Hi Devs, ik the last few days have been pretty wild since the new release, but I hope it is known that we all truly love the game so far and hope to see what you drop next as the upcoming weeks and months approach. I don't want to jinx it, but I believe that this could become the best "trainer"ish game in existence if you continue to put as much love and care into it as you have thus far. Don't let too many weirdos ruin your passion for this project, you're doing amazing so far. I really appreciate it!
Ren'Py The Null Hypothesis [v0.7b] [Ron Chon]
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You're right, I think since it's still in early development it kinda gives more of a trainer vibe, but I'm sure once more stuff is added and new environments/backstories are explored we'll get that full dating sim feel. I'm excited regardless, I'm having a lot of fun!We lean more towards dating sim.
But we appreciate your comments none the less.
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Probably all in the Autumn season of Chapter 2.
Otherwise one girl will get 4 seasons with Null, one with 3 and the third will only get 2 seasons with Null and that just doesn't sound right or fair, now does it?
I imagine 3 new girls will be added in Fall of chapter 2 but spread out by a few days in-game like with Jean who we met a few days after getting to the mansion
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Is there a plan on how this is going to interact with the friendship system? Assumably by the end of chapter 1 you'll already be dating all three girls, do you need to have those three girls hang out with the new three girls to be friends enough to want allow the new girls to be dated without throwing a fit? This is only going to be more and more daunting the more girls you add.
Those are your skill points, you get them by leveling up. I can see that you are level 5, which is the max level you can reach in the current update, so I am sorry to say that unless you cheat them in, there are no more stars for you to get.
You only get those (ability points) when you level up. And since the level is capped at 5, you only get so many.
Code:
define max_level = [5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30]
label level_up:
if Player.level < max_level[chapter - 1] and Player.XP >= Player.XP_goal:
$ Player.level += 1
$ update_messages.append("{color=%s}%s{/color} is now {color=%s}Level %s{/color}" % ("#feba00", Player.first_name, "#feba00", Player.level))
$ Player.ability_points += 1I am indeed not Ron, but he has expressed the tag issue to the team. I can ask him to reach out himself.
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Nice work, Ron Chon!
I love this game and would like to participate as a translator, but ran into a problem. Not all string data supports translation, so code adjustments are needed. Maybe I'm raising this issue at the wrong time and it's already planned, but I didn't find an answer in this thread. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
I love this game and would like to participate as a translator, but ran into a problem. Not all string data supports translation, so code adjustments are needed. Maybe I'm raising this issue at the wrong time and it's already planned, but I didn't find an answer in this thread. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Oh shit, in that case i would love to petition nicknaming Laura either Alice or McGee. Complete with the outfit/halloween costume.
Atleast the stripped stockings. Those thighs of her's need them stockings.
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Guys, please help me, I am at a loss.
Being a hardcore redhead connaisseur myself and having only played this game and its obvious inspiration and never seen any X-Men show or cartoon, which portrayal of Jean is the most lore accurate?
The portrayals couldn't be more different imo and I'd love to know what the "real" character of my favourite redheaded mutant is.
Being a hardcore redhead connaisseur myself and having only played this game and its obvious inspiration and never seen any X-Men show or cartoon, which portrayal of Jean is the most lore accurate?
The portrayals couldn't be more different imo and I'd love to know what the "real" character of my favourite redheaded mutant is.
Depends on which portrayals you're talking about. You said you haven't seen any shows and cartoons. Are you talking about in this game compared to how she is in RLE? If that's the case, Oni has not kept his contempt for the Jean Grey character and his subsequent warped portrayal of her a secret, so her portrayal in this game is closer to the source material. Though, to see the "real" character you would have to find some back issues of the original 'Uncanny X-men' comics featuring the new team since that's the source material.Guys, please help me, I am at a loss.
Being a hardcore redhead connaisseur myself and having only played this game and its obvious inspiration and never seen any X-Men show or cartoon, which portrayal of Jean is the most lore accurate?
The portrayals couldn't be more different imo and I'd love to know what the "real" character of my favourite redheaded mutant is.
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I assure you, I have made this suggestion/request/demand more than once. Love that design and Alice's look in Madness Returns is very close to Laura's in general, so in my mind, it's a no-brainer
In general, you can think of our interpretations of the characters as either a 'back-to-basics' or a 'best-of' of the various characterizations some of the characters have had over the years. For example, Laura's gone from being a flawed character who wants to be more than the killing machine she was raised to be to... reveling in the killing machine she was raised to be. Somewhere along the line, someone decided that, when she took on the mantle of Wolverine, she should actually be Wolverine, and we've already got dozens of characters like that. We only had one X-23 and there's still no one quite like her out there.Guys, please help me, I am at a loss.
Being a hardcore redhead connaisseur myself and having only played this game and its obvious inspiration and never seen any X-Men show or cartoon, which portrayal of Jean is the most lore accurate?
The portrayals couldn't be more different imo and I'd love to know what the "real" character of my favourite redheaded mutant is.
Jean's more interesting, in a way. When the comics were originally being written, she was basically the Den Mother, The Chick - she was there to get mad at the boys for being silly, she was there so everyone could have a crush on her, she was the grounded one who was really smart and kind and really kinda bland. Over the years, she's developed to be more than that, but she's never quite shaken that initial characterization. So we've taken that and shown what someone like that would probably be like in real life: someone who doesn't want to rock the boat, but wishes she could say something about how people treat her. Someone who wants to be helpful and likes when people ask for her assistance, but also wonders all the time if people are just taking advantage of her. Someone who wants to be part of something greater but sometimes is just so sick of everyone's shit and stressy stressy super depressy.
There's not quite any one story or series we've based everything on, but the various retellings of the initial stories (X-Men: First Class - the comics, not the movies) are a decent place to start, as is X-Men Evolution and the original animated series from '91. Everything else is basically cherry picked from issues or moments that we've liked, and as such, basically impossible to properly source. That should give you more of an idea of where we've been coming from with her.
Pretty much this.
We're still tweaking the friendship system but I think there's a desire for realism so the daunting might be part of the experience. Poll data shows that there are actually a large amount of monogamous players.
Though to assist. We do have plans for PLENTY of more methods to gain friendship and sandbox events showing the girls interacting and possibly gaining friendship points without player input.
There has also been talk of group texts so you might not need to hunt down every girl to ask if someone can be added.
This is surprisingly common to the point where we'd be dumb to not include it. The fanart of Laura dressed up like this is pretty awesome.
Our specific direction is "How would Jean behave if she was a millennial?" In the original run, it was the 60s. So she was just "The girl" character. We wanted more.
Jean will behave a lot more similarly to her comic appearances as the game goes on. Just minus the sociopathy that writers have been slowly implementing over the past decade.
Edit: Buttholder's post of above mine is more detailed.