Ren'Py Completed Room for Rent [v16 beta] [CeLaVie Group]

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RogueKnightUK

Co-Writer: Retrieving The Past
Game Developer
Jul 10, 2018
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Sadly, (or perhaps not), this game really doesn't have a chance in hell. Not because of the choice of models, or the choice to launch with no sexual content, because choices like those can always be reconsidered. No, the problem that dooms this game from the outset is that the devs of this are just fantasists living in utter denial of reality.

They claim to have spent 2 years on this (which I very much doubt, and I don't think anyone here believes for a minute), to have focused that long on creating a "state of the art" game ... seriously, that's their claim. I mean, perhaps 2 years ago this might have been equivalent to some of the better ones ... maybe...

But 2 years ago you were not having to compete with the renders of games like "City of Broken Dreamers", or "Come Inside", or "Vivid Days", and this game barely rivals the renders of "Big Brother". 2 years ago, the plots and stories of most VNs were also simpler, more basic. "Boy has a penis, a mother and a sister. Put them all together with stupid situations" was good enough to work 2 years ago. This is so far off of the mark of "State of the Art" that you can't even give the dev kudos for big dreams, only a complete lack of awareness of the market he wants to enter and get $100 a month patreons subscription in.

The Patreon page boldly, and worse, boastfully, claims that there will be a separate image for every single line of text. That just tells me and any other literate reader that they have no writer, and worse, don't even understand the value of words. It also tells us that they have absolutely no concept of how to manage time and resources. If the whole story can only move forward at the pace of one line of text per image, and so they have to spend an hour of rendering to have a character say "Okay", then this project is going to crawl at an abominably slow pace, with about 5 minutes of actual play per update.

How a group of developers can be so obviously all about the money, yet at the same time have absolutely no clue at all about business, about production costs and priorities, is just mind-boggling to me.

Unfortunately, real life isn't so kind as I am to tell you where you went wrong, or why you fail, even when it makes you fall flat on your face. Real life just says "Nope" and lets complete and abject failure do all the explaining you'll get. The developers here, through their own decisions and attitudes, just lack the awareness of reality to avoid any such failure.
 

Gardan

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May 3, 2019
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The main picture of this game looks too "pedo" to me. And since i read some of comments from other members, I'm going to stay the f out from this rubbish.
 

Gumarijus

Active Member
Dec 3, 2017
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he must be rendering on a 486 to take 2 years. either that or one render a day. my system isn't the best of the best but i can render 4K images a lot faster then one a day LOL. just saying.
the story is a little bla also i quit after the first save point, just wasn't feeling it .
the renders are well done but the models are basically stock.
he has a good concept but i think more story development,better models and maybe a MC that does not have one foot already in the grave would help a lot( older man younger girl is all good dut this guy looks like if he even sees a boobie he will keel over dead from a heart attack.
and censoring a demo with a black jiffy marker not only is an isult to the players but to himself. It destroys any immersion to the game if it had any in the first place.

anyways my rant is over :)
MC maybe have one foot in the grave but he have Viagra and dead hapy
 
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batman666

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Jun 18, 2017
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Two years of work? Look at the top games on F95 and see what they've accomplished in 2 years and compare the quality and amount of content... I'm not saying the game is bad. The concept is fresh and the writing is entertaining. There's a bit over 800 renders... the problem here is - if we calculate a bit on that, that means that if we get monthly updates, then every update will have 33 new renders. Rendering at 4K and then downsizing it doesn't make too much sense if you use very blocky and default-looking G3 models.

I don't really like the self-praising on how great and "state of the art" the game is. Let the players decide. After reading that paragraph about how great everything is, my expectations were really high and I felt a bit disappointed.

If the game stays censored, I will probably not come back to this. To me it's the same thing like camgirls that don't show their faces or stuff like that. The devs state that they worked 2 years on this, how this game is the advent of a new era and then it doesn't even get clean censor bars but instead it looks like some drunk person has drawn black scribbling over every dick and tit. It's ridiculous.
 

