VN Ren'Py Silver Creek [Ep.2] [ScrewThis]

[goldenrhino]

How close are we to an update?

 

[ScrewMe]

So uh, when do you think MC's going to make a move with that sexy ebony chick?

The momma or the daughter? Anyway, things with both will take time with obvious drama involved.

How close are we to an update?

Can't give you the date until I'm done with rendering.
Can give you the work that's left to do.

As of now, I have 7 pages of text left to render(57 are rendered already), post work(fixing poke-throughs in PS that I haven't noticed during rendering, adding blur to MC's face in some frames etc) and coding.

 

[MagicMan753]

ScrewMe I like this game a lot. This defintely deserves more support, unfortunately I can't be the one to give it, sorry, wish I could, but hope you will get some more supporters, cause this game is great.

Feedback (Putting in spoilers cause could be a bit long)

Spoiler: Feedback and Thoughts

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I think these are the main things to come to mind, would love to hear back if you want. but excited to see more. I wish you luck in the rest of the game, hope you can grow your support on patreon and make continue to make this game better. Keep up the amazing work.

 

[ScrewMe]

This defintely deserves more support, unfortunately I can't be the one to give it, sorry, wish I could, but hope you will get some more supporters, cause this game is great.

I now understand why most of developers prefer simple plot with 15-30 min updates each 1-3 months than something bigger or more structured with 45 mins+ per update.
More exposure = more money.

- I think the grammar is a bit rough. Some weird phrasing or words used at times. Its not bad, but has some weird instances. I would love to and offer to help, but I do other games and it becomes too much and is too time consuming, sorry. Maybe once you get more supporters and eyes on project, a proofreader may help a bit, but don't think its absoulute horrible, its still solid, just some clean up.

Yup, I get what you mean. I've always heard from others(and thought so myself) that my English is on decent level - turns out it's more rough than I used to think). Writing is way better than generic engrish, yet there are phrases that give out that I'm not a native speaker. It just needs polishing. Once there will be native lads who'll volunteer to proofread the whole thing - great. But so far, I'm on my own)

- I don't think you need to blur Mc's face or hide it so much. Maybe you are hiding it for immersion, but I feel like its better to see it and can even make scenes more unique. Will mention one shot of Sam in room is blurry whole render for no reason during ideal girl, figured I would mention here since I was talking about bluriness.

Yup. Immersion it is. At first I wanted to make the whole project first person-POV, but you get bored quickly with the same angles over and over again.

- The femdom character being Chloe, I am estatic for, My favorite girl having femdom. I hope it gets a bit intense. I would be open to offering some ideas for kinks or such in dms if you want, cause would love to help explore her in this way and more. So let me know if you want this, cause I would love a bit of intensity in the femdom and I have ideas.

Chloe isn't a femdom character. Someone else is. She's more of a tweener)
The game will mostly be vanilla. Nobody will fart in someone's mouth

- Just a question, a tag not listed is Lesbian, will there be possible lesbian interactions in group sex, where this could occur during, hopefully but just curious.

Group sex in season 1 is out of the question. Lesbian stuff - I still go back and forth with one particular idea. But it probably won't happen until season 2, if ever)

I think these are the main things to come to mind, would love to hear back if you want. but excited to see more. I wish you luck in the rest of the game, hope you can grow your support on patreon and make continue to make this game better. Keep up the amazing work.

Thanks. Feedback(both negative and positive) inspires me to work as much as money going to my Patreon account, if not more)

 

[MagicMan753]

Chloe isn't a femdom character. Someone else is. She's more of a tweener)
The game will mostly be vanilla. Nobody will fart in someone's mouth

Sounds good on other stuff and responses, but just wanted to respond to this real quick. Sad she isn't the femdom character, just seemed that way, plus my fav. I do hope its not the teacher, she is the only one I wasn't interested in, but feels like it could go that way, unfortunately, my only hope now is Sam.

