Ren'Py Photo Hunt [v0.18.1 Extra] [Moochie]

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MrTrue

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NoiVul said:
I don't question the quality of the renders and the amount of content, but like all games of this type, they just don't quite seem to bridge the gap into an actual 'harem' where the girls start living a normal domestic life while being aware of each other and the sex they are having.
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No harem tag and was never intended to be a harem game.
But most of your post just boils down to the game being a sandbox and not a linear AVN.

NoiVul said:
There's just a lot of debauchery and then a daily reset, where the events of the current episode have no impact on the setting at all. The girls never communicate with each other, and all new scenes are isolated sex acts rather than character development.
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Again just a product of it being a sandbox.
It would simply just take too long to go back and change how the girls' act based on later choices.
Most of the sexual encounters act as major checkpoints if you keep a close eye on the story.

It being a sandbox will always have some positives and negatives.
The random disconnect that happens in the story only become an issue if you keep replaying with a fresh start everytime there is a new update.
 
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MrTrue said:
Grace and Skylar got their big updates so late into development that when Moochie decided she was gonna wrap up the game due to the whole Patreon issue they had to suffer instead and most likely had their planned content cut by alot.
All the other paths you mentioned will probably have their final updates coming up next excluding Evelyn.
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They were going to wrap up only IF patreon page got taken down and they wouldn't be able to cover up their finances within couple of month on SubscriberStar. Both platforms are active and are bringing income, thus there is nothing to worry about for now.
 
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meme_Lordo said:
They were going to wrap up only IF patreon page got taken down and they wouldn't be able to cover up their finances within couple of month on SubscriberStar. Both platforms are active and are bringing income, thus there is nothing to worry about for now.
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Not quite right. The choice to start wrapping up the game was made regardless if Patreon decided to ban them or not. The difference was if the page got taken down they would rush to the finale and end the game quickly and if it was allowed to stay up they would start making the final story updates for the girls one by one.
And so far we have already had the final story updates for two of the girls and another coming up.
It was obvious Moochie got stressed out about the whole situation and just wanted to end it so she can focus on a more Patreon friendly game.

Issue with Patreon if they decided to close down the page is that Moochie most likely has several hundred thousand locked up on the Patreon account since they block both payments from Russian citizens and to the Russian developers. And if the page gets banned the money gets seized due to the sanctions currently in place from the ongoing conflict.

Already happened to another Russian developer on the site.
 
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MrTrue said:
Issue with Patreon if they decided to close down the page is that Moochie most likely has several 100 thousands locked up on the Patreon account since they block both payments from Russian citizens and to the Russian devs. And if the page gets banned the money gets seized due the sanctions currently in place from the ongoing conflict.
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That's would be valid only if more sanctions had covered restrictions to the single developers. However, threats came only in May of this year and page is still active since. And bans usually happened based on the content of published product (it gladly and hopefully resolved with the last update), not on the nationality of the page publisher.

If it's the case, then mooch1e should've been banned a year ago, and not only on Patreon.

We can only speculate, because we still don't have the full picture and it is hasn't been confermed, therefore we can only pry that everything will go on smoothly, as it's planned at the first place, and enjoy every last update it comes. Otherwise there is no point to spend time on reworks and additional animations. I personally hope that's the case.

And nobody is telling that there won't be any additions even after the game is finished.
 
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meme_Lordo said:
That's would be valid only if more sanctions had covered restrictions to the single developers. However, threats came only in May of this year and page is still active since. And bans usually happened based on the content of published product (it gladly and hopefully resolved with the last update), not on the nationality of the page publisher.

If it's the case, then mooch1e should've been banned a year ago, and not only on Patreon.

We can only speculate, because we still don't have the full picture and it is hasn't been confermed, therefore we can only pry that everything will go on smoothly, as it's planned at the first place, and enjoy every last update it comes. Otherwise there is no point to spend time on reworks and additional animations. I personally hope that's the case.

And nobody is telling that there won't be any additions even after the game is finished.
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Her possibly getting banned off Patreon had nothing to do with her nationality.
I was only explaining why she is not getting paid on Patreon and why the money would get seized if she got banned.
Patreon has nothing to do with the payments not reaching Russian developers either. The sanctions stop payments from going through to Russian card holders regardless and reach far above what Patreon can impose.
A lot of the developers moved over to SubscribeStar since they don't block subscriptions by Russian card holders in combination with the much less strict rules on tags and content of the games.

