VN Ren'Py Tribulations of a Mage [v0.51.0] [Talothral]

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Hello all!

Ehh... it has been one of those days when you just should have turned off the alarm clock and gone back to sleep. Ah well. So what's up?

Rendering? It is in an okay state, not too bad, but not great either. I suppose I'm roughly where I should be, at least after I finish the scene I'm doing. So, not really complaining at this stage.

Writing? Writing is going decently, about halfway through the first update. So, no complaints there.

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This... is mostly a "palette cleanser" for me. And again with the mystery lady... she is in so many renders by now. Truthfully, her role is set already. I know how the story goes for the most part; just the details between the beginning and the end are slightly murky. Eh, things to think about once I get there. Anyway, you all have a great weekend. I'll take a break and render a bit more.
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This is really for Talothral, always let the story speak to you, the characters 'know' what will happen to them, you just let them 'tell' you.
Keep it up man.

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So I'm up to date on the AVN and I would recommend this one for people to check out:

-The writing: the writing does start with a lot of exposition which can be hard to follow. Also felt like some of the earlier conversations could have been a few sentences less due to repetition of things covered in the convo. It definitely improves through the course of the novel or I got smarter because of it and stop noticing it standing out.
-The LIs: I like harem games especially where the draw to the MC isn't "Magic Dick". This one doesn't feel forced and fits within the context of the setting. I also like that the LIs retain their personalities after joining the harem and don't mesh into the same archetype. Would even be happy to see more LIs in the journey throughout the lands.
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-The Setting: I like High fantasy and the world building is good in this one. There is a sense of the national divides and realms as well as enough lore to get a sense of the stakes involved for the Beings in the story.
-The lewds: The lewd scenes can get a little repetitive at times but that is what the CTRL key is for. There is plenty of veriety for LIs and veried settings that keeps the scenes from lacking depth. Though I do think the tower/town needs a hotsprings or lake near by it for more varied content.
-The MC and other bros: The MC isn't written in a way that he is OP. Sure they have life experience but also has the good judgements that come with that. Have played enought AVNs wher i have disliked the MC because they were a gaslighter and I wondered how they would be able to get all the LIs. The bro's like Mal have their own story arc and aren't just in the story for comic releaf or to contrast how "great" the MC is. Even if the MC gets tons of LIs it's not a the expense of the bros.

I would give this AVN a full recomendation if the DEV would get into their time machine and go get the finished product from their future selves with twice as much content ofcourse and bring it back to release it yesterday.

Looking forward for more content.
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I always took the repetition as the speaking style and representative of the way the characters minds work. We all have tendencies to repeat things at certain times as a personal trait and at least in my opinion when the characters do this in the AVN it is consistent with who, how, and when. So in short I think of it as more world building and character development but as usual this is all personal opinion.
 
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I always took the repetition as the speaking style and representative of the way the characters minds work. We all have tendencies to repeat things at certain times as a personal trait and at least in my opinion when the characters do this in the AVN it is consistent with who, how, and when. So in short I think of it as more world building and character development but as usual this is all personal opinion.
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Again too lazy to multi quote so you get the honour, or dishonour, to be the reference ;) >.> Anyway.

It's also part of being a human, and the difference between what the characters know and what the player knows. You as a player know a lot more than the characters because you see things unfolding, at times somewhere else than where the main character is. What the characters know is much less.

The characters don't know the main characters "backstory" that was told twenty updates ago, so it gets told again, and again, and again when a new person is met. Or some variation of it. Imagine how many things you've told about yourself to people you meet over and over again. The difference? Time frame. You might have weeks or months (even years) between the times you tell that X thing. In AVN (Book, game, movie, tv etc...) the time between events is usually much shorter, so the repetition is more glaring. And generally in AVNs, especially harem style, with more people who matters it is more visible "issue". Rare are the books and movies where there is more than one romantic partner that needs to know the details...
 
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Hello all!

