VN Ren'Py Abandoned High School Crush Simulator [v0.6.1] [Bright Sun Studios]

[UncleVT]

i was so into this, but then i saw the female protag

Aaaaand who cares?

 

[rcbcgreenpanzer]

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I think you should look into fixing the boob socks. If you would prefer to spend time instead of money, it should be possible to smooth out the tops with dformers. Otherwise, both

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have solutions. I spotted this on BL, but hoped you'd get around to fixing it.
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<fangirl>
SQUEE!
</fangirl>

 

[Nizzquizz]

There is no sexual relationship between the main character and her however, because your twin sister is straight this time around.

You are using words that i know, but the sentence still doesn't compute in my brain. No sex with the twin sis? A twinsister in a porn-game and she's .. just .. not into us? What .. what is this, some kind of evil sorcery? How would that even work? How could that happen? What.. i don't.. the world suddenly feels a lot less bright today. As if suddenly, everything i knew just turned out to be a lie. *looks out the window into the pouring rain, a deep sigh escaping me*

Okay, but siriously. Damn. Just played it. For the last few hours. In the middle of the night. It's actually morning now. Uff. I really like your games Sunny. The girls are beautiful, and although the "confessions" seem a little rushed (or strange ... eh, Charlotte?) they make again for nice little stories. Also had a little chuckle how you subtly remarked on a few "unnatural" things about your own game ("oh i like to wear a white shirt and a black jacket" ^^" ... she should really get another shirt. The pure white looks very artificial/untextured. Also nice touch with the rooms. Still not sure about a girl always being in the same place, seems a bit "liveless", but i guess it makes sense game-wise and the rooms help in this regard). Since i just mentioned cloths, i also gotta say: I like Ella's style! She's also my favourite of the three just btw. Hope we will listen to some music with her. Speaking of which - the music is really good too. Easy to listen to and fits the mood.

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[Bright Sun Studios]

Haven't finished everything that I can do yet, but here's some things I've noticed.

Can't read the books. Everytime I've gone out to the balcony to try, it comes up with an error.
Using the cheats to raise your stats doesn't give Perk Points, and I didn't see a cheat for them either.
Confused on why walking the dog makes your mood worse. Whenever I've walked a dog, I come back feeling better, tired maybe, but better.
The money cheat gives way too much for this version, as everything you can buy costs ~$1300.

My question about guys being added has already been answered, and it was something I'd wondered because the MC starts as bi. Can she be changed to straight or gay though?

That's all that comes to mind at the moment.

It seems one of the three books is bugged. Not a huge problem, but I'll still fix is an create a patch for it as soon as possible. Thanks for pointing this out.

And, yes. The MC's 'sexuality' in her notepad can change. It starts out as bisexual with a preference for male or female (depending on teacher you said you had a crush on to Michelle at the start of the game). Make enough 'straight' or 'gay' choices in the game though (such as thinking about your sexuality in class or only paying attention the girl/guy while watching porn on your laptop), and she'll eventually mention to her herself that she might only like one gender. It's a bit of a weird system, but I just wanted to give each player the option to choose her sexuality.

 

[macadam]

- snipizi snip that ! -.

at this point.. 2 ways...

1 - you make a review
2 - you put the whole thing under a spoiler

i didnt say that with bad voice , but just... nobody gonna read that, its way too long as the chinese great wall XD
please consider the spoiler next time , to keep the thread as small as possible. not because its bad to be a long thread, but because peoples are lazy and not gonna go through 20 pages for get a opinion based on 5 peoples ( see what i mean ? )

this also goes for who want to quote your comment of course

 

[Bright Sun Studios]

- "Hello Sister, yes, it is me, your Cousinsister, do you want to go bowling"? So she doesn't hang out with us except if she misses her toys but she keeps harassing us with the same two texts over and over ... and over and over and over? The annoying vibration-sound sure as hell doesn't help her case. Also in one of the texts, the answers are switched. (i assume there's more stuff coming with her later. Buuut as always i'm just commenting on the is-state).
- You said Roger is fat. The image clearly proves that to be fake news. He's a good boy. But what's with the dog we can adopt? In the naming-scene his thin neck and his textures make him look a little ... twisted. Oo"
- And about the MC's 'slut score', I can see what that might feel weird since she's a virgin at the start of the game. Slut score here just kinds represents all sexual activity, not only having sex with someone. Maybe I should rename it to 'libido'. The score for the MC is difficult though since you can play her as innocent/slutty as you want.
- Not sure about the stats or at least the implemention of them. You need kindness to work in groceries? Not "general disdain for humanity and yourself"? And "Oh, it looks like Ella has trouble. But i'm not kind enough for that!". Okay, wow, i sometimes think i'm too much of an asshole to bother with some stuff, but that makes our soft girly MC sound like freaking Ivan Drago.
- Ella is really happy to 'see' her pet birdy and her parents on saturday. 'cept she can't. Well, yes, because she's blind, that too, but more importantly because we keep "hanging out" with her all day just for the hell of it. Because we are not kind enough to let her go. Mwuahahaha. - What i'm saying is, you might want to 'disable' her on saturday. See what i did there? ... ... ... ok ok, i'll stop.
- Speaking of Ella...

