Ren'Py Raven [Segment 05] [Midnight Stories]

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n00bi

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looking at the screenshots i see many sexy girls.. but no animation tag for the game. :(
hope it will get animations at some point.
 

Fapmaister

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3 damn updates (segments) not one single content expect nudity ?

but i did love the scene when MC going wrath of the lich king on those cultist and slaughter them and turn their skeletons as shadow drones.
 
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tossler

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Saves are totally broken in the Mac version. Once I quit the game, attempting to load a save results in either an error page or it simply loads the beginning of the story.
 

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Overview:
Mostly kinetic. But you can choose which girl's route you want to see first.
You can consider the game to have two parts: Story and Free Roam.
All the stories will be available on the story screen, in MC's bedroom (Raven symbol)
The free roam is only for the players who want to see the characters' lives outside the story
and enjoy sexual content with them after their stories are completed.
The story progression will affect the free roam.​

Thread Updated: 2024-02-18
Release Date: 2024-02-17
Developer: Midnight Stories -
Censored: No
Version: Segment 03
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac
Language: English
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I haven't downloaded it yet but I Did read the notes. Good For You, explaining clearly, what's in the game, what you won't put in the game, and direction you want the game to go. If anyone complains about the subject matter after that, then Clearly they're brain dead people looking for another cheap thrill. Salute to you and good luck.
 
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L3z1l3

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Bro, it's in the overview in the OP. That's literally in the first text you read when you come on this thread.
" All the stories will be available on the story screen, in MC's bedroom (Raven symbol) "
So you mean people should read the forum to find out what to do in the game? Do you think that's good gameplay design?
 

Arassei

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So you mean people should read the forum to find out what to do in the game? Do you think that's good gameplay design?
If you come to a thread and download a game without even read the things on the same post, there is a problem.

I indeed think my gameplay design is good. After the prologue, you are in MC's bedroom, with an icon much bigger than others. That icon disapears when you change rooms.
If it doesn't catch your eyes, then the problem is not the design but your glasses.
It's not the game's fault if you rush it like a madman to find some lewd scenes without paying attention.

Have a nice day.
 
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CamaroFan432

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If you come to a thread and download a game without even read the things on the same post, there is a problem.

I indeed think my gameplay design is good. After the prologue, you are in MC's bedroom, with an icon much bigger than others. That icon disapears when you change rooms.
If it doesn't catch your eyes, then the problem is not the design but your glasses.
It's not the game's fault if you rush it like a madman to find some lewd scenes without paying attention.

Have a nice day.
Gave it yesterday a first try, here my feedback:

I sadly have to agree with the complaints about your design choice. If you aren't aware of it, the trigger for the actual events looks more like a replay function and not as something to use for progression. And for now the sandbox part feels more like a waste of time for your and also the player. Simply because there is nothing to do. And after skipping through 2 ingame weeks you've seen literally every "scene" of all 4 girls. It's wasted potential and bad design choices alltogether. The lack of variety on the girls was beaten to death already, so I won't my piece of that.

In the end, you do you, but you should listen to people, who are giving honest, fair and constructive feedback, especially if it concerns the gameplay mechanics. Just my opinion of course.
 

Arassei

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Gave it yesterday a first try, here my feedback:

I sadly have to agree with the complaints about your design choice. If you aren't aware of it, the trigger for the actual events looks more like a replay function and not as something to use for progression. And for now the sandbox part feels more like a waste of time for your and also the player. Simply because there is nothing to do. And after skipping through 2 ingame weeks you've seen literally every "scene" of all 4 girls. It's wasted potential and bad design choices alltogether. The lack of variety on the girls was beaten to death already, so I won't my piece of that.

In the end, you do you, but you should listen to people, who are giving honest, fair and constructive feedback, especially if it concerns the gameplay mechanics. Just my opinion of course.
Like you said, I should listen to constructive feedback. And when there will be one, I will do.

