I'd like to find out too. Sometimes the way the game ends is in such a ridiculous place, it makes you think an update won't take long, but then nothing. I am getting to the point where I will probably only pay for finished games, and there aren't many of those....
Kinda in the same boat. I have subscribed to several games, and 90% of the time the game goes "tits up" (abandoned) . Why would I want to support a game that will never be finished, or I wait months and months for an update.
I would like to know how many addition episodes will be released before it's a full game. Too many games are Alphas or Beta's and just seem to have been forgotten by the devs. If the plan is for 18 episodes and so far we have 9, I will wait, because I always see so many itch games just stop development. And I am not paying or playing half a story.
But you can count on one hand how many Adult VNs are 1.0+, the vast majority are listed as 0.1 to 0.9, with many of them not having been updated for months. Itch should force these developers that bring out episodic games to tell us up front how many episodes they have planned for the 1.0 version. Then, if it's taken 2 years to get just a third of them done and 6 months before the last episode release, you would know it's a dead product and not waste your money.
It finally completed the download... I forgot I had it queued in my download manager, which kept trying to complete it all month long. Saw it pop up that it completed... But have not tried to play it yet. I still do not know why it had so many issues -- I just finished downloading another game from Itch that is 6 gigs in size, much larger than this one. Nor why Google Drive gave me problems. (Mega I often have issues with, so that one was no surpise.)
@developer: Another option to consider is using torrent downloads, and/or upload to archive.org (which will automaically make it torrent downloadable as well, so you will not need to).
Comments from my playthrough of Eps 1-8:
Give more choices and story branches. (There is story and branch management software out there to help.) I do not know a lot abut Ren'Py, but I would refactor the game to use zero-point references for scores: a score of zero (0) is neutral; A positive score is, well, positive. A negative score is negative. No need to keep increasing the max score -- just give choices that add/subtract. Then, only special cases, such as mutually-exclusive branches would need a flag variable, or triggers that require "did-X-at-least/most-N-times" tracking.
Adjust the "scoring" per character: Ashley seems to be more favorable to corruption choices, while Emily seems more favorable to "love" choices. Ashlyn and Lisbeth also seem to lean towards corruption. Samantha (and her other girl friends), Kunieda, and the rest I am uncertain about.
The most important point is that score adjustments per-choice should be based on the personality of the *character*, rather than the goals/objectives of the game author/developer. It would also add a greater possibility of NPC interactions: If Emily starts crushing on the MC, she would get jealous if he MC started to gain a lot of points towards another character. If it's LP, she might react negatively, and even lose some LP's wih the MC. If it's CP, she might get competitive and acting/dressing more... "slutty"... to get the MC's attention back on her. And so on.
You could also characterize the MC/player this way. Does he tend towards corruption choices? Love choices? This would affect how NPCs react to the MC.
Kind of off-topic, but what modelling software did you use to generate the scenes? You might consider offering downloads of the models/meshes (likely to Patreon paid accounts? Be certain to include licensing and use details). You could also offer some as a "reward" for reaching certain milestones with different characters -- but that might encourage players to "cheat" (extract the sources directly instead of "earning" them).
Make the right choices with her (and others in some cases!). To some extent, the author seem to have already factored some of this in: Some choices you make might make one story line branch available and another unavailable--ever. In some cases, with her at least, it does seem that you have to choose either to "corrupt" her or "love" her, but cannot do both.
My guy, I got nearly all the scenes from episode one, except the Emily path specific ones, since you get one set of scenes, or the other depending on two dialogue choices mid episode. Then I got all but 2 in episode two simply for the same reason, because depending on previous choices, you may see Emily, or Ashley, then I missed one of Sam's. The rest of the episodes really depend if you're just being horny the whole time, or considerate. It's not hard to get them until episode 6, because there are very specific choices that only work out if you did decent previously. I tried not to be a complete tool, and the only gripe I have is the dialogue makes your character kind of forcibly act like one at times, though, he did get checked into Juvie as a kid, and was with only guys, so there's no fucking way he'd grow up.
click with two fingers open with archive after it does that two finger click again and hit open. if it says it doesn't recognize the program just click open again. apple doesnt like these links but there is a work around
I have not tried this, as I use Linux... Have you tried to run the game directly from a Ren'Py installation instead of using the provided (bundled) Ren'Py? Looking at the (PC-version) zip file conents, it seems the game _should_ work fine this way.
I guess. I mean, Lue has a girl he favors in this game, and it's kind of a shitty thing to do to your broship, but you can pursue her as well. No spoilers!
