VN Ren'Py The Call of Darkness [v3.01] [Ace Games]

[acewinz]

This is one of the best games i have played by a landslide. I think once you are able to update consistently and promo again you should gain morw support. I will continue to shout from the rooftops that evetyone needs to check out ypur game.

Thank you so much snake! I am finding more time to work on the game now that things have settled down a bit and am enjoying the work, which is just as important honestly. I also am only 1-2 updates away from finishing this massive EP and the first arc of the game which is a good point for me to push promotion and maybe even early access stuff, we'll see. Only thing slowing me up now is recreating some of the original stuff as I go, like all the blinking bells and whistles for the ships bridge, not looking forward to that one.

 

[acewinz]

any progress this update or they still stuck on that fucking ship?


total
each update like few hundred renders max

Still on the Demeter, but it is so nice there I thought about staying.

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[Canto Forte]

Start fresh. Once you leave, whatever you remember can be some wild interpretation, new and better looking, like the plot would be Mc remembering how he escaped and where from in the beginning, while you give it the new polish and the brand new deck and fittings that work so well in whatever asset you found them in.

Only thing slowing me up now is recreating some of the original stuff as I go, like all the blinking bells and whistles for the ships bridge, not looking forward to that one.

Still on the Demeter, but it is so nice there I thought about staying.

 

[snakeplisskin]

Still on the Demeter, but it is so nice there I thought about staying.

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Not gunna lie i was expecting to find Pella on board as well

 

[acewinz]

Not gunna lie i was expecting to find Pella on board as well

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[RandomGuy99]

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Just as long as it is not Callisto was Pella somehow. Would appreciate if the rescue mission not be dragged on longer. While, it was nice introduction to the story bringing the effect of "Darkness", Callisto and Alina in. The story would much enjoyable if the pace is a bit faster. It's like 3,4 releases in the rescue mission, it's getting a bit stale.

 

[Black Orchid]

am i missing something? how was this update 2693 renders? it felt like a quarter of that. or did you include the animation images?

 

[acewinz]

am i missing something? how was this update 2693 renders? it felt like a quarter of that. or did you include the animation images?

Total game images, not this update and video images are not included in that.

 

[acewinz]

Just as long as it is not Callisto was Pella somehow. Would appreciate if the rescue mission not be dragged on longer. While, it was nice introduction to the story bringing the effect of "Darkness", Callisto and Alina in. The story would much enjoyable if the pace is a bit faster. It's like 3,4 releases in the rescue mission, it's getting a bit stale.

As I mentioned above, the next full update will see the end of the rescue, extrication, and the mostly full roster assembled.

 

[goulet1995]

is any lesbian stuff including during threesomes avoidable?

 

[acewinz]

is any lesbian stuff including during threesomes avoidable?

Lesbian stuff is intended to be avoidable.

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[Dark Silence]

Lesbian stuff is intended to be avoidable.

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You knew I'd be playing this, didn't you? lol Message me on Discord when you get a chance, bro.

 

[SpecterX]

I lost my save but last scene I remember from the game was the first mission to save a crew from monsters.
How long is the content after that?

 

[indio68]

i liked the ganme so far, maybe the intro part with alina and pella should be shorter ...it was a ot of text and mostly not that interesting imo....but now that the adventure started game is good...hope updates will be fast and bigger...can't wait..

 

[Fucker289]

Like the game, good story and character,
Can we do something about the so dark image?
in this rescue ship it's soo dark hardly see things properly.

 

[acewinz]

Like the game, good story and character,
Can we do something about the so dark image?
in this rescue ship it's soo dark hardly see things properly.

I think i've figured out the issue in that regard for some people and a fix. I use a sort of "Fake HDR" reshade when doing images because it does good things for special effects and shadows, but what looks good on my monitor, may not on others.

Localizing that for everyone I could probably do with some fancy code that auto-detects some variables on each players monitor settings, but that won't account for personal preference and may even try to adjust image by image which would be annoying. So instead I'm going to add in an adjustable gamma slider in preferences for players to use at their own discretion.

 

[acewinz]

Anyone who wants to use/test the gamma slider in preferences just toss these in your game folder and overwrite (backup for the screens.rpy is always recommended, the shader.rpy is new). If it breaks something, simply replace the screens.rpy with the original and delete the shader.rpy and rpyc.

 

[joose]

need an arm hair removal patch it fuckin looks like dog shit

 

[Fucker289]

Anyone who wants to use/test the gamma slider in preferences just toss these in your game folder and overwrite (backup for the screens.rpy is always recommended, the shader.rpy is new). If it breaks something, simply replace the screens.rpy with the original and delete the shader.rpy and rpyc.

Yess that helped a lot much better now!

 

[Mograx]

This game has high praise but I have to ask how are you people even reading this thing without wanting to tear your eyes out? I can't even get past the first scene. The white font on white background (how does a VN even get made without a black outline in the font) is making this simply unplayable.

Does this get fixed at some point? There's just no reality where this font is actually used the whole game, surely?

Edit: Found Mr Benny's patch to make the game actually readable. One can only wonder how many people gave this a try and dropped it immediately because of this utterly baffling font choice. Thanks to Mr Benny, it was at least one less than it could have been.