Bonjour from Ptypoe land!
Added 2019-03-14 05:55:42 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
A general post to say hi.
Some exciting statistics (no that isn't an oxymoron) - V 0.5 currently has more than 400 new images and more than 20,000 new words....so it's coming along pretty well!
V0.4 was pretty large as a game file, so for V0.5 I am planning to start a new game - kind of a chapter two sort of thing. It will carry on directly from the end of week four as you would hope, and it will have a waypoint at the beginning to allow you to start week five in different ways (in particular to allow you to focus your existing magic on different ladies each time you start).
As you can see from the image above, Sara and Indi are good friends again in week 5...Mmmmmm!
No release date yet, but rest assured I'm working on it whenever I can.
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Thanks HL, Will try to make it smooth and leave you with plenty of choice.
Ptypoe
2019-04-08 22:21:06 +0000 UTCI Like your ideas. The game is great. The chance to change focus at the start of the new chapter will make the game even more interesting. I do agree with Bill T above, pls make the transition to the next segment smooth if we don't want to change focus however.
HouseLover
2019-04-06 23:37:20 +0000 UTCI agree JANB. I am trying to keep Ani and Kate active, but without overloading the main plots. And you are right to be bewildered about Kate, as based on V0.4 I did not need to leave Kate in the waypoint. A the time (V 0.3) I had intended to keep her available for magic, but the story went in a different direction. Mt storywriting process is essentially - (1) set up the big picture over several weeks (2) think up a bunch of sub-plots (3) decide which sub-ploys feel the best (4) do images (5) modify sub plots to match images. So there is opportunity for me to change direction as I see how things come together, and that is what happened.
Ptypoe
2019-03-25 22:41:27 +0000 UTCI see 2 other possible desirable routes, one with more meetings with Ani, and one where you focus on Kate. Right now in version 0.4 I was a bit bewildered, because if you opt to not tutor Indi for continuing meeting Kate, you are forced to teach Indi anyway by campus telephone calls of Sara which makes the waypoint selection you are offered before meaningless ...
Just a naughty boy
2019-03-25 17:51:54 +0000 UTCGood point Bill, I am thinking about a new start for V0.5 as by the end of V0.4 I was really worried that Ren’py was going to crash on me. It has more than 20,000 lines of text and code and is over 1 GB in size and I had a couple of scary moments when it seized up completely! My approach to a waypoint at start of week five would be ask you for your first choice, second choice etc in how to distribute the magic available to the end of week four. That allows you to max your magic for individual ladies starting week five. Also – V0.5 will offer regular magic with four ladies, but still only twice per day. To accommodate this, and to add some variety, I plan to have scenes that occur depending on whether you place a particular priority on either Indi or Mel. These will be scenes where Jo interacts with Mel, or Sara with Indi. The idea will be to play through at least twice; once with a Jo focus and once with a Sara focus, and quite a few differences in each play-through to make it enjoyable. That’s my thinking at the moment, but I’m grateful for any feedback or suggestions. P
Ptypoe
2019-03-14 20:45:38 +0000 UTCLike the ability to set magic levels at the start of part 2, but I also hope we can carry over the magic as it was at the end of week 4. I'm curious to see if my choices get me the ending I want. But it will be nice to be able to correct things if I got them wrong too.
Bill T
2019-03-14 15:18:35 +0000 UTCThanks Dracker - that was a very quick like!
Ptypoe
2019-03-14 05:59:02 +0000 UTC
