VN Ren'Py Project Myriam - Life and Explorations [Ch. End.01a+p] [Zorlun]

[Notretsam]

I hadn't discovered this game until now, and it's been around for years now, but my life comes and goes, and I don't always have time to play them. Besides, this forum is huge and unmanageable, and you might have something right under your nose and not see it with the huge amount of content out there!

I've been consuming this type of product for years (decades now), I've been in many forums, communities, magazines, and I've collaborated with a multitude of creators; and I have to say that this game has surprised me enormously. It's possibly one of the best I've seen, and while comparisons are always odious, while others may have better designs or graphics, the story, the characters, their development, and especially the kinks and their progress in this game about Myriam and the relationships she has with the other characters (hopefully, some of the ones I've imagined will come true in the future) have catapulted it to the absolute TOP of my personal list.

I won't say which scenes or elements I liked the most so as not to spoil things for those who may not have played yet, but it's certainly clear that the author lives it and enjoys it completely, always wanting to go a little further and not leave anything up in the air or ignore anything (although some options aren't available because they will be implemented later). The enormous array of scenes and options makes this Myriam adventure an absolutely brilliant and unique game.

It's truly marvelous, all the genres it touches on, the intensity of the gameplay, the character development, and once again, the enormous variety of kinks it has. Of course, while I was playing it (because you also have to put in a LOT of hours), I was incredibly surprised by the variety of kinks, some of them absolutely unthinkable in other games considered very good or almost cult titles by creators who are "very famous" in this small world. Obviously, this will depend on the tastes of the user and also the creator, but from my point of view, it practically touches all my favorites, and that's why I've been so blown away by this game and why it's positioned itself as the best I've seen in years. In many years.

Amazing work Zorlun , I sincerely take my hat off to this work, which I hope will give us at least 20 more chapters (haha) and that we'll see Myriam experience everything, interact with everything and everyone. Or even new kinks may appear or existing ones may intensify... who knows!

I very much agree with this. Choice novels are tough as you can add to many characters and then have to provide content for all the characters. Developers can easily overload a novel with characters, but the best thing to do is to limit the content to what it needs to be with each character, something this novel proves.

I would like to see more exhibitionist stuff at the pond when Myriam goes for a swim in the nude, not necessary with the same teens we saw before. I would like to see a follow-up scene with the two teens in the store that was perving over Myriam, same goes with the teens in the train who saw her boobs squished against the glass. Did seem like, if they ever saw Myriam again on the train, they would try something.

However, it doesn't make any sense for Myriam to go back to the pond after what happened, unless she wants to but she has plenty interest elsewhere to satisfy her needs. It doesn't add anything essential to the story to follow-up with the other teens I mentioned as well.

A lot of developers would continuously do scenes on the train, or at the pond, but Zorlun only did what he needed to do.

Even though it makes sense not to, I certainly wouldn't complain if we get a follow-up to they scenes lol I don't expect it though

 

[88stanford88]

I very much agree with this. Choice novels are tough as you can add to many characters and then have to provide content for all the characters. Developers can easily overload a novel with characters, but the best thing to do is to limit the content to what it needs to be with each character, something this novel proves.

I'm not sure I really understand what you mean...
personally I believe that a story should focus on protagonist and the characters who are close to him/her.
then there should be a real antagonist...
those who add too many characters are not good at writing a story and so they only add to lengthen the content and lengthen the developing time without giving the story any dynamics and no progression..

I prefer developer writing story focused on the MC and the story must be strong!

interactive stories are no different from the stories we read in books or see in a movie or TV series
The only difference with the stories in the big movies should be related to choices that can change the single end... in multiple endings ...
for example the classic story of Juliet and Romeo. In the book it ends with their heartbreaking suicide....

By taking the story into a game with choices, you could get an ending where they board a ship and live happily forever on a desert island
or only one Romeo dies and Juliett marries the priest

or Romeo manages to kill all the bad guys by offering his beloved Juliet to fuck with them..but then he kills them all... then they get married and live happily. (Netorase ending)

as you see if the story is powerful and fascinating, in the end the choices you make matter only to get a different ending....
Adding too many characters is useless...
sure a few secondary characters can serve to create a side story...
but if the story becomes made up of only side stories the whole game becomes uninteresting like an episodic movie where the main character changes each episode becoming a collage made up of short unrelated stories

I prefer stories with well defined character roles
MC and his/her relative and friends + a credible well written antagonist..

the right choices make the MC win her/his plan, while the wrong choices make the antagonist win.

