Hello Mr. Atemsiel. It's me, again. This time with a shorter post, just wanna ask a question. How is the sex scene with Sasha in the latest update supposed to be accessed? I, for the life of me, couldn't find it. I like to unlock all the scenes organicanically to i can know the context in which they take part. However, i used the "unlock everything" button for the first time to unlock this scene because i couldn't figure out what i needed. From the scene itself, it seems that in her slave route, you make the deal with her (that you'll give her some relief if she can stay quiet in class) but she doesn't manage to and you punish her for it. But that doesn't seem to be possible ingame? Help appreciated!
Please for the love of all things right, leave at least the first "render" as is for the Directors visit on the 4th. I spit when it popped up from laughing and it was hilarious.
hello , could really use some assistance, I'm stuck on a part where I've arrived at the school and i cannot progress. tells me to open my phone but i already talked to father, i joined discord server and I'm try to get help on fixing this, thanks (if i have to send a save file i will need help on that process. or should i try redownloading?
For me when i had this happen i rolled back to before the txts and clicked through it, then closed and reopened the message, clicked once again and it got me through. The phone seems a little buggy and it was mentioned to be careful with it in the very beginning. Hope this works if you havent gotten it fixed yet
This looks like a fun game! Can't wait to play :) I just found this on the valentines day bundle so im pretty excited. Are there any cheats available for now?
Edit: just found out there's no android version. Will you be making one?
How is this AVN not talked about more? I found it through the Valentines bundle. Never heard anything about it before. Glad I found it. Lots of content and just all-around well made. Character designs are also top tier. Definitely one of my favorites now.
IDK about you but i use accents in my head for the characters except Cassie and now Shasha makes me wanna learn Russian since she often uses it in her dialog.
I only recently found this and I've been really enjoying Stormside so far! Much funnier and cuter than I was expecting. I'm afraid I'm having a problem with the new release, though. I'm playing v. 0.23.1.4 on Mac and it launches fine but as soon as I try loading any save the game immediately hard crashes (force-quits itself immediately) and spits out a traceback crash log with:
"I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code: Exception: Audio channel u'_movie_862_mask' is unknown.
I can post the entire traceback if you'd like.
All saves are from the most recent previous release (0.22.06) and both builds were downloaded from here or Patreon. Also, starting a new game seems to work fine. It's only loading saves that's the issue.
(Edited to correct prev. ver. # to 0.22.06 from 0.22.05)
The fuk ? After 4 years playing VN , why did i missed this god-made game ? One of the best overal and definitely the best with UI, Preference, Choices, Routes, .... Respect !
Sadly that's all there is at the moment. I've emailed itch to ask for more hosting quota (To allow players to download directly from itch) but I haven't received a response yet. Once they give me enough space to upload the game here, that will become an option.
I'm having issues with both of these too unfortunately.
Would it be possible to try a multi-part, split archive approach? I think the main issue for me is that the file is just too large to get in one shot without failing on either hosting service.
It would be one way to work around the Itch file size limits to be able to host files directly, or make the downloads on Mega/Google more likely to complete successfully by breaking it into multiple smaller files.
7-zip (https://7-zip.org/) is one free cross platform software option that can handle creating split archives in multiple parts, as well as combining them back together.
im on june 28 and when the mc is looking at the 4 girls front of him off in the distance im trying to progress after the messagees with dad buti cant find a solution despite trying evrything
If you send me your save file via my Discord, I can fix this for you. The bug itself should be removed in the next version, but if you send me the save I can fix it and send it back.
Early in the game you get access to the girls' sexual stats, including what they've done before the start of the game. The player can choose to set all stats to 0 so it becomes a record of only what's happened since the MC got access, or they can just leave them as they are, so you get a bit of insight into the girl's past. Either way, it makes no difference to the actual story, and wiping the stats won't actually change what they've done.
The option you're looking at is in the rename menu, which is sort of like a bonus menu where you can edit some aspects of the game if you change your mind about something. This particular option allows you to wipe or reinstate the girls' stats even after you were given the original choice, but the text under it refers to the fact that it will only affect the original stats. For example, if a girl had given a BJ before the game started, her BJ stat would be 1 when you get access to the stats. If you wiped them, it would be set to 0, but if you didn't, it would remain at 1. If you then played another hour and during that hour of gameplay she gave 2 BJs, her BJ stat would either be 3 or 2 depending on whether you wiped her stats originally. This option will not wipe what happened in that hour.
You can toggle sex stats on or off here as much as you want without causing a problem, but the rename menu contains a number of other settings which you probably shouldn't touch unless you've already been given the option to change them in game. It's only there for if you want to change things later on, and isn't something to be messed with at the start of the game.
First playthrough, i gotta say, out of all the ones I have played so far, this is top 3. How you left it til the next update is a great way to end it. No spoilers from me, but it ended really good to make me wanting more. Lol. Now, I gotta return to it so I can go the other routes n so on. Gonna take me more time and I like it that way. Keep up the great work. I can't wait until you release the next version, and hopefully when this is done, you make another :)
Did you start the game with python or with the bash-script? On Ubuntu 22.04 I get same kind of error if I'm starting Stormside.py but if I start the game with ./stormside.sh it works without any problems.
I tried both and got the same error. Since the traceback showed .05 as opposed to the .06 in the directory name, I removed it all and re-extracted it. That seems to have fixed it. (Weird, as I have done that multiple times, so it could be as I have updated my dev environments for other things that some missing Python dependency was met that was causing the error. The error clearly stated it thought that there were duplicate lines in the code, but when I examined the code, that wasn't the case. So, who knows?
Fantastic game. Each of the girls have a unique personality and even "accents", something I've never seen before in an AVN. The humor and animations are incredible. Definitely following this and look forward to future updates.
Sasha is adorable in her glasses, I wish more outfits had them!
Ahaa, thanks. I try my best to represent the different nationalities as actually different rather than just "This girl is from X, that means she looks like this."