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- Speaking of sluts: "My own entry: Slut Score: Above Average. First: Virgin." Sooo, Lilium Academy is a nun school i guess? ^^
- Also if there isn't something big planned for the genetic mutator-stuff (that's where the slut score will come in, yes?), i'd probably just scratch that premise altogether. It doesn't mix well with the monogamy-idea, it doesn't make much sense anyway (a special school for blind people or the poor? Fuck no! But those guys need to masterbate a few more times to get by?! Oh my, build them a superschool! Xavier's school for the gifted and horny! Take ALL our taxmoney plz! - yup, seems legit. Not even going to comment on the digital fireplace here...) and so far i've seen nothing that would actually require that setting in the first place. Even the school-rules are pretty ordinary.
Rewriting it to say "i'm here as i was contacted by my twinsister who finally found me ... aaand the others are here because they won a super-scholarship at this elite-school" or something might not be very original. But at least it doesn't break immersion and makes sense. Of course it's your story and again, i've no clue about your visions. Just my two cents.
- As for planned stuff, i guess there will be more perks coming? I'd like to see something like "Natural Nerd", as the mood-penalty for learning is quiet big (not unfairly so or anything. Not a real critic here, just a suggestion).
- Another suggestion, as somebody else mentioned: Other races exist and MC and Ava might be a bit better off with a breast reduction surgery...
- Who leaves his milk in the communal area all the time? Is it even milk? And why are we drinking it times and times again? Isn't that theft at this point? And just how long can it be considered "brave" to drink something that we already know to be slightly "funny tasting milk" after 40 days of drinking it daily?

Now, that was an essay again, and the criticism is pretty long. Wordy, rather. Of course, with a new release that can mean only one of two things: Either it's trash and just fun to bash - or it has great potential and is worth the time to comment.
And guess what? I have little doubt that this one will turn out to be top notch in the end.

- Michelle does feel a bit empty as a character now, I suppose. I have big plans for her though. At the very start the MC mentions something like 'I can explore the school, hang out with Michelle or go find Ava'. It also mentions that the 'haning out with Michelle' part isn't implemented yet. She will get her own friendship link and her own story that explores her background and her true relationship with her parents, most likely in version 0.2 or 0.3. And just because she isn't into you, doesn't mean we don't get to see her have sex.
- Not being able to hang out with Ella might not be such a bad idea actually. This version doesn't really do much with weekends, but I might just do what you say and not allow you to hang out with Ella on Saturdays because she did mention she always goes back home during weekends. I'm also planning on adding an option to visit your own parents on weekends, but that's besides the point.
- It seems that you're not a big fan of all 3 girls, and that's totally okay. Maybe one of the girls that will be added in the future will be more to your tastes (or one of the guys).
- About if there is something big planned about the school/mutation stuf... Well, the government won't allow me to say anything about that.
- More perk points are definitely planned. A lot more.
- Yep. Someone reall likes milk at Lilium Academy. But all stat increasing activities are a bit weird at the moment I suppose, because each only has a single instance (which will be changed to a randomize instance each time you do that action in the future). Apparently doing the same yoga pose each and every day also makes you the strongest girl alive in this universe.

 

[Bright Sun Studios]

what is the password for 'Secure_Log_Files'?

It's not EA, but it's still in the game. And you don't even need to pay extra money for it. Because I'm kind like that.

 

[Bright Sun Studios]

Have to admit the title got my attention.

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I guess we'll see if the game is actually to your tastes or not, but here are some answers to your questions/worries:

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[CobraPL]

Have to admit the title got my attention.

High school drama with sex and drugs is cliche but one that works. Everything is fresh and new at the stage for the teenagers and that exuberance of life is fun to watch.

Saying that, the moment I looked at the pictures and genre I think this will fall flat for me.

• female protagonist. I think they make better games, BUT they are also harder to write and MOST fall flat.
• All teenagers with DD sized breasts. ALL of them. I'm just asking for variation. Make someone petite, another chubby. One stacked, one with A cups. Breast size in high school creates all sort of jealousy but when everyone is stacked you throw that out the window. Major disappointment.
• Yuri. Niche. The people who love it will LOVE it, but most will probably find it meh. My perspective at least. While having one story line be yuri is AMAZING, but making ALL of them lesbian makes me have little interest in the game overall. I know you plan to add MF content but first impressions are made here. It should have been here, not added later.
  
