RPGM Completed Sir Stretchalot - The Plight of the Elves [Final] [Apple Tart]

[Apple_Tart_Games]

Had some crashes and softlocks but it was fine after I found the 1.4 version.
The artwork is great, the characters are charming and I thought the writing was fun and goofy.
Short and simple but solid overall.

I did change some things behind the scenes that might have helped with stability.

I'm glad you liked the game! Thanks for playing it!

maybe gc is off?

Open the gallery and try replaying the same scene over and over, and watch memory consumption.

Thanks for letting me know, I'll get in there and have a look. If it's during those sorts of scenes then it might have something to do with having too many images loaded at once. A lot of the times I'll keep old frames from earlier in the scene loaded in the background. I'll see if culling those helps.

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

maybe gc is off?

Open the gallery and try replaying the same scene over and over, and watch memory consumption.

I see what you mean about the increasing memory. I don't know why it's doing that. I checked on a scene that I know deletes all images before ending. That doesn't seem to make a difference though. Only thing I can think of is the plugin that I use for the gallery is causing it somehow.

I'll have to try and handle that scene gallery a different way somehow in the next game and see if that makes a difference.

 

[larrangeur]

Thanks for your game which is really fun.

But I'm stuck after Mira 2nd Clue, I can't enter any room, there are only 2 gards outside that have nothing to say...

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

Thanks for your game which is really fun.

But I'm stuck after Mira 2nd Clue, I can't enter any room, there are only 2 gards outside that have nothing to say...

What version are you using? If you're using the latest version (1.4), that shouldn't happen. You should be able to enter the Queen's hall and ask the guards inside there.

Glad you like the game so far!

 

[larrangeur]

What version are you using? If you're using the latest version, that shouldn't happen. You should be able to enter the Queen's hall and ask the guards inside there.

Glad you like the game so far!

It doesn't,
I reload an old save and it seems to be better (it was night during Ella's quest and now it's day...)
It seems there was a bug when seeing the 2 girls and refusing to do their quest before accepting one.

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

It doesn't,
I reload an old save and it seems to be better (it was night during Ella's quest and now it's day...)
It seems there was a bug when seeing the 2 girls and refusing to do their quest before accepting one.

Oh, that's weird.

If you don't mind, could you zip up the save folder (it's under WWW) and attach it here so I can take a look?

It shouldn't ever be night during Ella's quest. I'll check what it's doing when you tell the girls to wait on their quests.

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

maybe gc is off?

Open the gallery and try replaying the same scene over and over, and watch memory consumption.

You were right: garbage collection wasn't working for some reason when set to automatic. I changed it to refresh on every map change, which fixes it. Played through all the gallery scenes over and over and it never really got higher than 500-600 mb usage.

Cheers for putting me onto that!

 

[bobdillan]

Yeh, the NTR stuff just doesn't sound like something I'd actually wanna write, so I'll probably steer clear of it. Maybe my mind will change on that some day, who knows.

Same with beastiality and incest stuff. Just not my thing. I haven't played many porn games though, and at some point I'll probably stumble across games with this content. Maybe that'll get me interested haha. I imagine I'll have to do some stuff that pushes towards beastiality, like if I do mice or werewolf girls or something, but, like you said, there's plenty of that content already on Patreon and I'll just not have to push it too far.

Just make sure if you ever do make a game with anything like that (specifically NTR, sharing/swinging, beasty content, MMF etc.) make it loud and clear from build one, so people who hate that stuff know to avoid it. (otherwise if you add it later and it blindsides them.... you will have rage-filled people).

Also worth noting, a lot of people will avoid games with such tags even if said content is optional/avoidable. (in part because it changes the way a character is, because they would do it. I.e. you can't have a character that is supremely loyal, when there is an NTR route for them, cause it simply existing makes that untrue)
So if you do ever do said content, do it for their own dedicated game, otherwise your target audience size will suffer for everything that isn't those genres.

As for incest stuff... that would be a welcome addition for like 90% of people at this point XD so no need to have a warning for that one. Just a patreon work-around... sadly.

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

Just make sure if you ever do make a game with anything like that (specifically NTR, sharing/swinging, beasty content, MMF etc.) make it loud and clear from build one, so people who hate that stuff know to avoid it. (otherwise if you add it later and it blindsides them.... you will have rage-filled people).

Also worth noting, a lot of people will avoid games with such tags even if said content is optional/avoidable. (in part because it changes the way a character is, because they would do it. I.e. you can't have a character that is supremely loyal, when there is an NTR route for them, cause it simply existing makes that untrue)
So if you do ever do said content, do it for their own dedicated game, otherwise your target audience size will suffer for everything that isn't those genres.

As for incest stuff... that would be a welcome addition for like 90% of people at this point XD so no need to have a warning for that one. Just a patreon work-around... sadly.

Thanks for the info, mate.

NTR wasn't something I knew about until this thread, but having only played like 3 porn games, I'm still very inexperienced with most of this stuff lol.

I've done Sharing and MMF in my first game. No one seemed to get mad about that. None of the characters were in any sort of relationship, and everything I've written is pretty light-hearted, so maybe that caused it to not bother anyone.