Sasha is one of my favourites. Definitely my favourite of the side stories overall, since I love her ghost hunting stuff. It's funny though, she actually causes issues with the accents and all that you mentioned, because a Russian translation is being worked on for the game at the moment, and the guy is having some difficulty trying to work out how to translate the fact she speaks broken English, but perfect Russian, into Russian. I don't envy his task, for it is complicated. He faces a unique challenge not necessarily faced by other translators, but I'm sure he's up to the task.
Damn, just finished the current content and I've gotta say, its instantly one of the greats. It seems like the development is taking quite some time, but considering the nearly ridiculous quality, that makes complete sense.
And I do mean quality, on all fronts. The artstyle is very well done, character design is great, but it's the writing and charm that make it a gem. Dialogue is well written, jokes (both in character and more physical/visual comedy) get consistent chuckles, and the story is actually quite intriguing. Elements like the ghost hunting segment, that take quite a bit of commitment to a certain tone, are also done really well, and add a lot to the games identity. The treatment of sexuality, identity and morality is also something that can really hamper my enjoyment of a vn, wether it is disrespectful or borderline sociopathic, as can be seen in a lot of adult vn's, but this game handles it really well. Obviously it differs for the slave route, I've been playing as mr nice guy mostly, but still its nice to get characters with actual moral convictions, who have their own wants and desires.
All in all, a 9/10, and only not a 10 because there's still so much I want to see. A gold star to the developer from me, and I'll be keeping my eye on this.
Ahaa, thanks man. I love reading stuff like this because it makes specific note of a lot of the things I'm putting specific effort into, rather than just "Great game" (Which is also nice, but it's extra nice to hear that the little details don't go unnoticed).
I try my best to make sure that when it comes to the characters themselves, I treat them as people rather than characters. I've been told it's a strange writing decision because it can sometimes result in characters doing things that some people think takes away from a story, but I'm not really trying to write them as parts of a story, but instead just people who exist within it. It's hard to explain really. Granted, it's a porn game, so when it comes to sexuality especially there may be some fairly silly stuff coming, but I'm trying to strike a balance between believability, realism, and porn game nonsense. It tends to lean a bit towards that last one in the sub and slave routes, but I suppose there's no way to get that kind of stuff totally realistic without it moving very very slowly (Or it getting darker than I'm willing to go with the game)
Regardless, more to come. In fact, there's another update that should release here on the 11th. It's a very short update compared to the last one (Christmas and all that delayed things a bunch) but still, new stuff. Woooo
No NTR. There is potential for girl on girl content that doesn't include the MC, but you literally have to give the girls permission to do it so if you don't wanna allow that you just say no when the time comes. However, a couple of the girls have previous sexual history which isn't entirely ignored. I only mention this because there's often some overlap between people who are concerned about the potential presence of NTR, and those who are concerned about the girls having had previous sexual partners.
Awesome, thanks for the info, also noticed and appreciated the option to remove their past encounters if desired, give people the option in stead of just forcing one thing or another, keep up the awesome work, one of the better avns I've played and am always looking for future content, hopefully soon I'll have the funds to support the project since I thoroughly enjoy it.
Hah, many thanks for the kind words. To be clear though, whilst you can remove their historical stats, this doesn't affect the girls occasionally talking about previous stuff if it's relevant. I don't make a big deal about it generally, I just don't have the characters pretend they don't have a past if they actually do, even if the stats are wiped. I generally don't count previous relationships as NTR unless it's actually shown in the game, and I don't have any plans to ever depict the girls doing anything sexual or romantic with anyone other than MC, or each other if the player pushes things in that direction. The game is generally set up to stroke MC's ego so usually any time a girl's sexual past comes up, it's done to provide context to why they like MC so much or whatever. E.G. "Nobody has ever made me cum that hard before" etc etc. Implies someone tried, but that MC is better. Doesn't come up often though.
I agree, imo past relationships aren't ntr you literally weren't involved at that point so yeah, but I know some people might, but either way, as I said before, keep up the work, loving it so far and looking forward to more content to come, stay blessed king.
Just played Stormside and wow what a great game so far. Its up there with Eternum and Harem Hotel as far as I'm concerned. Can't wait for the next update.
Honestly can't wait for full release this game is being show lots of love and care by the developers. I have some feedback to give for example it would be great to choose each girls punishment and for how long it should be. I understand the point is to punish depending on the offense, so basically give us options within the limit of the offense. I love this game and the idea and can't wait to play the full release. Thank you.
I have a lot of good things to say about this game. With only one subjective complaint.
1st of all, your attention to detail SHOWS. As someone in the media production world myself, I can see all the little extra bits and pieces you put into each scene and it makes the world feel so much more alive. This is the kind of quality that you only see in the most top tier Visual Novels.
2nd, the character are so wonderful, and there are so many wholesome, intimate, and even romantic moments in the game. At times, it really feels like I am actually cuddled up with a girl who truly loves me. And that's and really impressive feat.
3rd, the game is FUN. I love how much variety there is in the game play. You never really know what each day will have in store for you and that keeps the game so interesting.
(Minor spoiler warning ahead)
My only disappointment is a personal preference, so I don't detract anything from you for it. But (minor spoiler ahead), I really don't like being forced to watch my girls go out and buy sex toys for themselves. Especially since it's the most innocent girls. And even more specifically that the MC doesn't go with them to do it. It just feels like the MC is getting cucked by the sex toys, instead of letting the girls explore their sexuality with the MC. I wish there was at least a way to avoid that. But again, it's impossible to please everyone, and I don't expect it to be tailored to my tastes. I was just hoping since we could opt out of so many other things in the game, that we could opt out of our girls going to buy sex toys too.
Alas, that is very minor in the grand scheme of things, and honestly it goes to show how well you've written the characters, that I've become so emotionally invested in these things.
For anyone yet to play the game, I HIGHLY recommend playing it. It's one of the very best I've played (and I have played tons). So good, that I had to come write a comment about it (which I almost never do).