And no worries I like femdom in all forms but didn't expect anything like that for your game based on prior comment I saw from you. So I had some more vanilla ideas like facesitting, ass eating, body worship, feet stuff maybe, maybe some light orgasm denial (Like we have to get girl off first before we are allowed, very minor) and maybe some nicknames in scenes for us and other. Just some minor things that add a bit spice but keep it more vanilla, cause I know it isn't that type of game.

 

[MiltonPowers]

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"Where is the fkin' week report? Where's my damn weekly render?"

Well, I've been busy with work and Scene 35 took longer than expected. Wayyy longer. So I've decided to postpone report when that scene will be finished(it got finished one day after report should've been done. Great fkin timing).

But, I'm back with good news. The light at the end of the tunnel. It's close. Really close.
I'm on page 62 out of 65. Scene 36 is almost finished.

So, what's the plan?
In perfect world, I'll be reporting to you next week that rendering part is complete.
But I'll give myself from 2 to 5 extra days. Who knows? Scene 35 should've been done in a week and ended up being 200+ renders long.

Then I'll check all the images and do post-work in PS. It'll take another 2-3 days.
And then I'll get to coding and picking sounds and music at the same time. Will probably take around two weeks.
Luckily for me, the base for screens, menus and shit was done earlier and MyPlace won't get an update this episode(sorry, but people weren't on the internet 24/7 in Autumn 2004), so coding process should be smooth(well, I hope so).
Then goes testing. Another couple of days.

I can't give you the date, but I'm sure that the release will happen in October.

What's left to do:

- Scene 36 (Rendering, 60% Done)
- Scene 37 (Rendering)
- Scene 38 (Rendering)
- Scenes 21-38(Post-work, Coding)

Numbers:

Static Renders: + 116 = 1778

 

[MiltonPowers]

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Hey. I'm almost finished with rendering.
Thanks for the environments in last 2 scenes not eating too much VRAM and not having a whole lot in them, render times were very quick this week, so in terms of render numbers, it's the biggest week all-time)
The only thing that's left is an epilogue - you know, the part with some pretentious speech at the end of an episode. Will take me a day or two max to do that.

I'll move on to post-work around Thursday/Friday.
Coding phase will probably start around weekend or Monday in worst case scenario.

Things are moving greatly. Finally.

What's left to do:

- Scene 38 (Rendering)
- Scenes 21-38(Post-work, Coding+Sounds)

Numbers:

Static Renders: + 100 = 1878

 

[MiltonPowers]

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[MiltonPowers]

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Sorry for the delay. Had a migraine yesterday.
You know, the kind of pain in the head when you get teary-eyed just because of it?
Poor me.

Now, about numbers and everything else.
Rendering's done. Finally.
Now I'm in the middle of post work.
So far I've done 690 images out of 1908. Final render count will probably be something around 1915-1930(renders for first and last frames of animation).
Regardless of how fast I'll go with post work, coding starts this week.
That's all I've got for you this week. Next one will be either optimistic me saying "OMG we're almost there guys" or pessimistic me saying "Fucking coding. This is a buggy mess". Or I'll just remain quiet because won't sleep at all because of...coding.

What's left to do:
- Scenes 26-38(Post-work)
- Scenes 21-38(Sounds/Music + Coding)

Numbers:
+30 = 1908 Static Renders

 

[MiltonPowers]

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It's that wonderful time of the year...
...when I google a lot and pray that my code has no errors. Or try to do something and then see that it's impossible to implement that in Ren'Py.

Anyway, all the post-work's been done. There may be some things that my eye hasn't seen or I was too lazy to work on - if patrons will see this shit in alpha in a week or two, guess I'll hear about that.

So yeah. Coding started today. And boy I have forgotten a lot)
I guess it'll take a day or two for me to adjust and remember how I did this and that.

I don't have any numbers for you this week. We're in the finishing phases.
Coding, sounds, testing for a day or two and that's it.

 

[MiltonPowers]

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[MagicMan753]

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Now this is a threesome I want. Lesbian fun included, and all. I want this in all of its glory, would possibly be the best scene.

