VN Ren'Py Unexpected Opportunity [Ch. 6] [Sweetychily]

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hysepReC

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Sometimes i wonder if people just complain for the sake of complaining. Emily and the MC went to the gym together and she saw an easy way to get a discount. Should she have told him about her plan beforehand? Probably, but there was no harm done. Taylor sent the MC nudes, immediately regretted it and came up with a shitty excuse because she was embarrassed. I've already commented about Lisa running away but i'm sure she had a good reason for it and Nicole covered for her because that's what friends do.

I don't think any of these girls did something unforgivable (or even bad). Rachel on the other hand? Well, let's see...
 

chicken head

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If anyone has every seen a comment or received a like from me, they should know my position on bad tags, bad storylines and unwholesomeness. I like the good vibes, I like redemption and I like cute things. So hopefully you guys can give certain characters a chance eventually. If you guys have negative opinions, just know that I wouldn't fail you, so have a little faith :D If I do, I'll be here as I have for the last 7 years :D
I know you well my man :love: giphy (6).gif
 

chicken head

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You're too much! Glad to see you ChickenHead <3

If you play it, tell me your favorite character :D
you already know who it is :) love all girls except Rachel (character-wise only but it may change in the future after you revealed her story arc ) but if I need to pick one sure it will be Lisa and that damn sure you know it well virtual-hug-big-hug.gif
 

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Just wait until I wish to create a storyline where the reason Alistar is so wholesome is cause they are all robots that watched too many wholesome direct-to-video Disney movies where the power of friendship conquers all.

:unsure: Maybe I will...
Disney is very UNwholesome. They've destroyed everything they've touched for a long while now.
 
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Larry2000

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Disney is very UNwholesome. They've destroyed everything they've touched for a long while now.
I will post this response in a spoiler cause off topic. But I will confirm that this is NOT the story in Unexpected Opportunity for Alistar's story. On a side note, we've just started outlining next update and we got a good place for Emily in it :D

We're thinking of making a poll soon for the most popular/loved Love Interest. Stay tuned!

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Larry2000

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Hey all, we just put a post out on our Patreon page about the next update :D It's free for all to see, so give it a look.



It also gives a preview of what's coming in our 0.4 update including Emily for those short hair lovers. :p
We also address some changes to characters. As well as a poll we're making later :)

Edit: It says June 1st, we meant June 2nd :)
 

LionHeart131

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Hey all, we just put a post out on our Patreon page about the next update :D It's free for all to see, so give it a look.



It also gives a preview of what's coming in our 0.4 update including Emily for those short hair lovers. :p
We also address some changes to characters. As well as a poll we're making later :)

Edit: It says June 1st, we meant June 2nd :)
Literally read the patreon post and stared at my calendar for a solid minute saying "today is june 1st. . . ."
 

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Hey all, we just put a post out on our Patreon page about the next update :D It's free for all to see, so give it a look.



It also gives a preview of what's coming in our 0.4 update including Emily for those short hair lovers. :p
We also address some changes to characters. As well as a poll we're making later :)

Edit: It says June 1st, we meant June 2nd :)
 

Sweetychily

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Hello everybody! We have a poll on our page waiting for you and it's free for all! If you would like to have more power on the poll and have the other advantages, you can be one of our Supporters! Thanks!
 
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holaje12

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A rework uh? Well, it was much needed, although I see they keep insisting with the cheating ex.
Unless it turns out that she never cheated somehow ( which at this point would be unlikely and also an unoriginal plotwist that has been used before and it only serves to annoy the audience with the initial misunderstanding), she is just a waste of resources because 90% of the people just wont play her route no matter what, I wouldnt even listen to her explanation if the game didnt force me to. Cheaters just can never be a LI unless you are making a cuckold game.
Still, the main girls seem to be Lisa and Nicole which are pretty good (after removing the bcc stuff lmao) so the game is worth playing right now at least. But again-> Rachel = waste of time and renders that could be used on the main girls or even introducing other LIs..... Just saying.
Some devs do make the mistake of adding some cheater exs at the beginning of their game for some cheap drama, but they know better than to keep her around and even make her a LI, it'll never work no matter what her reasons or explanations might be.
I know the devs want to think that they are so good that they might change some people minds but thats just not possible. Its like a chef saying you will enjoy eating feces because he is just going to prepare them specially good for you. No way, dude.
She cheated, thats it. Thats all that matters.
 