From what perspective? If you want the MC to be the "town stud", "banging" all the girls, there are some story line branches that make it somewhat possible (but not in all cases -- only certain characters and branches). If you want to target Ashley, knowing Luis is crushing on her, and do dirty things with her "behind his back", then yes, there are some scenes where this can happen.
Some of the sound tracks are really good, like the menu screen one, for example. Is there a spotify playlist or something where I can access them and listen to them outside the game?
Anyone know how to fix loading screen issue im on oneplus 7pro android11 version just stuck sitting on there
Edit. Okay i managed to skip this advisory by lowering my phone resolution and refresh rate to minimum 60hz but now stuck on menu and can't click any of buttons. Any suggestions?
I think the game starts really strong but the choices you make were a let down for me.
I was very far with Emily, almost maxed out, but still failed the points check and couldnt kiss her to progress her path properly. And that's probably because i made the wrong choice at some point in the game, but i don't even know when, the wrost part for me is the the lack of choices, there's probably 4-5 choices for chapter, sometimes i feel more like a spectator than the main character.
No hate for your work, man. I think this game has a lot of potential, i specially like the characters you created, and i cant wait to see it finished, i just hope it improves in the aspects i mentioned so i can get back to playing it. Wish you the best
I like the story, but there is one thing that makes me sad. I had not gained enough points with Emily from the begining and now all I get is: points failed. There is almost no chance to gain more points in later episodes and it feels like i have no chance to win her back.
ive had to restart a few times just press control and go through the dialog very quickly. I was able to go through 5 episodes in a matter of minutes. oh and save between every episode so you won't have to start completely over
Man, this is the best game of that genre I've ever played. I can't believe just one person has made it. You deserve a lot of cheers. I loved the game and I'm anxious to play the following chapters. I've become a massive fan of yours.
Just one consideration:
Consider implementing more user choices. There is too much story and fewer choices to make. It would be great to be able to make more choices in the game.
I've been sitting here for more than 10mins now and it's still in the advisory warning screen. I tried tapping, nothing happens, I tried swiping nothing happens, is there a hidden button or something? I never made pass this advisory warning screen, and I'm not really sure if it's just the lag or the game crashed. Playing on Android btw, and I can tell my storage is still pretty fine while running this game, but it's still getting stuck.
There are some scenes in Ep 8 in Emily's room with her exposing herself, and the MC fondling her breasts/nipples. But nothing more overt, and I will avoid more spoilers.
See Emily's breasts and maybe touch them, and episode 9 ends with a choice of taking Emily or Ruis home, so if there ever is another update (not confident) taking Emily home MAY open up something. But, as I say, don't hold your breath....!
Too many problems trying to download. Mega reports > 48 hours to finish. Google Drive reports > 24 hours to finish.
Biggest issue is size -- I seems all the episodes are packaged in a "ALL or NOTHING. SO EEEEFFFF-YOOOOUUUUU" package, instead of individual packages for each episode.
Maybe the developer can repackage the episodes individually. (Ren'Py does no support doing this normally, but there are ways to work around this...)
Not likely for several days in a row, _and_ I have switched between broadband wifi and mobile tethering, with little overall effect. More likely, my daily schedule places me at a time the servers are more loaded. Regardless, it is still a "half hour to an hour" I could be doing something else... So I _am_ doing something else, and not trying this game.
I tried again. Unfortunately, the problem persists. It... (1) shows a huge amount of time to complete the download, and/or (2) eventually fails completely. I tried the Mega links, and I tried Google Drive link.
It worked for you. Great. I am glad. But that does not help me in any way. Do you have any suggestions I can try?
I even have an older Ep. 1-8 (without Ep. 9) version that worked fine, and did not take very long to download. So I can probably use that as a base to add in only the files needed for Ep. 9 -- If I can get them separately.
Clear your device cache and clean your storage if you are close to full that could show the process. Another idea is if your using your phone go try it at another wifi location and see if it makes a difference
No luck. I am using a desktop PC (Debian Linux OS, not Windows), so "try another location" is not a direct option... Although I can change the phone's location around my house/yard when I use it as a WiFi "hotspot".
Also, I just finished a 4.4GB DVD image (unrelated to this game) download in under an hour. I tried again for this; Mega is still showing me >12 hours and Google Drive showing >8 hours. Google surprises me the most, because I usually have very high transfer rates when using it.
The reality is, the dev had to switch to hosting it elsewhere for a reason. That should have been the very first sign that something else needed to be done to address the issue.
