VN Ren'Py Stormside [v0.23.1.4] [Atemsiel]

[Atemsiel]

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No snu snuing potentially hot lewdy ghosts in the future? Dishonor I say!!!

Perjaps after her main story is complete xD, but for now, yeahhh, serious ghosts only

 

[Black Moon]

I realised you actually asked at one point in what capacity the game features horror. I think you got an answer, but I might as well give dev answer anyway.

There is one character whose story revolves around the idea of ghost hunting. It's played relatively seriously (I.E. You can't fuck the ghosts, they're intended to be legitimately dangerous)

Currently there is only one such event which can be played multiple ways as has been said by others. This particular character will have multiple events around this theme, eventually.

As for supernatural stuff, the game does feature magic powers, however in the game world they're rare enough that it's basically only MC who has one in the current version, so its not exactly supernatural themed at the moment. This theme is likely to become stronger as the main plot is developed, but these things take time.

Fucking ghost?? I'm not in dat shit, but I don't mind at all
Well, I have already finish yer game, horror scenes are fucking awesome!!!! I will prepare a good review 5/5 star by me!

 

[BlueNox]

I realised you actually asked at one point in what capacity the game features horror. I think you got an answer, but I might as well give dev answer anyway.

There is one character whose story revolves around the idea of ghost hunting. It's played relatively seriously (I.E. You can't fuck the ghosts, they're intended to be legitimately dangerous)

Currently there is only one such event which can be played multiple ways as has been said by others. This particular character will have multiple events around this theme, eventually.

As for supernatural stuff, the game does feature magic powers, however in the game world they're rare enough that it's basically only MC who has one in the current version, so its not exactly supernatural themed at the moment. This theme is likely to become stronger as the main plot is developed, but these things take time.

I really love the fact that the MC doesn't just Abuse his power willy nilly.

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I'm really looking forward to more and maybe some more of the sexy time power use if you catch my drift.

 

[Yokem]

Thank you for the amazing game Atemsiel. I donated some money via itch.io and hope you will be able to go full time with this project, if you aren't already. Keep up the great work

 

[ToadMayn]

That character's story is my favourite one.

Sasha no diffs LESGOOOOOOOO

 

[Atemsiel]

Fucking ghost?? I'm not in dat shit, but I don't mind at all
Well, I have already finish yer game, horror scenes are fucking awesome!!!! I will prepare a good review 5/5 star by me!

Much appreciated man. My quest to get back onto the weighed rating front page is everlasting, but it'd be cool if I could do that again.

Thank you for the amazing game Atemsiel. I donated some money via itch.io and hope you will be able to go full time with this project, if you aren't already. Keep up the great work

Yooo, assuming you're the one I think you are, I've seen what you did. I appreciate it. Straight up pays my internet bill for this month, so that's definitely helpful. Glad you've enjoyed the game, more to come.

Also, sadly I'm not full time, but perhaps one day with enough updates. Irl work is part of why I don't update as frequently as some other games. Still, these things don't happen overnight, gotta work at it, and I will.

I'm really looking forward to more and maybe some more of the sexy time power use if you catch my drift.

Heh, if you haven't already played it, try inviting Cassie to sleep with you at the end of day 11. She brings this up, and it's definitely planned for future updates, but I don't wanna rush it for the main girls. Paige and Ashley will definitely get another visit from their ghostly roommate kinda soon though (In terms of in game time). I love that scene, it's so dumb.

 

[BlueNox]

omg omg omg Time for my 3rd replay now, oh please don't rush it I get the feeling that the MC is a bit like ashamed of his power and i like that. honestly I really enjoyed that "dumb" scene I really wanted to be their sexy ghost friend hahaha

 

[Yokem]

Yooo, assuming you're the one I think you are, I've seen what you did. I appreciate it. Straight up pays my internet bill for this month, so that's definitely helpful. Glad you've enjoyed the game, more to come.

