Ren'Py Abandoned Summertime Saga [v0.20.16 Pre-tech] [Kompas Productions]

[j4yj4m]

isn't he already? i mean i recently replayed the eve route and MC spends all this time with eve, telling her how beautiful and special she is, she falls in love with him and they start dating. then MC sees her hot sister getting a naked massage so he jumps in and impregnates her, then convinces grace to keep the baby and they keep it a secret from eve. then he repeats the same process about 10 times (at least that's how it was when i played the game, i have like a dozen kids with grace by now). MC has a friendly and pure exterior but i don't see how anyone can think he isn't morally completly corrupt.

Well, that's true and such things do happen because there are no real choices in Eve's story. There's no choice between Grace and Eve, as there should be, and that's why we'll never have a nice and gratifying Grace subplot. It's really that simple. If there's no choice the only real options are to essentially make all girls the same (likely either the Roxxy cuckoldress type or the Odette easy going type) or to cheat behind their back, like in Eve's case.

But yes, I'd still say it's more an unavoidable consquence of the game design, rather than an actual character trait of MC.

I don't know man , the widescreen stuff, the vote was close and he decided to pospone it, even though it would make the game better.

As far as I recall, the widescreen poll was mainly about whether DC should do it now or not. So it was always somewhat clear that the widescreen version would come, the only question was when he'd focus on it.
Sure, we may have some choices but, as mentioned above, even currently there aren't really enough at times and I fear there'll be more Eve/Grace situations in the future.

 

[Badjourasmix]

As far as I recall, the widescreen poll was mainly about whether DC should do it now or not. So it was always somewhat clear that the widescreen version would come, the only question was when he'd focus on it.
Sure, we may have some choices but, as mentioned above, even currently there aren't really enough at times and I fear there'll be more Eve/Grace situations in the future.

I think with a small update he could fix those issues with Eve's story, Odette says that she wants to convince Eve to have a threesome, so I could see her being ok with MC being with Grace and Odette. I still think they can make great stories if they go the more linear route. I just hope they don't force fetishes that we don't like on us. Like in Erik's story the good thing about having different paths is that if I don't like mmf stuff, I can avoid it by choosing a different path. But even in that situation he could, like in eve's story have different variants for the same scene one vanilla and one mmf. We will just have to wait and see what happens. Either way I think the updates will still be good.

 

[Somnus]

I'm cheering for all content in one playthrough. Frankly, a new playthrough of Renpy porn games means skipping aaaaall the dialogue over again until the new content appears. Boring.

 

[j4yj4m]

I think with a small update he could fix those issues with Eve's story, Odette says that she wants to convince Eve to have a threesome, so I could see her being ok with MC being with Grace and Odette.

Sure, you can write anything somehow. But the whole thing would of course be out of character for both Eve and Grace and I don't see a credible way to really fix that.

I still think they can make great stories if they go the more linear route.

Sure, they'll manage to get something but in the end it'll be compromised. Removing choices will always mean removing situations which could have consequences. Like in Eve's case the whole "lovey dovey finally found a someone I can trust stuff" is somewhat missplaced if the next(ish) interaction would literally be "now go and fuck my sister whenever you like, it's fine". Sure, a threesome is something different but I'd rather not have any additional Grace content than getting it an bad way.

I just hope they don't force fetishes that we don't like on us. Like in Erik's story the good thing about having different paths is that if I don't like mmf stuff, I can avoid it by choosing a different path. But even in that situation he could, like in eve's story have different variants for the same scene one vanilla and one mmf.

By now I actually seriously hope so, honestly. Those who say they don't want choices really should be forced to fuck Roz, Kevin, Mrs. Smith, have threesomes with Erik and Tony and all the other goodies to get to the end of the game. In the end all the content in one playthrough is what they wanted.

Edit: But that won't happen, of course.

 

[srksrk 68]

Hi guys,

I updated the

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to version 0.20.1-2.10:

• More naughtiness for Josephine.
• Made the configuration UI a bit more transparent and a bit less green.
• Merged the game menu and the configuration UI to make it easier accessible from within a running game.
• Fixed background not found when watching the church bell at night.

Have fun!

