Yup! CK is, was, and always will be 100% free, even when it's completed :)
That being said, I will be offering an open source version (non encrypted) for between $5 to $15 which will come with all the assets and code and a license which will allow you to do anything you like with it. Make mods, use the assets in other games, use the code as a template for your own game... whatever you like!
The fact that meals as a mechanic are just entirely missable is bad enough, the fact that you only find out you missed them by looking at the wiki stings more. Man...
Jessica tells you about meals during the battle tutorial, and the kitchen has "Organize Meals" as a top-level menu option. It's not really "missable" unless you're not paying attention.
You need to give more details - what exactly is the error message you're getting, if any? Does the game install but not run, or does it not install at all? The more details you provide, the easier it will be to help.
As a general fix, though, 90% of Android errors are caused by not enough storage space. Make sure you have at least 6GB free (more is better) as Android requires between 2-5x as much extra space as APKs take to install.
My device is Redmi 11 and have 10GB free space, after procces installed in the end I get notification "the application cannot be installed", help please
Ren'py and Android don't always play well together - certain combinations of hardware and OS version on your Android will prevent it from interacting with Ren'py. Unfortunately I have no control over either, so there's nothing I can do at my end.
If all else fails, you can try using the JoiPlay app and run the Win/Linux version through it.
You've changed the mechanics around the war a few times and here's my feedback
Although I preferred the way it was with all the districtds we had to conquer, with different amount of fights to win in order to conquer them, I understand it would have been a LOT of work if it stayed that way and I'll just get used to the current menu, hoping you don't change it up too much again ahaha
Now to the fighting mechanic which is imo the most important part of my feedback as it directly impacts everyone's experience in this part of the game. I'll come out straight and say it : I do not like the current mechanic, with the dice, like at all. It relies too much on rng and although the little animation for each round is pretty cool I just can't like it. I don't find it fun. I do however really like what you did with the possibility to use a power in each round depending on your roll, that's the good part of the current system.
I miss having to spend time in the dungeon with each of the girls after fighting them in order to add them to my team, then having to change support character between each district I targetted to go along with the type of enemy and strategy needed. Although this system quickly became too easy I do think it could have made for a cool way to input a cool strategy like for example the eldritch changing types mid fight forcing you to either adapt through their phases or having to cheese it with food to heal yourself until you can beat them with one specific type of attack. But thinking about it, it was probably too much work again, after all this isn't the main game but simply a mini-game, I do have to reiterate though that I REALLY do not like the current system and hope to see it improve so that I don't have to go through it. It's kind of sad to use auto win feature so i'd rather not use it.
You don't need to worry about the system changing up again - its current incarnation is permanent now. I've spent far too much time on it as it is and it was only ever supposed to be a thematic addition and not a whole other game in its own right.
As for the RNG thing, which I hear now and again:
1. All systems must have RNG built in or they become simply a mathematical formula, like the old system was, completely devoid of strategy or nervous tension.
2. The current system has SO MANY ways to influence the dice rolls in your favour. Meals, Tactics, Elixirs, Upgrading Dice, Powers - and the next update introduces "Daily Buffs". It's RNG dependent only if you're not preparing beforehand. The exception to this is the first two fights, but those are supposed to cause you problems because if you start out as superman where the heck do you go from there?
It is, unfortunately, impossible to please all of the people all of the time; there's no system on the planet that everyone is going to like, and sadly you fall into the "don't like it" pool this time.
The best I can do as a solo dev is to make something that's as thematically consistent with the rest of the game as possible, doesn't take too much time to implement (so I can focus on content), and finally to provide a way to skip the combat entirely for the players that don't want to engage with it.
I dont mind too much, but the gallery feels incomplete. Like a lot of scenes(mostly small ones) dont seem to make an appearance. Like the after battle h-scenes with all the area bosses we fight. Is that intentional? Or are you possibly waiting for something to update the gallery?
That’s intentional. The gallery’s main purpose is to revisit scenes that are not repeatable or hard to repeat.
Now, if you’re in act 3, all the act 2 scenes are not repeatable.
It’s just that new content takes priority over adding all the scenes to the gallery.
It isn’t hard, it’s just tedious and I reckon Arc would rather spend his time making actual content.
I guessed as much. Figured I would ask anyway since it seemed simplistic. I would rather Arcadian focus on new content than the gallery which is a minor detail anyway.
On another note, you seem to know a lot about the production of CK, and would like to ask, when(time wise as in weeks not when as in story development) will the manor and revisiting scenes in game be normalized. I do have prior saves, but am curious as my main save is furthest along and personally not looking forward to doing several hours of playing just to match it to before Act 3 takes off runnin.
In this case it’s mainly because I don’t think Arc has a concrete answer either.
Like, there’s no timetable for anything. Arc would rather not make promises he can’t keep, and also it’s not that easy to make estimations.
But the way it looks, most if not all of the previous acts content is unusable in act 3.
MC has the cursed arms and some girls have changed a bit. Can’t reuse assets.
So in a way, can’t say when things will normalise, or if that will even happen.
Maybe Arc has something more to say, but I think that’s the gist of it. No clue.
Some of the animations, mainly cowgirl and other woman on top positions, seems to be either anal or between both holes, there is one scene (can't remember where, maybe someone else knows) where you can see the entire pussy, front and back, while they are talking about how the dick feels in their vagina
sorry this is not too helpful and says where specifically those scenes are
And also Arc has been learning as he goes, so sometimes there’s some mistakes that not even camera trickery can mask.
I do believe that once the game goes into the beta phase, some (if not all) scenes will have to be remastered in order to have a consistent level of quality.
After all, game’s been in the work for over 4 years.
This game is great, the only thing lacking really are the scenes with how short they are and lack of VA, granted there's more scenes in exchange across the game which is fun. I just started entering this genre but this definitely is among the top of my list so far. Looking forward to the future contents and hopefully more Emma scenes.Also, the pregnant scenes is awakening something in me that I never even thought before.
Voice Acting has been left out for two reasons: first is that if I'm going to bring VA in then it needs to be done professionally. Nothing worse than bad VA, or inconsistent mic quality. Second is that sound files create a lot of bloat even when compressed and I'm trying to keep the filesize below 2GB (for people on capped/slow connections and because Android users can't install anything above 2GB).
