VN Ren'Py The Shadow over Willowtown [Ep.2 v2.2 SE] [VNCraft]

[DeVNCraft]

Wonder who brought that up.

"Due to incessant whining and bitching like a bunch of littl"...le girls ...I mean polite requests from out fans

Beleieve it or not, I had to put in a hack for this version so saves worked over that little suggestion, since I do it from code outside of the script (Lov handles the script), I make whatever he needs in the scripts work from a separate file full of functions.

In laymans terms it was a real pain in the arse from an already working setup I had that took me more time than the rest of the entire update to make sure saves didn't break now and later...it's all good, just don't break your arm patting yourself on the back ok? (or take offense to this or the credits--just a joke)

But seriously, I am enjoying this game. Thank you so very much for this, and totally be waiting for more!!!

Being serious myself, I'm glad your enjoying the game, and your quite welcome. If there's anything else I can do to make it more enjoyable for you or others...I'll be here listening.

EDIT:

And the hack was a one time thing--the saves are all set for any future updates already.

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Only Lov knows if it will have long term affects...and i'm not sure if he even decided yet, it was probably a good place to save.

As I said before, the walkthrough I designed, but I make everything in a manner that he could complete the entire game without me if need be just knowing how to write the script...even the gallery and Kinetic Mode is automated externally for him inside it.

So he add's in the choices that he feels the player needs to know about himself and what color to show for everything, I only insisted he point to the possible sex scenes - I mean thats half the point of a walkthrough in a game like this.

I did this partly so the game could be completed no matter what, life's a little bumpy for me right now, and partly so I could enjoy the story myself without spoilers, what can I say...he writes a hell of a story

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I am the Dev, the asshole, and the ballbuster...but he's the heart and soul of this game (the names are fitting).

I have some experience writing myself, but this was his story originally and I stay out of it entirely out of respect, throwing suggestions and ideas whenever I can, but never insisting...I only insist he change or add things absolutely needed for the code to work properly, and I prefer to work around his needs whenever possible.

If anything, he's the one that deserves the credit, I just make things go click and work under the hood, adding in some visual effects here and there...aside from the little skits between us as 'Dev' and 'Lov', the actual writing in the game is all him. I may be loud and all over the social aspect...but I certainly don't deserve the kudo's for anything except for the code itself.

 

[LoVNCraft]

Caught back up with the Dev.

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I see you did add the warning and chance to rollback at the end. Wonder who brought that up. But seriously, I am enjoying this game. Thank you so very much for this, and totally be waiting for more!!!

If you play with the walkthrough turned ON, you can see every decision that will affect the story, but if you prefer playing without the WT, you can be sure that all really important choices will be logical and clear for you to pick. Some choices are there just to give you a different flavour or to see different scenes.

 

[DeVNCraft]

If you play with the walkthrough turned ON, you can see every decision that will affect the story, but if you prefer playing without the WT, you can be sure that all really important choices will be logical and clear for you to pick. Some choices are there just to give you a different flavour or to see different scenes.

All I could think about right now (for two reasons--pick one), was Mr Pickman

 

[ventebanger]

poor gal is getting force-snapped in front of these two idiots...

A lovecraftianesque which is comedic instead of bleak.....yet? Also I chuckled at the warning letter, something about big generic font on an ominous warning I guess, now if you had used comic sans... that would have been truly cursed... best of luck with the project devs.

 

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poor gal is getting force-snapped in front of these two idiots...

A lovecraftianesque which is comedic instead of bleak.....yet? Also I chuckled at the warning letter, something about big generic font on an ominous warning I guess, now if you had used comic sans... that would have been truly cursed... best of luck with the project devs.

We are accepting funding for Lov's mental recovery after his deep dive into necrophilia assetts to try finding a good pose for that

Aside from the moving intro that everyone skips anyways (so I forget it exists lol), the rest of the Warning(s) if you could call them that, change with the UI font now...although the Goth font should have been the default for all of it. Again, you can blame the mocking and piss poor writing on me there, as well as being graphical without any graphical skills to speak of lol.

Your not the first to mention Comic Sans in that light, i'm honestly surprised at the hatred it gets, even few and far between.

And thank you.

