Ren'Py Seeds of Chaos [v0.4.09] [Vénus Noire]
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Why does it end? What's the message? I assume you failed to capture Raeve Keep (east on the map)
Which is weird, because I think it fits perfectly with one of the gameovers you get (failing to capture the 1st village/failing to capture Raeve Keep, I don't remember which. Although I would love to see it as a...happy scene.
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And the winners of this month's CG poll are....
In first place, by over ten votes, Rowan x Liurial 1! I guess elves are popular?
In second place, for I believe the third poll in a row, another Helayna scene - Rowan x Helayna 5. Helayna best girl?
In third place, not too far behind, is the second CG from the Rowan x Cla-Min scene. Chalk up a win for sexually aggressive goblin matriarchs.
And lastly, I guess you guys wanted some more spider loving, because we have the male drider x orc female scene.
For the other CG, I'm choosing to do Andras x Rowan 3, in the interests of fairness.
And the winners of this month's CG poll are....
In first place, by over ten votes, Rowan x Liurial 1! I guess elves are popular?
In second place, for I believe the third poll in a row, another Helayna scene - Rowan x Helayna 5. Helayna best girl?
In third place, not too far behind, is the second CG from the Rowan x Cla-Min scene. Chalk up a win for sexually aggressive goblin matriarchs.
And lastly, I guess you guys wanted some more spider loving, because we have the male drider x orc female scene.
For the other CG, I'm choosing to do Andras x Rowan 3, in the interests of fairness.
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There's a new art teaser posted on his patreon page called Three's Company. Would some kind soul do the needful?
New update.
"As mentioned in the previous gazette post, there are going to be a few changes regarding Venus Noire. Without much further ado, let’s get straight into it.
Announcing Jessika’s Curse
The side project I have been talking about for the last few months will be called Jessika’s Curse. In order to reduce the amount of time I need to spend working on it, I have recruited my friend
What this means for SoC - In the long run, Jessica’s Curse will have no impact on SoC. By starting a new patreon, it will fund itself, meaning money from this patreon will not be spent on it. Also, by recruiting Yron, I will have to do far less work on the project overall, which should assuage worries about time keeping away from SoC.
For those of you interested in Jessika’s Curse, I will be sharing the new patreon very soon, and for those of you who aren’t, you’ll be seeing less about here, so it is a win-win either way.
The Eternal Feast Joins Venus Noire
Since Yron and I will be working on Jessica’s Curse together, we have also decided to bring
What this means for SoC - Nothing. Yron will continue to spearhead development for The Eternal Feast, while I will continue to do so for SoC. I will be giving him a little bit of help on the project management / development side, but nothing that will take up a great deal of my time.
So, overall, some big changes for Venus Noire, and very little for SoC. Hopefully, those of you interested in adult games will look forward to having more to play, and by doing this, I can eventually turn Venus Noire into a real business, and spend more time and money making them."
I'll say again that I'm not happy about this side project stuff, I don't believe that it won't take time and effort off of the current game. He should focus on one thing at a time and finish it first, it's not like the dev is making roundscape levels of money here.
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"As mentioned in the previous gazette post, there are going to be a few changes regarding Venus Noire. Without much further ado, let’s get straight into it.
Announcing Jessika’s Curse
The side project I have been talking about for the last few months will be called Jessika’s Curse. In order to reduce the amount of time I need to spend working on it, I have recruited my friend
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to be a co-creator on the project. Due to this, and my desire to have a large number of animations, full voice acting, and more, I have decided to start a new patreon for the game (similar to what Sierra and Nomo do over at Hreinn).What this means for SoC - In the long run, Jessica’s Curse will have no impact on SoC. By starting a new patreon, it will fund itself, meaning money from this patreon will not be spent on it. Also, by recruiting Yron, I will have to do far less work on the project overall, which should assuage worries about time keeping away from SoC.
For those of you interested in Jessika’s Curse, I will be sharing the new patreon very soon, and for those of you who aren’t, you’ll be seeing less about here, so it is a win-win either way.
The Eternal Feast Joins Venus Noire
Since Yron and I will be working on Jessica’s Curse together, we have also decided to bring
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under the Venus Noire umbrella. This is primarily a business decision, as it makes more sense, from a long term point of view, to market a studio as opposed to single games. To that aim, we will soon be centralizing information and marketing for all three games to a single Venus Noire channel (tumblr, social media, etc.).What this means for SoC - Nothing. Yron will continue to spearhead development for The Eternal Feast, while I will continue to do so for SoC. I will be giving him a little bit of help on the project management / development side, but nothing that will take up a great deal of my time.
