Who's your favorite character in SandStorm?

  • Maddie

    Votes: 841 28.4%
  • Nora

    Votes: 843 28.5%
  • Rion

    Votes: 1,249 42.2%
  • The Priestess

    Votes: 476 16.1%

  • Total voters
    2,962

desmosome

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Sep 5, 2018
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I just watched the Nora introduction dance routine. From what I understand of DAZ, this long ass sequence is done frame by frame? That's quite amazing. The only problem that kept taking me out of it was that the "tails" on their dresses seem to be crusted over with gallons of dried cum or something. It's rock solid lol. Isn't it supposed to be just some fabric?
 
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The only problem that kept taking me out of it was that the "tails" on their dresses seem to be crusted over with gallons of dried cum or something
Yeah :ROFLMAO: , I was a beginner with Daz when I did that long belly dance scene. Didn't know how to use gravity and Dforce for clothes at that time.
But your cum explanation works too. Let's go with that one. I like it. :p

The ghajareya song at the restaurant has more than 3000 renders if I remember well o_O, but most of the time rendered without background, otherwise it would have taken years with my computer. That's why we see sometimes some collision/shadows/contact bugs when I added the background after.
I hope you guys enjoyed it despite the few bugs because it really took a lot of time and effort, but reading reviews like the last one posted in F95 is a bit unmotivating on doing such things again. If I did it again now, the quality would certainly be much better, but I would make it 20 seconds instead of 5min haha :ROFLMAO:
 
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desmosome

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Yeah :ROFLMAO: , I was a beginner with Daz when I did that long belly dance scene. Didn't know how to use gravity and Dforce for clothes at that time.
But your cum explanation works too. Let's go with that one. I like it. :p

The ghajareya song at the restaurant has more than 3000 renders if I remember well o_O, but most of the time rendered without background, otherwise it would have taken years with my computer. That's why we see sometimes some collision/shadows/contact bugs when I added the background after.
I hope you guys enjoyed it despite the few bugs because it really took a lot of time and effort, and reading reviews like the last one posted in F95 is a bit unmotivating on doing such things again. If I did it again now, the quality would certainly be much better, but I would make it 20 seconds instead of 5min haha :ROFLMAO:
Well, you can't please everyone. I thought it was one of the more memorable character introductions in these games. At the very least, I'm sure most people can appreciate the effort that went into it and see your enthusiasm for the game.
 

Hatsume Kill

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Oct 18, 2018
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Was there supposed to be a sex scene in the new update? I didn't get any no matter what route/choices I made.
Also the update was suuuuuuppper short even the non-evil route....
 
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gregers

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Dec 9, 2018
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Was there supposed to be a sex scene in the new update? I didn't get any no matter what route/choices I made.
Also the update was suuuuuuppper short even the non-evil route....
Almost no content on any of the lust routes. Practically all the content in this version is gated behind very high romance and yeah, even that is pretty limited.
 

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Almost no content on any of the lust routes. Practically all the content in this version is gated behind very high romance and yeah, even that is pretty limited.
Funnily enough getting high romance will net you high lust, at least for this update
 

Xypher

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Carefree247 Yes, Evil is a very basic and general term, I could have called it mystic, corruption, dark, harsh, godlike etc.
Just didn't want to be too precise on naming that road, and I went for the caricatured term to make it clear to players that don't want to hurt the girls. And yes, there is a much better reason than just having fun with an XXL dick, but you can understand that I cannot reveal this right away ;), or I would have to send that priestess to take care of you :devilish:. So, you will have to bare with it a little longer ;).
As for Nora romance/lust path, it must not be mixed for sure, and I don't recommend playing the lust path of Nora, if you are also playing her romance path as your main path (at least not until the game is over). They are very different and so is Nora's personality, for a reason that you might have not caught yet. It will make more sense later, but I can understand it might appear strange atm.
Will we able to control the priestess as well in the evil route?
 
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Eleyon

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No idea why, but I found this immensely unentertaining and characters (Rion, Julian mainly) to be outright annoying. The dialogue just goes on and on and in alot of cases (at least the beginning) and provides absolutely nothing. I equally don't understand why one would be losing points with Maddie in a conversation with Rion. Not progressing Maddie? Sure, but why would she take a negative hit in a response change that should be affecting Rion...just...ugh.