But at this point, I am not going to try any harder.
you either have affection or corruption with Emily but the other two only rely on corruption. however you have to have either points within 1 to 2 of max level or you will fail them. you can't play the middle with this game. choose one with Emily and stick to it. the others......do or do not, there is no try lol
Good game so far. Love the little sound effects when talking to people too. Makes their reacts seem to pop more. And gotta be honest, whatever that beat is that plays when officer Monroe is around, it's fucking slick I love it. I ended up doing my dishes during the hospital scene just to have his damn music track playing lmao
Hello Kotah86. I know you posted this a while ago. I also loved the beat from Officer Monroe! So I made this account just to post this here. I did some research and was able to find it online. Google "Hip hop power rap Bobby Cole" and you will find the song! That way you can play it anywhere :)
Nice story and character models. The scenes themselves don't feel rushed and they play out in a more natural flow. My favorites are the ones with Ashley. Sometimes the decisions don't make a lot of sense as to why they give more points to certain characters but that is a minor flaw in overall a solid h-game.
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Epic , been playing since chapter 7
how do i know when ep10 is released?
I'd like to find out too. Sometimes the way the game ends is in such a ridiculous place, it makes you think an update won't take long, but then nothing. I am getting to the point where I will probably only pay for finished games, and there aren't many of those....
Kinda in the same boat. I have subscribed to several games, and 90% of the time the game goes "tits up" (abandoned) . Why would I want to support a game that will never be finished, or I wait months and months for an update.
Especially when these VNs are so based on story! To not have the ending in a story should be a crime!
PC Download link is dead????
I would like to know how many addition episodes will be released before it's a full game. Too many games are Alphas or Beta's and just seem to have been forgotten by the devs. If the plan is for 18 episodes and so far we have 9, I will wait, because I always see so many itch games just stop development. And I am not paying or playing half a story.
But you can count on one hand how many Adult VNs are 1.0+, the vast majority are listed as 0.1 to 0.9, with many of them not having been updated for months. Itch should force these developers that bring out episodic games to tell us up front how many episodes they have planned for the 1.0 version. Then, if it's taken 2 years to get just a third of them done and 6 months before the last episode release, you would know it's a dead product and not waste your money.
Rant over
It finally completed the download... I forgot I had it queued in my download manager, which kept trying to complete it all month long. Saw it pop up that it completed... But have not tried to play it yet. I still do not know why it had so many issues -- I just finished downloading another game from Itch that is 6 gigs in size, much larger than this one. Nor why Google Drive gave me problems. (Mega I often have issues with, so that one was no surpise.)
@developer: Another option to consider is using torrent downloads, and/or upload to archive.org (which will automaically make it torrent downloadable as well, so you will not need to).
Comments from my playthrough of Eps 1-8:
Give more choices and story branches. (There is story and branch management software out there to help.) I do not know a lot abut Ren'Py, but I would refactor the game to use zero-point references for scores: a score of zero (0) is neutral; A positive score is, well, positive. A negative score is negative. No need to keep increasing the max score -- just give choices that add/subtract. Then, only special cases, such as mutually-exclusive branches would need a flag variable, or triggers that require "did-X-at-least/most-N-times" tracking.
Adjust the "scoring" per character: Ashley seems to be more favorable to corruption choices, while Emily seems more favorable to "love" choices. Ashlyn and Lisbeth also seem to lean towards corruption. Samantha (and her other girl friends), Kunieda, and the rest I am uncertain about.
The most important point is that score adjustments per-choice should be based on the personality of the *character*, rather than the goals/objectives of the game author/developer. It would also add a greater possibility of NPC interactions: If Emily starts crushing on the MC, she would get jealous if he MC started to gain a lot of points towards another character. If it's LP, she might react negatively, and even lose some LP's wih the MC. If it's CP, she might get competitive and acting/dressing more... "slutty"... to get the MC's attention back on her. And so on.
You could also characterize the MC/player this way. Does he tend towards corruption choices? Love choices? This would affect how NPCs react to the MC.
Kind of off-topic, but what modelling software did you use to generate the scenes? You might consider offering downloads of the models/meshes (likely to Patreon paid accounts? Be certain to include licensing and use details). You could also offer some as a "reward" for reaching certain milestones with different characters -- but that might encourage players to "cheat" (extract the sources directly instead of "earning" them).
how do I get more scenes with Emily?
Make the right choices with her (and others in some cases!). To some extent, the author seem to have already factored some of this in: Some choices you make might make one story line branch available and another unavailable--ever. In some cases, with her at least, it does seem that you have to choose either to "corrupt" her or "love" her, but cannot do both.
SPOILER
That is true. But when the story ends with a choice of going home with Emily, or going with Luis is the worst way to end episode 9!