 

[Badjourasmix]

We still don't know what he will decide. I can see him just ignoring the poll and continue with the branching paths. It would kinda defeat the purpose of having a poll, but it can happen. Either way he will still have people complaining.

 

[MasterQ]

Guys, if the idea for the finale of the game is still the prom as DC planned, it's clearly impossible to get ALL the scenes in one playthrough. Since you can bring ONE girl at the prom and that will surely unlock a scene with her, you have to replay the game (or at very least the finale) different times.
I agree to not lock tons of content behind choices, but something like things are now is ok.

 

[PePeTheCoCk]

I Prefer having access to all the content from a story in one play-trough.

 

[Badjourasmix]

I think the whole poll idea was bad. I don't know if the linear routes are still winning but if they do, people won't shut up about it if he decides to add branching paths. And now with the poll he can't say that the people that are complaining aren't even patrons, because he has a poll that shows that a majority of his patrons don't want branching paths.

 

[megaweeb123]

man eve is like a dream come true a perfect girlfriend for a weeb/nerd

 

[srksrk 68]

Guys, if the idea for the finale of the game is still the prom as DC planned, it's clearly impossible to get ALL the scenes in one playthrough. Since you can bring ONE girl at the prom and that will surely unlock a scene with her, you have to replay the game (or at very least the finale) different times.
I agree to not lock tons of content behind choices, but something like things are now is ok.

What speaks against bringing one but banging all the girls?

 

[Badjourasmix]

Guys, if the idea for the finale of the game is still the prom as DC planned, it's clearly impossible to get ALL the scenes in one playthrough. Since you can bring ONE girl at the prom and that will surely unlock a scene with her, you have to replay the game (or at very least the finale) different times.
I agree to not lock tons of content behind choices, but something like things are now is ok.

That doesn't make it impossible to unlock all the scenes. At that point you probably have finished all the school girls stories you just have to choose one to go to the prom with. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to get all their scenes.

 

[Vibescu]

More choices = more fun and re-playability.

 

[nightsight]

man eve is like a dream come true a perfect girlfriend for a weeb/nerd

Eve is by far my fave out of them all tbh its her personality that got me.
Only sad is that you cant do anything more other then knocking her up again and its quit funny when you do the second time xD
other then that. wish they would add more

 

[Badjourasmix]

Does anyone have an update on the poll results?

 

[j4yj4m]

What speaks against bringing one but banging all the girls?

I guess his point was more that there will probably be some kind of after prom sex scene which would then be exclusive to that one girl MC took.

Does anyone have an update on the poll results?

Still 54/46 against choice with now about 5500 votes.

 

[Badjourasmix]

Yeah I think linear routes won. Now lets just see if DC abides by the poll or if he decides to ignore it. If he decides to ignore it will probably be another shitshow.

 

[j4yj4m]

Yeah, this poll was pretty stupid and people will probably refer to it for years to come. On the upside I'm not sure whether Ronda and Annie would actually require a real choice, so it may take quite some time until it'll have some actual effect. I'm pretty sure that Judith's story without choice would be bad and I'd like to keep those in Mia's/Erik's story, too.

 

[Badjourasmix]

Yeah, this poll was pretty stupid and people will probably refer to it for years to come. On the upside I'm not sure whether Ronda and Annie would actually require a real choice, so it may take quite some time until it'll have some actual effect. I'm pretty sure that Judith's story without choice would be bad and I'd like to keep those in Mia's/Erik's story, too.

Yeah I like the idea of helping him get with June. Mia's story would have to be completly different if he decides to remove the branching paths. I won't say any of the stories will be bad until I play them. They will have to be very different but I don't think they will be bad. But as you said it will still take a while until he needs to work on those stories, and I have a feeling he will ignore the poll and still add the different paths.

 

[j4yj4m]

They will have to be very different but I don't think they will be bad.

I think it'll depend on how much he wants his characters to stay somewhat credible. It doesn't really make sense to mix for example Mia and Helen given their feelings towards each other (or you'll need a huuuge redemption arc for them) and it'll be even harder to mix Judith and the Latinas in a way that doesn't look like it's totally constructed. Choices just make it so much easier to write a story that makes sense and stays true to everybody's character.