The art and writing for this game are both really good.
Ren'Py The Null Hypothesis [v0.5b] [Ron Chon]
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I am really happy with this game so far. It has the same game mechanics of progressed (here so far) love interest/s as Rogue-like Evolution, the first Lab Rats, Devilish Business and Glassix has it in (mostly) corruption progress, which makes me play these games time and time again over all the years and all the different dev versions.
The 2D art style is refreshing different and great to look at and it will be very interesting to see if/how they will implenent the addicting touch of Zero/Null to this game, which is a bit of difficult to think of so far due to the less comical feeling of this game, while also avoiding to "break" the lovely feeling of it.
It has thankfully picked up the idea of increasing the number clothes for the girls which is probably a pain in the ass for the devs to be included, but which was also getting a bit annoying on Onis version, because I would have been happy to make more variations of the regular girls and their clothes instead of including new girls which does not really has made it better since Gwenpool. Matter of taste, of course.
Thankfully they have also included Onis 1 $ subscription level because this was making me willing to add me as a supporter immediately as I am a supporter with other devs like PEdevs Porn Empire on this level since years.
Although sometimes the score of Ross Whitby reminds me a bit of the hours spent in Witch Trainer it fits very well in the different scenes, nice. By the way: Is it planned that the score will be available only via Patreon or maybe also individual via e.g. bandcamp.com or something?
While currently having maxxed out all characters I am just playing around with the clothes settings. I guess it has already been mentioned before, but an extension of the possibilites to work with existing outfits would be nice, so that editing an outfit would not only be renaming it (or adding the color/type) but makes it possible to change details of the combination of clothes under this saved name/title and then save it again as well, like a regular edit function. Alse a undo button to the save/trash button would be nice so you don't have to roll back with the mouse to make changes invalid.
I also have not figured out so far how to specifically increase the shame limits for public/private outfits. All girls are maxxed out and the way to make them wear more risky clothes is only (?) by interacting with them on a regular level? Or any other way?
Looking foward to version 0.3, all the best to the developers.
The 2D art style is refreshing different and great to look at and it will be very interesting to see if/how they will implenent the addicting touch of Zero/Null to this game, which is a bit of difficult to think of so far due to the less comical feeling of this game, while also avoiding to "break" the lovely feeling of it.
It has thankfully picked up the idea of increasing the number clothes for the girls which is probably a pain in the ass for the devs to be included, but which was also getting a bit annoying on Onis version, because I would have been happy to make more variations of the regular girls and their clothes instead of including new girls which does not really has made it better since Gwenpool. Matter of taste, of course.
Thankfully they have also included Onis 1 $ subscription level because this was making me willing to add me as a supporter immediately as I am a supporter with other devs like PEdevs Porn Empire on this level since years.
Although sometimes the score of Ross Whitby reminds me a bit of the hours spent in Witch Trainer it fits very well in the different scenes, nice. By the way: Is it planned that the score will be available only via Patreon or maybe also individual via e.g. bandcamp.com or something?
While currently having maxxed out all characters I am just playing around with the clothes settings. I guess it has already been mentioned before, but an extension of the possibilites to work with existing outfits would be nice, so that editing an outfit would not only be renaming it (or adding the color/type) but makes it possible to change details of the combination of clothes under this saved name/title and then save it again as well, like a regular edit function. Alse a undo button to the save/trash button would be nice so you don't have to roll back with the mouse to make changes invalid.
I also have not figured out so far how to specifically increase the shame limits for public/private outfits. All girls are maxxed out and the way to make them wear more risky clothes is only (?) by interacting with them on a regular level? Or any other way?
Looking foward to version 0.3, all the best to the developers.
Just a quick note, but there are no addiction mechanics in the game. Every girl will be with the MC because they want to in some way or another. Also, adding new clothing and outfits is something that was always important to us on the team. We've got a few ideas in the pipeline in that regard that people are really going to like as well
Categorized and clean code... I'm sorry I just need a moment... its so beautiful.
Best wishes from that one guy who modded roguelike those couple times
Best wishes from that one guy who modded roguelike those couple times
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Check out the nested logic in even the flirting.rpy file or the man's dictionary usage in the girl's individual profiles. Its just magical.
I'm gonna push to have as much art of wolverine having a cigar in this game lol
When we have at least chapter 1 fully scored, yes. We want to add more music to the sandbox and maybe some extras for side events.
