Ren'Py Abandoned The Red Room [v0.5b] [Alishia]

[Avaron1974]

It has 200+ patrons and a little over 1k per month on Patreon. That is really good for a "new" game, and really, really good for a game that hasn't had an update in 2 years. Those numbers probably put this in the top 5% of Adult games on Patreon.

Those numbers don't even put it in the top 50% on Patreon.

The top earners are earning 20k plus a month.

200 Patrons and 1k a month is about average and what most devs will earn.

Consider that when they abandoned their first game they had 1000 Patrons and climbing. They started this and started growing again. Now they have 200.

Chances of them growing again are very slim unless they can maintain updates which they won't.

 

[dragonflame]

i can't play the game. the game stop where she finish jerking off

 

[marasi]

How do you make money in this game?

 

[TheLecher]

I'm telling you there are no magazines to be found anywhere. Even with provided guide from previous posts with actual screenshots with the highlighted areas I cannot find any magazines. Carefully hovering my mouse to find any small pixel but nope, nothing.

Incredibly frustrating. Especially considering no backwards compability with previous saves, so the saves from people who were kind enough to provide a save with secret gallery fully unlocked doesn't work either.

The guides which I previously created for finding the magazines won't work anymore. Well, half of the guide won't work, the other half will.

So, all of the locations where I showed magazines are still valid. There are still magazines in each of those places. However, the order in which magazines unlock has now changed. It used to be that the magazines would unlock in sets of three, and always in the same order. Now they unlock in sets of two, and the order is random. Beginning on Day 1, two magazines will unlock. When you find both of them, two more will unlock the next day. The magazines which unlock could be either the old ones which were already in the game (These have been mapped.), or the new magazines (These have not been mapped yet.).

There are currently thirteen magazines which have not been mapped. I am currently encountering bugs in the magazine system. Once that's sorted out, I plan to map all of the new magazines and create a new guide.

How do you make money in this game?

Currently, the MC has two opportunities to get money. In the prologue, Kendra will give the MC $100, but you have to choose to accept it. There is also the event when Kendra sends the MC a package in the middle of the week. That package includes another $20.

Alishia has stated that, in future updates, the MC will have the opportunity to earn money. Those events are not in the current version of the game.

 

[Malkovichi]

i can't play the game. the game stop where she finish jerking off

uSE

 

[Varryan]

im just sad there isnt more mia/ sasha content.

 

[Deleted member 1203278]

You are quite literally admitting that your speed of work is so slow that even if you actually worked as hard as you could, you would be able to make less than 150 images in 2-3 weeks. I’m going to say this to you on the slim chance that you are actually trying to turn this around: at that rate you are never going anywhere with this game. I’m going to tell you exactly what you need to do to unsink this ship. MAKE AND USE CHARACTER SPRITES. You make them once and then you can spend your time writing content into your game, and making renders for the sex scenes. You already have the locations done, you have the characters modeled; this way you can actually progress your game provided you put the effort in. I don’t need to see a fully rendered image of Nina sitting on the couch talking to the main character. I don’t care if there were some in the beginning of the game and now there aren’t. Nobody is going to give a fuck if they can’t see the render of Nina sitting on the couch talking to the MC if they are seeing 5x the written content and 5x the sex scenes. From there it’s a slow road of regaining trust from your shitty work ethic by reasonably frequent updates and very frequent communication.

In my opinion using character sprites is a sign of laziness. The game already has sprites for each character when they talk (i think) and of course i like full renders because they are more immersive.

What i really think would lighten the workload is the sandbox model. It's a bit rusty and should be simplified. a good sandbox doesn't need the developer to go out and explain what to do to advance the story or where to click.

Most of the time it's just me clicking around the house guessing what to do.

The best part of this game for me is the beginning and it's VN. That part catch your interest and motivates you to keep going. Ironically it is the part where the story progresses the most.

At the end i got boring and i didn't even see those new 130 renders that the developer took 2 years to make. effort that will never be seen because i don't have time for this and i'm sure i haven't even seen the other scenes i'm seeing here on the forum... oh and it was a game over for me, the days ran out before i was able to complete one of the challenges...

