VN Ren'Py Ripples [v0.8.0 Public] [Jestur]

[itfod]

This was an awesome update! Thanks!

 

[dolfe67]

Idk if it's just me but this update felt a bit underwhelming, considering the development time. Girl majority party with limited lewd content also with little to no plot development and extra characters thrown into the mix which we don't necessarily know their plot importance. Previous updates were pretty much dynamic with timeline changes etc. so that may be why. Still a great game and I want to think 0,8 was sorta an interlude episode.

Yeah the update was fine but not after 1 year of dev time. I hope it's not the dance animations which took a lot of time... while they are good, they are unnecessary imo, a few stills would have been enough

 

[dolfe67]

And I find it hard to believe that her daughter is not the MC's daughter, I even think she wanted to have sex with him to make sure he is the father, after all, she already knows everything and hopes to see him again 20 years in the future.

Just the fact that her daughter also disappeared says a lot.

The thing is it wouldn't be canon, as you don't have to romance her (her route is optional, as every girl I think?). But then who is the father? And who are the fathers of the other girls? Some randoms?

 

[MrBenny]

Now that the author is actively moving away from the daughters being MCs daughters, half the plot doesn't make sense anymore. With noone getting creampied, Luna didn't even have sex, it isn't even left ambiguous. No chick is going to remember that one out of town dude they saw at a party and might have had drunken sex with 20 years ago. There is no significant connection between MC and the mothers in present time.

Well to get pregnant you don't have to cream-pie a girl...especially if the dude almost cums, and then changes position to prolong the sex.

Though I'd prefer MC gave Jenny her first cream-pie at the end of chapter 8, considering he just took her cherry. So let's hope there will be morning sex with her in chapter 9.

Regards

 

[Jeycii_]

Luna is SUCH an amazing character, HOLY SHIT!

Out of all the girls in Ripples, she just shot through all the ranks and conquered the throne all by herself...

Although I thought it was very sad, to see that her nice, bubbly attitude was more of her working attire. But damn, she was so interesting throughout the party... damn damn...

 

[Otaku_Bob]

One of my favorites is a certain cosy harem game. I love it. I can't afford to stay subbed to the patreon, but I always 'buy' every update to show my support where I can. They largely did the same thing this latest update to one degree or another. Focused on a character no one particularly cares about, stealing time from the main plot and the girls they've been establishing since day one. And because she's isolated from the others, there's not even any interaction.

On the one hand, I wouldn't mind if it was a completed game. Content is content. But with releases on a lot of these big AVNs now taking 1+ years I can't help but look at deviations and side girls as a drag, knowing that every frame the author has dedicated to them is a frame I lose with the characters I actually care about.

As someone who had never used the skip button in this particular game I found myself skipping through the drawn out scenes with the newish girl, frustrated.

I still love the game, and will anticipate every release, but I'm starting to feel these long release cycles a lot more than I used to.

To me, this is one of the biggest drawbacks to the Patreon system. It encourages devs to draw out stories and send out all kinds of side stories. The result being a large portion of these games don't get completed. Heck the guy that did Stormside abandoned the project and STILL has his patreon up. Still has people giving him money monthly.

 

[Maviarab]

To me, this is one of the biggest drawbacks to the Patreon system. It encourages devs to draw out stories and send out all kinds of side stories. The result being a large portion of these games don't get completed. Heck the guy that did Stormside abandoned the project and STILL has his patreon up. Still has people giving him money monthly.

While I agree, if people are too stupid to ever check their bank account and see where their money is going....

 

[e6mill]

To me, this is one of the biggest drawbacks to the Patreon system. It encourages devs to draw out stories and send out all kinds of side stories. The result being a large portion of these games don't get completed. Heck the guy that did Stormside abandoned the project and STILL has his patreon up. Still has people giving him money monthly.

Real regular print authors are paid by the word...

 

[torpedogoat]

Real regular print authors are paid by the word...

Yes, that's not the difference. The difference is that they don't get paid before their work is finished.

That said, we are probably in the golden age of AVNs right now, and Patreon is an important factor in this. It's OK to look a gift horse in the mouth, but one shouldn't complain too loudly about the result. Without Patreon the AVN market would probably be significantly smaller, including less of the really good AVNs where no milking is going on, and including less of the AVNs with themes that make them ineligible for Patreon.

