Whether or not you can move the pic around depends on whether you have "Gallery performance mode" enabled in the settings. However, if you're talking about the three sets of tits pic, I think that one is bugged in 0.4.4 unfortunately. Fixed for 0.5.
If this doesn't fix it, feel free to jump into the discord and I'll see if I can help further.
To add on to what g00fygooner (great name) said, side characters are also optional, and choosing whether or not to opt in to some of them can also affect things, but not to any huge degree. For example, one of Aida's scenes has some extra content if you're on Millie's route at the time, but it's otherwise the same scene.
I'm not hugely familiar with macOS, but it's possible that app translocation is causing the issue here rather than it being an issue with the game itself. Google tells me that app translocation is a thing macOS does when you try to run a program from the same location to which it was originally downloaded, so you could try moving the game to another folder in Finder. I have no idea if that will fix the issue, but it'd be the first thing to try I guess.
The other game is actively being worked on, and 0.4 releases for gold tier supporters later this week. It's no NTR in the technical sense of the word, but the LIs are camgirls, so obviously this does mean them interacting with men over the internet, and you can decide for yourself whether that's within your comfort zone. I will say it's not written to be a story that's meant to make the player jealous, but is instead a power fantasy, similar to Stormside in that sense. In both games, your girls are not gonna be getting stolen, nor is there any cheating involved. (At least when it comes to the girls. You could argue that Stormside MC is technically cheating on one or more of the girls depending on what route you decide to take. No such complications in Studio Hearts.)
As kind of an offer as this is, I must decline. Putting Stormside on hiatus was not a matter of money, but instead one of motivation. Granted, the loss of motivation was intially caused by a money issue, but it was never about what the game was earning, more just how much time I had to actually work on it. These days, I think any amount of money would still make it difficult for me to work on it given what I'm currently working on. I may return to it after I finish SH, but probably not in the same form. I'd like to finish the story I had planned more than I'd like to finish all the branching stuff.
Additionally, SH has its own fanbase at this point, and so far things are going well with it, so I intend to see it through to the end.
Thank you for the offer, but I plan to work on SH until it's completed. We shall see what I'll be working on after that.
With regard to learning renpy, the discord link on this itch page should be valid, and there's a public dev room there. If you want to get started learning how to do this kind of stuff, drop a message in the public-dev-room channel, and some initial resources shall be provided. (As with most things, the basics can be learned from videos, but once you have the basics down, people are the main learning resource.)
Also, Stormside does still technically have one update to be released, so that cliffhanger won't last forever. I just have no particular ETA on it. It's mostly complete, but like I said, motivation issue, not a money issue. I'm having too much fun making SH at the moment.
Glad you liked it;)
I have to assume you're referring to Mila Stream #2, since she doesn't really do anything in that one. I try not to bloat the gallery with random teasing scenes, but when it comes to the streams I just include them either way as a sort of internal rule I have. (I make an exception for the first one because I made this rule while I was making 0.3, and lets be honest, nobody is gonna replay the very first stream.)
I usually don't include simple tease scenes outside of that unless they're a smaller part of a larger scene, like with including each Dareline round as a seperate scene, which was done pretty much in case someone wanted to replay a specific part of that admittedly quite long scene.
Tease scenes like that are not the norm though. I'll include all the streams in the gallery regardless of length, but the vast majority of sex scenes will be of the length people have come to expect from me. I think it's fair to treat the "A night with Aida" scene as a general average, with it maybe sitting on the longer end of what I'm aiming for for most of the important scenes, but not necessarily the longest I'll make. Some scenes need to be long as fuck for the sake of selling what I'm selling.
I'll do the occasional short one, but if you encounter one of those in an update, it usually means there's a longer one coming.
At some point this week. Unfortunately Itch only indexed the game literally the day of the public release of 0.3, and that meant it got a "new game" boost on that day. In theory, it'll get another boost when I release the 0.3 here, but those releases don't double up, so I've decided to delay that release here for a week or so. Pure business nonsense reasons, and it's not something I'll be doing for every release, it's just unfortunate timing for this one. However, if you want to play it right now, it's available on my patreon for free at this point. No sign ups or any of that, the link is just there, so go ahead if you want.