 

[Algalon]

So version 0.1 was made during summer vacation 2018, 0.2 during summer vacation 2019 and 0.3 and 0.4 during another 3 summer vacations....

Let me guess, next update to this game is in about 1 year as usual.
Used to support the creator during last game but it was 1 release then nothing. Won't hold my breath on this one.

 

[xXx_Toothpaste69_xXX]

I really liked the content thus far. I enjoyed that small part of the game and seeing the new update just makes me full on copium, because there is not enough futa games. I hope we will see the improvement in the content release and I wish the dev best luck.

 

[gregers]

This game and dev should be banned.

From a ... piracy site?

How do you make money in this game?

Currently, the MC has two opportunities to get money. In the prologue, Kendra will give the MC $100, but you have to choose to accept it. There is also the event when Kendra sends the MC a package in the middle of the week. That package includes another $20.

Alishia has stated that, in future updates, the MC will have the opportunity to earn money. Those events are not in the current version of the game.

Just to add, reasons to spend money are also very limited currently, so it's not much of an issue yet. The MC can buy a swimsuit for $100 and have a small scene wearing it once, but the wider game doesn't account for the purchase.

 

[Botaro]

Is there anything new besides Nina's handjob? 130 new renders are hard to find...

 

[Deleted member 4978088]

I cant extract the images from the rpa file with unren. Anyone knows whats up? This is a nightmare to play and get all
new images

 

[huehuehue76]

OMG WHAT?!

 

[omegakn1ght]

wow this devs really knows how to milk patreons huh

 

[Axel34]

Hey guys, how to cheat cuck points, I change value on save-file, but in game nothing happens?
And how to get "A Lot of Spice" achievement?

 

[Lord Bradley]

I really want to love this game. As far as sandbox goes this is best you can hope for - amazing house, easy to find rooms (maybe except for laundry room - click on floor left from bathroom while in upper hallway), characters are not in duplicate places and there are even nice details such as clicking on pictures. Obviously renders are amazing and if you don't mind the fetishes this game have then you are in for a good time... in theory.

The thing I absolutely despise is time limit, in any game, ever. And for this particular game, you have already abandoned "realistic" expectations with some details, so there is no need to have "realistic" time limit on some task. Certainly not when it isn't even doable yet. And technically you can still play after this time limit ends, but for me nothing happens after it and game as at standstill so it seems to be just an illusion or repeating the already-seen stuff.

Overall, I think I understand why people don't trust this project, but I don't want it to discourage the developer because at the end of the day what matters is what happens in future and how the game turns out. There have been some games which are absolutely horrible at the start or even have delayed updates, but then the redemption arc starts, some things get changed, updates come either more often or in more polished/finished state and everyone becomes happy again.

So yeah, that's my thoughts. Good luck on the project and hope developer will find the mental strength to look past negative comments and continue the project if able. Peace!

P.S. Another small issue forgot to mention. Choices often feel same and obviously I don't want to check every scenario possible if the minor flavor of text change affects actual routes. So the choices could be more clear or there could be hint system/walkthrough for the game in future, thanks.

 

[thegrindisreal]

KEKW

 

[gregers]

Hey guys, how to cheat cuck points, I change value on save-file, but in game nothing happens?

See here. Note however that "in game nothing happens" is still a pretty good description of the current state of the game.

The plan is for the story to eventually split into two paths depending on your cuck points, a hard NTR path (the dev's preference) and an alternative softer NTR path, but when and whether that plan will ever come to fruition remains to be seen.

 

[cyberwolfx55]

People seem to hate this game dev alot. Can understand why, but if people really hate the author but like the concept someone else should make something similar, who knows they might make more money than the current dev.

 

[Freeze10p2w]

People seem to hate this game dev alot. Can understand why, but if people really hate the author but like the concept someone else should make something similar, who knows they might make more money than the current dev.

Sounds like a easy thing to do why no one have thought about it