Ren'Py The Headmaster [v0.15.3.1 Public] [Altos and Herdone]

[Madmoiselle Chiffre]

Fine! Fine! Fine!
This thread changes while the last weeks to endless discussions about an expropriation of paying Patreons and too many expressions or declarations of unsupporting Altos and Herdone. This will kill this game sooner or later!
While other fans are waiting for next update.
I beleave in this game ! And, I will keep on playing the actual game + working on to translate the next updates.
So let's talk here about the game and not about money!


By the way: Happy Easter!

 

[WindIsHowling]

Friendly reminder you're allowed to recognise developers for their bullshit on the largest public forum for the game. Blind "loyalty" has never lead to good results from anyone.

 

[Cartageno]

Friendly reminder you're allowed to recognise developers for their bullshit on the largest public forum for the game. Blind "loyalty" has never lead to good results from anyone.

While that is true, nor has calling bullshit at the first sign of not getting what you expected to get.

 

[ccxvidonaferens]

While that is true, nor has calling bullshit at the first sign of not getting what you expected to get.

Thing is that sort of attitude from people is why I have grown to have a rather jaded view of humanity in general. We are creatures with a rapacious appetite for whatever we can get and nothing is ever enough and we are never satisfied, and sadly I don't see it getting better any time soon. If anything it seem's to keep getting worse. This isn't a dig at any one individual, just our species as a whole.

 

[Korangar]

The Headmaster: Complete Game Guide
Includes Walkthrough, Punishment Guide, Event Log Guide and more​

Game Guide (for version 0.13.2Public)

The Game Guide is a comprehensive guide to playing the Headmaster. It is a semi-official guide, and there is a link to this guide from within the actual game.
There are 3 parts to the Guide. Part 1 covers Chapter 1 of the game, and Part 2 covers Chapter 2. Both these parts include:

• A complete walkthrough of all the game quests in that chapter, including the main quests, staff quests and student quests. This is mainly designed for newer players who want some help with the game, but it will hopefully be of use to anyone else who is stuck with a particular quest.
  
  
• An event log guide, that explains how to unlock all the events shown the game event log. As more experienced players know, completing the quests is only part of this game. The event log shows you all the other events you can unlock as well.
  
  
• In addition, Part 1 includes some advice for newer players, including hints and tips to help with the start of the game, and about how to increase grades and discipline.

Part 3 of the Guide is contains supporting information for players, including:

• A student punishment guide. This explains how to punish the girls and raise their punishment levels. It also explains how to unlock the relevant school rules, unlock the additional punishment actions, and how to assign the special roles to the girls.
  
  
• A general reference guide, which includes some additional information such as a list of all the influence and horniness points and how to earn them.
  
  
• A guide to the built-in cheat menu, which allows you to increase you stats, change your choices, unlock events and more.
  
  
• Information about the three Holiday Special bonus games, including full walkthroughs for each.

In addition to the three separate Guides, there is also a Complete Game Guide which includes all three parts in one PDF volume. You can choose to download the separate documents, or the combined volume. You do not need to download both.

Updated for version 0.13.1.1: the guide includes all the new content for Rachel, including walkthroughs for both her quests, an updated punishment guide, and details of all the new events. Version 0.13 has been rebalanced to reducing grinding, and the guide includes updated details around the cost of items, payments to the headmaster, and bonus discipline points.
Updated for version 0.13.2.1: the guide includes the new "flexible girls" patrol event, the new shower spy scenes, and the new bonus game. It has also been updated in line with bugfixes, gameplay changes and changes to the quest log and event log.
Updated for version 0.13.2Public: the guide includes some corrections and additional information about completing Rachel's punishment levels (levels 7 to 10)

Sample pages from the guide:

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A link to this guide is now included in the actual game. The cheat menu in the game now has a new option "get the detailed walkthrough" which will take you to a Mega folder (here) that includes copies of the walkthrough for both the current public and patreon versions of the game.
This shows where the link is in the game:

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Other Help and Information​

Quick Punishment Guides
If you can need help with a particular girl, you can also refer to my quick punishment guide posts for Debbie and Rachel and Amy and Cassandra and Priti/Harriet.
Updated Sept 2022: Rachel's quick punishment guide has been updated to cover the new content in version 0.13.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The FAQs are designed to give you quick and easy answers to common questions. They cover issues such as accessing the cheat menu, and completing the Sally and Ruth quests (or at least taking them as far as you can in the current version of the game). Please see here for the FAQ post.


