Ren'Py A Home in the Desert [v0.4.5] [Misarmor]

[DorianGreyEminence]

No sex at all for now. Look at the tags.

It's worth an ask. There have been tons of times when tags have not been updated or not complete for whatever reason. It at least used to be pretty common to skip the creampie tag altogether even once complete. That's basically my favorite thing. So I generally do a search in the comments if a tag I like is missing. But its good to know there's no sex yet. That's why a searched in the first place.

 

[Sunedosa]

To be honest i'd rather "have sex" in my erotic games than buying food my or whoever's mother it is can't use for some reason (and LEAVES after one day)......worth a golfclap Please add a field and a tractor so i can harvest non excisting crops as well !

 

[FatYoda]

I really wanted to get into this, but the food system alone is enough to make me leave. 85 thousand things in the fridge and mom can't find something to cook so everyone is pissed...and the only way to find out what you need in order to use one of the stupid ass recipes is to have it be time to cook...so it's too late to actually figure it out without rolling back and going to the store...just like you did YESTERDAY. The amount of time spent coding just the food system in this game to have recipes and 85 ingredients at the store with a weight system cause god forbid the porn game be unrealistic and let you carry too much stuff home.

 

[yeahwhatever]

I also want to get into this game, but it's hard when your saves break every single time you exit the game and reload it. And the food system is weird

 

[Mercedes]

In itself, the food system is well thought out, though difficult to master at first.
A food wish is expressed, for which one has to go shopping. Food not only fights hunger, but also boosts morale if necessary, which would make it possible to prepare a meal specifically to buff a certain person.
Unfortunately, this is not fully implemented at the current time, so you could prepare two dishes, but currently lacks the ability to learn new recipes. Maybe a cooking show on TV should help here, and if you watch it in pairs, more interactions would be possible.
One should also keep in mind that five people live in the house. Since shopping only takes 1h, one can also run twice a day if necessary.

What bothers me more is that there is no approximate schedule for the roommates. So you run pointlessly through the house several times a day, looking for new events.

The game is still in a very early phase. Just bring along a little patience.

 

[currycurr]

I must be bad, i dont know what im doing wrong, the fridge is packed with food but "MOM" cant cook? i keep getting game overs.

 

[mixa007]

I really wanted to get into this, but the food system alone is enough to make me leave. 85 thousand things in the fridge and mom can't find something to cook so everyone is pissed...and the only way to find out what you need in order to use one of the stupid ass recipes is to have it be time to cook...so it's too late to actually figure it out without rolling back and going to the store...just like you did YESTERDAY. The amount of time spent coding just the food system in this game to have recipes and 85 ingredients at the store with a weight system cause god forbid the porn game be unrealistic and let you carry too much stuff home.

The game is still in a very early phase. Just bring along a little patience.

The last update was developed for half a year, the game itself has been in development for more than a year and still: "The game is still in a very early phase."
Maybe this happens because the developer himself pays a lot of attention to all sorts of irrelevant nonsense, and then he drowns in bugs, unable to balance the various introduced mechanics and systems? It would be better if he worked on creating high-quality animations, and did not write thousands of lines of code for all sorts of nonsense.
Although he may be trying to create the most epic RPG in the open world, such that Todd Howard himself has already run in tears to cancel his Starfield .

 

[Jay_Deeznuts]

In itself, the food system is well thought out, though difficult to master at first.
A food wish is expressed, for which one has to go shopping. Food not only fights hunger, but also boosts morale if necessary, which would make it possible to prepare a meal specifically to buff a certain person.
Unfortunately, this is not fully implemented at the current time, so you could prepare two dishes, but currently lacks the ability to learn new recipes. Maybe a cooking show on TV should help here, and if you watch it in pairs, more interactions would be possible.
One should also keep in mind that five people live in the house. Since shopping only takes 1h, one can also run twice a day if necessary.

What bothers me more is that there is no approximate schedule for the roommates. So you run pointlessly through the house several times a day, looking for new events.

The game is still in a very early phase. Just bring along a little patience.

Nah, how about the dev try bringing something other than broken saves and cooking mama minigames instead?

"Go to basement to go to attic. Now click on 1 of 2 things. No, not that one. Now that one. Now click it again. Now click it again. See that only other thing in the attic? Click it. No, it is not the designated sheet clicking time so nothing is revealed. Especially not a titty. What do you think this is, a porn game? Now as a reward for clicking around the attic you can go grocery shopping."

Oh yeah, thats some sexy shit right there!

A message to all the deaf ears, sandbox fucking sucks unless you are willing to put in massive amounts of work to make it anything other than a bunch of empty screens with forced paths. Why offer the illusion of choice if there's literally one way to progress at any point?
Congratulations on your visual novel with too many extra steps, I guess.

