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I like that Riley brings up the Cassie thing immediately. I've been going with all the lesbian options anyway even though it's not really my jam but I appreciate how the developer handles this.
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The PC version works fine using Joiplay on my android. You might want to request Ghost or Estrada777 or other community porters to see if they want to port it. Not sure if there's an official version being developed.
Edit: get the compressed version of game if you are lacking space.
Hey Atemsiel, I've been really digging the game, definitely got me hooked so far.
Also, as someone who gets [irrationally or otherwise] very annoyed with redundant data usage/downloading, seeing that you put links for patch updates delights me. However, unless I've missed something, is this only done for minor version changes? Is it particularly hard/difficult to make it so major updates can be patched as well?
For example, I'm currently on .21.02. I checked your links and posts on Patreon but I don't see an upgrade path to from .21 to .22.
Mostly just asking in case I did miss it, and wondering if it's actually a difficult thing to do or if most creators just don't think of it. Either way, at least it's there for minor patches, so I want to praise you for that.
As well as for the game as a whole, of course. Again, really liking it so far!
Also, as someone who gets [irrationally or otherwise] very annoyed with redundant data usage/downloading, seeing that you put links for patch updates delights me. However, unless I've missed something, is this only done for minor version changes? Is it particularly hard/difficult to make it so major updates can be patched as well?
For example, I'm currently on .21.02. I checked your links and posts on Patreon but I don't see an upgrade path to from .21 to .22.
Mostly just asking in case I did miss it, and wondering if it's actually a difficult thing to do or if most creators just don't think of it. Either way, at least it's there for minor patches, so I want to praise you for that.
As well as for the game as a whole, of course. Again, really liking it so far!
Planning to update, but I probably won't be done for another day or two -- it's a fairly complicated game update, logic-wise, and it's taking a while to check all the different possibilities. (That said, I'm not sure how much use there is for a PDF walkthrough now that there's an official in-game one -- it might actually be better to replace this sometime with a simpler guide focusing on unlocks, etc. Haven't decided yet, though.)
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I believe this is the first update he's put out patch upgrades for, so it's likely going to depend on whether he makes changes to too many things. This update also massively changed the way images are loaded (using diff-based sprites for expression changes instead of fully-new renders), so there would have been no meaningful benefit to having an upgrade patch from 0.21 to 0.22.x (since it would be, at a guess, between 75%-90% the size of the full update).
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I saw there was a new (or at least I don't remember it) walkthrough option, which is a great inclusion, so I decided to start over as I wasn't sure what consequences some of my earlier decisions had so figured I'd do a couple new clean run throughs. I noticed a couple other improvements on the way, being able to play the ghost bit in a VN mode - which was infinitely preferable, and being able to skip that bit where he's stuck on the phone for forever, which was a previous gripe I had with repeated playthroughs. (though I still get a red dot on the phone/messages at one point when there's nothing there though and it doesn't ever go away)
One weird thing is I was first doing a slave runthrough so avoided any romance stuff... but then I noticed the saves started to be automatically labelled with Cas romance, even though nothing had happened with her, and I'd even turned down her GF choice bit 'I'll have time for you' because it said it closed the slave route (though honestly I think that needs to be changed or reworded as I'd never have thought entering into a FwB thing cancelled out a slave route as both are compatible with a sex crazed MC)...
I went through doing some quicksaves to narrow it down, it's after you preview the basement as soon as you go to the dorm where there's Sasha and Hikari on the couch suddenly it think you're on the Cas romance... dunno if it's a bug or not, if I'm actually stuck on the romance route or the others just haven't started and it's defaulted to that... I noticed later on it had "friends with benefits" on her status page where Riley's said Slave stuff.
Oh and also I noticed with Sasha it says it closes the slave route if you decide to keep up the ghost hunting, which is a bit of a shame, but I guess that's what separate saves are for...
One weird thing is I was first doing a slave runthrough so avoided any romance stuff... but then I noticed the saves started to be automatically labelled with Cas romance, even though nothing had happened with her, and I'd even turned down her GF choice bit 'I'll have time for you' because it said it closed the slave route (though honestly I think that needs to be changed or reworded as I'd never have thought entering into a FwB thing cancelled out a slave route as both are compatible with a sex crazed MC)...
