Ren'Py Rovering to Sussex [Ch. 3 v0.3.5] [Zargon_games & RFB]

[quorkboy]

I enjoyed this. I'm a fan of sharing and very few VNs feature it at all. I hope there will be more options for sharing in future. Cat's scene was hot. I like several of the girls so it's going to be tough choosing, but for now I'm going to have fun with as many as I can.

I hope those who don't like the content will move on instead of feeling the need to dump all over the game. There are many which are not for me. I am able to recognise that, even if I only figure it out after trying. I respect that the developers are building the story they want and I move on. There are so many VNs which cater for the standard harem/only my girls viewpoint. It's clear this game is not one of those.

The swinging tag seems appropriate here, on the basis of Cat's scene alone (sharing is more accurate, because there's no couples involved, yet, but that tag does not exist.) No need for an NTR tag as there is none.

I'm happy to read that the dev intends to stick to their idea of the story and not let the views of a few disgruntled members sway them.

Whether this game counts as "wholesome" is debatable. But consider that there are many who will say any porn game is not wholesome. That a harem is not wholesome. Incest. A girl who enjoys sex and has it often with more than one person where none are her boyfriend (or girlfriend, and there we have another idea some might not consider wholesome...) and isn't hurting anyone. Etc. From my point of view it seems pretty wholesome so far.

 

[grifril]

I was really enjoying playing this, but after I tried to go into the autosave menu, I can no longer go into the load menu or the right click menu once I am in game.

 

[reflexbound]

The swinging tag seems appropriate here, on the basis of Cat's scene alone (sharing is more accurate, because there's no couples involved, yet, but that tag does not exist.) No need for an NTR tag as there is none.

I don't think the swinging tag technically applies from that scene alone, but if anyone reports it, I'll be happy for mods to decide this. For example, I don't think the sandbox tag should apply, as while there is a scene with free roam mechanics, it is far from a free-roam type of game, yet they still added it. I've added it to the planned tags in the genre section for now, as there will be scenes in the future where it more clearly applies.

I was really enjoying playing this, but after I tried to go into the autosave menu, I can no longer go into the load menu or the right click menu once I am in game.

Fix incoming soon!

 

[quorkboy]

I don't think the swinging tag technically applies from that scene alone, but if anyone reports it, I'll be happy for mods to decide this. For example, I don't think the sandbox tag should apply, as while there is a scene with free roam mechanics, it is far from a free-roam type of game, yet they still added it. I've added it to the planned tags in the genre section for now, as there will be scenes in the future where it more clearly applies.

It isn't entirely accurate, but I feel it's closer to accurate than no tag. I'm not hung up on whether it's there now; it can appear when you feel there is content better suited to the tag. I thought having it might appease a portion of the anti-sharing crowd but... I got (amusingly) facepalmed for my previous post and I've been around long enough to know nothing will help with some people. I know what I'm getting into with this game and I'm all for it (except pregnancy. It's not a fetish that does anything for me. If it's optional I'll skip it. If not optional, and I'm enjoying everything else, I'll let it go.)

 

[Deleted member 1571716]

ntr or swinging tag pls . im out. GL dev !

I thought the dev said all of that would be optional? Is there a forced scene?

 

[reflexbound]

I thought the dev said all of that would be optional? Is there a forced scene?

No forced lewd scenes whatsoever. People are just complaining that scenes (we're talking about a single one right now) are just skippable (you aren't forced to see them) but not preventable (they still happen, you just don't watch and you might or might not be aware that they happen). Some people don't like that, and that's fair, they can play thousands of other games that just don't have any such scenes.

 

[Deleted member 1571716]

No forced lewd scenes whatsoever. People are just complaining that scenes (we're talking about a single one right now) are just skippable (you aren't forced to see them) but not preventable (they still happen, you just don't watch and you might or might not be aware that they happen). Some people don't like that, and that's fair, they can play thousands of other games that just don't have any such scenes.

Well, I'm one of those that would prefer that stuff to be optional and if we choose not to see, then, it never happened. So, I'll have to just wish you well and walk away.

 

[reflexbound]

First post updated with update to v0.1.1, fixing all bugs reported so far. Save yourself some bandwith and download the update only version if possible.

 

[Sancho1969]

reflexbound

Did you catch this failure of "max"?

def prev_file_page(page):
    if page == "auto":
        page = max
    ...

 

[reflexbound]

Sancho1969 You're right, that's a copy and paste error (I built the function after the original Renpy implementation where max is a parameter), but it doesn't seem to matter, so I'm not going to bother doing a release with this changed. It seems to work, for all intents and purposes, just as if I'd correctly put None there.

 

[Asenaris]

[Ch 1 0.1.1]

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[reflexbound]

Rovering to Sussex [Ch 1 0.1.1] Compressed (Half-Tested)

Win/Linux (670 MB/ 128 MB) :WorkUpload,PixelDrain

Compressed With UAGC 2.0.0
Image Quality: ~75%.

