VN Ren'Py Completed The Higher Society [Part 1 - v0.25] [xxerikxx]

[GerdiB]

I'm glad to hear you found a solution and the game continues. Even more so that you not plan to remake part 1 but concentrate on part 2.
THS Illustrated is one of my favorite AVNs so far.

Don't know if your previous artist can provide the character models so the new artist must not create them from scratch, but I hope he can make them as similar as possible while still keeping his own style and bring them to the next level.


Regarding porting data from part 1 to part 2:

A questionnaire is good and valid and probably even necessary to make sure part 2 works standalone.
But it would be nice if the choices from part 1 are shown during the questionnaire for players of part 1.
With Ren'Py's multi persistent save data feature it's possible to port data from one game to another:

You must be registered to see the links

A small update to THS Part 1 would be necessary to create the multi part save at the end of the game.
At the start of THS part 2 the game checks if a multi persistent file is present and loads the choices.

Example:
When asking "Is Mila pregnant? -> YES/NO" and the necessary data from part 1 exists you can show it to the player to help him with his choice:
"Mila is pregnant in your current playtrough. Keep it that way? -> YES/NO"

Players can explore missed paths from part 1 if they want or keep their previous choices. Or start fresh if no data was found.

 

[xxerikxx]

I'm glad to hear you found a solution and the game continues. Even more so that you not plan to remake part 1 but concentrate on part 2.
THS Illustrated is one of my favorite AVNs so far.

Don't know if your previous artist can provide the character models so the new artist must not create them from scratch, but I hope he can make them as similar as possible while still keeping his own style and bring them to the next level.


Regarding porting data from part 1 to part 2:

A questionnaire is good and valid and probably even necessary to make sure part 2 works standalone.
But it would be nice if the choices from part 1 are shown during the questionnaire for players of part 1.
With Ren'Py's multi persistent save data feature it's possible to port data from one game to another:

You must be registered to see the links

A small update to THS Part 1 would be necessary to create the multi part save at the end of the game.
At the start of THS part 2 the game checks if a multi persistent file is present and loads the choices.

Example:
When asking "Is Mila pregnant? -> YES/NO" and the necessary data from part 1 exists you can show it to the player to help him with his choice:
"Mila is pregnant in your current playtrough. Keep it that way? -> YES/NO"

Players can explore missed paths from part 1 if they want or keep their previous choices. Or start fresh if no data was found.

We can't make any more updates to Part 1, but I think this will be a smaller problem than you think. It will just be a few question that will guide you on the right path based on what you remember happened in part 1.

 

[GerdiB]

We can't make any more updates to Part 1, but I think this will be a smaller problem than you think. It will just be a few question that will guide you on the right path based on what you remember happened in part 1.

Yeah, I know that there are not that many important decisions and there are no stat points for each character, so no big deal.
But why can't you make a new update to part 1?

 

[xxerikxx]

Yeah, I know that there are not that many important decisions and there are no stat points for each character, so no big deal.
But why can't you make a new update to part 1?

If we could continue on part 1 then there would be no need to create a part 2. We don't have the files and assets continue the game. That's why we now make a part 2 with a new artist and new assets.

 

[GerdiB]

I'm not talking about a content update but a small patch that implements the save game port. If you don't have access to the code you need to decompile the game and implement it like modders would do.
And for part 2, make sure you always have access to the code (and art assets) to not have the same problems in the future again.

 

[Envoye]

No, we won't do that. I think you will remember big things like: Did Jenny come with you to Provo? Have you had sex with Mila? Is Mila pregnant? Do you have a sexual relationship with Sophia? Have you dated Olivia? Have you dated Amber Diamond? Questions that you don't remember is probably not that important, so you can look at is as a new opportunity to take a decision.

Is there a possibility of a scene between Mila and her Trainer? May be for NTR-haters avoidable ;-)

 

[hitman2511]

Is there a possibility of a scene between Mila and her Trainer? May be for NTR-haters avoidable ;-)

There is no scene the only wat you get in the future is a mmf with mc.