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Hah, sadly not a reference - but they certainly have good logo design choices! 

I think Arthur was too, at first 

I'll add a toggle for them in the next update, but it'll be a while. So if you're patient for that I can definitely make this happen for you.

/G

Amos 5:10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.

Calbex is my husbando

Hi,

Those would be from Mike's memories, select the Memories tab just under quick start from the main menu - select Mike on the left then click the photos on the right to read those stories and unlock those CGs (Assuming you've unlocked them by playing the main game).

As a tip - under the Quick Start tap there's a CG Checklist with some small hints of where to get CGs. I'll also add it to the CG Gallery for the future patches. 

Not at this point, next up is more Mike and Charles content, so it'll be a while still before the next John update.

Hi, it seems to be an issue where I misspelled the trigger that should unlock the old image. You didn't miss a new scene - rather it's an old variant of the image that was replaced with higher quality art. Once I update next time or hotfix, it'll be unlocked at the same time as unlocking the first image.

Sorry about that, and thanks for the heads up!
/Grunt

Thanks! The reports go straight to me with how itch works - and I've decided to leave the post up to bring focus to the reply instead, and make the stance I take on transphobia in my community very clear.

Mike, Charles and John will all be options. Next up after Mike is indeed Charles.

Looking at your post history, it's obvious you're transphobic - and it's sad to see it leak out like this. 

I think if you can't have space in your heart for someone mentioning that they support trans rights, you need to reconsider your stance in life.

On that note, I don't think Distant Travels is for you.

Arctos is supposed to display a 'what if people stopped being completely intolerant for no reason and instead had other kinds of problems' world. A kind of nudge towards what normal thoughtlines in terms of respecting each other and living life should be, in my opinion.
A large part of this shows in the main character's thinking from the prologue - if you talk with Nick he starts thinking about his sexuality all there and then. It's in the part where you select a character name. You seem to have missed this point entirely. It's about giving another perspective on life, from the view of someone who's suffered a lot - in part due to people with views much like your own.

In short, I think you're blinded by misguided hate - and you need to check yourself. Transphobia has no place - just the same as homophobia or racism. 

It's more likely than you think that you have someone you care about - someone closer than you can imaging, that's currently hiding themselves from you, because of how you're behaving. Let that sink in.

To put it in Mike Steel's words, to mimic my own thoughts:

"I think most people would be angry, not just offended, if someone told them that their friends and family didn't deserve the same rights as everyone else. Especially if it was because of something like their identity."

It'll be a bit, I'll likely finish up Mike's route completely before I get to the other routes

Thanks! I'll take a look to see if I can find what causes the bug- For now, scrolling back (mousewheel up or clicking the "BACK" button a few times) should temporarily fix it.

As much as I share your anger, we can't go quite as far with our anger as your comment due to the itch ToS.

Click the "Dodge!" text under the timer. 

Other than that, click the characters as they appear to gain points. If you don't earn a lot of points, that's fine - it mostly just adds flavor text to some moments in the story depending on how you did.

Nope, I don't have patreon - Distant Travels is completely free.
The NSFW content is toggleable inside the game.
Just go into Preferences and toggle it on or off.

Due to itch's current deliberate vague ToS regarding NSFW content and if it relates to only paid content (or also free content like DT) I'm not quite sure yet.
For reference, the ToS are so vague it's impossible to for me to figure out if:
1) It even relates to furry content - e.g genitals in DT are all human and there's no four legged humanoids or the like. 
2) It even relates to free content (e.g I don't accept payments for DT and haven't done for years.

I emailed them on the first day of this tragedy and they're yet to get back to me. 
So for now, the future is a little unsure - but if you want closer updates, the discord is much less censored. (Yay, censorship, thanks itch and payment providers for not even being clear about wtf you're censoring)

All that said, the content for ch4 is technically ready.

Whew, this is the best take posted so far.

I have to say as a fellow dev I'm appreciating the points in bold - too many people are missing this and screwing themselves over by panicking. Be alarmed, don't be chaotic and panicked. Calm and rational is when you make the best decisions.

Here's hoping itch releases their guidelines sooner rather than later - and that the community shows what they can with reasonable measures such as mailing the companies pushing this.

Working on it, a couple of CGs left to do and some writing needs polishing before I can send it to a friend for proofing. 

Sadly work and life keeps getting in the way, as always : p

This, and chapter 4 (unreleased) Mike's route expands further on some specifics

Oh, that seems very nice! Definitely a more logic friendly result than base layered images.

Hi!
This sounds like a syntax issue, `end of line expected` usually indicates you've forgotten the colon on the previous line or that your indentation("tabbing"/whitespace) is off.

From what you're describing, it's likely to do with the colon or definition. (e.g image = vs image:)

There's some information in the ren'py docs (specifically the part about "blocks", but if you need more specific help feel free to send me an image of the specific code that's not working and I'll help you out

Depends on how you define it really. I'm the only dedicated developer on this project and have always been.
I've commissioned art to fill in the assets I can't make, but there's never been another set developer for the project.

> It bears reiterating

Heh.

Heck yeah! Glad to hear it \o\

Happy to hear! Best of luck with your project \o\

Hi! As the other person stated it's been a long time between updates so far. Approaching the end of Mike's route within development at the moment. While I wanted to have it finished this month, I've decided to add a few more CGs and two more character sprites while polishing the story just a little bit more. Looking to release Mike's route fully this year, and then likely 2-3 months each for John and Charles. 

Thank you for the kind words, truly! 

/G

Hi there, thanks for the review and the kind words!

I'd like to try and visit the characters more deeply, and there are side stories to be told in the coming update (It'll be known as "Memories" and feature a deeper look into the backstory of each character). So keep an eye out!

Again, thank you for the kind words.

Take care! /G

Innocent until proven guilty

I'm sorry for not responding to this sooner, wanted to take my time to read it when I had a moment.

That said, thanks for the awesome review! I appreciate the insight and I'm happy you enjoy the story.

Take care!

/G

No firstborn required, but I'll consider it once the other routes are done. (Those are getting closer and closer to being done, btw).
It'd be fun with a Bruce route and a Geralt route.
Thanks for the feedback and appreciation! /G

You're welcome! I'm glad it helped.
/G

Hi there, and thanks for the kind words!
I don't think there's any easy way to learn it, other than try and look at existing code and learn from it. 
It's mostly experience and messing around with it for a long time. As a side note, Ren'py (fairly) recently did update their documentation to be more thorough - so if you haven't looked at it recently I'd recommend that!

I think the best advise I have to offer is "how to ask a programming question" - meaning don't ask about your exact problem if you're stuck, ask about what you're trying to achieve, your end goal. This goes for when you get stuck in whatever you're doing for yourself as well, there's likely another angle to achieve the same thing that might make more sense, especially so in Ren'py.

I'll see about uploading some more details about stuff I've done to DT the closer I get to releasing the game. Aside from that, if you get stuck and have any questions - feel free to DM me. Most easily reached through twitter or discord.
/Grunt

Happy to hear! Good luck with your project \o\

Hi,

You may not resell or host any version of the game behind a paywall - as long as you release it for free and don't change any of the credits you may translate it and host it somewhere for redownload.

/Grunt

It is! My goal is to have the entire Mike route out before summer is over. Hopefully I'll make it, if not, I'll just keep working.
/G

Thank you! I appreciate it. If you wish to help donate for more CG art in the game you can do so through ko-fi 
Although just the encouragement is enough, I read and appreciate every comment.

You're welcome! Very glad it helps \o/

Still a while out, life's been... life-y. Sorry.

You're welcome! Happy to help

/G