Student Information (for version 0.8.2)
If you want to find out more about the students, including whether you can see them naked or punish them, then please see yuserneim's student guide here, or the downloadable pdf version here. (Updated for 0.8.2).


Warning:
I've done my best to make this guide as clear and accurate as possible, but this game is in active development, which means that things might break or change without warning. So if you find anything that's wrong or unclear, let me know.

I'm always keen for comments and feedback. Do you find these guides useful? Is there anything else you'd like them to include? Let me know!

I hope these guides help you - and enjoy your time as the new Headmaster!


Last Edited 2022-10-28: updated with 0.13.2Public Guide

Just wanted to say I have been a fan for quite some time, and thank you both for the game.

That being said, I have a question that I cannot seem to find the answer for anywhere. It involves Lucy when she is serving as your maid on Saturdays. She breaks a vase, and you have the option of telling her the truth, or lying to her. Can anyone tell me the outcomes for each? Thanks in advance!

 

[marcomemmey]

Just wanted to say I have been a fan for quite some time, and thank you both for the game.

That being said, I have a question that I cannot seem to find the answer for anywhere. It involves Lucy when she is serving as your maid on Saturdays. She breaks a vase, and you have the option of telling her the truth, or lying to her. Can anyone tell me the outcomes for each? Thanks in advance!

Don't remember specifically but probably truth = nothing happens, lie = spanking scene.
Also hint: you can save before choices and then try all of them, its how these kind of games are meant to be played.

 

[Korangar]

Don't remember specifically but probably truth = nothing happens, lie = spanking scene.
Also hint: you can save before choices and then try all of them, its how these kind of games are meant to be played.

Ah, makes sense. And thanks for the hint. Last version of this I played was 11 something. LOL Onward to the choices!

 

[oceanbobo4]

Just wanted to say I have been a fan for quite some time, and thank you both for the game.

That being said, I have a question that I cannot seem to find the answer for anywhere. It involves Lucy when she is serving as your maid on Saturdays. She breaks a vase, and you have the option of telling her the truth, or lying to her. Can anyone tell me the outcomes for each? Thanks in advance!

The lie leads to a somewhat unhappy Lucy who complies with the spanking.

The truth leads to a Lucy who will happily submit to her spanking.

 

[Korangar]

The lie leads to a somewhat unhappy Lucy who complies with the spanking.

The truth leads to a Lucy who will happily submit to her spanking.

Ah! Thank you!

 

[Phil5k]

Just wanted to say I have been a fan for quite some time, and thank you both for the game.

All credit for the game goes to the Altos, the game developer. And Gegecucu, who is part of the dev team. I just try to provide some help and support from the sidelines...

I have a question that I cannot seem to find the answer for anywhere. It involves Lucy when she is serving as your maid on Saturdays. She breaks a vase, and you have the option of telling her the truth, or lying to her. Can anyone tell me the outcomes for each? Thanks in advance!

See section [HOM03] on pages 114-115 of the walkthrough for full details. Short version: if you lie, you will get the opportunity to spank Lucy:

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But if you spank her, you will also need to give her a tip. If you previously exposed yourself (during the "Lucy Runs You a Bath" event) then the tip needs to be $50 or $100. If you give her the small $10 tip, Lucy will refuse to come back until you pay her an extra $500.

Your decision to spank her or not will also alter some of the dialogue in one of Lucy's later events ("Lucy Needs a Shower"), but it doesn't have any significant impact.

There is also a cheat option which allows you to change your choice (this is useful if you give her a small tip but then don't have $500 to pay her). See p.361 of the walkthrough for more details of the cheat.

 

[Korangar]

All credit for the game goes to the Altos, the game developer. And Gegecucu, who is part of the dev team. I just try to provide some help and support from the sidelines...



See section [HOM03] on pages 114-115 of the walkthrough for full details. Short version: if you lie, you will get the opportunity to spank Lucy:

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But if you spank her, you will also need to give her a tip. If you previously exposed yourself (during the "Lucy Runs You a Bath" event) then the tip needs to be $50 or $100. If you give her the small $10 tip, Lucy will refuse to come back until you pay her an extra $500.

Your decision to spank her or not will also alter some of the dialogue in one of Lucy's later events ("Lucy Needs a Shower"), but it doesn't have any significant impact.

