VN Ren'Py STWA: Unbroken [Book 1 Steam] [STWAdev]

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johnmnf692 said:
Its downright evil to make me choose between Vi, Els, Ines, and Amrit. Elspeth has perhaps the most attractive character model I've ever seen, although I was somewhat disappointed that she seemingly wasn't a virgin. She is, appropriately, hard to get a good read on. Unfortunately, I'm way too much of a softie to ever turn down Vi, so as great as the other LIs are, for me, they're kind of wasted, in the long run at least (barring possible multi-LI endings which include Vi).
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well you are not forced to, at least not until the ending (considering how the dev made his previous game). But yeah, in the end you'll likely have to make a choice. But at least it's not an early lock-in where you have to maintain multiple saves. If it's any indication, in the "sequel" at the end you were given a choice who you want to end up with and got a epilogue with that LI. I'm thinking it will be similar here as well.
 
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johnmnf692 said:
Its downright evil to make me choose between Vi, Els, Ines, and Amrit. Elspeth has perhaps the most attractive character model I've ever seen, although I was somewhat disappointed that she seemingly wasn't a virgin. She is, appropriately, hard to get a good read on. Unfortunately, I'm way too much of a softie to ever turn down Vi, so as great as the other LIs are, for me, they're kind of wasted, in the long run at least (barring possible multi-LI endings which include Vi).
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For me the only real choice is between Elspeth and Kana but Elspeth wins that one. Since with Amrit being our pupil makes me less inclined to romance her, I see Vi as a little sister and i'm just not interested in Ines

However when the update drops I plan to replay the game and make a solo path for every LI maybe ill change my mind. I know there is no consequences and can just manwhore it up right now but rather not it isn't my style. I will only make a manwhore save if throuple paths or endings become a thing.
 
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Dessolos said:
For me the only real choice is between Elspeth and Kana but Elspeth wins that one. Since with Amrit being our pupil makes me less inclined to romance her, I see Vi as a little sister and i'm just not interested in Ines

However when the update drops I plan to replay the game and make a solo path for every LI maybe ill change my mind. I know there is no consequences and can just manwhore it up right now but rather not it isn't my style. I will only make a manwhore save if throuple paths or endings become a thing.
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I think Kana is easily the weakest of the main girls, not counting Serena. Her scenes are largely disconnected from everything else, she feels kind of like a side girl with extra content, even though the content is good and I do like her. She is also hotter than Amrit, from a purely aesthetic perspective, but I still prefer Amrit overall.

I agree that Vi is like a little sister, but sister/childhood friend is my favorite archetype(s), so that along with the fact that she's obviously in love with the MC is something that I can never overlook. I would break my own heart if I ever turned her down. I obviously also have a general preference for virgins, which you don't seem to share, which is part of why I like Amrit and especially Ines. I find Ines's insecurity, and desire to overcome it, incredibly endearing, as well as her sisterly relationship with Vi. I also think she's just straight up more physically attractive than Kana as well.
 
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johnmnf692 said:
I think Kana is easily the weakest of the main girls, not counting Serena. Her scenes are largely disconnected from everything else, she feels kind of like a side girl with extra content, even though the content is good and I do like her. She is also hotter than Amrit, from a purely aesthetic perspective, but I still prefer Amrit overall.

I agree that Vi is like a little sister, but sister/childhood friend is my favorite archetype(s), so that along with the fact that she's obviously in love with the MC is something that I can never overlook. I would break my own heart if I ever turned her down. I obviously also have a general preference for virgins, which you don't seem to share, which is part of why I like Amrit and especially Ines. I find Ines's insecurity, and desire to overcome it, incredibly endearing, as well as her sisterly relationship with Vi. I also think she's just straight up more physically attractive than Kana as well.
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I don't think Serena was meant to be a main LI. She is a side chick just like the MMA ring-girl and Katie (I think that's her name at least from the centre). Main LIs seem to be Vi, Kana, Amrit, Els and Ines.
 
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johnmnf692 said:
I think Kana is easily the weakest of the main girls, not counting Serena. Her scenes are largely disconnected from everything else, she feels kind of like a side girl with extra content, even though the content is good and I do like her. She is also hotter than Amrit, from a purely aesthetic perspective, but I still prefer Amrit overall.

I agree that Vi is like a little sister, but sister/childhood friend is my favorite archetype(s), so that along with the fact that she's obviously in love with the MC is something that I can never overlook. I would break my own heart if I ever turned her down. I obviously also have a general preference for virgins, which you don't seem to share, which is part of why I like Amrit and especially Ines. I find Ines's insecurity, and desire to overcome it, incredibly endearing, as well as her sisterly relationship with Vi. I also think she's just straight up more physically attractive than Kana as well.
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fair enough truthfully alot of the reason I like Kana initially is cause I find her the 2nd most attractive LI in the game to me personally. I do like the direction her story is going as well but it does feel like it's gonna be on slower side of things, so I do agree with you how she comes off as a side girl for right now.

