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

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Dr.TSoni

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You might think so, but do you consider a violin or a zither a woman's instrument?

A lot of things used to be far more separated by gender than what we have these days.
For music the distinction was more on the genre, or at least that's what Joan Jett said in an interview
 
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You might think so, but do you consider a violin or a zither a woman's instrument?

A lot of things used to be far more separated by gender than what we have these days.
No I don't. Neither instrument has ever been "traditionally" a man or woman's instrument. Throughout the history of both instruments, both sexes have played them. The guitar has also been played by both sexes since the earliest guitars in the Renaissance. Both women and men played lutes and different necked and neckless stringed instruments for centuries long before that across many cultures and time periods. So while you might think musical instruments were separated by sex, history doesn't actually support your worldview on that.

This is shifting a bit off topic so all I'll conclude with I don't really see anything that suggests that Ines is anything close to being tomboyish. I could probably agree with Amrit or Elspeth being more stereotypical tomboys, but not Ines or Vi.
 

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No I don't. Neither instrument has ever been "traditionally" a man or woman's instrument. Throughout the history of both instruments, both sexes have played them. The guitar has also been played by both sexes since the earliest guitars in the Renaissance. Both women and men played lutes and different necked and neckless stringed instruments for centuries long before that across many cultures and time periods. So while you might think musical instruments were separated by sex, history doesn't actually support your worldview on that.

This is shifting a bit off topic so all I'll conclude with I don't really see anything that suggests that Ines is anything close to being tomboyish. I could probably agree with Amrit or Elspeth being more stereotypical tomboys, but not Ines or Vi.
When I say something traditionally was played by women or men I don’t mean exclusively I mean they were primarily played by one sex or that it was socially unacceptable to play instruments that weren’t soft sounding and string based. Things like the piano, the violin, lute and the zither were played primarily by women for extended periods of time. Upper class women were quite literally expected to learn to play them.

It was either that or they didn’t play instruments at all. At least not professionally. See this article: and this

History literally supports my point, and that is why I will keep Ines in my potentially tomboy bucket. If she isn’t a tomboy we will make her one
 
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To touch on this, when I made that post a long time ago the models really barely moved a single facial muscle. When I recently came back to the game a few weeks ago the difference was astounding. He really took the criticism there (I'm sure it wasn't on here only) and made changes. I'd say he's up there with the best facial expressions in the industry now. Great damn work.
Some of the models might need another minute to think about it. :HideThePain:
 

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Somehow doubt Stew is going to introduce scat to this game.
for sure not since that could be against patreon's tos and not many are fans of that.

not wiping means also not wiping after taking a piss (it has fans too).
 

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An hour ago

Vi is doing the honors this week , with a different look than usual, wonder what it could mean?
Anywho on my end script is finished (except for editing) so there we go, much excitement to be had.
As of today 896 renders finished of the 896 posed. I said I was aiming to hit 800 and switch focus, but decided to aim for an even thousand before I did that.
Animations still in the same place as a result of the above information.
A quick Steam update I have to discuss before I let you go. Despite my efforts I'm still not exactly pleased with where Author is at, and still don't think it's quite ready. I'd been pretty adamant I wanted to release it first on Steam, but at this point it's actually hindering me to wait. So after discussing with some fellow devs I decided that since I'm sitting on a game that's essentially already Steam ready that I'll put Unbroken on Steam first and just get it out of the way. So parts 1-7 aka all current content will be put on Steam as release and then 8-12 or 13 (depending on if I need to extend 12 an extra chapter) will be their own release.
This is currently the best use of my time as the only things I needed to add for the build are things I was working on anyway. Plus I can work on them while things are rendering in the background so two birds one stone, I've always stated that Unbroken is the priority so as a result it's just the smarter option at the moment. So the long requested gallery and more music/sound are being added. As well as that UI overhaul I mentioned a month ago or so. The good news is I already sent the build off to Steam so page is ready and can go up once they approve it. Which clears up a bunch of crap on my plate that I've just sort of been putting off.

So TLDR:
  • Unbroken 1-7 on Steam soonish.
  • Hoping to release Unbroken part 8 here on Patreon the same week, to make it an extra exciting release.
  • That should give me enough time to get the last bits of work I need on the Author finished between Unbroken 8 and 9
Alright I think that's all I need to natter on about, appreciate you taking the time to read it.
Thank you as always for the support and I'll see you next week.
Sláinte!
 
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