 

[Misarmor]

So, I don't understand the whole ingredients cooking thing? The fridge is full, but Angeline doesn't cook because there are no ingredients? And yes, I downloaded the 0.3a like 20 minutes ago.

Try buying 5 pasta and 5 tomato PASTE at the store, and see if she's still not cooking pls.

 

[Whatever Zone]

Try buying 5 pasta and 5 tomato PASTE at the store, and see if she's still not cooking pls.

She's still not cooking.

 

[Whatever Zone]

Is there a guide for this? Holy shit this fridge stuff is frustrating. I deeply appreciate that the dev made this at all, but I can't access any of the content because it's locked behind a fridge that prevents people from eating anything from it.

 

[Misarmor]

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She's still not cooking.

And you're playing 0.3a, right? Not 0.3? If downloading 0.3a didn't help, try this:

basically delete all saves (in game>save folder and AppData>Roaming>Renpy>AHouseInTheDesert folder) and start a new game. if you open the game and check your saves and there is still some then you didn't delete all

 

[Miraak11th]

Try buying 5 pasta and 5 tomato PASTE at the store, and see if she's still not cooking pls.

That did the trick. No idea why she only wants to make pasta.

 

[Misarmor]

That did the trick. No idea why she only wants to make pasta.

Actually, there are several recipes. I'm advising the player to buy 5 pasta and 5 tomato paste because the meal is cheap, and buying 5 tomato paste and 5 pasta get you food for exactly 2 days, for little money.

 

[kioeclipse]

It's worth an ask. There have been tons of times when tags have not been updated or not complete for whatever reason. It at least used to be pretty common to skip the creampie tag altogether even once complete. That's basically my favorite thing. So I generally do a search in the comments if a tag I like is missing. But its good to know there's no sex yet. That's why a searched in the first place.

Its frustrating because thats one of the things that will keep players around. Allot of newer devs are postponing putting sex into games for a few updates to try to flush out some type of system in their game but all it does is deter people from continuing to play.

 

[xerroxi]

just here for the cooking simulator and im sad, cause butter just vanishes doesnt matter how much i buy...it is just gone
(oh dont get that wrong, butter is not shown at the fridge but still useable )

and pls if you do a cooking simulator let us select the recipe for each member...i dont like to see red mood numbers when im cooking!

 

[Misarmor]

just here for the cooking simulator and im sad, cause butter just vanishes doesnt matter how much i buy...it is just gone

This was fixed internally, I'm just taking a look at the quest bug before I release a hotfix.

 

[Battle Brother Anon]

It's very rare for a porn game to introduce fun mechanics that actually add to the game, and almost make you feel rewarded with the porn you get. The barrier has to be pretty easy though, because this is a porn game that I'm likely to play primarily for porn (if I want a fun game I'll just go back to playing Armored Core), and if you make the porn too hard or annoying to get to, I'm probably going to just go look for porn somewhere else, or just rip the image files to look at without actually playing the game. To date, only Being a DIK and Subverse have managed to be porn games with gameplay that I actually enjoyed. This game...holy shit isn't added to that short list.

I already hate sandbox games with a burning passion ever since the days of Big Brother, which had zero fucking respect for your time. This game throws about a dozen mechanics at me and fuck me I just quit after the mom decided to peace even though I'd bought an entire load of groceries. Guess I'm using Unren for this one, fellas. I kinda feel bad because I'm sure a lot of work went in to this, but fuck me bro I just want to crank one out and this is like a Tamagotchi porn game.

 

[Spokxx]

Hello there.
Game looks very good.
The problem with Angelina not being able to cook even with ingredients in fridge is resolved in v 0.3a with deleting ALL saves. Works good now, but maybe it will be more helpfull if in shop when you buy 1 PASTA (which can feed 4 people) it will be enough for 5 people. But its just litlle thing that crossed my mind .

But I have found some problem.
I think it happens when you got OLD PEOLE WISDOM quest completed.
When I want click MENU at top of screen then some error appears.
TRACEBACK is attached.

Sorry for my english

 

[Misarmor]

Hello there.
Game looks very good.
The problem with Angelina not being able to cook even with ingredients in fridge is resolved in v 0.3a with deleting ALL saves. Works good now, but maybe it will be more helpfull if in shop when you buy 1 PASTA (which can feed 4 people) it will be enough for 5 people. But its just litlle thing that crossed my mind .

But I have found some problem.
I think it happens when you got OLD PEOLE WISDOM quest completed.
When I want click MENU at top of screen then some error appears.
TRACEBACK is attached.

Sorry for my english

Yep, I have already come up with an event to include running errands as a story quest. This should get people less confused, hopefully. I'm in the process of correcting the bug you've attached, along with some more others. Thank you