I have no idea to be honest. Ren'py lets you just make a mac version, and that's what I've uploaded. I truly have no idea how games work on mac, but I assume there's some way since the mac version has been downloaded thousands of times, so I'd assume that if it didn't work I'd probably get more comments about this. Do you have any issues running other AVNs on your machine? It should work basically the same as any ren'py based game.
I have no idea what causes this. My assumption would be antivirus killing it, as some antivirus programs have been known to strike down renpy games if they include certain python stuff. My game has a bunch of stuff like that, so sometimes it can happen. I'd suggest creating an exception in your antivirus software for it any trying again. No malware I promise lmao
So sorry man, I have absolutely no idea what causes this. D can open the developer menu if you hold shift at the same time and have the renpy developer stuff downloaded (And also you're running the game through that) but outside of that, it shouldn't do anything at all.
The majority of what you're talking about though will be in a persistent file which will be stored in, C:\Users\Yourusername\AppData\Roaming\RenPy\Stormside-whatever
Delete that file, and it should get rid of anything that persists between save files. It'll reset your gallery too, but that's better than the game not working. (Also you can fully unlock the gallery at the end of the content without needing a mod, so you're fine)
Thanks man. The entire point of the game was that for me it was hard to connect with characters in games which had good sexual content for various reasons, and also the characters I was able to connect with existed in games which in my opinion had not so great sexual content. I can't speak for the quality of the writing since I basically just write whatever feels good for me, since this game is made for me. If it turns out you like the way I'm doing it, then that's fantastic too. More to come.
Yeah so I'm definitely still working on it, as the other guy said. Long development cycle as it's been a crazy year and this isn't my full time job, but if it ever actually gets abandoned, it'll be displayed very clearly on every page over which I have control, and the patreon will be shut down. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I was was taking money to pretend to work on an updated. Next update is coming, and it's not a small one.
As far as I know, it should just work. I'm not a mac guy so I don't know the specifics, but based on the number of downloads, and lack of comments about how it doesn't work, I'd suggest it's more to do with your system than it is about the game itself. Sorry man. Maybe antivirus blocking it? That can happen with renpy games sometimes.
In fairness, it does show you this unless it bugged out. The person who texted you should have a blue tint to their bubble thing. However, I plan to make it so that the most recent texts show up at the top of the list when you go into the contacts menu, but I don't know 100% whether this will go into the coming update. I'm still working on the content at the moment rather than quality of life features. It's been like 9 months since the last update or something, so I mostly just wanna get the update released asap, but cutting corners isn't something I'd feel comfortable with.
While I'd love to just say "not currently" the actual answer is just no. Not because I have anything against female protagonists, but more just because it's not right for my game. It would require such a massive rewrite that it would basically be a totally different game at that point. As just one person it's not really something I'd have time to accomplish by myself. If someone wanted to make a female PC mod or something and make the necessary changes, sure, but I'm not planning to do anything like that myself.
Since I don't speak Chinese, I wouldn't be doing one myself. However, the next update adds translation support, so if someone wanted to make a Chinese translation, they could do that. I imagine quite a few of the jokes regarding things like Hikari and Sasha's broken English would stop making sense though.
Heh, this ended up being a much longer answer than I expected.
At the time, I was using a 7 year old 980ti which had seen pretty much daily use during those years, so I'm honestly surprised it was still working at all. It was very very unstable to the point where I'd be having the entire PC crash up to 8 times an hour (Depending on what I was doing). Somehow I managed to set up that scene without it crashing, but it was late in the day, and I figured I'd come back to it the next day or whatever. However, after that the longest I was ever able to actually have the scene loaded was about 3 minutes before it would crash. Realistically, I probably could have actually done the renders, but it would have taken like 20 times longer than normal, so instead of delaying the update I just said fuck it and drew some stick people. Another fun fact about the 980ti is that it was the original reason that there aren't a whole lot of students at the academy. Since I could have a max of like 3 characters on screen at once without it crashing, trying to populate backgrounds and things was basically impossible without photoshopping every render, so I rewrote that part of the game to make the lack of students part of the story. This is also why there are strange shadow people in the lecture hall when Kellin is introducing himself and stuff. I'd planned to fill out backgrounds with those instead of actual characters, but it turns out they're almost just as bad for performance, so I dropped the idea after that. I still need to get around to going back to rerender that bit without the random shadow people, but I'm in no huge rush on that front.