Next game will be built with VA in mind, though :)
I can install games on android at 4gbs I haven't found a cap for storage on game downloads so what do you mean by 2gb game limit on downloads.or is my phone just unique and I didn't know it.
You cannot install any APK over 2GB. You may have downloaded something larger than that from the Play Store, because there you can bundle multiple file packages together, but Android has a hard limit on individual APK installations.
Storage is a completely different thing and wasn't mentioned.
In the case of Asteria specifically she was originally designed by a very talented character modeller called "Zolla" (who also did Roxy's design), who designed her after the Behemoth from Final Fantasy :)
As for the other characters, inspiration was drawn from different places depending on the person, and a couple (Jackie and Viola) were actually designed on livestream based on player input!
I've just reached full hearts with a couple of girls and I'm noticing (for the first time lol) it says the proficiency level for each girl. Does that change anything? Also, is anal sex available for every girl? Sorry if this has been posted somewhere, can't find a guide or wiki.
Very nice game, will contribute to your patreon fo sho
But I'm also wondering if there's a reason on my end that I don't get the option to launch an attack on the Company or the Train Station in Act 3. It seems that's necessary to ultimately investigate the church, and I've already attacked and gained the loyalty of all the other locations in the town map. Have I gone as far as I can in this version?
Thanks Chris! I just needed to be sure I wasn't missing something. I guess it makes more sense to think about us progressing across the map in a linear fashion. But I'm also bummed that there doesn't seem to be anything more to do in the game at the moment. I just discovered it less than two weeks ago and have been seriously hooked. Maybe I'll see what other similar games are out there in the meantime. Thanks again!
To be fair, Arcadean is a madman when it comes to this game. 2 weeks per update is insane even if the content amount is small. Also, there was one indicator that stops the game progression and thats the lead for conquering the town, which it says cant be done because content for it is not ready.
Buy them from the Mysterious Merchant. At a certain point in Act Two, go to Jessica's office and she'll reveal that a new property "The Field" is available to purchase. Buy it then go visit it.
I need help please, if anyone can tell me what to do I would appreciate it.
My charisma and martial are at maximum, everything else is at half except magic. I haven't been able to progress in magic because when I go south to look for the witch hat I can't find it, I try to use the drift power but the main character says it didn't work and now he has a headache and leaves the forest.
I don't know what to do to complete that section, please help me.
If you're getting the "... well, that didn't work. Not really sure why I thought it would, honestly." message then you're not using Drift. That message pops up only when you try to use a power that isn't Drift.
You also don't technically have to use Drift, either. If you select "Don't use a Power" then you have a 50% chance to find the hat on your own.
Oh, so it's possible that my game is corrupted? Since I'm certainly sure I used Drift.
I wouldn't be surprised if my game is broken, since I started it with a Spanish patch that used to generate a lot of errors, then I changed to another Spanish patch that worked correctly.
I will try not to use a power and wait for it to appear. I don't want to start another new game.
If you're using a translation patch then yes, that would certainly explain the errors - I love that people are out there making fan-translations, but unfortunately I can't quality control any of them because they're not official.
If you get in touch with the person making the patch they should be able to fix the issue that's blocking you :)
Okay, I don't know if it's just me, but what platform did you use for the characters and animations? I'm so sorry to ask but I wanna make a game for my boyfriend like this but I can't til I find out what you and other developers use
Hello i love the game a lot just wanted to say good work for a solo dev you're doing grate I have a question are u planning wen the game Is finished to be free of paying for it I see ure not sure of wen ure going to be finished but I was wandering and a nother question u think after this is finished u make more games again loving the game so far hope everything is good :)
Hey, thanks for the kind words - I appreciate it! :)
Yes, when the game is finished it will be 100% free for everyone to play. There will also be a special "open source" version that will be completely unencrypted and will allow people to use the assets and code and characters for whatever they want! The open source version will cost somewhere between $5 and $15.
personally i am not expecting a finished game within the next 5 years, simply cause i know coding can be really hard, and getting things to match up can be a headache (not a coder myself, just know a bunch of people that do)
Good afternoon I wanted to ask a question And I wanted to know if it is necessary to do a mission to unlock Lily's pregnancy? since it tells me that "Something is stopping Lily from getting pregnant and a voice is calling you"
The screen is 1280x720p but it's not fullscreen by default, so if you've clicked and dragged the corners/sides of the window to make it bigger or smaller then that's permanently recorded - at least in in Windows. I don't know about other OS's.
From what another dev said, itch is having issues with downloads as of late. Not sure why, most devs are aware of the problem with itch and are offering workarounds. I'm GUESSING there was some stuff done behind the scenes that caused it. Aren't "updates that seem to screw everything up for awhile" grand? :P (no)
Is it possible to invite someone to the hot springs? There is some dialogue that points this out, but there is no option to invite or has it been removed from the game?
could also be cool to have Quarinah do some more water-centered dreams, since you know... dreams... would love to have a very wide variety, though with all i want to do with/to her alone, i don't think you can keep the size under 2 GB, nor finish it before i somehow land a girl in the real world :)
First thing is that the download link doesn't point to a folder, so if you're downloading it from anywhere other than Itch, Patreon or Subscribestar then it's not an official/legal download and I can't help because I don't know what they did.
If you're getting it from here, and you mean that the zip file is empty, then it's because your download was corrupted. This is almost always due to downloading on an unstable WiFi connection, and the only way to "fix" it is to download using an ethernet connection or - if possible - a different ISP altogether.
There's also a possibility that the Itch servers were down momentarily, in which case they're up and running again and you should have no problems (I just downloaded the Win/Linux version on three different machines myself and all three worked as expected).
I've recently made it to Act III, and now I wonder should I park on my save & wait for the dungeon content in a future build, or is the recruit system a permanent replacement to whatever had been planned for dungeon?
Also, if someone's a really serious Q&A mood :) Is there a substantial variation in Act III based on the player's Act II choices? The "I am what you made me" scene at the end of Act II sort of implies there is indeed a difference, but maybe not a "start over if you don't like what happens" level of difference?