When you say "Beasty" content, what exactly are we talking about here? Like, a girl getting screwed by an actual dog or horse or whatever? If yes, then I'm likely never doing that sort of thing. A cat girl or werewolf girl or something, sure, but actual animals, nah lol.

And as for incest stuff, is it the pseudo-incest sort of thing people want? Like, the whole "Girl just turned 18 and wants to bang her step dad/brother" thing? Or actual, full-blown incest? And people really want this stuff?

 

[Evizzy89]

Thanks for the info, mate.

NTR wasn't something I knew about until this thread, but having only played like 3 porn games, I'm still very inexperienced with most of this stuff lol.

I've done Sharing and MMF in my first game. No one seemed to get mad about that. None of the characters were in any sort of relationship, and everything I've written is pretty light-hearted, so maybe that caused it to not bother anyone.

When you say "Beasty" content, what exactly are we talking about here? Like, a girl getting screwed by an actual dog or horse or whatever? If yes, then I'm likely never doing that sort of thing. A cat girl or werewolf girl or something, sure, but actual animals, nah lol.

And as for incest stuff, is it the pseudo-incest sort of thing people want? Like, the whole "Girl just turned 18 and wants to bang her step dad/brother" thing? Or actual, full-blown incest? And people really want this stuff?

I can vouch about the NTR, if I see the tag (even optional) its a instant pass for me <.< but there is communities out there for it
as for the incest, idc personally, but its a very popular tag for games as far as I am aware full blown incest is not allowed on patreon, but "step sibling/mom" ect is
monsters eg, catgirl, foxgirl,harpys,slimes ect seem to be pretty popular

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

I can vouch about the NTR, if I see the tag (even optional) its a instant pass for me <.< but there is communities out there for it
as for the incest, idc personally, but its a very popular tag for games as far as I am aware full blown incest is not allowed on patreon, but "step sibling/mom" ect is
monsters eg, catgirl, foxgirl,harpys,slimes ect seem to be pretty popular

Yeh, each to their own of course, but the NTR thing just doesn't appeal to me at all.

As for incest, I'm totally fine with the "step" stuff. I actually self-published one of those stories on Amazon for a joke a while back and it blew up and almost hit the best-sellers list. I had no clue what I was doing and fucked up with some of the terminology in the description and/or cover and Amazon decided to ban it and not pay me any of the cash lol.

Monster stuff is definitely on the menu, especially with these Sir Stretchalot games.

 

[bobdillan]

Thanks for the info, mate.

NTR wasn't something I knew about until this thread, but having only played like 3 porn games, I'm still very inexperienced with most of this stuff lol.

I've done Sharing and MMF in my first game. No one seemed to get mad about that. None of the characters were in any sort of relationship, and everything I've written is pretty light-hearted, so maybe that caused it to not bother anyone.

When you say "Beasty" content, what exactly are we talking about here? Like, a girl getting screwed by an actual dog or horse or whatever? If yes, then I'm likely never doing that sort of thing. A cat girl or werewolf girl or something, sure, but actual animals, nah lol.

uhhh, catgirl and wolf-girl are monstergirls, and then anthros are furry. Beast... is literally beast so yeah, you never gonna do it.

And as for incest stuff, is it the pseudo-incest sort of thing people want? Like, the whole "Girl just turned 18 and wants to bang her step dad/brother" thing? Or actual, full-blown incest? And people really want this stuff?

Full blood, step stuff is even largely considered cheap or a copout by most who care about that genre as well.

 

[Duble]

noice

 

[cooperdk]

Good game. But Mira teases for the first hour or so, and I detest developers who tease in the beginning of a game especially when it is for more than one scene. I don't have time for that crap.

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

Good game. But Mira teases for the first hour or so, and I detest developers who tease in the beginning of a game especially when it is for more than one scene. I don't have time for that crap.

Sorry. I'll keep this sort of thing in mind for future games!

 

[DickMcFuck]

God ella makes me uncomfortable.

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

God ella makes me uncomfortable.

Sorry you don't like her. Any particular reason why so I know what to look out for in future?

 

[DickMcFuck]

Sorry you don't like her. Any particular reason why so I know what to look out for in future?

her insistence on sucking off every dude she comes across is very off-putting. other then that shes great and all but that particular thing is just weird.

 

[Apple_Tart_Games]

her insistence on sucking off every dude she comes across is very off-putting. other then that shes great and all but that particular thing is just weird.

Aright, thanks for the explanation. I'll try to be more careful with characterization in future.

 

[Malekai]

Hey! For every person you meet that hates character trait A there will be someone who loves it somewhere on the world as well. Just write what you want to write and follow your own vision to be honest. I thought the writing was stellar. The horse writing was brilliant, I actually looked forward to the horse actions and talking. The artwork and sex scenes are really well done. Don't find too many games that really give ass and anal fetish the love it deserves.

Usually I just forward through everything but the sex, or download a full clear save or gallery. I actually spent 2.5 hours of fully playing your game from start to finish, no skippy skippy. So let that be a testament to your skill in writing a good engaging story.