Thanks for the many kind words :D I'm trying my best to put little extra things in because honestly it's just pretty fun to do.
Regarding the part you didn't like (And so minor spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't played yet...)
Yeah that's understandable, and will be up to the person. The reason I did it this was was really just that I personally don't care much for the "Everything must be with MC" kinda thing. I'm definitely not into having other guys get with the girls, but I didn't want to limit the sexual stuff to just whatever happens between MC and the girls. I'm also not really someone who cares about virginity or whatever, so to me a girl just having some fun with some toys is no big deal. There are a few reasons I've chosen to leave MC out of the sex toy stuff, and I can't go into all of them without future spoilers but I can explain that one of them is to give the less experienced girls some sort of baseline to allow them to realise that MC is much better than any toy. It's a power fantasy at the end of the day, but not one that focuses on virginity, despite most of the girls being virgins.
Anyway, long rambling explanation which could probably just be replaced by "I think it's hot" aside, I'm glad you've enjoyed the game xD
I appreciate you taking the time to give such a detailed reply! And please don't let my personal gripes discourage you in any way. I think you're doing a wonderful job and can't wait to play more in the future. I hear where you're coming from with the girls' "baseline" reasoning and can understand why you chose that route. There are many complexities to writing a story and I respect the effort it takes to lay the foundation to set up moments like the "Holy shit you dick is way bigger than my toy" type moments. And at the end of the day, lets be real: your version is far more realistic haha. Keep up the good work buddy.
I'm really enjoying the game so far. I made an account just to comment and let you know. Hey, you asked! :)
Great story, lengthy, lots of routes to play with, hilarious scenes (I seriously LOL'd @ Hikari's pushup), variation in character personalities, the sound work, and random animations (e.g. Cassie's eyes in fitting room) are a really nice touch.
The game checks a lot of my fetish boxes. I can't wait until they all have collars! Especially Olivia & Akemi, I'm looking forward to them losing their protection.
LOTS of possibilities with ghost hands also. I mean, you could tease/play with all the girls while sitting in class and no one would be the wiser. They'd think it was just the collars...
You just hinted at the clandestine stuff, so it'll be interesting to see where you take that.
I went easy mode on the ghost hunt, glad you gave that option. I went through it on the first run through just to see what it was like. The mouseover on the saves and choices was a really nice addition also.
I did have some weird frame overlapping with Riley on the bed, not sure if it was just me though. I tried to find it so I could grab a screenshot for you, but I can't find it again, not sure which path I took to get there.
I just started out looking at adult VN games recently, out of about 30+ that looked promising, this is the best of what I've played. So well done and keep up the awesome work!
Heh, thanks. I'm glad you've been enjoying the game ;D It's certainly high praise for this to be the best you've tried, though without knowing what else you've played I don't know exactly how flattered to be xD. I will just accept maximum flattery.
Regarding the overlapping issue, was it something like Riley's face being cut out and being layered over another image in the wrong place? If so, I know exactly why this happens, and why you weren't able to reproduce it the second time.
Also I'm glad you liked the pushup. I was pretty happy with that scene when I made it, heh.
As I mentioned, I just started going through VN's, I saw discussion of Headmaster in the comments here are started messing around with that today. It has promise, but I still think I like Stormside better at this point. The other 2 to round out my top 3 have been Lunars Chosen, and Red Sakura Mansion1&2(yes I lumped them together), they're a bit different however, and I'm not sure if that helps, but take all the flattery you'd like.
Per the overlapping issue, yes, it was her face being cut out and layered, sounds like you know about it already.
Thanks again, looking forward to seeing where the story goes!
Good game so far. Good animations, and I loved the section with the ghost (even if it took me an hour to complete). Story is more legible than other games with this similar art style, flows more smoothly. Also, small detail, I like how there's other guys in the story, both major and minor characters. A lot of games just say "yeah, only you and several girls in this universe", so its a nice addition.
If there is one feedback I can give you... You need a better thumbnail. Im not even sure why I clicked on this. Love the game! Doesn't stick out at all.
Amusingly, my analytics suggest otherwise. Recently changed it to what it is, and ctr quadrupled. People seem to see ass and click on it. Turns out there's a reason all the icons look like this.
I mean... What was it before that? But good for you! It's just... It looks like every other 3D-Novel out here. Which it is not... Did it really quadrupled?
Not only does it have good render's and a good story (at least for these kinda games) it also presents itself in an interesting way and has its own charm (like the push-up scene with Hikari for example or that you can kinda play phasmophobia in the game). In general, you can just feel how much work flows into it and how much Atemsiel cares about the game.
Here's a gofile link. No idea if they have a download limit but it's the last of my 3 official sources. Sadly there are basically no hosts I'm aware of with totally unrestricted downloads who achieve and sort of acceptable upload speed.
Not any time soon. By default android ports of ren'py games have a 2GB filesize limit, so the game is already several times too big to be converted. I'd also have to do a lot of changes to the menus to make them actually usable on a phone screen. However, I do hear that Joiplay works for the game if you wanna try using that. Only on the latest Joiplay version though, which you can apparently get from the website as the version on the app store is out of date.
If you can find a compressed version I can't think of any reason why it would work any differently to the normal version with joiplay. Worth noting though that I haven't personally tested the game with joiplay, nor have I tested any compressed versions. They'll probably work, all I'm saying is that I haven't tried it myself.
The ghost hunting part seems just bad. I'm in the office, and there's literally nothing to interact with - I can't move back, for reasons that are unclear. There are no doors. There are a bunch of desks with open drawers and papers and books on top I can't interact with, fans I can't interact with, windows I can't interact with, lights I can't interact with. The hints seem to indicate this is where I should be (which is good, since I can't actually move anywhere from here, since, like I said, there's mysteriously no way to go back), but there is literally nothing that's interactive. I've tried carefully moving the mouse over the entire screen. No option on the radio lets me do anything useful, unless I know the ghost's name. Otherwise, I've really been enjoying the game, but my god - there are no visual clues for what the heck I should be clicking on.
