VN Ren'Py The East Block [v0.8.2] [Bobbyboy Productions]

[SonsOfLiberty]

Common Steam W, I don't understand why Dev's adds AI animations mid game. Your player base played the game because they liked renders and animations you've created and now you're just replaced it with lifeless shit artificial animations. It's almost like shooting yourself in the foot after you aimed your gun at the air for 2-3 years.

What? That game started with AI and always was AI. That is one of the few that looks like the real thing and where it is put to good use and used correctly and shows what the tech can and do if used properly.

People should get used to it a lot more games being designated AI slop, the days of tooling away in DAZ and other animation studios is over. Most of the workforce especially one man shows will go fully AI. Only the hold outs (you know developers who have like 15 stations running animations or that have invested heavily in stations and GPU's for animating), the ones that have a team (even then they've still implemented some form of AI help), or ones where AI won't benefit their animations/characters.

 

[JBNYC1]

Another great game lost to AI slop . There must be some sort of AI blindness that people have to not see how bad the AI animations were. She literally doesn't look like the same person in several of them, particularly the photoshoot portion. Wouldn't be so bad if they weren't forced. I'd definitely rather just have stills than whatever that was. It's also worrying that the dev looks at them at says ye good enough.

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While I understand where you're coming from and yes there are some scenes where Kathryn doesn't look like herself 100% but no one should expect perfection either. It is a visual novel after all. However, nothing is lost. I believe Bobbyboy Productions will improve the VN in this area and make things better over time. But your feedback is appreciated.

As for The East Block Chapter 8, it was a solid update and was very well done. Not everyone has the same opinions, and that's okay, but overall it was hot, entertaining and I definitely enjoyed it. Folks should not be so caught up with such minor issues and blow it out of proportion. That is simply my take on this. Cheers!

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[JBNYC1]

What? That game started with AI and always was AI. That is one of the few that looks like the real thing and where it is put to good use and used correctly and shows what the tech can and do if used properly.

People should get used to it a lot more games being designated AI slop, the days of tooling away in DAZ and other animation studios is over. Most of the workforce especially one man shows will go fully AI. Only the hold outs (you know developers who have like 15 stations running animations or that have invested heavily in stations and GPU's for animating), the ones that have a team (even then they've still implemented some form of AI help), or ones where AI won't benefit their animations/characters.

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Well said! In the next 1 to 5 years from now 80% to 99% of most Visual Novels will be made using A.I. and there is nothing wrong with that as it keeps getting better every year, and especially for Devs / Creators that work alone and don't have a team, or have a small or limited amount of resources. A.I. is happening whether we like it or not.

Personally, The East Block Chapter 8 was very well done with some minor hiccups and it will continue to get better. Thanks for sharing and good point made on AI, too! Cheers!

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[whoabacha]

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While I understand where you're coming from and yes there are some scenes where Kathryn doesn't look like herself 100% but no one should expects perfection either. It is a visual novel after all. However, nothing is lost. I believe Bobbyboy Productions will improve the VN in this area and make things better over time. But your feedback is appreciated.

As for The East Block Chapter 8, it was a solid update and was very well done. Not everyone has the same opinions, and that's okay, but overall it was hot, entertaining and I definitely enjoyed it. Folks should not be so caught up with such minor issues and blow it out of proportion. That is simply my take on this. Cheers!

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Where did I ask for perfection? I just didn't want to be forced to watch something that actually ruined the experience for me. I'm sorry, but if a dev is happy to put AI images/animations like that in their game knowing full well they look terrible, that is not a positive sign for anyone who followed and enjoyed this game. I'm not completely against AI use when it's done well and with good caretaking. This implementation just feels lazy and/or incompetent. I was literally hovering over signing up for the $16 tier earlier today based on what I had played previously, boy am I glad I waited. If he wants to do it right he needs to add a choice and an alternative imo even if that alternative is just still images.

 

[Virtual Player]

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Game/Developer: The East Block/Bobbyboy Productions

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Chrisnrw_

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18.11.2025​

I quickly created a walkthrough mod & Scene-Gallery-Mod for the game.
I'm happy with this and decided to share it.

Let me know if you encounter any problems.


Light blue is what Luke wants
Pink is what Kathryn wants to do
Red is warning and NTR
Gray is your decision

for colorblind

dark green is what Luke wants
Pink is what Kathryn wants to do
green is warning and NTR
Gray is your decision

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Downloading and uploading to other websites to create links is not permitted because you can make money

Download 0.8.2-WT-mod & for colorblind & Scene-Gallery-mod 0.7.2
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0.8.2 isn't providing a link to the Scene-Gallery-Mod. There's nothing on the menu. I noticed in your 0.7.2 Mod there was a folder called Scene Gallery Mod that is not present in the 0.8.2 mod?

 

[whoabacha]

What? That game started with AI and always was AI. That is one of the few that looks like the real thing and where it is put to good use and used correctly and shows what the tech can and do if used properly.

People should get used to it a lot more games being designated AI slop, the days of tooling away in DAZ and other animation studios is over. Most of the workforce especially one man shows will go fully AI. Only the hold outs (you know developers who have like 15 stations running animations or that have invested heavily in stations and GPU's for animating), the ones that have a team (even then they've still implemented some form of AI help), or ones where AI won't benefit their animations/characters.