The renders look nice, the girls look great and there maybe could have been potential, but I'm not even remotely seeing the enjoyment most are getting out of this. I really just wanted to tap away until I ran into a scene and even then I finally concluded there would be no purpose to even that and simply closing and moving on was a more fruitful option. It starts to just be useless filler. You have games that can really put it together in these dialogue heavy moments (Being a Dik, AoA, Summers Gone, etc) that make you feel this connection to caring about the character while equally hoping down the line you can have a spank to them as this is still an adult game. But this just fails in those regards. Having dialogue choices and having them appear more impactful would have been nice. I would have loved an option to tell Rion to shut her hypocritical ass the fuck up, but nope, you just have to hear her go on and on and on and on. or hear stupid dialogue between your character and Julian that was doing anything for progression. Everything just feels...useless.

Oh well, good luck Dev.
Wish you well.
 

kktcross

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Jan 29, 2019
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Full unlock gallery patch attached, drop it in the game folder, make sure the filename is "zz_ff.rpy".



Last updated: v0.6.
thx for patch but its replay gallery or its only picture gallery?
 
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You should get this screen at the start, otherwise, you probably downloaded an old version (like the mods for example).

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If you have the good version, make sure to continue clicking after you get v0.5.5 end screen. Depending on when you made your save, the old v0.5.5 end screen might still appear but the game will follow after that.

Btw, I always recommend making your end of update saves on that kind of screen, to avoid this, and to have a better insight of what contains your save file.
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Yeah I did check the version of the game in the start screen but no dice.
I had a save when MC encounters that another character with a head gear near the swimming pool underground. But, i can't move past that point in this version as well.
Do I have to go back a few steps and choose another option somewhere to not end up at that point in order to explore scenes of this update?
 

JJJ84

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Dec 24, 2018
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In the previous updates I put in more points towards romance rather than lust with the characters, and in this update, I think that investment became more worth it, as some scenes only being unlocked with high enough RP.
And it was good that here we were getting increases in LP as well when having these scenes.

All three girls scenes by the pool were great, but man, Rion's scene definitely is my favorite.

GleenXstudio just wondering about the following:


1) Sandstorm is the first Episode of your EraStorm series. So how many episodes are you seeing for this series? Is it 2 episodes, or 3 episodes (trilogy)?

2) Will v0.10 (i.e. Day 10) be the final day of Episode 1? Or will it be longer?

3) Episode 2 will continue with the same cast of characters? i.e. MC, Rion, Maddie, Nora, Julian, Foxy etc?
 
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w123t4

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Will the evil path have its own ending? I want to learn more about the truth by following foxy but don't want to ruin the relationship with rion or nora.:unsure:
Beside, I think it is great to have a harem ending(kind of) by following the evil path which get all the girls by using the great power of the stone. :devilish:
Is the name that you call foxy will affect the story in the future? Don't sure about how important of its role in the future.:rolleyes:
I wonder what will happen if I use the power of stone then creampie the girls everytime to see the affection in the future ending.:devilish:
 
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GleenXstudio

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Is the Egyptian incest gods a real thing or was it made up for the game? Ra sounds like a porn game protagonist lol.
Yeah, gods incest and gods marrying siblings are common in Egyptian mythology. Now, the tale with Ra was fiction.

1) Sandstorm is the first Episode of your EraStorm series. So how many episodes are you seeing for this series? Is it 2 episodes, or 3 episodes (trilogy)?
2) Will v0.10 (i.e. Day 10) be the final day of Episode 1? Or will it be longer?
3) Episode 2 will continue with the same cast of characters? i.e. MC, Rion, Maddie, Nora, Julian, Foxy etc?
1) The second episode SnowStorm has been announced yesterday ;) and there will be a demo of it before the end of the year. I want to have more episodes, could be 3, 4 even 5, the main story allows that much, but we are not there yet.
2) For SandStorm, it will be v0.7 -> v0.8 -> v0.9 -> v1.0(end). It won't be everlasting, episode 2 has to start at some point lol
3) Mmmh? Maybe, maybe not ^^. A lot of new characters, that's for sure.

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