I'm well aware that without the girls route, and then, no bonus sex content in the freeroam, it make it a little useless.
But still, if you watched all of the basic interaction, you know more about the characters.
You know that Leane like compliments on her intelligence, that she sucks in a kitchen, you know that the mom is a gamer and farms a lot, that Claire doesn't like studying, that Camille download movies and watches them on her laptop while running, etc...
So yeah, these are not sexual content, sorry to make you all waste your time on that freeroam of Hell, but I think it's still important. It's a daily-life moment with your family.
Maybe you all prefer freeroam where you have to grind like crazy. Well, there is not that thing in this game. You unlock the bonus in the freeroam after playing the story:
The story has a first part (5 segments), like a giant prologue. This giant prologue will be used in the girls' route (the 3 bastard classmates in Rebecca story, Roger and Annita in Meredith story, Captain Light in her own story, the skeletons and MC's power in, like, every girls' story, etc...), so that giant prologue needs to be.
After that, you will have the girls' route where the relationship between MC and the girl will evolve and will lead to their first sexual experience.
And after that, like if you were the man of that girl, you will be able to repeat the experience with her, after finding her in the freeroam.
And so, no, I don't think it's a bad gameplay design: you are in your house, and there is no option to fuck, because for now, the girls are still "just" your family.

At first, I wanted to put the freeroam after the 5 segments, but I didn't want players to think it would just be a VN, and later, throw a freeroam at their face out of nowhere and pissed them off.
At least, they know there is one since the begining.
But they are still pissed-off because the freeroam is empty, so... fuck my good intention.

People just don't have patience. The game is still young, no sexual content yet.
There will be sexual content in 3 updates (segment 4: no, segment 5: no, first girl's route: yes).

And for the lack of variety of the girls, it's just my personnal choice, I have a lot a girls with dark hairs and dark clothes because it's the style of the game, like the MC and his "dark" powers. You like it or don't.
As it is my personnal choice making the girls look alike because they are from the same family.
 

RobJoy

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If you come to a thread and download a game without even read the things on the same post, there is a problem.

I indeed think my gameplay design is good. After the prologue, you are in MC's bedroom, with an icon much bigger than others. That icon disapears when you change rooms.
If it doesn't catch your eyes, then the problem is not the design but your glasses.
It's not the game's fault if you rush it like a madman to find some lewd scenes without paying attention.

Have a nice day.
No. Not really.

Any and ALL games should be self explanatory, not requiring reading beforehand.

THAT is how a game must be designed.
 

CamaroFan432

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Like you said, I should listen to constructive feedback. And when there will be one, I will do.

I'm well aware that without the girls route, and then, no bonus sex content in the freeroam, it make it a little useless.
But still, if you watched all of the basic interaction, you know more about the characters.
You know that Leane like compliments on her intelligence, that she sucks in a kitchen, you know that the mom is a gamer and farms a lot, that Claire doesn't like studying, that Camille download movies and watches them on her laptop while running, etc...
So yeah, these are not sexual content, sorry to make you all waste your time on that freeroam of Hell, but I think it's still important. It's a daily-life moment with your family.
Maybe you all prefer freeroam where you have to grind like crazy. Well, there is not that thing in this game. You unlock the bonus in the freeroam after playing the story:
The story has a first part (5 segments), like a giant prologue. This giant prologue will be used in the girls' route (the 3 bastard classmates in Rebecca story, Roger and Annita in Meredith story, Captain Light in her own story, the skeletons and MC's power in, like, every girls' story, etc...), so that giant prologue needs to be.
After that, you will have the girls' route where the relationship between MC and the girl will evolve and will lead to their first sexual experience.
And after that, like if you were the man of that girl, you will be able to repeat the experience with her, after finding her in the freeroam.
And so, no, I don't think it's a bad gameplay design: you are in your house, and there is no option to fuck, because for now, the girls are still "just" your family.

At first, I wanted to put the freeroam after the 5 segments, but I didn't want players to think it would just be a VN, and later, throw a freeroam at their face out of nowhere and pissed them off.
At least, they know there is one since the begining.
But they are still pissed-off because the freeroam is empty, so... fuck my good intention.

People just don't have patience. The game is still young, no sexual content yet.
There will be sexual content in 3 updates (segment 4: no, segment 5: no, first girl's route: yes).

And for the lack of variety of the girls, it's just my personnal choice, I have a lot a girls with dark hairs and dark clothes because it's the style of the game, like the MC and his "dark" powers. You like it or don't.
As it is my personnal choice making the girls look alike because they are from the same family.
You obviously didn't get what I meant, making it more obvious would be wasting my time. RobJoy however got it, I thank him for that. I will stay away until you start to listen to feedback and your "game" is more fleshed out. I see no need to clutter this thread by trying to explain you what people mean, when they criticize your design choices, when they made it obvious enough, me included. And having an almost empty sandbox just "to show the day to day live" is nothing people were asking for, same goes for grinding. Go look at other sandbox games, the grindy ones get even more backlash than those without.

Best of luck, I'm out!
 
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