Unity The Dancing Inn [v0.2.4] [The Dancing Inn]

[slowparson]

You need ways to drain the coffers in the mid and late game anyway.

I see what you mean, once you get a few people running to swap in and out plus guest rooms, money goes from being a tree chopping chore to a total non-issue. However, since the game has a literal apothecary alchemist, I can foresee a rather simple solution for dealing with too much money... abortion and birth control potions. However, this would of course require dev to implement a whole pregnancy subsystem, plus also generate a bunch of pregnancy images for each girl (ie, at least a few with baby bump and a few fully pregnant per girl); then plug it all together. Maybe also an adoption agency for when you completely fail? Or are child labor laws non-existent, so you can put those lil tykes to work cleaning and clearing tables?

Plus whatever else dev wants to have the alchemist sell, like temporary stat potions (which might also be a thing, getting enough xp to fulfill certain attribute requirements is such a pain in the ass). Or have fun with it, who knows, maybe there'll be furry potions or something!

Speaking of money sinks and the alchemist, aren't you supposed to pay her back at some point? Or did Alma completely cover your tab in the beginning out of her empty pockets? The game's explanation for how the alchemist got paid off was somewhat unclear, although maybe that part is also unfinished...

Edit: Forgot to add, but more possible money sinks might be bribing the town guards to look the other way and/or maintain brothel license, or also just hiring bouncers. A bouncer mechanism is relatively prevalent in a lot of brothel games, both to reduce patron mess % generation AND also maybe reduce a barfight mechanism; patrons be fightin' over access to the ladies! Mostly would depend on how punitive barfight mechanism is, hard mode in some games might even have bar fights possibly causing brothel to temporarily shut down for some period of time due to town guards arriving (assuming a bribe isn't paid). Conversely, once the ladies are depraved enough, bouncer costs may go down due to availability of freebies or skills, etc. (depends on how bouncer code is implemented).

 

[falconetti]

Very strange, I've never encountered anything like this before. I play from scratch every time after the release of the next update. Variant 1: your save is corrupted. Variant 2: during downloading or unpacking was corrupted archive with the game.

Possible solution (not sure what will help) - try to reload the game. A more complicated option - edit the save file. If it doesn't help, you will have to replay the game from scratch. If you don't want to play tree chopping minigames, you can always get money by editing the save file. Then you buy tools in the store, dig up an artifact in the graveyard and then everything goes very easy.

It's a very easy puzzle, but if you don't want to bother, try this: saffron.

I think there's a bug when the guest timer expires on the same turn as you assign a girl to him, I'm investigating.

 

[JesterAI]

Awesome game, but mining game is so godawful that there should be a temporary "find diamond" button until it works

That minigame leaves such a bad taste in my mouth that it threatens to overcome all the goodwill towards a really great game

 

[falconetti]

Yeah, it's clearly barely WIP. There's even some sort of depravity bug caused by mining, pretty much every time I mine, it increases the depravity of a random girl for some reason... plus no way of knowing when the dude gonna pass out. The dwarf doesn't even explain how the mini-game works, the dialogue just says "newNode" instead of showing questions to answer.

Plus, you know, he passes out but doesn't die... you'd think the dwarf would charge his ass a few toads for saving him from dying? Or is he passing out from exertion, not like bad air? Cuz if you pass out from exertion, why would you lose a gem??

Edit: Speaking of bugs, has anyone noticed that when you unlock the alternate images through completing the girl's quests, the game doesn't change/load the new image set until you restart the game?

Edit 2: I guess the game just doesn't default to the newer image options once unlocked except on restart. A player can still choose them from the override menu without restarting... assuming you have a decent mouse. The override menu is hilariously tiny!!!!

Hmm I'll look into the override, I tested it and it worked properly after depravity increase, but i'll check again.

 

[Pax Draconis]

I see what you mean, once you get a few people running to swap in and out plus guest rooms, money goes from being a tree chopping chore to a total non-issue. However, since the game has a literal apothecary alchemist, I can foresee a rather simple solution for dealing with too much money... abortion and birth control potions. However, this would of course require dev to implement a whole pregnancy subsystem, plus also generate a bunch of pregnancy images for each girl (ie, at least a few with baby bump and a few fully pregnant per girl); then plug it all together. Maybe also an adoption agency for when you completely fail? Or are child labor laws non-existent, so you can put those lil tykes to work cleaning and clearing tables?