 

[Notretsam]

I'm not sure I really understand what you mean...
personally I believe that a story should focus on protagonist and the characters who are close to him/her.
then there should be a real antagonist...
those who add too many characters are not good at writing a story and so they only add to lengthen the content and lengthen the developing time without giving the story any dynamics and no progression..

I prefer developer writing story focused on the MC and the story must be strong!

interactive stories are no different from the stories we read in books or see in a movie or TV series
The only difference with the stories in the big movies should be related to choices that can change the single end... in multiple endings ...
for example the classic story of Juliet and Romeo. In the book it ends with their heartbreaking suicide....

By taking the story into a game with choices, you could get an ending where they board a ship and live happily forever on a desert island
or only one Romeo dies and Juliett marries the priest

or Romeo manages to kill all the bad guys by offering his beloved Juliet to fuck with them..but then he kills them all... then they get married and live happily. (Netorase ending)

as you see if the story is powerful and fascinating, in the end the choices you make matter only to get a different ending....
Adding too many characters is useless...
sure a few secondary characters can serve to create a side story...
but if the story becomes made up of only side stories the whole game becomes uninteresting like an episodic movie where the main character changes each episode becoming a collage made up of short unrelated stories

I prefer stories with well defined character roles
MC and his/her relative and friends + a credible well written antagonist..

the right choices make the MC win her/his plan, while the wrong choices make the antagonist win.

sorry, but yes, you don't understand what I'm saying; I'm essentially saying what you're saying in this reply.

 

[88stanford88]

sorry, but yes, you don't understand what I'm saying; I'm essentially saying what you're saying in this reply.

Thanks... but... I totally understood what you said!
The part I quoted was not clear because it seemed to me you wanted to add more characters

I would like to see more exhibitionist stuff at the pond when Myriam goes for a swim in the nude, not necessary with the same teens we saw before. I would like to see a follow-up scene with the two teens in the store that was perving over Myriam, same goes with the teens in the train who saw her boobs squished against the glass. Did seem like, if they ever saw Myriam again on the train, they would try something.

here you say you want to add more characters... but in that pond those guys always go so... in my opinion you want to add new characters
I prefer that the location are with the same characters and this is perfect to progress the story with them

the boys in the train are the same because they take the train at that time.

would be an unnecessary repetition of what has already happened
you are asking to see the same scene again with other characters???

So i don't agree in adding characters for the same scene location
I agree in story progression with the same characters!!

(for example) In Juliet and Romeo the bad guys are the one from the antagonist!!!.. The are always the same!

However, it doesn't make any sense for Myriam to go back to the pond after what happened, unless she wants to but she has plenty interest elsewhere to satisfy her needs. It doesn't add anything essential to the story to follow-up with the other teens I mentioned as well.

but in that small lake those guys are always the same to me it seems logical maybe their house is near there ... it wouldn't make sense to add characters... this can open to a very interestiong side story progression

A lot of developers would continuously do scenes on the train, or at the pond, but Zorlun only did what he needed to do.

Zorlum creates events that can give the story a dynamic progression...if the characters change no development can take place but it just becomes a repetition of what happened before with other kids...
using the same characters...the boys become more and more familiar with Myriam...this makes the story evolve...the first time they look at her...the second time they stretch out their hands...then the third
and they fuck her in front of the train travelers...and maybe some travelers join in the fuck-fest

Even though it makes sense not to, I certainly wouldn't complain if we get a follow-up to they scenes lol I don't expect it though

You are completely wrong: if it uses the same characters, it is precisely to create a dynamic evolution of the story using the same teenagers again and again!
Myriam is their sex teacher...sure, the teenagers will become real perverts, but that's the point...this is a porn game!

As you can see, I understood correctly that you were trying to make suggestions to the developer that would make the sense Zorlum wants to make of Myriam's story worse...
this game is only good because the developers don't give a damn about nonsensical suggestions!

 

[Notretsam]

Thanks... but... I totally understood what you said!
The part I quoted was not clear because it seemed to me you wanted to add more characters


here you say you want to add more characters... but in that pond those guys always go so... in my opinion you want to add new characters
I prefer that the location are with the same characters and this is perfect to progress the story with them

the boys in the train are the same because they take the train at that time.

would be an unnecessary repetition of what has already happened
you are asking to see the same scene again with other characters???

So i don't agree i adding characters
I agree in story progression with the same characters!!