Be careful, you compressed the files in images/minigames which breaks the minigame as these need to be pixel-perfect and color-perfect.

 

[Sancho1969]

With the olive branch generously and trustingly offered from reflexbound progress will actually... progress . I still need to warm him up that I'm not a flake with nefarious intent so I can get the other needed bits of code/snippets but he's done me a real solid so far by putting some trust in me even though we are just getting acquainted for the first time. With that said...

SanchoMod - Who's your daddy?

( Rough code example teasers, not representative of final production )
I'll add more teasers to this post later

Example of SanchoGallery unlocks that are completely isolated from OEM (this is the exact same persistent)
OEM: SanchoGallery:
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I ain't gonna lie, this is a bear to hook code into via the Sancho method... I'm having to convert some of my older Core code from Python 2 to Python 3. I'll later make these automatic to insure a VN mod doesn't break due to coding/function differences (sorting dictionaries for example). Regards.

 

[J.R.]

Don't want to do a rating this early in the game, would not be fair. Therefore here my experience of the game in a nutshell:

A new game from the Young Again developer (ok, part of the team). I was excited and tried it now right away. Well, should have read the tags before...

The intro was ok, but didn't really grab me. In general, the story is not very exciting. You meet a bunch of people right at the beginning, but most of them are not interesting for me. In my opinion the better and sexier ones come at the second group meeting into the game. Then the party and - oh dear, the game becomes a free roam I'm not a fan of these games and after Young Again I am a bit surprised that this is here probably kinda the basic mechanic later on. Well, my mistake, as I said above I should have read the tags before (and probably also would have skipped the game).

Since I was already in the middle of the game I kept on trying. For me a bit boring talking to the party guests follows. But then I came across something, which apparently some others have already criticized: the most sexy girl for me so far has sex with another guy.... You can skip it, but it still happens. Well, this has then unfortunately completely spoiled my fun in the game and I stopped there.

Too bad, but somehow this is not my game. Compared to Young Again, this one has "no soul" for me. One event after the other, no real relation to the MC. Everything is strangely impersonal, does not grab me. Seems because of all the new technical details and innovations in the gameplay, a good story and storytelling were kinda forgotten to add. Regarding the game innovations: You now also have a permanent phone, too (not again, can't stand these damn things anymore, but will probably be necessary for the Free Roam / Sandbox part). Also mini-games (ok, there were already some in Young Again also). And I skipped the quiz right away...

Well, what can I say. It's probably just not for me. As a Young Again fan, I was looking forward to the next game of this dev. Maybe my expectations were a bit to high. Also the free roam is a mood killer for me, too. But I stop now and probably won't follow this here any further. I was no permanent Patron of Young Again, could only afford a few one-time pledges. So it's not a big loss for the devs anyway.

Nevertheless to the dev team good luck for the future and all the best.

 

[KsChN68]

Don't know, this game project is weird. Since I like Young Again I started this first version here to get a feeling what this game is about - but got none. It's - dull. The group of the scouts, even the mc himself. None of them are very interesting to me. The story - joining a group and meeting potential li's. That's kinda it probably. Well, it's a first game version, maybe that would get better with time - but I doubt it. All the dev power seems was put into game technology, but not into a good story and telling it.

Don't know how much Zargon is involved in this project, but I could not find much feeling of his other game "Young Again" here. Maybe he's doing the graphics, they seem to me a bit "comparable". But the "flow of the game" is completely different. So for those like me are searching for a follow up to the soon finished Young Again - this isn't it. It's different in many ways - even the gameplay itself with the freeroam parts.

 

[Sancho1969]

Nasty RenPy 8 bug... VPgrids are fucked. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it but I've submitted a report on the issue. The same issue exists in RenPy v7.5 via the web builder.

Edit: Well that was fast, seems RenpyTom is all over it but didn't note in the documentation that the default behavior has changed to strict. reflexbound Note that this might be of consideration for you:

" Having an underfull vpgrid now raises an error unless the warning is opted-out using either the allow_underfull property or config.allow_underfull_grids, the former taking precedence on the latter. "

 

[FunFuntomes]

Devlog #2 - Personality

Welcome back everybody! It's RFB again with another devlog for our upcoming game Rovering to Sussex. Today we'll have a look at how to shape your main character's personality.

But before we dive in, I want to clarify what kind of game Rovering to Sussex is. From last week's devlog, and maybe even more from this one, some of you might think it is a sandbox game. Let me be very clear that it isn't. There is no repeated grinding of the same scenes over and over to increase some values so that you can finally advance individual paths of a loose story.
Instead, Rovering to Sussex is a visual novel with lots of choice. There is one story that you follow as you play the game, but you can often choose whether you want to see some scene or or not. Sometimes you have to choose between different alternatives. In some scenes you can decide whom to talk to, what questions to ask and what answers to give.
And whatever you choose, the game will remember it and change based on what you know and don't know yet or how the different characters see you. We hope that this makes it interesting to play the game over and over again as there will always be something new to discover as you check out different paths.

