discussion VN Ren'Py [HS2] Surviving My Family [Chapter 2 Part 1] [Carmine Note Games]

[Carmine♫Games]

Happy very very very late Mother's Day! - 2025

 

[AlfaBit]

Happy very very very late Mother's Day! - 2025View attachment 624477

Well with three insanely hot mothers like that my mother's day is bound to be happy.

 

[daddy-s]

Are relationships forced? and is the lesbian stuff avoidable? seems not with the pre-existing relationship. I have hundreds of vn's in my list and started to be a lot more picky about content. This seems interesting but I am not a fan of sharing my girls with anyone including other girls.

 

[Nicest_Incest]

Are relationships forced? and is the lesbian stuff avoidable? seems not with the pre-existing relationship. I have hundreds of vn's in my list and started to be a lot more picky about content. This seems interesting but I am not a fan of sharing my girls with anyone including other girls.

dunno yet. There's been no new update released since the first one, which is just story set-up rather than hook-ups. If one is picky I'd suggest filtering out anything unfinished and only playing completed tags, becasue long term this early most of the time even the devs don't know what's gonna happen, esp if they do what the people paying them want against their own best judgement (ie The Cabin last couple of updates).

 

[Carmine♫Games]

Are relationships forced? and is the lesbian stuff avoidable? seems not with the pre-existing relationship. I have hundreds of vn's in my list and started to be a lot more picky about content. This seems interesting but I am not a fan of sharing my girls with anyone including other girls.

Lesbian stuff is skippable with Emilia (wife) and Lilith ("step"sister) as they are in a triad relationship with MC, so it might be referenced and will happen, although threesome scenes can be avoided. Lesbian stuff is avoidable with all the others; the same goes for other kinks. Although they might tease each other based on their personality, it's all bark unless you want to bite, especially with Lilith, and some won't be into it at all, so it won't be an option. You make decisions from both the MC's and the girls' positions; that's why I put in multiple protagonists. As far as relationships, the Main Girls "The Family" will have some sort of relationship with you. I'm still working out the details but for example

Spoiler

Sophia, who was married to your "step"brother before he passed (RIP), might want a sexual relationship or what I'm referring to as a cuddly relationship. Both will be loving, barring roleplay scenes. But cuddly will just be more being in their presence, hand-holding, and at most kissing scenes. Why, you may ask? Because that shit turns me on, and I'm interested to see what I can do with it. Plus it's my way of letting the player choose in a harem game. You won't be locked into it either; there will be points where you can decide as one of the characters to continue satisfied as is or slowly tease the other back and forth as far as you want it to go with them. This won't be the case for all of them. Essentially some of them can be a slow burn if that's what you want.

As for the couple of side girls I have planned, those are completely optional to pursue.

 

[AlfaBit]

Lesbian stuff is skippable with Emilia (wife) and Lilith ("step"sister) as they are in a triad relationship with MC, so it might be referenced and will happen, although threesome scenes can be avoided. Lesbian stuff is avoidable with all the others; the same goes for other kinks. Although they might tease each other based on their personality, it's all bark unless you want to bite, especially with Lilith, and some won't be into it at all, so it won't be an option. You make decisions from both the MC's and the girls' positions; that's why I put in multiple protagonists. As far as relationships, the Main Girls "The Family" will have some sort of relationship with you. I'm still working out the details but for example

Spoiler

Sophia, who was married to your "step"brother before he passed (RIP), might want a sexual relationship or what I'm referring to as a cuddly relationship. Both will be loving, barring roleplay scenes. But cuddly will just be more being in their presence, hand-holding, and at most kissing scenes. Why, you may ask? Because that shit turns me on, and I'm interested to see what I can do with it. Plus it's my way of letting the player choose in a harem game. You won't be locked into it either; there will be points where you can decide as one of the characters to continue satisfied as is or slowly tease the other back and forth as far as you want it to go with them. This won't be the case for all of them. Essentially some of them can be a slow burn if that's what you want.

As for the couple of side girls I have planned, those are completely optional to pursue.

So we cannot have any sexual content with Sophia down the line? That shit turns me on too but if we can only cuddle with her we are basically blueballing both of us, well ok she has a pussy not balls but with only cuddles her pussy will turn blue just like MC's balls.

 

[Carmine♫Games]

So we cannot have any sexual content with Sophia down the line? That shit turns me on too but if we can only cuddle with her we are basically blueballing both of us, well ok she has a pussy not balls but with only cuddles her pussy will turn blue just like MC's balls.