I think you need to type "Centaur" into a search engine. Though I admire the sheer, unbridled confidence that makes you want to correct the developer without actually checking if you're right first!
So you know that centaurs are the ones with the upper half of a human and the lower half of a horse, and you still think that Asteria is a centaur? Just out of curiosity, where do you think she's hiding all of the horse?
Also, she has horns... because minotaurs are half bull and half human. The original minotaur comes from Greek myth, in which Pasiphae (Minos' wife, hence the "mino" part) had sex with a white bull (Tauros in Greek, hence the "taur" part) sent by Poseidon and gave birth to... the minotaur.
So it's not that you're a dick, it's just that you are wildly misinformed and also apparently don't know what horses look like..?
Each update is the entire game (because Ren'py has no real update mechanic built in). If you're on Windows, Linux or Mac just extract to a new folder and play. If you're on Android, install the new version on top of the old one (say yes when it asks if you want to update).
In all cases, your saves will be automatically detected by the new version :)
Hello Arc, can we have kids with Gwen and Chole in the future, and after the full game is released, will there be any other projects related to the game? Love this game, thank you for creating and enthusiastically developing it
The goal is to get all main girls (girls with a card in the heart thingie) and most side girls (girls that had more than one sex scene) preggers at some point later in the game.
Of course, there are some exceptions due to lore.
And if we’re being realistic, Arc may have to trim down the final list.
But main girls are pretty much guaranteed.
With the exception of Roxy and Qarinah, for lore reasons.
Finally i will be able of love more My girl *happy noises*
Also, and i can be wrong here, doesn't Qarinah don't get preggnant because we still haven't meet her outside a dream? She Say something about that maybe in the future will be meet her physacal form
The kunoichi are indeed included in the list of side girls that are likely to get preggernet.
Claire, Ami, Hana, Laura, Renee, Julie, Lucille and Molly are others that I can name off the top of my head that were on the really high priority list.
I haven’t really made a list of all side girls.
Qarinah’s situation is a bit more complex.
While Roxy simply doesn’t reproduce sexually (she presummably shapeshifted her lady bits to “play” with humans.
Qarinah having a physical form is debatable. We’ve never met her physically, and she exists in the world of dreams, that’s her “real form”.
But if you remember how her story went during act 2, I seriously doubt she’d be up for trying to make another dream succubus… Even if such a thing was possible to begin with.
we do have the pregnant model of Quarinah when she tells she can change to fit, so it might be possible in the future for you to 'role-play' her being pregnant and the like, i'd guess at least
I love your game but I kinda feel like the kids don't really have any importance. like Madison doesn't ever mention having two kids. Veronica doesn't care about her having a sibling? kinda strange. but great work man. just something I thought of.
The pregnancy system is completely optional, and a lot of people turn it off. So I can't spend too long working on pregnancy/kid content as that's all "non content" for those people :P
"Talk to Ami" in the East Hallway during Act 3 results in a static picture of Ami staying on screen til you leave her options, and another that jumps in when she talks.
the top with the date, inventory, and such dissapear and do not come back before you move to another area, looking around or going to the Human Floor does not change this, only going to another area, like Your Bedroom or the West Hallway
The top bar vanishing and staying vanished I couldn't replicate, but there was a line in the code that could have caused it to happen for some people, so I've removed that and it should be fixed now.
There will be a "traceback.txt" file in your game folder - just attach it to your post :)
If you're on Android and can't get into your data folder then scroll down to the bottom of the traceback and screenshot it, then attach the screenshot to your post.
GamCore is not an official download site. Sounds like you got a corrupted and possibly virus-infected copy. Only download from Itch, Patreon and Subscribestar.
Maybe spoiler for act 3 for some, you have been warned i guess.
In act 3 when you talk to the Minions in the Forest, going back with the "Goodbye" option to the screen where you can choose to talk with either Maven or the Minions, it will be Maven that says goodbye instead of the Minions
It is the same if you go to mate with them, it will be Maven talking
Morgana will be making appearances now that the Outskirts have opened up, but she's one of the three main Faction leaders so in terms of getting to the naughty stuff that's not going to happen for a while. Sorry!
First, buy the club. Then interact with Lilly & ask her about the club & dating.
Then while there, call a dateable girl (Gwen Madison Veronica Jessica are "dateable". ). They will mention what alchohol they want to drink. Talk to Lilly & buy that in the main bar, then call again confirm the date.
They will ask three questions about how much you've paid attention to their life & backstory. If you answer all questions correctly you get optional h-scene, & progress Trickster storyline.
Hint: Gwen is the cheapest & easiest girl to fully date, if you're struggling with the others
If you do the first quest for Dates and get them all 'right'
then you can just talk with the Trickster again to continue on
And correction to the answering correctly part of your comment, if they don't have enough love for you (not enough hearts), then they will turn you down when you try to push for more
i have a 'complaint'(really just a request), can you please let us kiss the characters while they are pregnant? like i got Annie knocked up, and when i choose the "Let's be naughty" option it goes straight to sex, instead of letting me kiss her it goes straight to sex. (In general, let me kiss all the girls, both when they are pregnant and when they are not)
Sidenote: please let us have some more text with the pregnant version of our girls, like feeling the baby kicking in the belly
I actually did start creating "kissing" renders for all the girls, but I just wasn't happy with them... largely because there's no good "puckered lips" assets, and the whole thing was just a still image closeup of each girl's face :P
I'll probably just do it, though, and see how people react, then polish it all up when the game hits beta.
The pregnancy content is entirely optional, and a lot of people turn it off, so any time spent working on pregnancy is the same as no time at all spent working on the game for those people. Which means I have to be very careful how much time I invest in it.
Honestly, if it was up to me, the game would just be wholesome events like picnics with everyone and hanging out with the kids. But oh well! ;)
When i started the game and saw the option, i thought it was like the pregnancy fetish would be all there was to it, so i had it turned off there, after finding out it was not i went on a spree to make up for lost time, though i refused to use the potions
I'd wager at least some that turn it off thought like me, and then never remembered/revisited that menu
That is fair, i'd also love to be able to go on a picnic with the little ones
BTW. i noticed i got a lot more of one gender than the other, is it a chance thing for the gender, or are there only that one gender for that one woman?