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Melanx0l1k

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hello developer(s), I wanted to say that this is a game like a fairytale, the main character had everything bad and everything became good. I hope the plot, which is ambiguous, will show something in the end, and not just as a seed. I hate you for this ending of the chapter, but at the same time I adore you and look forward to the continuation. Sorry for my English, I used a translator
 

Cabin

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pls do add the bdsm tag when u implement it in the game
i filter out games using that tag
its my fav fetish
unfortunately so many good bdsm games remain hidden away just because of poor tag usages
 

Larry2000

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Hello everyone! It's been a while and I want to communicate a few things. First, we're still working on our update. As is usually the case, we have lives besides that so sorry if people expected the update sooner.

Second, All that said, We're in the final stages of completing the update! :D

We're still tweaking things, but the thing to note about this update is the pacing and the scenes we wanted to add.

We didn't intend for the update to be as heavy as it ended up being, but there are some revelations we have about the characters that can't be done any other way. We find out or tease some very deep and traumatic things from some of the main character's pasts. The main focus of this update are Rachel, Nicole, Taylor and Emily. Each dealing with their own issues and or their own regret. However, it doesn't leave the MC out of it. How does MC fit into their stories? MC shares a past with Rachel and Nicole, so how will he consolidate them?

Rachel, a betrayal; and Nicole, a trauma. We will find out some bigger revelations soon about them and MC.

Speaking of MC, how is he? In the first couple of updates it seemed that his problems were solved. But is that really the case? Does he have no room to grow? Well, in update 0.3 when he was gathered around the kitchen table, you could catch that he got awfully defensive when asked about himself. What's his deal and what does that mean for his relationships?

Emily on the other hand is a bit different. She and MC have really hit it off and seem to be good friends. There is a bond that isn't just male and female, but is that what both of them want? Who knows... maybe you can change that...

Taylor is the gym attendant that looks like she uses the facilities to great success. In 0.2 we received some intimate photos of her and 0.3 we get a birds eye view of exactly why. However, what does that mean for MC? MC's a nice guy, and of COURSE when a lady sends you unwanted nudes, you delete them right? He did honest! In this update, we'll see if that was a mistake or not ;)

Lastly, 0.4 is the last strictly story chapter. We want to give players the option to pursue a girl, or choose to not continue with them romantically. OR if you're a real dog ;) you can pursue them all :devilish: In 0.5 we're gonna do a code overhaul that will allow us to do this. We'll talk more about this later.

Regardless of what you pick, we want the characters to speak to real people. People with complex emotions. People that regret decisions they make; that try their hardest and still fail; those that fail and are sometimes rewarded. Just like in real life, there is a sense that when one door closes, another opens. And the willingness to make a mistake and learn that making mistakes helps you grow.

We tried to follow that when creating Unexpected Opportunity. The fact that in life, we all fail and sometimes that failure opens up a new, perhaps... unexpected opportunity; an unspeakable horror takes you and leads you to the love of your life; finally, a kind stranger that drafts up the path to the light. In many ways, the city of Alistar and the MC are ways for these lost people to find this kind of happiness and those to in turn, help the MC as well. Hopefully we can live up to creating something like this :D

Damn, I'm incredibly icky and verbose! Yuck! :sick: I hope you look forward to our update coming soon :whistle:

Our Patreon is:
 

EJW

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Hello everyone! It's been a while and I want to communicate a few things. First, we're still working on our update. As is usually the case, we have lives besides that so sorry if people expected the update sooner.

Second, All that said, We're in the final stages of completing the update! :D

We're still tweaking things, but the thing to note about this update is the pacing and the scenes we wanted to add.

We didn't intend for the update to be as heavy as it ended up being, but there are some revelations we have about the characters that can't be done any other way. We find out or tease some very deep and traumatic things from some of the main character's pasts. The main focus of this update are Rachel, Nicole, Taylor and Emily. Each dealing with their own issues and or their own regret. However, it doesn't leave the MC out of it. How does MC fit into their stories? MC shares a past with Rachel and Nicole, so how will he consolidate them?

Rachel, a betrayal; and Nicole, a trauma. We will find out some bigger revelations soon about them and MC.

Speaking of MC, how is he? In the first couple of updates it seemed that his problems were solved. But is that really the case? Does he have no room to grow? Well, in update 0.3 when he was gathered around the kitchen table, you could catch that he got awfully defensive when asked about himself. What's his deal and what does that mean for his relationships?

Emily on the other hand is a bit different. She and MC have really hit it off and seem to be good friends. There is a bond that isn't just male and female, but is that what both of them want? Who knows... maybe you can change that...

Taylor is the gym attendant that looks like she uses the facilities to great success. In 0.2 we received some intimate photos of her and 0.3 we get a birds eye view of exactly why. However, what does that mean for MC? MC's a nice guy, and of COURSE when a lady sends you unwanted nudes, you delete them right? He did honest! In this update, we'll see if that was a mistake or not ;)

Lastly, 0.4 is the last strictly story chapter. We want to give players the option to pursue a girl, or choose to not continue with them romantically. OR if you're a real dog ;) you can pursue them all :devilish: In 0.5 we're gonna do a code overhaul that will allow us to do this. We'll talk more about this later.

