VN Ren'Py The Shadow Over Willowtown [Ep.1 v1.01] [VNCraft]

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DeVNCraft

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Sheesh! Young people these days have got no patience!
I can remember (back in the days of 27k dial-up) when it took longer than that to connect to the internet.
Thank you, my BBS brother from another mother. I really started coding around the days of AOL, I was learning when procomm was around :LOL:
 
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I wasn't expected this storm just yet...I'm not even done with the sites.

Honestly, thanks for the input, I didn't realize the intro was going to be a total game ender. Heard. Fixed. Appreciated.

Well, except for the one star rating. That was a bit brutal :LOL:

I mean c'mon, it's practically a demo at this point...and considering I don't intend to tamper with ratings like I've seen others do. That's a bad start.
 
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I wasn't expected this storm just yet...I'm not even done with the sites.

Honestly, thanks for the input, I didn't realize the intro was going to be a total game ender. Heard. Fixed. Appreciated.

Well, except for the one star rating. That was a bit brutal :LOL:
It was over the top. The reviews should be about the game - not about the main menu not having your favourite colour or the music not being your thing - because that's exactly what that review was.
 
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It was over the top. The reviews should be about the game - not about the main menu not having your favourite colour or the music not being your thing - because that's exactly what that review was.
Maybe I should have allowed them to customize the entire UI's color after all? :ROFLMAO:

It was too fast was what it was...but whatever. Its their opinion and they're free to have it.
 

JenMistress

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Well, what sold me on this was seeing it had a built in Walkthrough. Kinda wish had better control over the scroll back, specially at the end of the update. I know it said it put an automatic save somewhere, but I like to make sure by putting my own save from the last screen, and the screen as far as I can scroll back whenever I finish an update, and had a bit of trouble in doing so, as it wouldn't even let me scroll back, nor bring up any menus once it past the last screen of this update. But other than that, it was an fun start, and interested in seeing where this game goes. Thank you so very much for this game, and I will be looking forward for more!!!
 

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"Just Horni for my friends." Unless my mind is reading that line wrong, meaning Horni being pronounced as Horny, good to know. :unsure:;):LOL::ROFLMAO:

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Nailed it :LOL: I actually thought that was a little too blunt and asked him to make it more subtle haha...he obviously didn't listen, but I never tread on his story choices more than making a suggestion.

Well, what sold me on this was seeing it had a built in Walkthrough. Kinda wish had better control over the scroll back, specially at the end of the update. I know it said it put an automatic save somewhere, but I like to make sure by putting my own save from the last screen, and the screen as far as I can scroll back whenever I finish an update, and had a bit of trouble in doing so, as it wouldn't even let me scroll back, nor bring up any menus once it past the last screen of this update. But other than that, it was an fun start, and interested in seeing where this game goes. Thank you so very much for this game, and I will be looking forward for more!!!
I could actually allow the rollback now, I prevented scrolling back to prevent making multiple automatic saves....or that was the intent--until I had to prevent it regardless in case the user loaded the end game save again (god only knows why anyone besides me during testing would want to suffer through my credits multiple times lol)

Just for the record...it automatically locates the first empty PAGE of save slots, starting at page 10 for sanity and ease of coding, so your save is likely in slot 10-1 in this case.

When your have pages of saves later (like I end up with), it will automatically end up on the very last one without any saves on it. I did it this way because I didn't put any limit on how many pages you could actually have as well as it hopping from the script code (which LoVNCraft handles while writing the story) into my portion of the code, which is specifically being designed around the concept of preventing saves from breaking during releases, while allowing my writer to continue the script while I might have the project torn down halfway to code something.

I'll see what I can do about a warning to save yourself in the next update, as long as I can do it without breaking current saves.


I'm glad you enjoyed the game (and my walkthrough addition--modders are going to hate our game lol), there will be plenty more coming...we both have a deep seeded hatred for abandoned projects, the reasons, the arguments, the milking and bailing, and all the drama that comes with it. We discussed that before we discussed the actual plot :LOL:

Not gonna happen, we would finish it on itch with 3 players and zero income to show for it and be damned proud of the fact.

Thanks you for the kind words, we've already decided not to fight the inevitable and stick around to hear what the crowd is sayin...so all I can say is we'll see you next update ;) Cheers.
 

Weyrd

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I just "played" version 1.0. Ok, I think your charecters are well done and I think I can see the story starting to reveal itself. I am more mystified than entertained as it was a very short chapter.
I will look after in a later release and I do wish you luck. It has the makings of a good VN.

Again best of luck.
 

DeVNCraft

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I just "played" version 1.0. Ok, I think your charecters are well done and I think I can see the story starting to reveal itself. I am more mystified than entertained as it was a very short chapter.
I will look after in a later release and I do wish you luck. It has the makings of a good VN.

Again best of luck.
This was a demo basically, we wanted to get some feedback, plus the writer is doing all the rendering on a single machine with a 3060 on top of a full time job (unfortunately I can't use DAZ to save my life), we're trying to coordinate so they can make the renders and I can help push them out at the moment to speed things up even more until they can get a second rig for just rendering.

Thanks for the vote of confidence.
 
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Hope this game dont go abandoned
I'm going to take that as you enjoyed the start...sweet.

As the Developer, I can assure you that's not going to happen...but I'm well aware my word isn't going to convince anyone here, sadly it happens all too often.

"You only got two things in this world, your word and your balls...difference between me and most people, I still got both."...and I intend to keep them. (read a few posts up, Here)

We're already working on the next chapter, it was actually in the works on the writers end while I spent a week getting the code ready for release, making the about section and intro / outro, etc.

Honestly I designed the code for ease of use for my writer--to be fully functional without me if something were to happen...and asked only that they finish the game themselves if that situation ever came up, with my blessing.

We're a tighter team than most.
 

MarishkaCute

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WTF! 5 minutes read WARNING!,another 5 minutes look at this animation. Its fullshit,deleted this game,even not start playing.
Nah,ignore game like this
 
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WTF! 5 minutes read WARNING!,another 5 minutes look at this animation. Its fullshit,deleted this game,even not start playing.
Nah,ignore game like this
Your a little late. That was fixed already...and the animation will also be fully skippable in the next update with a single click.

Next time you might try playing the most recent update first, or at least reading the entire thread. I mean its a whole 3 pages - had my post count set to 40 :oops: :LOL:
 
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LoVNCraft

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STORY LOG #1
While "real life" takes much of our free time, Chapter 2 of Episode 1 is in full progress.

We're still on the story's first day, evening and night. Our protagonist and his friends are still settling at Willowtown University, uncovering new mysteries and everything will culminate...

No, I'm getting ahead of myself, but let's just say - if you like the story so far, you'll enjoy the new unsettling reveals and macabre twists.

Until our next "Story Log", I wish you good fun and good health!
The new images are on our official pages.



 
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