Even if you don't do much more with the pregnancy stuff i'll keep using it, and love all my precious little bundles of happiness
Adding variants would just add extra complexity to the system, more breaking points and Arc would also have to make render variants for permutations of the scenes the kids appear in.
Not fun.
So yeah, there was a vote and people voted to have boys and girls, but mostly girls.
I just loved the act 2 but act 3 seems a little... lazy to be honest. Act 1 and 2 were full of story and excitement but act 3 just seems lazy. Also I wish there was something to guide me through the game. Character cards are not enough. I completed them all and i saw that there was still a ton of thing to do. Thankfully I thought of that and saved the game before jumping into the act 3.
Act 3 is a bit weird, the whole war thing was inevitable, and things haven’t ramped up properly.
And no, game won’t hold your hand more than necessary.
It ends up being quite boring from a developer’s view to have to herd the players to go into the right place, rather let them explore and reward them for faffing about.
Or if exploration is not your thing, ask.
That encourages interaction with the community.
Me: Working as a solo dev, releasing updates every two weeks that are as packed with content as I can possibly make them, remaking every scene location, every character outfit, introducing a brand new mechanic with thousands of lines of code, working with gritted teeth through my nerve damage and ensuring that every update brings back old characters or advances the plot = lazy
You: Wants to have your hand held through the entire game so that you don't have to actually explore and discover anything for yourself = not lazy
Ah, I thought it was a mistake, could you explain to me how it works now? since before there were many districts and you could investigate or do things with them.
It works on Android 12 but not on all configurations of OS and hardware (it especially struggles when new OS's are paired with older hardware). This is unfortunately an issue with Ren'py, the SDK, and not something I can personally affect in any way. Fingers crossed that future updates to Ren'py can help make it more stable across all mobile permutations!
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Awesome game! Will it remain fully free when it is finished?
Yes, it's
Yup! CK is, was, and always will be 100% free, even when it's completed :)
That being said, I will be offering an open source version (non encrypted) for between $5 to $15 which will come with all the assets and code and a license which will allow you to do anything you like with it. Make mods, use the assets in other games, use the code as a template for your own game... whatever you like!
Thank you so much, you truly are an Angel 🙏🙏🙏😭😭
Is 3rd decoration poster a frame from "Bad Apple!!" MV?
It's a reference, but it was made in Charastudio using 3D models :)
Hello can I complain about something so I was downloading the game but I cancel like when it almost 100 it say forbidden download can you help please
I was about to write that too cuz when I tried to play today it just blocked me from it.... weird
Download it from Arc's patreon
Download it from Arc's patreon
Why would you complain to me about that? It's Itch's website - complain to them if their servers aren't working ;P
The fact that meals as a mechanic are just entirely missable is bad enough, the fact that you only find out you missed them by looking at the wiki stings more. Man...
Jessica tells you about meals during the battle tutorial, and the kitchen has "Organize Meals" as a top-level menu option. It's not really "missable" unless you're not paying attention.
No, I mean that if you let Hana die, you never get them
If you're looking for sympathy that you missed out on a game benefit because you murdered Hana, this is not the crowd to give it to you ;)
Hey, I didn't kill her
well how did she die then lol?
I cant intall the new version for android, help me please
You need to give more details - what exactly is the error message you're getting, if any? Does the game install but not run, or does it not install at all? The more details you provide, the easier it will be to help.
As a general fix, though, 90% of Android errors are caused by not enough storage space. Make sure you have at least 6GB free (more is better) as Android requires between 2-5x as much extra space as APKs take to install.
My device is Redmi 11 and have 10GB free space, after procces installed in the end I get notification "the application cannot be installed", help please
Ren'py and Android don't always play well together - certain combinations of hardware and OS version on your Android will prevent it from interacting with Ren'py. Unfortunately I have no control over either, so there's nothing I can do at my end.
If all else fails, you can try using the JoiPlay app and run the Win/Linux version through it.
Ok thank you
You've changed the mechanics around the war a few times and here's my feedback
Although I preferred the way it was with all the districtds we had to conquer, with different amount of fights to win in order to conquer them, I understand it would have been a LOT of work if it stayed that way and I'll just get used to the current menu, hoping you don't change it up too much again ahaha
Now to the fighting mechanic which is imo the most important part of my feedback as it directly impacts everyone's experience in this part of the game. I'll come out straight and say it : I do not like the current mechanic, with the dice, like at all. It relies too much on rng and although the little animation for each round is pretty cool I just can't like it. I don't find it fun. I do however really like what you did with the possibility to use a power in each round depending on your roll, that's the good part of the current system.
I miss having to spend time in the dungeon with each of the girls after fighting them in order to add them to my team, then having to change support character between each district I targetted to go along with the type of enemy and strategy needed. Although this system quickly became too easy I do think it could have made for a cool way to input a cool strategy like for example the eldritch changing types mid fight forcing you to either adapt through their phases or having to cheese it with food to heal yourself until you can beat them with one specific type of attack. But thinking about it, it was probably too much work again, after all this isn't the main game but simply a mini-game, I do have to reiterate though that I REALLY do not like the current system and hope to see it improve so that I don't have to go through it. It's kind of sad to use auto win feature so i'd rather not use it.
You don't need to worry about the system changing up again - its current incarnation is permanent now. I've spent far too much time on it as it is and it was only ever supposed to be a thematic addition and not a whole other game in its own right.
As for the RNG thing, which I hear now and again:
1. All systems must have RNG built in or they become simply a mathematical formula, like the old system was, completely devoid of strategy or nervous tension.
2. The current system has SO MANY ways to influence the dice rolls in your favour. Meals, Tactics, Elixirs, Upgrading Dice, Powers - and the next update introduces "Daily Buffs". It's RNG dependent only if you're not preparing beforehand. The exception to this is the first two fights, but those are supposed to cause you problems because if you start out as superman where the heck do you go from there?
It is, unfortunately, impossible to please all of the people all of the time; there's no system on the planet that everyone is going to like, and sadly you fall into the "don't like it" pool this time.