Plus whatever else dev wants to have the alchemist sell, like temporary stat potions (which might also be a thing, getting enough xp to fulfill certain attribute requirements is such a pain in the ass). Or have fun with it, who knows, maybe there'll be furry potions or something!

Speaking of money sinks and the alchemist, aren't you supposed to pay her back at some point? Or did Alma completely cover your tab in the beginning out of her empty pockets? The game's explanation for how the alchemist got paid off was somewhat unclear, although maybe that part is also unfinished...

Alma pays off the debt, she had been saving to upgrade the inn and instead spent all her savings on the MC. That's partially why he agrees to help her with the inn. (Also why you start with no money.) It's a throw away line in the text that can be easily missed, especially after multiple playthroughs where you just power through the text to get to gameplay.

 

[slowparson]

Hmm I'll look into the override, I tested it and it worked properly after depravity increase, but i'll check again.

It's definitely the override, I just unlocked the first Freya event with the demon statue, haven't restarted the game yet. Override is still showing clean option, but menu also has flirty option. Player can still change it to flirty, the game just isn't properly defaulting to the newer option (although it will default once game is restarted). And this is the newest version, just tried the game for the first time with the newest build.

Alma pays off the debt, she had been saving to upgrade the inn and instead spent all her savings on the MC. That's partially why he agrees to help her with the inn. (Also why you start with no money.)

I figured it was something like that, but the complete lack of later dialogue referencing this also prolly doesn't help. I guess whenever dev finally implements hard mode, you'll still have to take out a loan and pay it off...

 

[slowparson]

Also, on a more unrelated/less buggy note, kinda surprised that the dancing option doesn't occasionally generate like 1 fame, especially once girls reach depraved status. Grinding up to 50 fame is definitely tedious...

 

[slowparson]

- I suggest creating a fast travel system. A simple button to go to specific places (mine, lumber mill, maybe fortune teller) would help immensely and would avoid this click marathon to get somewhere.

There is a fast travel option, it's just hidden behind an item you have to buy from the shop. Which a player has to find. And then afford. And then buy. So maybe gating it as an item in the store you have to buy isn't the most ideal of implementations. But it at least exists!

However, if dev ever implements other towns (adventuring stat?), yeah, some sort of fast travel system between towns prolly necessary. Clicking through an insane maze of areas to find the next town, bad idea.

 

[slowparson]

Honestly, have done the mining mini-game like 20 times now, still no diamond. I understand how it works; find the diamond before some hidden counter runs out by mining a staircase out of a constantly changing design.

But since I have like 20,000 gold toads, why can't I just buy a diamond off the dwarf for said 20,000 instead?

 

[falconetti]

Honestly, have done the mining mini-game like 20 times now, still no diamond. I understand how it works; find the diamond before some hidden counter runs out by mining a staircase out of a constantly changing design.

But since I have like 20,000 gold toads, why can't I just buy a diamond off the dwarf for said 20,000 instead?

Hey! I know that mining minigame is in a bad shape, I probably shouldn't have included it. There is a move counter, but it's out of screen for 1920x1080, I'll remedy it soon enough.

In the meanwhile CTRL + SHIFT + Q gives you the diamond. Use it if you are frustrated.

 

[bwtww]

You may already be aware of the problem with Velisa, but just in case, I'm reporting an image problem.

 

[falconetti]

You may already be aware of the problem with Velisa, but just in case, I'm reporting an image problem.
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Thanks, fixed already in version I'm working on, should be out soon.

 

[slowparson]

Hey! I know that mining minigame is in a bad shape, I probably shouldn't have included it. There is a move counter, but it's out of screen for 1920x1080, I'll remedy it soon enough.

Lol, not really intended as criticism (although yeah, can be interpreted as such), more a suggestion for a (temporary?) money sink. Cuz I'm 406 days in and at have over 40k monies right now (and now over 50 fame, so I see where the game "ends" for now).

