
• I (dve) am funding the game 99.9% out of my own pocket. Right now we have about $15 a month in crowd funding
• I won't tell you how much I have sunk into the game, but it is a lot... like people's annual salary kind of amount
• We have *tons* of art in the pipeline that is complete, but the code is holding us back
• Thanks for the tip about `cygwin1.dll' and `minmax.exe' being 64 bit, I'll see if we can get it to 32 bit instead
• A2 was a known buggy release. There was supposed to be a A2.1 bugfix, but it didn't happen because I lost my job and had to scramble to find work
• We're back on track for a A2.1 bugfix relatively soon, hopefully soon to be followed by parts of the A3
• A3 will be when the majority of the core components are in the game. Until then it is fairly limited.

Here are some of the major features that are pipelined for completion:

• Bordello management - rewrite almost complete
• Baths - social status - mostly working
• Law Courts - authoritas/gravitas - needs work and testing
• Merchants - buy/sell resources - put off for later
• Farms - Buy / sell resource generation - use skeleton code from bordello
• Charis - Use Charis for social events - needs more coding
• Travel - working
• Quests system - working
• Time system - working
• Event system - working
• Random events - working
• Generated dialog - working
• Slave training - working

Yes, I know that the game has taken a ridiculous amount of time to get to this point. I'm funding it out of my pocket for my own enjoyment basically. Later I would love to make money off of it, but not so far. Yes, the game *cannot* be hosted on Patreon, so I have to host a funding platform of my own development - and yes, that added a huge delay. So while I hear the complaints, and there's a lot of validity to them... Unless something changes you'll simply have to accept the slow pace of development.

 

[Sengai]

@dvemail keep your chin up. think of it like this: all those complaints/criticisms are because that many people want to see the game succeed. slow is fine. look at bannerlord, that's not even a porn game but its length of development still gives me blue balls.

 

[mes]

@dvemail
Love Rome
Love Slave
Love Politic
Love Brothel and management
Love Your game

Hope You Dont Abandoned(since many games get abandoned So fast in past 6 month )
Hope You Finish your Game

Thanks For Your Work and Game
Idea its GOOD
Will Watching This Thread and Looking forward to it
Keep up TY&HF&GL +1