Ren'Py The Null Hypothesis [v0.8b1] [Ron Chon]

[salscou]

You'd be surprised. We've held polls and a lot of people want to see how the game plays out if you date only one girl. Others have voiced they'd attempt it once they know other girls being introduced.

Yeah, no kidding, my most recent and complete save is 1 girl only, im not kidding when i say that for me, the game feels better for me that way, i guess that when you add more than one girl for me my suspension of disbelief gets broken.

What remains is that he's still incredibly picky on letting people on the actual crime fighting team.

Makes sense, with the kind of bullshit the X-men find themeselves in all the time, you only want the more apt, prepared and stable mutants to go out.

Jean for a long time was just "there" because she was the girl. We're just retroactively bringing her personality to a point in the timeline where she was portrayed as the overly emotional girl on the team.

Early Jean its so lame, she literally is just "the girl" in the team, no wonder she ended up becoming the phoenix.

Jokes aside I get my psychology degree in 4 weeks.

Hey! congratulations!

 

[ShinyBoots1993]

Hey! congratulations!

Thanks!

I've been giving input with the main story beats as Marvel doesn't portray mental or psychological issues very well.

I had a direct hand in helping the writers shape Laura's obsessiveness not crossing the line into cartoon territory, Jean's anxiety attacks(I may or may not have projected lol), and Rogue's low self esteem.

Although I will not take credit away from Maddeninggg for the Rogue line "Why do you hate me?" I wrote that whole guilt trip post like 20 pages ago but Mad and the rest of our team know how to do a good emotional gut punch without psychological assistance.

 

[DarkLurker12]

Jokes aside I get my psychology degree in 4 weeks.

Congratz my guy!

 

[salscou]

but Mad and the rest of our team know how to do a good emotional gut punch without psychological assistance.

Well they did a superb job.

Spoiler: I could never hate you

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I was one of the ones caught in the update suddenly making all the girls thin you cheated, i had to suffer the emotional damage of Rogue and Laura being heartbroken while Jean was all smug.

 

[Crel]

Overly prudish? You can have Rogue walk around with just her mesh shirt and Laura wear her jacket with nothing underneath. Hell, you can get Jean to go to class in a bikini.

Guess it's been adjusted then, glad to hear! Last time I played was a patch or two prior, and at the time you couldn't even get a girl to wear a swimsuit. At the pool.

Even then my comment wasn't really intended as complaint; I just assumed they were having it stricter for now to leave room to grow in later chapters.

Haven't played 0.6 yet, waiting for full release!

 

[Tommy7358]

Hi, I realise that this is jumpping the gun quite a bit, but now that we're at the beginning of chapter 2 may I ask how many chapters in total are planned so far? quick search didn't seem to turn up the answer I wanted.

 

[ShinyBoots1993]

Guess it's been adjusted then, glad to hear! Last time I played was a patch or two prior, and at the time you couldn't even get a girl to wear a swimsuit. At the pool.

Yeah that was basically around the time we introduced the shame system and were still tweaking things.

Even then my comment wasn't really intended as complaint; I just assumed they were having it stricter for now to leave room to grow in later chapters.

This will still be the case to some degree. With 5 chapters and a 6th free roam chapter we have to have some character development and we have NO intention on neglecting girls.

 

[ShinyBoots1993]

Hi, I realise that this is jumpping the gun quite a bit, but now that we're at the beginning of chapter 2

Where not even done with Chapter 1. What on earth made you think we've begun Chapter 2????

may I ask how many chapters in total are planned so far?

Five with a sixth which will be dedicated to bonus stories, a handful of girls who couldn't fit in the timeline in a believable way, some extended stories for chapter 4 and 5 girls who didn't have as much screen time*, and the set up for a sequel.

*Girls from chapters 1-3 will get content too but they got a lot more time to show off.

 

[FacelessVixen]

We tried to get the admins involved but there's not much that can be done other than informing them that Ron wasn't trying to game the system.

Every time someone uploads a new beta the official release gets delayed by another 2 weeks since we want it to show up on the front page.