Also, any plans for implementing season? Or is world more like GoT, where seasons might last for like decades... also, does day of the week matter for earning money? Like restaurant industry hours? So trash the place over the weekend making money, then rest/clean Monday-Wednesday?

 

[Macinnes]

Lol, not really intended as criticism (although yeah, can be interpreted as such), more a suggestion for a (temporary?) money sink. Cuz I'm 406 days in and at have over 40k monies right now (and now over 50 fame, so I see where the game "ends" for now).

Also, any plans for implementing season? Or is world more like GoT, where seasons might last for like decades... also, does day of the week matter for earning money? Like restaurant industry hours? So trash the place over the weekend making money, then rest/clean Monday-Wednesday?

I kind of set into that routine out of necessity until I recruited enough girls.

 

[slowparson]

I kind of set into that routine out of necessity until I recruited enough girls.

I was more trying to understand if the game simulates a work week or not with regards to weighting money generation (ie, money earned), or if the increases to money being earned is purely via perks. I would ask the same with mess generation, but that clearly hasn't been implemented yet (mess always 10% unless everyone resting and/or cleaning, which is then 0%).

Dev might also eventually add like festivals, holidays, drought, bandits(!) or other temporary modifiers that could alternatively modify how much money is earned, but for now I was just wondering if day of the week modifies it or not.

 

[pornooja]

how do you mine down? and is it intended that my mining guy is always walking to the right

 

[Zirenaz]

how do you mine down? and is it intended that my mining guy is always walking to the right

Pressing down key or S should do it.

As for the walking part... do you by any chance have a controller connected? They have a tendency to drift to one side, so disconnecting it should help.

 

[MentallyDull]

Ive gotta say this games resolution settings are an absolute nightmare. it doesnt offer my resolution so i went ahead and put it in windowed mode which blackscreened it for half a minute. then i started a game figuring whatever its fine ive got it set now. nope game reset back into fullscreen while saying it was windowed. had to reselect fullscreen and then go back to windowed. god i wish this was just in renpy or something else

 

[falconetti]

Ive gotta say this games resolution settings are an absolute nightmare. it doesnt offer my resolution so i went ahead and put it in windowed mode which blackscreened it for half a minute. then i started a game figuring whatever its fine ive got it set now. nope game reset back into fullscreen while saying it was windowed. had to reselect fullscreen and then go back to windowed. god i wish this was just in renpy or something else

I'll recheck the resolution settings, it's Unity and it sucks in this aspect unfortunately.

 

[falconetti]

Version 0.2.5 Lewdgendary is out for Patrons!


Howdy!

Hope you had a great Friday - I'm about to make it a little bit better by dropping a brand new Dancing Inn update. In this version I focused on improving existing systems, QoL and new features: new shop, study job and (finally!) gallery UI. A new potion is available to help with the mining minigame. Many thanks to our first fan art creator User_P - the Issa sprite in the post is his and is lovely.


Changelog:

Content

Added map exit icon
Inpainted Freya cooking sprites
Inpainted Freya cleaning sprites
Added separate unlock save file
Added locked sprite icon
Added gallery UI
Added depravity events to gallery
Added right click support for dialogue skipping for one hand convenience
Added support for skipping rest events
Added Mira study unlock dialogue
Added Study job
Added Alma study job sprites (4)
Added Freya massage depravity action
Added Broken Heart Tincture - Thalia's shop
Added Jumping Potion to Thalia's shop
Added Jumping Potion to mining minigame

Bugfixes
Fixed Velisa squished portrait
Fixed move counter not showing on 1920 resolution in mining minigame
Fixed cursor interactivity lag after pressing exit button
Fixed Mazzy dialogue typo
Fixed Gastrorgasm perk proccing without girl cooking
Fixed Emberveil map item in shop not animating correctly
Fixed Map icon showing without map
Fixed out of stock for shops proccing after buing one item
Fixed depravity override not setting correctly after depravity event
Pressing escape to skip depravity event no longer toggles options UI
Increased the size of the audio sliders

Balance
Girls with depravity events no longer gain depravity until depravity event is completed
Changed Mira outside sprite size by -25% (she was a giant)
Decreased fall damage treshold by 50%