That's not what I wrote at all: "won't be locked into it" "as far as you want it to go with them" not sure how you came to the conclusion of blue balls/pussy.

 

[AlfaBit]

That's not what I wrote at all: "won't be locked into it" "as far as you want it to go with them" not sure how you came to the conclusion of blue balls/pussy.

My bad, my non native English speaker ass misunderstood you.

 

[jram]

my question is why even have the ntr stuff at all if its not even depicted in anyway? You don't have to see it or hear about it, but it's there? Doesn't really make sense to me, could have just made the bad end or whatever it is something else instead of "implied ntr bad end"

 

[Carmine♫Games]

Happy Father's Day! - 2025
Time for your checkup, old man... Choose your poison...

 

[Carmine♫Games]

Just letting y'all know the game is still being developed. Here is the most recent progress update for anyone who can't or doesn't want to leave this site.

For July's monthly renders I was continuing some of my previous themes/mini stories.
Figured it was a good opportunity to re-render the first three monthly renders I had made. Showing off the changes to the final art style (FOV, lighting/shadows, other post-process settings) and minor tweaks to the models (mainly made their faces more western/realistic and figured out the height system in HS2). More examples and info can always be found over on

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(Left is the original; Right is the final changes.)
"New high score!" was made for the Cute & Cuddly tier.

"Turns out the princess is in this castle..." was made for the Sexy & Seductive tier.

"Rub-a-dub-dub..." (Didn't actually have a title; thought this was funny... *crickets*) was made for the Lewd & Nude tier.


Anyways, I thought you'd like to know. Enjoy!
Thanks for the support!
Happy Gaming!

 

[User_43891]

Just letting y'all know the game is still being developed. Here is the most recent progress update for anyone who can't or doesn't want to leave this site.
View attachment 666044
For July's monthly renders I was continuing some of my previous themes/mini stories.
Figured it was a good opportunity to re-render the first three monthly renders I had made. Showing off the changes to the final art style (FOV, lighting/shadows, other post-process settings) and minor tweaks to the models (mainly made their faces more western/realistic and figured out the height system in HS2). More examples and info can always be found over on

You must be registered to see links

and/or

You must be registered to see links

.

(Left is the original; Right is the final changes.)
"New high score!" was made for the Cute & Cuddly tier.
View attachment 666043View attachment 666042
"Turns out the princess is in this castle..." was made for the Sexy & Seductive tier.
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"Rub-a-dub-dub..." (Didn't actually have a title; thought this was funny... *crickets*) was made for the Lewd & Nude tier.
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Anyways, I thought you'd like to know. Enjoy!
Thanks for the support!
Happy Gaming!

Looking forward to more of this family's adventures in The Oasis.

 

[Carmine♫Games]

Not abandoned, y'all. But them's the rules...
Just finished scene 7! Got 3 more to go.

Here, have a Lewd & Nude freebie.
I've got more on my

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Thanks for the support!
Happy Gaming!

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

Not abandoned, y'all. But them's the rules...
Just finished scene 7! Got 3 more to go.
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Here, have a Lewd & Nude freebie.
I've got more on my

You must be registered to see links

.
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Thanks for the support!
Happy Gaming!

Really excited to see where Chapter 2 takes us! Thanks for sharing, @Carmine♫Games!

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

It seems some folks for some reason keep thinking this is actually abandoned (see yesterday's review). Don't trust the label by the game's name on this thread. Carmine already gave the summary progress earlier, but here are more details:


Discord Update
CarmineNoteGames — 9/3/2025 6:41 PM

Hello Notes,
Scene 7 is done!
Sigh, fucking zombies...
I'm not entirely happy with the ones I've used; they work for the scene, but their bones are terribly placed, making posing them awkward. Oh well, they'll have to do for now, but my main goal is to learn the overlay properties (among others) in HS2's character creator so I can take advantage of the pose loader, which will let me save and load poses, thus saving time. (Animations will also become more feasible). What did I do?

• Struggled...,
• Added 113 renders,
• Added 1,300 words,

What's next?

• For scene 8 I have to make another map; this will be the first base of operations for the Madison Valley survivors.,
• Scenes 9 and 10 go back to The Oasis to close this part of chapter 2 out.,
• Gotta make some more zombie noises and other sound effects. (Yep, that was me growling and shit in the prologue lol.)
• Going to make 1 quick song after all renders are done for a sentimental portion in one of the scenes. I'll work on the others when the update is out.,

Well, that's all I got for now.
Thanks for the support and patience!
Happy Gaming!

