VN Ren'Py Rave [Ep.1 v0.1.1] [onemc]

[onemc]

is she is his aunt step mother,so it mean she is his mom step mother too?the aunt is bad,is the step mother evil too?

Damn, how do I answer this without any spoilers? xD We're talking about the side content from episodes 5–6 here. Let's just say this will be clarified in the future—it's already written.

 

[Eleanorduval]

Damn, how do I answer this without any spoilers? xD We're talking about the side content from episodes 5–6 here. Let's just say this will be clarified in the future—it's already written.

okay next update just ep 2?

 

[onemc]

okay next update just ep 2?

That's correct. There seem to be trend to release 1/2 of Episode, but I don't know... Will see.

In Ep. 2 new LI, new side girl(s) and story starts to unfold \o/

 

[Jaded 404]

Anyone got a name of the artist or songs? Shazam is no help at all...

 

[MiltonPowers]

Anyone got a name of the artist or songs? Shazam is no help at all...

Check the 'audio' folder inside the 'game' folder.

 

[hoshin0119]

...aren't to everyone's liking...?
You're making a hasty generalization.
There are actually many people who enjoy NTR, sharing, swinging, femdom, and maledom.
Personally, I hope this game includes at least some optional content involving NTR or sharing/swinging.

I'm curious about something... The people getting upset or disagreeing here — they’re all supporters of the developer, right? It’s not like they’re claiming some kind of right without having contributed even a single cent, is it?

Of course, I do support this developer, but I never asked them to include NTR. That’s just my personal taste, and I was only joking about it here.
In reality, I’d rather the developer stick to their original vision than be swayed by backer demands — that usually results in a more polished and coherent game.
Seems like my comment got more hate than I expected. But really, it was just a joke — take it easy, friends.

 

[Acsuka]

Just a small note: When you leave MC Zoe's house, you get a text message from her. However, the first sentence of the message only makes sense if you let Zoe tell you what just happened... However, if you don't let her tell you and you storm out in anger, then the text is illogical... I hope I'm not the only one with this "bug", I tried both options, the same message...

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[gregers]

Just a small note: When you leave MC Zoe's house, you get a text message from her. However, the first sentence of the message only makes sense if you let Zoe tell you what just happened... However, if you don't let her tell you and you storm out in anger, then the text is illogical... I hope I'm not the only one with this "bug", I tried both options, the same message...

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It's been discussed repeatedly over the last few pages. Should be gone by the next update:

In the end, I made it so that Zoe wouldn't dare to text MC if he storms out. Thank you for pointing it out /\

 

[onemc]

Anyone got a name of the artist or songs? Shazam is no help at all...

I can't resist to ask which song(s) you liked

 

[goulet1995]

Free roam in Rave like in other VNs means you find yourself in a closed environment—let’s say, a house. You’ll have the choice to explore it, choose which characters to interact with, and if you revisit places or characters, they might not be there anymore. Some choices or comibinations can trigger events for example. (example you can try to have some scene with every girl or none) Everything is controlled only through a game choice menu. (Cause I hated clicking around in some VNs )

I wouldn't go so far as to call it a sandbox—just for occasional skippable free roam events, though.

I'm putting in extra effort to make almost everything skippable, and sometimes going further by including post-choice moments where the MC can express whether they enjoyed the situation or not (with a comment and fitting music). This isn’t just for tone, but also to influence future situations.

Some things that will be skippable in future episodes aren’t skippable in the current version (like the visit to Zoe's dorm), simply because it's a significant portion of playtime—even storming out is.


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what do you mean when you say skippable usually skippable means that no matter what the scene happens but the player has the choice to watch it or not. If its avoidable that generally means that a choice leads to s different path where that scene never happened most people prefer avoidable option myself for example i dislike lesbian/girl on girl stuff stuff if i can avoid it i will usually playa game but if that content is only skippable then i likely wouldnt play the game

 

[onemc]

what do you mean when you say skippable usually skippable means that no matter what the scene happens but the player has the choice to watch it or not. If its avoidable that generally means that a choice leads to s different path where that scene never happened most people prefer avoidable option myself for example i dislike lesbian/girl on girl stuff stuff if i can avoid it i will usually playa game but if that content is only skippable then i likely wouldnt play the game

That was just poor wording on my part — what I really meant was avoidable. Lesbian/gay themes aren't part of Rave aVN (despite the potential for a future threesome scene or scenes).

