VN Ren'Py The Interim Domain [v0.30.0] [ILSProductions]

[Tiur]

Yeah, people DO NOT COMPLAIN because it's not the same game as "Now & Then," sure. Funny though that despite your claim, you yourself compare it to Now & Then, thereby showing that yes, people do indeed complain because the game is not the same as Now & Then.

Yes. Because some of the things that this game does terribly, Now & Then did well. Comparing to another game is not the same as wanting the games to be identical, which is how the game's defenders keep mischaracterizing the complaints.

Since most of your disagreements are wildly subjective and amount to little more than that you liked the things I (and others) disliked, I'll just respond to the most egregious thing you said.

You complain about how little the stories are interlinked, but that is down to the setting.

Settings do not exist in a vacuum. This is not an already-established setting that the developer is adding a story into, to which the developer is not allowed to make changes.

The developer chose this story and created this setting. The developer chose for the stories to be disconnected from each other from the beginning, which is why I said it was "by design", and yes, I do find that to be a major flaw (and I find it to be a significant and fundamental flaw of most anthology-style games).

If you can remove 90% of the game's story (say, all the girls' stories) and the core of the remaining story continues to be narratively sound and unchanged? That 90% did not have a meaningful impact on the game. The only narrative purpose the girls' stories have on the core story is in gathering their Qi at the end to get the better endings. I consider that bad writing.

 

[PaxHadrian17]

I think we all have different takes on parts of TID based on who we identify with and our own life experiences.

I have female friends who gave up teaching for various reasons (one was assaulted in school and injured - she was reprimanded for trying to stop a fight instead of waiting for several male teachers to arrive to help. The female 16 year old that ambushed her got a 'stern' warning...).

I very much identify with Saaya and her story arc due to this.

botc76 talked about TID as an anthology and I think this is a good description, with different 'sets of baggage' holding each of the LIs back, with only minor bridges linking some LI stories to other LI stories.

I just finished the Kaitlyn and Anya story arcs, sending them on, and it was hard to send them on... for me - this was emotional even though I knew it was coming.

The small vignette once they were sent on was nice - a few pictures of Kaitlyn with some commentary on her journey, then the same for Anya.

I thought this was nicely done, a short epilogue for their journeys.

If their stories do not resonate with others, then I would not expect them to carry the emotional weight that they did for me.

I think TID is a very different experience depending on whether you played all 7 encounters each month or if you started it late and played different LI content at your chosen pace and in whatever order you preferred.

I missed a Mira/Allison event, so I went back about 100 days and redid TID from that event forward, only recently catching up to about v 0.26/27.

My experience was different, and better, than it was when I did the monthly playthrough.

I am especially enjoying the Mira/Apollyon relationships, where two eternal beings have chosen to invest in the MC and are enjoying their time with him.

I enjoyed N&T, I am enjoying TID and I am looking forward to the prologue and chapter 1 of Toxicity when it releases in mid-December.

I'm glad that they are different styles of AVNs and, if this helps keep the dev engaged and improves his creativity - even better!

Cheers!!

 

[DevinHesi]

Here is the latest Dev Log and October's release will bring us Many endings.

The Interim Domain 0.30.0 update #1
New
10 hours ago
ENDINGS ENDINGS ENDINGS!
And the last of Natalie's storyline. That's what we're working on for 0.30.0. Who all gets endings scenes?

• Natalie
• Robin
• Kara
• Sammy
• Apollyon
• Mira

And let me tell you that putting together the ending sequences has been a hell of a lot of work. I guess we shouldn't be surprised considering the endings for Now & Then required us to start working on them six months before we released that build. This is feeling like as much (if not more) work.
Based on some feedback, we did add Allison's path to the Story Replay mode, so if you failed to complete (or see both Mira's and Allison's sides of the story), you'll be able to do it now.
I will say one of the things I did enjoy doing the endings was creating the parents Michael meets when being introduced to the family. Yeah, some of them you don't spend a lot of time with, but others, like Marisa's mother, Helen, were fun to put together an older version who could feasibly be their parent.
Thanks for your interest and patronage,
-Kinderfeld

Cheers!!

 

[PaxHadrian17]

I'm playing my 4th ending now - Mina.

When the MC goes to look to see what happened to the other LI's, I always see Kaitlin in college and, the way she looks at the MC, it is like she Knows that he is special, but I am on a different path.

It's funny to me how Kaitlin resonates with me now (she did not early in TID), especially given the changes (so the MC is her age, and she is very healthy - never having been in that car accident).