The best I can do as a solo dev is to make something that's as thematically consistent with the rest of the game as possible, doesn't take too much time to implement (so I can focus on content), and finally to provide a way to skip the combat entirely for the players that don't want to engage with it.
I dont mind too much, but the gallery feels incomplete. Like a lot of scenes(mostly small ones) dont seem to make an appearance. Like the after battle h-scenes with all the area bosses we fight. Is that intentional? Or are you possibly waiting for something to update the gallery?
That’s intentional. The gallery’s main purpose is to revisit scenes that are not repeatable or hard to repeat.
Now, if you’re in act 3, all the act 2 scenes are not repeatable.
It’s just that new content takes priority over adding all the scenes to the gallery. It isn’t hard, it’s just tedious and I reckon Arc would rather spend his time making actual content.
I guessed as much. Figured I would ask anyway since it seemed simplistic. I would rather Arcadian focus on new content than the gallery which is a minor detail anyway.
On another note, you seem to know a lot about the production of CK, and would like to ask, when(time wise as in weeks not when as in story development) will the manor and revisiting scenes in game be normalized. I do have prior saves, but am curious as my main save is furthest along and personally not looking forward to doing several hours of playing just to match it to before Act 3 takes off runnin.
There are gaps in my knowledge.
In this case it’s mainly because I don’t think Arc has a concrete answer either.
Like, there’s no timetable for anything. Arc would rather not make promises he can’t keep, and also it’s not that easy to make estimations.
But the way it looks, most if not all of the previous acts content is unusable in act 3. MC has the cursed arms and some girls have changed a bit. Can’t reuse assets.
So in a way, can’t say when things will normalise, or if that will even happen.
Maybe Arc has something more to say, but I think that’s the gist of it. No clue.
Some of the animations, mainly cowgirl and other woman on top positions, seems to be either anal or between both holes, there is one scene (can't remember where, maybe someone else knows) where you can see the entire pussy, front and back, while they are talking about how the dick feels in their vagina
sorry this is not too helpful and says where specifically those scenes are
The engine for the visuals is far from perfect.
And also Arc has been learning as he goes, so sometimes there’s some mistakes that not even camera trickery can mask.
I do believe that once the game goes into the beta phase, some (if not all) scenes will have to be remastered in order to have a consistent level of quality.
After all, game’s been in the work for over 4 years.
This game is great, the only thing lacking really are the scenes with how short they are and lack of VA, granted there's more scenes in exchange across the game which is fun. I just started entering this genre but this definitely is among the top of my list so far. Looking forward to the future contents and hopefully more Emma scenes.Also, the pregnant scenes is awakening something in me that I never even thought before.
I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Voice Acting has been left out for two reasons: first is that if I'm going to bring VA in then it needs to be done professionally. Nothing worse than bad VA, or inconsistent mic quality. Second is that sound files create a lot of bloat even when compressed and I'm trying to keep the filesize below 2GB (for people on capped/slow connections and because Android users can't install anything above 2GB).
Next game will be built with VA in mind, though :)
next game? you already planning another one?
please don't get too focused on it, as i want to see this one get finished :)
Don’t worry, Arc is not that daft to start working on another game while the first one isn’t done.
But yeah, future game concepts exist.
CK is planned to be a trilogy. Although the game right after this one won’t be the “CK 2”.
Either way, the plan is to start tinkering on stuff once the game reaches the beta phase.
The beta phase is pretty much going to be polishing and adding the last bits of content, with the main story all finished.
I can install games on android at 4gbs I haven't found a cap for storage on game downloads so what do you mean by 2gb game limit on downloads.or is my phone just unique and I didn't know it.
You cannot install any APK over 2GB. You may have downloaded something larger than that from the Play Store, because there you can bundle multiple file packages together, but Android has a hard limit on individual APK installations.
Storage is a completely different thing and wasn't mentioned.
I would like to know, where do you pull inspiration for some of your designs?
like why Asteria have those back spikes, QQ have the look they do, but does not use purple despite what she was made for...
don't get me wrong, i love it all, just curious
In the case of Asteria specifically she was originally designed by a very talented character modeller called "Zolla" (who also did Roxy's design), who designed her after the Behemoth from Final Fantasy :)
As for the other characters, inspiration was drawn from different places depending on the person, and a couple (Jackie and Viola) were actually designed on livestream based on player input!
I've just reached full hearts with a couple of girls and I'm noticing (for the first time lol) it says the proficiency level for each girl. Does that change anything? Also, is anal sex available for every girl? Sorry if this has been posted somewhere, can't find a guide or wiki.
Very nice game, will contribute to your patreon fo sho
It’s just a pointless counter for the time being. It may do something in the future, it might not.
And no, I think only Jessica can do buttsecks. Not counting a handful of side girls.
on the topic of the stats, does the titles mean anything? or is it planned to?
The things in parenthesis? Like (Auntie) for Jessica?
Those are quirks. Certain events turn them on, for the moment they’re just some sort of “achievement”.
It is planned to have them unlock certain scenes.
Like the (Adultress) quirk will unlock scenes like the one it’s unlocked.
If you meant the text that appears next to the stats. That’s just flavour text, it changes every couple of levels up to 20.
so we don't get a scene where Pixie speaks french if you kiss her enough? damn
I've been loving the game so much!
But I'm also wondering if there's a reason on my end that I don't get the option to launch an attack on the Company or the Train Station in Act 3. It seems that's necessary to ultimately investigate the church, and I've already attacked and gained the loyalty of all the other locations in the town map. Have I gone as far as I can in this version?
Those locations haven’t been added yet.
Mainly because you need to have a connected location to conquer the next one.
And if you tried crossing the bridge, you’d know why we haven’t done anything east of the river.
Seems like we’re doing outskirts, after Arc progresses some story events and stuff.
Thanks Chris! I just needed to be sure I wasn't missing something. I guess it makes more sense to think about us progressing across the map in a linear fashion. But I'm also bummed that there doesn't seem to be anything more to do in the game at the moment. I just discovered it less than two weeks ago and have been seriously hooked. Maybe I'll see what other similar games are out there in the meantime. Thanks again!
