VN Ren'Py Radiant [v0.7.1] [RK Studios]

[Uthuriel]

The appeal of visual novels is to have an element of realism or at least plausibility, so that the player can simulate the aspects of dating/courtship/seduction that they crave irl and feel like they are accomplishing something when the play the game. To have all the girls just throw themselves at the MC makes the resulting sexual encounters feel unearned and takes the thrill of the hunt, so to speak, out of the experience. If I wanted to look at lewds without experiencing the hunt I would just go on sad panda or pull up a video or something.

That's a cool story bro, but you missed my whole point.

 

[animalrapist]

That's a cool story bro, but you missed my whole point.

No I didn't. You are being willfully ignorant

 

[Spfjolietjake]

The appeal of visual novels is to have an element of realism or at least plausibility, so that the player can simulate the aspects of dating/courtship/seduction that they crave irl and feel like they are accomplishing something when the play the game.

No, please don't speak for others. This may be what appeals to you, but there are a ton of us that isn't the case for.
Speaking for others is willfully ignorant

 

[Badjourasmix]

The appeal of visual novels is to have an element of realism or at least plausibility, so that the player can simulate the aspects of dating/courtship/seduction that they crave irl and feel like they are accomplishing something when the play the game. To have all the girls just throw themselves at the MC makes the resulting sexual encounters feel unearned and takes the thrill of the hunt, so to speak, out of the experience. If I wanted to look at lewds without experiencing the hunt I would just go on sad panda or pull up a video or something.

By that logic if you want to experience the "hunt" you can just go out into the real world and seduce a real woman

 

[animalrapist]

By that logic if you want to experience the "hunt" you can just go out into the real world and seduce a real woman

Ayy baby not every day is a weekend

 

[Hellraezer]

Small time developers will remain small time developers.
Big developers remain big because they release a finished product, and if there is a problem, they immediately fix said problem.
This is why from this point forward, I will only focus on completed games. I'm tired of ending up paying out the ass for a product that isn't even finished yet. If I have to wait years to finish a game, and I'm paying $5 a month, I would end up spending hundreds for the game that isn't even finished yet.
So, sorry developers, you'll get no more money from me until I start seeing a return on my investment.
Unless you love giving your money away, you might consider doing the same.

 

[dolfe67]

This game started serious with first update, trying to make us cry. But then in the next 2 it became a porn parody

 

[CHAD-MAN]

By that logic if you want to experience the "hunt" you can just go out into the real world and seduce a real woman

If that was possible these foruns would be empty and no one would play AVNs

 

[LSC82]

The appeal of visual novels is to have an element of realism or at least plausibility, so that the player can simulate the aspects of dating/courtship/seduction that they crave irl and feel like they are accomplishing something when the play the game. To have all the girls just throw themselves at the MC makes the resulting sexual encounters feel unearned and takes the thrill of the hunt, so to speak, out of the experience. If I wanted to look at lewds without experiencing the hunt I would just go on sad panda or pull up a video or something.

I would say most games here require some level of "buy in".
I "bought in" to the fact that young girls who never met their father until they were of sexual age might have some weird feelings towards him...
I bought in to that despite the fact that it's a way out there premise, it's the fundamental stone of the story which if you don't buy into, it doesn't work.

Now just because i bought in to "one" way out there premise doesn't mean you should start stacking up similarly ludicrous storylines like boxes, the grieving parent from that original accident who can't keep it in their pants around you, the virgin mother...

 

[Badjourasmix]

I don't think that the triplets being attracted to the mc is that unrealistic of a scenario. A lot of women who grow up without a father figure develop interest in older men, even though he is their father he is basically a stranger to them because he was never present in their lives. The virgin mother thing is also not that crazy, she wants a kid but doesn't want a sexual partner so she just goes the artificial insemination route with a sperm donor. The only thing right now for me that is "way out there" is the mother of the murdered kid being instantly attracted to the mc.

 

[dolfe67]

Women having kids without a partner is the MOST real life plausible element as it happens thousands of times a year.

Perhaps but I bet there is less then one out of thousands who's young and virgin.

Also anyone who actually deals with grief will tell you there is never any way to predict how it will affect someone so the thought that she desires a young, (by all accounts) attractive, man who is tied to her loss but may not be a monster like she wanted to imagine isn't super crazy either. I would bet it is more rare than girls who want to make out with their dad but I would also bet any amount of money that it exists in real life, both of them in fact.

Again it might exist that a woman fuck her son's killer after seeing him two times to deal with grief, but highly unlikely.


When you add up all the unlikely situations it becomes too silly. No problem with porn parody but I didn't have that impression after first update.

 

[S1nedd]

Gosh, some devs here have two or three games in developing and they're giving updates once 2 or 3 months on every one of them, This guys just doesn't even try

 

[Spfjolietjake]

Gosh, some devs here have two or three games in developing and they're giving updates once 2 or 3 months on every one of them, This guys just doesn't even try

One tries and releases consistently the other is still on the farm pulling udders. Sad one of them is getting the bad name because of the other.