• Futa. No... Super niche. Not only that, this alienates people. Note this could be ok if it's just one character who is born that way, I almost never see naturally presented futa's in adult games. Best example i can think of is in good girls gone bad, which very quickly gives you an option to never see the character again after the first scene with "her".
  
• Slice of life. That also makes me worried. I want a story. When i see slice of life I get visions of open world living your day where everything ends up generic. No idea if this will go there but the words taste sour in my mouth.
• None of the characters look younger than 21. I thought this was in a high school? Not even college but post grad students I guess LOL.
  
• All the same race too, very minor but touches on the lack of diversity with everyone being a carbon copy of each other with just different hair.

I'll still give it a try later I guess but I admit I'm not holding out much hope.

Well, I agree that some smaller breast are ok for diversity. Rest is OK.

I think that this game WILL be big artistic sucess and >=mediocre sucess financially. About cash @Bright Sun Studios do you have Discord? I have some ideas (including money)...

 

[Bright Sun Studios]

Well, I agree that some smaller breast are ok for diversity. Rest is OK.

I think that this game WILL be big artistic sucess and >=mediocre sucess financially. About cash @Bright Sun Studios do you have Discord? I have some ideas (including money)...

I do have a discord channel yes, but it's a Patron reward. You can send me a private message here if you'd like to discuss something though.

 

[Argox]

It seems that the characters so far are pretty much broken (the blind girl, the exhibitionist with mommy issues and the hermaphrodite) and fall in love mostly with the first person that gives them some atention, that is the M.C. It´s not a sexy feature for the characters, I´m afraid.

 

[TearStar]

Another Bright Sun Studios game Sometimes I see ppl complaining about Female Protagonist (mainly same-sex related like back in BL) and I'm just really that someone's makes games likes this. Thank you.

 

[Bright Sun Studios]

It seems that the characters so far are pretty much broken (the blind girl, the exhibitionist with mommy issues and the hermaphrodite) and fall in love mostly with the first person that gives them some atention, that is the M.C. It´s not a sexy feature for the characters, I´m afraid.

Who says it's supposed to be 'sexy' for the girls to all have their own stuff that they're dealing with? I just didn't want create a game where every single girl lives a perfect life and is amazing and perfect in every single way.

Not only does every girl now have to deal with being in a new school without parents and without any friends/anyone they know, they also all have their own reason for never having being in a true relationship. If you don't like that sort of story telling, that's okay. Then I suppose this isn't the game for you. No game can do everything perfectly in the eyes of all it's readers. You for example also seem to have issue with me choosing textual descriptions over adding additional images, which is a totally fair point to take. As long as you also understand that plenty of people do enjoy the textual approach to storytelling instead of the visual one (particularly since it saves a lot of time, which means faster updates).

I welcome all feedback of course. So if you'd like to give a more detailed explanation of your complaints, I'll take a look at them and see what I can do.

 

[Argox]

Who says it's supposed to be 'sexy' for the girls to all have their own stuff that they're dealing with? I just didn't want create a game where every single girl lives a perfect life and is amazing and perfect in every single way.

Not only does every girl now have to deal with being in a new school without parents and without any friends/anyone they know, they also all have their own reason for never having being in a true relationship. If you don't like that sort of story telling, that's okay. Then I suppose this isn't the game for you. No game can do everything perfectly in the eyes of all it's readers. You for example also seem to have issue with me choosing textual descriptions over adding additional images, which is a totally fair point to take. As long as you also understand that plenty of people do enjoy the textual approach to storytelling instead of the visual one (particularly since it saves a lot of time, which means faster updates).

I welcome all feedback of course. So if you'd like to give a more detailed explanation of your complaints, I'll take a look at them and see what I can do.

Well, I think that, in an erotic game, the characters should be sexy for the players, and to be needy is not a sexy personality trait in a character. I think that the story would be more atractive for players if the secondary characters fall for the MC because a process of seduction and even corruption, and not because she gives them atention when they are in a vulnerable situation. This is worse with the blind girl and the hermaphrodite one than with the dyslexic one (sorry, I don´t remember the names), that at least is lively, but happens with the three characters.

On the other hand, I don´t have a problem with textual descriptions. Just saying that, objectively, a game with good and abundant art where text and images complement each other is better and more attractive for players than a game with just one or two images per scene.

If I´m giving this feedback is not because I think the game is bad. If I would think the game is bad, I would not even bother commenting it. I write those comments because I think the game is interesting, but could be better. I thought that the objective of posting here freely the first version of a payware game was to get feedback from players and make better the final version of the game. You can´t just wait for compliments for the game in a forum like this.

