Ren'Py The House of Secrets [alpha v0.0.2] [VirtualDateGaming]

robrize2169

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so is there anything in here beyond the mc sitting around on the computer and making money? so far, nothing else it seems. boring.
 
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loikl

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It doesn't look bad, but I'm afraid: "We make important decisions together! You'll have the opportunity to vote on the appearance of new character models and bring your own ideas to the table when we discuss future features and quests.", added to this, the fact that the Dev doesn't know what is NTR is going to work against this project. I'd better save myself some grief in the future; I'm out.

And before anyone responds (if they do), yes, yes, surely ALL content will be "avoidable." Wink, wink.
 
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Avaron1974

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The overview tried to make the MC sound almost sympathetic, like he was in a bad relationship because of an unreasonable wife.

Thing is, I agree with her 100%.

He's draining their resources while doing nothing to help. Anyone would be pissed off constantly coming home from work to a messy house and their partner not bothering to do anything about it.
 

fernandopoo

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I only played it briefly. The first scene immediately brings back massive memories of LoP's Living with Temptation.
If this is as grindy, I'll stick with the original.
One of my all-time favourites. Just recently I played it again. So relaxing, stories with women of normal (not humongous) boobs, no netorare (I will never understood who can enjoy being humillated as I cannot grasp the pleasure of being kick on the balls), no pace of "good morning... and now btw I am going to suck your cock" but a slow brewed story with time to be tempted, slow advances -sweet fallings (and yes, also the reward at the end because a fantasy MUST have a happy end). The character of the woman in LwT I have always tought is the worst part of the story: bitter and then horny but dominant. Again here we find the I am the center of the Universe and I am not happy and you are just an annoyence.
 

VirtualDateGaming

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Hello, first of all, thank you very much for the many questions and comments.
As I already mentioned, I would like the community to have a say, but again, I won't just add it just because someone wants this or that. It has to make sense and fit the story.

There will definitely be no incest or girls who look 12, no trans, or futa; there are enough other games on this site for that. It will also definitely not be a click and fuck game. I would like to develop some kind of story; how things develop and where is still up for discussion.

I would like to try to give a rough concept here for the ladies and gentlemen who asked whether the relationship with Jenny can really be repaired. Yes, I mean, the first two quests do show that Jenny is slowly being appeased. At some point later in the game, each character reaches a point where they decide how things continue. Do I want more from Sahra? Do I just want to support her as a friend? What about Jenny, Anna, etc. It's up to the player what they do. But it's just like that, the more content you want to see, the more you will not be able to avoid some things.

I would also like to briefly address the post about the four fingers. Unfortunately, the AI isn't perfect yet, especially when it comes to fingers, feet, and eyes. The same prompt twice results in two different images. Now, creating images costs money. (All images were developed and edited by me). To create a halfway decent image, you sometimes have to adjust it with five images. And even then, it can happen that the woman has feet that have hair . The good thing is, it's slowly getting better with every update to the AI.

Please understand that I try to read every message, but don't have the option to respond to every one. I'll really try to concentrate on Discord, answering everything there, and discussing things with you. Discord is free to all of you.
 
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Mercedes

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What bothers me here is that despite a positive mood, the woman still matters you and treats dirt. Be it in bed in the evening or in the bathroom in the morning. Well admitted, if I were the man, I would not voluntarily enter the bathroom if the woman were in it. Thick asses may be the fetish of some, but it is just ugly.
Actually, I am surprised that MC does not puncture on the sofa right away or that a field bed stands in the office.
 
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ffive

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I would also like to briefly address the post about the four fingers. Unfortunately, the AI isn't perfect yet, especially when it comes to fingers, feet, and eyes. The same prompt twice results in two different images. Now, creating images costs money. (All images were developed and edited by me). To create a halfway decent image, you sometimes have to adjust it with five images. And even then, it can happen that the woman has feet that have hair . The good thing is, it's slowly getting better with every update to the AI.
If you're using your own offline generator for the images (and realistically, for development of something as large as a game, you should) you have many ways to control the final appearance: starting from negative prompts ("bad anatomy", "bad hands" etc.) to reduce bad results, reusing the same seed to re-generate more or less the same image, and most crucially, using things like detailer plugins for parts like faces, hands and such. If you combine that with inpainting in faulty areas to override bad bits this should let you avoid that sort of obvious errors.
 
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blademaster89

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The overview tried to make the MC sound almost sympathetic, like he was in a bad relationship because of an unreasonable wife.

Thing is, I agree with her 100%.

He's draining their resources while doing nothing to help. Anyone would be pissed off constantly coming home from work to a messy house and their partner not bothering to do anything about it.
But if I were to do that to my wife, as the in-game wife does to her in-game husband, I would be labelled a chauvinist, patriarchal, domineering, egoistic pig....

Especially if I have a house and income that can accommodate a pool and a live-in maid.
 

NewTricks

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The overview tried to make the MC sound almost sympathetic, like he was in a bad relationship because of an unreasonable wife.

Thing is, I agree with her 100%.

He's draining their resources while doing nothing to help. Anyone would be pissed off constantly coming home from work to a messy house and their partner not bothering to do anything about it.
This reminds me of the protagonist at the beginning of the HTML game "To the Fullest" (woefully abandoned), and when the wife started cheating on the poor slob because he was spending all of his time slobbering all over the babysitter, the comments section was on her side :LOL:
 
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bcool

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" There will definitely be no incest or girls who look 12, no trans, or futa; there are enough other games on this site for that. "
Ok Dev noted, but what about lesbian or threesome ? After all there are two LI in competition, and these could be one of the happy ends of the game :)
 
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ffive

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But if I were to do that to my wife, as the in-game wife does to her in-game husband, I would be labelled a chauvinist, patriarchal, domineering, egoistic pig....
The men who get labelled chauvinist, patriarchal, domineering and egotistic pigs are ones who cheat on their wives and belittle them as inferior human beings even if those wives do put effort into taking care of the house, the marriage and performing all kinds of tasks, instead of just sitting around on their ass all day.

So as long as your wife does contribute to your household, you treating her in manner MC's wife treats his lazy ass would indeed deserve all those labels. If your wife does act the way MC does, then your treatment might be warranted, but without knowing the details people would likely presume that yeah, you're one of those dudes who do it because they're assholes.