Regardless of what you pick, we want the characters to speak to real people. People with complex emotions. People that regret decisions they make; that try their hardest and still fail; those that fail and are sometimes rewarded. Just like in real life, there is a sense that when one door closes, another opens. And the willingness to make a mistake and learn that making mistakes helps you grow.

We tried to follow that when creating Unexpected Opportunity. The fact that in life, we all fail and sometimes that failure opens up a new, perhaps... unexpected opportunity; an unspeakable horror takes you and leads you to the love of your life; finally, a kind stranger that drafts up the path to the light. In many ways, the city of Alistar and the MC are ways for these lost people to find this kind of happiness and those to in turn, help the MC as well. Hopefully we can live up to creating something like this :D

Damn, I'm incredibly icky and verbose! Yuck! :sick: I hope you look forward to our update coming soon :whistle:

Our Patreon is:
Question? Is this going to be another game where everybody has a bad past or needs help with something emotional? Most play these games to have fun, to me it is not fun to have to fix everybody all the time. Just my opinion.
 

Larry2000

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Question? Is this going to be another game where everybody has a bad past or needs help with something emotional? Most play these games to have fun, to me it is not fun to have to fix everybody all the time. Just my opinion.
Nah. You're pretty safe here. EJW, I've seen you around for a long time now, so I'll trust that you mean well in good faith. So I'll explain my thought process.

There are games that have heavily informed my writing, some for the better, others to avoid what that writer did. Note, that none of these games inspired the actual content haha! DMD heavily informed the pacing of romance/eroticism. Where other games couldn't wait to get to the sex, there was a great build up to the moment, let's ignore the fetish fest it would later become ;)

Two particular titles that informed me in the negative was Acting Lessons and Haley's Story. Both of these games were very well written and had amazing chemistry. The negative aspect was their dramatic choices.

Everyone knows the infamous Acting Lessons Gambit. With that one, I figured that I would never wish to railroad the audience with such a decision. Sure, Sweetychily and I will tell the story we want, but we're not gonna make you choose a bad outcome no matter what.

With Haley's Story, I'd say it was the forced and out of nowhere grooming narrative. Edgy... I'll just stop it at that.

The issue with the above is the way I like to perceive reality. Sure, there are plenty of REAL LIFE stories that have those aspects in them. Maybe not the fire part, but the grooming one definitely. HOWEVER, MOST people in life have much smaller problems. Problems that THEY make up in their head. Problems that affect them psychologically rather than physically.

To this end, I always was annoyed by writers saying that the only problem that men could have is financial or romantic; I got tired of seeing stories where woman are sexually abused and those are just default in-the-utility-belt-stories. Why not write about small things that still stay with you?

I've had so many small moments in life that were so small and trivial but traumatize me to this day! Bro, I once missed a basketball shot in PE in front of like 100 people when I was 14 and I'm still reeling about it haha! The point is, people can be heavily affected by things that don't have to rely no the tried and true stories.

Don't get me wrong, this game DOES have some dark moments, but not to glorify, but to inform. Though, if you're worried about some abuse, sexual or otherwise, nope. Maybe some will be disappointed that some of the dark plot points aren't dark enough, but that was my writing process.

Trauma doesn't mean you have to be gangraeped by 5 guys, nor does it need to be a guy being a complete loser his whole life.

If you haven't already played it, I'd recommend you to wait till update 0.4. We're planning on adding audio/music to the game and further explaining an unpopular character in the narrative. If you've seen me around, you know what I like and what I do NOT like. I'd never put in some silly tags, so you don't have to worry on that front.

Also, if you look around the thread, you'll see my VERY detailed posts about the game haha. Literally couldn't ask for more detail. If you still have questions, DM me :)
 

_Daxx_

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After reading the overview this seemed like my kind of VN, but upon reading the early posts in this thread I had written this game off & wasn't going to bother checking it out. Then after seeing the posts Larry made he managed to change my mind, I've been looking forward to the release of the 0.4 update so I can try this for the first time with the reworked content & not have a biased opinion of characters based on what was originally released. I'm still doubtful of how they are going to redeem a cheating ex in my (& from the looks of it, many others) eyes, but I'm willing to go in with an open mind & see what's been done.

Genuinely looking forward to trying it & hopeful that the changes will live up to their claims. Always grateful to a dev that is willing to listen to the criticisms of their target audience & adjust without destroying/damaging their original vision for their story.
 
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