 

[Bright Sun Studios]

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[Argox]

I thought this was kind of a "demo" of a payware game like the previous one. My fault. Yes, I assume that you can´t attend all the suggestions and don´t want to make significative changes in the game, but anyway, I suppose that, If your intention is to continue developing games, it´s useful for the future to read the feedback of the people and you can choose what opinions actually have a valid point and which ones are just complains. I have never tried to make a game, but I have written several short stories and posted them in websites, and I know that it´s very common that authors "fall in love" with their characters and stories and find difficult to see the flaws. It´s useful that somebody from outside point them to improve. At least, I have always find criticism useful, although obviously is way more pleasant to read compliments, and not always criticism is constructive.

I think that piracy is not a bad thing for devs actually. Thanks to piracy and this forum, the product is know by thousands of people, and experience says that, if the game connect with the people's tastes, a significative % of the people that like the game and can afford, contribute in patreon even if they can get the games for free.

Another thing I find a bit odd in this game is that it seems that the game is designed to make the player chose to start a monogamous relationship with another person really soon in the game (the non monogamous path seems kind of a "cheat" to not be forced to replay the game), without knowing really well the characters (except their sad stories) and don´t even know if it's possible to end the relationship later and start another one with another character, the consecuences of infidelity or even if infidelity is possible. It seems to me a too big decision very early in the game and without some clues about the consecuences.

 

[Bright Sun Studios]

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I totally agree with you and I've said on multiple occasions that I don't think piracy on F95Zone is a bad thing. That's why my games are now free, because I learned that it doesn't really matter if your games are free or not when it comes to Patron support. I kept Blooming Love as payware though because I felt that it would be a bit weird towards my Patrons to suddenly change that mid development.

As to the relationships being a bit too quick, I can see your point there too. The game is moddeled after the Persona franchise, which I don't think is a secret at this point. And that's how they do it there, so that's why this game also follows a "have 10 conversations and choose if this is the girl you want to date" kind of thing. For a pure story driven visual novel such a quickly building relationship wouldn't work well, but for a sandbox game like this it works better than having a very slow building romance. The problem with slow building romances in sandbox games is that if you do that, it doesn't feel like the game changes that much because of your romantic partner. If you for example do the whole 'do you want to date me' thing after 30 conversations, those 30 conversations would be the same no matter if you said yes or no. This way, the next 20 conversations will be (slightly) different depending on if you are in a relationship with that person. Not everyone will like that, but I hope you understand why I did it.

As for your question about the monogamy/polygamy modes of the game and their concequences, I thought I was clear about that in the intro of the game. But I suppose I wasn't clear enough, so that's my fault. The game is written with the monogamy mode in mind and very much assumes you are using that. As I mentioned, the game will eventually change quite a bit to allow for replays of the game with different love interests. I also understand however that not everyone has the time to play the game 3 times to experience everything. For those people, I added the polygamy mode as a little extra. The only thing the polygamy mode does is remove the check to see if you are already in a relationship with someone on their last conversation with them (where you would normally get the 'start romance' or 'stay friends' option). In the monogamy mode, you will automatically reject them if you are already in a relationship. In the polygamy mode on the other hand that check is removed and you can still choose the 'start romance' option with all the girls. The polygamy mode is sort of immersion breaking, because you will never be called out for cheating (as I said, the game is written purely with th monogmy mode in mind). You're cheating yet not cheating. The girls will not comment on having multiple relationships, but they will ocassionally shortly start acting as if you are not in a relationship with them to give comments on your other relationships. For example, I'm planning to add various comments from Charlotte about a possible relationship with Ava or Ella. If you enable the polygamy mode than and romance Charlotte as well, she'll act as if she is not in a relationship with you during those times where she comments on your relationship with Ava/Ella in mind. I hope this clears the two modes up a bit. If you still have questions about it, let me know.

 

[fzaner]

FUCK a futa in genres. im here for the futa, where is my loveley juicy penisy futa :FeelsGoodMan:
nice to see another lovely yuri game yet BLOOMING LOVE need also more love and seriously one of the heroines need to be small breasted it's kinda weired all girls are f cups or whatever is the biggest one is.

 

[Bright Sun Studios]

FUCK a futa in genres. im here for the futa, where is my loveley juicy penisy futa :FeelsGoodMan:
nice to see another lovely yuri game yet BLOOMING LOVE need also more love and seriously one of the heroines need to be small breasted it's kinda weired all girls are f cups or whatever is the biggest one is.

Ava's content will be further developed, don't worry.

And I have heard the plea here for a girl with smaller breasts, so the next girl I add will have smaller breasts. This game luckily easly allows for girls with different breast sizes because the game features multiple romancable girls. The next one will be the student council president I think, and she'll have smaller breasts.

 

[Tanoub]

This game looks really promising ! The renders are really good, especially the characters : they look beautiful, but not slutty like many other games.

Otherwise, it lacks some UX mechanics, like the with the stats display only available on the due menu. It should be displayable at any time on my opinion.