There is also a cheat option which allows you to change your choice (this is useful if you give her a small tip but then don't have $500 to pay her). See p.361 of the walkthrough for more details of the cheat.

Very good to know. I played through most of the spank path, but reverted back to the non-spank path before it ended. But very good to know. Perhaps my next playthrough I will go for the spanking, and see where it leads.

Thanks again!

 

[Edorath]

i know this game is probably not going anywhere at all but is there at least some alice content?

 

[andafer]

i know this game is probably not going anywhere at all but is there at least some alice content?

You mean currently? There is some yeah. Some public punishment first and a couple scenes during paperwork in headmaster office. There are also some interactions during lockers checks, etc and some Alice content in holidays specials. Alice is probably the 10th girl with most content, 12-13th if we count older women too, so it's something already, but not too much yet.

Alice was announced as some of the girls that would get some development in next updates, but only after few other girls so probably not soon.

 

[Gerogebob]

Does anyone know what the next update will be focused on?

 

[OldPringles]

Does anyone know what the next update will be focused on?

0.14 is going to be focused on the After School BDSM lessons and Maxine's fundraiser to protect naked mole rats. There is also going to be some miscellaneous content - a scene with Lucy in an empty classroom, what appears to be two different class punishments (where most of the girls in the class are punished), as well as small scenes around the school with Debbie and Miss Potts implementing their new training - and possibly the second group medical scene (please refer to the follow-up post for more details).

i know this game is probably not going anywhere at all but is there at least some alice content?

Alice is in the class that gets the class punishment, and she is not excluded from the spanking. Beyond that, her content is slated for 0.18. As per the Patreon poll from May 2021 when all of this was decided, we have to get through ...

0.15 Faye : A relatively straight-forward update. Faye is a scatter-brain, but the Headmaster is going to help her somehow through spanking, insertions and embarrassment. Nina has also demonstrated some sexual interest in her, which is going to be explored ... and corrupted.



0.16 The Twins : Not exactly a straight-forward update. Altos specifically mentions that because the Twins are punished together, animating their scenes is more complicated, at that this update will take longer that then others on the slate. However, it should be noted that when he said this he didn't have Gegecucu animating for him, and the scene with Miss Potts getting punished by the Twins was supposed to be in this update (as opposed to 0.14). So hopefully this won't be too difficult for him. As far as the story is concerned, Altos wants to explore the differences between the Twins.



0.17 Liz : Liz is an exhibitionist, so she is going to be naked a lot, especially during her spankings. There are plans to incorporate Ada's photography and the local school for boys into her story line, as well as using her a way to convince other girls to get naked as well.



0.18 Alice : Alice doesn't like learning, but apparently she is actually rather intelligent. The Headmaster is going to use sex toys to make learning more pleasurable for her, whether she likes it or not.



Beyond that, Altos has plans for implementing a full punishment system for Zoe who (presumably - or at least hopefully) is going to be at least introduced before 0.19. There were also things that he wanted to get done in 'Chapter 2' of the game, and I would imagine that Alice features in those as well.

 

[TheDevian]

0.17 Liz : Liz is an exhibitionist, so she is going to be naked a lot, especially during her spankings. There are plans to incorporate Ada's photography and the local school for boys into her story line, as well as using her a way to convince other girls to get naked as well.

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Finally, been waiting on this one for years!

 

[CuteLilNori]

...and the second group medical scene.

Huh, really!?? I don't think I've read the would be another medical scene from the last dev. update, or did Altos mention he'll include it somewhere that I missed?

 

[OldPringles]

Huh, really!?? I don't think I've read the would be another medical scene from the last dev. update, or did Altos mention he'll include it somewhere that I missed?

After going back to check, it seems that I might have jumped the gun on that one. The last time Altos specifically mentions the second group medical scene was back in the early days of development for 0.13, on the development update posted in February of 2022. Obviously, that scene didn't make it into 0.13, but as the original purpose 0.14 was to cover the content cut from 0.13, I guess I just assumed somewhere along the line that the medicals were going to be in 0.14 - and I just wound up mentioning it with all of the stuff that had been confirmed for 0.14.

However I cannot find any instances of him specifically confirming the medicals, so it might have fallen by the board again ... though in the development update posted in October 2022, he does tease that there are 'several other things' that he'd like to include in the update.