So, overall, some big changes for Venus Noire, and very little for SoC. Hopefully, those of you interested in adult games will look forward to having more to play, and by doing this, I can eventually turn Venus Noire into a real business, and spend more time and money making them."
I'll say again that I'm not happy about this side project stuff, I don't believe that it won't take time and effort off of the current game. He should focus on one thing at a time and finish it first, it's not like the dev is making roundscape levels of money here.
Oh I wouldn't take it that far, I think he can make this shit work, but not very efficiently if effort is being spent on multiple projects at once.
Last I heard the trainer was going to be finished after the main game is finished.
this project looks more and more like a milking project, he miss a lot of art and the story did not evolve in 1 year... and now there is a new additional project but we need to endorse once again...
- Feb 14, 2017
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He's only screwing himself over, people are going to move on if this keeps going, there's A LOT of games in the making out there. Shame really, I enjoyed the art and I was expecting more development into "you're the bad guy" and actually seeing our character becoming more evil, instead we're forced to play the victim most of the time and be cucked into oblivion just like his donators.
Honestly having seperate patreons for each project is preferable to me, since this way the team members can put in time to each project based on its monthly income, rather than having one patreon with updates spread out over 3 separate games.
- Oct 17, 2017
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We're probably actually going to move on the trainer before the Seeds of Chaos is completed. However, I doubt there will be very much news about it until the latter part of this year. It's still in the design phase.
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If i remember right, the next update will be at the end of the next month. We didn't have an update at January, instead they are starting to a side project that no one asked.
- Oct 17, 2017
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The update schedule has nothing to do with the presence or absence of side projects. The reason why monthly releases aren't starting until Febuary is that it takes two months to make an update time wise because of the process of tasks. Writers need to take a month to write content then artists need to take a month to draw. What monthly release means is both can be working on different releases simultaneously as opposed to one at a time. As a result, the transition to a release every month cycle takes a full month because we need to accumulate enough material for update every month.
This is somewhat reassuring, but at the same time I still have my doubts about all this extra work you guys are taking on.
- Oct 17, 2017
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It's not extra work for individuals though. He's mostly been hiring new people for these other stuff or using his own free time. DM does the majority of Seeds of Chaos' writing and design and he hasn't moved. Arioch's primary role is manager with also writing and design side stuff. He's also bringing in new writers specifically for SoC, increasing hours to correspond with Patreon rise, and paying for more art.
On the creative end the number of hours going into SoC is ramping up. I also don't touch the financials. However, if I had to hazard a guess most if not all of the SoC Patreon is going directly into salaries for people working specifically on SoC. It looks to me like he's mostly paying out of pocket for the side projects, which he can do because he has other income.
Don't quote me on that for sure. It's the impression I've got having seen the process in action and actually knowing the guy.
Being worried that more side project stuff will harm the game you love is both natural and even admirable. But, more work is going into SoC every month, not less. You're also going to see more over time too that the other stuff being worked on is really cool. I'm making part of it, so I should fucking hope so. It's not other games instead of SoC. It's SoC + extra.
I didn't even clear this post with Arioch first. He'll be as surprised I'm saying all this as anyone else. This is just what I actually think. I'm genuinely really energized by the work going on and I just really want to share that energy. I understand why the optics aren't great. But, both SoC and the rest of the Venus Noire related projects are being made by people fucking thrilled to be a part of this process, and I cannot overstate how glad I personally am and how glad I've seen everyone else is that there are so many people invested in what we're making.
Disclaimer: this post reflects the views and knowledge of the writer and isn't an official statement from Venus Noire.
On the creative end the number of hours going into SoC is ramping up. I also don't touch the financials. However, if I had to hazard a guess most if not all of the SoC Patreon is going directly into salaries for people working specifically on SoC. It looks to me like he's mostly paying out of pocket for the side projects, which he can do because he has other income.
Don't quote me on that for sure. It's the impression I've got having seen the process in action and actually knowing the guy.
Being worried that more side project stuff will harm the game you love is both natural and even admirable. But, more work is going into SoC every month, not less. You're also going to see more over time too that the other stuff being worked on is really cool. I'm making part of it, so I should fucking hope so. It's not other games instead of SoC. It's SoC + extra.
I didn't even clear this post with Arioch first. He'll be as surprised I'm saying all this as anyone else. This is just what I actually think. I'm genuinely really energized by the work going on and I just really want to share that energy. I understand why the optics aren't great. But, both SoC and the rest of the Venus Noire related projects are being made by people fucking thrilled to be a part of this process, and I cannot overstate how glad I personally am and how glad I've seen everyone else is that there are so many people invested in what we're making.
Disclaimer: this post reflects the views and knowledge of the writer and isn't an official statement from Venus Noire.