A couple of comments I wanted to make...
First, about the length of the update:
This was just Part 1, and Part 2 is 3/4 done already, so there won't be another 3+ month wait for the next release. Also... and this is a big factor... many of the scenes in Part 1 are advancing different path choices, so for those scenes, you'll only see the content on that one particular path you are currently on. For example, the dinner scene with Mei and Lian has 4 versions. There's also two scenes that you don't see at all unless you made a certain choice with Olivia when she attempted to blackmail Maddie. So, it's just the way it worked out that these scenes are in this same release. Overall there's 15K words and 550+ static renders in this update and the same or more coming in Part 2. But to see everything, you'd have to try different paths.
April's Hair:
I hated changing it, but a recent change to DAZ Studio caused all sorts of issues with a type of shader used in these hair assets. I couldn't use her hair anymore because it was causing my DAZ to crash. This is nothing new for DAZ... it's always been as buggy as fuck. So we do what we can to work around those bugs, since it's still the best and cheapest software for doing this.
I might spotted an inconsistancy. When Mei comes back in the living room she is wearing a pink panty but after they made out, MC is putting back a white panty on Mei.
Nice catch! I made a note and will add a few renders to fix that on Part 2. Thanks.
Will the MC be bisexual or straight.
Nope. He's straight and there will never be another dick in any scene with the MC's LI's. I made that clear almost 2 years ago. He'll happily cuck other men, but nobody is gonna cuck him.
I think there's a little bug in the scene with Mei, ten2_seed +1 (without the =) but it's a true/false value
Also in the gallery "gallery_joe_01" not found
Another good catch! That's not supposed to be a boolean. It's a straight integer variable (you don't need the = when changing it, only when testing it). I just mistakenly made the default a boolean value of False. It's odd that never threw an error, or got caught by Ren'py's own tests?? Probably because I haven't implemented the pregnancy script yet. I'm just tracking the variables now. In Act 4 is probably when you'll see something more about knocking some of the characters up. NOTE:
This doesn't mean that Mei will be getting pregnant! I'm only going to be doing that with a few of the more important characters. Some others I am tracking just for some possible future achievements I plan to add.
And I completely forgot to copy the gallery image over before making the build. I already fixed that now for Part 2, but if you want the image in your gallery, just download the file I attached and extract it into the game directory. You already have the original render of course, as it's the one you see
when you looks at Joe's tit's. But this one is for the gallery so you wont have that missing image.
The project is not abandoned, but the update is short, apparently, only to remind that the developer is still here. By the way, with all the initial potential, the project began to stagnate - there are no new kinks, bright characters. For example, in the narrative, although it seems to be a modern city, there are no shemales, traps, or gays at all, albeit optional. As said above - there are repetitions that are probably supposed to emphasize some points, but too many repetitions are annoying.
Well, first of all... I am making a story that basically interests me. I enjoy when other people like it as well, but I don't do stuff just to check boxes off in the kinks column. These two VN's are my "school" basically and so I picked themes I enjoy to make it easier for me.
Secondly, this is set in the fall of 2012. It's clearly stated what time period they are in. 12 years ago, the world was not as woke as it is now. Weinstein was still making movies and groping actresses and not everything was about being different. Or bucking society's norms. At the end of the day this is erotica and dicks of any kind just don't do it for me. I'm not anti-gay or anything... it's just not my interest. I know there were lots of people in those communities - heck - I had a couple of gay friends even as far back as the 70's and 80's, when I was just a teen.
On my next project, I plan to step away from writing a single storyline for myself and instead making multiple stories and trying to do other kinks. It will be a big step for me.
