HTML Abandoned Sistersitting / Housesitting [Day 11 Scene 01] [i107760]

[Karnewarrior]

That's because it's easier for a company to just say "No lolis" without facing backlash than to allow lolis and be forced to explain to a different authoritarian moralist douchebag every fresh week about why they're letting "moral degenerates win".
And so, one doesn't get free speech, not because the government took it away, but because we were more willing to give it to the screaming sociopaths than the polite people who used it properly.

 

[Darin68]

is this going to be strictly a text based game, or will you be adding pics at some point?

 

[Mathesar]

is this going to be strictly a text based game, or will you be adding pics at some point?

Pages 13 and 14 there's a big long discussion about adding images to the game. The last relevant post is below.

Yeah, even if I were to do renders officially, it would still be an addon and the story would be written with text-only in mind, the renders only serving as illustration for the text.
For now, I think I'll just keep it text-only, and if alex2011 wants to work on an expansion project that adds images with me, then I will support him in that.

 

[SINtax EroRR]

Game FAQ:
Q: Is this game text-only or does it have renders/drawings as well?
A: The game is text-only, but I've tried my best to make it an engaging read. Before you discount it entirely, read this post: "You have single-handedly convinced me that text-only games can be worth my time. Well done."

Q: I know it is a text-only game, but I believe the addition of pictures could make it a masterpiece! You should consider adding some.
A: I know many people think this way, but I prefer to develop a text-only game, due to the fact that time I would spend on rendering images, would detract from the time I have to write the story. If I ever do start rendering images for my game, it will be after the story is complete.

Q: I'm not sure if I should give this game a try, because I x...?
A: To answer that, I can only suggest that you read its reviews, or these posts reviewing the game and its writing. Some of my favorite posts: one, two, three, four, ...

Q: I love your game, when will the next update be out?
A: There are no set ETAs, I work on this game in my spare time. I try to only upload a new version when it has at least a few new scenes, so that you have something to read. The plan is to when an update is ready, post it on Fridays.

Q: How does your version numbering work?
A: When the game is considered complete by me, I will bump up the version to "v1.0.0". Scene additions and bug-fixes will be kept track of in the third spot, while releases where a full day is completed will be tracked by the second spot.

Q: I thought games about pedophilia were banned under rule 7?
A: The game, by default, has no underage content. And with the unofficial patch made by a modder, the girl is post-pubescent, and hence the staff has approved the game under rule 7. If you want to discuss the morality or legality of the game, please see this comment.

Developer Musings:
And yes, I know, my cover image is pretty bad. Photoshopped the text on an image in 3 minutes, since a cover was required. All credit goes to artist:

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. If anyone is a genius at drawing/photoshop, if you make a cover for me I'll use it and give you credit.

I'm someone that loves fan art, so if anyone is doing something, be it drawing/rendering based on the girl(s) in my story, feel free to post it in this thread, and I'll add it to this post! Same goes for things like rendered/drawn F95Zone signatures for people to use.

Fan Art & Signatures

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I've played several text-based games and while i agree that using one's imagination + a well-written steamy scene can be as sexy if not more than an illustrated scene, my curiosity has been piqued by your statement regarding the addition of CGs when the story is finished. Will you be doing these yourself or will you be hiring an artist to do it for you?

 

[i107760]

I've played several text-based games and while i agree that using one's imagination + a well-written steamy scene can be as sexy if not more than an illustrated scene, my curiosity has been piqued by your statement regarding the addition of CGs when the story is finished. Will you be doing these yourself or will you be hiring an artist to do it for you?

There was quite a bit of discussion about this on page 13~, and it's a major "if". If the game starts making enough money a month on Patreon, I'll consider hiring an artist. I don't really care to learn to render myself, or make the monetary investments needed to build a rig capable of doing it. And even then, they would be treated as optional expansion, and the story would be as a text-only game.
Until then, if people really want CG, they'll have to do it themselves or hope for a modder to do it. Have gotten some offers, and coded a way for modders to only have to upload an archive with "images" folder with images in it, to show the images in-game.


Unrelated to this, there won't be an update this week. I've been busy with work, I'll try to finish SCENE03 and SCENE04 this weekend, to upload to Patreon as individual scenes.

 

[RexArmand]

Well made text game, one of just a few I`ve actually been wanting to read

 

[CharleyT]

Uggh, no images! How sad this makes me.

 

[Deleted member 2158161]

I'm taking it that the current release is just a sneak peak? Played through the end and while I really enjoy a slow burn, it might've been a bit early for a release. I'll check this out once more content has been added as the story seems very promising. Best of luck.

 

[i107760]

Well made text game, one of just a few I`ve actually been wanting to read

Thanks for the kind words, I'm working on the new update now.

Uggh, no images! How sad this makes me.

I hope you'll still enjoy the game despite that, people have told me this is the first text-only game they enjoyed playing.
I have had modders contact me wanting to make graphics for it, so there's a chance there will be a graphical expansion some day.

I'm taking it that the current release is just a sneak peak? Played through the end and while I really enjoy a slow burn, it might've been a bit early for a release. I'll check this out once more content has been added as the story seems very promising. Best of luck.

Current version has about ~35000 words, which is a decent amount in my opinion. It takes quite a while to plan, write, edit, and code a day, probably more time than you might expect. I work on it my spare time, so progress is slow.
Glad to hear you liked the story though, I'd keep an eye out on "v0.8.0" or "v0.9.0", if you want a decent amount of new content to read. You can also follow me on my

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if you want, to keep track of my updates.