Also, sadly I'm not full time, but perhaps one day with enough updates. Irl work is part of why I don't update as frequently as some other games. Still, these things don't happen overnight, gotta work at it, and I will.

It's ok, take your time. I'm a developer myself (not game develpment though) and know that this type of work can sometimes be challenging. So yeah, take your time, it makes no sense to rush yourself, if you want to deliver a good product.

 

[Atemsiel]

It's ok, take your time. I'm a developer myself (not game develpment though) and know that this type of work can sometimes be challenging. So yeah, take your time, it makes no sense to rush yourself, if you want to deliver a good product.

Yeah, this generally how I try to do it. I consider myself a part time perfectionist though, in the sense that sometimes I'm totally fine with saying "Meh, good enough" and other times I'll spend like 3 days on a single animation. Granted, these aren't 3 full working days, it's more just the sum of the spare time I get across 3 days. 3 full working days on a single animation would be the death of my game, given how many usually go into an update.

Lucky for me, this shit is pretty fun to make most of the time. Plus people have generally been super supportive of the whole thing, so I have basically no reason to even think about stopping. Guuud times.

 

[Merlin-Magic]

I have played a lot of computer games over the years. None of them prepared me for what I would experience in this game. You did not need to say to me that you were a "part time perfectionist". It was obvious in the first 5 minutes of game play. As the game when on I began to realize to some extent the complexity that went into the programming. The attention to detail was like nothing I had ever seen before. Yes, I did see a couple small rendering mistakes but compared to the overall experience they were nothing. The future of the story line also seem to be huge. I have to thank you for making one of the best games I have ever played. Of course I now am supporting you. I did find one unforeseen effect of playing this game. Now all other games seem boring.

 

[Heracullum]

I realised you actually asked at one point in what capacity the game features horror. I think you got an answer, but I might as well give dev answer anyway.

There is one character whose story revolves around the idea of ghost hunting. It's played relatively seriously (I.E. You can't fuck the ghosts, they're intended to be legitimately dangerous)

Currently there is only one such event which can be played multiple ways as has been said by others. This particular character will have multiple events around this theme, eventually.

As for supernatural stuff, the game does feature magic powers, however in the game world they're rare enough that it's basically only MC who has one in the current version, so its not exactly supernatural themed at the moment. This theme is likely to become stronger as the main plot is developed, but these things take time.

I will ask if its not trouble that perhaps on future sections there are labels on the arrows to where you are going. I got stuck doing the section for 15 minutes cause i couldnt get to the room i was looking for because each option i was selecting lead me in circles.

 

[Moonflare]

Just finished my first playthrough, very good game. Had some issues with the cellphone message skipping (i'm used to spamming ctrl), but figured it out.

Didn't much like the ghost hunt sequence, but then again we can just skip it, and thought it was awesome to see us being able to properly punish the girl after the sleeping blowjob. Actually, congrats in general for the extensive "play however you want, and we'll instruct you in just about everything about your choices beforehand".

I laughed by ass off in the ghost dildo scene, and the random second year girl that wants to become your slave is one of the hottest scenes I've seen in these types of games. All in all, incredible job, well done. Will be watching this closely.

(my only complaint is how it feels kind of unrealistic that a magic dude that worked in the army would be released from duty ever. That would be both a loss of incredibly rare resources, and a danger to the public) - but i mean, that's also easily ignored for the chance of playing slave trainer.

 

[Wicks99]

I laughed by ass off in the ghost dildo scene, and the random second year girl that wants to become your slave is one of the hottest scenes I've seen in these types of games. All in all, incredible job, well done. Will be watching this closely.

Yea that Year 2 fuck toy girl is da best scene in the game to date, Cassie's dildo scene by the bed would be a close second.

At first I thought choosing one of the three paths for each girl will only result in some slight differences in dialogue and sub scenes, so was very surprised after my first playthrough to find many missing scenes.