And it turns out that there was some bug making nothing interactive at that point. Restarting and reloading before the section fixed it, but it was quite non-obvious that I was running into a bug.
Heh, yeah the ghost hunt gets very mixed reviews. Some people have no issue with it and love it, while others find it impossible to navigate and hate it. It's why I put the linear version in for people who don't wanna deal with the sandbox. In that room it's meant to be the case that the EMF meter goes off when you move the mouse over something you can interact with, so you find it while you're looking around the room with the flashlight. If the whole room was bugged though then I guess that's not gonna work.
The good news is that I seem to remember having this reported a few months ago, and I'm fairly sure I fixed it. However, the fix won't be coming out until the next update in a few weeks.
Yea, the whole room was bugged - the edges of the screen (to look left/leave) didn't highlight and weren't clickable, and pretty sure I clicked on what I was supposed to as well.
Anyhow, sorry I was so harsh with my first post - it's clear you've put a lot of work into the game, and I think it's consistently really well written, and graphics are great. It's an impressive game. Was just frustrated at the time.
Oh it's no problem. That section isn't something I'm totally happy with, but going back to "fix" it entirely would basically mean redoing it, and to do that I'd have to take time away from making new content. So instead I just made the VN version of it that people can play if they don't wanna deal with the sandbox. Compared to some of the feedback I got on it, your comment was basically complementary xD
I had one guy claim he spent 3 hours in there trying to work out what to do, and instead of just either using the skip option or stopping playing, he wrote me an essay about why I'm a terrible person lol.
Just completed one branch of 22.06 and like basically everything about the game. The animations are topnotch imho .. (the fight for 1 pushup was especailly funny), but i laughed out loud quite a few times. Nice variations in the personalities of the girls (from shy to downright spunky :-) and none of the utterly excessive chest sizes seen in other games.
0.22 was the update where I decided to start putting more effort into the animations, and should serve as the new standard for my game at least. It's pretty fun to make dumb stuff like the pushup thing, or Cassie spinning all her clothes off, so I'll keep doing that.
Love the game so far - despite a non "realistic" art style, everything looks really beautiful! And the story is solid as well.
But goddamn these branching paths are insanely complicated. A third of the gallery is all one character's branch - and not just by route, but by subchoices on a route. It's cool and all, but there's only so many ways I can read the same scene variation before my carpal tunnel flares up. Can you just streamline all of Riley's scenes into one continuous sequence over the course of the game?
Not easily. The point of the branching is to include the different ways things could play out based on choices, so putting all of Riley's content into branch would basically make no sense at all. She'd lose her virginity multiple times, give her first BJ multiple times, refer to events that didn't occur, or ignore events that did occur. It's kinda just the way the game is. It's not really built for the FOMO crowd, and is intended for multiple playthroughs. Once the game is done this should be an easier sell as the amount of content should mean that just one route has enough content for people to be satisfied. I hear this is a fairly different way of structuring one of these games, but it's how I've decided to do it based on what I wanted the game to be.
Do you have any plans to add a platform for Android? I'm very curious about the game you developed. I was interested in your game when I read all the character identities. I'm very interested in Sasha Volkova. I want to play the game immediately but I don't have iOS or PC so I'll wait for you to add it to Android. Thank You
Not currently. By default android ports of ren'py games have a 2GB filesize limit, so the game is already several times too big to be converted. I'd also have to do a lot of changes to the menus to make them actually usable on a phone screen. However, I do hear that Joiplay works for the game if you wanna try using that. Only on the latest Joiplay version though, which you can apparently get from the website as the version on the app store is out of date.
I can try using joyplay, I have used it for various games, maybe I will try that first if it doesn't work then I plan to buy a PC or iOS to explore games that don't support the Android platform. Thank you for replying to my message have a nice day.
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Hello Mr. Atemsiel. It's me, again. This time with a shorter post, just wanna ask a question. How is the sex scene with Sasha in the latest update supposed to be accessed? I, for the life of me, couldn't find it. I like to unlock all the scenes organicanically to i can know the context in which they take part. However, i used the "unlock everything" button for the first time to unlock this scene because i couldn't figure out what i needed. From the scene itself, it seems that in her slave route, you make the deal with her (that you'll give her some relief if she can stay quiet in class) but she doesn't manage to and you punish her for it. But that doesn't seem to be possible ingame? Help appreciated!
I know it was probably pretty easy to code but I'm impressed by the laptop actually screwing with the charactors name!
Please for the love of all things right, leave at least the first "render" as is for the Directors visit on the 4th. I spit when it popped up from laughing and it was hilarious.
I came to share the same. I laughed for 5 nonstop minutes. Brilliant.
hello , could really use some assistance, I'm stuck on a part where I've arrived at the school and i cannot progress. tells me to open my phone but i already talked to father, i joined discord server and I'm try to get help on fixing this, thanks (if i have to send a save file i will need help on that process. or should i try redownloading?
For me when i had this happen i rolled back to before the txts and clicked through it, then closed and reopened the message, clicked once again and it got me through. The phone seems a little buggy and it was mentioned to be careful with it in the very beginning. Hope this works if you havent gotten it fixed yet
Press the D key, Wait, after the error screen appear choose ignore for skip the scene.
This looks like a fun game! Can't wait to play :) I just found this on the valentines day bundle so im pretty excited. Are there any cheats available for now?
Edit: just found out there's no android version. Will you be making one?
How is this AVN not talked about more? I found it through the Valentines bundle. Never heard anything about it before. Glad I found it. Lots of content and just all-around well made. Character designs are also top tier. Definitely one of my favorites now.
IDK about you but i use accents in my head for the characters except Cassie and now Shasha makes me wanna learn Russian since she often uses it in her dialog.