Of course, this was before we knew we were getting 'class punishments', the Twins getting back at Miss Potts, and that scene with Lucy (as evidenced by the preview images), so it is possible that with the last development update we already know the full extent of the update.

 

[andafer]

Spoiler: next updates

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So we can expect without too much unjustified optimism (as probably is expecting "much" faster development in the future):

Currently/In few days or weeks: Amy + Maxine mole rat campaign.

Late 2023-early 2024: Faye

Mid-late 2024: The Twins.

Late 2024-early 2025: Liz.

Mid-late 2025: Alice.
...
All other girls: Before TES VI, probably.

With that general perspective and theoric schedule, as many of the last weeks comments have been very pessimistic and despite some previous message I wrote was mostly negative, I'm still not totally pessimistic and I like the game a lot, I consider myself a fan and it's one of the adult games I enjoyed the most but among the ones that frustrated me the most also by what I consider wasted opportunities. I think I will never be totally satisfied by it considering what patreons and probably developers tastes and preferences seem to be, very different to mine, basically my "favourite" girls got the less satisfying scenes and stories imo, but that won't stop me following the game until the end and enjoying many other parts in it because despite the frustration with "my favourites" and few other character changes, The Headmaster is full of good content as no other game with similar focus (spanking, education/manipulation, "western" school setting). Anyway for all this I want to comment what exactly I'm optimistic and pessimistic in regard The Headmaster future development.

I'm mildy to totally optimistic for the following:

- I think is almost sure this game will continue its development for at less a couple years more and I personally think will be somehow finished (how rushed and how much potential content will be finally excluded is another story), even if development last several years more, I think we can be confident that the game will continue its development.

- Hopefully Cassandra, Debbie, Amy and Priti stories will be continued or finished during those updates or some more. I think is very plausible.

- The introduction of some eventual medical examination with headmaster participation seem possible too by the introduction of a second medical scene in current/imminent update + the image previews showing the nurse (probably not what I'm expecting though...).

- A bigger amount of sex in some of the girls stories is almost guaranteed, probably also an increase in quality but hopefully at least some of it could be also outside the punishment system, even if it is just in some other special.

- Increasing corruption and lewd non-directly sexual scenes, subtle innuendos, girl initiatives, headmaster consciously triggering spicy situations, nudity and half nudity, etc all seem very possible. Maybe some temporary "cheating" over the general rules? Breaking ingame rules and sharing secrets/plots with other characters are always good inclussions in adult games imo, but I'm not so sure if Althos likes that or if he is more strict with inworld rules.

- I think Priti story probably will develop a bit more/end in a satisfactory way to most players including myself. The only girl with curvaceous body (but good/insecure girl however) with a satisfactory enough story and good scenes in which headmaster seem personally very interested in the girl is Priti. She is fun and cute in a non very annoying way for those that despise "kawaii" overdose.

- I think Faye story/development will be probably good too. I liked her small first content and Althos seems pretty consistent with the character personality/interactions.

- I hope something more with Debbie besides her role as punisher buddie. Her change was the opposite of Cassandra, way too deep and complete, she was the meanest rebellious girl and now, after some Sally punishments became some sort of obedient fascistic cop, c'mon! Even if developer decide the full lesbian route for her (which wasn't my impression by reading her dialogues with the "watching porn" topic, the headmaster blowjob and reactions, the "confidence" scenes, etc), at least I hope some temporary return of the rebellious attitude or some autority abuse as prefect with at least one headmaster personal punishment as response. I think this last is more or less possible considering Debbie precedents.

- Some good content for Alice? This is the most mildly optimistic of all examples... Almost cope. After what they did with Cassandra entire story, The Twins first scenes and punishments and Alice and Harriet full nude introduction scenes I have low hopes for any development on confident/mean girls with curves combo. I'm not sure if the problem is just patreon restrictions as other user mentioned some days ago so the only problem is the "confident/rebellious" archetype which favours "forced" approaches to punishment which is taboo in patreon apparently (which could explain also the quick transformation of Debbie from chaotic mean gal to corrupt but obedient cop archetype... to diminish "forced" content by the main character to the minimum) but I still think fanbase maybe also in the case of Althos favour good girls and small bodies content over mean girls and curvaceous bodies. However looking to the Alice preview images with a more "personally invested" headmaster + the interactions in the special events and the fact that headmaster seemed somewhat more personally interested in Alice (or her tits at least) than in other big bodies girls from the rebel group and specially the comments by Althos about Alice having a lot of fans (I think it was precisely after that 2021 poll?), all make me still mildly optimist for her... I will need to play her part before believe good stories and satisfactory scenes for curvy + mean/confident girls is possible in this game.

