discussion VN AI Ren'Py The Seven Seas [v1.3-Preview] [Zeruel]

[Wankdorf]

I liked the ship mini games.

I remember Ports of Call on Amiga as a kid so it was a fun nostalgic ride.

And to those who are complaining about the difficulty: It's not that hard if you get used to it, Ports of Call was way harder.

Also it has 0 consequences right now if you skip the mini–games.

I did both routes (skipping and playing every minigame) and I could not see any meaningful differences.

 

[lonestar69]

mini game with ship is easy enough, just a bit time consumming

 

[BlackFanta]

Indeed, it is a bit of challenge, but the one where you had to do it like 4 times between the beaches was a bit too much.
To add to my earlier comment, it is presented that the ship if full of people and like 600 girls staff or something, but on the pictures we see obsolutly no one beside the main characters. I know it must be a lot of work to add more characters on the background, but it also could feel the cruise ship atmosphere more.. alive ?
Regarding the recruitment by abduction part i am quite curious to indeed see how it will work out.
I wish some scenes would be longer..
(ps : congrats for the intro rework, it was fun and exiting with the details and scenes added). Looking forward to see how the game develop.

 

[idonknow]

game is awsome, plz get rid of the boat mini game, I don't see any porpose in that

 

[Cresil]

game is awsome, plz get rid of the boat mini game, I don't see any porpose in that

If you don't like it, don't play it. What's the problem?

 

[ZDaGoat]

If you don't like it, just skip it! The consequences will be very limited.

The ship game will remain to be a part of the game, unless someone else creates an own fork that removes it.

 

[TrekDr0p]

Would be nice to be able to change the transparancy of the text box, now it covers to much in scènes.
But a very nice update.. cant wait to see whats next.

 

[nem33]

Middle mouse button removes the text box so you can get a better look. (H key does the same thing if I remember right.)

 

[Eccencetiv]

Why do factions need reputation? Is there any interaction with them in the current version of the game?

 

[nem33]

Why do factions need reputation? Is there any interaction with them in the current version of the game?

I don't think there is anything blocked out because of reputation yet. I may be wrong. I suspect that in future updates, certain scenes will only be available if reputation is high enough.

 

[ZDaGoat]

Right now, faction reputation does not have any consequences. In future updates, there will be sidequests for factions if you have a good reputation with, and also random encounters on the ship or options to resolve certain situations will vary depending on your faction reputation.

And then there is the TV channels. Once there is an even broader base of videos, certain channels will only be fully accessible with a certain reputation with that faction. For example, at a certain point you will be able to see the channel of the rebellious redbanded girls, but it will be blurred if you don't have enough reputation with them. I plan to have one exclusive TV broadcast channel for each faction, and a bunch of channels without any restrictions.

Would be nice to be able to change the transparancy of the text box, now it covers to much in scènes.
But a very nice update.. cant wait to see whats next.

I will look into that one because you're not the only one with that requests and it bothers me, too. For some reason this overlay occasionally even pops up during videos and the puzzle minigame...

 

[lonestar69]

there is renpy mod somewhere that removes text box - on afew games but i found you one here - https://lewdcorner.com/threads/apocalypse-v0-37b-lmar2-legacyuser.2280/page-29#post-22097

Would be nice to be able to change the transparancy of the text box, now it covers to much in scènes.
But a very nice update.. cant wait to see whats next.

 

[RawD]

Nice game, but long videos are really inconvenient, both storywise and during sexy times.
For story, it'd be just easier to read.
And for action, it's more enjoyable to skip animations you don't like and leave on repeat those more to your taste, without need to rewath the whole sequence.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Fun game so far. Honestly pretty hot scenes and endless hot girls of various ages. Lots of animation variety, some of the loops are long, which can be nice if you want to just watch, easily skippable if not. I normally don't like the anime/cartoony look..I'm one who got excited when the little sister in Burned has a Hi Res realistic body render in a shower scene, but this is actually it's own kind of turn on because not everyone and everything is exactly the same. The weird variance in how the same girl looks, but face and body, is jarring at times. Sometimes the loli's have an adult body, other times not, and I don't think this can all be attributed to AI.