 

[Banjorune]

Is this a completed game?

 

[MiltonPowers]

Is this a completed game?

There is devlogs on this page that will tell you what's going on.

 

[ScrewMe]

Is this a completed game?

We are very, very far from completion if I'll have financial support for this project.
Three long seasons(8-10 episodes with the size similar to EP1) are planned.

 

[Banjorune]

Oh, brother... I've always thought it was so funny how movies and TV shows about high school always depict football players as the tough mean bullies. Bitch, please! I went to school in the LAUSD. You think we worried about football players? We had gangs! Football players, and all athletes, were guys who had to maintain a C average to play their sport. The guys you really had to worry about were the ones who didn't give a fuck about playing sports and had every intention to drop out before the end of the 10th grade. And once we hit our junior year, we all knew we were old enough to be tried as adults, so everybody knew not to do shit. The idea of a guy who had to maintain a C average AND not do anything that would lead to him getting slapped in cuffs and hauled off to County being a guy you had to worry about beating you up? That's pretty laughable...

 

[MiltonPowers]

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That's supposed to be a higher tier poll, but since my highest paying patrons are 5$ per month, I'll make this poll public. Scene won't be though)

UPD: bonus scenes are canon scenes, but they're not trivial to the story.
When I used to be a player, I never liked these scenes where your main LI in the game that you play all of a sudden starts banging three dudes because "Oh, it's bonus scene and not canon". These type of scenes broke characters for me.
For example, bonus scene for EP2 definitely won't be any of the girls having a sexual intercourse with protagonist. And before NTR enjoyers will try to jump with "Oh, so they will bang someone else?" - no, they won't, because that doesn't fit the timeline of the story in EP2 too as well.

 

[MagicMan753]

So, are these bonus scenes going to be in the update during the story since they are canon. Cause if so, I am not a fan of that, cause it could open unbalance in the future among LIs.

Like imagine, the same girl gets voted everytime or every other time, how is that fair for the other girls, if you remove the girl from polls everytime, then sure, but otherwise, unfair. On top of that you have to make it work for current episode, which could be harder as episodes go on.

I am just usually not a fan of these type of polls, and hope it doesn't affect too much and every girl will get one to keep it fair, otherwise I am worried about this being done.

Just my thoughts.

 

[Jack Townsend]

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That's supposed to be a higher tier poll, but since my highest paying patrons are 5$ per month, I'll make this poll public. Scene won't be though)

UPD: bonus scenes are canon scenes, but they're not trivial to the story.
When I was to be a player, I never liked these scenes where your main LI in the game that you play all of a sudden starts banging three dudes because "Oh, it's bonus scene and not canon". These type of scenes broke characters for me.
For example, bonus scene for EP2 definitely won't be any of the girls having a sexual intercourse with protagonist. And before NTR enjoyers will try to jump with "Oh, so they will bang someone else?" - no, they won't, because that doesn't fit the timeline of the story in EP2 too aswell.

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It wasn't even close.

 

[ScrewMe]

When I was to be a player

Fkin typos. Had two "used to" in one sentence, so decided to quickly change it and ended up with that.

So, are these bonus scenes going to be in the update during the story since they are canon. Cause if so, I am not a fan of that, cause it could open unbalance in the future among LIs.

Like imagine, the same girl gets voted everytime or every other time, how is that fair for the other girls

They will be. However, the build with Bonus Scene is a different build for higher tier patrons, so unless someone decides to be a hero, spend their 20$ and leak it, it won't appear here. Sorry, but a man got to eat.

When it comes down to polls for that : obviously, that whenever the character will be chosen, they go off next votings. For example, if Vanessa wins this poll, she won't be featured in any bonus episodes straight up until the second half of the season 1.

Making things work for episode is pretty easy, because characters have their activities off-screen.
In simple terms, it'll be a bunch of masturbation scenes up until MC's relationship with girls will start to skyrocket. And some additional exposition on these characters, but nothing major. You won't find out that someone has a special room in their house where their husband's dead body is hidden.