I like the new world start where the MC begins in high school and he gets to decide who he wants/needs to be to find the love of his life, as chosen at the end when the Cycle resets everything.

This makes sense to me - both from a - time to develop into 'who you need to be' as well as providing some common background for each epilogue LI path (and being able to maintain one update/month which the dev has maintained like clockwork ).

There is a greedy part of me that wants to have a harem of like 8 - 10 of the women but I know that a harem is not part of this story ending (although I am still holding out hope for a Mira/Polly throuple ending with the November release).

I've played, and enjoyed, the endings for:

Kaitlin
Tina
Anita
Mina (WIP)

I have to say that all the women are better looking in the reborn world.

It is like the Interim Domain washed them out and they were less before being reborn.

The endings give the 'goodbyes' context and, for me, piece of mind - the MC did the hard work and now he gets the rewards.

No rewards would have absolutely sucked.

Now, I am heading back to Mina and the other women whose endings are ready to be enjoyed.

Cheers!!

 

[DevinHesi]

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Okay, we're deep in the middle of putting 0.30.0 together. Maybe with a little bit of a slowdown due to a workplace injury that had a 1k lb machine fall on my right hand. Nothing broken. A lot of bruising. So, maybe not everything gets done at warp speed, but with so much content already built, we should still be on schedule.

What's left after 0.30.0? We have a few special endings left to do. By the time this update comes out, all the main girls will be covered. All the side girls will be covered. Hell, even Mira and Apollyon will be covered. So, you'll be getting endings that might take some work to unlock. Or none at all (there is a No One ending in development). And maybe a few combo scenes left to pack in.

On other topics: Game #3 TOXICity, will have its first release by the end of the year. The 0.01.0 will contain the prologue and chapter 1.

Thanks for your interest and patronage,
-Kinderfeld

 

[Hengat]

Hell, even Mira and Apollyon will be covered

Hell yeah! That's all I needed to know

 

[Skep-tiker]

I think its reasonable that the women look better in the new world then in the interim. Less stress, more jiy of life, partly better health... seems reasonable. Still waiting for Selinas ending....

 

[JustMeDoingStuff]

So, my Robin storyline just utterly disappeared after #13. I have her at 27 like and 2 love, and then POOF she vanished from the list...

I updated to 0.29, and still no return...

Am I going to have to just completely start over? @_@

 

[IndigoHawk]

So, my Robin storyline just utterly disappeared after #13. I have her at 27 like and 2 love, and then POOF she vanished from the list...

I updated to 0.29, and still no return...

Am I going to have to just completely start over? @_@

Looking at the code, Robin can be unavailable at 13 and 14 if Mira is away. So you might need to play a bit more of the main story until Mira returns, and then Robin will be back in the list.

You can also lose Robin if you've had the bad end for her (she turns into a remnant), but I feel like that would have been obvious if you got it.

 

[JustMeDoingStuff]

Looking at the code, Robin can be unavailable at 13 and 14 if Mira is away. So you might need to play a bit more of the main story until Mira returns, and then Robin will be back in the list.

You can also lose Robin if you've had the bad end for her (she turns into a remnant), but I feel like that would have been obvious if you got it.

Ahhh okay... yeah, I *JUST* got Mira/Allison back from being captured by Ifuma, so that's likely the issue then... will play a few more days to see if that fixes it. Thanks for the tip!
Worst case scenario, I can restart once the next update hits. So no big loss... GREAT game, well worth the replay anyway! ^_^

 

[Xan#nr#le]

There is a bug which forces a H scene with Anya in solo Kaitlin path in "story_kaitlin.rpy"

ORGINAL CODE:
if anya_lover == "yes":
scene blank with Dissolve(1)
scene c016_s005_030 with Dissolve(1)
"You know, Anya did mention that I kinda went dark on her since our round in the kitchen. We do have a few hours alone. I could sneak back in and see if she'd be up for a second round."
"Or, I could just give her space and not mess with her head. There's still a lot there for her to sort out. Would I be making things worse for her?"
menu:
"Head on home.":
"Yeah, let's not muddy the water as it is. We'll go out for lunch later and slowly work on getting Anya back into the swing of things."
jump kaitlin_story16_afternoon
"Head back in. [gr][mt](Anya's scene)":
jump kaitlin_story16_anya
label kaitlin_story16_anya:

