Ren'Py World's Crossing Academy [v1.4.0.3] [TeamEmberWings]

[parceload]

the nav menu (before starting the game) has a button for Replay Gallery, clicking on it throws an exception replay_gallery doesn't exist. is that button supposed to be behind dlc_unlocked?

 

[VictorSeven]

the nav menu (before starting the game) has a button for Replay Gallery, clicking on it throws an exception replay_gallery doesn't exist. is that button supposed to be behind dlc_unlocked?

Yeah that happens if you haven't purchased the DLC and have the build that shipped with a blank FantasiesCollection.rpa file in it. Just delete that RPA and things should be just fine. I did a hotfix that doesn't have a new version number that changes that to fc_unlocked.

Unless you're talking about the vertical menu that shows your saves. I goofed and didn't put a variable in there. That got hotfixed as well.

If you purchased the Fantasies Collection, you just copy everything inside the FC's "game" folder and paste it into the WCA's "game" folder and let it overwrite if it asks.

 

[parceload]

Yeah that happens if you haven't purchased the DLC and have the build that shipped with a blank FantasiesCollection.rpa file in it. Just delete that RPA and things should be just fine. I did a hotfix that doesn't have a new version number that changes that to fc_unlocked.

Unless you're talking about the vertical menu that shows your saves. I goofed and didn't put a variable in there. That got hotfixed as well.

If you purchased the Fantasies Collection, you just copy everything inside the FC's "game" folder and paste it into the WCA's "game" folder and let it overwrite if it asks.

i'm using the most recent (v1.3.5.4) in this thread, it doesn't have a blank FantasiesCollection.rpa.

you have 2 menus, screen navigation and screen main_menu. there is no check in the nav screen if FantasiesCollection.rpa exists

EDIT: i reread what you said, if you have multiple versions with the same version number, i have no way of knowing which version i'm on, so i guess ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[VictorSeven]

i'm using the most recent (v1.3.5.4) in this thread, it doesn't have a blank FantasiesCollection.rpa.

you have 2 menus, screen navigation and screen main_menu. there is no check in the nav screen if FantasiesCollection.rpa exists

EDIT: i reread what you said, if you have multiple versions with the same version number, i have no way of knowing which version i'm on, so i guess ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah this is the only time I've done that 'cause I didn't wanna wait for Estrada to port me an entire new version for mobile since his list of ports to do is so stinkin' long. Link in my signature will always have the most recent version unless you prefer the compressed versions. 1.4.0.0 should be out fairly soon as well so this period with the weird menu on the F95Zone version shouldn't last a whole lot longer. Apologies for the confusion. That's on me.

 

[Dark Prince 19]

Just wanted to wish ya and the team VictorSeven a successful new year, '24 was brilliant and memorable for me and definitely interested what more peaks this game touches in terms of quality, but yea greetings for that and have a great year!

 

[5mithers]

Still loving the writing in this game. Keep it up!

Small bug report:



This line should be Serafina's.

 

[VictorSeven]

Still loving the writing in this game. Keep it up!

Small bug report:

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This line should be Serafina's.

Fix applied! Thank you!

 

[DemgelPhoenix]

Just wanted to wish ya and the team VictorSeven a successful new year, '24 was brilliant and memorable for me and definitely interested what more peaks this game touches in terms of quality, but yea greetings for that and have a great year!

Much appreciated, and good wishes to you as well! We're working hard on the next story drop and hope that the depth will draw in more people who enjoy a story rich environment! It's spooky, but we've tried some new techniques and hope it adds depth to your play.

 

[Dark Prince 19]

Much appreciated, and good wishes to you as well! We're working hard on the next story drop and hope that the depth will draw in more people who enjoy a story rich environment! It's spooky, but we've tried some new techniques and hope it adds depth to your play.

That sounds really interesting and precisely the type of thing that kinda motivated me to become a paid supporter of the game, as wanted to see more such quality techniques added, so nice to hear this news certainly. So indeed it'll be fun to see and experience the same

 

[TigerWolfe]

How is Gay/Femdom/Lesbian related? One of these is not like the others.



Please don't replace the early Gillie scene. Something could be added, but that scene was good and fit her personality. It also established the MC as someone who is mature and understands the concept of delayed gratification, an early indicator of intelligence. There is a low ratio of mature MCs in AVNs.

People are hyper sensitive to them, so they demand the MODs add the tag, at what they consider to be those things, while fans of those things don't consider them to be in the game at all. Basically people who hate those tags freak out, and get threads tagged, where people who are into those things don't see the content they want at all.

 

[VictorSeven]

[PROGRESS REPORT] So I Got The Ick​

Christ. These last couple days were absolute hell. I dunno what the hell kind of stomach bug I got, but it ruined me for a few days. I now have empathy for fountains.

Ehem. Anyways, in spite of the stomach bug from hell, we still made fairly significant progress:



This is it. The home stretch. We are SO CLOSE to release. Since we're doing full episodes now, I've added a sort of unspoken final step, and that's a full episode playthrough/final experience bugtest. Once we've got these last couple of scenes in the bag and gotten that done, we'll package this and start the release cycle. I feel FAIRLY confident that we could get this out before Monday, but that's not accounting for Murphy. And 48 hours is a LOT of time for Murphy to mess with shit.

