VN Ren'Py Summer's Gone [S1 Steam + DLC] [Oceanlab]

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Old Man Al

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Hello,

So, so, so...
I'm around 620 renders into the Chapter 2 rework. These damn reworks are like actual updates... At least they require the same amount of work.
But at least there's only one left afterward.

There's not much to say, so let me just show you some comparisons and progress.

I realized that in the last Log, I forgot to show the comparisons... But well, here we go now.

While I was revisiting the old Chapter 2, I noticed quite a significant "out of character" scene.
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Miss Marla has quite the journey ahead of her, and her outfit in the old Chapter 2 didn't match what I had in mind for her. (As you know, Marla has her own demons to fight & receives therapy from Amber.)
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Old (Old Vic looks like she could star in DBD as a Killer.)
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I vividly remember this time. I had just designed the first Sonya model & shortly after I took SG back.
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There's only the Bella home scene left & a little part of the cafe.

2. Chapter 5
I mentioned in the last Log, that I'd start with Chapter 5 this week... And so I did. The majority of the focus is still on the Chapter 2 Rework, but things are progressing.

Just as with Chapter 4, I won't have many previews in the early development. I don't want to spoiler anything specific.
So this one here has to do... (At least for the Bella route.)
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I'll see you in the next Log.

(Somebody has asked below the last Log if I'd make the BETA available for the lower tiers. (5$)... It was a good point. Normally, a Beta should just be 2-3 weeks long.
So Chapter 4.5 Beta is now available for the 5$ tier.

- Ocean
 
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Old Man Al said:
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Hello,

So, so, so...
I'm around 620 renders into the Chapter 2 rework. These damn reworks are like actual updates... At least they require the same amount of work.
But at least there's only one left afterward.

There's not much to say, so let me just show you some comparisons and progress.

I realized that in the last Log, I forgot to show the comparisons... But well, here we go now.

While I was revisiting the old Chapter 2, I noticed quite a significant "out of character" scene.
Old (High Res of all images attached.)
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Miss Marla has quite the journey ahead of her, and her outfit in the old Chapter 2 didn't match what I had in mind for her. (As you know, Marla has her own demons to fight & receives therapy from Amber.)
Old (Stoned Mila)
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Old (Old Vic looks like she could star in DBD as a Killer.)
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I vividly remember this time. I had just designed the first Sonya model & shortly after I took SG back.
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There's only the Bella home scene left & a little part of the cafe.

2. Chapter 5
I mentioned in the last Log, that I'd start with Chapter 5 this week... And so I did. The majority of the focus is still on the Chapter 2 Rework, but things are progressing.

Just as with Chapter 4, I won't have many previews in the early development. I don't want to spoiler anything specific.
So this one here has to do... (At least for the Bella route.)
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I'll see you in the next Log.

(Somebody has asked below the last Log if I'd make the BETA available for the lower tiers. (5$)... It was a good point. Normally, a Beta should just be 2-3 weeks long.
So Chapter 4.5 Beta is now available for the 5$ tier.

- Ocean
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ANy body have the high res renders?
 
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So ik we're all Nami fans but who's everyone's 2nd/3rd girl?
#1 Nami is Cutie & best waifu material, amazing petite body and dam stunningly beautiful
#2 vicktoria just the sweetest thing ever, she's gorgeous and I have personal bias bc VN girls in wheelchairs are hot...no I don't know why
#3 Bella...hear me out....yes she just looks like one of those hawt bitches....the kind u wanna hatefuck the cunty attitude out of BUT...she is gorgeous visually...her attitude makes her less attractive although she does seem like a ride or die waifu

P.S.
I will be a sadboi if Nami doesn't also fall In love with Victoria & demand a throuple, which if I remember how much Nami likes her, this *could* happen >;D
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1. Nami - what can I say... Best friend ever, always there for you, utterly selfless, has a heart of gold and lends a shoulder to lean on or an ear to listen when you need it. And of course she's gorgeous.
Sometimes I would need to ask her for space, but that's a small price to pay.

2. Mila - perfect combination of sweet, naughty and humble. Strikingly pretty face and a killer body. I normally prefer a smaller bust, but hers looks... just right (well, in Chapter 3). I could work with that.

3. Nadia - we still don't know that much about her, but... unsociable AND a fantasy buff? You've got my attention!
I'm pretty much a hermit so somebody who wouldn't constantly drag me out to social events or bring guests over is very appealing. Nothing like some steamy indoor game sessions instead.
She says that she's not into video games, but I would corrupt her quickly.

I find Sasha intriguing because of how serious and reserved she is, but she's still too much of a mystery to make it onto my list.
 
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After the eggs, here are the bananas that attack our favorite characters!

