Yeah, I’m aware the game needs more notes. I guess the main issue is that my time is limited, so I basically have two choices:
Pause the game development and add notes/hints for older quests (less fun for me, less content for the players).
Continue as is and rely on people figuring things out, reading the WT and changelogs, and asking the community on Discord.
I prefer path 2 for now (because the game needs more content, in my opinion). At some point, when the game is finished (or at least Galadriel’s branch), I plan to refactor and add more hints and notes.
About AI let’s split the question into three parts:
Visuals – My initial motivation for using it was that I really suck at drawing(you can decompile the game and look for 'room' images folder to see what i mean) and didn’t have the money to hire an artist. So my choice wasn’t “make a game with AI visuals vs. make a game with hand-drawn art.” It was “make a game with AI visuals vs. make no game at all.” After I started making some buck, I made a post on my SubscribeStar (https://subscribestar.adult/posts/2258038)that I'am looking for non-ai artists, even contacted some myself(ended up not finding anyone). So yeah, I'am generally open to spending some money on reworking stuff to non-ai visuals. Maybe not everything, because it will destroy my wallet, but at least sth.
Text – Texts are hand written, but translation is automatics. no money/time → used AI. Now that I’m earning something, I have one proofreader, so I’m working on it.
Code – I write Ren’Py code myself and sometimes buy templates on itch.io. I use LLMs for mini-games occasionally, but 90–95% of the code is written by me.
To sum it up: I do what I can with the limited resources I have to squeeze the maximum value for the players. And I know it’s not perfect! Again, after the game is finished(at least the core), I plan to do a big refactor and clean it up better:) Thanks for taking time and writing this, Mega
Hey Hunter surgar, sorry for the later reply, too much stuff lately. Thanks for the feedback, let's go step by step. - about emotions, yes, that's possible, do you remember when it happened?(I saw no obvious problems, but there are 500+ emotion changes, so I have probably overlooked it) - Yep, I translate rus->eng, with GPTChat, but I have some proofreaders since 0.15.x(Or around that datae), they are not native english speakers too, so sometimes overlook stuff too. If you notice sth, you can drop me a screenshot or exact phrase and I will fix it. - 'As of 22.3, Galadriel’s maximum corruption seems to be 6 but you are allowed to keep giving her Wine, it just has no effect.' - will check, thx - yeah, I'am aware of that, but as far as i know he always returns, sometimes earlier sometimes later. I usually treat it as a feature not a bug.(Information gathering takes different amounts of time, why not). Since some players(like you) perceive it as sth annoying, I may fix it at some point:)
Hey, Gh0stReap3R, sorry for the later reply, happy to hear it's fixed I will look into it:) Yes, only one buttplug is available at the moment, considering to add more in 0.24.x
Hey Hunter Sugar, thanks for the detailed feedback. I've just made 0.22.3 public, so hopefully it will help with some bugs(I think I fixed heels in that one). Have you read walkthough? It may help with finding triggers. Speaking about milk potion bug, hmm, It's kind of new for me, never heard about that problem, can you tell me know exact option name in menu that dissapeared? this way I can easiliy track it down and check what's going on. If you are talking about breast expanstion potion, you should hook it up yourself by the way.(after using mind swap potion on gollum). Glad you liked the game, I'm happy someone called it Akabur-flavoured, great honor lol, witch trainer really influenced me a lot. You are also welcome to join games Discord server, it's pretty active and people there sometimes give better advice than I'am
Have you encountered it before with some previous version? Are you playing 0.22 or 0.21? Maybe your device is not powerful enough?(can you try on other device?)
wow, never noticed it untill you mentioned. Now it annoys me too XD. I will see what I can do, I don't really want to replace the music, maybe will find a way to filter it out
When starting the game, I didn't know much about renpy. It's my first game. So some outlines are made by manually creating PNGs. At some point I learned how to procedurally generate outlines, so new ones are pretty different than old ones.
Hey hidnight, thanks a lot for taking time and finding it! I changed the code so it will be ok in 0.21.x. Completely forgot I changed panties naming at some point... Agree that having a function for it makes sense, I will consider it, also need to consider the cost. which is refactoring a lot of old stuff + testing.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad it helped! Very weird it was missing, I see no obvious errors in my code... If any other player reports it again, I will dig into this.
Hey, that's weird, buttplug should be available in the store(the third one), could you double check? If still not available, please let me know. As a hotfix it: press Shift+o, then type otherInventory["Small doorknob"]["count"] = 1