We all know it's coming, doesn't mean we shouldn't make a point when it's been done badly. Let's get something clear here, there is AI slop where it's done very poorly (such as in this episode) and then there is well curated AI usage which would not be considered AI slop.

 

[Chrisnrw_]

0.8.2 isn't providing a link to the Scene-Gallery-Mod. There's nothing on the menu. I noticed in your 0.7.2 Mod there was a folder called Scene Gallery Mod that is not present in the 0.8.2 mod?

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I'm still working on the scene gallery

 

[TheUberstuff]

Why does every defender of this slop sound like a bot, lmao

Either a bot or paid by the dev to say nice things.

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

Boy no one is asking for shit ass AI animations. If Bobby had us washing this long for AI slop then he should’ve been up-front with it. Idk why you’re getting mad at the people for waiting almost 8 months for an AI filled update with bad writing when Bobby had hella time to slowly put a good update out and not switch to AI mid-game. Also, who is constantly begging for animations? Most people just want an update that isn’t 5 minutes in length.

maybe I'm in the minority, but id rather watch mediocre daz hand-made animations than smooth ai slop.

At least the former LOOKS like the characters, and human thought went into it.

 

[JBNYC1]

Either a bot or paid by the dev to say nice things.

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Well, neither apply to me but you both seem like negative trolls on here with nothing better to do than throw BS jabs at folks that actually like and enjoy the VN and if you don't like it move on and take your negative BS somewhere else. Thx!

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[nichetell]

Where did I ask for perfection? I just didn't want to be forced to watch something that actually ruined the experience for me. I'm sorry, but if a dev is happy to put AI images/animations like that in their game knowing full well they look terrible, that is not a positive sign for anyone who followed and enjoyed this game. I'm not completely against AI use when it's done well and with good caretaking. This implementation just feels lazy and/or incompetent. I was literally hovering over signing up for the $16 tier earlier today based on what I had played previously, boy am I glad I waited. If he wants to do it right he needs to add a choice and an alternative imo even if that alternative is just still images.

The person replying to you is very likely a LLM bot. All my LLM filters shows their messages very likely to be bot, especially the overuse of punctuations and the speed of replies. I suspect many AI defending people as well, because you gotta be delusional to defend it when you can clearly see the gen-AI didn't even try to recreate game's style and instead slapped a pornstar face on top like the scene on the couch.

For anyone going with the dumb narrative AI is future and not everyone has insane rigs or such., you don't have to perfect your animations. You can make animations yourself on a low-end rig by rendering in lower quality and framerate and then apply framegen/interpolate and upscaling to increase the quality. This not only cuts the time of render time more than half but also produces similar quality at the end even on older machines.

 

[Virtual Player]

I'm still working on the scene gallery

Thanks for your work. Looking forward to it.

 

[jackdanniels]

Is there a universal mod to stop the delay in every fucking dialogue line? Like you read that line, click to read the next text, and there is a 1-second delay or so to show the next line... Damn, it's agonizing. I like to read fast. I'm trying to figure out why the dev put this lousy feature in the AVN.

 

[SerasAshrein]

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Feedback and comments like this are always appreciated and I am sure the Dev is taking notice. There is always room for improvement where ever it's needed when it comes to any creative works. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

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I'm just a little confused, how much money did Bob give you or what else did he promise to do for you, that you're sitting here, answering and constantly repeating that the game is awesome and the AI animations are good, it feels like Bob blinded you with condensed milk, that you're blind and can't see, seriously, dude, if it wasn't Bob doing these animations, but whoever hired the dude from Bob, then how could Bob allow this, huh? Tell me, huh?

 

[SageLover]

AI slop every 20 seconds,such a pity.

 

[moonhowler1972]

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Well said! In the next 1 to 5 years from now 80% to 99% of most Visual Novels will be made using A.I. and there is nothing wrong with that as it keeps getting better every year, and especially for Devs / Creators that work alone and don't have a team, or have a small or limited amount of resources. A.I. is happening whether we like it or not.

Personally, The East Block Chapter 8 was very well done with some minor hiccups and it will continue to get better. Thanks for sharing and good point made on AI, too! Cheers!

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Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for brownies

 

[JBNYC1]

The person replying to you is very likely a LLM bot. All my LLM filters shows their messages very likely to be bot, especially the overuse of punctuations and the speed of replies. I suspect many AI defending people as well, because you gotta be delusional to defend it when you can clearly see the gen-AI didn't even try to recreate game's style and instead slapped a pornstar face on top like the scene on the couch.

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Considering you're a "New Member" user on this platform trolling this thread that is a RED flag by itself. You're either another jealous Dev or some loser troll bot on here harassing folks that actually enjoy and like the VN. If you don't like the latest update, move on and spare us your negative BS on this thread. No one cares. Thx!

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[Joshy92]

You can't skip animations? I haven't played yet and man if true that sucks. I hope Bobby can do that in a future update because I hate animations.

 

[Natasha_Mua]

I want to say that the update was good, but the big fat minus of this update is the poorly used AI and the tool from the author who did not test and play with it properly if it was necessary to fix the frames in the animation scenes and then release it and say in advance that in this version there will be added AI animations and the game would be good with animations done properly, but a big minus for the AI, but a good plus for the story of Catherine in this update.

 

[Natasha_Mua]

You can't skip animations? I haven't played yet and man if true that sucks. I hope Bobby can do that in a future update because I hate animations.

The animations are really bad, and yes, they are completely unskippable, as they repeat twice.