This game is horribly designed
developer made this game in mind with perfect answers
so if you do not play ideally as he wanted you to play you can quit
if you think 7/10 at the end of chapter 1 is good, it will be 14/20 21/30 and downfall from there
means more you play not chosing what developer want you to chose (game never indicate which options gives scenes, just throw them at you)
so basically you can play entire game and feel lucky if you saw nipple
dont bother, its complete trash...
hey man thats what guides are for bro plus i thought the game was good, to get the scenes its trail and error
My guy, I got nearly all the scenes from episode one, except the Emily path specific ones, since you get one set of scenes, or the other depending on two dialogue choices mid episode. Then I got all but 2 in episode two simply for the same reason, because depending on previous choices, you may see Emily, or Ashley, then I missed one of Sam's. The rest of the episodes really depend if you're just being horny the whole time, or considerate. It's not hard to get them until episode 6, because there are very specific choices that only work out if you did decent previously. I tried not to be a complete tool, and the only gripe I have is the dialogue makes your character kind of forcibly act like one at times, though, he did get checked into Juvie as a kid, and was with only guys, so there's no fucking way he'd grow up.
Hi, I have a problem with the game, I think is the same that Drakano have, and the thing is that I got a bug, and I can't launch the game.
In fact I have not been able to enter this latest version once.
I have Windows32, and when I want to launch the game it close it self like 1 or 2 sec after the launch.
I played Halfway_House-EP8-pc, and in this version the game just work great, without problems, but with Halfway_House-EP9-pc it's not the case.
Someone can help me, pls
Hi,
I got a bug, I can't launch the game.
I'm on MacBook Pro 2018 with Mojave, and when i want to launch the game it close it self 1 sec after the launch.
I manage to launch it one time, (the first time that i opened it) but it's doesn't open anymore.
Edit: (it's linked to a tccd process. Each time i try to launch the game, a program called tccd take 80% of the cpu).
Pls help, thx.
click with two fingers open with archive after it does that two finger click again and hit open. if it says it doesn't recognize the program just click open again. apple doesnt like these links but there is a work around
That usually works for me
I have not tried this, as I use Linux... Have you tried to run the game directly from a Ren'Py installation instead of using the provided (bundled) Ren'Py? Looking at the (PC-version) zip file conents, it seems the game _should_ work fine this way.
The game keeps on crushing
Is there any Ntr content?? I Love Ntr
I guess. I mean, Lue has a girl he favors in this game, and it's kind of a shitty thing to do to your broship, but you can pursue her as well. No spoilers!
From what perspective? If you want the MC to be the "town stud", "banging" all the girls, there are some story line branches that make it somewhat possible (but not in all cases -- only certain characters and branches). If you want to target Ashley, knowing Luis is crushing on her, and do dirty things with her "behind his back", then yes, there are some scenes where this can happen.
Some of the sound tracks are really good, like the menu screen one, for example. Is there a spotify playlist or something where I can access them and listen to them outside the game?
Anyone know how to fix loading screen issue im on oneplus 7pro android11 version just stuck sitting on there
Edit. Okay i managed to skip this advisory by lowering my phone resolution and refresh rate to minimum 60hz but now stuck on menu and can't click any of buttons. Any suggestions?
I think the game starts really strong but the choices you make were a let down for me.
I was very far with Emily, almost maxed out, but still failed the points check and couldnt kiss her to progress her path properly. And that's probably because i made the wrong choice at some point in the game, but i don't even know when, the wrost part for me is the the lack of choices, there's probably 4-5 choices for chapter, sometimes i feel more like a spectator than the main character.
No hate for your work, man. I think this game has a lot of potential, i specially like the characters you created, and i cant wait to see it finished, i just hope it improves in the aspects i mentioned so i can get back to playing it. Wish you the best
I like the story, but there is one thing that makes me sad. I had not gained enough points with Emily from the begining and now all I get is: points failed. There is almost no chance to gain more points in later episodes and it feels like i have no chance to win her back.
ive had to restart a few times just press control and go through the dialog very quickly. I was able to go through 5 episodes in a matter of minutes. oh and save between every episode so you won't have to start completely over
Man, this is the best game of that genre I've ever played. I can't believe just one person has made it. You deserve a lot of cheers. I loved the game and I'm anxious to play the following chapters. I've become a massive fan of yours.
Just one consideration:
Yow I'm having a bit of a problem here....
I've been sitting here for more than 10mins now and it's still in the advisory warning screen. I tried tapping, nothing happens, I tried swiping nothing happens, is there a hidden button or something? I never made pass this advisory warning screen, and I'm not really sure if it's just the lag or the game crashed. Playing on Android btw, and I can tell my storage is still pretty fine while running this game, but it's still getting stuck.
can you do anything sexual with emily in ep8?