Ahahahahaha...I see what you did there...
gdrive link doesn't work now. it says the file has downloaded too many times recently , try again after 24 hours and Mega won't let me download it all
I only recently found this and I've been really enjoying Stormside so far! Much funnier and cuter than I was expecting. I'm afraid I'm having a problem with the new release, though. I'm playing v. 0.23.1.4 on Mac and it launches fine but as soon as I try loading any save the game immediately hard crashes (force-quits itself immediately) and spits out a traceback crash log with:
"I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
Exception: Audio channel u'_movie_862_mask' is unknown.
I can post the entire traceback if you'd like.
All saves are from the most recent previous release (0.22.06) and both builds were downloaded from here or Patreon. Also, starting a new game seems to work fine. It's only loading saves that's the issue.
(Edited to correct prev. ver. # to 0.22.06 from 0.22.05)
I have exactly the same problem but from 0.22.6. Also running on Mac, so that might be it. Or not.
Yes, mine were from 0.22.06 as well. I wasn't near my computer at the time and was going from memory. Always a bad idea!
According to the Stormside Discord, this is a known but intermittent problem on all platforms. No known solution yet. I just started my game over.
I'm also getting the same issue. As I don't want to start the game over again, I guess I need to wait for a fix to be released.
I'm also getting the same problem.
The fuk ? After 4 years playing VN , why did i missed this god-made game ? One of the best overal and definitely the best with UI, Preference, Choices, Routes, .... Respect !
anyway to direct download?mega wont let me finish downloading it and g drive dosent work
Sadly that's all there is at the moment. I've emailed itch to ask for more hosting quota (To allow players to download directly from itch) but I haven't received a response yet. Once they give me enough space to upload the game here, that will become an option.
I'm having issues with both of these too unfortunately.
Would it be possible to try a multi-part, split archive approach? I think the main issue for me is that the file is just too large to get in one shot without failing on either hosting service.
It would be one way to work around the Itch file size limits to be able to host files directly, or make the downloads on Mega/Google more likely to complete successfully by breaking it into multiple smaller files.
7-zip (https://7-zip.org/) is one free cross platform software option that can handle creating split archives in multiple parts, as well as combining them back together.
Have you tried mediafire
I have tried very hard to download this (both via Mega and Gdrive) and have really struggled. Is there a trick to it or I just have to keep trying?
im on june 28 and when the mc is looking at the 4 girls front of him off in the distance im trying to progress after the messagees with dad buti cant find a solution despite trying evrything
If you send me your save file via my Discord, I can fix this for you. The bug itself should be removed in the next version, but if you send me the save I can fix it and send it back.
Same thing for me.. stuck at june28th no way i can see to proceed. Prettu sad too was getting really into it.
hi, what does the option for "girls sex stats wiped" means what does it changes if its yes or no?
and what does this text under means
Early in the game you get access to the girls' sexual stats, including what they've done before the start of the game. The player can choose to set all stats to 0 so it becomes a record of only what's happened since the MC got access, or they can just leave them as they are, so you get a bit of insight into the girl's past. Either way, it makes no difference to the actual story, and wiping the stats won't actually change what they've done.
The option you're looking at is in the rename menu, which is sort of like a bonus menu where you can edit some aspects of the game if you change your mind about something. This particular option allows you to wipe or reinstate the girls' stats even after you were given the original choice, but the text under it refers to the fact that it will only affect the original stats. For example, if a girl had given a BJ before the game started, her BJ stat would be 1 when you get access to the stats. If you wiped them, it would be set to 0, but if you didn't, it would remain at 1. If you then played another hour and during that hour of gameplay she gave 2 BJs, her BJ stat would either be 3 or 2 depending on whether you wiped her stats originally. This option will not wipe what happened in that hour.
You can toggle sex stats on or off here as much as you want without causing a problem, but the rename menu contains a number of other settings which you probably shouldn't touch unless you've already been given the option to change them in game. It's only there for if you want to change things later on, and isn't something to be messed with at the start of the game.
thank you so much for the info, i understand now
First playthrough, i gotta say, out of all the ones I have played so far, this is top 3. How you left it til the next update is a great way to end it. No spoilers from me, but it ended really good to make me wanting more. Lol. Now, I gotta return to it so I can go the other routes n so on. Gonna take me more time and I like it that way. Keep up the great work. I can't wait until you release the next version, and hopefully when this is done, you make another :)
Please can we solve the GDrive download issue? dying to try this game
google drive is working. if it says it can't scan, download it anyways
Have tried .2, .20.02 , .22.04, and 22.06(which traceback shows as 22.05) None of them launch. (Linux). Here's the traceback:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
Exception: Line with id script2_58ccefcc appeared twice, at Stormside/game/Script.rpyc:1308 and game/Script.rpy:1308.
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "/home/user/Games/Stormside-v0.22.06-linux/renpy/bootstrap.py", line 277, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "/home/user/Games/Stormside-v0.22.06-linux/renpy/main.py", line 490, in main
renpy.game.script.load_script() # sets renpy.game.script.
File "/home/user/Games/Stormside-v0.22.06-linux/renpy/script.py", line 297, in load_script
self.load_appropriate_file(".rpyc", ".rpy", dir, fn, initcode)
File "/home/user/Games/Stormside-v0.22.06-linux/renpy/script.py", line 809, in load_appropriate_file
self.finish_load(stmts, initcode, filename=lastfn) # type: ignore
File "/home/user/Games/Stormside-v0.22.06-linux/renpy/script.py", line 427, in finish_load
self.translator.take_translates(all_stmts)
File "/home/user/Games/Stormside-v0.22.06-linux/renpy/translation/__init__.py", line 169, in take_translates
n.filename, n.linenumber))
Exception: Line with id script2_58ccefcc appeared twice, at Stormside/game/Script.rpyc:1308 and game/Script.rpy:1308.
Linux-5.15.0-92-generic-x86_64-with-debian-bookworm-sid x86_64
Ren'Py 7.5.3.22090809
Stormside v0.22.05
Tue Feb 6 14:54:19 2024
Did you start the game with python or with the bash-script? On Ubuntu 22.04 I get same kind of error if I'm starting Stormside.py but if I start the game with ./stormside.sh it works without any problems.