As for the speculations, sure she could change her mind and continue the main story updates for the girls she claims have had their final story focused updates, but for now she has confirmed on several occasions that two girls have had their main story completed outside of the finale and the third one happening in this upcoming update.
 
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Eonor said:
Updated my compressed Android port of Photo Hunt with Shawn's mod included to v0.17.1.

Got some basic gestures loaded in: swipe up for save menu, swipe down to hide UI, swipe left to rollback and swipe right to skip. Save files are now stored in the Documents folder. This sometimes means that you may need to close and re-open the port after installing so the save folder is properly created.

Please let me know if you encounter any issues with the port and I'll see what I can do to get them sorted.

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I updated to 17.1 and as soon as I load the game, I get an error code.

Code: 
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
  File "renpy/common/00action_file.rpy", line 499, in __call__
TypeError: cannot create 'NoneType' instances
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
  File "_layout/screen_main_menu.rpymc", line 28, in script
  File "renpy/ast.py", line 821, in execute
  File "renpy/python.py", line 1178, in py_exec_bytecode
  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 28, in <module>
  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 35, in _execute_python_hide
  File "renpy/ui.py", line 301, in interact
  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 2215, in interact
  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 3278, in interact_core
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\transition.py", line 53, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\screen.py", line 793, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1523, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 288, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1523, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 288, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 288, in event
  File "renpy/display\behavior.py", line 1180, in event
  File "renpy/display\behavior.py", line 1101, in handle_click
  File "renpy/display\behavior.py", line 401, in run
  File "renpy/common/00action_file.rpy", line 499, in __call__
  File "renpy/loadsave.py", line 825, in load
  File "renpy/compat\pickle.py", line 45, in loads
TypeError: cannot create 'NoneType' instances
 
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jerseybunz said:
I updated to 17.1 and as soon as I load the game, I get an error code.

Code: 
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
  File "renpy/common/00action_file.rpy", line 499, in __call__
TypeError: cannot create 'NoneType' instances
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
  File "_layout/screen_main_menu.rpymc", line 28, in script
  File "renpy/ast.py", line 821, in execute
  File "renpy/python.py", line 1178, in py_exec_bytecode
  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 28, in <module>
  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 35, in _execute_python_hide
  File "renpy/ui.py", line 301, in interact
  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 2215, in interact
  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 3278, in interact_core
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\transition.py", line 53, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\screen.py", line 793, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1523, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 288, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1523, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 288, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 1294, in event
  File "renpy/display\layout.py", line 288, in event
  File "renpy/display\behavior.py", line 1180, in event
  File "renpy/display\behavior.py", line 1101, in handle_click
  File "renpy/display\behavior.py", line 401, in run
  File "renpy/common/00action_file.rpy", line 499, in __call__
  File "renpy/loadsave.py", line 825, in load
  File "renpy/compat\pickle.py", line 45, in loads
TypeError: cannot create 'NoneType' instances
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Do you get this error when starting a new game or loading an old save?
 
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We will soon celebrate the sixth anniversary of this game, so it makes sense that this game must be finished at some point. I don't know if we're ready for the next five years of game development that would be needed to bring every LI route to the same level as Evelyn or Rachel's route:unsure:
Our mc's "housemates" have the most content in the game, a lot of content will be given to people directly related to the plot (Fiona for example), Red Maiden, the cult, etc. Connecting all the threads and secrets in the game will also take some time and a few updates of LIs. LIs will get more or less extensive endings, we must remember that most girls have two routes, which gives different endings, which makes more work.
MrTrue said:
So we barely got anywhere with her in the first update and now it will already be wrapped up.

I got a bad feeling this one might play out like a badly written porno with rushed content.
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Grace will get her own update or two, side events, we can expect Fiona in Grace nap guard events, Rachel will visit Grace in her villa, and she may also appear in Jennifer's routes. Oksana will also have a part in this, i think. I wouldn't call it a rushed update, i'd call it an introduction to Grace's ending;)

On side note:
The country the developer is from should not influence the player's perception of the game, good ideas have no borders. Patreon could complain about a few things, such as Red Maiden, family relationships of characters, hardcore scenes, but patreon won't do it because the scenes in the game are played by actors:WeSmart:
 
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Anybody know how to reach "Monica's Lessons" with Kevin and Maya, is it through the Blackmail or Love Route ? I don't want to start back if I picked the wrong one.
 
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