It was always meant to remain open-ended, so there won't be any real conclusion, sorry. That being said, some loose ends like Aurelie's mom are still on the table for possible future updates, we just don't want to fully commit to anything specific beyond this point. The closest thing to a proper conclusion the game might get at some point would be if we added pregnancy scenes, but due to the number of girls that would be quite an undertaking, so we're not sure yet if we want to go there.
Yeah, that's pretty much her. Garden of Venus is basically an "alternate reality" spin-off from the world My Naughty Neighbor and the other Venus Stories play in.
"OCNX" stands for OnionCuttingNinja+Xtone, basically. The original idea was to move all lewd projects here, especially the team efforts, and only leave the SFW projects at OCN's account.
But most of the reasons we originally wanted to do that no longer apply, so we never completed that clear distinction and now it's a bit messy ^^'
Koikatsu (BetterRepack version). The models are self-made in the character editor, the scenes are a mix of content from the original game and community mods.
!! WARNING !! Don'tclick on any links in the comments! The bots are getting smarter, and are now posing as itch io staff/support/update service etc., disguising their virus links as patreon links and so on.
Don't fall for it! We would never post links in the comments, and links by anyone but us are practically guaranteed to be some form of malware or scam.
We don't really have a fixed schedule. Next update is also taking a bit longer because for the public build we're skipping 0.9 and will jump straight to 1.0 later in October.
Hi, it's not a mistake but the transition in Viola's scene is pretty abrupt, that's true. We'll fix that next update.
After their events, you can click on these sidegirls again to repeat the scene and sometimes there are some additional options, though not often. Maybe we'll add some more options at some point, but no promises.
Well, we're already on both patreon and subscribestar.
The main problem in our case isn't money, but rather that itch is/was the best place for getting found and grow our fanbase. But it looks like itch is now forced to hide most adult stuff, possibly permanently.
But Stripe (middleman between itch and visa/cc) officially doesn't support using Stripe for places with adult content at all, and now they're like "if you have anything to do with adult content, we potentially don't want anything to do with you anymore".
So just not allowing payments isn't enough for them anymore, they'd ideally want itch to drop adult content entirely, even the free stuff, to not be associated with it.
Paypal isn't much better, they want as little adult content as possible in this place and officially only tolerate adult content where it's a game with gameplay first and adult content second, plus all these other content limitations.
Of course, Paypal obviously made some exceptions for Valve and Patreon, but those are making MUCH more money than itch and probably could afford special deals.
Well, yeah, communication could've been better, as mentioned. But hindsight is 20/20 and they were probably pushed into an NDA and need to be really careful about how they communicate things, plus early on they must've been under extreme stress and duress themselves. I know I would most likely not have fared any better in terms of communication in such a situation.
> But it doesn't change the fact that the general sentiment was that they would do their best to do right by those who called their platform home, outside of extreme fringe cases.
Yeah, but that included fairly clearly pointing at payment processor ToS, which basically meant monetizing adult content on itch at all became largely disallowed ever since payoneer jumped in bed with MasterCard and put NSFW on their "nope" list.
I mean, I as developer did notice that and stopped taking even donations for that very reason.
This whole situation is in part the result of itch being rather lenient in enforcing their rules in the past, but being lenient was precisely them "doing their best to do right by those who called their platform home", in my opinion. The alternative would've been to take a tougher stance earlier, but would that really have stopped CS from attacking them now, or payment processors from tightening the screws anyway? I have my doubts.
The ultimatum seemingly came from Stripe and Paypal rather, fwiw.
Anyway, I'm not saying the frustration isn't justified, only that lashing out on itch now won't help and just gives the payment processors more PR leverage.
There might be one more update, simply because one more episode was already written and scripted and is only waiting to be rendered, but since this project is massively less popular than Garden of Venus or OCN's solo projects, that would definitely be the last update once it happens.
That too, but on other platforms the optional lesbian content was also critized as being sharing/NTR. *shrug*
Some people out there are of the opinion any depiction of any sexual contact with anyone else than the MC automatically makes it a form of NTR and "not harem anymore". Even if it's optional and entirely (and easily) avoidable. The mere knowledge of its existence appears to already be a problem for some.
Hey, not planned for this game, sorry. Not personally against it, but there are a lot of people out there who apparently consider that kind of content 'sharing' (or even NTR) and say it would not be a 'harem' game anymore if it had any of that, even if it were optional. We're still reeling a bit from the backlash we got for a previous 'impure' game (Total Maidness), so we're not going to add any lesbian content to games declared as harem games anymore (and will probably be more careful about using the 'harem' tag in future games...).
The event scenes are repeatable in each girls' galleries (the school scene is Sarah's 2nd event), but it's true that they currently skip most of the dialogue leading up to the lewd part. We'll think of a way to solve this, so you can repeat those dialogue parts as well.
In some cases, like Grace barging in on Mia and MC, we'll also consider to add those as random events in the sandbox version of the scene.
Well, update 0.6.5 just came out 2 days ago and we usually do the next public update when the next patron update is ready.
We don't know yet when that will be, because 0.8 will be a bigger update and 1 of our 2 devs is currently busy with something else. So it's likely going to be only in early August or so.
Generally speaking, in each girl's gallery (heart icon), if you hover the mouse or press your finger on uncleared events, it shows you what you need to do to reach them.
- Mia has the most complicated requirements, basically you need to have seen her previous 3 events as well as brought the "pussy rubbing" wake-up activity to level 3, then the new event should autoplay next time you enter her room in the morning to wake her up.
- Grace: You need to have seen her first 2 events, then at night you should see her icon on your rooms' door, click on the door to trigger the event.
- Isabella: Just go to the plaza during the day, it should either auto-trigger or trigger if you click on her (you should've seen her first event the first time you visited the plaza).
- Julia: Just enter the gym during the day, it should auto-trigger (if you haven't seen her 1st event yet, you'll have to watch that first and visit the gym again later for the 2nd event).
- spring event: When you've seen Graces' 3rd event (the one at night), go to the town map on Sunday afternoon, there should be a new icon in the green area in the north, click on that.