I update every two weeks so more content coming very soon! :)
To be fair, Arcadean is a madman when it comes to this game. 2 weeks per update is insane even if the content amount is small. Also, there was one indicator that stops the game progression and thats the lead for conquering the town, which it says cant be done because content for it is not ready.
How to get infertality and super infertility
Buy them from the Mysterious Merchant. At a certain point in Act Two, go to Jessica's office and she'll reveal that a new property "The Field" is available to purchase. Buy it then go visit it.
I need help please, if anyone can tell me what to do I would appreciate it.
My charisma and martial are at maximum, everything else is at half except magic. I haven't been able to progress in magic because when I go south to look for the witch hat I can't find it, I try to use the drift power but the main character says it didn't work and now he has a headache and leaves the forest.
I don't know what to do to complete that section, please help me.
If you're getting the "... well, that didn't work. Not really sure why I thought it would, honestly." message then you're not using Drift. That message pops up only when you try to use a power that isn't Drift.
You also don't technically have to use Drift, either. If you select "Don't use a Power" then you have a 50% chance to find the hat on your own.
Oh, so it's possible that my game is corrupted? Since I'm certainly sure I used Drift.
I wouldn't be surprised if my game is broken, since I started it with a Spanish patch that used to generate a lot of errors, then I changed to another Spanish patch that worked correctly.
I will try not to use a power and wait for it to appear. I don't want to start another new game.
Thanks so much
If you're using a translation patch then yes, that would certainly explain the errors - I love that people are out there making fan-translations, but unfortunately I can't quality control any of them because they're not official.
If you get in touch with the person making the patch they should be able to fix the issue that's blocking you :)
Okay, I don't know if it's just me, but what platform did you use for the characters and animations? I'm so sorry to ask but I wanna make a game for my boyfriend like this but I can't til I find out what you and other developers use
I can't speak for other developers, but here's what I use:
1. 3D Models and scenes: A heavily-modded Koikatsu Party (available on Steam - make sure you check the Guides for how to install CharaStudio)
2. Coding: Ren'py (Visual Studio Code IDE)
3. Graphical editing/UI design: Affinity Photo
4. Video editing: Da Vinci Resolve
5. Music/Sound editing and creation: Audacity
Good luck making your game! I'm sure your boyfriend will be delighted :)
Hello i love the game a lot just wanted to say good work for a solo dev you're doing grate I have a question are u planning wen the game Is finished to be free of paying for it I see ure not sure of wen ure going to be finished but I was wandering and a nother question u think after this is finished u make more games again loving the game so far hope everything is good :)
Hey, thanks for the kind words - I appreciate it! :)
Yes, when the game is finished it will be 100% free for everyone to play. There will also be a special "open source" version that will be completely unencrypted and will allow people to use the assets and code and characters for whatever they want! The open source version will cost somewhere between $5 and $15.
when will the final version be released?
No idea. Not even Arc himself is sure.
One or two years, and that’s lowballing it.
personally i am not expecting a finished game within the next 5 years, simply cause i know coding can be really hard, and getting things to match up can be a headache (not a coder myself, just know a bunch of people that do)
Arc doesn’t intend to work on the game for a decade.
You can work on the same thing for so long before you get bored of it.
That’s why the game after CK won’t be the actual CK sequel, but something different.
But yeah, projects like these, it’s hard to do estimations of time.
And it’s really easy for things to snowball out of control.
yo if we download the updates, is it alright if we delete older files?
If you’re certain the new version is loading the saves properly, yes.
thanks
Good afternoon I wanted to ask a question And I wanted to know if it is necessary to do a mission to unlock Lily's pregnancy? since it tells me that "Something is stopping Lily from getting pregnant and a voice is calling you"
Well, yes. The pregnancy content is locked behind meeting a certain character.
Whenever you get invited to the nexus, you need to say hi to everyone for the character to take an interest in you.
If you haven’t been invited to the nexus, progress with Pixie a little bit.
Are there mods for this game?
No, not really.
This game is a visual novel with pre-rendered assets.
Not particularly easy to mod, or worth anyone’s time.
But if something appears, it has more chances of appearing in the discord server.
Does this update make the screen smaller?
I don’t really understand the question, but the answer is probably no.
The screen is 1280x720p but it's not fullscreen by default, so if you've clicked and dragged the corners/sides of the window to make it bigger or smaller then that's permanently recorded - at least in in Windows. I don't know about other OS's.
when downloading a game why does it always stop in the middle?
From what another dev said, itch is having issues with downloads as of late. Not sure why, most devs are aware of the problem with itch and are offering workarounds. I'm GUESSING there was some stuff done behind the scenes that caused it. Aren't "updates that seem to screw everything up for awhile" grand? :P (no)
even downloading the Launcher seems to have problems... the hell have they done
Is it possible to invite someone to the hot springs? There is some dialogue that points this out, but there is no option to invite or has it been removed from the game?
No, you can’t invite anyone, at least for the time being.
One does wonder if it’ll happen during act 3… Sawano did mention healing properties…
But it could also just be side content that will be added in act 2 once the game enters the beta phase.
i know who i want to join me there at least :)
could also be cool to have Quarinah do some more water-centered dreams, since you know... dreams... would love to have a very wide variety, though with all i want to do with/to her alone, i don't think you can keep the size under 2 GB, nor finish it before i somehow land a girl in the real world :)
I tried to download the latest PC update but the folder shows up empty. is there something I'm doing wrong? used 2 different browsers.
First thing is that the download link doesn't point to a folder, so if you're downloading it from anywhere other than Itch, Patreon or Subscribestar then it's not an official/legal download and I can't help because I don't know what they did.
If you're getting it from here, and you mean that the zip file is empty, then it's because your download was corrupted. This is almost always due to downloading on an unstable WiFi connection, and the only way to "fix" it is to download using an ethernet connection or - if possible - a different ISP altogether.
There's also a possibility that the Itch servers were down momentarily, in which case they're up and running again and you should have no problems (I just downloaded the Win/Linux version on three different machines myself and all three worked as expected).
I've recently made it to Act III, and now I wonder should I park on my save & wait for the dungeon content in a future build, or is the recruit system a permanent replacement to whatever had been planned for dungeon?