 

[SteelyDan14]

For the love of F95Zone dev, please, please, please do not add free roam! I know you said it's coming but free roams suck! They blow! They take you out of the story and they never DO anything. You just click around randomly with no sense of direction and nothing comes out of it. Only a few devs have figured out how to make them work but the majority fail hard.

Do you take bribes? Send me your dets and I'll cashapp you. Seriously, I know it's tempting to add free roam. It makes it seem like it's a game, but it's not it's a VISUAL NOVEL. Don't fall into the trap and make us pick up trash or hide the panties before the LI walks in. You want to add something? Add hidden images that unlock a gallery or something.

Do a search here for the highest rated games and in the first 30 only 1 has a free roam and that's BaDIK, and it's not even really a free roam it's a mini sandbox. So that should tell you something, if none of the top 30 AVNS use free roam, then maybe you shouldn't add it.

Even Drifty, who created the master piece LoF and is trying free roam in his new AVN, can't figure it out. Hell, I spent the first part of his game cleaning up trash. It's like I warped back 25 years and was playing Leisure Suit Larry or something.

OMG, if I had one wish, fuck world piece, I would wish for no more free roams or sudo gamification in AVNs. Seriously. Just tell us your story, show us some babes and let us make some meaningful decisions. That's all you gotta do.

Phew.... I need a paracetamol.

 

[KlausMik]

There is a commented text in the code. Will it be added in the next update?

 

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Short update has me hungry for more. All three girls are beautiful and I already know I'm going to have a problem choosing who to go for. Already hard to pick between sleeping with Moni or Skylar.

For the love of F95Zone dev, please, please, please do not add free roam! I know you said it's coming but free roams suck! They blow! They take you out of the story and they never DO anything. You just click around randomly with no sense of direction and nothing comes out of it. Only a few devs have figured out how to make them work but the majority fail hard.

Do you take bribes? Send me your dets and I'll cashapp you. Seriously, I know it's tempting to add free roam. It makes it seem like it's a game, but it's not it's a VISUAL NOVEL. Don't fall into the trap and make us pick up trash or hide the panties before the LI walks in. You want to add something? Add hidden images that unlock a gallery or something.

Do a search here for the highest rated games and in the first 30 only 1 has a free roam and that's BaDIK, and it's not even really a free roam it's a mini sandbox. So that should tell you something, if none of the top 30 AVNS use free roam, then maybe you shouldn't add it.

Even Drifty, who created the master piece LoF and is trying free roam in his new AVN, can't figure it out. Hell, I spent the first part of his game cleaning up trash. It's like I warped back 25 years and was playing Leisure Suit Larry or something.

OMG, if I had one wish, fuck world piece, I would wish for no more free roams or sudo gamification in AVNs. Seriously. Just tell us your story, show us some babes and let us make some meaningful decisions. That's all you gotta do.

Phew.... I need a paracetamol.

Don't listen to this man. Free roam is great. Makes it feel like I'm doing something more than just reading text.

 

[onemc]

For the love of F95Zone dev, please, please, please do not add free roam! I know you said it's coming but free roams suck! They blow! They take you out of the story and they never DO anything. You just click around randomly with no sense of direction and nothing comes out of it. Only a few devs have figured out how to make them work but the majority fail hard.

Do you take bribes? Send me your dets and I'll cashapp you. Seriously, I know it's tempting to add free roam. It makes it seem like it's a game, but it's not it's a VISUAL NOVEL. Don't fall into the trap and make us pick up trash or hide the panties before the LI walks in. You want to add something? Add hidden images that unlock a gallery or something.

Do a search here for the highest rated games and in the first 30 only 1 has a free roam and that's BaDIK, and it's not even really a free roam it's a mini sandbox. So that should tell you something, if none of the top 30 AVNS use free roam, then maybe you shouldn't add it.

Even Drifty, who created the master piece LoF and is trying free roam in his new AVN, can't figure it out. Hell, I spent the first part of his game cleaning up trash. It's like I warped back 25 years and was playing Leisure Suit Larry or something.

OMG, if I had one wish, fuck world piece, I would wish for no more free roams or sudo gamification in AVNs. Seriously. Just tell us your story, show us some babes and let us make some meaningful decisions. That's all you gotta do.

Phew.... I need a paracetamol.

