HTML Shadows Over Solomon Falls [v0.4] [Wendythered]

[WendyTheRed]

Hey! Thanks for update! Any futher stryline after octopus in sea?

Yes. You have the debrief with Anya and Amber and a potential date with one of them. There's also a short scene with Eric I keep forgetting I put in there.

 

[RetroGuy]

Thanks a lot for the update. As usually I'd like it to be bigger but I appreciate it the way it is.

By the way, does it seem to me or the hair of our girl turns from pure red to brown or some mix of red and brown in some scenes?

 

[CutieLvr]

Beastiality: No, since I use Patron and they'd shut me down. If I ever switch over to SubscribeStar or have a separate version on SubscribeStar or something I might do it. I have nothing against it myself.

Gangbanged: I've considered it, though lately I've had troubles where Daz is drawing a ton of power to the point it makes my UPS beep and actually shut my computer down once. The bigger the scene, the more likely it is to happen.

Animations: I experimented with these. There are a couple of problems. 1) You can make cheesy ones by subtly altering poses and just repeating them. I think we've all seen those in games. They look corny to me. 2) I could buy canned animations and render them. The downside is, I'd be at the mercy of whatever I find and buy. And that can get expensive of course. 3) I find someone who knows a better way to do it and is willing to do it. Problem is, I'm not exactly making money off of the game so can't hire someone. I make enough to pay down a debt I have and to buy poses, outfits, etc that go back into the game and that's about it.

Thank you, WendytheRed, a beautiful explanation and I'm with you. Again, I love the story writing, I played that game from start to finish, I couldn't put it down. So, looking forward to the next update. How about her finding her true calling as a prostitute and whore? You already have the right characters to make that very doable. I loved that she changed her look to looking more slutty, it looks good on her, she's a beauty. Would love to see more groping scenes in the club and elsewhere.
The best of luck with your game, cutie.

 

[ffive]

And the search, as far as I can figure out, only works in one file, I don't know how to make it search all the files in a project.

Note, the single file search is under Ctrl+F, while the one for multiple files is under Shift+Ctrl+F (or "Find in Files" in Edit menu) As far as i can tell this latter option runs for all files you have listed in the Project Explorer (Shift+Ctrl+E to open its window in VS Code)

 

[ffive]

Incidentally, one thing i've spotted when browsing the script. It seems that there's option to tell Amber and Anya about being blackmailed by Lisa's father, but apparently only if it happens fairly early in the game. In my playthrough the first photo session was on Oct 18, and even though MC meets with the girls on the following day to discuss the investigation state etc, there's no option to mention this to them. Don't know if telling them is going to be relevant at some point, so mentioning it just in case.

 

[Sheryl60]

Is Carlo back?

 

[WendyTheRed]

Incidentally, one thing i've spotted when browsing the script. It seems that there's option to tell Amber and Anya about being blackmailed by Lisa's father, but apparently only if it happens fairly early in the game. In my playthrough the first photo session was on Oct 18, and even though MC meets with the girls on the following day to discuss the investigation state etc, there's no option to mention this to them. Don't know if telling them is going to be relevant at some point, so mentioning it just in case.

No, there's no option for it if you get blackmailed by Ray on Saturday instead of at the start of the game. One of the things I learned the hard way with this game was making branching paths and a semi-open world can get super complicated. My next game will probably be a more a more narrative branching game without the open world stuff because as neat as it is it is a killer as far as trying to write a coherent story. I'm thinking something like Good Girl Gone Wild where there are branches but there's not an open world.

Is Carlo back?

Well, let's put it this way. Your last dream with the crow gives a strong hint to the answer to that question.

 

[demidemon]

No, there's no option for it if you get blackmailed by Ray on Saturday instead of at the start of the game. One of the things I learned the hard way with this game was making branching paths and a semi-open world can get super complicated....

Some games don't tie the main story to in game date. Those games warn players about not being able to continue on the side quests in the current chapter once they finish the main quest. Might not be what you want but its a way some (semi) open world games do it.
But then in this game things are supposed to be escalating so it probably does not make sense to let players drag on. Maybe something like groundhog day?

 

[CutieLvr]

Hey Wendy, I'm gonna play the trans part this time, but, right off the bat, your guy, WOOF!! He needs a big makeover. More like the guy on the OP of the game:



This guy would be great. Except more redheaded, lol, like me.

Disregard, sweetie, I see he doesn't last very long as a guy.

I hope she can shave that bush. (not a real redhead, ugh!!)

Would have been nice if she could have kept her dick, lol. (should be an option?)

 

[ffive]

Don't know if it's something that can be corrected at this point, but in this scene:



It's pretty obvious that the police car is hovering above the ground by quite a bit. I mean, the town is magical, but i dunno if this extends to flying cars :v

 

[ffive]

Also, a minor glitch:

<<link "Stare in horror at the sight before you.">>
    <<ctpAdvance "firstSat15">>
        <<set $tasks.delete("Figure out what happened to Lisa Patterson.")>>
        <<set $passTasks.pushUnique("Figure out what happened to Lisa Patterson.")>>
<</link>>

The task is set as successfully completed when you find the body...

