VN Ren'Py Abandoned Their Beautiful World - Divinity [v0.1.1] [Bright Sun Studios]

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I too enjoy the thought and story that you have put into this game. But I agree with others, I feel that the sexual images are lacking. I feel too far away from the action. Would also like to see more images than the one position. I do notice the facial expression changes, but still feel that they do not stand out since I am so far away from them. Greek mythology has been a favorite of mine, so this is right up my alley. Thanks for all of your work on this.
I know, adding to the sex scene is a top priority at the moment. There will be more images, positions and sexual options in the next version.

It's not really an excuse, but there is a reason for the way sex scenes are in version 0.1 though. Unlike creators of massive projects such as Dating My Daughter and Milfy City, I can't really afford to take many risks financially without being sure that those are worth it. Every months needs to bring me new patrons if I want to continue developing my games comfortable (for which I still have a long road ahead of me I'm afraid). So just taking a big risk because you already have $3000 in pledges each month and don't immediately need new pledges to be financially comfortable isn't an option for me at the moment.
While developing this game I already felt like I was taking too many risks as I'm certainly not financially stable enough through Patreon reight now to waste a bunch of time on a game that might not work.

This game was risky for several reasons. One of the being that it isn't really like any other adult game out there (as far as I'm aware). I tried a lot of new things with this game to be unique, but I had no way of knowing if people were going to like that. And developing those new things obviously takes time. A whole lot of time in fact as I can't see how other people did it an need to come up with all the systems myself. On top of that.... randomized sex scenes (although they sort of work right now) took so much longer than most of the players realize. And I'm fine with that as I think the result is worth it, but those two things together do have a huge drawback. I dedicated a ton of time to this game without having a clue about if it was worth it. And as I mentioned, I really can't afford to waste time on a project that isn't going to sucessfull. Especially not if the project is off this massive size.

I started with testing the randomized sex scenes to see if it was possible (because I wasn't sure if I should commit to creating this game at all). But after that I had to make a deadline for myself for when the first version would need to be finished. I knew I couldn't afford to wait any longer without knowing how people were going to react to it. And in my opinion a game without a ton of porn can still be a good game. But a ton of porn without an actual game can't be good. So I switched to creating the actual game and characters until the deadline came up.

But as I said, continuing to work on the sex scenes is a top priority now that the basics are there. Hopefully this didn't sound like me trying to make excuses. I'm simply trying to explain what happened and why it will be better in the next version (if you stick around for that). It basically comes down to risk management for what should be in a first version of a game like this
 

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It's been quite a while since I did a Sunday Community Poll, so here is another one:

With this one you can let me know which of my games you've played and which you enjoyed the most
 

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If i added the fan patch after i been playing the game does it still make them real sister an real mother or do i need to start a new game?
 

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@BsS - Thanks for the comprehensive explanation. Personally I'm so thrilled by the settings, images and lore you've put together that, together with an acceptance that this is still the game's early stages, I'm perfectly happy with the amount of sexual content so far. Having said which, moe involvement with Josephine and Livia in the next update would be greatly appreciated.

I love what you're trying to do here and now that I know it's your actual living at stake I'll be sure to join the ranks of your patrons as soon as I'm able. I hope other "classical" enthusiasts will feel and do the same.

Keep it up! :extremelyhappy:
 

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The game has a great story so far just kinda sucks i have to start over since the game is somewhat long.
The characters are really interesting and can't wait for more!
Just wish the sex was animated.
 
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The game has a great story so far just kinda sucks i have to start over since the game is somewhat long.
The characters are really interesting and can't wait for more!
Just wish the sex was animated.
Thanks for the kind review. Sex scenes will improve (in fact, they already have in my own current build of version 0.2), but animating the sex scenes isn't really an option I'm afraid. The problem is the various character options you can choose that have to show up in every sex scenes: Gender (2 options) and breast size when play as female (3) options. So that's 4 options in total. If I animated a scene of 5 seconds at 30 FPS, that would take 5 * 30 = 150 images per options. So 150 * 4 = 450 images in total. And that is only for 1 sex scenes. Currently sex scenes images are 'built' in real-time from smaller individual images. This means that since the positions are the same, I don't have to render Fivae/Livia/Sivenne all have sex with MC invidually. I can render the MC having sex with nothing and the other characters having sex with nothing. Then I can paste those two imags together to get a 'MC is fucking Fivae' image. That saves a ton of time. I can't do that for animation though as those have to be pre-made for Ren'py to be able to use them. So that means each girl needs 450 images for a single sex position. So I hope you understand why that isn't a realistic option here. They will get better though and version 0.2 will (hopefully) add various different positions to spice things up a bit
 
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I realize that its early but I personally prefer sex scenes that are not formulaic and have identical mechanics. While the story is engaging, the the mini games of the sex scenes were a bit disappointing to me. I care more about unique paths with pictures in the sex scenes than say animated sex scenes that are still scripted mini games.
 

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I realize that its early but I personally prefer sex scenes that are not formulaic and have identical mechanics. While the story is engaging, the the mini games of the sex scenes were a bit disappointing to me. I care more about unique paths with pictures in the sex scenes than say animated sex scenes that are still scripted mini games.
You are right that the keyword here is 'early'. The sex scenes are very similar at the moment and really have paths in them because the sex scenes weren't the focus of version 0.1. I wanted to add them so that people could see if how they were handled appealed to them, but they aren't really in their final stage. Because all other things (such as character development, world design, coding) took such massive amount of time, I sort of stopped with developing the sex scenes the moment they were passable and working. Version 0.2 will focus much more on improving the sex scenes now that the entire behind the scenes gameplay structure and such is finished. But the 'minigame' aspect of the scenes (as you call it) won't go away. I don't really see it as a minigame but instead as a narrative choice-heavy sex system. You don't need to have quick reflex or do some random new gameplay thing during the sex scenes as you do with most minigames in adult games.

But I will take your feedback into account. Plenty of people have mentioned that the sex scenes are currently the weakest part of the game and that really shouldn't be the case for an adult game. I hope the next version of the game will fix this for most players. Because currently the amount of work required for the game VS what people think of it/financial gain from this game is not worth it. And that's kind of a problem when I still very much need to earn additional patron support with each update I put out until I start making minimum wage
 
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I really enjoy several aspects of this game (futa, the setting, the character development, and the lore/backstory), so that's why I actually bothered to comment in the first place. I'm hoping to see some more personal/unique storytelling bits in the sex scenes too, and I'm eager to see where you're going with it. My comment about animation was basically just to say that I (I know this is hugely subjective) don't need any fancy and time consuming animations as long as I get some good pictures and dialogue that tell a story about the sex (which is not just due to choices of acts but also unique from where we are in the story progression).
 

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Here is a link to this week's Sunday Community Poll:

It's a big one. With this you can let me know exactly what you're looking for in an adult game
 
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I like the story up to the end part you don't get your love. I was like WTF is with this ending.
It's only a quick first version of an ending so that version 0.1 would have an ending for those who have no desire to continue the game when future updates are released. The ending will be tweaked and expanded on in the future.

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@Bright Sun Studios Still running across the 'Talk dirty to Favae' when with Sivenne spelling error. Also, sleeping doesn't seem to restore spent semen at all. Came inside Violet once, then have been 'dry' every time I should have came inside Favae/Sivenne afterwards. And this is with the 1.1 and fan patch installed, and maxing out the semen capacity skill.
 

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seems like it got some errors :p but for the rest it seems really good
going to wait for a update tho that fixes some of the errors haha
 
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