Ren'Py The Headmaster [v0.16.4] [Altos and Herdone]

[Demoness_Kiss]

This is a spanking simulator at its core. The amount of girls this type of game has is irrelevant.
The story is buried behind endless and mindless grinding blah. There is a lot of grind, because there is a serious lack of content, because its a spanking simulator. Which brings into question the number of school girls. You could have hundreds of school girls, if their only sole purpose and inclusion is to spanked. The only thing the Dev would have to do is create the renders for the different school girls which is carbon copy of previous school girls, except of course a different model. Each update all he has to do is render new girls, and he can spread those updates over a relatively large period of time. There is nothing ambitious about this process. I take from your comment, when you refer to ambitious, your talking about the number of girls, which could be any number if he wanted to drag it on. Your answer already lies in the amount of girls in this game meaning it is kind of self evident there will never be content for them, because there is no need it.

I have no idea if you have played Harem Kingdoms or not but that is a really good ambitious game. The animations are smooth, and lots of them, the renders looks fantastic and the girls are far cuter than they are here since they are not honey models. What I am saying is, while Harem Kingdoms is predominantly a sandbox type game, it features an amazing story line, where the main character has to interact with various people and get his stats up with them, the story is executed and flows beautifully unlike a regular sandbox which simply doesn't. non of the characters are dis likable in any way.

There are elements in that game, that have NOT been done before and you know what? They actually work perfectly. This is what I call ambitious. There is likely to be a lot more girls included and there are side women who cant be impregnated by the MC, but he can still have fun with them using his powers. Side girls are added in an incredibly efficient and meaningful way through story plots involving different women. It is absolutely refreshing. However this game, has nothing, i mean content wise. It plays like, how many times can you bang your head against the corner of a wall before you knock yourself out or worse

There is a story in Headmaster, but because its so obscured by bad design, it is largely redundant (and if you have to go through so much endless grind punishing the school girls to get back to the main story, then it had already massively failed). I have tried to play this game until I realized nothing changes at all, from update to update, a few fixes here and there and such, but its just a glorified spanking simulator, which is perfectly fine if that is the kind of thing you enjoy and everyon else enjoys, I am not knocking anyone for their kinks each to their own no problem at all.

This text-wall...just to oversell a game like Harem Kingdom...a short game, that it's good yes...but nothing like you described it. That it starts bittersweet(this man, sent 4000 years in the future, lost his wife) only to end so disney-like(Wife is brought to the present and everyone is happy without any consequences, gg easy life for everyone even those we thought were dead since the prologue) and i felt...cheated, like the ending is cheap and rushed. While the game is good, again it's far from several other games, including this one(is this one better? No, just different). Harem Kingdom is the classic "harem that live with you" kind of game, i can name five games of this kind, from the top of my head that are better and has more content than Harem Kingdom(House in the rift, Oppai Odyssey, Serenity, My Real Desire, Milfy Day). Meanwhile The Headmaster, follows a different road, the road of a MC who is mentally unstable and applied BDSM to psychology and education, of course a guy like this, will deal with different challenges compared to the MC of Harem Kingdom...it's like you're comparing a fish and a monkey(we both know who is the better swimmer and the better climber). May the dev be lazy? possibly! Is the game a never-ending grindy sandbox? Yes. Can be boring? Depends on who plays the VN(personally yes, but i still like it enough to play it)

You're wasting time comparing a romantic game like Harem Kingdom, to a kinky game like this one. Games different in size, type of content and quantity of content. Better stop here because this comparison is pointless.

 

[Sasugachan]

How dare the dev to have so many characters in a game about spanking different characters, the audacity.

 

[Sennistrasz]

There are so many girls, that i genuinely believe that the Dev is going through hell, i mean imagine making so many girls and then...making contents for every single one. That's why most of the devs(and story-writers in general) just keep a small amount of characters.

Recently i was re-reading One Piece, and Rufy's crew is relatively small, i mean 9-11 main characters + a few guests, and then we have the bad guys of each saga, but in each saga there is more focus on some particular characters while the others are important but not the main characters XD.