 

[Golden Trump]

Gosh, some devs here have two or three games in developing and they're giving updates once 2 or 3 months on every one of them, This guys just doesn't even try

Why bother trying when they can milk enough money from patrons. There are literally devs even worse than this with one update in a year or two and still minting a lot of money ,These devs realize that fact . Nothing is gonna change untill their supporters on patron do something about it.

 

[Darklord_1965]

Why bother trying when they can milk enough money from patrons. There are literally devs even worse than this with one update in a year or two and still minting a lot of money ,These devs realize that fact . Nothing is gonna change untill their supporters on patron do something about it.

Absolutely right about that, though I have to admit that by milking his patrons and procrastinating the way he has he made this thread WAY MORE interesting than his VN. I'll have to come back and check this thread again in 7 months.. Cheers

 

[Hellraezer]

No I didn't. You are being willfully ignorant

I don't think it's something that's avoidable, honestlty.

 

[Hellraezer]

I don't think that the triplets being attracted to the mc is that unrealistic of a scenario. A lot of women who grow up without a father figure develop interest in older men, even though he is their father he is basically a stranger to them because he was never present in their lives. The virgin mother thing is also not that crazy, she wants a kid but doesn't want a sexual partner so she just goes the artificial insemination route with a sperm donor. The only thing right now for me that is "way out there" is the mother of the murdered kid being instantly attracted to the mc.

I guess the DEV thought it was a great idea then couldn't think of a way to continue the story line, so they said, "fuck it" and had her seduce the MC. That's the way so many of these DEVs go. "If you can't beat 'em fuck 'em!"
In the latest update, friends of the 3-daughters is coming to see them. I would put money on it that she will too, find a way to get romantically involved with the MC. I'm hoping that's not the case, but the way this story is developing, I'm almost sure that it will happen that way.
So, I'm not sure if I should be excited to finish the game or not. Sometimes, I just want a true daddy simulator, because I miss my daughter IRL, and playing a VN is the next best thing to her being here.

 

[BurnerGuy]

I don't like to be a dick towards devs because I know these games actually require a lot of work to make but I was just checking their patreon and one of the goals there is "Help us climb back to 1500(patrons)". If you really want to regain those patrons it would be a lot easier if you released updates more frequently. I saw someone saying in this thread that the update will be released in April. Assuming that is true, the wait between updates would be 9 months. The lowest tier on their patreon is $5, it's not really reasonable to expect people to pay $45 for an update.

Exactly. Like it or not, patreon is a two way street. People give you money because they like what you made and want to help you make more of it. After a while, that enthusiasm drops if there's nothing coming in return, and you can't really win those people back. They're gone. You can't go, "I know you've already paid $100 for a game that's been updated twice, but you really should keep supporting us because..." Because what? The game will be awesome a few years down the road?

So who replaces them? You have to have a lot of new players who have found your game, and that's more likely if people are talking about it and generating hype. No one's talking about Radiant because there's nothing to say anymore. 4K wallpapers? Hints about vague things that might be slowing down progress? The branching paths that are apparently going to be so complex that they require months of extra coding for updates that have barely implemented those paths? (Coding is my bread and butter, so based on the time this has taken so far I'm assuming Dammed has been setting up a neural network in the game and the girls will be AI driven eventually. Seems like overkill for what has amounted so far to a basic VN with minimal choice or interaction).

 

[Queen Daenerys]

The appeal of visual novels is to have an element of realism or at least plausibility, so that the player can simulate the aspects of dating/courtship/seduction that they crave irl and feel like they are accomplishing something when the play the game. To have all the girls just throw themselves at the MC makes the resulting sexual encounters feel unearned and takes the thrill of the hunt, so to speak, out of the experience. If I wanted to look at lewds without experiencing the hunt I would just go on sad panda or pull up a video or something.

Next you're gonna want competition...

 

[Badjourasmix]

I guess the DEV thought it was a great idea then couldn't think of a way to continue the story line, so they said, "fuck it" and had her seduce the MC. That's the way so many of these DEVs go. "If you can't beat 'em fuck 'em!"
In the latest update, friends of the 3-daughters is coming to see them. I would put money on it that she will too, find a way to get romantically involved with the MC. I'm hoping that's not the case, but the way this story is developing, I'm almost sure that it will happen that way.
So, I'm not sure if I should be excited to finish the game or not. Sometimes, I just want a true daddy simulator, because I miss my daughter IRL, and playing a VN is the next best thing to her being here.

I don't mind if more girls end up interested in the mc. I think it's obvious that at least one of the paths will be a harem path. I think the issue right now seems to be that the devs are adding too many things at once and the triplets almost feel secondary. In just a couple updates you already have to deal with the mother of the kid you killed, you have the asshole neighbour, you have the crazy chick from the restaurant and you have your coworker with her kid.