There are some scenes in Ep 8 in Emily's room with her exposing herself, and the MC fondling her breasts/nipples. But nothing more overt, and I will avoid more spoilers.
See Emily's breasts and maybe touch them, and episode 9 ends with a choice of taking Emily or Ruis home, so if there ever is another update (not confident) taking Emily home MAY open up something. But, as I say, don't hold your breath....!
Anyone know how to unlock witm emily eating in the hospital.. Fail point
you need at least Affection 11/12 or 9/11 to be able to ask emily to help you eat.
Tried to update through Itch.io app but I can't as it is hosted on a third party site
Good game man.. waiting for ep 10.. let's see where it goes..
maaan what is the song on the home screen, i haven't even started yet i already like this lol
Can I maximize both, affection and corruption with Emily?
No, there are a few choices where you have to choose between affection or corruption, making it impossible to max both.
Is there a 32-bit version?
Very good VN. Character interaction is very good. Looking forward to more releases in the future.
Anyone know how I get the "first touch" with Emily?
This was a damn good game
Stuck on Advisory warning, can anyone help?
whats the name of the song that is used during chapters
Will You Wait by Marisa Law
Too many problems trying to download. Mega reports > 48 hours to finish. Google Drive reports > 24 hours to finish.
Biggest issue is size -- I seems all the episodes are packaged in a "ALL or NOTHING. SO EEEEFFFF-YOOOOUUUUU" package, instead of individual packages for each episode.
Maybe the developer can repackage the episodes individually. (Ren'Py does no support doing this normally, but there are ways to work around this...)
took me probably half an hour to an hour at most. most likely your wifi bad.
Not likely for several days in a row, _and_ I have switched between broadband wifi and mobile tethering, with little overall effect. More likely, my daily schedule places me at a time the servers are more loaded. Regardless, it is still a "half hour to an hour" I could be doing something else... So I _am_ doing something else, and not trying this game.
Mine only took a few minutes
I tried again. Unfortunately, the problem persists. It... (1) shows a huge amount of time to complete the download, and/or (2) eventually fails completely. I tried the Mega links, and I tried Google Drive link.
It worked for you. Great. I am glad. But that does not help me in any way. Do you have any suggestions I can try?
I even have an older Ep. 1-8 (without Ep. 9) version that worked fine, and did not take very long to download. So I can probably use that as a base to add in only the files needed for Ep. 9 -- If I can get them separately.
Clear your device cache and clean your storage if you are close to full that could show the process. Another idea is if your using your phone go try it at another wifi location and see if it makes a difference
No luck. I am using a desktop PC (Debian Linux OS, not Windows), so "try another location" is not a direct option... Although I can change the phone's location around my house/yard when I use it as a WiFi "hotspot".
Also, I just finished a 4.4GB DVD image (unrelated to this game) download in under an hour. I tried again for this; Mega is still showing me >12 hours and Google Drive showing >8 hours. Google surprises me the most, because I usually have very high transfer rates when using it.
The reality is, the dev had to switch to hosting it elsewhere for a reason. That should have been the very first sign that something else needed to be done to address the issue.
But at this point, I am not going to try any harder.
good luck
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wanted to play but the rendering doesnt work with my computer
Why am I failing all point checks? Literally all of them
you either have affection or corruption with Emily but the other two only rely on corruption. however you have to have either points within 1 to 2 of max level or you will fail them. you can't play the middle with this game. choose one with Emily and stick to it. the others......do or do not, there is no try lol
Damn im stuck on loading
Please fix it
More than likely not stuck, this game takes a minute to load up
hmm i will try again and wait
Nope
Its not work Im waiting almost 20minute
Good game so far. Love the little sound effects when talking to people too. Makes their reacts seem to pop more. And gotta be honest, whatever that beat is that plays when officer Monroe is around, it's fucking slick I love it. I ended up doing my dishes during the hospital scene just to have his damn music track playing lmao
Hello Kotah86. I know you posted this a while ago. I also loved the beat from Officer Monroe! So I made this account just to post this here. I did some research and was able to find it online. Google "Hip hop power rap Bobby Cole" and you will find the song! That way you can play it anywhere :)
I can definitely say this is one of the best VNs I've seen. The characters grew on me, the plot isn't rushed, and overall it's pretty entertaining.
Nice story and character models. The scenes themselves don't feel rushed and they play out in a more natural flow. My favorites are the ones with Ashley. Sometimes the decisions don't make a lot of sense as to why they give more points to certain characters but that is a minor flaw in overall a solid h-game.
what can i do it is stack in advisory 🥺 and never continue 🥺
Same problem