VN Ren'Py Where the Heart Is [S1 Rev1] [CheekyGimp]

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alex13_zen

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To me, Debbie has the prettiest and most feminine face. If she also had long hair, it would almost be unfair to the other girls :)
 
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Hi, can someone confirm if I need to slow my roll as being a manwhore or can I continue. thanks
 
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I really don't like how much Katie changed in terms of looks as well as in terms of personality. She was way kinkier, funnier, less clingey and much hotter looking so I went for her but then later she becomes much less fun, much bitchier and looks fucking terrible with her new hair... damn.

And for characters:

Super HOT: Mabel > Debbie > Bella
Hot: Lily > Katie (early game) > Jenna > Angel
Decent: Natasha > Wanda > Theresa > Jolina > Elaine
Fugly: Katie (late game) > Monica > Zarah
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While I completely agree Katie looked a lot better with her hair up to call her fugly now is ridiculous. Katie's face was really well done so with her hair down it's hiding how perfect her face looked. But no girl goes from hot to fugly or vice versa by changing their hair. They have changed Zarah's hair a few times and it's not like she was suddenly super hot. Although I have no problem with Zarah's looks. She is supposed to be a cougar and the easiest one to get into bed not a super model. While I'd love to see Katie go back to wearing her hair up, the biggest need for a hairstyle change in my opinion is Monica.

As far as the rest of your statement about Katie.
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Yugan said:
Hi, can someone confirm if I need to slow my roll as being a manwhore or can I continue. thanks
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You're fine. It's never going to be a harem ending, but if you look there is an option to start at any chapter. And you can change who you are romancing and not before starting up the game at any chapter. So no need to worry about it. The devs were nice enough to give you a quick start for when man whoring blows up in your face.
 
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Toohat said:
Any news of an update?
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Hi All,
Just wanted to share a status update on episode 20.
Beach house / morning after: Artwork & script complete (just needs some testing)
Jenna / Jolina scenes: Script 70% complete, artwork complete (with the exceptions of a few anims)
Dogboy / Roger / Natasha scenes: 100% complete (artwork, anims and script) and it's been fully tested.
Elaine scene - just getting started.
So overall, I would say we are approx. 65% done. BUT we expect progress over the next couple of weeks to speed up so still very much on course for a March release.
Over the past two months, we were practically a man down from our 3 man-team (due to some real life stuff) AND we've been putting a LOT of work into expanding the team and have auditioned over 40 people. After this exhaustive process, we are delighted to welcome a new artist to the team: Maple. Maple brings a lot of image and animation experience to the team (plus some game design / coding experience) so we are delighted to have them.
And I hope to introduce a new writer very soon too (he has been identified, just waiting to finalize a few things before announcing).
So the team of 3 is hopefully expanding to a team of 5. This will really help us lessen the blow of any one person being unable to work on the game due to real life stuff (1 in 5 impact, rather than 1 in 3) or if the unthinkable happens and we lose one of the team, it means we won't grind to a halt. But thankfully no plans for anyone to leave (Ace and Cell are still securely locked up in my basement). This expansion of the team should also help us get our production time down to 2 months instead of the current cycle of 3 months.

On that note, it is just not possible to get our cycle down to 1 month due to the amount of dialog, choices, branches, variables and the amount of art we squeeze into every episode. The rendering (PC/GPU) time alone for episode 19 was over 600 hours. If we release every month, we just wouldn't have a decent playable episode, so our target for the rest of 2021 is two months. I'm not guaranteeing we can/will hit this but it is what we are aiming for.
We have also expanded our proof-reader / branch testing / QC team and are going to release each scene to them as soon as we finish the individual scene. This should cut down on the amount of testing time needed before release once the episode is complete.
One other point to note is that no matter how much we expand the team, there will always be somewhat of a bottleneck because I don't like to release any piece of script or art without me personally analyzing, scrutinizing, tweaking (and generally pissing of the other artist / writer by constantly asking for edits / re-dos). It would probably make things go quicker if I just concentrated on the art/writing for my specific scenes but on the other hand, I also feel we could end up diverging too much from scene to scene if we don't have a common thread tying everything together. So in summary my control-freak nature will always add some time to the development regardless of team size.
Also (for anyone interested) - Just to give you some insight into WTHI and what makes it different from almost all other games out there is the amount of branching, variables, options that we give. Even though the morning/after beach house scene for episode 20 is a relatively small scene, it was an absolute nightmare to write. For example (and this doesn't include all variables checked/tracked in this scene)....
For the beach-house sequence in episode 19, there were 8 possible ending scenarios, there were at least 5 different relationship status' with Katie and 4 each with Debbie and Lily plus different options for the Lily / Debbie relationship.
And for anyone that knows anything about probability, that is 19x8x.....(you get the idea) differences.
So trying to tie off a lot of those path options in episode 20 AND give another 5 after-the fact options, I hope you can understand why it's not just a matter of sitting down and typing out a few lines of dialog.
Yes, this is a monster of our own making but it's also one of the things that makes our game unique.

Finally: I just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who is currently supporting this game or anyone who has supported it previously.
Thanks,

CG
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mcnero

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Nice game, with mod even better :p
Monica (Mom) is looks like Aunt in "The Visit" but hotter more like a real Milf :love:
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Abhai

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No hate but do the renders get better with time? the render quality is not something I can really ignore. I'm in the middle of episode 2.
Thankyou in advance.
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I would say quite better in later episodes...for the main girls check banner/front image in the OP (newer renders), and that background banner on the first page/f95z tags (old renders).
 
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Code: 
https://i.imgur.com/6SBejS1.gif  - Mabel
https://i.imgur.com/QSTDX4f.gif  - Monica
https://i.imgur.com/jpGf4jH.gif  - Jenna
https://i.imgur.com/WU8VXU5.gif  - Theresa
https://i.imgur.com/Yb9VLc5.gif  - Wanda
https://i.imgur.com/99LjxdS.gif  - Debbie


Code: 
https://i.imgur.com/kkZHQnS.gif  - Jolin
https://i.imgur.com/iD3psUL.gif  - Katie
https://i.imgur.com/NnfGJZa.gif  - Elaine
https://i.imgur.com/Q5NAQYO.gif  - Lily
https://i.imgur.com/tZpZZui.gif  - Angel
https://i.imgur.com/YwIceHH.gif  - Bella
 
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WhiteyG

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Wow you are fast man. They look great, thank you for doing them and for getting it done so fast.
 
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