(for example) In Juliet and Romeo the bad guys are the one from the antagonist!!!.. The are always the same!


but in that small lake those guys are always the same to me it seems logical maybe their house is near there ... it wouldn't make sense to add characters... this can open to a very interestiong side story progression

Zorlum creates events that can give the story a dynamic progression...if the characters change no development can take place but it just becomes a repetition of what happened before with other kids...
using the same characters...the boys become more and more familiar with Myriam...this makes the story evolve...the first time they look...the second time they stretch out their hands...then the third
and they fuck her in front of the train travelers...and maybe some travelers join in the fuck-fest

You are completely wrong: if it uses the same characters, it is precisely to create a dynamic evolution of the story using the same teenagers again and again!
Myriam is their sex teacher...sure, the teenagers will become real perverts, but that's the point...this is a porn game!

As you can see, I understood correctly that you were trying to make suggestions to the developer that would make the sense Zorlum wants to make of Myriam's story worse...
this game is only good because the developers don't give a damn about nonsensical suggestions!

In no way did I say I wanted more characters added, I said I would like more content with characters we already seen and I clearly referenced these characters. Either you "don't understand" what I'm saying, or you're trying to start an argument with me for no reason.

Jeez o, I even agreed with your initial reply and said so, you pretty much said what I said but differently.

 

[88stanford88]

In no way did I say I wanted more characters added

you contraddict your self
I just said that your post was not clear!

I would like to see more exhibitionist stuff at the pond when Myriam goes for a swim in the nude, not necessary with the same teens we saw before. I would like to see a follow-up scene with the two teens

NOT NECESSARY WITH THE SAME TEENS WE SAW BEFORE!... this is what you wrote
In my world this means that you want add new characters!

I said I would like more content with characters we already seen and I clearly referenced these characters.

I agree with you now... but the previous post of your was not clear!

 

[Notretsam]

you contraddict your self
I just said that your post was not clear!

NOT NECESSARY WITH THE SAME CHARACTERS!... this is what you wrote
In my world this means that you want add new characters!

you're trying to start an argument with me for no reason.

I guess its this part

I'm done with this, it was "CRYSTAL CLEAR" what I meant, but if you wanna read too much into it and turn it into something, then you're welcome to argue with yourself about it.

 

[88stanford88]

I guess its this part

I'm done with this, it was "CRYSTAL CLEAR" what I meant, but if you wanna read too much into it and turn it into something, then you're welcome to argue with yourself about it.

I just said that your post was not clear
bc you write

not necessary with the same teens we saw before.

this single sentence of yours makes the meaning of your main post unclear but if you now say that you didn't want to write what you wrote that's fine with me...
I prefer stories where the characters are the same as before so that I can progress the relationship dynamic with the MC

Now you have cleared my doubts
I agree with you

 

[ouch2020]

I very much agree with this. Choice novels are tough as you can add to many characters and then have to provide content for all the characters. Developers can easily overload a novel with characters, but the best thing to do is to limit the content to what it needs to be with each character, something this novel proves.

I would like to see more exhibitionist stuff at the pond when Myriam goes for a swim in the nude, not necessary with the same teens we saw before. I would like to see a follow-up scene with the two teens in the store that was perving over Myriam, same goes with the teens in the train who saw her boobs squished against the glass. Did seem like, if they ever saw Myriam again on the train, they would try something.

Well, I am not Zorlun, so in part I am extrapolating, but in part I am basing myself on what he said in the past, about two aspects...

1) He wants to avoid the risk of someone making noise problems, even just here on F95, and does not feel comfortable with something.
From one side, tthere is no doubt in my mind that all those teens satisfy rule number 5, said it more brutally, they are definitively past the start of puberty, fertile and perfectly capable at a physical level to have sex and procreate, and also when they masturbate and cum on Myriam , they know perfectly well what they are doing. But from the other, honestly, if Zorlun says those are all 18+ old I will not contradict him, but at least for the ones at the lake, let's say it depends how one counts years :-D.
So, he had clearly said that those at the lake would not come back, even because there is honestly little to do, with the progression they have done, the next step would be either Myriam willingly does the "school boat" for them, or they try to do more than what they did while she is asleep or "asleep" (and we know what that "more" means ;-)).

2) He wants to finish "Myriam", but he has already put so much stuff, so many possible kinks and paths, which already like this in practice I think he will not fully exploit all the possibilities, and time is limited because he is already getting preparing the endings for the game. So, he needs to prioritise the main character and main potential partners, and cut on the rest.

 

[Notretsam]

Well, I am not Zorlun, so in part I am extrapolating, but in part I am basing myself on what he said in the past, about two aspects...