 

[HanBoston]

Spoiler: Jenny

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[Meiri]

To me, this is one of the biggest drawbacks to the Patreon system. It encourages devs to draw out stories and send out all kinds of side stories. The result being a large portion of these games don't get completed. Heck the guy that did Stormside abandoned the project and STILL has his patreon up. Still has people giving him money monthly.

Just don't support a Dev if you don't feel it is worth it to you. It's an investment, if you have the money and the patience to wait for a game then better for us who will also get to play it at some point.
I don't really mind that much that a game is taking too long because quality takes time and great stories need time to develop, this one already had some big points in previous chapters, so I don't think it is that bad.

 

[Elduriel]

Spoiler: Jenny

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she is missing/dead too soooo...

 

[mike12013]

Spoiler: Jenny

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Giulia I believe. It's mentioned in episode 3. Dialogue from Tiffany, when eating Breakfast with her and Darcy

t "I know..."
t "Worst day of my entire life. I think about it every day."
t "And the events that followed a week later just make me sick to my stomach."
t "Little Giulia just vanished without a trace..."
t "And the cops had the nerve to suggest that {i}maybe{/i} she ran away."
t "*sarcastically* Yeah, an eight-year-old girl loses her mother and decides to run away. Bullshit!"

 

[HanBoston]

Giulia I believe. It's mentioned in episode 3. Dialogue from Tiffany, when eating Breakfast with her and Darcy

t "I know..."
t "Worst day of my entire life. I think about it every day."
t "And the events that followed a week later just make me sick to my stomach."
t "Little Giulia just vanished without a trace..."
t "And the cops had the nerve to suggest that {i}maybe{/i} she ran away."
t "*sarcastically* Yeah, an eight-year-old girl loses her mother and decides to run away. Bullshit!"

from episode 3, no wonder I forgot about it

 

[BCGuy]

I loaded up episode 8 and my last save (The diner scene: "Going to make this a night to remember"). It immediately went to a screen that says "End of Episode 7, thanks for playing, etc." No Episode 8. I think I saw on page 609 a couple of people with similar issues, but no posted solution except maybe to do it without the mod. I went back to a much earlier save, played through and had the same result--game ended without going to episode 8. Any ideas?

EDIT: I think I figured it out. I loaded the multi-mod and it is just v0.7.0. Guess the 0.8.0 version of the mod is not available yet. That must be my issue.

 

[mike12013]

from episode 3, no wonder I forgot about it

Yeah i was in the middle of replaying when the update came out

 

[Andolt]

This update is really nice. It's exactly what I expected. Most of it was party locations, but there were some really strong scenes at the end. And I'm really excited for 0.9. I think there will be a huge leap in the main story and character development.

I hope we see more of Skyler, especially because I think she was the one who interpreted our scene with Luna. Maybe we'll even get three at the end of the story. But I hope it won't be close.

 

[Maccabbee]

I loaded up episode 8 and my last save (The diner scene: "Going to make this a night to remember"). It immediately went to a screen that says "End of Episode 7, thanks for playing, etc." No Episode 8. I think I saw on page 609 a couple of people with similar issues, but no posted solution except maybe to do it without the mod. I went back to a much earlier save, played through and had the same result--game ended without going to episode 8. Any ideas?

EDIT: I think I figured it out. I loaded the multi-mod and it is just v0.7.0. Guess the 0.8.0 version of the mod is not available yet. That must be my issue.

I think the vanilla one goes public tomorrow, it should be on his patreon this morning. No idea how long the I one will take.

 

[alex13_zen]

This update is really nice. It's exactly what I expected. Most of it was party locations, but there were some really strong scenes at the end. And I'm really excited for 0.9. I think there will be a huge leap in the main story and character development.

I hope we see more of Skyler, especially because I think she was the one who interpreted our scene with Luna. Maybe we'll even get three at the end of the story. But I hope it won't be close.

Why do you mean when you say Skylar 'was the one who interpreted our scene with Luna'?

 

[Andolt]

Now that the author is actively moving away from the daughters being MCs daughters, half the plot doesn't make sense anymore. With noone getting creampied, Luna didn't even have sex, it isn't even left ambiguous. No chick is going to remember that one out of town dude they saw at a party and might have had drunken sex with 20 years ago. There is no significant connection between MC and the mothers in present time.

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