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Midnight Passion

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I mean, what's even the point of playing the love route right now other than to wallow in your own self-righteousness?

We all know why we are here. Have some LI who are already secretly in love with MC and are faster down for hanky panky than others. Sure, they need to act differently on both paths, but love without desire is platonic, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The payoff probably. I'm planning to lock scenes behind the love route. If you max everyone's desire you won't be able to align with Aphrodite and you'd end up tearing the veil for good. At least, that was the original plan. I can adjust as needed.
 

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Do you think I should keep the payoffs the same for both love and desire? Escalate things at the same pace? I could tweak the dialogue so it's a more heartwarming than the desire scene, but still include the same images/animations... I was originally thinking of making adult scenes happen based on the desire stat, but I can easily adjust this to include love as well. It would decrease the amount of branching going on, but maybe that's a good thing.
yes both routes need to feel fully fleshed out and relevant, otherwise there will be issues

Aimi is only in the arcane realm temporarily. Don't worry, you'll rescue her in episode 2. What route will you choose though? Will you tell her to accept her desires and become her true self (merge with the arcane spirit version of herself)? Or will you tell her to reject what the spirit is saying and keep her pure and firmly on the love route?

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Im not known for playing the good guy route so....
 

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Do you think I should keep the payoffs the same for both love and desire? Escalate things at the same pace? I could tweak the dialogue so it's a more heartwarming than the desire scene, but still include the same images/animations... I was originally thinking of making adult scenes happen based on the desire stat, but I can easily adjust this to include love as well. It would decrease the amount of branching going on, but maybe that's a good thing.



Aimi is only in the arcane realm temporarily. Don't worry, you'll rescue her in episode 2. What route will you choose though? Will you tell her to accept her desires and become her true self (merge with the arcane spirit version of herself)? Or will you tell her to reject what the spirit is saying and keep her pure and firmly on the love route?

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In my opinion they should have different scenes but both should have scenes i really dislike when in games the love path has less scenes than the lust one what i should do is makimg the love scenes more vanilla more fucking while you kiss the girl being more romantic The lust oath should be the more dirty and rare kinks Anal footjob armpitjob bdsm petplay etc.
If you are not gonna put scenes in the love path i rather you dont make a love path and focus in the desire only we are here for hot scenes if one path it dosent gonna have one i rather not play that path
 

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Do you think I should keep the payoffs the same for both love and desire? Escalate things at the same pace? I could tweak the dialogue so it's a more heartwarming than the desire scene, but still include the same images/animations... I was originally thinking of making adult scenes happen based on the desire stat, but I can easily adjust this to include love as well. It would decrease the amount of branching going on, but maybe that's a good thing.
Depends on the planned content and kinks. My taste won't be for everyone but normally the kinky things tend to stick to the "desire" route, when I'd like to have them in the Love route too. Since the Desire route is likely going to lead to a negative ending it makes it so the Love route players don't get to enjoy these kinkier scenes. Too put it blunt, You can call a girl a slut in the bedroom and then cuddle after. You could always make some things optional instead of completly dismissing it. The thing is my scale of light to dark is going to be different to yours, probably. I like a strong MC that can dominate but also care and love.
 
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Btw, did all the animations and renders appear correctly? I captured the game in 4k, so I want to make sure everything is centered and not overscanned at lower resolutions.
 
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Btw, did all the animations and renders appear correctly? I captured the game in 4k, so I want to make sure everything is centered and not overscanned at lower resolutions.

any new or even small improvements into the game are extremely welcome, (not only in image rendering aspect but other parts of this project) hey, thank you so much for this upload. we love devs
 
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Midnight Passion

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So I've gone ahead a fluffed Chapter 1 with additional content since I wanted it to be perfect before moving on. There are 91 new renders and 25 new animations. Yui's love route now has some weight and Yuna has some spicy scenes. Unfortunately, I made some serious code changes to the love/desire system and broke the saves. My apologies, but this shouldn't be a recurring theme since I've got everything in place now. Chapter 2 is not present in this update, but is very much on it's way! Not sure about ETA, but I'll try to make it decently long.
 
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Just did the Prologue so far, but judging by the Prologue, the Desire Route seems to be the fun route. Might go back later and do the Love Route then, but for now, I am just going to focus on the Desire Route. ;)
 

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Just did the Prologue so far, but judging by the Prologue, the Desire Route seems to be the fun route. Might go back later and do the Love Route then, but for now, I am just going to focus on the Desire Route. ;)
I adjusted a few things regarding the love vs desire system. You're going to want to invest points into both (at least for chapter 1) to unlock the most scenes.

In other news, the game finally got indexed on itch, so I'm waiting to see how it does on there before taking things further. If no-one's willing to back the game, then I may prioritize other creative outlets. Pretty understandable given the state of things. I think we lost most of Europe and Aussie land to the visa/mastercard issue. Bad time to launch I guess.
 
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