Just released "

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" on my Patreon, it's the rest of the content for the third scene. It also includes my engine changes, that I talked about before. I'm working on the rest of the scenes for the next update now. If anyone reading this is decent/good at Photoshop, and you want to help me with the game, please let me know.

 

[Karnewarrior]

If you want to start getting an idea how quickly stuff is actually written, check out Fiction.Live - they do live writing over there (in RPG-like games called "quests" which is basically DnD where everyone shares a character) and it'll give you an appreciation for how agonizingly slow it can be for someone to write.
35k words is no demo. That's multiple weeks worth of solid work - over half the length of a smallish novel, too.

 

[i107760]

If you want to start getting an idea how quickly stuff is actually written, check out Fiction.Live - they do live writing over there (in RPG-like games called "quests" which is basically DnD where everyone shares a character) and it'll give you an appreciation for how agonizingly slow it can be for someone to write.
35k words is no demo. That's multiple weeks worth of solid work - over half the length of a smallish novel, too.

Well, since we were talking about it, I went and tracked the time it took me to write "

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", which is now released on the Patreon for everyone. I detail my writing/development process in the following

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, so people can get an idea what it is like, and how long it takes me to write a scene.
I'm not sure if I'm just a slow writer, that could be it, but it might help to show people that I invest a lot of my free time into the project whenever I have the chance.

I'll release "v0.7.7", or "v0.8.0" this Friday. It will depend on the amount of scenes I end up finishing, and how long they are going to be.

 

[dengandos]

the patch is not working. to be more specific, both pre-patch and manual patch is not working if i play the game via phone browser(phone chrome) but it works fine if i play it via chrome desktop.

edit : tried clear data and reinstall chrome. still not working.
edit again : nvm. it works. though i have to use this method.

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[Flipper Roo]

please if you can, release ver 8 even if you have to delay, the more content the better <3

 

[Deleted member 2158161]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be insulting. I guess I was just sad to see the end screen, keep up the good work.

 

[Niffy Fox]

I cant get the game to start? I could use some help.

 

[LorDClockaN]

Is it friday yet??

 

[i107760]

the patch is not working. to be more specific, both pre-patch and manual patch is not working if i play the game via phone browser(phone chrome) but it works fine if i play it via chrome desktop.

edit : tried clear data and reinstall chrome. still not working.
edit again : nvm. it works. though i have to use this method.

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Possibly, however you were running the ".html" file was setting the working directory to something other than the directory you downloaded. Not an expert on android, and game was not made playing it on mobile in mind.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be insulting. I guess I was just sad to see the end screen, keep up the good work.

No offense taken, was thinking about writing something about my process anyway, the discussion just made me time myself as I wrote the next scene.

I cant get the game to start? I could use some help.

What do you need help with? You just need to unzip the game, then open the ".html" file with your internet browser. (Try using Chrome/Firefox, if you're not already).

Is it friday yet??

It is, but just got home. I'll try to get the update out, won't be entirely complete, though.

 

[i107760]

v0.7.7 is now released! It's not as much content as I was hoping to write for the release; it adds about 4000~ words. I'm nearly done wrapping up the fourth day now, and with that, the introduction to the story is almost over. I'm not entirely happy with the new content, and day four in general, so I'd still recommend people who are patient/and or people that only plan to do a play-through once every so often, to wait until v0.8.0 comes out.

You can find a changelog and my thoughts on the new content, as well as my plans for v0.8.0

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, on my Patreon. I also recently made

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about the development process for my game, if you are interested. It takes me more time to write a scene than you probably expect.

I've created a poll, that asks about the pacing of the fourth day. It's a bit of a dull day, I'm trying to keep it interesting, but I feel that I need a day to set up the rest of the story. I hope that when I release the entire day, and rewrite things I dislike, it will not be a problem anymore.
I'm also still considering monetization of my game, since it does take quite a bit of my free time; It's motivating to me that people enjoy my writing and follow/back me on Patreon, and it would also be very nice if I were to be able to use the proceeds of developing this game to pay for a rig capable of rendering images.

 

[erbk]

I'm getting stack trace errors whenever I choose the non-default option, as early as on day one when I choose to scold the girl.

Downloaded the Mega link and unzipped in a clean directory.

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Apologies! An error has occurred. You may be able to continue, but some parts may not work properly.

Error: <<set>>: bad evaluation: expected expression, got '<'.

Stack Trace:
value@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:3557:20518
handler/<@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:3559:16277
value/<@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:3558:30171
t/<@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:3555:3921
dispatch@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:57:43090
add/v.handle@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:57:41074

 

[i107760]

I'm getting stack trace errors whenever I choose the non-default option, as early as on day one when I choose to scold the girl.

Downloaded the Mega link and unzipped in a clean directory.

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Apologies! An error has occurred. You may be able to continue, but some parts may not work properly.

Error: <<set>>: bad evaluation: expected expression, got '<'.

Stack Trace:
value@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:3557:20518
handler/<@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:3559:16277
value/<@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:3558:30171
t/<@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:3555:3921
dispatch@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:57:43090
add/v.handle@file:///D:/Games/Housesitting-0.7.7/Housesitting%20v0.7.7.html:57:41074

No idea how that happened, did not even touch anything related to that. That's what releasing something when you're dead tired gets you, I suppose. Will take a look and upload a fix. EDIT: Found it, uploading fixed versions now.