VN Ren'Py Secrets in Focus [Ch.2 v0.22] [Studio BMK]

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Garret111

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Hey StudioBMK. I just finished chapter 2 and I can tell you my thoughts. I've played a lot of AVNs and some were fantastic and some were just terrible. I absolutely do not care if you're using AI artwork. The models look really great and consistent and who wants to wait an entire year for an update because it's using 8K DAZ artwork? You have a very good grasp of dialogue banter and you do a good job of conveying the LI personalities. Keep going with what you're doing. Granted, animations are going to be important, but you already know that. If you get the animations worked out, and you keep the same level of quality that you've shown in the first 2 chapters, I think you'll end up with a very good game. :)
 

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Really good game so far, writing is witty and engaging, girls are hot. I hope we get more branching routes, for example if doing ember's route, I think it would be neat to push her into being more exhibitionist during modelling shoots or maybe push her down dom path with bdsm etc.
 

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great game the girls are well thought out with each one having their own character we are not even talking about the quality of the rendering of the characters I hope that you will manage to integrate your characters into animated scenes even if I know on this side there are still difficulties and above all it still costs a lot don't give up it's a great job
 

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Hi StudioBMK .
I really like your game: the dialogue is good and the girls are mostly gorgeous (not a fan of Hana's model, but that's just me).

For some reason, I can't get full points for Blair at the end of chapter 2. I miss 3, though I'm pretty sure I chose all the best dialogue options for her. Could it be that the points you should get for agreeing to go to the concert with her do not register?
I'll do a quick speed run for Blair today or tomorrow to check if I did the math correctly. If it's correct, I'll quickly drop the correct choices here.
 
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Hey StudioBMK. I just finished chapter 2 and I can tell you my thoughts. I've played a lot of AVNs and some were fantastic and some were just terrible. I absolutely do not care if you're using AI artwork. The models look really great and consistent and who wants to wait an entire year for an update because it's using 8K DAZ artwork? You have a very good grasp of dialogue banter and you do a good job of conveying the LI personalities. Keep going with what you're doing. Granted, animations are going to be important, but you already know that. If you get the animations worked out, and you keep the same level of quality that you've shown in the first 2 chapters, I think you'll end up with a very good game. :)
Thanks Garret111!

I love your avatar, I'm a huge fallout fan. I added cosplay to the planned tags. Somewhere in the near future, probably chapter 3, Ember will definitely do some fallout cosplay :cool:

I agree with you in regards to the art. There is nothing I hate more than really liking a game and then getting an update once a year. I usually have to replay the complete game with every update because I forgot the entire story.
 
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great game the girls are well thought out with each one having their own character we are not even talking about the quality of the rendering of the characters I hope that you will manage to integrate your characters into animated scenes even if I know on this side there are still difficulties and above all it still costs a lot don't give up it's a great job
Thanks for the compliment and the review!

One way or the other, I will surely get animations to work. I expect it will be a transition animation between two or more images which can look quite good. I think the quality of AI generated video can be amazing, but only with really high end equipment, if you are a professional at it and it seems to be really difficult to get good character consistency. So unless I happen to accidently stumble into a 5080 GPU and a lot of free time besides my full time job, that will be unlikely. Or I make boatloads of money with this game so I can hire someone to do it for me.

Also here I think the writing should be more important then spending €2000 and 3 months on super advanced AI generated videos.
 
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Really good game so far, writing is witty and engaging, girls are hot. I hope we get more branching routes, for example if doing ember's route, I think it would be neat to push her into being more exhibitionist during modelling shoots or maybe push her down dom path with bdsm etc.
My primary focus is a mainly romantic game with a mystery twist. Do expect some emotional or difficult scenes. There will surely be development with the girls sexually, but I try to be realistic. Some exhibitionism seems likely, heavy BDSM or 12 guy gangbangs not.
 

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all I'm saying is: for something with AI CG the dialogue is surprisingly sharp.
I guess, one shouldn't always judge a book by its AI cover?
 
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so many choices, will be a lot of branches ? if so then we will have to playing the new ones for seen certain scenes paths ?
Not all choices will have relationship impact, but you will definitely not see every scene in one playthrough. You'll need to make some hard choices along the way.
 

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Some choices aren't even choices :ROFLMAO: (try the choicefor the website of the airhead model)
Ha, that was a little joke I had to write. Maybe I should have made a counter to see how many people clicked No. And if they did, automatically uninstall the game :cool:

P.S. To be sure I'm not using the official website name, but I'm assuming everyone understands that OnlyCheers means OnlyFans.
 
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all I'm saying is: for something with AI CG the dialogue is surprisingly sharp.
I guess, one shouldn't always judge a book by its AI cover?
That's the plan! I know for some people AI is an immediate turnoff, although I don't agree. Hopefully even those who don't like AI art, they will stay for the story
 

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I'll do a quick speed run for Blair today or tomorrow to check if I did the math correctly. If it's correct, I'll quickly drop the correct choices here.
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Apparently my math is not as good as my writing :rolleyes:

Thanks for pointing it out, you were indeed right. Day 3 has a maximum of 5 points, I accidently put in the max. of 8. So the total of relationship points for Blair after Chapter 2 is 14, not 17.

I've updated it, will come with the next update. Either a version 0.21 if there are other issues. Else with the next chapter. There will be no impact for the playthrough.
 
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So... Where is my walkthrough (mod)? :ROFLMAO:
I kinda like it when the player has to work for it. I tried my best to make the choices understandable. I'll allow one question per week if you're not getting the maximum points you want :)
 

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Official release trailer for "Secrets in Focus"

I've been working on releasing the game on Steam. Holy crap, that is a lot of work! Plus, Steam actually charges $100 for them to host your game, besides taking 30% of each sale...

Ah well, it was actually a good learning experience. They are currently reviewing the store page, all the info and the game itself. Hopefully I'll be able to release the game before the end of november.

One of the requirements to having your game on Steam, is that you need to have a trailer for your game. So I spent an entire day on one more thing I've never done before, make a video. Luckily I found a good free video program that helped me with easy transitions and such.

So... I hereby officially present you with the release trailer for "Secrets in Focus". Hope you like it!

 
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