These days, due to the generous support of those enjoying the game, I have a better GPU. Specifically, it was actually just one guy who straight up bought me a new one by buying the game for some silly amount with the agreement that I'd use it to buy the GPU, so now I have a 3060 instead. This, in addition to someone else doing something similar allowing me to get 64GB of RAM, has allowed me to start sometimes filling out backgrounds with the second year girls, which a lot of people mistake as me just adding more characters because I think that's what people want. The reality of that is that they're just the background characters I would have added if I'd had a better GPU from the start, but I decided to give them a little bit of personality at least because I kinda dislike the idea of actual background characters. At very least, I felt they should have names. I also figured I might as well use them occasionally for stupid scenes that would derail the main girls' stories if I were to have them involved instead. (Like the ghost dildo thing, which would clash pretty heavily with the story of any of the main girls who aren't already aware of MC's power)
I could definitely get that MS paint scene finished now though, but given how frequently I get comments asking me not to change it, it's not very high on my priority list. HS2 is quite poorly optimised though, so I can say that whilst 8GB of VRAM would be fine most of the time, a scene with 5 or so characters might start to struggle depending on the map. It kinda depends, but either way the main point is that you could probably have a 4090 and still run into issues in HS2 a lot sooner than you'd assume based on the GPU.
That's pretty much what it means, yeah. It can generally be used the same way any generic insult is used, where it isn't usually used to actually refer to the technical meaning of the term. Kinda like calling someone an asshole is almost never a case of calling them a literal anus.
It's not as common as it used to be, but does still get used. The main reason I used it in this case is because it's very much uniquely British, and felt like a decent way of accentuating the fact that Cassie isn't American. Couldn't use twat for that, which is another go-to, since Americans apparently do say that (Albeit, more like twought rather than twat.)
I can't personally attest to the accuracy of the Russian slang usage (Which doesn't come up often), but I get help with that stuff from my Russian translator, so I'd assume it to be reasonably accurate. For Japanese (And Indonesian), it's all just google translate at the moment, but I recently got in contact with a Japanese translator, who has offered to make the Japanese that shows up in the game more organic, so the Japanese should soon be native accurate. Not so important to the actual game, but I like to get details like that right where possible.
So, I appreciate the sentiment, but please avoid rating games similar to mine 1 star based purely on some perceived notion of copying me. There are a lot of differences between my and rogue's games, despite their thematic similarity, and I don't think a comparison between them can be entirely black and white. I can't force you, but if your rating of his game is purely based on you thinking he copied mine, I'd ask that you remove it. There is no world in which his game is a true 1 star, no matter how you slice it. The clear effort alone is enough to earn more than that, even if you don't personally enjoy the story or content.
It's a game about school where you're allowed to punish the female students. That's where the similarities end. I should probably just delete this since it's straight up just misinformation, but I won't. At least not for now. I want the headmaster to do well, but I don't see how you could play both games and still think mine is a ripoff. It'd be like calling all WW2 movies a ripoff of whatever the first WW2 movie was.
*Just to edit this since I see the original post was deleted, I wasn't the one who did it.
Hmmmm, I don't have a way of testing it myself, but I do occasionally get people reporting issues launching the game on mac. Unfortunately, since I know next to nothing about mac, there isn't really anything I can suggest beyond the basic stuff like making sure there isn't some kind of antivirus blocking it. The only google results I get for this error seem to suggest reinstalling python can resolve this issue, but I'd be surprised to learn that python is even required for the game to run (Far as I know renpy games come packaged with everything they need). Is it possible you have some kind of incompatible version of python installed which is somehow conflicting with the game? This is pure speculation, but since I won't be able to reproduce the error myself, that might be about the best I've got.
Oh yeah, this is fixed in the next update, but for now if you get this bug you can fix it by enabling the renpy console (You can google how to do this) and then part way through the text conversation with your dad, open the console with shift+O, then run the below command (Case sensitive, enter exactly as written)
messageCount = 1
After that, close the console and continue as normal, and it should let you play.
I expect this is something to do with antivirus blocking it for whatever reason. That happens with renpy games sometimes. Assuming the download is complete, it's all in there, and I've never heard of an error regarding "Not enough information", but who knows.
Admittedly, the game is quite big for an AVN, and if you downloaded it 5 or 6 times, that must take quite a long time with itch download speeds. Are you sure it actually finishes downloading each time?
