VN Ren'Py Westview Academy [S2 v0.7.0] [Tako Yuh]

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MiltonPowers said:
There's 7 LI.

(Alyssa, Athena, Brooke, Jordan, June, Leslie, Paige).
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you have no idea how much your LI guide is useful for jogging my memory on who is who in each game.

From this game the only names I remember to a face is Paige and Alyssa.

The former is because the impact she has with a well written path, and the latter because of her cult, despite the meager impact or interactions we get.
 
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LizaS said:
That's June???!!! Did Tako gave her a facelift or something??

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Unless Tako has changed something I'm not aware of, she's just the same June as always except here she has her chapter 6 hair, and it's so much better than her original one that really makes June looks much better as a whole.

LizaS said:
I'm ngl I might have to drop Paige after this.
Sorry, Paige fans. You guys understand right?

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No one would blame you to drop Paige to begin with. In fact, doing that should be encouraged and celebrated :WeSmart:
 
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Hey, y'all!

I FINALLY FIXED MY PC AND FOUND THE ISSUE THAT HAD BEEN KILLING IT THE PAST MONTH OR SO.

So, it turns out I had a mildly faulty PSU, so all I had to do was swap it out and BAM, this shit works fucking phenomenally. No crashes in the past week (compared to the crash every 30 minutes before which stopped me from being able to run render queues or even render at all at times)

I'm so hyped that even an insane couple of days full of coughing so loud that my neighbors probably want to call a hit on me, and a sore throat so bad even a pool sized cup of water wouldn't be enough to keep it hydrated couldn't stop me from hopping on stream (blessing everyone with my best imitation of a chainsmoking mother of 3 in the process) and getting animation work done.

So that's dope, I guess, but who gives a fuck about that, let's move on to the numbers!

As of now, the totals sit at 2,476 images and 82 animations.

The possibility of the totals hitting 3k images and 100 animations scares me, I can't lie. This shit got out of hand FAST, but hey, that just means more content.

That's about it for this week. I'll probably knock down a lot more animations next week, and get some of the music/sound done as well next week, so the actual image count might not change as much, but we ball regardless.

Stay safe,
ily<3
 
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i wanted to know if Alyssa is an exclusive character of this game please ?
If not, can you pm me to give me some games where i can find this model, much appreciated guys , thanks.
 
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Dev Update 05/27/25​

Hey, y'all!

I ain't got much shit to say this dev update. I've been stupidly locked in this week, getting 20+ renders per day with some animations in between as well.

Due to personal, and also petty reasons I NEED to try to get the update out sometime around late June to early July. It is unlikely to happen, but I will do everything I possibly can to make it happen.

The numbers are now up to 2,602 images and 90 animations (with about 70 images and 5 animations in the queue).

That's about it. Imma go fuck off and lock the hell in, 'cause I hate how long this Chapter has taken me to make.

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Stay safe,
ily<3

 
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I was sitting on this game for couple of years and finally tried it. It is clearly a good looking game with a lot of effort put into it. But I couldn't get into it. I though about why and think that the main cause of this for me is that the scenes with LI are too short. Like I just only began to get into the scene with someone, starting to feel invested in character and BOOM! next scene. Romance just don't have much room to breathe and develop. And this game supposed to be romantic slow burn kind of game, but the scenes just change too fast from one LI to the next and feels like I never have more than 5 minutes alone time with anyone. As a result it doesn't feel like I am getting closer to LI and getting invested in their romance. So the game doesn't work as a slow burn romance, and its not college fuck fest because of the lack of sex. I thought that maybe cause of this is that the cast is too large for this type of game, but other games of this type that I have played make it work. Maybe because dev of this one tries to squeeze all LIs in each update as result all of them don't have enough uninterrupted screen time. Sex scenes are good enough, but in my opinion great sex scenes start at the beginning of the date and then gradually build up to the climax - the actual sex scene. But because of the above, too little screen time to build tension, sex scenes fall short, although technically done very well(but again, short).

And my second cause of not getting into it. Branching. Which is not bad in of itself. But branching starts early, even before all LIs are introduced and all options are clear. Who are LIs ? What are they area of interests ? Where can I interact with them ? Without that established how can a player make informed decision ? I get that this kind of design have an its own appeal, but its not for me. I felt like I was not making meaningful choices, but was just tossing a coin to see what comes of it.