Otherwise, personally, I do not see myself making a list of my favourite characters, at the moment the story is not advanced enough and frankly SG has this particularity to make out that in itself, we love all the characters when we meet them because of their diversity that it is physical or their personality
 
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SumTingWong0420 said:
So ik we're all Nami fans but who's everyone's 2nd/3rd girl?
#1 Nami is Cutie & best waifu material, amazing petite body and dam stunningly beautiful
#2 vicktoria just the sweetest thing ever, she's gorgeous and I have personal bias bc VN girls in wheelchairs are hot...no I don't know why
#3 Bella...hear me out....yes she just looks like one of those hawt bitches....the kind u wanna hatefuck the cunty attitude out of BUT...she is gorgeous visually...her attitude makes her less attractive although she does seem like a ride or die waifu

P.S.
I will be a sadboi if Nami doesn't also fall In love with Victoria & demand a throuple, which if I remember how much Nami likes her, this *could* happen >;D
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1 - Nami and Bella tied
2 - Victoria
3 - Mila

There are others I like, but those are main girls/routes I'm interested in.
 
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SumTingWong0420 said:
So ik we're all Nami fans but who's everyone's 2nd/3rd girl?
#1 Nami is Cutie & best waifu material, amazing petite body and dam stunningly beautiful
#2 vicktoria just the sweetest thing ever, she's gorgeous and I have personal bias bc VN girls in wheelchairs are hot...no I don't know why
#3 Bella...hear me out....yes she just looks like one of those hawt bitches....the kind u wanna hatefuck the cunty attitude out of BUT...she is gorgeous visually...her attitude makes her less attractive although she does seem like a ride or die waifu

P.S.
I will be a sadboi if Nami doesn't also fall In love with Victoria & demand a throuple, which if I remember how much Nami likes her, this *could* happen >;D
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1.Bella
the most divine natural beauty,
with the most beautiful golden hair,
a melancholic look,
and the most twinkling eyes.

2.sacha
a mysterious,
dangerous-looking,
yet oh -so fragile,
beauty with the most breathtaking sky-blue eyes,
whose story we must finally discover.

3.nia
a beautiful gothish,
confident,broken soul,
with beautiful fiery red hair and a wild and perverted
look that we have yet to discover.
 
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soprano31 said:
1.Bella
the most divine natural beauty,
with the most beautiful golden hair,
a melancholic look,
and the most twinkling eyes.

2.sacha
a mysterious,
dangerous-looking,
yet oh -so fragile,
beauty with the most breathtaking sky-blue eyes,
whose story we must finally discover.

3.nia
a beautiful gothish,
confident,broken soul,
with beautiful fiery red hair and a wild and perverted
look that we have yet to discover.
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I'd swap Bella and Nia otherwise perfect!
 
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WankerDxD said:
I had this game for a long time but too lazy to play it , because no enough satisfying sex , and the Story of a Spirit back to life to study in college is weird .

Probably im wrong, but it's hard to decide with Slow burn high quality games .
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It's so funny how the things are different for everybody. I got into the AVN genre when someone suggested AL to me on Steam. I used to ignore all these VNs - gimme a good RPG or strategy, but VN? No, thanks! Isn't it a computerized version of a porn cartoon or comic book after all? But AL showed me that VN can have some plot and can even be interesting, and I was like: "I. Want. MOAR!". So BaDIK is the next, right? The bigger, the better. But suddenly it turned out that the other VNs that I tried were almost the same, only worse, more or less. I've almost come to the conclusion that any AVN game is something like BaDIK and I would keep the original in my favorites and drop everything else in the genre as there is nothing else there. That's it, until I found SG and saw that VN could be something more than just a sophisticated menu for 3D porn cartoons. Amazing visuals, charming and very deep characters, captivating story, deep and emotional scenes all together make SG a great show that I enjoy watching. So I doubt that sex scenes will add a lot to the overall impression of the game, while I'd highly appreciate them, that's for sure.
 
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Frankly, I don't understand where this perception of VNs being nothing but vehicles for porn comes from. Why exactly would anyone think that they can't have deep characters or engaging stories? The whole genre was conceived in Japan where VNs are a booming mainstream industry. AVNs are just a rather niche subgenre which we, for some reason, tend to see as VNs' default form.

The format of static digital images coupled with the ability to make everything into a quasi-cinematic experience through adding animations and a suitable soundtrack makes VNs great platforms for storytelling. Some of the devs who had the balls to go against the grain and deviate from the lame 'landlady/tenant' formula and focus on telling a good story went on to deliver some of the most memorable games in the genre. Ocean takes it a step further and the result speaks for itself.
Those are games that I would still play through even if all the sexual content was removed... or if it wasn't there to begin with.

Maybe then, for example, music producers would be more open to working with AVN developers instead of dismissing their work as the equivalent of a typical Brazzers production and not wanting anything to do with it... Because let's be honest: if an artist or their manager decided to do research on AVNs and saw the usual - a creepy, leering protagonist who drools over his mother and fingers his family members in their sleep - could you blame them if they said 'hell no!' to being associated with that?

But a game like SG, where the sexual content - when it arrives - will be the consummation of deep feelings that have been building up in the characters involved over the course of multiple hours of playtime? That's a lot more palatable. Who knows, maybe some of the artists would even end up here and chime in on who the best girl is. :BootyTime:

Bottom line: games like this are the ones we need to support if storytelling is what we value the most in VNs.
 
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