VN RPGM Completed Taboo Stories 1: Summer Vacation [v1.0] [PhantoMaster]

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Joshua Tree

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Renders quite nice, but in regard of story and characters, it kind of feel like stale bread sticks. It's like watching the rerun of the same show for the n'the time...
 
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PhantoMaster

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whats wrong with RPGM? I still don't get it...


based on the feedback, made a few changes:
1) darker background, for easy reading.
2) extra save points.
 
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hashcheckin

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The good:
- Great models.
- It's nice to see a story on here about what's basically passions spilling over, rather than the usual "I got charm powers/magical roofies" thing.
- Reasonably well-written overall, if short.

The bad:
- For the amount of actual player interaction involved, this did not have to be a game, or made in RPGM.
- The way text is handled is really weird. You can't skip through it at all.
- Everything goes from zero to 100 really fast and relatively suddenly, even considering that it's porn, and particularly in the ending. It's a happy ending, at least.
 
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PhantoMaster

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i don't know, control can't be more intuitive - left mouse button or scrolling down - next message, right mouse button - hides the window messages, thats all!

Page Down works, a lot of pauses in the text itself, to separate sentences, pageDown ignores these pauses.

No quick text button done specifically, this is a novel dudes, read! this is the way you can thank the author! (you already got the game for free))).

Oh well, I in any case there are lotta useful information here), and i apply it in next releases) I began teach Unity recently, so that the next game perhaps i'll release on this engine.
 
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Don't let it get you down, a lot of people probably aren't even trying it. Unfortunately, RPGM just has a bad reputation. Also, text skipping is good for replays. I'm playing the web version right now but I'm not far enough to have an opinion.
 

PhantoMaster

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A lot of people don't enjoy the typical RPGM style of SNES RPG for these types of game. Also there are quite often stability issues. Although, honestly, it's not like Renpy is without issues.
well, maybe, but the problems have been in later versions RPGMV now quite stable, plus I'm working whith this engine for over three years and this is just the MV not counting previous publications.
Experience with the engine (any engine) is important, no matter how he glitchy, you can always patch up whith the scripts and plugins, ...or break it ever more)))
 
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Small error/inconsistency: In the first Mom scene the text says the floor is carpeted but the image it is clearly not. Not a huge deal but I figured I'd point it out.
 

PhantoMaster

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It seems to me that not everyone here understands what this project is.

Let me tell you a story: there was a project called Family Therapy, and it was publised on Patreon, and there were heroes like Alex, Lisa, Mom, and a lot of others, and this project was a classic RPGMV project, with a chibi character, a house, various quests.

After that, I decided to remake it, add more management, and everything worked out at first, well, maybe too much grinding but this could be fixed, but one thing! Patreon introduced a new Terms of use, and my page was banned.
So I had to look for other platforms, because changing the relationship between the characters, well, I did not make such concessions.

As a result, the energy disappeared without financing and the project withered. But there are a lot of content left, stories if be precisely, some of them are written by me, some in collaboration with the authors, some even bought and written to order. Actually, I am releasing these stories now, so it is probably not a game, but rather a graphic novel, one could just add pictures to the text and release everything in PDF format.
 
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crewfalcons

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It seems to me that not everyone here understands what this project is.

Let me tell you a story: there was a project called Family Therapy, and it was publised on Patreon, and there were heroes like Alex, Lisa, Mom, and a lot of others, and this project was a classic RPGMV project, with a chibi character, a house, various quests.

After that, I decided to remake it, add more management, and everything worked out at first, well, maybe too much grinding but this could be fixed, but one thing! Patreon introduced a new Terms of use, and my page was banned.
So I had to look for other platforms, because changing the relationship between the characters, well, I did not make such concessions.

As a result, the energy disappeared without financing and the project withered. But there are a lot of content left, stories if be precisely, some of them are written by me, some in collaboration with the authors, some even bought and written to order. Actually, I am releasing these stories now, so it is probably not a game, but rather a graphic novel, one could just add pictures to the text and release everything in PDF format.

I actually really liked Family Therapy and your remastered version of it (https://f95zone.to/threads/family-therapy-remastered-v0-2-0-homie.13366/)

Have you ever thought about returning to it and completing it alongside with Tales of Arcania?

I meannnn you can change it for the patreon version and have it be a step-family/landlord situation and I'm surrreee someone out there would make a patch for you for the good stuff (y)
 

meigame

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I really liked your work here. was hoping to a be able to save more often but so it goes. Enjoyed the story. Liked the art work. liked the controls in the main sex scene. It was a all hot and a lot of fun. Thank you
 

Carnagie

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Christ this text is slow. Sometimes it takes a full 5 seconds to load a single box, and this is while holding down enter. The inability to save or go back isn't great either.

Mostly I'm wondering why this vn is being made in rpgmaker. So far from what I've seen there's no RPG elements, no fighting, not much of the way in movement, etc. I can't imagine this wouldn't be far easier if done in renpy (on both the user and creator ends).
 

rayminator

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it's great story but it has errors in the game it freezes in parts of the game can do nothing can't refresh can't even save only thing i can is start over and over
 

Joshua Tree

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it's great story but it has errors in the game it freezes in parts of the game can do nothing can't refresh can't even save only thing i can is start over and over
A great story? Don't want to rag on the thing, but there is nothing new or unique about either story or characters. Renders nice though.
 

TheKyu

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i cant understand wth this game was made in rpgm, the text is so damm slow that makes me wanna kill myself
 

ijutfp

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Regardless of any other criticisms I have to give you props for making the male protagonist taller than the females.
The guys are always so damn short in these games.
 
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Corambis

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I'll give the game another shot if the text speed increases and the text is more readable. I tried the online version, but the text was still borked on that as far as I could tell. As someone who normally flies through text, it's very frustrating to be limited both by the speed of the text and that it is so hard to read in the first place. But the very few renders and screenshots I saw looked promising.
 
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Adeana

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It dosnt matter if a game is made via Renpy or RPG or with any other software, the game is good, i like it, kinda ..
bothering is only the save possability, .. sadly ill never gone get throu this game.
 
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