HTML Abandoned The Shadows of Friendships [v0.4] [VERSTA GAMES]

[Versta]

Bug 0.3

time schedule

The places for the NPS are to random and they are on places you kicked out. Midnight in the library no problems. Why should be a girl by a mans house when she is not togehter with him and he is at the pub? When I am lucky I can meet a girl before Midnight in her room when not after Midnight till she go to work. Realistic is that not. Aso why should a girl around 22:00 pm be at the beach alone to the early morning it makes no sence.

Thanks for you feedback!! Let me explain:

First, the game has been in development for two weeks since the release of the first version (I started writing the game around september 20).
All the parts are working on their bases, there is still a lot to improve each of them. The game works in a distributed way

- Currently it all belongs to the movement of the character itself, and it has over 500 lines of code, obviously it depends on certain random issues but it makes a bit of sense :

1) It depends on the personality of the character. only half implemented, but certain characters are more "active" (gym, beach, etc) than others, and others may tend to go to the library, cafe, etc. but also can go to gym in rare cases

- Depending on the place they go, they will improve their attribute.
- If they go to the mall and have money, they will buy things.
- If they do not know where to go, they will seek to join another character and go to their location. This includes houses!
- It is a group of friends. They don't need to be dating to be in the same house, it doesn't mean they are flirting or anything similar. But, you're right that it loses meaning if the owner of the house leaves. Anyway, maybe the other character decided to stay and talk to the family (?). i'll fix that soon.
- A girl can go to the beach until 12. It depends on the context of the country and other things. In Montevideo and particularly in the southern cone of South America -i'm from arg- it is normal to stay on public beaches until late, with friends. Just because there is no one else at night doesn't mean it's a bug or something. It is supposed to simulate that the characters have a life "beyond" what happens with the player or with others

Currently, there is a section to view these events. I need to add the day to make it more orderly, but here's a little explanation:



first Samuel (15hs) went to the library and improved his intelligence somehow. and then, tatiana decided to meet samuel and flirt with him.

Characters stay for >2 hours in one place. That's why it can happen that they appear in closed places or that they are in a house where the owner left. You are right on that point and I will fix it, thank you very much for the feedback

But the game is in development. The important thing is that the system is working, I will improve it soon and it will be as realistic as possible, however I will keep the dynamic of being able to visit characters at night and things like that so it won't be a game that you have to wait 100 days to fuck them

Once again thank you very much for the feedback!!!! is really very valuable to improve the game, little by little. I am working on several things at the same time and the result will be seen soon

 

[Versta]

Keep up the good work dude. I would like to give you 5 stars but im just too lazy to write 200 characters lol. Cheersss <

Thanks!!!

 

[Hitmaster]

im fan of this game, please continue this s2 congratulations for the great work

 

[Versta]

im fan of this game, please continue this s2 congratulations for the great work

Yes, the development will continue, I promise

Remember that I'm looking for suggestions to implement, you can leave them in the discord channel. The game can have many additional things without altering the "main story" (which still doesn't have much shape... yet)

 

[Dole]

I meaned for example when you kicked out from the library at 22:00pm why a npc can be in the library after this time that I meaned with no sense. Aso not that the npc is on the beach only the time it is more after sunset so around 20 or 21 pm ok when a npc like night swimming ok to midnight is very long that is sometimes 3-5 hours the npc is on the beach (2-3 hours without sun). The rape danger is normal very high. Aso nobody is normal in the friends house when the person/npc is not there (then they are on a relationship it is ok, I maded that they left their relationships so normal that it can`t be). This I meant with realistic. Aso that I meet the most nps at Mignight and talk to them from Midnight-8am. Normal the nps are sleeping and would kick me out or sleeping and not talking. So you must block normal when they are not in the pub and so on they are sleeping for example from 2-7am and you can`t talk to them.

 

[bruce19]

How to be boyfriend of any girls? Is there a relationship requirement?

 

[Versta]

How to be boyfriend of any girls? Is there a relationship requirement?

I am developing that part, it will be available next week confirmed. Also, a preference system for npc will be added. There will be not only a relationship variable but also a desire variable.

Explanation: Mayra can have a very good relationship with Isaac (or with you), can be good friends. But there doesn't necessarily have to be desire. If there is no desire there are no sexual scenes. It is a short summary, but it will come that way with more logical sense about how desire is generated. You can manipulate desire between characters ofc

I meaned for example when you kicked out from the library at 22:00pm why a npc can be in the library after this time that I meaned with no sense. Aso not that the npc is on the beach only the time it is more after sunset so around 20 or 21 pm ok when a npc like night swimming ok to midnight is very long that is sometimes 3-5 hours the npc is on the beach (2-3 hours without sun). The rape danger is normal very high. Aso nobody is normal in the friends house when the person/npc is not there (then they are on a relationship it is ok, I maded that they left their relationships so normal that it can`t be). This I meant with realistic. Aso that I meet the most nps at Mignight and talk to them from Midnight-8am. Normal the nps are sleeping and would kick me out or sleeping and not talking. So you must block normal when they are not in the pub and so on they are sleeping for example from 2-7am and you can`t talk to them.

