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If you need to do the crowdfund, do it. Put the link where I can see it through itch, if you will. I'm not on the Mythos-specific site. Wishing you better days!

The four or five DAZ Premier exclusive tools are basically "shortcut" type tools -- they speed up certain processes, but they don't offer functionality a DAZ free user couldn't work around without them. The new tools are arguably faster, or more convenient, within certain specific contexts, but they don't prevent non-Premier users from doing their rendering work. I think this is simply another example of DAZ chasing quick-money trends (remember the DAZ NFTs?) rather than focusing on bettering their core program for all users. Cheers!

Thank *you* for releasing such excellent tools, so easily understood.

You were also extremely patient with me, and helpful to me, when I posted my n00b questions on the ren'py Discord under a different alias. 

Your kindness and patience were the reasons why I remembered and recognized your alias here on itch, and how I knew buying your ren'py tools would be a help to me.

Thank you, and be very well!

Many of your tools have been very useful to me, and I've been happy to buy them. As for perfectionism, I am reminded of the warning "Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good". But you've been releasing tools, so I expect your perfectionism and your practicality are at least on speaking terms. :-) Best to you and yours. Be well!

Hope you are feeling better, Radondy. Take care of yourself first. People get games for *free* on itch, and Patreon is *voluntary*, so don't let anyone pressure you. As the old saying goes "You can't pour water from an empty jug", so take care of you, and the creative stuff will get easier once you start feeling better. I wish you strength, and happier days going forward.

If I remember correctly, developer Drifty only released Leap of Faith on Steam after it was finished. If they do that with this new game, you could be waiting a while. Just so ya know. Be well!

I would expect so. Leap of Faith arrived there.

Ask The Cast Question: "Name up to three songs that you secretly love. New, old, it doesn't matter."

I am reminded of the words of Popeye, BM. This story is a fine "pigment of your imagic-nation" Be well! :-)

Great to hear that you're doing what you love, Matt, even amidst all the mayhem. I'm out here, and curious to see where you take us all. Be well!

Some people might find creative spelling really ... ennoying. :-)

Hey Eris, dunno if you'll see this, but I bought your game even though it's discontinued, because it gave me a hearty laugh when I discovered it elsewhere -- a laugh I didn't know I needed. Thank you. I wish you good things in whatever you do next. Cheers!

Thanks!

We're ready. Hope things are feeling a bit better for you!

You have definitely done what you set out to do! I remember the first time you helped me with something over on the RenPy Discord -- I just could not get my (writer's) head around what I was trying to code. Other well-meaning people tried to reassure me that it was "so easy", but you were the one who took the time to *demonstrate* what I was trying to achieve with ultra-simple examples until I began to see the concepts behind it all. I've had your website bookmarked since. Your ability to teach is so appreciated, and your offerings here are a gift. Thank you!

Your tutorial pages on your website help me so much. Many people have Renpy knowledge, but you have a talent for explaining the basics in a way novices can understand. Thank you!

Haha. Still grateful for the work! :)

Thanks. BM! I appreciate that you keep innovating on this!

One of the better bits of counsel I've gotten about playtesting goes like this: "Pay attention when people identify their *problems* with your work, but don't automatically give weight to the *solutions* they suggest. It's your creation; the solutions are likely to fit better if they come from you." Good luck!

Thanks yet again!

This is useful to me. Thanks so much, Fen!

Thanks for the news update. Cheers!

You can try adding this variable to your Renpy script:

define config.allow_underfull_grids = True

Took me a minute to recognize that you have to close the phone via the bottom button before the pre-made tutorial/introduction can continue, but once I grasped the obvious (durrrr), all was well. Thanks for the improved version, BM! Much appreciated!

Thanks, BadMustard! I truly wasn't trying to bust your stones on this, I promise. I have some sense of how life can suddenly get busy without warning.

I really do appreciate the time and effort you put into things. Thank you! Be well!

I just saw this now. Good news, Thundorn! Beyond the fact that I get to play more of the game, I also get the sense that you really enjoy game-making.

Your Ren'Py and rendering tutorials on YouTube have been very helpful to me, but I always felt that making games is where your heart resides. So, go man go! I look forward to seeing what you create!

No worries, BadMustard. I know you've been hella busy for a while now. I'll see if I can send you some of those 32 hour days Amazon had up for sale! :-D  Be well!

Your fix for the "VPGrid Not Full" error seems to work, DaFlyinHawYn! At least for the current 8.1.1 Ren'Py release.

Thank you so much!

I found another small error on line 89 of the all-messages.rpy file. You have to swap out MC for player_name or the included example game will crash.

Thanks again! Be well!

I just saw this now. I'll give it a shot. Thanks so much!

There's something wincingly funny about people who steal games holding forth with opinions and theories about them.

They didn't even respect the work enough to pay for it; why would their opinions be respected?

I get that money is tight, and that people sometimes use pirate sites as a "free demo" way to sample something before they risk money on it -- especially when the only other way to sample some games is by paying a not-insignificant monthly fee on sites like Patreon, up front -- but in my opinion at least, if someone hasn't paid for the work, their opinion on it means little.

They have "no skin in the game", as the saying goes.

But internet gonna internet, as always. Stay the course, Thundorn. Cheers!

It could be dependent on which specific version of Ren'Py is being used? I'm currently using Ren'Py 8.0.3 (Ren'Py 8, Python 3)  from Sept 8/22. I've had code break because of versioning changes to Ren'Py before. Best of luck!

Not seeing that error when I run this. Perhaps it's been fixed?

Thanks for the info! I'm not put off by Chinese characters, but since I don't read them, you're right -- they wouldn't have communicated anything to me. With the pinyin, at least I got more of a sense of a conversation going on, because I recognized the letters, Smart wife you've got there! Definitely hang on to her! :-) Be well!

Something you did in AD made me curious. There are a couple of scenes where GuoQiu and GuoAi are talking to each other, and you spell out their Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) speech in the dialogue using English letters -- sort of a phonetic spelling. I don't think I've ever seen this done before, and it gave me some idea of the sound of their conversation. What made you decide to use such an interesting "halfway" between Chinese and English here? Cheers!

Thanks!

Just don't burn yourself out -- if things take a bit longer, they take longer. It's all good. Cheers!

It's a story game which contains sex, not a porn game checking off kinks from a list. I don't think these are the droids you're looking for ...