Funny thing is usually the childhood friend thing is one of my favorites as well. Yet in this game the way it's portrayed makes me not interested for whatever reason, maybe cause I see the MC as her protector instead of friend I don't know. But you are right I don't have a preference for virgins I just need to like the character and feel something for them which I do for Amrit and VI. Yet something about their interactions makes it hard for me to see them as something more than friends. I think for Amrit and VI it comes down to the MC in why feel that way for VI I feel like a protector and Amrit part of it is the mentor thing but something else I cant put my finger on. But one thing ive learned alot of times in these games second playthroughs end up changing my mind lol.
 
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Elduriel said:
I don't think Serena was meant to be a main LI. She is a side chick just like the MMA ring-girl and Katie (I think that's her name at least from the centre). Main LIs seem to be Vi, Kana, Amrit, Els and Ines.
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You're probably right that she wasn't meant to be a main LI since she doesn't have Love and Friend stats, I just think that she seems more romantically interested in the MC than Jenny, Julia, and Katie do. She seemed like she wanted more, but was willing to settle for just having sex with him. Its entirely possible I was reading too much into that, but that's how it felt to me. Also, the fact that she is in the banner image of the game makes it seem like she's a main LI. I was surprised when Ines was introduced because I expected her to be a side girl since she isn't in the banner.
 
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This scene is close to my personal favourite in the update. Top 3 at least. We'll learn some important things about our resident little Frenchie. And I think her fans will be rather pleased.
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The dev's attention to detail is impressive as always. In the first image Ines is playing an actual chord on the guitar (G# minor if anyone is interested). I can't recall seeing a VN with a character playing a guitar – and I've seen many musicians portrayed in a number of games over the years – where the fingering was accurate to real life. It's a minor detail, yes, but those details do add up to make or break immersion in a story, and this world definitely has a great sense of verisimilitude to it because of the effort displayed by its creator.
 
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The dev's attention to detail is impressive as always. In the first image Ines is playing an actual chord on the guitar (G# minor if anyone is interested). I can't recall seeing a VN with a character playing a guitar – and I've seen many musicians portrayed in a number of games over the years – where the fingering was accurate to real life. It's a minor detail, yes, but those details do add up to make or break immersion in a story, and this world definitely has a great sense of verisimilitude to it because of the effort displayed by its creator.
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BaDIK also has guitar scenes, no idea how accurate they are though, not a musician myself
 
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Because of changes to the actual in game renders for the respective scenes the corresponding title screens needed some changes as well, nothing special or all that different, but it gives you something to look at this week.
As I moved through the code this week a scene stuck out to me as being... not good. Now obviously I don't expect perfection but this scene was visually not up to even my lowest standard. So Tuesday and part of Wednesday I worked on getting it fixed and rendered. It was a pretty short scene, only about 70 renders so I knocked it out quickly. Now we're back to regular schedule.
Final batch of animations trucking along. Hoping it should be essentially finished by early next week.
Testing seems to be going fairly well. I'm sure they don't want to strangle me at all...
From a coding/ pathing perspective this is something of a difficult update for the testers. This update is sort of the ground floor for the rest of the game and as such there are a lot of variables from previous updates that are being consolidated into more manageable paths. As a result there's a lot a variables that need to be accounted for. One path in particular my main tester was happy to point out had 24 potential variants to it. He was thrilled with it, not at all exasperated I assure you. But that's just an example of the sort of consolidation this update needs to achieve to ensure that updates going forward are more streamlined. Not only for gameplay purposes, but for everybody's sanity, especially mine.
Otherwise days are pretty much the same, I get fixes, I make fixes. I have a whole list of renders that need to be fixed and have slowly been chipping away at them as they come in.
Nothing else from a work perspective to discuss. I will make a note though that based on the speed of everything currently, I think it's unlikely we'll make the end of April, wanted to tell you that so you have the info. May is for sure though, you have my promise on that. If for any reason it's not out in May I'll be putting all payments on hold until release. Just giving you that info so you can plan around it as well.
I hope you have all have a lovely weekend, and thank you as always for the support.
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24 variations .. there is something called "too much" ^^
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Depends. If they lead to 24 significantly different outcomes, then probably yes. If they only lead to a handful of different paths, but have variances in the way you get there (language, someone having issues with you before returning to base course, etc.), then maybe not.

Missing a bit of dialogue is not a huge deal to me; if we can get all major events (and most minor) via a half dozen or so courses with a few secondary variants in those courses, then that doesn't seem too bad. It can account for guys that prefer being the "macho man", the "asshole", the "nice guy", and other variants in their actions. I would suspect that's what this is.
 
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RoryTate said:
The dev's attention to detail is impressive as always. In the first image Ines is playing an actual chord on the guitar (G# minor if anyone is interested). I can't recall seeing a VN with a character playing a guitar – and I've seen many musicians portrayed in a number of games over the years – where the fingering was accurate to real life. It's a minor detail, yes, but those details do add up to make or break immersion in a story, and this world definitely has a great sense of verisimilitude to it because of the effort displayed by its creator.
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Liar! She's just giving us the finger, pretending to play.

But yeah that's a barre on the fourth, so g# indeed. neat!
 
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