I tried both and got the same error. Since the traceback showed .05 as opposed to the .06 in the directory name, I removed it all and re-extracted it. That seems to have fixed it. (Weird, as I have done that multiple times, so it could be as I have updated my dev environments for other things that some missing Python dependency was met that was causing the error. The error clearly stated it thought that there were duplicate lines in the code, but when I examined the code, that wasn't the case. So, who knows?
GDrive isn't working would love to try it
google drive is working. if it says it can't scan, download it anyways
I couldn't get through the darkness all the time, and then I uninstalled the game. It's too dark. Fumbling hurts your eyes.
Fantastic game. Each of the girls have a unique personality and even "accents", something I've never seen before in an AVN. The humor and animations are incredible. Definitely following this and look forward to future updates.
Sasha is adorable in her glasses, I wish more outfits had them!
Ahaa, thanks. I try my best to represent the different nationalities as actually different rather than just "This girl is from X, that means she looks like this."
Sasha is one of my favourites. Definitely my favourite of the side stories overall, since I love her ghost hunting stuff. It's funny though, she actually causes issues with the accents and all that you mentioned, because a Russian translation is being worked on for the game at the moment, and the guy is having some difficulty trying to work out how to translate the fact she speaks broken English, but perfect Russian, into Russian. I don't envy his task, for it is complicated. He faces a unique challenge not necessarily faced by other translators, but I'm sure he's up to the task.
I am 100% behind leaving the story board images instead of renders for the Directory talking to the three girls.
Damn, just finished the current content and I've gotta say, its instantly one of the greats. It seems like the development is taking quite some time, but considering the nearly ridiculous quality, that makes complete sense.
And I do mean quality, on all fronts. The artstyle is very well done, character design is great, but it's the writing and charm that make it a gem. Dialogue is well written, jokes (both in character and more physical/visual comedy) get consistent chuckles, and the story is actually quite intriguing. Elements like the ghost hunting segment, that take quite a bit of commitment to a certain tone, are also done really well, and add a lot to the games identity. The treatment of sexuality, identity and morality is also something that can really hamper my enjoyment of a vn, wether it is disrespectful or borderline sociopathic, as can be seen in a lot of adult vn's, but this game handles it really well. Obviously it differs for the slave route, I've been playing as mr nice guy mostly, but still its nice to get characters with actual moral convictions, who have their own wants and desires.
All in all, a 9/10, and only not a 10 because there's still so much I want to see. A gold star to the developer from me, and I'll be keeping my eye on this.
Ahaa, thanks man. I love reading stuff like this because it makes specific note of a lot of the things I'm putting specific effort into, rather than just "Great game" (Which is also nice, but it's extra nice to hear that the little details don't go unnoticed).
I try my best to make sure that when it comes to the characters themselves, I treat them as people rather than characters. I've been told it's a strange writing decision because it can sometimes result in characters doing things that some people think takes away from a story, but I'm not really trying to write them as parts of a story, but instead just people who exist within it. It's hard to explain really. Granted, it's a porn game, so when it comes to sexuality especially there may be some fairly silly stuff coming, but I'm trying to strike a balance between believability, realism, and porn game nonsense. It tends to lean a bit towards that last one in the sub and slave routes, but I suppose there's no way to get that kind of stuff totally realistic without it moving very very slowly (Or it getting darker than I'm willing to go with the game)
Regardless, more to come. In fact, there's another update that should release here on the 11th. It's a very short update compared to the last one (Christmas and all that delayed things a bunch) but still, new stuff. Woooo
Just to be clear, there's no ntr right??? Just clarifying since I didn't see something say that explicitly, thanks.
No NTR. There is potential for girl on girl content that doesn't include the MC, but you literally have to give the girls permission to do it so if you don't wanna allow that you just say no when the time comes. However, a couple of the girls have previous sexual history which isn't entirely ignored. I only mention this because there's often some overlap between people who are concerned about the potential presence of NTR, and those who are concerned about the girls having had previous sexual partners.
Awesome, thanks for the info, also noticed and appreciated the option to remove their past encounters if desired, give people the option in stead of just forcing one thing or another, keep up the awesome work, one of the better avns I've played and am always looking for future content, hopefully soon I'll have the funds to support the project since I thoroughly enjoy it.
Hah, many thanks for the kind words. To be clear though, whilst you can remove their historical stats, this doesn't affect the girls occasionally talking about previous stuff if it's relevant. I don't make a big deal about it generally, I just don't have the characters pretend they don't have a past if they actually do, even if the stats are wiped. I generally don't count previous relationships as NTR unless it's actually shown in the game, and I don't have any plans to ever depict the girls doing anything sexual or romantic with anyone other than MC, or each other if the player pushes things in that direction. The game is generally set up to stroke MC's ego so usually any time a girl's sexual past comes up, it's done to provide context to why they like MC so much or whatever. E.G. "Nobody has ever made me cum that hard before" etc etc. Implies someone tried, but that MC is better. Doesn't come up often though.
I agree, imo past relationships aren't ntr you literally weren't involved at that point so yeah, but I know some people might, but either way, as I said before, keep up the work, loving it so far and looking forward to more content to come, stay blessed king.
Will this game have a android version in the near future?
Just played Stormside and wow what a great game so far. Its up there with Eternum and Harem Hotel as far as I'm concerned. Can't wait for the next update.
Honestly can't wait for full release this game is being show lots of love and care by the developers. I have some feedback to give for example it would be great to choose each girls punishment and for how long it should be. I understand the point is to punish depending on the offense, so basically give us options within the limit of the offense. I love this game and the idea and can't wait to play the full release. Thank you.
@Atemsiel
I have a lot of good things to say about this game. With only one subjective complaint.
1st of all, your attention to detail SHOWS. As someone in the media production world myself, I can see all the little extra bits and pieces you put into each scene and it makes the world feel so much more alive. This is the kind of quality that you only see in the most top tier Visual Novels.
