Ren'Py Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

[Lotman]

The update will be un dicember?

Yep. 8th-13th of December.

 

[Cooling Prob]

No problem for December. This game is romantic and a panic too look at and read. It makes me actually laugh out loud and sometimes even do a weepy...."auh" . ....Keep up the great work

 

[zindathar]

Patreon post;

I started work on Power Vacuum about eighteen months ago. My elevator pitch at the time was to make a sitcom version of the typical "house" style visual novel. I figured a tightly written comedy VN would be well received; as well as the perfect job for me to do in-between weekend gigs. The reception to the first three versions of my game were lukewarm. People enjoyed the characters and humor but were rightly critical of my erotic content. So, I started putting more time into learning how to make my erotic content better. I'm sure those of you who have made use of the gallery feature have noticed the difference in quality from the early chapters. But this increase in quality has started to take a toll. Animations, collision, dforce, water physics, lighting, geometry shells, natural looking clothing, and expressions have piled up. And when it comes to getting things exactly as you want them, DAZ Studio is a clunky piece of software. Coupled with the iray render engine being slow even on 2000 series GPUs; experimentation has been a time consuming endeavor that has specifically been eating into my writing time. I've tried to squeeze in as much writing as possible, but comedy is difficult and I have to be in the right mindset. I ended up having to force it with deadlines; resulting in writing that I'm unhappy with. Now, all of the blame can't be attributed to my stringent writing schedule. Part of the issue is that it's hard to write a comedy game during the bleakest year of my life. I'm sure many of you can empathize. I know depressed VN artist is a worrying cliché, so I will state that I'm not mentally at risk. It's just been an understandably awful year.

The reason why I bring this up is because as we approach the home stretch to version seven, I've decided to postpone the update and take November off to rewrite most of the scenes, redo renders, and get out of my head for a while. Before anyone can say the word "milking", I'll be pausing my Patreon for November since this is a borderline vanity move as I'm sure a fair amount of you don't care if my writing is up to my own personal standard. The update was originally scheduled for around the 8th-13th of November. The new date will be the same but in December. I know this is a disappointing announcement, just know that I'm not happy about it either. Again, Patreon will be free next month if you're already subscribed and today's game teasers will be posted tomorrow.

Moving forward, I've been trying to think of ways to make sure this doesn't happen again. Taking a month off for my mental health is a start as it also gets me one month closer to the long promised return to normalcy. Secondly, I've decided to invest in a new workstation PC with two RTX 3090s. It should be up and running around November 10th. It'll be four times as fast as my current PC and will significantly speed up my workflow. Other than that, I'm out of ideas. The game already dominates all of my time since the work is never done and everything can be improved. When I look at the shortcuts that other visual novels take, I don't see any that I want to copy. However, the main thing that I've noticed time and again is that the majority of VN players are completely satisfied with pedestrian dialogue. An adult visual novel written like a sitcom was an interesting concept, but I think this is the wrong medium. Most people don't look at these games as adult visual novels. They look at them as porn games. And porn games don't need wordplay, characterization, or proper use of any literary device.

Part of the problem could be that a considerable amount of people that play VNs aren't from the USA and presumably know English as a second language. Comedy is the hardest thing to translate and there's just no way the numerous people messaging me things like "Why Hunter no sex lady?" are going to appreciate the joke I'm writing about a commercial from forty years ago. So, again, for my edification, I've included a poll asking your opinion on my writing. I have no plans to change how Power Vacuum is written but the results will influence any future games I may make.

I'll appreciate any ideas you may want to offer in the comments.
Thanks for supporting Power Vacuum, sorry about the delay, and Happy Halloween

Hey,I don't know if someone has already approached you, but I am available and willing, and I would like to offer my help for the translation into Spanish, which is my native language, and I would like to think that English is my second native language

 

[Kingkoopa97]

Hey,I don't know if someone has already approached you, but I am available and willing, and I would like to offer my help for the translation into Spanish, which is my native language, and I would like to think that English is my second native language

I’m not the dev man, just shared his post from Patreon.

