VN Ren'Py The Mansion of Whispering Desires [Development Thread]

[Discrepancy]

I'd go with a screen that represents the main focus of the game. If it's a game where everyone or mostly everyone ends up dead/maimed/insane to cosmic horror, go with the new screen. If it's mainly about the MC and having sexy times with the ladies, I'd prefer a screen that focuses on that.

I agree, or go with a dynamic screen, like start with a sexy screen and change it to a scary screen after a scary scene happens in the game

 

[Omniel]

I'd go with a screen that represents the main focus of the game. If it's a game where everyone or mostly everyone ends up dead/maimed/insane to cosmic horror, go with the new screen. If it's mainly about the MC and having sexy times with the ladies, I'd prefer a screen that focuses on that.

I agree with this aswell...

mibc9394 Outright showing that screen might throw and turnoff alot of people but maybe as they get into it and get to know the characters, stories and whole game maybe you can show this screen later on.

But I think more important thing here would be to give fair warning to users that what they are getting into as they start the game and what might they encounter because not everyone can digest this/these things and might give negative reviews such as saying they didn't signup for this or similar to this.

And ofcourse you can decide how to go with this, but in my opinion if its like 90-80% focus is MC fucking pretty ladies and 10-20% of the other things then I would say don't show this start screen at all just show warnings that some content will be in the game like that. But if the percentage of that type of content is more than that maybe you can try with that screen, but you will have to take a risk and see how the response is.

 

[mibc9394]

I think I will change the title screen. Thanks for all your feedback.

And just to be clear, horror is the spice of the game only. It's still mainly about fucking beautiful girls. I don't want to scare people away

 

[memeLordo]

What do you guys think if I make the title menu of the game to be like this? Gore warning

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Maybe a bit of afterpolish or an artistic tune on top of the current image. To smoothe the rough blend edges. The clear use of AI might scare potential players off.

 

[mibc9394]

Maybe a bit of afterpolish or an artistic tune on top of the current image. To smoothe the rough blend edges. The clear use of AI might scare potential players off.

Absolutely. This is still a rough sketch

 

[Omniel]

I see what you did here silently updating the first post with these instead of making new post ... Merry Christmas everybody.

 

[Sentinel Sparrow]

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Amazing work! they look so good in the christmas outfit! i vote for using this as your main menu and having a system clock check for when its December to have the background change from your normal clothed version to this maybe a slight parallax of the mansion hallway and them as the mouse moves

Spoiler: parallax renpy tutorial

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[mibc9394]

Amazing work! they look so good in the christmas outfit! i vote for using this as your main menu and having a system clock check for when its December to have the background change from your normal clothed version to this View attachment 5547380 maybe a slight parallax of the mansion hallway and them as the mouse moves

Spoiler: parallax renpy tutorial

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The tutorial is neat!

But yea renpy requires a lot of hardcoding which makes implementing some custom visual effects quite annoying to do. I recently tried to write a custom shader in renpy and it's like digging with my bare hands

 

[mibc9394]

Gameplay testing

 

[Discrepancy]

Gameplay testing

Wow, loving the mood there

 

[mibc9394]

Introducing a new side character, Uncle Fumio.

 

[mibc9394]

Also, as development has progressed, the story I wrote at the beginning of this post is no longer valid, and the CGs I uploaded there will not appear in the game. I will update them when I have v0.1 ready, which is coming very soon.

 

[mibc9394]

We're now having 63 hand-crafted CGs already for v0.1. I think for v0.1 we will have 70-80 CGs, and the number of CG for chapter 1 should exceed 100.

You can check the spoiler below if you're interested. It's just a screenshot of my file explorer showing the list of the CGs. Their names may contain spoiler so I spoiler it.

Spoiler: List of the in-game CG with names

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[Omniel]

Also, as development has progressed, the story I wrote at the beginning of this post is no longer valid, and the CGs I uploaded there will not appear in the game. I will update them when I have v0.1 ready, which is coming very soon.

Can't wait for the updated pics in the OP and the game aswell ofcourse.

 

[Sentinel Sparrow]

Also, as development has progressed, the story I wrote at the beginning of this post is no longer valid, and the CGs I uploaded there will not appear in the game. I will update them when I have v0.1 ready, which is coming very soon.

if you post the game and get a dev badge before jan 1st ill donate just to vote for you

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all you need is one sex scene some dialogue and a functional main menu

 

[mibc9394]

if you post the game and get a dev badge before jan 1st ill donate just to vote for you

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all you need is one sex scene some dialogue and a functional main menu

oh shit I got everything except for the one sex scene. I haven't painted the CG yet and am messing with the sound. Maybe I can pack the abandoned version and publish it.

OR, I'll see how much I can push myself

 

[Sentinel Sparrow]

alright but as long as it feels right for your game, idk if its best for you to make rushed decisions for your game ^ ^;
but i am glad its motivating you and having something playable/tangible will feel nice. help gauge your audience if its for profit.

with that much coffee im sure you'll get it done make sure to lmk / @
good luck
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[mibc9394]

Expectation of v0.1.


Also, merry Christmas everyone!

 

[mibc9394]

alright but as long as it feels right for your game, idk if its best for you to make rushed decisions for your game ^ ^;
but i am glad its motivating you and having something playable/tangible will feel nice. help gauge your audience if its for profit.

with that much coffee im sure you'll get it done make sure to lmk / @
good luck
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also for music i seen a dev use these:

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and

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sfx theres the

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right now
i bought

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but i havent used it yet lol... I would use

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I'm now using sound assets from pixabay

 

[Sentinel Sparrow]

the detail from the hyper realistic background seems a bit out of place and detracks from your characters amazing art style

Spoiler: BG fix suggestion

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