2nd, the character are so wonderful, and there are so many wholesome, intimate, and even romantic moments in the game. At times, it really feels like I am actually cuddled up with a girl who truly loves me. And that's and really impressive feat.
3rd, the game is FUN. I love how much variety there is in the game play. You never really know what each day will have in store for you and that keeps the game so interesting.
(Minor spoiler warning ahead)
My only disappointment is a personal preference, so I don't detract anything from you for it. But (minor spoiler ahead), I really don't like being forced to watch my girls go out and buy sex toys for themselves. Especially since it's the most innocent girls. And even more specifically that the MC doesn't go with them to do it. It just feels like the MC is getting cucked by the sex toys, instead of letting the girls explore their sexuality with the MC. I wish there was at least a way to avoid that. But again, it's impossible to please everyone, and I don't expect it to be tailored to my tastes. I was just hoping since we could opt out of so many other things in the game, that we could opt out of our girls going to buy sex toys too.
Alas, that is very minor in the grand scheme of things, and honestly it goes to show how well you've written the characters, that I've become so emotionally invested in these things.
For anyone yet to play the game, I HIGHLY recommend playing it. It's one of the very best I've played (and I have played tons). So good, that I had to come write a comment about it (which I almost never do).
Cheers, and keep up the good work friend.
Thanks for the many kind words :D I'm trying my best to put little extra things in because honestly it's just pretty fun to do.
Regarding the part you didn't like (And so minor spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't played yet...)
Yeah that's understandable, and will be up to the person. The reason I did it this was was really just that I personally don't care much for the "Everything must be with MC" kinda thing. I'm definitely not into having other guys get with the girls, but I didn't want to limit the sexual stuff to just whatever happens between MC and the girls. I'm also not really someone who cares about virginity or whatever, so to me a girl just having some fun with some toys is no big deal. There are a few reasons I've chosen to leave MC out of the sex toy stuff, and I can't go into all of them without future spoilers but I can explain that one of them is to give the less experienced girls some sort of baseline to allow them to realise that MC is much better than any toy. It's a power fantasy at the end of the day, but not one that focuses on virginity, despite most of the girls being virgins.
Anyway, long rambling explanation which could probably just be replaced by "I think it's hot" aside, I'm glad you've enjoyed the game xD
I appreciate you taking the time to give such a detailed reply! And please don't let my personal gripes discourage you in any way. I think you're doing a wonderful job and can't wait to play more in the future. I hear where you're coming from with the girls' "baseline" reasoning and can understand why you chose that route. There are many complexities to writing a story and I respect the effort it takes to lay the foundation to set up moments like the "Holy shit you dick is way bigger than my toy" type moments. And at the end of the day, lets be real: your version is far more realistic haha. Keep up the good work buddy.
@Atemsiel
I'm really enjoying the game so far. I made an account just to comment and let you know. Hey, you asked! :)
Great story, lengthy, lots of routes to play with, hilarious scenes (I seriously LOL'd @ Hikari's pushup), variation in character personalities, the sound work, and random animations (e.g. Cassie's eyes in fitting room) are a really nice touch.
The game checks a lot of my fetish boxes. I can't wait until they all have collars! Especially Olivia & Akemi, I'm looking forward to them losing their protection.
LOTS of possibilities with ghost hands also. I mean, you could tease/play with all the girls while sitting in class and no one would be the wiser. They'd think it was just the collars...
You just hinted at the clandestine stuff, so it'll be interesting to see where you take that.
I went easy mode on the ghost hunt, glad you gave that option. I went through it on the first run through just to see what it was like. The mouseover on the saves and choices was a really nice addition also.
I did have some weird frame overlapping with Riley on the bed, not sure if it was just me though. I tried to find it so I could grab a screenshot for you, but I can't find it again, not sure which path I took to get there.
I just started out looking at adult VN games recently, out of about 30+ that looked promising, this is the best of what I've played. So well done and keep up the awesome work!
Heh, thanks. I'm glad you've been enjoying the game ;D It's certainly high praise for this to be the best you've tried, though without knowing what else you've played I don't know exactly how flattered to be xD. I will just accept maximum flattery.
Regarding the overlapping issue, was it something like Riley's face being cut out and being layered over another image in the wrong place? If so, I know exactly why this happens, and why you weren't able to reproduce it the second time.
Also I'm glad you liked the pushup. I was pretty happy with that scene when I made it, heh.
@Atemsiel
As I mentioned, I just started going through VN's, I saw discussion of Headmaster in the comments here are started messing around with that today. It has promise, but I still think I like Stormside better at this point. The other 2 to round out my top 3 have been Lunars Chosen, and Red Sakura Mansion1&2(yes I lumped them together), they're a bit different however, and I'm not sure if that helps, but take all the flattery you'd like.
Per the overlapping issue, yes, it was her face being cut out and layered, sounds like you know about it already.
Thanks again, looking forward to seeing where the story goes!
Good game so far. Good animations, and I loved the section with the ghost (even if it took me an hour to complete). Story is more legible than other games with this similar art style, flows more smoothly. Also, small detail, I like how there's other guys in the story, both major and minor characters. A lot of games just say "yeah, only you and several girls in this universe", so its a nice addition.
Thanks, sorry for the late response, but I appreciate it :D
If there is one feedback I can give you... You need a better thumbnail. Im not even sure why I clicked on this. Love the game! Doesn't stick out at all.
Amusingly, my analytics suggest otherwise. Recently changed it to what it is, and ctr quadrupled. People seem to see ass and click on it. Turns out there's a reason all the icons look like this.
I mean... What was it before that? But good for you! It's just... It looks like every other 3D-Novel out here. Which it is not... Did it really quadrupled?
I believe it was what's currently the banner at the top of the page
I clicked because of the thumbnail. But for reason it actually looked well posed and rendered. Good lighting and such.
Just found the game and am lovin it. Do you have expected release windows for versions, or are the version updates more sporadic
Great game. Absolutely loved it.