As it's entirely original music, it will be a patreon perk. I'll ask if Ross is okay with me plugging his other stuff.
that's too bad. I am looking forward to next update tho. any idea if MC will have a phone call or text exchange with his family in the future?
File "game/characters/Jean/interactions/clothing.rpy", line 234, in script
ch_Jean "I said no, [hean.Player_petname]."
There is a typo^(don't know if there is a better place for bug reports)
Otherwise, thoroughly impressed with the game on a technical stand point(one of the smoothest running renpy games I've seen) let alone the art and writing
ch_Jean "I said no, [hean.Player_petname]."
There is a typo^(don't know if there is a better place for bug reports)
Otherwise, thoroughly impressed with the game on a technical stand point(one of the smoothest running renpy games I've seen) let alone the art and writing
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The positive vibes here are really something else. Damn cool to see.
I mean the guy deserves to be compensated for scoring an entire game. More music is gonna be made as the new chapters come in.
We're discussing what we want to do with Null's potential family. 0.3 will give the option to say you're an orphan.
No reason to hate on anyone when we all just want to make the best game we can.
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"we've identified early January as the most likely release window for v0.3!"
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Some subtly different music and instruments to each of the seasons could be a great way to inject more music.
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I'd expect Polaris before we get Scarlet Witch. Even though she first appeared in an X-Men comic, Scarlet Witch left the book pretty early on and has been associated with the Avengers for far, far longer and, considering the dev team is big on their comics knowledge and planning to introduce new girls roughly along the lines of the comic, they'll know and appreciate that. Meanwhile, Polaris has always been an X-Men character through and through. Plus, magnets bitch.
Though this gets me thinking: if the devs are planning on introducing the new girls strictly in the order they appear in the comics, then what point are they starting from? Going right from the beginning means that Polaris will come around first, but Storm already being confirmed for Chapter 2 suggests they'll be working from Second Genesis (which makes sense considering Polaris is the only 60s X-Girl other than Jean, unless you want to bring in Beast and Iceman's human girlfriends). Assuming each chapter would include 2-3 new girls (and only assuming that off the basis of Chapter 1), then Chapter 2 would probably introduce Polaris, Storm, and Kitty.
But that's just me theorising, and it depends on whether they're firmly sticking to appearance order. Plus, the game has already verged pretty heavily from classic Silver/Bronze Age X-Men by making the school aspect the main focal point, like in Evolution.
There is another typo at line 77 in swimming.rpy
call change_Girl_stat(temp_swimming_Characters[0], "desire", 60 - temp_showering_Characters[0].desire) from_call_change_Girl_stat_1022
showering should be swimming... I think I either need to stop staring at code or I have undiagnosed dyslexia... took me a while to see the typo... kind of embarrassing... had to delete my previous post rambling about read access violations... I'm gonna go get caffeine
call change_Girl_stat(temp_swimming_Characters[0], "desire", 60 - temp_showering_Characters[0].desire) from_call_change_Girl_stat_1022
showering should be swimming... I think I either need to stop staring at code or I have undiagnosed dyslexia... took me a while to see the typo... kind of embarrassing... had to delete my previous post rambling about read access violations... I'm gonna go get caffeine
We've stated publicly before but Chapter 2 will focus on the Phoenix saga.
Null joins the academy a month or so after Giant-Size X-Men.
Just a general reminder, Chapter 1 exists to establish the setting. It's not adapting any specific point in the comics.
We specifically are not letting the player steal people's girlfriends/wives. An exception is Gambit but he has a wife and we meet Rogue long before he does. Cyclops has other love interests he can be paired off with instead of Jean.
I'd dispute this. Oni went in the Evolution direction by making the mansion a standard college situation. We're more leaning toward the Fox Movies and a good chunk of the comics of the mansion being a boarding school.
We do plan on tackling the Silver/Bronze Age but through a modern writing perspective.
Like originally, Jean was just "the girl." Reading over a lot of her early comics, a lot of her behavior is being passive or acting irrationally because she was "the girl."
Rather than be cringe like AAA games and make her a girl boss. We explained Jean's irrationality as college stress as well as concern about her powers during this time in the comics. Even then we let her keep her dignity. We even kept the part of her personality of looking out for "the boys" by acting as a dorm sibling instead of just having her act as the team's den mother.
We're approaching all the characters with this mindset.