This was may way of saying that I wanted to like this game, but couldn't. Scenes change too fast for me. But I don't wanna bash on the game. It is a good game, but its flaws proved critical for me. It does
 
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Dragonlight said:
And my second cause of not getting into it. Branching. Which is not bad in of itself. But branching starts early, even before all LIs are introduced and all options are clear. Who are LIs ? What are they area of interests ? Where can I interact with them ?
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I think this is a problem of a LOT of Ren'Py games. Many devs seem to want to keep the LI's or main Side Girls secret/hidden before they are either revealed or some/many chapters after meeting them. I personally don't like the super-secretive approach... particularly when I spend time trying to pursue an NPC just to find out it's a dead end minor side character after several/many chapters.

At least in the this game, we know who the Main LI's currently are, at least by name. Speculation on Side Characters will always be hard to pin down until they either forgotten/removed by the story or they get promoted to a Main Side Character (as in will have an ending of some sort).

Mary still really bothers me as a character. She comes to visit, definitely has feelings for the MC, and I can choose to have the MC express feelings to her. So I did, hoping there'd be a cool long distance story or transfers or something to later found out that she is not a Main LI, and likely not even a Side Character. I'm hoping something will happen with her later in the story, but am not optimistic.


As to 'Where can I interact with them?" It's not an open world or sandbox game so you follow the rails. You just go through each scene, making the decisions that you want. If you kiss Alyssa after Airsoft, you change rails to a new path and get specific scenes about her... if you don't you are on another set of rails that have different scenes.
 
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Dragonlight said:
I was sitting on this game for couple of years and finally tried it. It is clearly a good looking game with a lot of effort put into it. But I couldn't get into it. I though about why and think that the main cause of this for me is that the scenes with LI are too short. Like I just only began to get into the scene with someone, starting to feel invested in character and BOOM! next scene. Romance just don't have much room to breathe and develop. And this game supposed to be romantic slow burn kind of game, but the scenes just change too fast from one LI to the next and feels like I never have more than 5 minutes alone time with anyone. As a result it doesn't feel like I am getting closer to LI and getting invested in their romance. So the game doesn't work as a slow burn romance, and its not college fuck fest because of the lack of sex. I thought that maybe cause of this is that the cast is too large for this type of game, but other games of this type that I have played make it work. Maybe because dev of this one tries to squeeze all LIs in each update as result all of them don't have enough uninterrupted screen time. Sex scenes are good enough, but in my opinion great sex scenes start at the beginning of the date and then gradually build up to the climax - the actual sex scene. But because of the above, too little screen time to build tension, sex scenes fall short, although technically done very well(but again, short).

And my second cause of not getting into it. Branching. Which is not bad in of itself. But branching starts early, even before all LIs are introduced and all options are clear. Who are LIs ? What are they area of interests ? Where can I interact with them ? Without that established how can a player make informed decision ? I get that this kind of design have an its own appeal, but its not for me. I felt like I was not making meaningful choices, but was just tossing a coin to see what comes of it.

This was may way of saying that I wanted to like this game, but couldn't. Scenes change too fast for me. But I don't wanna bash on the game. It is a good game, but its flaws proved critical for me. It does
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i think you have resumed all my fear on the game, i will still play it to make my opinion but your post has really pinpoint the things i wandered, again thanks
 
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cooldevo said:
As to 'Where can I interact with them?" It's not an open world or sandbox game so you follow the rails. You just go through each scene, making the decisions that you want. If you kiss Alyssa after Airsoft, you change rails to a new path and get specific scenes about her... if you don't you are on another set of rails that have different scenes.
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That`s not entirely what I mean. Like for example, I get invited to Alyssa party. And I take neighbor girl, Hailey I think, when we arrive she gets overwhelmed and goes outside. There is a choice to go sit outside with her. But it turns out it is another LIs( whats her name ? Brooke I think) route event. How could I predicted this ? Thats what I mean where could I interact with them ? Like if Hailey said "Hey there is my friend Brooke outside I go hang with her come join us" and there was a choice go with them or I spot Paige for example and go hang out with her instead. Thats a choice I understand consequences of. But as it is in the game I land on Brooke path unintentionally and guess - Will I miss another path I am more interested in because of this ?
Don't get me wrong, this is not a deal breaker for me and I could have easily overlooked this if not for my main grief with the game. Scenes with LIs are short as it is, so if there is less meaningless filler(for me) between those scenes the better. I dont wanna guess like what if I chose this or that will I get more scenes with LI I am not interested at this time or less ?
I mean visuals are good, writing is solid too. So I am little salty I guess, there is not that many big high quality games like this, I wanted to like it but couldn't get into it.

JillybeanEnjoyer said:
It's almost like you guys can play this wonderful game again with previous insight.
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Playing again implying playing it at least once. But why would I play it all the way through if I am not having fun ? :) These games supposed to be fun on the first try too.
But to each their own I guess, I don`t want to discourage people from trying this game. Maybe I will give it another go in a year or so.
 
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