This game truly has multiple distinct pathways. Only thing I would add is I wish there can be more progress with Taliya the sportsgirl, despite her being put up as one of the main girls there is almost nothing about her currently.

 

[Atemsiel]

I have played a lot of computer games over the years. None of them prepared me for what I would experience in this game. You did not need to say to me that you were a "part time perfectionist". It was obvious in the first 5 minutes of game play. As the game when on I began to realize to some extent the complexity that went into the programming. The attention to detail was like nothing I had ever seen before. Yes, I did see a couple small rendering mistakes but compared to the overall experience they were nothing. The future of the story line also seem to be huge. I have to thank you for making one of the best games I have ever played. Of course I now am supporting you. I did find one unforeseen effect of playing this game. Now all other games seem boring.

Heh, thanks man, I do try. The programming itself isn't actually all that complicated, it's more just trying to take into account all of what the player may or may not have done. Very simple from a programming perspective, but kinda complicated logically. Totally necessary though given what I'm trying to make. The entire thing would be a mess if I didn't consider all possible choices. (With one exception being if you just reject every girl. I do eventually plan for this to be possible, but currently doing that will result in the game pretty much falling apart. Luckily, not many people do this. Most people play the porn game for the porn lmao)

Also, thanks for your support. I've seen the messages I assume to be yours on the other platforms, but I haven't had a proper chance to respond to any of them yet. I've had no internet for the last week sadly, and I figured I'd respond when I got it back. It just took a lot longer than I expected (So much so that my isp actually owes me money now due to UK law. Not much, but that's still funny to me.)

I will ask if its not trouble that perhaps on future sections there are labels on the arrows to where you are going. I got stuck doing the section for 15 minutes cause i couldnt get to the room i was looking for because each option i was selecting lead me in circles.

I'm not likely to change the existing section, but I can confirm that future ghost hunting sandbox things won't follow the same structure. The next one is the only one I've planned in detail, and it's planned to follow a grid based movement system similar to legends of grimrock (Google if you're not familiar, you'll get the idea) so this problem should be solved. However, since the next ghost hunt will be more important to Sasha's story than the first, a VN version will be available from the start instead of being introduced like 8 months later. Won't be skippable though because skipping the second ghost hunt would truly make Sasha's story make no sense. (The first ghost hung is basically is only there to introduce you to the concept, and to show you a bit of her world. It isn't technically necessary given she kinda explains it anyway. The second will be far more important to her overall story.)

Just finished my first playthrough, very good game. Had some issues with the cellphone message skipping (i'm used to spamming ctrl), but figured it out.

Didn't much like the ghost hunt sequence, but then again we can just skip it, and thought it was awesome to see us being able to properly punish the girl after the sleeping blowjob. Actually, congrats in general for the extensive "play however you want, and we'll instruct you in just about everything about your choices beforehand".

I laughed by ass off in the ghost dildo scene, and the random second year girl that wants to become your slave is one of the hottest scenes I've seen in these types of games. All in all, incredible job, well done. Will be watching this closely.

(my only complaint is how it feels kind of unrealistic that a magic dude that worked in the army would be released from duty ever. That would be both a loss of incredibly rare resources, and a danger to the public) - but i mean, that's also easily ignored for the chance of playing slave trainer.

Glad you liked it Yeahh, the phone can be a little buggy when skipping and using rollback, though I've been unable to work out exactly why this is. In theory, it should work fine, but in practice it can kinda fall apart sometimes. I don't generally develop the game with "What if the player tries to skip all this" in mind though, so mostly I focus on bugs like that annoying one where it's possible to softlock the game right as MC arrives at the academy for the first time (Which is fixed for the next version, luckily.)

I do try quite hard with the branching. There's obviously going to be limits to it since I'm just one person, but I didn't want the branching to be a case of minor dialogue changes but the same exact thing overall. I can't make it full on "do whatever you want" but I do intend to make it so that you can treat the girls how you want, and you get to experience the story with those choices considered. I do hope to be able to include some actual "This totally changes the story" kind of choices later on, but that will depend on whether or not I get to go full time, as well as my ability if and when that happens. Easy for me to make promises but until I know what I can actually get done working full time, it's just speculation.