But aren't these updates coming out a little... fast? Last public release was (checks calendar) a week ago. Well, yeah. I wanted to see what it took to get us to a monthly update schedule. Suffice it to say, it was rough. Monthly updates probably aren't realistic or sustainable unless I start getting a lot more help, 'cause I really put myself through the ringer on this one and I'm not eager to repeat that experience. Though we DID prove it can be done. I'm considering bundling both of these kinds of patches into one, so that the patches take a little longer, sure, but they'd come with a full Main Story episode PLUS a batch of Side Scenes. I've been getting the feeling lately that AVN enjoyers by and large prefer larger updates, even if they take longer. My only worry is that taking too long tends to make people start dropping support on SubscribeStar and Patreon, and they don't always come back when a new update drops. Still, the support has been amazing lately, and we're close to really breaking the plateau we've been on for the last year or two. If this can become sustainable for us, that's less time at IRL jobs and more time working on various projects such as WCA, Goblin Roommates, and maybe even Necro's project, Red Velvet.

Anyways, enough of my blabbing. I'm still not 100% from the absolute hell I went through with this stomach bug, so I'mma go take a nap. Here's a nice little preview for everyone who's been asking for Kageshini since she first popped up in your bathroom mirror.


Aaaaaaand now I'mma go pass out for a couple of hours. Fingers crossed for us and getting this next episode done soon!

- Vic

 

[ArhraCole]

Yeah stomach bugs have been making their way around lately. Hope you're feeling better and it doesn't tie you up for too long.

 

[Fazed]

Honestly there's this real weird subset of harem "fans" who come to harem games and complain that there's sex. Like of course it comes quick, there's so many girls that we need to get through them quick or they'll never get any content.

I kinda? see what you are saying but in my opinion of the those scenes are just thrown out with no build up then it feels cheap and not compelling. I have pornhub or nukige type media for that kind of experience. The expectation of a VN is that there is bit more substance, no? At least in general.

Don't get me wrong, there is a balance to be struck for sure but if I had to choose, I'd rather lean more towards having proper build up than more frivolous H-scenes.

For the scene in question, I also don't think it should be removed. I liked having the choice for much the same reasons stated by the other commenter.

 

[DemgelPhoenix]

See, the good thing with Gillie and the MC is that they do have a bit of history before the player starts the VN. The feedback is appreciated and I think it reaffirms that it's still a good scene, though we plan to polish the whole first section soon TM.

 

[indio68]

so basically nothing new added.....and again with the reworking shit?? really?? after forcing usd to restart again and again and told us was the last time we needed to do that...now i read reworking for season 1 ep 1 to 3??? what's wrng with you dev??

 

[DemgelPhoenix]

I think you've misunderstood something here. The update is not out yet and it's an entire episode. Polishing earlier scenes will not force any restart, as the only thing changing will be the screencaps, most likely, to be of higher quality. That said, it's on the back of the list. Something we can work on when we have nothing else to work on at the moment. We will make sure it doesn't take away from main development time.

 

[Jason177877]

Hey, fantastic input!

I'm aware that I can't satisfy everyone, and trying to will only make the game worse. But I was recently watching along as a streamer played it, and I realized I was quite unhappy with the writing. The overall plot and arc won't be touched, but there are a lot of double-explains leftover from the first rewrite, there's a lot of needless perving on the girls early on that I thought AVNs had to have because of the type of player I thought played these games, and I wasn't real happy with the way some of what Aurum says is worded. When I started, I was writing in an overly poetic, dramatic novelesque style and, while the literary style serves its purpose very well in a fantasy novel, I felt that my writing for WCA evolved over time, and I wanted to shore up the quality so that the experience is more consistent overall. Coupled with the fact that the early renders look like ass, and we really do wanna go back and reshoot those at some point.

You are in the majority when you say you would rather see that energy go towards new content. I've kept that in mind, too. I take every chance I get to work on S2E4, the Senia DLC, or the Fantasies Collection I just announced. But when none of that is possible because I'm waiting on someone else from the team and I have nothing to do, I've been going back and shoring up the writing. It's nice because it helps me not lose momentum, and when the other parts of the story are available to work on again, I can switch gears easily. When I lose momentum, it's near impossible to start up again, so you might say having something to do during downtime is HELPING the progress of S2E4 and the other new content.

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But anyways, I hope this answers some questions and addresses some concerns. Lemme know if you have any more questions.

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[VictorSeven]

so basically nothing new added.....and again with the reworking shit?? really?? after forcing usd to restart again and again and told us was the last time we needed to do that...now i read reworking for season 1 ep 1 to 3??? what's wrng with you dev??

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That's a fantastic idea to be used in Side Story endings, definitely. It would be super easy to implement as it would only really require one or two extra renders and could be a player option when it comes to the epilogue of several stories. Thanks for the idea!

 

[TigerWolfe]

have an unfortunate aversion to the pregnancy and reproduction kink

So many of the better writers, have said that. UGH... crushed I tell you, crushed.

 

[VictorSeven]

So many of the better writers, have said that. UGH... crushed I tell you, crushed.

LOL Well, Jason had a fantastic idea on how it could be implemented in a way that does it justice. Remains to be seen if any of us will do any H-scenes with it in the main game. (Ischwhit does not have the same aversion as I do, so you might see a scene or two pop up in the Fantasies Collection at some point.)