The update I'm working on should be a valid candidate for publishing on Steam. So... Early access later this year I guess. The game will be nowhere near finished but at least should give a decent idea of what the finished product will be.
Thank you for your honest review. I do appreciate feedback especially when they are objective like yours.
Indeed, you are not the target audience!
However, I feel like I have to add that this bad ending is avoidable and in the most recent version of the game, I included a walkthrough to make it easier to explore the different paths.
That being said, even like that, Summer Scent isn't a Harem game. But there will be happy endings. In fact, there will be more happy endings than anything else. But no harem.
Well, that's quite simple. Without Patreon, I wouldn't be working on that game.
It's not about making something perfect, but something decent. You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. I'm trying to transform my vinegar into honey. That's why the rework needs to happen.
Well, sorry if you don't like it, but I think these updates are important. I want those who follow me to know what I'm working on.
Sinde 2022, I published about 70 k words of content and about 2000 renders. Not counting what I'm working on at the moment. I have no doubt that it can feel shallow if you play only a path rather than the whole game. But the content is still there. I am slow, that is true. If I wasn't constantly tweaking, rewriting and over stuff, the game wouldn't be as "promising".
However, you are right about my dev cycle being too long. I release every 8 months at the moment, and it's clearly too long. I hope to improve this in the future, as I will be closing some loose ends that will simplify the branching and the writing. However, the posing will still be the most consuming part of the work and I don't see how I can compress it.
3 - If you’re sure you trust the app developer, you can override your security settings and allow the app to install and open.
Open Finder.
Locate the app you’re trying to open.
Control+Click the app.
Select Open.
Click Open.
The app should be saved as an exception in your security settings, allowing you to open it in the future.
4 - Bypass the block in your Security & Privacy settings. If the previous method didn’t work, you can go into your Security & Privacy settings and do it manually.
Open the Apple menu, and click System Preferences.
Click Security & Privacy.
Click the General tab.
Click the lock in the lower right corner of the window.
Enter your username and password when prompted, and click Unlock.
Click the App Store and Identified Developers radial button.
Look for “(App Name) was blocked from opening because it is not from an identified developer” and click Open Anyway. (In older versions of macOS, you could click Anywhere and then click Allow From Anywhere.)
Try rerunning the app.
5 - Download the app through Safari. If the above process didn’t work, make sure you downloaded the app using Safari. There’s an issue where downloading apps through other browsers, like Chrome and Edge, will cause a problem when trying to install unsigned apps.
Delete the app you downloaded through another web browser.
Restart your Mac.
Download the app using Safari.
Try to run the app.
When you get the error message, perform the Security & Privacy fix outlined in the previous step.
I hope this will resolve your issue. Thank you for your patience.
Hello again. It's normal. You will have to trust me and launch the app anyway. The error message should give you some options. Something like “Open the Settings App, and approve the unverified app”
I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Itch support forwarded your mail to me. I replied, hoping they would it forward to you.
According to the renpy documentation, you have to uncompress the archive and directly double-click the app. I'm quoting the documentation because I don't own a mac and never tried it myself. However, feedback from mac users seems to confirm that.
Let me know if it helps you!
You can contact me directly on Discord for a more instantaneous discussion.
Right now, the game is about 270 000 words. And I think I'm at about 65% of the story. Once finished (including the rework of old content), the whole thing will probably be around 450 000 words.
However, I have no goals in terms of words or amount of content. This is just an estimation.
I'll check the new version of day one. I didn't find Cassie to be "falling in love" with Jack that easily, but maybe I'm wrong.
I understand perfectly that some may not like the femdom-oriented paths. But some others do!
The seventh day is still pretty far away. The night of day 6 is going to be quite eventful and heavy on the lewds. I'm not sure how I will split it. There is a lot of content ahead and I won't be able to release it in a single update.
I scanned the files and didn't find anything. However, I know that renpy games may give some false positive with some AV. Better safe than sorry however!
Hello. May I ask which version of the game are you trying to download? On my side, all the links seem to work properly. Do you encounter a specific error?
If you haven't fixed the issue yet, feel free to hit me on Discord and we'll see what we can do.
I guess you haven't played the most recent version of the game. For several reasons, I have removed the option to rename the girls after v0.5.5.
Eve is indeed the "Childhood friend", Cassie is her friend. Jack, the MC, is the only one you can still rename. I still think that renaming the MC can be useful for immersion, but renaming the girls was useless and annoying. I won't make that mistake again in any hypothetical future game.
After v05.5, depending on the path you choose, you can also learn more about what has led Jack (MC) to make that decision in the past. I won't spoil it. But it's a human reaction.
Real people don't make life easy. I like that. Despite their best intentions, people are selfish, afraid, ashamed, shy and many other traits that make discussions and relationships ambiguous and uneasy to read. A lot of players don't like that. They want to be a manly hero who understands everything immediately and is always right, forward, confident, strong and successful. Jack isn't like that at all. He is a human being and so are the other characters of Summer Scent. They're all flawed and I believe that's what makes them endearing.
I considered making some kind of flashback so that the player could play the moment Mc understands he is in love with Eve and the torment that comes with it, but I'm not sure it would make much sense. I would have to show much more than that moment for it to "feel real". We'll see. Maybe I'll change my mind, maybe I'll find something else to make it feel more personal.
It will take some time. I'm done with the rework part of the next update and I'm currently working on new content. More about that in the next Dev Update.
When I started the game, Eve and jack were twins but I had to change it because of Patreon Policies. I know that there is a patch somewhere that redefine their relationship.
Sorry!
Eve, Cassie and Kelly are the only girls you can romance.
The finished game will have 18 paths + a couple of variants and bad endings. As of v0.6.3, 3 paths have yet to emerge and only one bad ending is reachable.
There will be more bad endings in the future but none will be as painful as the one you played through.
I haven't taken any real vacation since 2019. I have to confess that I do miss it. I didn't feel like I was "beating myself up", but you may be right. But there is so much to do that I always feel like I'm wasting time. Maybe I should take care of myself a bit more. Thank you for your kind words.
