If you could play, did you enjoy the game despite the bugs?

  • Yes

    Votes: 175 55.2%
  • Somwhat

    Votes: 98 30.9%
  • No

    Votes: 44 13.9%

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DavyDaoist

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congrats on your first game. My first advice is too pace yourself. Game developping is a marathon, not a sprint. Find a rythm that suits you and plan around it. We see too many gpromising games never getting finished because something went wrong. It's better to upload a few middle sized version per year than one big version stay in people's mind. 3-4 months between updates is a very good speed if there's enough content. Good luck.
 

LowLevelLesser

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Cheers for the heads up man.

I'm a bit more conservative when it comes to this stuff so it'll be ramping up the different types of spanking punishments and Funishments. More sex scenes, more nylon which isn't a tag for some reason haha and trying to develop the story alongside it all.
If you plan to make spanking a major element of the game. I'd suggest maybe posting this one to the video games section of animeOTK too.
 
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CamaroFan432

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A really buggy mess (lots of missing images and code, that tries to load an image without the need to). In addition some of the tags don't reflect the current content. There are no RPG elements and no male dom scenes in it. In addition, it's basically a KN with sandbox elements and not more than maybe 30min of gameplay, if you're a slow reader. Add to this, that the last scene is played twice. Not worth for the moment.
 

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Overview:
So, this is my first ever visual novel or game of any kind. This is an alpha release so please, any constructive criticism, let me know.
Embark on a thrilling journey aboard the Hope's Horizon, humanity's last hope for survival. In this captivating sci-fi visual novel, you awaken from cryo-sleep to find yourself aboard an interstellar ark hurtling through the cosmos. As you navigate the vast corridors of the ship, you uncover secrets, form alliances, and forge romantic connections with intriguing characters. Lots of spanking and other fetishes.​

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Seems to be quite a few missing images.
 

blapper21

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I can only assume the uploaded version has been mixed with an older version. As someone said those errors weren't there earlier. I have been fighting with the framework I've used as much as doing renders and stories.

Do people think I should slim the game down and simplify it, make it as just a kinetic novel with a few branches? Any recommendations of a free easy to use framework of people want to keep the moving around maps aspect etc?
 
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I can only assume the uploaded version has been mixed with an older version. As someone said those errors weren't there earlier. I have been fighting with the framework I've used as much as doing renders and stories.

Do people think I should slim the game down and simplify it, make it as just a kinetic novel with a few branches? Any recommendations of a free easy to use framework of people want to keep the moving around maps aspect etc?
This game is unplayable in it's current state. I played TheStowaway-Beta-0.01-pc and it a couple problems but nothing like this, version TheStowaway-0.02a-pc.
I have attached a .zip fine of the trace backs from the first 10 errors that I encountered.
All these errors occur within minutes of starting the game. The first one occurs right after the MC is named.
All old saves were deleted before starting this version. There was nothing from the previous version that would effect this game. I did not go beyond the first 10 errors because it became far to difficult to move forward at all.

I hope this helps.
 
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mercury

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The new release is out. I hope people enjoy it more than the last!
Is the release in the OP the same file you released? If so it has a ton of junk in that doesn't need to be there. I'd suggest you look into .
  • No reason to include unren, especially if you are including the .rpy files and not packaging them into .rpa's. (Also decomp.cab and other related crap)
  • You included all the documentation for NQTR. You shouldn't include their wiki, README.md, etc
  • The renpy powershell script in bin is also something I've not seen before, usualy in windows you just run the .exe file so not sure what purpose it serves.
  • The console dir seems like a cheat/console enable script, which is a weird thing to include, normally you would just set those options (or they would be set to false and someone would later include the console enable cheat script)
If some/all of that wasn't you... then WTF is the uploader thinking?

Edit, after playing:

As far as the game itself, it's also a bit rough...

The plot is very sudden and is basically a series of non sequiturs. The whole interrogation scene was the MC spouting a bunch of stuff that we as the player didn't know/never saw, and certainly didn't know was relevant. The nurse in that scene said something about a "satisfying conclusion" 3 times in that scene, nevermind that phrase in general being an AI slop-ism you get when the AI doesn't want to push the scene/plot/smut forward itself.

It's also weird how you use the MC's dialogue with (emotions) prefixed or *actions in asterisks* and such. Typically those would be narration or set apart with stylistic differences...

e.g. Instead of this

Code:
    mc "A sudden alert flickers on the screen—a glimmer of red in a sea of green indicators. The warp drive's core stabilization system is malfunctioning."
    "Without it, the Ark would be grounded, its inhabitants doomed to share the fate of the Earth they so desperately seek to escape."
    mc "Well, well... what have we here?"
    "A critical system failure, and only I have the knowledge to fix it. If I play this right, I could turn the tables. It's now or never..."
    # MC joins the crew
    show ruined_city
    mc "With a surge of adrenaline, I realized this might be my chance to leave Earth behind and embark on a new adventure among the stars."
    mc "(With renewed determination) Casting aside the doubts that have shadowed me for far too long,"
    mc "I sprint towards the gathering emergency crew. Each heartbeat resonates with a mix of dread and excitement."
I'd do something more like this

Code:
    "A sudden alert flickered on the screen—a glimmer of red in a sea of green indicators. The warp drive's core stabilization system was malfunctioning."
    "Without it, the Ark would be grounded, its inhabitants doomed to share the fate of the Earth they so desperately seek to escape."
    mc "Well, well... what have we here?"
    mc "{i}A critical system failure, and only I have the knowledge to fix it. If I play this right, I could turn the tables. It's now or never...{/i}"
    # MC joins the crew
    show ruined_city
    "With a surge of adrenaline, I realized this might be my chance to leave Earth behind and embark on a new adventure among the stars."
    "I cast aside the doubts that shadowed me for far too long and moved with renewed determination"
Good luck, dev!
 
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I have decided, maybe against my better judgment, I don't know, to do a mini release tomorrow. It is going to be short and will only be advertised on here and on Patreon. It is a gesture of good will to all the people who have played and a display to you all that I am now back! These images didn't make it to the game, but I thought you might like to see them anyway.
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Download Fit Control. It will help with clipping issues like thats.
 
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blapper21

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I am going to take this in the direction of removing the navigation etc and have it as more of a story. So I'll need to redo/rework a lot of the scenes. So it maybe a while until the next release.
 
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