That was just to illustrate that computeds can return either a plain boolean, or another callable. Right is returning another lambda which itself returns True. So it would end up being called twice in the while loop to resolve the final value.
Hey there! So sorry for not responding earlier, Itch isn’t notifying me about new posts for some reason…
A guide will absolutely exist eventually. I’ve not bothered making an official one yet because I know there’s still things I might change, but if someone doesn’t make an unoffocial one then I’ll get around to it when things are closer to being finished :)
There’s plenty of opportunities to top the big boys; while not every character is a switch, the situation post-0.6 is such that many of them are in a highly experimental mood at the very least. Some characters will be easier than others, of course. And it’ll be made clear what sort of sex you’re about to initiate with someone if you want to avoid it.
So sorry, I didn’t get notified about this post for some reason. The spritework is coming :) It’s just not in yet. The writing continues, however, and when the sprites are ready I’ll backport them into the existing scenes.
Thanks! Yeah, I considered going into merges and conflicts but that could be a whole other article by itself, so I made a brief mention and left it for people to Google instead :)
I believe it’s placed in the root folder of the Ren’Py installation (not the game folder) on desktop. For mobile, I have no idea. Probably called “error.log” or some such.
The app doesn’t need anything special from my end in order to function, so it slid below my radar. I’ll be sure to set things up correctly in future. Thanks for letting me know :)
Indeed. There were a number of reasons for the change, and overall I felt this just rounded out the cast better. His behaviour remains as it is in 0.2, though, it’s just his physical attributes that changed.
All the below information is subject to change as the story continues, but I don’t anticipate major alterations (eg. ages might change by a couple years). I’ve also been deliberately vague in a few places to keep things interesting. Characters will naturally have a lot more depth than the one-line summaries I’ve put in here, but only major characters will have arcs that can fundamentally affect who they are.
Flax
Recently-graduated student of cultural philosophy
Species: Norwegian Fjord horse
Age: 22
Body type: fit draft horse
Personality: leaning towards dorky and horny most of the time, but up to the player.
Babbelas
Local tour guide and entertainer
Species: springbok
Age: 25
Body type: twink
Personality: cocky, sometimes to the point of being almost abrasive, but quickly backs down if * challenged.
Bakgat
Town mechanic and entertainer
Species: feline/dragon hybrid
Age: 28
Body type: muscled
Personality: relaxed and hard-working.
Boerewors
Gardener at Paardenrust Manor
Species: gemstaur (gemsbok centaur)
Age: 47
Body type: large, heavyset equine half with taller, leaner upper half
Personality: very measured and thoughtful of others, but secretive.
Dalarius
Mayor
Species: horse
Age: 25
Body type: fit, but with a bit of pudge
Personality: garrulous to a fault, Dal is laser-focused on doing the best job he can for the town, * possibly to the detriment of other things.
Eshu
Species: greater kudu
Age: ???
Body type: extremely cut
Personality: ???
Fanayo
Senescal at Paardenrust Manor
Species: cheetah
Age: 35
Body type: lean, swimmer’s build
Personality: rather obsessive and somewhat intolerant of slack in others.
Inkanyamba
Species: water dragon
Age: ???
Body type: feral
Personality: ???
Jags
Tour operator
Species: aardwolf
Age: 37
Body type: stocky
Personality: hopeless romantic who’s been hurt maybe one too many times by his trust in others.
Kierie
Son of the lord of Paardenrust Manor
Species: African ass
Age: 24
Body type: average
Personality: outgoing and engaging when he has to speak on behalf of his family, but with a lot of stuff clearly going on inside.
Kop & Stert
Owners of local shebeen
Species: wild dogs
Age: 28
Body type: summer-beach vanity muscles
Personality: imagine if gossip was turned into people. They’ll never say a bad word about anyone, but they’ll say literally everything else.
Mkhulu
Local nutsman (handyman)
Species: gnu
Age: 31
Body type: dadbod
Personality: ultra chill, so much so that one might think he’s permanently high. Which isn’t true. During the week.
Nabo
Listless resident
Species: white rhinoceros
Age: 18
Body type: twink
Personality: kind of a bitch, really. Feels trapped and takes out his frustrations on the world and the people in it.
Quagga
Town policeman
Species: zebra
Age: 42
Body type: musclegut
Personality: friendly, but assumes he should be in charge of whatever situation is going on, and often tries to assert himself by virtue of his age and position.
Suri
Footman
Species: meerkat
Age: 23
Body type: twink
Personality: very friendly, very helpful, very eager to not fuck up. Consequently tries too hard and often fucks up.
Ta’kom
Librarian at Paardenrust Manor
Species: stallion
Age: 44
Body type: dadbod
Personality: distrustful and sarcastic. There’s a different person hiding inside, but you’re gonna have to work to find him.
Werner
Chef at Paardenrust Manor
Species: African buffalo
Age: 27
Body type: himbo
Personality: he’ll lay down his life for you five minutes after you meet. Incredibly eager to make people happy, but not without some demons of his own.
Zef
Species: giraffe
Age: 30
Body type: thicc femboy
Personality: horny. So fucking horny, all the time. Enough to get him in trouble on a regular basis.
Hi there! I’ve actually written bios for most of the characters with a lot more detail than that even, but I’ve not gotten around to posting them all here yet. I can list off the characters and their general attributes, however, which should be what you’re after :)
I’ll make a separate post for that, since it’ll probably be worth pinning.
Thanks Phamyne! I’m super glad that all the local colour comes through :) I definitely agree about the need for a sort of glossary; I have something in the works for that, but it needs some more work still. It’ll definitely show up in a fuure build :)
Thanks for the comments :) In terms of visuals, you can get a good idea of what to expect by looking at my character artist’s FurAffinity page (warning, very NSFW): https://www.furaffinity.net/user/tanutanuki/
She has a distinct style which includes strong outlines that really make the characters pop. I am planning to make the final backgrounds relatively soft, bordering on out-of-focus, to make the spritework really stand out when superimposed. She’s currently in the process of designing all the characters–you can see one example, the main character, under my screenshots–and once those are all finalised, work on the sprites will begin. I’ll be sure to add additional character designs to itch as they become publicly available :)
Hehe :) I’m making a point of not picking non-Western names for things solely to make things feel exotic for Western players, but they will certainly still pop up regularly :) I’m happy to provide pronunciation and meaning guides if anyone’s interested!
Yes they do. The opening converges on the same outcome, but that’s merely because adding a route that ended the game here seemed presumptuous in a first build :P The choices you make here (and, indeed, later on) will definitely manifest in differences further down the line in a variety of ways.