 

[ventebanger]

Aside from the moving intro that everyone skips anyways (so I forget it exists lol), the rest of the Warning(s) if you could call them that, change with the UI font now...although the Goth font should have been the default for all of it. Again, you can blame the mocking and piss poor writing on me there, as well as being graphical without any graphical skills to speak of

Ahh a misunderstanding... I meant the warning letter vice dean left for the mc in the dorm room

 

[DeVNCraft]

Ahh a misunderstanding... I meant the warning letter vice dean left for the mc in the dorm room

Ohhh, my bad. That one's all him. We were just discussing that due to the spanish localization and decided to leave it rather than make life simple by replacing it with in-game text actually, even if that means the picture itself doesn't get translated right away.

Other than that, he can respond himself if he has anything to add

 

[LoVNCraft]

Ahh a misunderstanding... I meant the warning letter vice dean left for the mc in the dorm room

Honestly, I don't know why I used such a big font. Maybe I had one beer too many that day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[DeVNCraft]

Honestly, I don't know why I used such a big font. Maybe I had one beer too many that day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Threat letters you regret later? Sounds like one too many to me

I started asking friends to sell me their soul for a penny while I was boozing heavy for a time and it became a running thing...the scary part is alot of them did because they were drunk too.

One girl YEARS later must have joined a cult or something and had a meltdown asking me for her soul back...it was honestly so funny I didn't know what to say, I had them sign a scrap paper when we did it so she wanted a formal written return of her soul...I wrote it for her, but i've never felt so ridiculous in my life (I was sober at this point)...I can't even imagine how she must have felt asking me to do it

"Tales from the dev - Episode 1: Dafuq"

 

[DeVNCraft]

I had way too many laughs making this preview not to share it

 

[LoVNCraft]

STORY LOG #3

It has been a while since my last Story log, but it was necessary with our Spanish release and everything else happening. Also, DAZ decided to misbehave but now we’re back on friendly terms.

So, we’re at the beginning of the third chapter of Episode 1 – the last Chapter that will conclude this episode, but it’s barely the start of our story.

After the eventful night and the next morning’s invite, our hero is spending his free time exploring the island. Among other places, he’ll visit a hamlet with an interesting name, enjoy some ‘oral and, later on, maybe get lost in the woods… in the most enjoyable way.

Yeah, there will be some naughty scenes, our fans deserve them, but, as always, they’re not some gratuitous porn, but an important part of the story,

It is still too early to predict when this release will be ready, but, hopefully, it’ll be somewhere in April.

A little reminder: our -50% promo discount on all subscriptions will end in 48 hours.

Until the next time, I wish you all good fun and good health!

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[DeVNCraft]

STORY LOG #3

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I just hopped on myself to see if you shared that here

 

[DeVNCraft]

The technical jargon and dev log are available publicly on any of our sites, but the short version is the first and third video are two separate files of the same video running at the same time, a test for keeping multiple angles of one scene in sync while switching between them.

 

[LoVNCraft]

STORY LOG #4

Here is our new Story log. This update is taking longer than expected, but we're close. I would say at 75% or maybe more.

So, what's new? We have four new animations and implemented angle swapping, which will be a regular feature in most of the future animations. More about that you can find in Dev's previous post.

In terms of the story, we have some pleasant and unpleasant experiences for our froshes. We have a quick history lesson about Mythosia. Our game is set in a fictional country, situated somewhere in the Mediterranean. So, Mythosia is a mix of Italy, France, Croatia, Spain, Greece, Albania and every other Mediterranean country you can think of. That way, we are not constricted or limited by any historical or geographical fact.

Although the name of the country was mentioned before, some people thought the game was set in the USA. I hope this misunderstanding is now cleared.

What's left to do before the release of the full Episode 1? In terms of the story and renderings, there are Friday afternoon and night scenes and the final scenes on Saturday morning, when we'll meet a couple of other characters important to the story. This could be done in the next 5 to 10 days, but we'll also need to wait for our friend who's translating the game into Spanish. Still, I'm optimistic about this and I think it'll be released in the first week of May.

Until the next time, I wish you all good fun and good health!

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[DeVNCraft]

I'm going to share this here...but I have to actually include the story this time instead of just a youtube video.

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(Original Patreon Post))

We're almost ready for release, our Spanish Localization Team (A one man army of Joel) is at war with our Engrish, then I need to run it through some testing (like watching the credits five times for each font on PC and Android--no more complaints!!!),, tweak a few minor lines of code and go X-Terminator on any bugs I find.
You can expect the game soon...and it's the biggest update so far this time around, we put in alot of extra effort, Lov has been rendering 99% of his life away while I made other games for our game.

