Ren'Py Strange Days at the Dead End [v0.03] [Lulric]

Vicen

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Jan 4, 2018
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Good Luck Dev,

Personally, I love that someone is putting this out there but at the same time I feel the art isn't in the right style to draw an audience in. Most successful recreations utilize features from the characters such as face shape, eye shape, hair, and of course artstyle; from what I see, the preview art has failed these fundamentals in every way. In fact, I have no idea what this artstyle could be pulled from. Additionally, I speculate you have trouble drawing hands as well which would be a no-brainer to fall back harder on the original artstyle because of how simplistic it is. Furthermore, I know how it can be for fledgling artists, consider this is a chance to practice what you do know and use this as an initial passion project or find a new way to create your art. If you have the resolve to learn something new, I would suggest using 3D models; there are several artists out there who have recreated these characters and put the files out for use for example these models:

 

bismism

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Sep 4, 2017
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Very interested in the concept and setting! Art is gonna be the main detractor here, as things currently stand.
Also seems like a native proof reader would be greatly needed - spotted some stuff in the screenshots alone, and there's sure to be more within.

That all said, gonna keep an eye on this. Best of luck, dev!
 
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Lulric

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May 27, 2018
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Wait.. My brain is working..
Okay you guys. I'm going to change the character artstyle. Maybe like anime style. I don't know. I have to think about it.
There will be delay but no worries, i got plenty time.
I'm open to all criticism, even the bad ones.
And yes good sir, hands are my nightmare.
 

Fydo92

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Wait.. My brain is working..
Okay you guys. I'm going to change the character artstyle. Maybe like anime style. I don't know. I have to think about it.
There will be delay but no worries, i got plenty time.
I'm open to all criticism, even the bad ones.
And yes good sir, hands are my nightmare.
Dev, I'm going to give it to you straight, most people don't know how to criticise art. I don't know if the people saying the "style is bad" are trying to spare your feelings, or if they don't know what they're talking about but I'm going to tell you now - Your art is amateurish and inconsistent.

That doesn't mean you can't follow your dreams and make a porn VN, and it doesn't mean that people won't be able to fap to it. But the muddled criticism in this thread is not very good, and not worth paying attention to in my opinion. You should ignore people telling you how to make your product and just do what you want to do. Unless you suddenly become a better artist, people are going to try to tell you in a million ways that your art is bad and that you should do this, and you should do that, and you need to ignore them.

Just as an example, look at a game called Lovelust: Project Stockholm, that game has pretty bad art, but it's still quite good.

And I'm not trying to be negative, quite the opposite. Anyone who is willing to put themselves out there and create a piece of media, and open themselves up to any level of criticism, has a courage many people aren't capable of. I just think that unless youre going to spend 5 years refining your art skills, its better for you to just create and fuck the haters. Good luck OP, I hope you can make what you wanna make.
 
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Alex_Grey

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Jul 4, 2020
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It's as if some god of Hentai heard me... I've been waiting for a game from this show (or hey arnold!) so much, I almost tried to learn how to use ren'py.

I'll wait until there's more content to download it. I like the artstyle, looks like the style the show had.
 
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TGH316

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Sep 21, 2018
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Awesome idea, but the art style leaves much to be desired if I'm being brutally honest.
 

Desuro

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Sep 6, 2016
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Dev, I'm going to give it to you straight, most people don't know how to criticise art. I don't know if the people saying the "style is bad" are trying to spare your feelings, or if they don't know what they're talking about but I'm going to tell you now - Your art is amateurish and inconsistent.

That doesn't mean you can't follow your dreams and make a porn VN, and it doesn't mean that people won't be able to fap to it. But the muddled criticism in this thread is not very good, and not worth paying attention to in my opinion. You should ignore people telling you how to make your product and just do what you want to do. Unless you suddenly become a better artist, people are going to try to tell you in a million ways that your art is bad and that you should do this, and you should do that, and you need to ignore them.

Just as an example, look at a game called Lovelust: Project Stockholm, that game has pretty bad art, but it's still quite good.

And I'm not trying to be negative, quite the opposite. Anyone who is willing to put themselves out there and create a piece of media, and open themselves up to any level of criticism, has a courage many people aren't capable of. I just think that unless youre going to spend 5 years refining your art skills, its better for you to just create and fuck the haters. Good luck OP, I hope you can make what you wanna make.
Ok maybe im not the person who should say it beacuse my art skills are at a stickman level but I've played ton of games from this site and I would never call Lovelust art "bad" and would say its more of a simple art style or even unique one (thats just my opinion) but where that game shined (art wise) was the combination of that simple style with great animations and facial expresions of the girls (again its my own opinion), I will agree that the art here is totaly inconsistent but I must say these two character screenshots especially is giving me that unique vibe Lovelust did
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and I could go on how Nazz lipstick is magically gone when she opens her mouth and there is this weird shadow in eddys mouth when its open (his tongue maybe ?) and rolfs shadow on the neck is to far in and looks kinda weird when compared to the shadow on his shoulder and the sheet thats cleary not supported by anything in sarah blowjob scene is floating not to mention she looks like a sexdoll upper torso beacuse her hands are behind her back ? It could work if the dialog said smth about a no hands blowjob or go even further and add eds hand placed on her head to further make an illusion its a no hands blowjob, Sarah has twin tails in one of the scenes but there is no ribbons/hair clips and it happens just before the blowjob and then she suddenly have her hair down ? on top of that her nose is bigger, her eyes are getting bigger too, the hair color changes slighly it looks more washed out (shadows suddenly appear on her head?) the eyebrows are suddenly grey, the boobs size and shape is different and so on (guess its the animation fault?) these screenshots that are on the main page show it perfectly. Getting all of that out of the way Id take original art like this anyday than another bad koikatsu or stock daz "art" and no one is a master from the get go, the art can improve along the skills of the artist so keep it up and I for one am looking forward to see how this is gonna turn out!
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mijati

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so embarassing.. we have a renpy engine .. we have 2023 .....we have the unity engine ( useable for top noth games like pillars of eternity, pathfinder, phöenix point wasteland 3 ..and they come up with crapp like this in renpy ...