The writing, as good as it is, can be long and tedious, and I consider myself a reader with a decent attention span. It just doesn't work as well int his genre of game imo. I expect that a serious edit could reduce the text by 25% and you'd still have a good story to go with the scenes. I do end up fast clicking through some of the longer more tedious dialog. A sure sign, for me at least, that less is more.

I do like the ambition of this game and look forward to more chapters. It's obvious alot of time and energy went into making it. The mini games, the TV channels and good variety of stories and characters keep me interested, well done.

 

[ZDaGoat]

Nice game, but long videos are really inconvenient, both storywise and during sexy times.
For story, it'd be just easier to read.
And for action, it's more enjoyable to skip animations you don't like and leave on repeat those more to your taste, without need to rewath the whole sequence.

Well doing animations and videos is a hobby of mine and i definitely will add them to the game and improve on them. Do you see that often? No. But i don't understand the Fuzz. Could you name a specific sequence or video that you skipped or would love to be able to skip just a part of it? I really would like to work on those parts.

 

[rsxxxxx]

This is one of the few I could not get past and deleted after about 45 minutes.
The cheap AI, the script, the grammar mistakes, the characters, the ridiculous story. Feels like it was generated by a bot, I hated it.
AI is the reason we're all paying more for our electronics and this is what they have to show for it. Not good.

 

[ZDaGoat]

This is one of the few I could not get past and deleted after about 45 minutes.
The cheap AI, the script, the grammar mistakes, the characters, the ridiculous story. Feels like it was generated by a bot, I hated it.
AI is the reason we're all paying more for our electronics and this is what they have to show for it. Not good.

It's not just your electronics pricetag, they're also coming for your jobs! I don't know how much of me generating some AI stuff on my old trusted local RTX 3090 contributes to rising prices though, you better blame the hyperscalers for that.

This is not a game for people who hate AI and i wonder about some of these comments. Especially here there seem to be many fanatic AI haters and i feel that some haven't even played the game. Thanks for trying anyway (i assume), even though I strongly disagree with your offensive remarks.

The story/script by the way is almost 100% NOT AI generated (if it was, it had zero grammar mistakes, but also very little soul), just the images, videos and sounds are. Still I do the editing, and overall the creative process is not that much different from the 3D or DAZ renpys.

I wonder if you have, by accident, tried out the "Watch Onboard TV" feature? After 45 min of the game i guess you barely made it onboard the ship....

 

[rsxxxxx]

It's not just your electronics pricetag, they're also coming for your jobs! I don't know how much of me generating some AI stuff on my old trusted local RTX 3090 contributes to rising prices though, you better blame the hyperscalers for that.

This is not a game for people who hate AI and i wonder about some of these comments. Especially here there seem to be many fanatic AI haters and i feel that some haven't even played the game. Thanks for trying anyway (i assume), even though I strongly disagree with your offensive remarks.

The story/script by the way is almost 100% NOT AI generated (if it was, it had zero grammar mistakes, but also very little soul), just the images, videos and sounds are. Still I do the editing, and overall the creative process is not that much different from the 3D or DAZ renpys.

I wonder if you have, by accident, tried out the "Watch Onboard TV" feature? After 45 min of the game i guess you barely made it onboard the ship....

Made it past the pocahontas scene.

 

[teaia]

I hate AI, Loli, oceans, and boats. I demand my money back.

On a more serious note, I was upset at the boat game at first, it really took me out of the game. Then when I just commited to figuring it out, I really liked the boat game. That one with multiple objectives was a little confusing though because I didn't realize there were multiple objectives and I thought the game was glitched. That might be more of a me problem. I didn't know you could even do something like that within RenPy.

Did this game really release just under a year ago? Because this is a ton of content for an 11 month game comparing it to what I see from most new games I've played.

 

[HexHN]

Quick Question what program do you use to make the AI images
(its fine if you dont want to share just want to know)