VN Ren'Py The Neverwhere Tales [v0.7.0] [Ceolag]

[Vidal the king of Pervert]

do read again the post above yours - this game should be about exclusive paths/girls. so monogamy is very much an option there.

btw, as im getting older (and wiser) im more and more inclined to single girls paths than to bunch of chicks jumping on mcs dick every now and then...so single paths all the way bro!

thank God while it's okay if people like different things I was beginning to think

I was the only one in existence. Love monogamy

glad to see I'm not the only one I was beginning to go crazy

 

[nitkonikic]

am i the only one who likes monogamy

I'm beginning to think I'm the only monogamy loving Pervert in existence

Depends on the game, this one, monogamy so far looks like "ideal" path.

There are a ton of games where girls interact with each other, there's obvious spark between them, so one guy with 2-3 girls sounds fine (Bare Witness for example).

But one guy-one girl is probably my favorite as well. It's the most romantic one, and one where most love is shown. Feels funny saying that on porn-based website

 

[Hildegardt]

Eventually, the paths of the main girls will be mutually exclusive. So no Kaija and Fiona at the same time (after a certain point, at least). Or any other combination of main girls for that matter.

Hmm, then I have to wonder how Kaija feels about the one-night stand, when the PC goes to the pub alone. Or the fact that Elea has to reject his advances, because she doesn't want to be a homewrecker.
Afair these things are possible even on a maxed out Kaija path. Would she consider the PC a cheater in that case?

 

[Vidal the king of Pervert]

Depends on the game, this one, monogamy so far looks like "ideal" path.

There are a ton of games where girls interact with each other, there's obvious spark between them, so one guy with 2-3 girls sounds fine (Bare Witness for example).

But one guy-one girl is probably my favorite as well. It's the most romantic one, and one where most love is shown. Feels funny saying that on porn-based website

it's not really that strange to me my brother

in my opinion, the best adult visual novel is

just really great stories that just happened to have sex in them

 

[CrazyRabbit]

Depends on the game, this one, monogamy so far looks like "ideal" path.

There are a ton of games where girls interact with each other, there's obvious spark between them, so one guy with 2-3 girls sounds fine (Bare Witness for example).

But one guy-one girl is probably my favorite as well. It's the most romantic one, and one where most love is shown. Feels funny saying that on porn-based website

it's not really that strange to me my brother

in my opinion, the best adult visual novel is

just really great stories that just happened to have sex in them

I wish I could like those posts twice but alas....

The best VNs I've ever played were/are of that kind. Because what makes a truly great movie/series/book/music/VN/video game... is the same as everywhere else : the writing.
If I can't fall in love with the story and with THE girl, it's no use.

Even if sometimes I'm all for a throuple (no more, Bare Witness is the exception) ; I agree, the true romance is in monogamy.
This is why I follow that path in my favourite VNs.
Let me join, bros

 

[Vidal the king of Pervert]

I wish I could like those posts twice but alas....

The best VNs I've ever played were/are of that kind. Because what makes a truly great movie/series/book/music/VN/video game... is the same as everywhere else : the writing.
If I can't fall in love with the story and with THE girl, it's no use.

Even if sometimes I'm all for a throuple (no more, Bare Witness is the exception) ; I agree, the true romance is in monogamy.
This is why I follow that path in my favourite VNs.
Let me join, bros

 

[goulet1995]

I wish I could like those posts twice but alas....

The best VNs I've ever played were/are of that kind. Because what makes a truly great movie/series/book/music/VN/video game... is the same as everywhere else : the writing.
If I can't fall in love with the story and with THE girl, it's no use.

Even if sometimes I'm all for a throuple (no more, Bare Witness is the exception) ; I agree, the true romance is in monogamy.
This is why I follow that path in my favourite VNs.
Let me join, bros

i prefer harem for 2 main reasons not having to keep seperate saves if i like more that 1 character and not having to play through the game multiple times il be honest though i dont like the way bare witness does it so i only do solo routes in that one

 

[CrazyRabbit]

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[Wolfeszorn]

i´m personally monogamous myself. The good thing is, this is a Novel. You can do whatever you want and live your wildest fantasys
For me it´s just hard since i like both, Kaija and Fiona. The others aren´t rly interesting for me. So a throuple would be the best possible outcome xD Leaving one of em seems just way too cruel.

 

[Vidal the king of Pervert]

i´m personally monogamous myself. The good thing is, this is a Novel. You can do whatever you want and live your wildest fantasys
For me it´s just hard since i like both, Kaija and Fiona. The others aren´t rly interesting for me. So a throuple would be the best possible outcome xD Leaving one of em seems just way too cruel.

my brother I'm a cruel. man give me monogamy or give me death
monogamy is my wildest fantasy

well. And knocking up the woman I love

 

[Tulrek]

Well, you can always make multiple saves

 

[Ceolag]

Hello everybody,

a quick update before Easter because I'll be pretty busy with family stuff for the next few days.

I finished the renders and the coding for the first part of the scene I'm working on. The one with the varying outfits. The 2nd part of the scene doesn't have varying outfits and is more straightforward so I'm pretty confident that I'll be done with it by the next Dev Update.

The result of this week's work (although it was more like a half week) is 80 more static renders and about 400 lines in the dialogue file. That brings the total to 521 static renders and ~2850 lines.

As I promised last week, I tested the 0.2.1 version this week. It mainly contains the translation into French that was done by Tulrek, so all credit to him for that.
Additionally, I fixed the sound channels. You now have the ability to set different levels for music, ambience, and sound effects. So no awfully loud sound effects anymore (at least I hope so).

