VN Ren'Py Rick and Morty: Another Way Home [r4.0] [Night Mirror]

Ntrsugar · Aug 27, 2023

Night Mirror said:
I'm going to talk over my full plans soon~ish (next month if we still haven't had any updates) for the future of this project, but sadly, continuation isn't in the cards. I will (at least) conclude the game, but there are many reasons I'm not continuing this project without Ferdafs. For now I'll just hit the two main points here.

The primary reason I'm done when Ferdafs stops (and after I've put an ending on it) is that it just isn't something I really have a lot of interest in doing. Converting assets and script from one game to another is fun, and while it isn't "fast" the time requirement is far less than making those assets from scratch.

Going into full development mode for a game is a full time job, not a fun hobby. I already have a job and I enjoy what I do. It's flexible enough to let me take on fun projects like this one, and makes me enough income that I don't need to charge for my time on things like this. Full time development is FAR less flexible (I'd be on it 10 hours a day 7 days a week), and my income would be based on people donating (rather than charging for my time).

The second reason is art. Look, I'm not a good artist, I'm just not. I can edit, I can trace, I can reuse stuff, but I can't really make new things; a major requirement for, you know, making new art and adding it to the game. The ending is already going to stress my limited ability far more than I would like, continuing is just too far beyond my skill set. Even with a full time artist (which, I don't have), it is still a massive amount of work and time on my end (planning, writing, coordinating, implementing, testing, revision...ing).

Additionally, if I was going to keep creating, I'd choose my own story/game. Then at least I'd feel a lot less bad about monetizing it (to be clear, no plans to do my own game at the moment).

All that being said, while promising the distant future is always an iffy bet, if the Unity game just goes on a long hiatus, I would have interest in resuming my work on it in the future. Who knows what the actual case would be. No idea what future me is going to want, but at the moment it is something I would do.

As to someone else continuing the renpy project, I'm mostly indifferent. If someone want's to make a mod of my mod, go for it, I certainly did. Heck, they don't even need my permission! I'd suggest giving it a different title, and don't be a dick and claim all the works as their own and put it behind a paywall or something, but outside of that, sure, whatever.

The assets are all there in the release, so it's free for anyone to modify and improve on. They don't even need any special tools, the code is just plain text (lots of people already make changes to it in their copies of the game), art is just pngs (for the uncompressed files), nothing really special or encrypted of anything.

Lastly, while I am stopping if Ferdafs does, the "when" I stop is less... defined. The conclusion won't be a fast thing, I expect it to be months of work spread over several releases, but again, I'll talk more details next month if still no update from Ferdafs.

Thank you for your work , bro.

xtinct · Aug 31, 2023

I hope u can continue this story from here on even if the original game is abandoned its too much of a waste and i wish we can see the endings

RM4ST3R · Sep 1, 2023

Hi, Trying to play in Joiplay always gives this error:

I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.

File "game/scripts/day_selector.rpy", line 713: invalid syntax
temp_day_name = f"Day {scene_select_display_day}: {current_day_name}"
^

File "game/scripts/sex_ui/sex_ui.rpy", line 4: u'roll_forward' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the screen statement.
roll_forward True
^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 7.4.8.1895
Fri Sep 1 09:17:20 2023

please, there's any way to fix it? i wanted to play this version of the game since is really confortable and more now that found joiplay with Renpy's support for mobile, but idk if i'm messing something or need an especific configuration

HRPuffNStuff · Sep 1, 2023

RM4ST3R said:
Hi, Trying to play in Joiplay always gives this error:

I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.

File "game/scripts/day_selector.rpy", line 713: invalid syntax
temp_day_name = f"Day {scene_select_display_day}: {current_day_name}"
^

File "game/scripts/sex_ui/sex_ui.rpy", line 4: u'roll_forward' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the screen statement.
roll_forward True
^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 7.4.8.1895
Fri Sep 1 09:17:20 2023

please, there's any way to fix it? i wanted to play this version of the game since is really confortable and more now that found joiplay with Renpy's support for mobile, but idk if i'm messing something or need an especific configuration

You are aware that there is an official Android port so you don't need to use JoiPlay, right?

I would try to extract the game again from the zip file and try to reinstall it in JoiPlay. Possibly a file did not extract properly.

HRPuffNStuff · Sep 1, 2023

xtinct said:
I hope u can continue this story from here on even if the original game is abandoned its too much of a waste and i wish we can see the endings

You did read the post from OP literally three posts above yours were they say that they are not going to continue the game if it is indeed abandoned. At most they will do an ending to wrap things up.

Night Mirror · Sep 1, 2023

RM4ST3R said:
Hi, Trying to play in Joiplay always gives this error:

I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.

File "game/scripts/day_selector.rpy", line 713: invalid syntax
temp_day_name = f"Day {scene_select_display_day}: {current_day_name}"
^

File "game/scripts/sex_ui/sex_ui.rpy", line 4: u'roll_forward' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the screen statement.
roll_forward True
^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 7.4.8.1895
Fri Sep 1 09:17:20 2023

please, there's any way to fix it? i wanted to play this version of the game since is really confortable and more now that found joiplay with Renpy's support for mobile, but idk if i'm messing something or need an especific configuration

This is an issue with the version of python you are using and the renpy engine installed by jolplay. I don't use Jolplay, so I can't speak to how to fix it on your end, but both issues you listed only occur in renpy 7x. The game is in renpy 8x (and python3), so you must be using both of those for it to work. Possibly just an update of the Jolplay app is needed?

I do release an android version as well, so that may work better for you.

AstaSilva69 · Sep 1, 2023

Call me fucked up but I wanted to see Beth birth Morty's child

billwanna · Sep 1, 2023

AstaSilva69 said:
Call me fucked up but I wanted to see Beth birth Morty's child

You're fucked up but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want the same thing

TheRedWiseman · Sep 2, 2023

Came across an issue where Morticia's Deep Dive event doesn't play correctly when selected from the Mindblower. Instead it starts after the sex scenes and Morty and Morticia return to the BBQ scene and ending the day at the waterpark.

Night Mirror · Sep 2, 2023

TheRedWiseman said:
Came across an issue where Morticia's Deep Dive event doesn't play correctly when selected from the Mindblower. Instead it starts after the sex scenes and Morty and Morticia return to the BBQ scene and ending the day at the waterpark.

Thanks for letting me know! This issue has already been reported and fixed for the next update (whenever that happens...)

ditorc77 · Sep 2, 2023

billwanna said:
You're fucked up but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want the same thing

Dont think it's fucked up as long as it stays in the fantasy

RM4ST3R · Sep 2, 2023

HRPuffNStuff said:
You are aware that there is an official Android port so you don't need to use JoiPlay, right?

I would try to extract the game again from the zip file and try to reinstall it in JoiPlay. Possibly a file did not extract properly.

to be honest i didn't saw the the android port... ffs me and my blind A... thanks btw

Black fire eruption · Sep 3, 2023

I'm thinking of creating a rpgm version just because I know people would hate it lol

Night Mirror · Sep 4, 2023

Project Future Plans

This is going to be the master post for me to direct people to when they have questions about where the game goes from here. I’ve formatted it like an FAQ, so you can hop to the section you're interested in (or read the whole thing if you want). I expect it to be a somewhat living post that will be updated as new questions come up, or I make progress on things, or our information on the Unity game changes.

While sections are in spoiler tags, there are no content spoilers here for anything (just long winded ramblings).

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