You are completely right about the library. Is not a bug, but a lack of restrictions so I will add it in the next version. NPCs will be able to be on the beach until 11-12pm, but I will add a place that is on the beach (like a bar or something), to make it more meaningful than just going for a swim, or make it safer.

About the houses, you're right, they should kick you out. But I'll leave it up to the player. I like the possibility that they can go to the NPC's house at any time so they can develop the relations. But again, you're copmpletely right about that.It's not realistic. I will add more restrictions but I won't block it. It will be more difficult but I want to keep it that way so the player can increase their relationships without it requiring too much game time, that can become annoying for some ppl. Of course it's always the player's decision: if you prefer, you can visit them only during the day. I will be thinking and working on that to partially apply your suggestion

thanks!!

 

[Rafster]

Man, congratz on pulling su much content on such short time...but are you sure you can keep up with a weekly schedule? even if you're dedicated 100% to the game, you might burn out. I'm not saying you take 6 months between updates but....every 15 days or a monthly big ass update wouldn't be better?

 

[Virgile85]

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[dingo4life]

Man, congratz on pulling su much content on such short time...but are you sure you can keep up with a weekly schedule? even if you're dedicated 100% to the game, you might burn out. I'm not saying you take 6 months between updates but....every 15 days or a monthly big ass update wouldn't be better?

I'm not really sure what that would accomplish, if the dude wants a break or need extra time since he needs to focus on like one major thing he can just say so but honestly unless he is doing nothing for like the half the days out of the 15/30 days you suggested it would be the same result, except people would just have to wait for longer on stuff like bugfixes, if your still working the same amount of hours it would just seem odd to suddenly be less open about it. Especially in this early stage where you are trying to get people hooked.
The two big hurdles for games seem to always be getting past 0.5 and especially 0.10, most games die before that and are probably met with a fair bit of skeptisim on places like Patreon.
Again, if the dude wants to slow it down or hold a break but I don't see the point if he works equally as much and we just see less.

 

[Rafster]

I'm not really sure what that would accomplish, if the dude wants a break or need extra time since he needs to focus on like one major thing he can just say so but honestly unless he is doing nothing for like the half the days out of the 15/30 days you suggested it would be the same result, except people would just have to wait for longer on stuff like bugfixes, if your still working the same amount of hours it would just seem odd to suddenly be less open about it. Especially in this early stage where you are trying to get people hooked.
The two big hurdles for games seem to always be getting past 0.5 and especially 0.10, most games die before that and are probably met with a fair bit of skeptisim on places like Patreon.
Again, if the dude wants to slow it down or hold a break but I don't see the point if he works equally as much and we just see less.

Come on, do you honestly think that a lone dev can handle giving new content every week without burning down? it may take some time, it may be quick, but it can happen. I'm just saying for his mental health, that's all. This game have a concept that I don't want see it dying

Bug fixes? ok, but pulling new content every week will be hard.

Anyway, this is just speculation, the only one who knows this is the dev, and if he says he's fine, so be it.

 

[Versta]

Man, congratz on pulling su much content on such short time...but are you sure you can keep up with a weekly schedule? even if you're dedicated 100% to the game, you might burn out. I'm not saying you take 6 months between updates but....every 15 days or a monthly big ass update wouldn't be better?

I'm not really sure what that would accomplish, if the dude wants a break or need extra time since he needs to focus on like one major thing he can just say so but honestly unless he is doing nothing for like the half the days out of the 15/30 days you suggested it would be the same result, except people would just have to wait for longer on stuff like bugfixes, if your still working the same amount of hours it would just seem odd to suddenly be less open about it. Especially in this early stage where you are trying to get people hooked.
The two big hurdles for games seem to always be getting past 0.5 and especially 0.10, most games die before that and are probably met with a fair bit of skeptisim on places like Patreon.
Again, if the dude wants to slow it down or hold a break but I don't see the point if he works equally as much and we just see less.

Come on, do you honestly think that a lone dev can handle giving new content every week without burning down? it may take some time, it may be quick, but it can happen. I'm just saying for his mental health, that's all. This game have a concept that I don't want see it dying

Bug fixes? ok, but pulling new content every week will be hard.

Anyway, this is just speculation, the only one who knows this is the dev, and if he says he's fine, so be it.

