VN Ren'Py Something To Write About Unbroken [Book 1 Steam] [STWAdev]

[shenlao]

I would be very disappointed if that were the case with Ines, because I'd have to violate my own policy of it being a dealbreaker. Ines is too pretty to kick to the curb.

It would be interesting if the story goes on when MC dated Els and secretly fooling around with Ines. Maybe it will unleash Els's psycho personality on MC and Ines hahahaha

 

[imagica]

Yeah, Patreon has been silent from since Aug 12 although is should has been very close to release. Welp, nothing we can do. Hope for at least some Elspeth customs)

 

[Yamura]

It would be interesting if the story goes on when MC dated Els and secretly fooling around with Ines. Maybe it will unleash Els's psycho personality on MC and Ines hahahaha

Based upon the narrative so far, Els seems to possess the self confidence needed to intimidate nearly any romantic rival, and Ines appears to be a novice in the affairs of amour, spectacular looks notwithstanding. Trying to imagine how that would play out.

 

[shenlao]

Based upon the narrative so far, Els seems to possess the self confidence needed to intimidate nearly any romantic rival, and Ines appears to be a novice in the affairs of amour, spectacular looks notwithstanding. Trying to imagine how that would play out.

Well if you play Els path, you'll understand why she's being secretive. She's suppressing her psychopath/bloodthirst personality, that's why when she learn MC is "killer" she feel that MC and her is similar. While Ines is total introvert who pretend become extrovert, but deep down she will try hard to get what she want no matter what.
It will be interesting match up for me, A Psycho vs Helpless Romantic, hahahaha.

 

[Ilhares]

Well if you play Els path, you'll understand why she's being secretive. She's suppressing her psychopath/bloodthirst personality, that's why when she learn MC is "killer" she feel that MC and her is similar. While Ines is total introvert who pretend become extrovert, but deep down she will try hard to get what she want no matter what.
It will be interesting match up for me, A Psycho vs Helpless Romantic, hahahaha.

Just remember that when it's time to name the children with Ines. Calling one of them Elspeth might send your friend off the deep end.

 

[Thunderboi9]

okay i went back a couple pages to see if i missed any updates on it and the whole ines him thread gave me a good chuckle. No update but at least a funny.

 

[Wolfram99]

Huh, i guess the lake scene with Vi references that MC shut her down on christmas, but on maximum asshole path there was no Vi offer.


Alright wtf, when did they sell the Centre that they are not the bosses anymore?

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[rta001]

Huh, i guess the lake scene with Vi references that MC shut her down on christmas, but on maximum asshole path there was no Vi offer.


Alright wtf, when did they sell the Centre that they are not the bosses anymore?

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They didn't sell it. Originally the two fighters were largely funding it through their winnings while Els managed it, as well as community donations. It gave them complete autonomy to set it up and manage it however they liked. The idea was always to build it up, then attract bigger investors so they could expand.

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[Wolfram99]

but they also will have to answer to their board and big donors, just like any charitable organization.

Then they truly have sold their souls since a donor can dictate terms.
The head Adair then owns the organization from now on, will be interesting to see if this will become a point of contention when some other funky rules will be brought up and MC will have a choice to continue with the organization or go their separate ways.

 

[Monetka_]

Check In 09/07/2025

Evening party people, gonna try to pop the TLDR version here get you some info promptly, or as prompt as my rambling ass ever gets. This weekend I'll post the longer and even more ranty version for those who are curious.

So first off, apologies for the radio silence. As you probably know I dislike posting when I feel like I don't have anything interesting to say, or some new part of the process to discuss, but then it compounds upon itself and before long people are wondering if I'm still alive, which is probably worse than boring you so really shooting myself in the foot on that. General gist of dev life is that nothing super new or exciting has happened. Just been looking at renders, changing renders, and of course because it's me, adding more shit.