If you don't mind, I'll copy and paste 0.5b from Discord so that newcomers can enjoy the latest stable version:
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Jokes aside I get my psychology degree in 4 weeks.

Hopefully it'll be more useful than an art degree.

 

[Crichton1]

Hi, I realise that this is jumpping the gun quite a bit, but now that we're at the beginning of chapter 2 may I ask how many chapters in total are planned so far? quick search didn't seem to turn up the answer I wanted.

I think it's six. I don't know, don't work here, but i've seen 6 chapters mentioned often.

if you don't mind, I'll copy and paste 0.5b from Discord so that newcomers can enjoy the latest stable version:

I sure hope this doesn't mess with the "no more than 1 update every two weeks" thing the mods have set-up.

It could end up preventing the game from getting to the front page of "latest updates" when there is an actual proper 6a

 

[FacelessVixen]

I sure hope this doesn't mess with the "no more than 1 update every two weeks" thing the mods have set-up.

It could end up preventing the game from getting to the front page of "latest updates" when there is an actual proper 6a

Then I guess the best solution is to direct the newcomers to Discord, because I do not trust the level of reasonability with the powers that be in this situation.

 

[Tommy7358]

Where not even done with Chapter 1. What on earth made you think we've begun Chapter 2????


Five with a sixth which will be dedicated to bonus stories, a handful of girls who couldn't fit in the timeline in a believable way, some extended stories for chapter 4 and 5 girls who didn't have as much screen time*, and the set up for a sequel.

*Girls from chapters 1-3 will get content too but they got a lot more time to show off.

Hmm... I personally haven't played the game yet, and since I saw talk of chapter 2 I thought it was coming out soon or something. I only found out by scrolling through that chapter 2 is scheduled for roughly February 2025 after I posted. Sorry about that.

Quick follow up questions,

1. Would the bonus stories be canon or in the vein of 'this happened in another timeline' sort of way for the 'handful of girls who couldn't fit in the timeline in a believable way'; I also assume the extended stories of the chapter 4 and 5 girls are canon events that just didn't fit in the development schedule and thus just delayed to another chapter.

2. I again know this is reaching quite far in the future and also subject to change but as of right now is the set up for the sequel in chapter 6 and is the player character of the sequel the same as the one as we control in The Null Hypothesis?

Thanks for your answers by the way. You're awesome from what I can tell.

 

[Tommy7358]

I think it's six. I don't know, don't work here, but i've seen 6 chapters mentioned often.

I sure hope this doesn't mess with the "no more than 1 update every two weeks" thing the mods have set-up.

It could end up preventing the game from getting to the front page of "latest updates" when there is an actual proper 6a

Thanks for your reply.

 

[ShinyBoots1993]

Hopefully it'll be more useful than an art degree.

Clinical Psychology. Not to knock on talk therapists but I'll be as far as one can go without having to go to medschool.

1. Would the bonus stories be canon or in the vein of 'this happened in another timeline' sort of way for the 'handful of girls who couldn't fit in the timeline in a believable way'; I also assume the extended stories of the chapter 4 and 5 girls are canon events that just didn't fit in the development schedule and thus just delayed to another chapter.

I'm gonna take this moment to explain in full.

The game will be taking place over the course of 5 years. Each chapter being a full year.

We will be adapting the X-Men Comics from The Phoenix Saga to the Onslaught Saga.

Chapter 1 exists to establish the setting

Here's the

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. Starting with Chapter 2, we will be adapting the comics from Phoenix Saga (1976) – X-Men #101-108 to Onslaught Saga (1996)

An exception is that the Muir Island Saga (1991) is the columniation of Chapter 1. Like Laura, this is a holdover from Ron's initial build.

Now for reasons I have to be EXTREMELY vague about. Chapter 6 won't be following any defined span of time. However, all of the stories will be 100% canon.

The extended stories exist because we will be introducing girls in Chapter 5 and them missing out on 4 chapters of character development isn't fun for their fanbases.

2. I again know this is reaching quite far in the future and also subject to change but as of right now is the set up for the sequel in chapter 6 and is the player character of the sequel the same as the one as we control in The Null Hypothesis?