Set building... feels like I've done nothing more than set building the past three days. Which is kind of accurate. But that being said, I'm about where I want to be. I still have about half the script, a bit more actually, to go through. Luckily, a lot of it is variants of the scenes, so I don't have to build that many sets as is anymore.

Writing is going, no complaints there, just lots of browsing through my environments (and props) recently just to ensure I can write the scenes I want and need to.

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And then a preview. Tomas, Jhaena and Nisha somewhere dark... curious things. It was interesting to make this one, I admit, lighting it wasn't the easiest, but I'm happy with it. Frankly, the spell that Tomas is casting doesn't have a reason. It's just there to provide a light source. For most parts.

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Exploring more of the world of magic... that has been a sort of wish for Sorcerer 2. And truthfully there will be more of that side than the normal, it’s still a mix since a lot of the members of the house needs to live in both worlds, but the focus should be more on the other side of things simply because that’s where the story leads. Anyway... short break and then more rendering and writing.
 
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I have a problem with the codex. Many characters mention in dialogue that they are pregnant or that our protagonist should impregnate them, but the status in the codex is still "not pregnant." Furthermore, the codex adds characters with hearts, but there's no status on whether the relationship status will be fixed in any way. Here's an example: Shani.It's a pity that there is no option to choose whether a given character is pregnant or not.
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I have a problem with the codex. Many characters mention in dialogue that they are pregnant or that our protagonist should impregnate them, but the status in the codex is still "not pregnant." Furthermore, the codex adds characters with hearts, but there's no status on whether the relationship status will be fixed in any way. Here's an example: Shani.It's a pity that there is no option to choose whether a given character is pregnant or not.
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Yeah, all of those are "fixed," well they never were broken as is, just the files aren't in the publishing builds. It's mostly that most of them didn't have suitable variables existing back then so the placeholders for them haven't been "changed", or it wasn't updated for some reason or other on time. But yeah, that should be sorted by the time of the epilogue is out the latest as that's when there is no need for development build anymore as is.
 
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there is, go to prefs, click extras and scroll down and click debug and voila.
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But many characters are missing who say they are pregnant or want to get pregnant. For example, Lady Mika is missing. I know these are side characters, but it kind of ruins the immersion.
 
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Hello all!

Friday... It is amusing, I told a month or two ago that this update would take longer than normal. During 0.50.0 I was panicking because it wasn't planned to take so long. Now? I'm calm. I knew from the start it would take longer than usual, simply because set building will take a lot of time. If I had to guess, about 1/3 of the time I've been doing set building. But overall, I'm happy with how it is going. I have four scenes left to render. "Problem" is that one of them is a long scene with fighting. I'm around 350 renders, which is roughly where I should be overall.

As for writing? If I can keep up with the "writing schedule" (have I mentioned building sets is annoying because it eats time?) I should be able to finish up the first update by Monday. Not sure if I have the buffer I want, but we'll see... I'll probably take a day or two writing break after 0.51.0 is done and then move to the epilogue.

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And then, the final preview of the update 0.51.0 rest... rest would spoil a lot of things. But that being said, things aren't looking good at the temple of Yuina.

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And then something else... This is again me seeing can I do something. Will it unfold like this? No. I wanted to see do I have an environment for it, then how... flexible the environment is. Then it just goes from there into something else partially. Although there are few props I need to find for the future, that is a good thing from this. And it also amuses me, when I create the characters there is a spreadsheet full of things. I think the current relating to Shattered Seals characters is somewhere in column BD. And rows? I stopped counting after 1000. It is a huge file, and it holds every character and lots of details from them, and most of it is randomly created. Except for the weapons for Alexander, although the sword was supposed to be a kukri, but didn't have a prop for that. The revolver... I don't know why that became his "signature" weapon. It was just was his I never really considered anything else when I originally created Mr. Ward. Although I would like a different model, .44 will do as the .357 model is... unwieldy, unfortunately. Eh, I'll live. Anyway, I'll take a short break and start rendering the fight scene. You all have a great weekend.
 
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