Bluntly I've just not been super happy with the update, I looked at what I had together and just felt it wasn't at a standard of work that I consider acceptable for myself and I'm not happy putting out something that I'm unhappy with as a product. Still, by the time this is posted I'll be sending an early test build over to the testing gang, getting the ball rolling on the code issues most likely to break the game, if we can summit that cliff a good chunk of anxiety and work will be relieved.

Beyond that, any further issues can be laid at the feet of aforementioned "creative unhappiness." I'll put further elaboration in the rant post but in general this update has ended up longer than expected by a not insignificant margin. To put it into a numbers my initial draft when I hit what I felt was my complete state was about 48,000 words. With further additions that were totally necessary (most of them anyway) that number is now sitting at around 75,000ish words. Pretty big difference as you can see, for further context the entirety of Book One was about 214,000 words. So Part 8 alone is about a third of that size. There's some potential solutions to that but I'll mention that more in the full rant, just giving a quick example here. Of course with all the extra words means extra renders, animations ect. Like Sisyphus I roll the boulder up the hill only to watch it roll on back down on me. Finally managed to get a an early test build though so I'll take the small victory, apart from two scenes I'm still fucking with (they're intertwined, so really it's one) I'm happy enough with it, they still need art work but that's the easier item, just more time consuming. But that in a small nutshell is why I don't have a date for you yet. If you want a more in depth discussion I'll have a post prepped up for the weekend.

But since this is my bullshit I'm probably going to switch off billing going forward until release, seems the most fair thing I can do at the moment. I also have something else I'm working on as a bit of an apology when I have some time so I'll talk more about that soon. That's about it today, I'll be dealing with some IRL stuff the next couple of days so I'll be away from my PC, but I'll be back Friday.

I appreciate your support and more than that your patience with me and I hope you have a lovely week.

Sláinte.

 

[mruggeri2]

Waiting almost 1.5y+ years and then getting a "I'm not very happy with this update" from the dev is giving me very mixed feelings ngl

 

[cxx]

Waiting almost 1.5y+ years and then getting a "I'm not very happy with this update" from the dev is giving me very mixed feelings ngl

8 months if that remake for new renpy is counted.

 

[Krytax123]

Waiting almost 1.5y+ years and then getting a "I'm not very happy with this update" from the dev is giving me very mixed feelings ngl

Yeah sounds like he's struggling but imo the "I also have something else I'm working on as a bit of an apology when I have some time so I'll talk more about that soon." way more bothersome, sounds like stupid timewaste bonus content or even worse a second avn.

 

[mruggeri2]

8 months if that remake for new renpy is counted.

It's not.

 

[Matt2012021]

Have lost just about all faith in this dev

 

[ename144]

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Check In 09/07/2025

Evening party people, gonna try to pop the TLDR version here get you some info promptly, or as prompt as my rambling ass ever gets. This weekend I'll post the longer and even more ranty version for those who are curious.

So first off, apologies for the radio silence. As you probably know I dislike posting when I feel like I don't have anything interesting to say, or some new part of the process to discuss, but then it compounds upon itself and before long people are wondering if I'm still alive, which is probably worse than boring you so really shooting myself in the foot on that. General gist of dev life is that nothing super new or exciting has happened. Just been looking at renders, changing renders, and of course because it's me, adding more shit.

Bluntly I've just not been super happy with the update, I looked at what I had together and just felt it wasn't at a standard of work that I consider acceptable for myself and I'm not happy putting out something that I'm unhappy with as a product. Still, by the time this is posted I'll be sending an early test build over to the testing gang, getting the ball rolling on the code issues most likely to break the game, if we can summit that cliff a good chunk of anxiety and work will be relieved.