Also, if someone's a really serious Q&A mood :) Is there a substantial variation in Act III based on the player's Act II choices? The "I am what you made me" scene at the end of Act II sort of implies there is indeed a difference, but maybe not a "start over if you don't like what happens" level of difference?
The dungeon got put back in the shelf. It’s just been hard to justify its existence in the game.
And the new recruiting system is almost certainly permanent. Doubt Arc’ll remake things again.
Most choices don’t have that big of an effect… If they have any…
That dialogue is the same regardless. But for a reason you might not be considering, probably because we don’t have enough information yet.
There will be different endings, but Arc has always said something along the lines of “You’ll get the ending you’re aiming for”.
So don’t sweat it, play how you want to play.
thanks very much Chris, I sort of suspected what you're saying but I really appreciate your time to confirm. :)
Stay frosty, be well
I think you need to type "Centaur" into a search engine. Though I admire the sheer, unbridled confidence that makes you want to correct the developer without actually checking if you're right first!
So you know that centaurs are the ones with the upper half of a human and the lower half of a horse, and you still think that Asteria is a centaur? Just out of curiosity, where do you think she's hiding all of the horse?
Also, she has horns... because minotaurs are half bull and half human. The original minotaur comes from Greek myth, in which Pasiphae (Minos' wife, hence the "mino" part) had sex with a white bull (Tauros in Greek, hence the "taur" part) sent by Poseidon and gave birth to... the minotaur.
So it's not that you're a dick, it's just that you are wildly misinformed and also apparently don't know what horses look like..?
what the hell happened here?
Do you have to download each update individually?
Yep, unless you’re using the itch.io launcher.
so to clarify I don't have to download all of the update files they are included with the main game?
Each update is the entire game (because Ren'py has no real update mechanic built in). If you're on Windows, Linux or Mac just extract to a new folder and play. If you're on Android, install the new version on top of the old one (say yes when it asks if you want to update).
In all cases, your saves will be automatically detected by the new version :)
however the launcher crashes on setup, gotta love the Pid it can't read
Hello Arc, can we have kids with Gwen and Chole in the future, and after the full game is released, will there be any other projects related to the game? Love this game, thank you for creating and enthusiastically developing it
The goal is to get all main girls (girls with a card in the heart thingie) and most side girls (girls that had more than one sex scene) preggers at some point later in the game.
Of course, there are some exceptions due to lore.
And if we’re being realistic, Arc may have to trim down the final list.
But main girls are pretty much guaranteed. With the exception of Roxy and Qarinah, for lore reasons.
So there is a change of a baby with Hatsume?
Finally i will be able of love more My girl *happy noises*
Also, and i can be wrong here, doesn't Qarinah don't get preggnant because we still haven't meet her outside a dream? She Say something about that maybe in the future will be meet her physacal form
The kunoichi are indeed included in the list of side girls that are likely to get preggernet.
Claire, Ami, Hana, Laura, Renee, Julie, Lucille and Molly are others that I can name off the top of my head that were on the really high priority list.
I haven’t really made a list of all side girls.
Qarinah’s situation is a bit more complex.
While Roxy simply doesn’t reproduce sexually (she presummably shapeshifted her lady bits to “play” with humans.
Qarinah having a physical form is debatable. We’ve never met her physically, and she exists in the world of dreams, that’s her “real form”.
But if you remember how her story went during act 2, I seriously doubt she’d be up for trying to make another dream succubus… Even if such a thing was possible to begin with.
So, we might get a dream baby or nothing at all.
we do have the pregnant model of Quarinah
when she tells she can change to fit, so it might be possible in the future for you to 'role-play' her being pregnant and the like, i'd guess at least
Qarinah might be up for roleplaying preggo sex. She’s a dream succubus, she can shapeshift.
Also I think it’s canon that the protagonist has a preggo kink.
But as for her actually getting pregnant and having a kid that can go to the daycare, that will most likely be a no.
when's the next update?
Every two weeks, so the early access version is out tomorrow and the public version will be out in eight days :)
thank you!
I love your game but I kinda feel like the kids don't really have any importance. like Madison doesn't ever mention having two kids. Veronica doesn't care about her having a sibling? kinda strange. but great work man. just something I thought of.
The pregnancy system is completely optional, and a lot of people turn it off. So I can't spend too long working on pregnancy/kid content as that's all "non content" for those people :P
makes sense sorry
No need to apologise! Honestly, if I could make the game just cute events with the kids and picnics with the NPCs, I'd 100% do it, haha.
"Talk to Ami" in the East Hallway during Act 3 results in a static picture of Ami staying on screen til you leave her options, and another that jumps in when she talks.
the top with the date, inventory, and such dissapear and do not come back before you move to another area, looking around or going to the Human Floor does not change this, only going to another area, like Your Bedroom or the West Hallway
The Ami bug has now been fixed, thanks! :)
The top bar vanishing and staying vanished I couldn't replicate, but there was a line in the code that could have caused it to happen for some people, so I've removed that and it should be fixed now.
Trying to open the Main Menu gives an 'exception' (aka. can't do it) if i ignore or roll back it just puts me back in the game where i were before.
I am at Act 3, day 391, if that has anything to do with it
It would help if you posted what the traceback says.
It shouldn’t matter where in the game you are, but can’t be sure without the error message.
How do i do that?
it won't let me use the "Open" "Copy BBCode" or "Copy Markdown" tabs at the bottom
There will be a "traceback.txt" file in your game folder - just attach it to your post :)
If you're on Android and can't get into your data folder then scroll down to the bottom of the traceback and screenshot it, then attach the screenshot to your post.
I can't find it, i don't get further than GamCore, where i found this game.
i can however download the Ren'Py log
so how do i put it in? my acc. is only as old as my first post in here, i don't know how to do much yet
GamCore is not an official download site. Sounds like you got a corrupted and possibly virus-infected copy. Only download from Itch, Patreon and Subscribestar.
Maybe spoiler for act 3 for some, you have been warned i guess.
