Ren'Py Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

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Fayn Arawn

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Zardoz23 said:
This is the same argument people use to get excited about political candidates they don't actually like but are better than the alternative. Just because something is better than bad doesn't make it good. We can be critical of standards without living in a fantasy world.
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I don't think it's your intent, but you're coming across as elitist and very negative.

No, this game isn't Shakespeare, and it's no Airplane! or Blazing Saddles, but I find it at least as funny/entertaining as a lot of TV sitcoms (which are probably the closest comparable works).

I know it's a pipedream, but I kind of hope Power Vacuum will serve as inspiration for better games/VNs in the future, because you're right, there's far too much slop.
 
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I know how they feel about how long its taking and that goes for a lot of games here. Its crazy that PW and lot of other games take as long as a triple A games, which take two to seven years to create and thats nuts to me, cuz of what these games are (I know its made with a lot of people and these games are usually one dev which dont mean they cant hire more people, they have the money, but the games are 100 times bigger than just a VN so you know). I just wish these devs would start taking it more seriously and start small studios to distribute workload and create better games faster.
 
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Zoog said:
Remember the Iron Rule:
Cheap, Fast, Good: you can only choose two.

Power Vacuum is good (extremely good) and free. It can't also be delivered fast.
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correct me if im wrong but its not really free, you need to subscribe, unless there is a free version that i dont know about, i get everything from here. We are on a pirate website, every game is technically free if you count pirated games.
 
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Fayn Arawn said:
I don't think it's your intent, but you're coming across as elitist and very negative.

No, this game isn't Shakespeare, and it's no Airplane! or Blazing Saddles, but I find it at least as funny/entertaining as a lot of TV sitcoms (which are probably the closest comparable works).

I know it's a pipedream, but I kind of hope Power Vacuum will serve as inspiration for better games/VNs in the future, because you're right, there's far too much slop.
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Yeah, you're right. It's a silly saying but I'm not here to "yuck someone else's yum". I just think it's kind of depressing how stagnant and uninspired the porn game genre is. Is it even possible to make a Top 100 Porn Games of All Time without dipping into some absolute garbage by the end? I guess we have censorship and shit like what Patreon does to blame for it. At least partially.

Power Vacuum is good, perhaps even great, for what it is. But despite that the game is rife with flaws and odd design choices that make no sense. Like it being pseudo-sandbox without actually being sandbox so you get a lot of pointless encounters which are best skipped (e.g. all the family meals that do nothing after the first time you see them so are best just skipped and so on). No one is saying the game is a masterpiece but, as I keep hammering on, the bar is so fucking low it basically is hailed as such.

mp333 said:
I know how they feel about how long its taking and that goes for a lot of games here. Its crazy that PW and lot of other games take as long as a triple A games, which take two to seven years to create and thats nuts to me, cuz of what these games are (I know its made with a lot of people and these games are usually one dev which dont mean they cant hire more people, they have the money, but the games are 100 times bigger than just a VN so you know). I just wish these devs would start taking it more seriously and start small studios to distribute workload and create better games faster.
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Alternatively they could just set their sights lower instead of trying to make a complicated game with a long story all by themselves. At least for their first foray into being a developer.
 
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mp333 said:
I know how they feel about how long its taking and that goes for a lot of games here. Its crazy that PW and lot of other games take as long as a triple A games, which take two to seven years to create and thats nuts to me, cuz of what these games are (I know its made with a lot of people and these games are usually one dev which dont mean they cant hire more people, they have the money, but the games are 100 times bigger than just a VN so you know). I just wish these devs would start taking it more seriously and start small studios to distribute workload and create better games faster.
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That's not financially feasible for most devs. WWG is making nowhere near enough to afford a studio and employees.
Fayn Arawn said:
No, this game isn't Shakespeare
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Shakespeare is the McDonalds of literature
 
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True but there are exception ofc its about talent and drive, but as i said they need to start hiring people like some others do it as the saying goes you need to spend money to make money. And i mean hiring one or 2 people you really dont need more for these games.
 
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pinkie96 said:
Shakespeare is the McDonalds of literature
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mp333 said:
True but there are exception ofc its about talent and drive, but as i said they need to start hiring people like some others do it as the saying goes you need to spend money to make money. And i mean hiring one or 2 people you really dont need more for these games.
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We're getting into the weeds a bit here but I think there is still plenty of room for the typical solo-indy-dev passion project. It's just so many of those would-be devs in the porno-sphere end up biting off more than they can chew. IMO your first project should be the programming equivalent of "Hello world!" before moving on to something complex with interweaving plots and multiple love interests.

Walk before you try to run.
 
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john984 said:
That's Keira, she has like 3 or 4 scenes with Sterling and appears in 1 bad end with Drew in last chapter (threesome with Lucia)
Edit: Also a threesome with Sterling/Nora/Keira
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You just responded to a person who is partly a supporter of the game and even as I remember he has been familiar with the game for a long time.

In my opinion, he was just trolling for a joke
 
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Sometimes looking at some pictures or renders of PV, it is rare to see asses in close-up in a quality style in VN!
there is one game that also pays more attention to female asses, I think PV is not far behind Ass's
 
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MAGO-DAG said:
Sometimes looking at some pictures or renders of PV, it is rare to see asses in close-up in a quality style in VN!
there is one game that also pays more attention to female asses, I think PV is not far behind View attachment 3977594
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What is your problem? You mention a good game but you don't say which one, nor do you give a link... This is a betrayal, bro!!
 
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For sure. When Ophelia gets her scene, I'm gonna need to use them in my sig too.
 
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