Beyond that, any further issues can be laid at the feet of aforementioned "creative unhappiness." I'll put further elaboration in the rant post but in general this update has ended up longer than expected by a not insignificant margin. To put it into a numbers my initial draft when I hit what I felt was my complete state was about 48,000 words. With further additions that were totally necessary (most of them anyway) that number is now sitting at around 75,000ish words. Pretty big difference as you can see, for further context the entirety of Book One was about 214,000 words. So Part 8 alone is about a third of that size. There's some potential solutions to that but I'll mention that more in the full rant, just giving a quick example here. Of course with all the extra words means extra renders, animations ect. Like Sisyphus I roll the boulder up the hill only to watch it roll on back down on me. Finally managed to get a an early test build though so I'll take the small victory, apart from two scenes I'm still fucking with (they're intertwined, so really it's one) I'm happy enough with it, they still need art work but that's the easier item, just more time consuming. But that in a small nutshell is why I don't have a date for you yet. If you want a more in depth discussion I'll have a post prepped up for the weekend.

But since this is my bullshit I'm probably going to switch off billing going forward until release, seems the most fair thing I can do at the moment. I also have something else I'm working on as a bit of an apology when I have some time so I'll talk more about that soon. That's about it today, I'll be dealing with some IRL stuff the next couple of days so I'll be away from my PC, but I'll be back Friday.

I appreciate your support and more than that your patience with me and I hope you have a lovely week.

Sláinte.

I've always found the developer updates for this game difficult to interpret, but this one is downright alarming. He drops the bombshell that he's not happy with with the state of the update, but gives no plan to address this unhappiness and says testing is proceeding anyway. Yikes.

I don't mean this as any sort of accusation; I understand the frustration of writer's block and I appreciate that he's trying to be transparent here. Still, this sounds like writer burnout is a serious possibility here, and that is not something I was expecting. I guess we'll have to hope for the best and see what Friday brings.

 

[Krytax123]

I've always found the developer updates for this game difficult to interpret, but this one is downright alarming. He drops the bombshell that he's not happy with with the state of the update, but gives no plan to address this unhappiness and says testing is proceeding anyway. Yikes.

I don't mean this as any sort of accusation; I understand the frustration of writer's block and I appreciate that he's trying to be transparent here. Still, this sounds like writer burnout is a serious possibility here, and that is not something I was expecting. I guess we'll have to hope for the best and see what Friday brings.

I feel like lots of dev struggle when it gets to a point where relationships are established, most devs simply end their avn at this point and give you a boring wedding end montage if were lucky lol

Not saying its the same here but it could be the case, the MC kinda have to make some decisions and will become a one woman guy (on most paths) and im not sure if devs just lack the ability to write good (or bad?) relationships, consider it boring or a simply overwhelmed with the required pathing at this point.

Theres still lots of story to be written here but the relationships are close to a point where commitment is necessary, maybe thats a part which troubles him or leads to a writers block lacking ideas of fun/exciting lewd content.

 

[Topmaniac]

just add scenes with Iness to the update and the update will already be good

 

[jadepaladin]

I feel like lots of dev struggle when it gets to a point where relationships are established, most devs simply end their avn at this point and give you a boring wedding end montage if were lucky lol

Not saying its the same here but it could be the case, the MC kinda have to make some decisions and will become a one woman guy (on most paths) and im not sure if devs just lack the ability to write good (or bad?) relationships, consider it boring or a simply overwhelmed with the required pathing at this point.

Theres still lots of story to be written here but the relationships are close to a point where commitment is necessary, maybe thats a part which troubles him or leads to a writers block lacking ideas of fun/exciting lewd content.

Given how The Author went, that's actually a possibility. We basically got to fuck around until the end, then pick an ending. No real experience with how he handles locking down a character to one woman since it went straight into endings.

 

[muk13th]

Based upon the narrative so far, Els seems to possess the self confidence needed to intimidate nearly any romantic rival, and Ines appears to be a novice in the affairs of amour, spectacular looks notwithstanding. Trying to imagine how that would play out.

Dude, Els could straight up disappear Ines and nobody would know jack.
Els isn't my favorite LI but her story is, easily, the most interesting. What we know
of it anyway.