<<link "Digest this news as the Sheriff speaks again." "First Sunday 2">>
  <<set $events.fateOfKiller to "unknown">>
  <<set $events.lisaDeathInfo to "unknown">>
  <<set $tasks.delete("Figure out what happened to Lisa Patterson.")>> /* Arguably failed to figure out what happened to her on time. */
  <<set $failTasks.pushUnique("Figure out what happened to Lisa Patterson.")>>
<</link>>

... but then it's set as a failure during the talk with the sheriff. As a result, the same task is listed as both "Successful" and "Failed". If it's arguably the latter, then perhaps it should be removed from the list of the former (or never put there in the first place)

edit: also, not sure if this is intentional:

<<if $events.sean gte 5>>

    <p><<link "Sean steps into the room as you resume packing.">>
        <<ctpAdvance "1stSun11">>
    <</link>></p>

The check using gte 5 instead of eq 5 causes Sean to try and have sex with MC not only if the player advanced his storyline to the end, but also if they turned Sean down (because that sets the variable to 999 which is also >= 5) Although, this effect of Sean trying to be pushy at this point might be considered hot by some and more of a feature than a bug.

edit2: there's still a small glitch in the interview script:

<<if $events.amberlDate gte 2>>
    <p><<link "Tell her you are dating Amber Ferguson.">>
// ...

The typo amberlDate instead of amberDate causes this option never to appear, even if MC is in fact dating Amber. Also, similar to the bug above:

<<if $events.sean gte 4>>
    <p><<link "Tell her you are dating Sean Stewart.">>

This check means the option about dating Sean will show up even if player turned his advances down, because the value of tracking variable will be 999

edit3: one more small error, the task Sneak into the Patterson House on Saturday with Amber and Anya. is never removed from the list of active tasks. Same for the Figure out who the figure in my dreams is. which stays active even after MC learns Corvus' identity in the dream.

 

[WendyTheRed]

I hope she can shave that bush. (not a real redhead, ugh!!)

Would have been nice if she could have kept her dick, lol. (should be an option?)

Sorry, futa/shemale was never in the cards. As for the other comment, the bush is actually red but in most renders it shows up very dark and almost looks black.

Don't know if it's something that can be corrected at this point, but in this scene:



It's pretty obvious that the police car is hovering above the ground by quite a bit. I mean, the town is magical, but i dunno if this extends to flying cars :v

I'd have to recreate the render from scratch. Not a huge deal. I can't believe I didn't notice that. Or that no one else did. It's been in the game for months. And the weird thing is, I pride myself on not doing stuff like that, I have no idea how that slipped through...

 

[WendyTheRed]

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Thank you for reporting these. With the exception of the last 2 tasks I've fixed these issues. The Sean one is annoying because I handled him different than every other character in the game when it came to dating. Why I didn't just set it to false instead of 999 I have no idea.

 

[WendyTheRed]

So, thanks to Patreon I might have to remove the priest and doctor from the game or massively rewrite their content. They're defining hypnosis as nonconsent and against their TOS. I've been debating opening a SubscribeStar page though figure I'd take a hit in subscribers if I do. On the plus side, assuming SubscribeStar doesn't start locking things down it'd mean my sequel game would have more freedom.

 

[menatv]

Have you been warned by them? Or is this a preemptive type action you are considering?

Still sucks that you have to take content out because they consider that hypnosis stuff "bad".

 

[kiljaeden]

Ditch Patreon. They keep increasing their censorship every year.

 

[WendyTheRed]

Have you been warned by them? Or is this a preemptive type action you are considering?

Still sucks that you have to take content out because they consider that hypnosis stuff "bad".

I haven't heard from them but they're making me nervous.

Ditch Patreon. They keep increasing their censorship every year.

I'm 99% sure it's Paypal that is behind it. They're basically puritans about adult content and will shut an account down without warning if they think it's being used for adult stuff.

 

[Kagarus]

I haven't heard from them but they're making me nervous.



I'm 99% sure it's Paypal that is behind it. They're basically puritans about adult content and will shut an account down without warning if they think it's being used for adult stuff.

Paypal is probably a factor, but I wouldn't count out Mastercard either, wouldn't be the first time they're acting on behalf of such lovely organizations as Exodus Cry and Morality in Media National Center on Sexual Exploitation (self-named, not a national center of anything, actually).

 

[WendyTheRed]

Paypal is probably a factor, but I wouldn't count out Mastercard either, wouldn't be the first time they're acting on behalf of such lovely organizations as Exodus Cry and Morality in Media National Center on Sexual Exploitation (self-named, not a national center of anything, actually).

Yeah, as much as Patreon has a fairly strong (and hilariously broad) policy on nonconsent I can tell you the only time I ever felt raped was when I ran my adult comic store and had to deal with the credit card processors. They go out of their way to make life hard for adult content.

 

[makeitso]

So, thanks to Patreon I might have to remove the priest and doctor from the game or massively rewrite their content. They're defining hypnosis as nonconsent and against their TOS. I've been debating opening a SubscribeStar page though figure I'd take a hit in subscribers if I do. On the plus side, assuming SubscribeStar doesn't start locking things down it'd mean my sequel game would have more freedom.

Multiple artists have had to grapple with the policies of Patreon. Successful solutions include deleting Patreon in favour of a dono bot on Discord (no hit to finances, the artist actually publishes them) and scrubbing the Patreon clean and releasing the content elsewhere (on Discord per role gained through Patreon tiers). Basically, Discord looks real good. People just don't seem to find or trust SubscribeStar.

I'm 99% sure it's Paypal that is behind it. They're basically puritans about adult content and will shut an account down without warning if they think it's being used for adult stuff.

Bang on. The payment processors make the rules.