I went through doing some quicksaves to narrow it down, it's after you preview the basement as soon as you go to the dorm where there's Sasha and Hikari on the couch suddenly it think you're on the Cas romance... dunno if it's a bug or not, if I'm actually stuck on the romance route or the others just haven't started and it's defaulted to that... I noticed later on it had "friends with benefits" on her status page where Riley's said Slave stuff.
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Oh and also I noticed with Sasha it says it closes the slave route if you decide to keep up the ghost hunting, which is a bit of a shame, but I guess that's what separate saves are for...
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The reason that 0.22 isn't available as a patch is that it's a fairly massive change. It converts many of the images to sprites to save overall filesize (Before I did this, the game was like 11GB), and so offering it as a patch was very complicated. I eventually just went fuck it and decided this version was not gonna be available as a patch, but I've been offering the minor versions since then as patches. My intention is to offer new content updates as patches, since this game is gonna end up pretty big, but for this one it was just too complicated for what it was worth.
So yeah, this time, you gotta download the whole thing unfortunately, but I'm definitely not planning to force people to do that every time.
Thank you for the kind words though! I'm glad you're enjoying it.
No rush man, thanks for your fantastic guide for the previous version. I'll leave it up to you to decide what you want to do, but if you decide you want to update your PDF guide or make an unlock thing or whatever, my DM's are open if you have questions about anything.
Yep, bugs. I figured things were going a bit too well xD. I'll look into those and may patch them out, but I don't think I'm gonna make a new version just for those, just possibly replace existing links. If you've managed to ignore those bugs for now then I'd suggest continuing as you were and the fixes should be in the first version of 0.23. The Cassie romance thing is a little odd, but depending on what the cause of that ends up being I can most likely provide a console command that will fix that upon release of the first version of 0.23 in whenever that happens. Hoping to do more frequent smaller releases simply because errr. Well that's kinda the growth meta.
Ahaa! Finally someone gets it xD. I actually get backlash on this usually. The whole point of it is that Riley is doing her best to be an honest girlfriend by telling you about it if it's been going on, allowing you to make another choice in case your opinion on the matter has changed now that she's officially yours. Most people think I'm just trying to pressure them into doing the lesbian stuff by having it brought up more than once, but it really is just about Riley doing her best to be open with the guy she likes. As fucked up as some of the relationships planned are from a real world perspective, I do at very least want to portray the romance route relationships as healthy ones filled with mutual respect. (Y'know, as much as you can in a school based harem porn game....)
Nice.
Before I say anything else, I will admit that I am specifically interested in the Submission routes mostly, maybe except for Olivia. That broad definitely needs to be put in her place. Anyway, so far I've only followed the Submission routes, so any comments will be written from that perspective.
I like the balance between romance and kink, it's something I don't see too often, as most devs go either too vanilla, with only an occasional spanking/bondage session here and there, without portraying the actual D/s aspect of the relationship, or on the opposite end, the girl is treated as a fuckhole during the H scenes, so you don't feel the affection/passion between the two, particularly on the Dom's side. I don't know how the Submission route will turn out in the future, but I definitely like what I am seeing so far. I also applaud and respect the usage of aftercare in your narrative. I think we definitely need more of that under the BDSM tag.
Proper Hepburn transcription is also appreciated - it shows attention to details, which is definitely a plus.
Some jokes... I feel like they shouldn't have made me laugh as hard as they did. Honestly, they were pretty bad - I blame my broken sense of humour, I guess.
One thing I would disagree with on a design level, is the fact that you are presenting thoughts of characters other than the MC, especially in the scenes from MC's perspective. AFAIK, narrative-wise it's not good to be jumping perspectives like that, since you are kind of removing tension by unintentionally making the MC omniscient (yes, I know that he does not actually hear those thoughts, but as a reader, you don't register that, and you just subconsciously treat it as if MC knows what other characters are thinking).
I was kind of curious about how accurate your Japanese was, but making it immediately disappear like that may have been low-key genius, since it looks good, conveys the point across, and you kind of don't have to care about whether it's perfect, since normally nobody will be able to read it, so it eliminates the problem of nitpicking dicks like me, who get annoyed at this sort of thing.