What I'm trying to do is include free roam without any clicking—just using a choice menu.
Think of it like hanging out with Moni or Skye, but on steroids.
Traditional free roam, like you see in other games, won't be part of Rave.
(I'm personally not a big fan of clicking around—like getting lost in the mansion on first walthrough in BADIK, but liked the freedom.. so.. ) We will see how well I do.

There is a commented text in the code. Will it be added in the next update?

Yes, this will be included—it's only commented out to avoid interrupting the gameplay. (Similar to texting with Zoe at the pub, there's a disabled option to skip visiting her dorm entirely.) The game is still short, and I've vowed not to use any fillers.

Short update has me hungry for more. All three girls are beautiful and I already know I'm going to have a problem choosing who to go for. Already hard to pick between sleeping with Moni or Skylar.

Do you have a favourite?

 

[onemc]

If you haven't played the full Episode 1 yet and prefer to discover Easter eggs on your own… skip this one.

This is the public part of a Patreon post: Things U might've missed in Rave—I thought I'd share it.

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[MiltonPowers]

Do you have a favourite?

I know you didn't ask me, but Moni (definitely Moni) for me, But I've already set paths for Her, Skye and Zoe too.

I don't really like Amelia's model, so I probably won't do one for her (if she's even a MG).

I liked the look of Michelle, so hoping she might turn out to be a MG (and I don't think I've seen a preview of Chloe yet).

 

[onemc]

I know you didn't ask me, but Moni (definitely Moni) for me, But I've already set paths for Her, Skye and Zoe too.

I don't really like Amelia's model, so I probably won't do one for her (if she's even a MG).

I liked the look of Michelle, so hoping she might turn out to be a MG (and I don't think I've seen a preview of Chloe yet).

Anything you like or don't like - bring it on

Amelia is still being finetuned for Ep 2 and new LI will make an appearance.

 

[MiltonPowers]

Anything you like or don't like - bring it on

Amelia is still finetuned for Ep 2 and new LI will make an appearance.

I noticed in your previews that Amelia slowly changed in appearance, so I'll see what she's like once we can see her without a blindfold.

I actually like the improvements from the demo. I liked the demo, but I felt it was lacking something, but couldn't quite put my finger on what it actually was (maybe it was just the shirt ). When I played 0.1 from the beginning again, it felt better, but I still can't work out what it was that you did differently. Perhaps, it was just getting to know the girls a little better and see what they were about (that you didn't in the demo). I initially said I wouldn't touch Zoe, but after 0.1 decided to give her a path. And I loved that Moni gave him shit about the shirt.

The things that usually turn me off at the start weren't there with Rave. Bad Engrish (I do quite a lot of beta testing/proofreading for devs), and I've seen some really bad ones, but yours flowed quite nicely. Forced sex scenes & forced fetishes (my #1 hate, but everything was optional). Pointless dialogue (we don't need to know everything, but we don't want to be completely oblivious either, I think you got the mix pretty well). The idiot best friend (OK, that one was there ).

I'm pretty much ok with anything in AVNs, as long as I can choose to avoid, so giving us the player agency to make those choices will always be the #1 thing for me. So, I'm pretty happy with what we have so far and look forward to where it goes from here.

 

[onemc]

I noticed in your previews that Amelia slowly changed in appearance, so I'll see what she's like once we can see her without a blindfold.

I actually like the improvements from the demo. I liked the demo, but I felt it was lacking something, but couldn't quite put my finger on what it actually was (maybe it was just the shirt ). When I played 0.1 from the beginning again, it felt better, but I still can't work out what it was that you did differently. Perhaps, it was just getting to know the girls a little better and see what they were about (that you didn't in the demo). I initially said I wouldn't touch Zoe, but after 0.1 decided to give her a path. And I loved that Moni gave him shit about the shirt.

The things that usually turn me off at the start weren't there with Rave. Bad Engrish (I do quite a lot of beta testing/proofreading for devs), and I've seen some really bad ones, but yours flowed quite nicely. Forced sex scenes & forced fetishes (my #1 hate, but everything was optional). Pointless dialogue (we don't need to know everything, but we don't want to be completely oblivious either, I think you got the mix pretty well). The idiot best friend (OK, that one was there ).

I'm pretty much ok with anything in AVNs, as long as I can choose to avoid, so giving us the player agency to make those choices will always be the #1 thing for me. So, I'm pretty happy with what we have so far and look forward to where it goes from here.

Thank you for this! /\

I'll do my best to overdeliver (both quantity and quality) constantly