Amusingly, both the second year girls' scenes that you mentioned were basically made on a whim. I'd planned jade's one for a while but I originally planned to give it to Cassie at some point, but while I was making 0.22 I kinda just got bored one day and thought "I wanna make some dumb sex scenes." Ended up giving Jade the weird text to speech scene, and made up something exceptionally stupid for Paige and Ashley. That's pretty much what the second year girls are there for. They fill in backgrounds, and also I can use them to make dumb stuff that would kinda cheapen or derail whatever I have planned for the main girls. (For the record though, the ghost dildo scene is my favourite in the game. It was a lot of fun to make.)

Also, regarding MC's release from the military, stay tuned regarding that. Whilst the overall plot is not the focus of the game, it's not entirely forgotten about. This topic will come up again.

Yea that Year 2 fuck toy girl is da best scene in the game to date, Cassie's dildo scene by the bed would be a close second.

At first I thought choosing one of the three paths for each girl will only result in some slight differences in dialogue and sub scenes, so was very surprised after my first playthrough to find many missing scenes.

This game truly has multiple distinct pathways. Only thing I would add is I wish there can be more progress with Taliya the sportsgirl, despite her being put up as one of the main girls there is almost nothing about her currently.

Hah, this is the first time I've had someone specifically point out Cassie's dildo scene xD. Been so long since I made it that I'd kinda forgotten about it. I think it was originally made because I wanted there to be some content there for if people decided to opt out of the lesbian scene between Cassie and Riley, and since Cassie is a gigahoe (And also doesn't get off during the lesbian scene), I figured she'd probably get freaky regardless of whether the player decided to play the lesbian scene.

Oh yeah, regarding Taliya, she will get some stuff in not the coming update, but the one after that. Thing with her is that the start of her content isn't really tied to a specific time like Riley's was (Being that it started on a 4th of july party) so her originally planned slot ended up getting taken by the Hikari/Akemi scenes on the evening of day 11, which was a bit more time sensitive. She's not forgotten about though, kinda just backburner compared to the other girls. Like the other main girls, she has her own storyline planned out, which is the condition by which a girl is considered a main girl. (Technically it's whether they get the 3 route system applied, but what I mean is that Taliya is a delayed main girl, rather than just a side girl I've put in the wrong category.)

 

[Wicks99]

I'm not likely to change the existing section, but I can confirm that future ghost hunting sandbox things won't follow the same structure. The next one is the only one I've planned in detail, and it's planned to follow a grid based movement system similar to legends of grimrock (Google if you're not familiar, you'll get the idea) so this problem should be solved. However, since the next ghost hunt will be more important to Sasha's story than the first, a VN version will be available from the start instead of being introduced like 8 months later.

Oh wow, certainly looking forward to that. Personally I tried to play through the first ghost hunting but gave up 3/4 way because it was really too tedious. After a while it became more like a standard set of steps for each venue (1. Click every single area of the screen 2. Press the radio 3. Once something appears to be triggered, repeat all steps again for each venue)

I do try quite hard with the branching. There's obviously going to be limits to it since I'm just one person, but I didn't want the branching to be a case of minor dialogue changes but the same exact thing overall. I can't make it full on "do whatever you want" but I do intend to make it so that you can treat the girls how you want, and you get to experience the story with those choices considered. I do hope to be able to include some actual "This totally changes the story" kind of choices later on, but that will depend on whether or not I get to go full time, as well as my ability if and when that happens. Easy for me to make promises but until I know what I can actually get done working full time, it's just speculation.

Having a totally different branched story would be nice in theory, but I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole honestly. Seen too many developers try this and fail crash and burn. What's more each of your main girls has 3 permutations, mathematically that works out to 210 possible combinations. Super high chance of logic errors in both storyline and coding.