1) He wants to avoid the risk of someone making noise problems, even just here on F95, and does not feel comfortable with something.
From one side, tthere is no doubt in my mind that all those teens satisfy rule number 5, said it more brutally, they are definitively past the start of puberty, fertile and perfectly capable at a physical level to have sex and procreate, and also when they masturbate and cum on Myriam , they know perfectly well what they are doing. But from the other, honestly, if Zorlun says those are all 18+ old I will not contradict him, but at least for the ones at the lake, let's say it depends how one counts years :-D.
So, he had clearly said that those at the lake would not come back, even because there is honestly little to do, with the progression they have done, the next step would be either Myriam willingly does the "school boat" for them, or they try to do more than what they did while she is asleep or "asleep" (and we know what that "more" means ;-)).

2) He wants to finish "Myriam", but he has already put so much stuff, so many possible kinks and paths, which already like this in practice I think he will not fully exploit all the possibilities, and time is limited because he is already getting preparing the endings for the game. So, he needs to prioritise the main character and main potential partners, and cut on the rest.

I'm aware, Zorlun has stated to me in past he had no further plans at the pond and have seen him saying the same thing about finishing novel

 

[ouch2020]

I'm aware, Zorlun has stated to me in past he had no further plans at the pond and have seen him saying the same thing about finishing novel

Well, you can always hope that in future either him or someone else makes another game/vn where there is a similar scenario that goes the way you like - it would not be Myriam, but you can always toss ideae around, and see if they are picked up.

 

[Maxh]

How do I get raped, every time she is almost raped this kid Aieden jumps in and saves her. How do I get rid of him?

 

[Zorlun]

Zorlun, does your game have no sound or music because of copyright or because it was too much trouble to program?

There is a few noises for immersion, but in short, yes and no, the game started as a small experiment, so yes I didn't go paying copyrights to add music in it, after that the game being first, like animation, music was something Ipht aside as there was more important to learn and do first... And after it would be ome a bit weird to add some when there is none in early game.

Though I would like to work more on music for the next game, I'll have to see.

An update about what's going on from Z's Discord. Hope he won't mind too much about sharing.

Everyone Important message!
Seems that my computer died on me tonight, I don't know the extent of the damages just yet, I'm not a hardware savvy guy, but I don't think I have a loss of data at least, I had a problem with DAZ and some responsiveness with the computer so I decided to restart it and it just didn't, looping me endlessly on the launching screen...

I'm too tired and mad to get on it tonight, so I'll look into it more tomorrow and keep everyone appraised. If it can be fixed quickly it should not impair this month's update too much, but if it's more serious... Well, I prefer not thinking about it too much.

Good luck Z. Hope it's easily fixed.

Yep, I'm dead in the waters right now, the computer is in the hands of specialists, for now the last news are that it's not solved, but at least I should have no data loss.

For more details I invite you to have a look at my public post on Patreon or SubscribeStar.

 

[PickerLewd]

The PC knows all the secrets, Zorlun probably started with some renders of one of the endings and the PC got sad and said "Myriam ends without me", it didn't want to be involved in ending an era .

 

[Draevis]

it seems that v5.11 is not compatible with my saves from the end of v5.10 and even older saves have errors. Such as chapter 5 going out on town has an error about ignoring jarvis that crashes the game. It looks like I had to go back to a save from during the porn shoot.

 

[AJBeamer]

Any update on the new version of the incest patch?

 

[mehdiking1368]

file name in windows version say's 5.11 but it's 5.09. my save gave error and i thought it was from inc patch or all in one patch but when i opened earlier save from 5.08 version and i was going to skip until 5.10 , it said 5.09 version ended here thank for playing and gone to menu. what's happening?

 

[Zorlun]

it seems that v5.11 is not compatible with my saves from the end of v5.10 and even older saves have errors. Such as chapter 5 going out on town has an error about ignoring jarvis that crashes the game. It looks like I had to go back to a save from during the porn shoot.

I had a few fixes at a previous scenes yes the only to fix your saves is to remake them loading an older save from a previous update so that the fixes load correctly.

 

[ouch2020]

Any update on the new version of the incest patch?

Yes, I am still struggling with some bureaucrats, in a comical situation to try guaranteeing I get some money, so, I will start working on 5.11 only tomorrow, while dealing with that stuff, but it should come out mid next week.

 

[PickerLewd]

Hey people, what happened to Zorlun's PC in the end? Could it be fixed or will the endings remain on hold for a while?

I wish him all the best .