Ren'Py Worlds Crossing Academy [v1.4.8.2] [TeamEmberWings]

[VictorSeven]

June 2025 Calendar with Birthdays + 4K Render​

Here's our June calendar! Unwatermarked version and 4K render attached at the bottom of the Supporter posts:

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From left to right:
Senia (Elegant)
Serafina (Paintress)
Ashira (Expeditioner)

Confession, I have made some mistakes. I got a little wrapped up in creating new outfits and ended up with a couple for Mouse and one for Cerros and... hoo boy. May have to see if Necro will do a Glamour Set or two for some of these outfits.

For now though, back to creating S2E5. See you soon with another update.

- Vic

 

[Repuci]

Senia has the same birthday as me

 

[VictorSeven]

Senia has the same birthday as me

EYYYYYY

I share a birthday with one of the characters, too.

 

[DyonisXX]

What's up with these games that don't show up in the Latest Updates tab even if you copy paste the title exactly?

 

[shitass1001]

What's up with these games that don't show up in the Latest Updates tab even if you copy paste the title exactly?

it's something about the "world's" in the title. If you look up "crossing academy" it works totally fine, but if you do "world's" or "worlds" before it doesn't show up D:

 

[VictorSeven]

What's up with these games that don't show up in the Latest Updates tab even if you copy paste the title exactly?

That's... interesting. We've been on this site for close to 4 years at this point and I had no idea this was an issue. Worse, I have no idea if there's anything I can do to fix it, since my best guess is that it has to something to do with the way F95 indexes things across its site, and I don't really know if the apostrophe is the issue or not. We do have a Discord, though, and an Itch.io page that should notify you when there are devlogs and updates if you follow it. And, of course, the support sites.

If anyone who knows more than I do about F95 (which is probably most of you), if there's anything I can do to fix this issue, please let me know.

 

[5mithers]

It's not:

 

[bamachine]

Played this a few years ago and just restarted it yesterday. Question, what episode is the current build up to now(just started Ch2, E3, for reference)?

 

[DemgelPhoenix]

Played this a few years ago and just restarted it yesterday. Question, what episode is the current build up to now(just started Ch2, E3, for reference)?

We finished Season 2 Episode 4 side content last patch and are currently working on story+side content for Episode 5.

 

[hofom77573]

You would not BELIEVE the amount of rage I got because I forced players to give away a love interest. I had people screaming NTR even though that is nowhere near the definition of NTR

The difference between those who enjoy and those who despise. Forcing a player to give away any girl is crazy unless you want that sweet NTR smell That is not only for the mother, sister, or their pet dog but their auntie neighbor and that homeless girl across the street. This does lead so some games having odd dialogue when the potential couple ask for the player's blessing like you're their father figure

 

[VictorSeven]

Played this a few years ago and just restarted it yesterday. Question, what episode is the current build up to now(just started Ch2, E3, for reference)?

Here's our roadmap! 1.4.5.0 went public on May 15th 2025. We're working on 1.5.0.0, which is Season 2 Episode 5.
Season 2 Episode 8 should be the final episode unless people want an expansion.
After Season 2 Episode 8, we'll be working on filling out all the girls' side stories.

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The difference between those who enjoy and those who despise. Forcing a player to give away any girl is crazy unless you want that sweet NTR smell That is not only for the mother, sister, or their pet dog but their auntie neighbor and that homeless girl across the street. This does lead so some games having odd dialogue when the potential couple ask for the player's blessing like you're their father figure

Yeah, see... that's a lesson I had to learn the hard way. Forcing players to give up a girl is apparently as bad as killing a girl off (which I already knew is a cardinal sin of romance games). Won't be making that mistake again lol

 

[VictorSeven]

What's up with these games that don't show up in the Latest Updates tab even if you copy paste the title exactly?

Hey, I reported this to the moderation team, and it looks like it WAS the apostrophe. So they've removed the apostrophe from the game title, and on here it's now Worlds Crossing Academy for easy search.
No idea if typing World's Crossing Academy will still give you the correct result.

 

[5mithers]

Worlds crossing works now:



But it worked with the apostrophe earlier.

I'm wondering if it was US vs. like UK keyboards? I've noticed in certain games the apostrophe's are then same as what gets output when I use it on a US keyboard.

 

[sycoDreamer]

So I found a continuity error. In the beginning of the game ghillie gives you her number on a slip of paper and you text her to meet her friends. However after she gets our of the hospital and you meet her in the dorm in the morning, you ask for her number again and she acts like you don't have it either.

 

[VictorSeven]

So I found a continuity error. In the beginning of the game ghillie gives you her number on a slip of paper and you text her to meet her friends. However after she gets our of the hospital and you meet her in the dorm in the morning, you ask for her number again and she acts like you don't have it either.

Good catch. That must be a leftover from the rewrite.

 

[sycoDreamer]

This is my first playthrough and I noticed some of the free time activities don't align with (or aren't locked to) the time slot / day. The two most notable would be Galka free time during the week when it should be Saturday at the church, and Nook first activity is unlocked during "shift" but starts from home when the lunch break is only 30 min.

I know it's not a big deal from someone who has played many VNs and can look past it, however, I know this VN is heavily story based and written by an author so it feels... hm, can't think of a word.... weird i guess?