The 3rd thing is the option to en- and disable the save naming. The implementation isn't fancy (yet) and is more like a work in progress but it works.

Links are in the first post.

That's it for today. Have a nice rest of the week and happy Easter (for those who celebrate).
Cheers,
Ceolag

 

[dopey80]

The developer obviously has never heard of the Chinon Parchment, because the grasp of history here is terrible.

 

[Ceolag]

The developer obviously has never heard of the Chinon Parchment, because the grasp of history here is terrible.

Feel free to point out where I'm wrong.
I mention 2 "facts" that date back to the time of the Chinon Parchment.
first: most of the Templars got arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and burned at the stake which happened in 1307
second: Pope Clement disbanded the order in 1312

The Chinon Parchment is dated August 1308. And it just says that the Templars got absolved of all heresy. POST MORTEM because... you know... 1308 is later than 1307...
So the first fact is still correct. I never talked about absolution, or the lack thereof.
The second fact still stands, too. Because the pope disbanded the order. Simple as that. It happened. And it had nothing to do with the Chinon Parchment.

Your point?

 

[Boehser Onkel]

happy easter Ceolag

stay safe and healthy

 

[Ceolag]

Hello everybody,
Easter is behind us, weekend ahead. Time for another Dev Update.
Easter was the busy mess I expected but I got a bit more done than I expected.
Mostly because I had to work (for my full-time job although Easter is 4 days off over here) and when I'm at my desk anyway I can set up a few renders, too.

The result is, that I'm done with the scene I was working on. Everything is rendered, post-worked, and coded, and I can move on to the next scene.
I didn't expect that last week, to be honest. So... yay full-time job for making me work on national holidays, I guess.
Anyways, the render count for the week is 67 static renders (588 in total). On top of that 3 more animations for a total of 15 animations.
The script file is at ~3050 lines now.

At this point, I'm a bit more than halfway through the content for Chapter 3.
The (time-consuming) lewd scene is done. The remaining part is pretty straightforward with one complex scene at the end (the Chapter finale).
At least, that's what my plan and my notes say.

Have a great weekend all of you.
Cheers,
Ceolag

 

[Sennistrasz]

Is there a clear point where I choose which path to take? My problem with single-girl paths is that I don't want to lead anyone on if I have to reject them later, but I don't want to skip all the way from the start either (in case they have some non-romance story stuff in there), so I want to ask if I should go along with everything before I have to choose, or just close off paths right from the start.

 

[nitkonikic]

Is there a clear point where I choose which path to take? My problem with single-girl paths is that I don't want to lead anyone on if I have to reject them later, but I don't want to skip all the way from the start either (in case they have some non-romance story stuff in there), so I want to ask if I should go along with everything before I have to choose, or just close off paths right from the start.

Not sure how Ceolag will develop game from now on, but so far, and why so many of us genuinely love this game, all "friend" paths are there. As in, the scene where you'd hang out with character romantically is switched to that same location, except you're hanging out with a friend.

The office lady (one of 4 main love interests) has great friendship route at the moment. Friends just talking and confiding to one another. Really love what's being done so far, and genuinely hope dev gets support on Patreon to keep making this one.

 

[Sennistrasz]

Not sure how Ceolag will develop game from now on, but so far, and why so many of us genuinely love this game, all "friend" paths are there. As in, the scene where you'd hang out with character romantically is switched to that same location, except you're hanging out with a friend.

The office lady (one of 4 main love interests) has great friendship route at the moment. Friends just talking and confiding to one another. Really love what's being done so far, and genuinely hope dev gets support on Patreon to keep making this one.

I don't mind as long as the paths are clearly marked somewhere, based on experience of games with wishy-washy stuff like the famous game that must not be named, or those that have 100% pure paths that will ruin the ending if you look at another girl's leg. It's just stressful having to second-guess if anything has consequences.

 

[Ceolag]

Hey everyone,

This week has been pretty busy with work and private stuff. I was away from home for 2 days due to an appointment.

I spent that time planning the remaining scenes of Chapter 3 and doing some writing for them. For Chapter 3 there are 2 medium-length scenes, 1 short scene, and 1 longer scene left. And the chapter finale. I'll probably finish the work on the first medium-length scene next week.

Additionally, I built the next test version and did some playtesting of the finished content. It turned out that this wasn't a stupid idea because I found a few issues with the branches in Fiona's scene.
As I said in the earlier Dev logs, that scene was expected to be a bit more complicated considering all the variables and possible combinations.
Through the playtests I found 2 major oversights of possible combinations and fixed them. Or better: implemented a branch for them.
So... to the one guy who didn't tell Fiona his name while meeting her the first time but when meeting her the second time and not doing anything more than that: You're welcome, you won't run into a plot hole.
(to be honest: I don't expect anyone to run into this branch without trying really hard to do so, but it's there now.)

After messing around with that scene for days, I see the beauty of kinetic novels now.

Anyways, I started the work on the next scene and 25 renders of that one are done by now.
Not an exciting number, I know, but this week was mainly coding and writing.
The next weeks should see a higher number again since they're more straightforward.

Is there a clear point where I choose which path to take? My problem with single-girl paths is that I don't want to lead anyone on if I have to reject them later, but I don't want to skip all the way from the start either (in case they have some non-romance story stuff in there), so I want to ask if I should go along with everything before I have to choose, or just close off paths right from the start.

At some point (in future releases) you'll have to decide what girl's path you're going to follow. That point will be pretty clear as the game will tell you "It's getting serious now".
I (probably) won't lock you out of other girls' paths at that point but you'll face the consequences of fucking around. Or flat-out lying to them.
Right now there's no need to close off paths already.

Have a nice weekend guys.
Cheers,
Ceolag