Now that this is out of the way, back to today's topic. Your character's personality is one of those ways how the game remembers what you decided and changes how different characters see you:

Traits

In Rovering to Sussex, the personality of your main character is defined by three traits:

- Athletic: This represents your character's interest in sports and fitness. You'll gain it for example by going to the gym or doing tasks that involve more manual labor.
- Social: This is about being open and talkative, but also about appearances. You'll gain it, e.g., by talking to people and you can lose it if you are a bad friend.
- Nerdy: The last one is about theoretic knowledge and can be gained for example in quizzes or when discussing nerdy stuff.

As with most choices you can make in the game, there is no right or wrong here, just pick what you like and see how it plays out.

Personality AI

The way you see the current state of your traits is the *Personality AI* app. It shows your personality as a point in the triangle between the three different traits:

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As this presentation suggests, the three traits are mutually exclusive, so you can't have high (or low) values in all of them, but every gain in one trait will lose you some points in the other two and vice versa. If you want to reap the benefits of different traits, you may have to consider your actions very carefully, especially since decisions later in the game won't much the needle much (there is no distinction between decisions earlier or later, but after you've taken ten nerdy decisions, going to the gym once won't suddenly make you athletic).
The triangle also rotates to always keep your top trait on top to make it easier to see what you are doing.

The "Your Profile" button in the app takes you to a screen similar to the contact info presented in the first devlog so you can get some information about your own character:

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It is pretty empty right now, but as you play, it will fill with more details of what you experienced and some of the choices you made.

Effects

So, why should you care? How does your personality affect the game?

First of all, there will sometimes be minor variations in the dialogue or thoughts depending on your traits. This doesn't affect gameplay much, but adds some touches to make your character feel more realistic and improve your immersion.

Second, a high enough value in some trait may give you additional benefits or options during the game. A nerdy character might get hints for quizzes, an athletic one might have an easier time with some manual tasks and a social one might have a better pick-up line for you to chose.

The final and probably most important effect of your personality is that each of the other characters you encounter will see you differently depending on your traits. We'll talk more about the details of relationships and how they are affected by your traits in the next devlog though so stay tuned.


See you next time!
RFB

come on! that system sucked donkeyballs in College Kings, no need to copy from the worst, aim for the best.

 

[Meridian]

Hmmm. This game is kinda hard to get into. Setting is pretty generic and not really intriguing. And there is no fetish like incest/maledom/etc to use as a crutch to get you interested in some characters like most games have. So far the game just feels very bland, like unseasoned pasta with nothing else in the dish.

Nerdy/athletic/whatever stats feel kinda pointless. I wish we had good/neutral/bad guy points instead. So far mc seems like a generic vanilla good guy and is very boring to play as. Some variety in regards to how mc thinks of and treat other people would help.

The sequence with blonde girl felt very meh too. If you are gonna introduce another dicks then you better make it count and fetishise the situation. Have an option for the girl to work 2 dicks at once, some dirty talk options maybe, at least have mc say something other than "it feels good" and "I am coming", have him grope her tits, really just anything to make the scene feel less robotic. Currently that scene is devoid of anything intimate/kinky/romantic/spicy/whatever sex mood floats your boat. I guess its the usual "show that love interests have life outside of interactions with mc" kind of bullshit aka completely pointless waste of renders.

On the flip side renders are above average. Content with Cat could be fun if mc improves, show some initiative and wont just stand like a statue. Charlotte looks interesting because of the whole boyfriend thing. Vanessa stands out a bit too. But the rest of the cast are not very interesting so far.

Hopefully its just a slow start and characters/story will have some kind of hooks later on. Gonna check out later updates to see how this develops.

 

[Sancho1969]

come on! that system sucked donkeyballs in College Kings, no need to copy from the worst, aim for the best.

Well, to be fair it's a bit premature to judge until it's actually experienced in it's implementation, ain't it? Let's at least acknowledge that's it's prudent to give benefit of the doubt until it's seen how it affects the gameplay. That's my worthless two cents anyway. Regards.

 

[Qmil679]

Girls look beautiful but it's a shame we'll have forced ntr/sharing in this game.

Like now, we have a scene with a girl giving BJ to some guy and we can't stop it. Sorry, but I don't want to see that my future Li gives BJ to some guy.

Dev said it won't be the only time we're gonna see forced sharing/ntr scene. And in addition, dev wrote that girls can be doing some things with other guys behind MC's back and MC won't even know it...

I wish you good luck. I'm out of here.