 

[VictorSeven]

This is my first playthrough and I noticed some of the free time activities don't align with (or aren't locked to) the time slot / day. The two most notable would be Galka free time during the week when it should be Saturday at the church, and Nook first activity is unlocked during "shift" but starts from home when the lunch break is only 30 min.

I know it's not a big deal from someone who has played many VNs and can look past it, however, I know this VN is heavily story based and written by an author so it feels... hm, can't think of a word.... weird i guess?

Right, these two things were written at different times, so again, good catches. I'll go back and edit the chapter file to omit Saturday. I'll also need an image for the Shift time slot that's at the school. Thanks!

A lot of these things are oversights from when I had to rewrite the first few chapters of Season 1, and missed some details. WCA is shaped by the feedback of the players in order to make it a better experience overall, so this helps.

 

[sycoDreamer]

Right, these two things were written at different times, so again, good catches. I'll go back and edit the chapter file to omit Saturday. I'll also need an image for the Shift time slot that's at the school. Thanks!

A lot of these things are oversights from when I had to rewrite the first few chapters of Season 1, and missed some details. WCA is shaped by the feedback of the players in order to make it a better experience overall, so this helps.

Here are the scenes in order for the shift free time after unlocking nook's activities and the first scene of the activity. This happens during training at lunch time after being promoted to security.

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Happy to contribute. I mean no offense and hope you don't feel slighted by the comments. IMO this is similar to beta testing a game in early access and these types of things should be pointed out. I would want someone to do the same for my own project, if i ever get around to starting it.

As an aside, is the HS or HS2? Or some other engine I know nothing about?

 

[VictorSeven]

Here are the scenes in order for the shift free time after unlocking nook's activities and the first scene of the activity. This happens during training at lunch time after being promoted to security.

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Happy to contribute. I mean no offense and hope you don't feel slighted by the comments. IMO this is similar to beta testing a game in early access and these types of things should be pointed out. I would want someone to do the same for my own project, if i ever get around to starting it.

As an aside, is the HS or HS2? Or some other engine I know nothing about?

Nah, this is SUPER helpful. I'm wondering if I put the unlock condition for her little extra scene a bit too early. I'll have to check my files.

There are a lot of free time scenes that start at Aurum's house as a default, so that way I'm not having to shoot the same scene in different variations based on time of day. His place is located pretty close to the school (if I'm remembering how I planned this) so I thought it would be feasible that he'd go home for lunch here and there. I used to when I lived a couple of blocks away from the hospital I did security at.

I could have inserted a variable check for scenes that start at his place to not be able to be viewed during the shift time period, but there also aren't a ton of Free Time opportunities in the game at that point, so I was hesitant to lock scenes off specifically due to time of day too often, as I didn't want things to feel too sandbox-y if that makes sense. I honestly considered scrapping the Time of Day thing altogether. It doesn't really feel like it adds much to the game, but if I did that at this point, it would ruin a lot of saves.

This next episode has 10 Free Time opportunities, so that may be when I start putting in the variable checks, making it feel more cohesive.

Also, we use Ai Shoujo, which is cross-compatible with HS2, but I feel it handles nonhuman girls better if you're not accounting for headmods, which HS2 can use and Ai Shoujo can't.

 

[VictorSeven]

[PROGRESS REPORT] Beating Some Frog Monsters​

Oh boy. This patch, man. This episode. I wish it could just be DONE and out for you all to play, 'cause after last episode, we need some things to go right.

I've gotten a lot of questions about Nook lately. Do we get her back? Do we help her? When? The answer is yes, yes, and soon. To go into more detail, the beginning of this episode focuses on helping the Spirit Elves take back their kingdom from the Marbog, which involves beating some frog ass. Doing this gets you access to the Rebirth Ceremony, which is what both Nook and River need (which is also why they're slotted in for the very next Side Story patch). Been waiting way too long to work with Nook again, but I also didn't want to just plot armor/force the "cure" so to speak. It just ended up taking way longer than I'd anticipated to get to where we're back in the sun.

Here's where we're at:



I switched to a solid percentage because I realized I'm an overachiever and I do a lot of unnecessary shit. This has a lot less moving parts and will be easier to update. Doing my best to cut down on the amount of stuff I need to do, and delegate more to my teammates. It's making things a little smoother, and the new Plan 100% First approach is definitely making the story feel more cohesive in this episode. Thanks, Clair Obscur. Learning new things every day.

Whenever I haven't been able to write or shoot for WCA, I've been opening up the studio and playing with my new Volumetric Lighting system. Over on Patreon and SubscribeStar, we did a couple of polls, and they voted for which girls and which outfits they wanted to see the girls in. So I'd mess around and make a few shots. Here's one practice shot I did that no one's seen yet:



The Patreon shots are available to all members, even Free tier, if you wanna go check those out. SubscribeStar, sadly, does not have a Free Member option yet, so all their shots are available for the $2 tier and up. Girls featured are Aoibheann, Tilai, Ember, Cerros, Lirum, and Saffryn. Doing these shots is really enjoyable, and I'm so impressed with how they come out. Feel free to save this one for a wallpaper or something!

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Anyways, that's it for now. This episode is gonna be massive, and we're working on streamlining our process as best we can. Thank you for all your patience, support, and love for the game

-Vic