Sonico

Engaged Member
Jul 21, 2018
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Am i the only one waiting for the girl to be anything but innocent or stupid and playing to the (quite typical) old lecher's fantasies? Wouldn't be an awesomely original twist, but would help getting it out of the "abandon all brains ye who enter here" level of play at least...

Not to mention, you have options but no saves, no rollback, no skip....
Even for a demo, that's some pretty lazy/limited/shoddy design.
Really not a great initial offering at all.
 
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botc76

The Crawling Chaos, Bringer of Strange Joy
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Oct 23, 2016
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I remember dropping DMD because of that shit. No matter how many fake choices of saying NO, the creepy shithead kept coming back asking to take pictures of her. I knew you would eventually be forced to "share" her.
Wow. Turns out you were completely and entirely wrong. Only people I'm sharing the d with in any of my playthroughs will be her bestie and dad's girlfriend and that's because I want that to happen. No forced sharing of any kind whatsoever.

The reason why there are options like that again and again is because sharing like almost everything else in DmD is depending on a points system, so if you actually want to share her you have to slowly push her towards that, just like with doing sexy stuff in public OR taking her anal virginity as well as the regular one.
 

botc76

The Crawling Chaos, Bringer of Strange Joy
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Oct 23, 2016
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That was your problem with the game ? Dude is trying to make a living and is a pretty straight up guy... honestly if people wanted the sharing to happen that badly, thats the one dude I would let Dee fuck around with !!

The creepy is how the dad is treated like the hero of the story saving Dee from Lucas (that guy was a rapist asshole), only to steal her form her mother and then try to share her with motherfucking Martin !! Yeah everytime I take my daughter to work and my cowerkers say what a cute young girl she is I immediately think to myself "hmmm that must mean they want to bang her, I should not let them compliment her".... Ohh wait no, people compliment other people's kids as a show of friendliness, not cause they want to fuck their kids !!

I think Hobo Santa here is going to go down a far worse route than DmD dad went, he will truly be a despicable sumbitch LOL...
I have to wonder, just why did you even start to play a game called frigging Dating my Daughter IF you didn't want the dad to bang the daughter.
And if that isn't your problem, I can only give you the same answer I gave to Tiffany, there will be no sharing in DmD, unless you want it.
You decide how creepy you want the dad to be, you know, apart from the whole daughter-banging thing, which is what the game is about.
Also, wasn't one of the rules here not to shit on one game in another game's thread?
 

Luckzor

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May 2, 2017
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Could be interesting but weird too, the girl has a baby face, too young and looks weird, like a 7 years old girl using mom's make up and use more than the necesary, and we can't forget the clothes, is like a 13 years old tomboy. If they change the models and make something more personalize they could get better results, more work in the characters and less images for dialogue.
 

TiffanyMonroe

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May 29, 2018
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Wow. Turns out you were completely and entirely wrong. Only people I'm sharing the d with in any of my playthroughs will be her bestie and dad's girlfriend and that's because I want that to happen. No forced sharing of any kind whatsoever.

The reason why there are options like that again and again is because sharing like almost everything else in DmD is depending on a points system, so if you actually want to share her you have to slowly push her towards that, just like with doing sexy stuff in public OR taking her anal virginity as well as the regular one.
So basically what you're saying is I should play again?
 
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Pedoune

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Jul 19, 2017
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If you are looking for incest or underage sexual contents - you will be disappointed as it will never occur in our games.
...Yeah, sure. Get back to me on that one when your female characters' faces don't look like those of 12-year-olds anymore.
 

LWtbo

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Feb 11, 2018
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wish you all the best with this game seems like it may be somewhat interesting might even be fun to play but I wont play it.
no offence its just the guy is too old for me, dont get me wronge but as an old fella myself I may wonna bang young girls who wouldn't. But I wouldn't actually want to watch myself or any old guy doing it. So good luck with your game but I not really gonna play a game as an old man. Besides I may be old but im still middle aged in my mind why would I want to spoil that Delusion.
 
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