Overall, I will keep an eye on this one. If Stormside continues this way, I feel like it might scratch my itch for what I call "wholesome degeneracy".
Also, fuck you with the horror segment. I bet you are real proud of that one, huh? >_>
Before I say anything else, I will admit that I am specifically interested in the Submission routes mostly, maybe except for Olivia. That broad definitely needs to be put in her place. Anyway, so far I've only followed the Submission routes, so any comments will be written from that perspective.
I like the balance between romance and kink, it's something I don't see too often, as most devs go either too vanilla, with only an occasional spanking/bondage session here and there, without portraying the actual D/s aspect of the relationship, or on the opposite end, the girl is treated as a fuckhole during the H scenes, so you don't feel the affection/passion between the two, particularly on the Dom's side. I don't know how the Submission route will turn out in the future, but I definitely like what I am seeing so far. I also applaud and respect the usage of aftercare in your narrative. I think we definitely need more of that under the BDSM tag.
Proper Hepburn transcription is also appreciated - it shows attention to details, which is definitely a plus.
Some jokes... I feel like they shouldn't have made me laugh as hard as they did. Honestly, they were pretty bad - I blame my broken sense of humour, I guess.
One thing I would disagree with on a design level, is the fact that you are presenting thoughts of characters other than the MC, especially in the scenes from MC's perspective. AFAIK, narrative-wise it's not good to be jumping perspectives like that, since you are kind of removing tension by unintentionally making the MC omniscient (yes, I know that he does not actually hear those thoughts, but as a reader, you don't register that, and you just subconsciously treat it as if MC knows what other characters are thinking).
I was kind of curious about how accurate your Japanese was, but making it immediately disappear like that may have been low-key genius, since it looks good, conveys the point across, and you kind of don't have to care about whether it's perfect, since normally nobody will be able to read it, so it eliminates the problem of nitpicking dicks like me, who get annoyed at this sort of thing.
Overall, I will keep an eye on this one. If Stormside continues this way, I feel like it might scratch my itch for what I call "wholesome degeneracy".
Also, fuck you with the horror segment. I bet you are real proud of that one, huh? >_>
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Can confirm what longjohngold said, tried to avoid a Cassie romance path but at the point he mentioned my saves now tell me I am romancing her.
Fantastic update and I totally love the game so far. Though a very minor thing, I really love the (often silly) small animations, like the way the two fangirls hug Olivia and then her eyebrows start twitching, fantastic. Generally, all the little details are great and make the game come alive. The auto-translation of foreign languages, when another girl adds something to what the first girl said, the way Akemi sits down on the bed, not even an animation, just shaking the screen slightly. I hope Atemsiel has as much fun creating these little details as I have when playing the game.
Fantastic update and I totally love the game so far. Though a very minor thing, I really love the (often silly) small animations, like the way the two fangirls hug Olivia and then her eyebrows start twitching, fantastic. Generally, all the little details are great and make the game come alive. The auto-translation of foreign languages, when another girl adds something to what the first girl said, the way Akemi sits down on the bed, not even an animation, just shaking the screen slightly. I hope Atemsiel has as much fun creating these little details as I have when playing the game.
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"Those 2 girls from the pool."
So insultingly generic.
I'm impressed.
I'll check this out in like 10 hours, when Mega lets me finish the download.
Tryna download 2 near-7GB games back-to-back without a paid account... FUN.
So insultingly generic.
I'm impressed.
I'll check this out in like 10 hours, when Mega lets me finish the download.
Tryna download 2 near-7GB games back-to-back without a paid account... FUN.
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I noticed an issue with the Phone App displaying past information, not sure if this has been brought up or not.
Day 3 Evening, you can get a Blowjob from Cassie. The phone app will show that she has given 0 Blowjobs even if she has to you.
Day 3 Evening, you can get a Blowjob from Cassie. The phone app will show that she has given 0 Blowjobs even if she has to you.
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*Inhale*
*Exhale*
Yep, definitely one of the better renpy games I've played.
*Exhale*
Yep, definitely one of the better renpy games I've played.