In the meantime, as a special treat for the delay and before future development posts get locked behind tiers...we've decided (against my urge to not involve another game before we were on self made solid ground), that we would give you a short preview of the mini-game I've been keeping in the dark--mainly because once I had the dev's permission I went into Fonz mode, punched the stereo (nobody has a jukebox these days lol), and practically finished the general gameplay for it already.
So, first and foremost I want to give a shout out to Arc (The Arcadean), developer of Corrupted Kingdoms (CK), which I highly recommentld checking out, it's hilarious even if it's not your kind of smut...the story is worth it. Find it here.

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Unfortunately, as someone who has played the entire game, I have to say that Patreon made a mistake when asking them to remove non-nsfw plot based children from his game, which is a huge part of the story...but I won't shoot myself in the foot I just stuck in my mouth any further.

What I will say is the dev's a hot shit, I knew them from itch as a no name user and stopped lurking just to get involved on the CK page, but even without telling them my old username in a random message asking to use the assets for CK, they were more than happy to let me and even gave me some extras to work with at the same time.
Really solid dev and all around decent down to earth person who treats all his fans with respect. I don't kiss ass, I don't beg, i'm as blunt as a bat--so that's just my opinion of them and the game, take it as you will.

I do however appreciate everything people do for me, so thank you my friend!!! I'll send you a free sub when the mini game goes up for early beta testing here for our subscribers so you can check it out yourself. Cheers!!!
With that out of the way...I've got more games in the works, I've even went so far as to test controls for something similar to Street Fighter which you can find on our youtube if your interested--but I have no plans for that type of game in ren'py (yet at least)...our story is set in 1985 and these are intended as a story plot, so I gotta keep it close to classic...although I intend to make them replayable and i'll likely go overboard anyways (its in my genetic programming)

Theres a story (skit) behind how this game idea came up between us that will eventually be somewhere in the games menu sections nobody reads like the others, but that will be closer to us reaching the story point, along with beta testing for subscrobers of certain tiers.

I haven't came up with a final name for it yet, it still needs sound effects and a score tracker, but its going to have 2 modes (one hidden that can be unlocked by certain actions when playing the main mode), and its going to have other changes before release, but this is a short general look at the gameplay in action so you can see that it's working and playable.

I hope you enjoy my final public sneak peek, and I hope to see you on the other side.
Thank you for all the support....the story based route is going to be an uphill battle and we knew it from the very start, so we appreciate every ounce of support we get. I've been programming for over 25yrs and the dream started with wanting to make games, this is the first game I actually released to the world, but it won't be the last, and if I find time to work on different types of projects in different programmming languages in my spare time, you'll find them all here at VNCraft.

More VN's is an obvious. I get to plan the next one. That's terrifying even to me lmao.

Catch you on the flipside.

--Dev

Once again I want to give a big thanks to ArcGames for allowing some no name newb of a Dev to use his Corrupted Kingdoms character cards to make the assets for this game...it just worked, and I hope they find it as awesome as I do when its finished.

I'm linking a newer version here that includes sounds (also from CK, again--it was just fitting and sort of a tribute), if you happen to catch this Arc, drop me a message and let me know if you have any issue with me using them and i'll replace them with something unique if I don't hear from you, i'll drop into your Discord and ask before it actually ends up part of the game just out of respect.

I don't know if there are any rules about linking to another game in my own game thread...I doubt it, but i'm just going to ask that it be overlooked this time if there is for obvious reasons. Please and thank you.

I was never intending to show this one until much much later, but it was the first one close enough to completed and I wanted to show some progress on the mini-games. If you like the mini-game-go buy Arc a coffee or something

 

[Jnx]

So the BRIGHT ASS "horror" game description starts with 4 references and a description that says "MC returns home after some time"

Right.

 

[Bob69]

The Shadow over Willowtown [Ep.1 v1.18 SE] [VNCraft] - Compressed

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[LoVNCraft]

So the BRIGHT ASS "horror" game description starts with 4 references and a description that says "MC returns home after some time"

Right.

Try playing it, not commenting and quoting things you think you see, instead of things that are actually there.

 

[Saint Blackmoor]

I tried the game again today, and there are improvements. However, the grammar resulting from the translation still needs work.

Also, Elasstommer 's review is not very informative to prospective players. (see Kal995 review) If they like the game and want it to succeed, they should write a proper review, not an atta boy review.

I do wish this game success, keep at it, fellas.

 

[Boehser Onkel]

sounds and looks very familiar
is this a remake?
pretty sure i've seen this 3 or 4 years ago lol