SHOULD BE LIKE THIS (WORKS OK NOW):
if anya_lover == "no":
scene blank with Dissolve(1)
scene c016_s005_030 with Dissolve(1)
"I could just give her space and not mess with her head. There's still a lot there for her to sort out. Would I be making things worse for her?"
menu:
"Head on home.":
"Yeah, let's not muddy the water as it is. We'll go out for lunch later and slowly work on getting Anya back into the swing of things."
jump kaitlin_story16_afternoon

elif anya_lover == "yes":
scene blank with Dissolve(1)
scene c016_s005_030 with Dissolve(1)
"You know, Anya did mention that I kinda went dark on her since our round in the kitchen. We do have a few hours alone. I could sneak back in and see if she'd be up for a second

round."
"Or, I could just give her space and not mess with her head. There's still a lot there for her to sort out. Would I be making things worse for her?"
menu:
"Head on home.":
"Yeah, let's not muddy the water as it is. We'll go out for lunch later and slowly work on getting Anya back into the swing of things."
jump kaitlin_story16_afternoon
"Head back in. (Anya's scene)":
jump kaitlin_story16_anya
label kaitlin_story16_anya:

 

[GrammerCop]

I am really enjoying the Interim Domain, although I do wonder if I am getting through every character's story.

The Qi adjustment seems to be an excellent correction, as I wouldn't say I like it when games are that tight on requirements.

One feature seems to be missing: it would be helpful if the Characters page displayed whether or not the player has helped the character move on. You know, something that says 'Completed' or something like that for the character.

Maybe someone could pass this on to the developer.

 

[DevinHesi]

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Here we are with the next-to-last update (well, not exactly, but talk of the final build is for a later date). For those waiting for specific endings, this one's got a ton of them. I know some of your favorite girls (based on social media comments) of Apollyon, Natalie, and Mira are here with some fun moments as they rediscover their relationships with Michael.

On the injury front, the swelling's mostly gone and I have full use of three out of five fingers on my right hand now. The swelling in the knuckles (or maybe even minor fractures) have my middle and ring fingers locked straight. So, I can type, but a lot slower. Luckily, the bulk of 0.03.0 was in the bag before this happened.

Here's the release schedule for 0.30.0 (all scheduled for 11:59 am EDT release):

Tier 3 - October 16, 2024
Tier 2 - October 18, 2024
Tier 1 - October 20, 2024
Public - October 21, 2024

Change Log 0.30.0

• New story for Robin (END), Kara (END), Apollyon (END), Mira (END), Sammy (END), Natalie (10, END)
• Typos and grammatical issues
• Fix issue where difficulty choice doesn't work from main menu

Thanks for your interest and support,

-Kinderfeld

 

[Antherak]

Guess my Selene ending will be last eh? I hope he makes it that she remember too, that'd be cool. Also sad reading from the log that Mira and Poly wont remember the before and when its done the moment also. Cant wait to see how they gonna be integrated since they were never part of the world, or had families for example. I was also surprised Nathalie was popular, shes pretty much bottom tier for me.

 

[PaxHadrian17]

I'm hoping for more than just a Selene ending!

I'm hoping for some throuple endings like:

Selene and Natalie
Mira and Apollyon
Tina and Kaitlyn

I don't know which, if any, will land in the final update but there is nothing wrong with hoping for a little of that Archon magic to make the throuple work in the 'new' world.

I also hope that Selene remembers.

That would make their relationship even more special.

We have about 30 days to wait but between now and then, a number of endings to enjoy!

Cheers!!

 

[Skep-tiker]

Yeah the selene ending is my top tier. Also a second chance with allison.

Yet,i ask myself, why, if the last archon was able to "buy" himself immortality, asking for all the women would be to much.

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Okay - while I got to enjoy my 'new' life with many of the LI's that I had saved in the Interim Domain, I wanted an 'Arwen' ending - spending time with an eternal LI who wants the same.

While I have every reason to believe that my ending with Apollyon will be Great (have not played this one yet) - The Mira ending is AWESOME!!

Spoiler: She Knows And She Remembers

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I have not finished playing this ending yet, but it is already one of my favorites!

Cheers!!

 

[DevinHesi]

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We're dropping October 2024's Public Wallpapers early so you can properly celebrate the Spooky Season for the next 10+ days. In our wallpapers, some of your favorite girls have met two monstrous killers in Jason (Friday the 13th) and Pyramid Head (Silent Hill). Thanks to

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October 2024 Public #1



October 2024 Public #2

Hope you enjoy!

-Kinderfeld

 

[Green Isosceles]

Sorry if this got addressed and I missed it: has it been stated if there will be an ending for Selene? Feels like there should be something more there. Out of all the characters I would have never expected to like her the most.

 

[DevinHesi]

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