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Just wow! Amazing game so far. All the characters are so well written and likeable, and the sex scenes are treated with such care and consent; it's all just such a breath of fresh air. As someone who is really into the whole BDSM kink, I haven't even tried to go that route because I'm floored by how good the writing is for the romance paths. Great game! I definitely will be keeping up with this one and leaving a review once I fully complete it
I don't suppose you know where the red dot thing starts, do you? I've heard this one more or less since 0.1, but I've never been able to reproduce it myself. I wanna get that sorted. I've fixed the Cassie romance thing, though unfortunately due to the logic in the game there's no real way to have the game work out whether you should have her on the romance route at that point. However, if you enable the console and run the command CassieGF = False then that should fix it. (The save labels update upon load so you'd need to save after you run the command)
Important to note though that Cassie's gym scene is not supposed to happen unless you're on Cassie's Romance route, so if you said yes to the threesome thing in that scene if it asked you, then using the console to take Cassie off the Romance route could cause further bugs in future.
Also yeah, most of the girls stories are at least partially externally driven, so would happen even without the player's intervention. Sasha's story is not like that, and slave MC would have no interest in risking his life for some stupid ghost hunts. That's the reason it gets disabled there, there's just no motivation to continue the story when Sasha's on slave route. Still works on sub route though, since there is affection there.
As for the graphical bug you got, do you have the save file for that? I couldn't reproduce it.
Hah, thanks man, glad you like it except the thoughts thing. With the thoughts thing I likely have a similar opinion to you when it comes to other games, though only in scenes where it's told from MC's perspective. I can't really remember why I did that. Oh well. However when it comes to most uses of it it's primarily so that in sex scenes where the girl can't talk the player still has something to read, and in scenes where it's just the girl on their own it's for the same reason. I didn't want girls narrating to themselves like weirdos while they're alone.
Also yes, I'm real proud of myself xD (But only if my shitty jumpscares worked)
I think I've fixed the cassie romance thing in a version that should be coming out soon. See above for details.
Glad you like it
I can confirm that I have a lot of fun doing all those dumb little animations. In fact, it's probably my favourite part of the process. I just really like doing things that aren't technically necessary, mainly because I got tired of games that appeared to only do what was technically necessary. Stuff like the sex stats, the little animations, the fact that Cassie uses British English spelling while all the other characters use American, MC's initials appearing on a character's ass for one of the pictures according to the name the player actually used, etc..I think I just like making work for myself lmao
I'm actually planning to upgrade my mega account tonight to provide an additional 16TB of free download quota for people to use when downloading it. I was already sharing my quota, but my 2TB got rinsed in like 12 hours. Since this is the first weekend of the release I feel that would be a good idea. I'm sure you probably have it downloaded by now, but yeah, that's a think I'm doing."Those 2 girls from the pool."
So insultingly generic.
I'm impressed.
I'll check this out in like 10 hours, when Mega lets me finish the download.
Tryna download 2 near-7GB games back-to-back without a paid account... FUN.
Do you have the save file for this? It's hard to really diagnose otherwise.
Hah, thanks man, glad you think so.
https://f95zone.to/threads/stormside-v0-22-05-atemsiel.115722/post-11828273
Only reason I haven't added it to the OP is because I'm thinking there'll be a 0.22.06 coming out soon.
DamnJust wow! Amazing game so far. All the characters are so well written and likeable, and the sex scenes are treated with such care and consent; it's all just such a breath of fresh air. As someone who is really into the whole BDSM kink, I haven't even tried to go that route because I'm floored by how good the writing is for the romance paths. Great game! I definitely will be keeping up with this one and leaving a review once I fully complete it
High praise, thanks so much. Hopefully I can continue to make it as you like it. The characters are key and that won't be changing. I get tired of characters that don't feel real, so I'm trying my best to write them as people, rather than just porn game characters. That said, I'm not a writer, so the only way I really have to know if I'm doing it properly or not is feedback. So thanks Do you have the save file? Just based on this error, I can't tell exactly what the issue is unless it's related to the spanish translation that the traceback seems to mention.
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I make this same damn typo all the time and it makes me so angry at my brain... It's like I've got a short circuit. At least I'm apparently not alone in experiencing it.
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Oh yea man, I've though so and said as much since the first update. I just felt like saying it again. Simple setup but the execution is outstanding.