In act 3 when you talk to the Minions in the Forest, going back with the "Goodbye" option to the screen where you can choose to talk with either Maven or the Minions, it will be Maven that says goodbye instead of the Minions
It is the same if you go to mate with them, it will be Maven talking
A small slip-up, it’s fixed on the next version.
As you said, she’s the main villain.
We won’t be getting her soon, but we will get her.
Morgana will be making appearances now that the Outskirts have opened up, but she's one of the three main Faction leaders so in terms of getting to the naughty stuff that's not going to happen for a while. Sorry!
Someone Please help i don't understand date in the club
First, buy the club. Then interact with Lilly & ask her about the club & dating.
Then while there, call a dateable girl (Gwen Madison Veronica Jessica are "dateable". ). They will mention what alchohol they want to drink. Talk to Lilly & buy that in the main bar, then call again confirm the date.
They will ask three questions about how much you've paid attention to their life & backstory. If you answer all questions correctly you get optional h-scene, & progress Trickster storyline.
Hint: Gwen is the cheapest & easiest girl to fully date, if you're struggling with the others
Okay that was criminal. Aside Veronica Gwen is best girl
Well, it was a harsh way to word it, but it isn’t any less truthful.
Gwen likes beer, cheapest drink of the 3.
Her questions are arguably the easiest to answer.
And even if you fuckup the questions she’ll still enjoy spending time with you like you aced the questions.
I hope there's an option in the future to release her so we can make her fall for us for real.....
I firmly believe we could’ve gotten Gwen without Awaken.
But that situation was kinda do or die.
Chloe on the other hand… yeah, nah.
Thank you very helpful!!!!
If you do the first quest for Dates and get them all 'right'
then you can just talk with the Trickster again to continue on
And correction to the answering correctly part of your comment, if they don't have enough love for you (not enough hearts), then they will turn you down when you try to push for more
That's a much better way to say what I trying to say about Gwen being easiest :)
i have a 'complaint'(really just a request), can you please let us kiss the characters while they are pregnant? like i got Annie knocked up, and when i choose the "Let's be naughty" option it goes straight to sex, instead of letting me kiss her it goes straight to sex.
(In general, let me kiss all the girls, both when they are pregnant and when they are not)
Sidenote: please let us have some more text with the pregnant version of our girls, like feeling the baby kicking in the belly
thanks in advance, love the game :)
I actually did start creating "kissing" renders for all the girls, but I just wasn't happy with them... largely because there's no good "puckered lips" assets, and the whole thing was just a still image closeup of each girl's face :P
I'll probably just do it, though, and see how people react, then polish it all up when the game hits beta.
The pregnancy content is entirely optional, and a lot of people turn it off, so any time spent working on pregnancy is the same as no time at all spent working on the game for those people. Which means I have to be very careful how much time I invest in it.
Honestly, if it was up to me, the game would just be wholesome events like picnics with everyone and hanging out with the kids. But oh well! ;)
wait...THERE'RE PEOPLE WHO TURN THE PREG OFF? why? the kids are cute, adorable, more precious than the damn world !!! what's wrong with society ???
When i started the game and saw the option, i thought it was like the pregnancy fetish would be all there was to it, so i had it turned off there, after finding out it was not i went on a spree to make up for lost time, though i refused to use the potions
I'd wager at least some that turn it off thought like me, and then never remembered/revisited that menu
Sadge
That is fair, i'd also love to be able to go on a picnic with the little ones
BTW. i noticed i got a lot more of one gender than the other, is it a chance thing for the gender, or are there only that one gender for that one woman?
Even if you don't do much more with the pregnancy stuff i'll keep using it, and love all my precious little bundles of happiness
The genders are fixed.
Adding variants would just add extra complexity to the system, more breaking points and Arc would also have to make render variants for permutations of the scenes the kids appear in.
Not fun.
So yeah, there was a vote and people voted to have boys and girls, but mostly girls.
Thought so much, just wanted to make sure
that they are fixed like this also makes it easier to expand on what you can do with them i'd guess
Yeah, a nice side effect is that the kids will be canon in the sequels :)
I just loved the act 2 but act 3 seems a little... lazy to be honest. Act 1 and 2 were full of story and excitement but act 3 just seems lazy. Also I wish there was something to guide me through the game. Character cards are not enough. I completed them all and i saw that there was still a ton of thing to do. Thankfully I thought of that and saved the game before jumping into the act 3.
Act 3 is a bit weird, the whole war thing was inevitable, and things haven’t ramped up properly.
And no, game won’t hold your hand more than necessary.
It ends up being quite boring from a developer’s view to have to herd the players to go into the right place, rather let them explore and reward them for faffing about.
Or if exploration is not your thing, ask. That encourages interaction with the community.
This, just like Gramps keeps not answering questions, don't make the game answer everything.
Also, i feel like Exploration was quickly over and done, so i hope we can get some more areas under the Exploration tabs in the different areas.
So, just to be clear:
Me: Working as a solo dev, releasing updates every two weeks that are as packed with content as I can possibly make them, remaking every scene location, every character outfit, introducing a brand new mechanic with thousands of lines of code, working with gritted teeth through my nerve damage and ensuring that every update brings back old characters or advances the plot = lazy
You: Wants to have your hand held through the entire game so that you don't have to actually explore and discover anything for yourself = not lazy
Just want to be sure I have that right.
Not an error, that’s the war map.
Old system got scrapped, now the districts are locations in the map.
There’s a new icon in the top right of the map, shows you more war related info.
There wasn’t much content on the old districts. That was part of the reason they got removed and some girls got relocated.
But basically, after Jessica gives you the talk about war, you go to the locations and there’s an option to mount an attack.
how I spend time with Asteria and our daughter ?
She appears if you train with Asteria. Forgot the name of the exercise but I think it was the middle one.
Kiddo joins you for barbells
whoo's the blue hair girl?
Emma :)
thanks, I meant pixie who I found out was Pixie :o can't wait to go through the game this weekend
APK not working on Android 12
It works on Android 12 but not on all configurations of OS and hardware (it especially struggles when new OS's are paired with older hardware). This is unfortunately an issue with Ren'py, the SDK, and not something I can personally affect in any way. Fingers crossed that future updates to Ren'py can help make it more stable across all mobile permutations!