Both are correct. There will be times when I may not feel like doing some things, but for the moment this is a hobby. I am also very committed when there are already even a few people who like this game. ofc there will be problems delivering weekly updates. i.e this weekend, since my boss assigned me a project for Monday and I have no fucking idea how to do it.

But at least I already have 2 good updates to deliver on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. The intention is that, to be constant, and it is necessary because in this kind of game I have to memorize what I have done before because if I'm enough days without doing anything, it will be difficult to remember what I programmed and errors will start to appear.

This is not for money, it's a hobby and a disconnect from personal problems I have. So as long as there's nothing to drive me crazy, I enjoy doing it. The biggest rock in the way is my shitty job, which is a real shitty job, but in December (summer in this hemisphere) I'll have some vacation.

I can only say that this project will not be abandoned. Maybe at some point it will be convenient to delay the updates, and make them every 15 days as Rafster said. But I will always guarantee that there will be good updates and that the game will follow its course.

Thanks for those comments!!

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I'm new too, but I've seen some really good games in the HTML tag. I don't know how consistent they are with updates, but there are some really good games out there.
Feel free, those who want to, to suggest other games in this thread

 

[fikka]

But at least I already have 2 good updates to deliver on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. The intention is that, to be constant, and it is necessary because in this kind of game I have to memorize what I have done before because if I'm enough days without doing anything, it will be difficult to remember what I programmed and errors will start to appear.

Just wanted to chime in and say that I love where this game is heading and looking forward to future updates. Regarding keeping a track on what changes you made I'll suggest using a versioning tool like svn or git. You dont need to push the changes online but can keep it local to your PC. Trust me, that helps a lot and you can track and revert changes.

Also, was fiddling a bit under the hood and I saw you had hardcoded your characters for things like the truth or dare and spin the bottle game. In my opinion you will benefit a lot if you instead used loops and conditions and pulled the character, scene, etc from an array or database. I think it would help a lot once you add more characters (for eg. currently the girls are hardcoded with their current boyfriend, but it might be later their boyfriend changes - you don't want to literally code for each male as a potential boyfriend). It might take some time to set this framework but will save a lot of time later as this scales up.

Good luck ! Can't wait for what else is in store

PS: I know both the games (T or D and Spin the bottle) are very premature but it would be fun to mess with a girl in front of her boyfriend when she gets drunk hint hint

 

[Versta]

Just wanted to chime in and say that I love where this game is heading and looking forward to future updates. Regarding keeping a track on what changes you made I'll suggest using a versioning tool like svn or git. You dont need to push the changes online but can keep it local to your PC. Trust me, that helps a lot and you can track and revert changes.

Also, was fiddling a bit under the hood and I saw you had hardcoded your characters for things like the truth or dare and spin the bottle game. In my opinion you will benefit a lot if you instead used loops and conditions and pulled the character, scene, etc from an array or database. I think it would help a lot once you add more characters (for eg. currently the girls are hardcoded with their current boyfriend, but it might be later their boyfriend changes - you don't want to literally code for each male as a potential boyfriend). It might take some time to set this framework but will save a lot of time later as this scales up.

Good luck ! Can't wait for what else is in store

PS: I know both the games (T or D and Spin the bottle) are very premature but it would be fun to mess with a girl in front of her boyfriend when she gets drunk hint hint

Yeah, this morning I was thinking that! I'm doing an important refactor on the hardcode you mentioned (I was stupid, I programmed it without anticipating that in the next version the relationships would start to be dynamic) and I said: shit, if I screw up I'm going to have to look for backups and so on... I should start using git. But I'm really short of time so I think I'll start using a versioning tool from next week.

I must be more organized. I have experience programming but I've known this tool for a month, and I've been learning its features as I go along... so there are several bad practices that I have to correct along the way.

The party system needs much more work. But its a module that I want to be very complete and unique. It will have a lot of things in it soon, including what you mentioned

 

[katabasi]

this game feels like a spreadsheet

 

[Versta]

Very complicated week at work - there is a new project that the first week is consuming me more than 11-12 hours per day. Hopefully tomorrow or Thursday I will be able to reverse the situation.

Still, I have 1-2 hour per day left to dedicate to the game development - I would like to have more hours.

For now I think the update will be Friday night, if I get a chance to add more content, I'll move it to Saturday. But I will try to get back to weekly updates soon. Thanks!

 

[Urusaisenpai]

Where do you buy drinks?

grocerystore comes with and error

 

[ilikethings]

Where do you buy drinks?
View attachment 1462608
grocerystore comes with and error

Theres a bugfix thats posted that fixes this error

 

[Urusaisenpai]

Theres a bugfix thats posted that fixes this error

A link for the bugfix would be really appreciated <3

 

[ilikethings]

A link for the bugfix would be really appreciated <3

It's on the last page posted by versta. He is planning on posting new version tonight so I would just wait until then unless you really want to play