Amusingly, both the second year girls' scenes that you mentioned were basically made on a whim. I'd planned jade's one for a while but I originally planned to give it to Cassie at some point, but while I was making 0.22 I kinda just got bored one day and thought "I wanna make some dumb sex scenes." Ended up giving Jade the weird text to speech scene, and made up something exceptionally stupid for Paige and Ashley.

I dunno about others as everyone has their own kinks, but I liked this scene because it had the raw porn feel. Face, full view of cock drilling pussy, vulgar dialogue, no pretense otherwise. Many of the other scenes felt more "artistic" in terms of dialogue, camera panning / angling, motion etc.

Personally I would prefer "vulgar" and "artistic" scenes to be 50:50, but that's just my personal taste. I take what I get away with

Hah, this is the first time I've had someone specifically point out Cassie's dildo scene xD. Been so long since I made it that I'd kinda forgotten about it. I think it was originally made because I wanted there to be some content there for if people decided to opt out of the lesbian scene between Cassie and Riley, and since Cassie is a gigahoe (And also doesn't get off during the lesbian scene), I figured she'd probably get freaky regardless of whether the player decided to play the lesbian scene.

Yea Cassie's dildo scene was another one of those "raw porn" scenes that I liked for flavor. The one with the two Year 2 girls was kind of nice as well.

Oh yeah, regarding Taliya, she will get some stuff in not the coming update, but the one after that. Thing with her is that the start of her content isn't really tied to a specific time like Riley's was (Being that it started on a 4th of july party) so her originally planned slot ended up getting taken by the Hikari/Akemi scenes on the evening of day 11, which was a bit more time sensitive. She's not forgotten about though, kinda just backburner compared to the other girls. Like the other main girls, she has her own storyline planned out, which is the condition by which a girl is considered a main girl. (Technically it's whether they get the 3 route system applied, but what I mean is that Taliya is a delayed main girl, rather than just a side girl I've put in the wrong category.)

Cool, looking forward to the upcoming updates definitely.

 

[BlasKyau]

I dunno about others as everyone has their own kinks, but I liked this scene because it had the raw porn feel. Face, full view of cock drilling pussy, vulgar dialogue, no pretense otherwise. Many of the other scenes felt more "artistic" in terms of dialogue, camera panning / angling, motion etc.

Personally I would prefer "vulgar" and "artistic" scenes to be 50:50, but that's just my personal taste. I take what I get away with

I'm not interested in any of the second year girls (without romance I have no interest in them) and the one I'm least interested in is Jade. So I haven't seen their scenes nor will I see them.

Yea Cassie's dildo scene was another one of those "raw porn" scenes that I liked for flavor. The one with the two Year 2 girls was kind of nice as well.

I seem to remember that there was an option for her to do that scene or not, and I chose not to.

I also skipped the Ashley and Pagie scene (although in this case it happens anyway).

 

[DickMcFuck]

So that day counter, its kinda useless isnt it?

 

[Wicks99]

I'm not interested in any of the second year girls (without romance I have no interest in them) and the one I'm least interested in is Jade. So I haven't seen their scenes nor will I see them.



I seem to remember that there was an option for her to do that scene or not, and I chose not to.

I also skipped the Ashley and Pagie scene (although in this case it happens anyway).

Haha yea everyone has their kinks, that's why it's hard for developers to strike the right balance.

 

[Wicks99]

So that day counter, its kinda useless isnt it?

So far it doesn't seem to affect the story as Stormside isn't a sandbox game.

 

[DickMcFuck]

So far it doesn't seem to affect the story as Stormside isn't a sandbox game.

its also inaccurate and kinda random. it starts when the player enters pov, which is ok but its insignificant in itself since the character has been back home for a week. the two week timeskip just gets completely ignored which makes no sense, its pretty pointless imo.