 

[Nicest_Incest]

It seems some folks for some reason keep thinking this is actually abandoned (see yesterday's review). Don't trust the label by the game's name on this thread. Carmine already gave the summary progress earlier, but here are more details:


Discord Update
CarmineNoteGames — 9/3/2025 6:41 PM

Hello Notes,
Scene 7 is done!
Sigh, fucking zombies...
I'm not entirely happy with the ones I've used; they work for the scene, but their bones are terribly placed, making posing them awkward. Oh well, they'll have to do for now, but my main goal is to learn the overlay properties (among others) in HS2's character creator so I can take advantage of the pose loader, which will let me save and load poses, thus saving time. (Animations will also become more feasible). What did I do?

• Struggled...,
• Added 113 renders,
• Added 1,300 words,

What's next?

• For scene 8 I have to make another map; this will be the first base of operations for the Madison Valley survivors.,
• Scenes 9 and 10 go back to The Oasis to close this part of chapter 2 out.,
• Gotta make some more zombie noises and other sound effects. (Yep, that was me growling and shit in the prologue lol.)
• Going to make 1 quick song after all renders are done for a sentimental portion in one of the scenes. I'll work on the others when the update is out.,

Well, that's all I got for now.
Thanks for the support and patience!
Happy Gaming!

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It is a bit early for that tag (by about 3 months I think), but otherwise meant to be slapped on due to that no-update-in-18-month rule. Personally I'd test here and there how feasible what I have in my head to do is before I released anything. HS2 seems to have this problem often, other AVNs like Money or Morals have been abandoned due to limitations or lack of assets when things got too hard to do for what they had in mind and where the story went. Maybe time to invest in Daz or Blender to make things easier? That or write around the issue, though that's not at all ideal when you have problems with posing zombies in a zombie apocalypse. This other zombie HS2 AVN with the MC former military (good story with a lot of action, but hardly no sex so I forgot the name of it) managed well enough, though that was a first release so who knows how long it took, possibly multiple years.

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

It is a bit early for that tag (by about 3 months I think), but otherwise meant to be slapped on due to that no-update-in-18-month rule. Personally I'd test here and there how feasible what I have in my head to do is before I released anything. HS2 seems to have this problem often, other AVNs like Money or Morals have been abandoned due to limitations or lack of assets when things got too hard to do for what they had in mind and where the story went. Maybe time to invest in Daz or Blender to make things easier? That or write around the issue, though that's not at all ideal when you have problems with posing zombies in a zombie apocalypse. This other zombie HS2 AVN with the MC former military (good story with a lot of action, but hardly no sex so I forgot the name of it) managed well enough, though that was a first release so who knows how long it took, possibly multiple years.

Fair. I would think a developer would first make their story, at least on a high level, so they know the types of content in the VN. From there, they choose the rendering engine that has the most assets for what they want to accomplish — probably so long as the rendering engine isn't unnecessarily difficult, making it more trouble than it's worth. I realize it might mean learning a new tool to be able to accomplish what they want (and possibly expense if they need to buy new assets in the new tool, if free assets won't do). But in the long run I think it would save a lot of work and/or frustration to choose the tools most suited to the story being told. Like you say, though, if your issue is the posing itself, I'm not sure how much different tools improve or exacerbate that. I've never used any of them for rendering at all myself, so of course I can only speak theoretically.

 

[Republican Bear]

Good news as with so many games to play I completely forgot about this game.

Thanks for sharing that post my fellow LC members.

 

[Skrotum]

I was a bit sad by the abandoned tag. I am glad it is not.

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

Discord Update
CarmineNoteGames — 4:57 PM

Hello Notes,

Scene 8 is coded!
What did I do? Nothing too crazy...

• Made a new map ⁠- see . ⁠⁠⁠#spoiler-chat 💬⁠,
• Added 70 renders,
• Added 911 words,
• Hopefully conveyed some compelling story beats...,

What's next?Scenes 9 and 10 will mostly take place back at "The Oasis" to round up this update.

• Gotta choose some outfits for the girls,
• Make some nice animations. (Some might see them as naughty .),
• Create or hopefully alter some poses.,
• Still need sounds and music but depending on when I get these two scenes finished I might just push it out as is as I plan to start focusing on the audio as soon as I release this update I'm getting really antsy not being able to work on it or trying out my new equipment...,

But anyway that's all I got for now. The Halloween Re-Renders are looking very nice and I've got things brewing for the new monthly's so expect something on that soon.
Thanks for the support and patience!
Happy Gaming!