Null will be the protagonist of all our X-Men games.

I'm currently in an active discussion with the writing team of how to make a Null in his late 30s not come off as weird for going after characters like Kamala since I don't think Kamala isn't even born yet in our timeline.

Thanks for your answers by the way. You're awesome from what I can tell.

You're welcome. I feel the love.

 

[Wattle]

Null will be the protagonist of all our X-Men games.

I'm currently in an active discussion with the writing team of how to make a Null in his late 30s not come off as weird for going after characters like Kamala since I don't think Kamala isn't even born yet in our timeline.

Just use the ol' patented Marvel Sliding Timeline.

 

[ShinyBoots1993]

Just use the ol' patented Marvel Sliding Timeline.

I still vote time traveling Null since I think most of the hate from that was just Jean's Gay Beam.

Good Boy Scott was a treasure and you can pry him from my cold dead hands.

 

[Tommy7358]

Clinical Psychology. Not to knock on talk therapists but I'll be as far as one can go without having to go to medschool.


I'm gonna take this moment to explain in full.

The game will be taking place over the course of 5 years. Each chapter being a full year.

We will be adapting the X-Men Comics from The Phoenix Saga to the Onslaught Saga.

Chapter 1 exists to establish the setting

Here's the

You must be registered to see the links

. Starting with Chapter 2, we will be adapting the comics from Phoenix Saga (1976) – X-Men #101-108 to Onslaught Saga (1996)

An exception is that the Muir Island Saga (1991) is the columniation of Chapter 1. Like Laura, this is a holdover from Ron's initial build.

Now for reasons I have to be EXTREMELY vague about. Chapter 6 won't be following any defined span of time. However, all of the stories will be 100% canon.

The extended stories exist because we will be introducing girls in Chapter 5 and them missing out on 4 chapters of character development isn't fun for their fanbases.


Null will be the protagonist of all our X-Men games.

I'm currently in an active discussion with the writing team of how to make a Null in his late 30s not come off as weird for going after characters like Kamala since I don't think Kamala isn't even born yet in our timeline.


You're welcome. I feel the love.

Thank you so much for the detailed answers! I'm glad to hear that all the stories will be canon since there's a part of me that feels vaguely dissatisfied when a 'non-canon/what-if scenario' gets added to a game or story when it reasonably could be just added to the main game itself.

I also dislike it when a direct sequel features a different playable character from the original one. Sure, I understand the reasons why devs go that route but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Glad to hear that's not the case here; though I do wonder if there are plans for picking multiple 'origin stories' for Null's character for the sequel, making one particular path canon or simply somewhat not focusing too much on the events of the original game. By the time you get to Kamala, there would probably quite a few comic bs plot points that can be done to do exactly that.

Final point, it is a bummer that The Null Hypothesis is the only Marvel/DC porn game of its kind at the moment... Don't get me wrong, Something Unlimited and Doomination serve a different target audience than me and that's fine; it's just there's only Rogue-like: Evolution and The Null Hypothesis for those who want to 'self-insert' their own original character into Marvel (sadly no such games for DC in active development as far as I know) so to speak and of the two only The Null Hypothesis gives me the feeling of actually being a 'game with porn' instead of 'porn with plot'. Plus I sometimes feel like way too much of an asshole in RLE.

And before I forget, thanks for your game recommendation lists as well.

 

[Wattle]

I still vote time traveling Null since I think most of the hate from that was just Jean's Gay Beam.

Good Boy Scott was a treasure and you can pry him from my cold dead hands.

Those pesky X-Men just can't seem to stay away from time travel. It'd be on brand for franchise.

 

[salscou]

Those pesky X-Men just can't seem to stay away from time travel. It'd be on brand for franchise.

Or getting killed, or cloned, or having evil siblings.

 

[Tommy7358]

Or getting killed, or cloned, or having evil siblings.

To be fair, that's par for the course for most mainline comic characters be it Marvel or DC. Heck, for all the bad rap shonen manga/anime get sometimes; most of them are just another Tuesday for Marvel/DC and not half as convoluted as well.