Not only does it have good render's and a good story (at least for these kinda games) it also presents itself in an interesting way and has its own charm (like the push-up scene with Hikari for example or that you can kinda play phasmophobia in the game). In general, you can just feel how much work flows into it and how much Atemsiel cares about the game.
Looking forward to further updates. Well done
google drive dosent work and mega wantsyou to pay for more usage when download is half done any other links?
https://gofile.io/d/pawev4
Here's a gofile link. No idea if they have a download limit but it's the last of my 3 official sources. Sadly there are basically no hosts I'm aware of with totally unrestricted downloads who achieve and sort of acceptable upload speed.
So is there any chance of getting an android port?
Not any time soon.
By default android ports of ren'py games have a 2GB filesize limit, so the game is already several times too big to be converted. I'd also have to do a lot of changes to the menus to make them actually usable on a phone screen. However, I do hear that Joiplay works for the game if you wanna try using that. Only on the latest Joiplay version though, which you can apparently get from the website as the version on the app store is out of date.
will the compressed version work for Joiplay or I have to download the 6 gb pc file?
If you can find a compressed version I can't think of any reason why it would work any differently to the normal version with joiplay. Worth noting though that I haven't personally tested the game with joiplay, nor have I tested any compressed versions. They'll probably work, all I'm saying is that I haven't tried it myself.
I downloaded a compressed version in f95zone.It worked in Joiplay.I am enjoying the game up until now
The ghost hunting part seems just bad. I'm in the office, and there's literally nothing to interact with - I can't move back, for reasons that are unclear. There are no doors. There are a bunch of desks with open drawers and papers and books on top I can't interact with, fans I can't interact with, windows I can't interact with, lights I can't interact with. The hints seem to indicate this is where I should be (which is good, since I can't actually move anywhere from here, since, like I said, there's mysteriously no way to go back), but there is literally nothing that's interactive. I've tried carefully moving the mouse over the entire screen. No option on the radio lets me do anything useful, unless I know the ghost's name. Otherwise, I've really been enjoying the game, but my god - there are no visual clues for what the heck I should be clicking on.
And it turns out that there was some bug making nothing interactive at that point. Restarting and reloading before the section fixed it, but it was quite non-obvious that I was running into a bug.
Heh, yeah the ghost hunt gets very mixed reviews. Some people have no issue with it and love it, while others find it impossible to navigate and hate it. It's why I put the linear version in for people who don't wanna deal with the sandbox. In that room it's meant to be the case that the EMF meter goes off when you move the mouse over something you can interact with, so you find it while you're looking around the room with the flashlight. If the whole room was bugged though then I guess that's not gonna work.
The good news is that I seem to remember having this reported a few months ago, and I'm fairly sure I fixed it. However, the fix won't be coming out until the next update in a few weeks.
Yea, the whole room was bugged - the edges of the screen (to look left/leave) didn't highlight and weren't clickable, and pretty sure I clicked on what I was supposed to as well.
Anyhow, sorry I was so harsh with my first post - it's clear you've put a lot of work into the game, and I think it's consistently really well written, and graphics are great. It's an impressive game. Was just frustrated at the time.
Oh it's no problem. That section isn't something I'm totally happy with, but going back to "fix" it entirely would basically mean redoing it, and to do that I'd have to take time away from making new content. So instead I just made the VN version of it that people can play if they don't wanna deal with the sandbox. Compared to some of the feedback I got on it, your comment was basically complementary xD
I had one guy claim he spent 3 hours in there trying to work out what to do, and instead of just either using the skip option or stopping playing, he wrote me an essay about why I'm a terrible person lol.
Just completed one branch of 22.06 and like basically everything about the game. The animations are topnotch imho .. (the fight for 1 pushup was especailly funny), but i laughed out loud quite a few times. Nice variations in the personalities of the girls (from shy to downright spunky :-) and none of the utterly excessive chest sizes seen in other games.
Heh, glad you like it ;D
0.22 was the update where I decided to start putting more effort into the animations, and should serve as the new standard for my game at least. It's pretty fun to make dumb stuff like the pushup thing, or Cassie spinning all her clothes off, so I'll keep doing that.
the animations not working from Rileys alone time on it stays on a pitcher and goes threw to the end of the scene
Do you have a save file you can send me on discord or something? I'm unsure what could be causing that based on the description.
Love the game so far - despite a non "realistic" art style, everything looks really beautiful! And the story is solid as well.
But goddamn these branching paths are insanely complicated. A third of the gallery is all one character's branch - and not just by route, but by subchoices on a route. It's cool and all, but there's only so many ways I can read the same scene variation before my carpal tunnel flares up. Can you just streamline all of Riley's scenes into one continuous sequence over the course of the game?
Not easily. The point of the branching is to include the different ways things could play out based on choices, so putting all of Riley's content into branch would basically make no sense at all. She'd lose her virginity multiple times, give her first BJ multiple times, refer to events that didn't occur, or ignore events that did occur. It's kinda just the way the game is. It's not really built for the FOMO crowd, and is intended for multiple playthroughs. Once the game is done this should be an easier sell as the amount of content should mean that just one route has enough content for people to be satisfied. I hear this is a fairly different way of structuring one of these games, but it's how I've decided to do it based on what I wanted the game to be.
Do you have any plans to add a platform for Android? I'm very curious about the game you developed. I was interested in your game when I read all the character identities. I'm very interested in Sasha Volkova. I want to play the game immediately but I don't have iOS or PC so I'll wait for you to add it to Android. Thank You
Not currently. By default android ports of ren'py games have a 2GB filesize limit, so the game is already several times too big to be converted. I'd also have to do a lot of changes to the menus to make them actually usable on a phone screen. However, I do hear that Joiplay works for the game if you wanna try using that. Only on the latest Joiplay version though, which you can apparently get from the website as the version on the app store is out of date.
I can try using joyplay, I have used it for various games, maybe I will try that first if it doesn't work then I plan to buy a PC or iOS to explore games that don't support the Android platform. Thank you for replying to my message have a nice day.