 

[biiiss]

Renders are good. Some of the jokes are pretty funny. Unfortunately the writer spends to much time over explaining everything. And unless you have the NTR turned on...well lets just say this one will disappoint you. I recommend not even screwin with this one until the story is finished completely.

nephew here doesn't know what he's talking about

 

[Badjourasmix]

Renders are good. Some of the jokes are pretty funny. Unfortunately the writer spends to much time over explaining everything. And unless you have the NTR turned on...well lets just say this one will disappoint you. I recommend not even screwin with this one until the story is finished completely.

I play with the ntr off and I still think the game is great.

 

[S0lid_Sn4ke]

Just finished everything i had D: i am soo eager to see what happens with brenna, btw i am one of the ppl that actually doesnt have ntr turned on and like it too and most of the situations i found them so funny xdd

 

[NightlyParadoxKG]

Hah, Catherine looks like the boy with the skull shirt in Toy Story if he were a ginger with Down Syndrome.

 

[gizmos44]

Hello, I just saved to my backup by mistake and reduced my whole job to 0. I wanted to know if I could find any backups so that I wouldn't have to start all over again. Thank you

 

[punisher2099]

I see that people in the discord are still thirsty for Hunters Dick......HURr DUrr GiMmiE MoaR NtR

 

[ceinko]

do anyone know when will be the next update I played the game for the first time and finished it in 4 days and it was a very exciting experience I want ophelia and brenna

 

[jmcronshaw]

do anyone know when will be the next update I played the game for the first time and finished it in 4 days and it was a very exciting experience I want ophelia and brenna

there is a patreon post transcribed in this thread a couple pages back where the dev explains everything
here you go

 

[dartred]

I see that people in the discord are still thirsty for Hunters Dick......HURr DUrr GiMmiE MoaR NtR

is there a problem with that?

before you say "i have the morale highground. i like incest, not NTR". liking incest over NTR isn't being better. we are ALL degenerates and proud.

just because we want NTR in a game, doesn't mean we get off in being cucked IRL. just like you liking incest in games, doesn't mean you want to bang your mom or sister.

point is, stop hating on peoples fetishes because they like a fetish that's different from yours.

 

[RedPillBlues]

is there a problem with that?

before you say "i have the morale highground. i like incest, not NTR". liking incest over NTR isn't being better. we are ALL degenerates and proud.

just because we want NTR in a game, doesn't mean we get off in being cucked IRL. just like you liking incest in games, doesn't mean you want to bang your mom or sister.

point is, stop hating on peoples fetishes because they like a fetish that's different from yours.

I always find it funny that you types just assume everyone that butts heads with you is infatuated with incest.

 

[punisher2099]

is there a problem with that?

before you say "i have the morale highground. i like incest, not NTR". liking incest over NTR isn't being better. we are ALL degenerates and proud.

just because we want NTR in a game, doesn't mean we get off in being cucked IRL. just like you liking incest in games, doesn't mean you want to bang your mom or sister.

point is, stop hating on peoples fetishes because they like a fetish that's different from yours.

never said i hated ntr but if this vn doesn't have enough ntr for you or anyone else i would suggest finding one that does instead of continuously pressuring the dev to add more

 

[dartred]

I always find it funny that you types just assume everyone that butts heads with you is infatuated with incest.

i'm used incest as the example because this game has it. why would i use a fetish that isn't used?

never said i hated ntr but if this vn doesn't have enough ntr for you or anyone else i would suggest finding one that does instead of continuously pressuring the dev to add more

i never said that you said you hated NTR. you're upset that people are asking for it. nowhere about you hating NTR.
so why is it a problem to ask for more? just asking for more, not demanding more.

 

[jmcronshaw]

lol here we go

 

[dartred]

never said i hated ntr but if this vn doesn't have enough ntr for you or anyone else i would suggest finding one that does instead of continuously pressuring the dev to add more

i really wish it wouldn't either, but he brought up discord talk into here.

 

[punisher2099]

i'm used incest as the example because this game has it. why would i use a fetish that isn't used?



i never said that you said you hated NTR. you're upset that people are asking for it. nowhere about you hating NTR.
so why is it a problem to ask for more? just asking for more, not demanding more.

Stop trying to make this game about Hunter let the dev focus on the mc and the LI. For gods sake he had to delay the update because he was unhappy with the writing leave him alone and stop being greedy.

 

[Tsuki w a Boogie]

How to use patch file?