JoeBanks

Innocent Witches
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Well just my 5 cents, won't change the fact that IW is still in a decreasing list of adult games that I'm still going to download and play with every update.
Best wishes for the future development.
I read the entire thing, and I am all for trying to implement sex right away, my fear is the amount of coding for such scenes is going to be a lot. And we haven't even talked about a templated way of making it with a reusable code base (yeah, this should have been done early on in an NSFW game... duh). So while there are mechanics obviously, they have to be paired down to work with new content which will probably take a month for art... eek, yeah the art takes a long time if it's large and of quality and animated too?

So it's a hurdle, and while I want to get there, there's not even stats for proper development of (mostly meaningless) relationships. When the patrons are polled, they want a slow build up. I personally expect a bit more porn and not with Minerva. So... more discussions tomorrow with the team as the release is available to the public in 2 days. Patrons can grab it now.

@Dsandr Not sure quite what you meant, like... to troll the player?
@getmepills Eh... pretty much, but there's a lot of actual game play and some of the monotony has been broken down (the main quest line is still a text wall, I die inside over it)
 
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kaboomer69

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I read the entire thing, and I am all for trying to implement sex right away, my fear is the amount of coding for such scenes is going to be a lot. And we haven't even talked about a templated way of making it with a reusable code base (yeah, this should have been done early on in an NSFW game... duh). So while there are mechanics obviously, they have to be paired down to work with new content which will probably take a month for art... eek, yeah the art takes a long time if it's large and of quality and animated too?

So it's a hurdle, and while I want to get there, there's not even stats for proper development of (mostly meaningless) relationships. When the patrons are polled, they want a slow build up. I personally expect a bit more porn and not with Minerva. So... more discussions tomorrow with the team as the release is available to the public in 2 days. Patrons can grab it now.

@Dsandr Not sure quite what you meant, like... to troll the player?
@getmepills Eh... pretty much, but there's a lot of actual game play and some of the monotony has been broken down (the main quest line is still a text wall, I die inside over it)
Yeah and I understand that you're getting all the heat from frustrated players with little constructive input, probably not an easy job to stay motivated with.

If it's of any consolation - the drawn artwork in the game doesn't really "age", so if it takes like 5 years to complete then people won't say something like "aaaw but it's all with Genesis 1/2 models, this shit looks so outdated...."
 
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Dsandr

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@Dsandr Not sure quite what you meant, like... to troll the player?
I mean - like teasing for sake of teasing. Why? I don't understand. Do you know answer? Milking forever? Forever on the same spot without any progress? Changing only the color of panties? It's the same panties shop as one in the Witch Trainer (silver mod). So convulsions of the beautiful body continue ...
 

JoeBanks

Innocent Witches
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I mean - like teasing for sake of teasing. Why? I don't understand. Do you know answer? Milking forever? Forever on the same spot without any progress? Changing only the color of panties? It's the same panties shop as one in the Witch Trainer (silver mod). So convulsions of the beautiful body continue ...
You won't be stuck in the same spot forever, swimsuits is a step in the story, the papers are completely finished (thank fucking God). So less text walls going forward, you can get out of the office now somewhat, at least once. But milking it? I promise, I have no interest in milking anything personally. It will get rectified even if we have to shuffle who's in charge.
 
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You won't be stuck in the same spot forever, swimsuits is a step in the story, the papers are completely finished (thank fucking God). So less text walls going forward, you can get out of the office now somewhat, at least once. But milking it? I promise, I have no interest in milking anything personally. It will get rectified even if we have to shuffle who's in charge.
Please shuffle who's in charge...
 
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You won't be stuck in the same spot forever, swimsuits is a step in the story, the papers are completely finished (thank fucking God). So less text walls going forward, you can get out of the office now somewhat, at least once. But milking it? I promise, I have no interest in milking anything personally. It will get rectified even if we have to shuffle who's in charge.
I suggest defenestration for the current head writer. Then let @JoeBanks take over the position.
 
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fakk2

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@JoeBanks Any plans to maintain save compatibility with older versions? I usually play the F versions and it is hard to gather motivation to play the game if I have to play from the start every time (incompatible saves).

BTW: keep fighting the good fight, this game desperately needs some AD content.
 

JoeBanks

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@JoeBanks Any plans to maintain save compatibility with older versions? I usually play the F versions and it is hard to gather motivation to play the game if I have to play from the start every time (incompatible saves).

BTW: keep fighting the good fight, this game desperately needs some AD content.
So, I have given this some thought and honestly the plans for 0.3 that I have ready will introduce a crap ton of init python calls, ie variables loading before a new game. It will basically cause all sorts of exceptions. Maybe at some point, I will need to talk to our main coder, I think possibly shoving in numerically driven place holders for use in versions beyond the current might solve this. IE, var000001 var000002 and just have those for use going forward.

The problem is my understanding of renpy personally is a bit lacking as I have only had 6 months exposure to it and our main coder knows it so well I can rely on him more than I should. I know he's been dead against it because so many issues that come up can be attributed to this and then he's digging into code where it could just be a version difference.
 
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WooHoo! Hopefully this means that there will be fewer huge text walls to wade through and more actual story.
Yeah.... When you are making a porn game based on Harry Potter, I was expecting something like "Witch Trainer" ... Not the actual Harry Potter books with LESS excitement....

This is your patreon-banner: "Sad Crab Company are creating Adult Games"
Atleast give us a picture of a naked girl with every update...
You could even add them into an Update-gallery, one new lewd pin-up every up-date, just to show your Patreons that you ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT AN ADULT GAME IS!!

P.S. The artstyle is AMAZING, capitalize on that by giving us more of it.
Geez...Start thinking more like a buisness and start providing what your customers actually want.
 
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