- Also the presence of other staff members in preview images, certain quickness in sexual interactions with some of those older characters in previous updates + whatever is doing the nurse in The Twins 0.16 pre-preview image give me some hope for action with Kate, Izzy or other staff members in the future.

What I'm pessimistic about:

- There will be not "main" girl status with proper punishment system and deeper story for Harriet, Donna, Emily, April, Charlotte, Maxine and Nina probably until 2026 or more, some of them probably not before 2028 if they are included at all.

- Ada, Arabella, Jasmine and Olivia probably will never be included in a big story/ complete punishment arch which makes more dubious their inclussion in first place, with Ada exception maybe as it seems she could have some relevant role for "main story".

- I don't expect anything good enough in the rest of Cassandra story. She always was one of my favourite girls to spank/educate precisely by how despicable she was, superficial, selfish, cruel but intelligent and also by the frequent allusion by some characters about how the girl has a big/the biggest ass (even if it's not so noticeable visually ingame) as both circunstances are greatly favourable for a spanking focused game, she was just very spankable. The character model, body, face and expressions is in my top 5 for sure which is another plus. I wanted badly to spank the girl personally via headmaster since first appareances (something that he seems to want too according his early dialogue) and to deeply change the girl attitude in a way more personal and invested route. However as I mentioned in a previous comment what we had instead is headmaster offering Cass to the other girls for the first big nude punishment and later, even worse, starting her training to "manipulate others" so she can make her dream true: To be a professional gold digger... Punishment have been good so far, but the terrible blowjobs scenes are a bit off. Among my personal sexual disappointments in real life I can't count a "sad blowjob", I don't even knew those things could exist at all, every blowjob was a happy and nice event according my experience. I should thank Altos for so educative content...
I think it's possible that Altos will offer some plot twist at the end for Cassandra with a machiavelic headmaster manipulating the girl to accept a true education and really changing her attitude and life aspirations, but even in that plot twist scenario the rest of the experience will be not really enjoyable to me. She was just perfect for the classic punishment/education route not for headmaster helping her to become more powerful without changing the core of her problems in exchange for bad sex and apparently giving it up with her education. In videogames the path and the experience "during" is always more relevant than the result.

- The girl I'm personally the most frustrated with is Harriet and I hope even less good content from her than from Cass despite her story is supposedly much less advanced yet. Harriet was among the most atractive girls to me since start despite the very limited content at first, with some additional precocious "apparent" confidence and independence that makes the spanking/education route more interesting and a really nice body and face with an attractive gaze (despite the game general artstyle limits a lot characters personalization it was one of my favourite models, probably the absolute first), but the girl suffered the worst first nudity/introduction to punishment scenes in the game by far imo... Comparable to Cassandra gang-spank but much worse as Cass was a hateful person at that point which could justify headmaster disdain/contradiction with his own thoughts ("I want to punish you personally" thing) but in Harriet case there is nothing that justify headmaster attitude, just pure lack of interest in Harriet? After the few promising body searchs and the entire investigation... we have only that anticlimatic thing? If we add to the uninvested intro the fact developers won't probably touch much of Harriet story until 2026 or more... if they return to her at all, well there is not much to be hopeful here.

- The Twins. Again one of the my favourite girls to spank by personality and models (the biggest pranksters, confident, redheads, nice body) but once more I'm pessimistic about their evolution. I think Althos will probably do a better and more satisfactory (to me at least) job with Mary and Louise than with Cass or Harriet and they are also part of a much closer in time (probable) update. However I seriously doubt developers will add enough individuality as they insist in the non-solo mandatory double punishment (why always shared by both twins and mostly by two punishers?). I like them as twins but I would prefer a specific story, personality and punishment evolution (even if shorter) for each girl. Still I know I will enjoy their updates no matter how Altos decide to develop them, because their problem isn't as relevant as in Harriet and Cassandra cases.

 

[jkj54]

Thank you for all the information.

This is excellent news and a roadmap (hate that term) to know when everything will drop.

This all looks great i will check in over time now knowing when updates will drop.