VN-wise, look at most of the VNs, we have a small harem of ladies(examples...any VN in my signature) why? because a small group is easier to handle and manage.

So this game is quite ambitious in my opinion because there is a full class of girls plus teachers, it's like 10-15 ladies, right from the start...that's badass because the must do sooo much stuff.

That is one of the problems with this game, that the dev has decided to have something for everyone, ending up with an increasing number of "to be continued" content instead of something finishing completely. At every corner there is a note "this will be continued in a later update", but it never comes, because another area is also in need of progress, and some new character/story is needed because every character needs something. Even for locations, before one has substantial content, another area is opened because there are not enough places to go. The main story started Act 2, but doesn't seem like it will continue for a while, because there are either parts that still need to be finished, or new stories to be added because a character is left out for too long.

Then, there is a further dilemma: the punishment is getting repetitive if everyone has the same thing, but on the other hand it means that the later characters, when in pretty much the main bit of the game (office punishment) gets a watered down version of the punishment.

In the battle of breadth vs depth, it seems that breadth is always winning.

 

[Nobby]

In the battle of breadth vs depth, it seems that breadth is always winning.

I disagree. The issue is one of perception. You are just more likely to have played games with a wider breadth of appeal, because they are far more likely to have something that appeals to you. There are just as many, if not more, niche games with tons of depth but a very narrow scope out there. It's just that 95% of them hold absolutely no interest to you or I.

 

[sadfuck]

Random question, but is there any point in waiting for the public release vs the Beta?

 

[jyd77]

Not really needed if you got an older Mac version. First, download the pc version, then open the contents of the Mac app (right click, show package contents). Navigate to /Contents/Resourses/autorun and replace (overwrite) the game folder there with the one from the pc package.

Not really needed if you got an older Mac version. First, download the pc version, then open the contents of the Mac app (right click, show package contents). Navigate to /Contents/Resourses/autorun and replace (overwrite) the game folder there with the one from the pc package.

Thats a cool trick does it work with all games not updated for mac?

 

[Shawnchapp]

I'm not getting any seeds or peers

What torrent program you using? it won't support all use QBittorrent (Not BitTorrent)

 

[Sennistrasz]

I disagree. The issue is one of perception. You are just more likely to have played games with a wider breadth of appeal, because they are far more likely to have something that appeals to you. There are just as many, if not more, niche games with tons of depth but a very narrow scope out there. It's just that 95% of them hold absolutely no interest to you or I.

I wasn't talking about genres and niches. I'm talking about the game focusing too much on breadth (a little bit of content for every character to not leave anyone out, and having many locations to go) and too little on depth (having a full, completed character journey or finished area). For example, the gym is barely fleshed out, and a pool is opened; pool content is just getting started, then it's off to the cafeteria. A girl's punishment path hasn't completed, and a new girl's is started. The end product is a laundry list of "to be continued".

 

[michi04]

hello, is there a revised walkthrough for the new version?

 

[SardinianBoy]

Android update?

 

[lucifer092]

can there be any other link for download or any compressed version of the game?

 

[Shawnchapp]

I wasn't talking about genres and niches. I'm talking about the game focusing too much on breadth (a little bit of content for every character to not leave anyone out, and having many locations to go) and too little on depth (having a full, completed character journey or finished area). For example, the gym is barely fleshed out, and a pool is opened; pool content is just getting started, then it's off to the cafeteria. A girl's punishment path hasn't completed, and a new girl's is started. The end product is a laundry list of "to be continued".

Thats becuase its a story driven game those character paths can't be completely until the other girls are caught up... they are all tied to the story the story can't progress unlless the girls are ready for example making one of them be the tour guyide for the school thats a story point ergo they girl needs her content fleshed out to the point before that story event can happen, and the others need the development for the roles in that event aswell, just like the end of chapter 1/start out chapter 2 the twins need there paths done all the way to the public punishment event. the "to be continued" isn't meant as a "we didn't want to do more content for that character becuase the others" mor as "her content is done until the main story progresses"

So its not about "not to leave anyone out" its cause the story doesn't permit for people to be "graduating" in the middle of the "school year"

 

[majorcraziee]

thank u for the new release

 

[pothb]

Wow, just wow. The Priti Content was damn good. She might've made it up there to tie with Lucy for me. But then... I forgot about the girl's changing room, and did it at the end? Whew, Lucy, you little minx.

