Friday, March 23, 2012

First front to back playthrough

Getting close.  Was just able to complete our first playthrough front to back and get through all the content.  Ran into a load of bugs on the way, but was able to fix all of them and never have to use any manual switches to fix anything.

Normally this would happen a bit earlier in the dev cycle, but 0.5 has a different design then most prior releases.  Generally each release focuses primarily on a single event chain which is long and winding.  0.5, from a dev standpoint, is far more like a batch of 15 simple strings.  Each string in itself is easy to check, but what proved the biggest challenge was binding them together properly where everything works as it should and the it all feels natural. That part is done, mostly just oddball grammar bugs, the always present /n[1] (which needs to be \n[1] to work) and a few missing faces.

I may throw in a few more scenes while my testers try to find what I missed, but Harem is over 140 scenes with what 0.5 adds in.

April release is almost a certainty.

5 comments:

  1. I can't access the game. The RGSS202E.dll could not be found and when I try to open the RGSS2A file it says it is in unknown format or damaged. Could you please help.

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  2. sorry nevermind I got it working.

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  3. I just want to encourage you, this is the most tasteful, wonderfully written h-rpg I've ever played. It draws you in for more than just the porn and keeps you coming back for more. The storyline is excellent, the characters have depth, the world is full, and not too big or expansive (taking forever to walk to just the next area etc). And the H-scenes are imaginative, diverse, and sexy. I never knew that an H game written from the standpoint of a guy could be this awesome, and it is double what playing as a girl is like. Please never stop your imagination, you have no idea how much happiness this game brought me.

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  4. I can feel it, it's any day now, isn't it?

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  5. Yes. Were just doing a few last playthroughs trying to catch the oddball out of order bugs. If no red flags come up, release should be in a few days.

    And thank you for the kind words. Ut really does keep us motivated to continue developing the game.

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