But yea, Priti Content was amazing. Great GREAT update.

 

[Ooh]

Wow, just wow. The Priti Content was damn good. She might've made it up there to tie with Lucy for me. But then... I forgot about the girl's changing room, and did it at the end? Whew, Lucy, you little minx.

But yea, Priti Content was amazing. Great GREAT update.

After putting this game on the shelf for months, I can finally be bothered to play it again for this reason alone. Writing etc is awesome and its a good game but Im such a sandbox snob nowadays so any time I have to "trigger events" now, there has to at least be some vaginal penetration.

 

[Ooh]

That is one of the problems with this game, that the dev has decided to have something for everyone, ending up with an increasing number of "to be continued" content instead of something finishing completely. At every corner there is a note "this will be continued in a later update", but it never comes, because another area is also in need of progress, and some new character/story is needed because every character needs something. Even for locations, before one has substantial content, another area is opened because there are not enough places to go. The main story started Act 2, but doesn't seem like it will continue for a while, because there are either parts that still need to be finished, or new stories to be added because a character is left out for too long.

Then, there is a further dilemma: the punishment is getting repetitive if everyone has the same thing, but on the other hand it means that the later characters, when in pretty much the main bit of the game (office punishment) gets a watered down version of the punishment.

In the battle of breadth vs depth, it seems that breadth is always winning.

As mentioned in a previous post. Sandbox grind in general now kills my fap. Im not into the spanking or the BDSM (Too much of it), I initially started playing a while ago because of how ambitious it was for its time with its exhibitionism. Any game where you get to bang chicks in public, I'll give a shot. I guess what made me shelf this was all the ridiculous grind while other games came out with way more sexual content and no grind. Many of the games I played back in the day before Priti was available have been completed. Now thats just sad. For example, I think Max's Life was on Chapter 2 for example. Its on Chapter 4 now and has tons more content, kink, and a built in walk-through with relatively ease of use for sandbox. The game completely got rid of repetitive events to grind stats and the only grind that exists is basically fetch quests for the most part. But theres a gallery, some of the best fluid animations on the site, and TONS of sex content. Chapter 4 has even copied the public sex in an all girl classroom setting.

Only back here for the Priti content or any sniff of some vaginal penetration and then Im gone until completion

 

[Alex_L]

The Priti Content was damn good.

Yeah.. it Is so far, but i cant trigger 2nd test for Priti. Quest Log says that i must to finish Harriet before, but i cant catch Harriet for body search. QL says that she wanders around Sports Center at Mondays and Fridays, but again she is not in there, not in the class building, and do not triggers on patrols... How and where can i catch her?

 

[Otherguy2012]

Yeah.. it Is so far, but i cant trigger 2nd test for Priti. Quest Log says that i must to finish Harriet before, but i cant catch Harriet for body search. QL says that she wanders around Sports Center at Mondays and Fridays, but again she is not in there, not in the class building, and do not triggers on patrols... How and where can i catch her?

In the morning in the gym do a body search.

 

[BoOoB.K]

mac version please?

 

[Nicoed]

I wasn't talking about genres and niches. I'm talking about the game focusing too much on breadth (a little bit of content for every character to not leave anyone out, and having many locations to go) and too little on depth (having a full, completed character journey or finished area). For example, the gym is barely fleshed out, and a pool is opened; pool content is just getting started, then it's off to the cafeteria. A girl's punishment path hasn't completed, and a new girl's is started. The end product is a laundry list of "to be continued".

i disagree. Most games here are in fact virtual novels. It seems it is difficult to create erotic games. I mean with some actual gameplay. Sandbox is a kind of gameplay possible for erotic games. But it's often not very good, too grindy. Altos managed to make a very good sandbox-like game. Let it remain like that. For those who prefer virtual novels, there are tons of them on this site.