VN Ren'Py Heartsworn Abyss [v0.2p] [sky blue aster]

[skyblueaster]

skyblueaster Rei owns a pawnshop, right? Are we going to get some exciting Pawn Stars gameplay?

Naw, not anything heavy. More fun trivia, slightly plot-reelvant, but definitely no subplot of low-balling people and coming out with absolute steals. It surely factors into his life outlook, but we are not Pawn Star simulating ahaha. Gotta keep things on-point and manageable but there are small segments here and there.

Only dealmaking here is bargaining with ugly bastards

 

[readgms]

Yeah, just sub to the Patreon and play normally.

The NTR isn't really avoidable in a normal playthrough, it's more of a bonus that I wanted to keep secret but people insisted on knowing. I have to let the cat out of the bag otherwise the thread will derail into avoidable/unavoidable discussion haha.

I spend an ungodly amount of time writing and perfecting routes, so both will be extremely satisfying no matter which you end up on IMO. If I include something it will definitely be 100% of my effort, and I actually cried a few times writing Ch. 3 cause I felt so bad for Akari.

Anyway, my main focus will always be NTR, and the H-scenes will reflect that.

In order to have less discussion about avoidable need to add the answer in the game description in big red letters. But then it will become a boring discussion and waiting.

Judging by Akari's reaction to the train scene, the answer to the main question is clear. The prologue is really obscure and cut off, leaving questions. Why Rei and Akari's names in dialogue are not fully visible.

It will become clear when this first scene in train can be played from Akari's point of view.

"I spend an ungodly amount of time writing and perfecting routes, so both will be extremely satisfying no matter which you end up on IMO. " What does that mean? It's routes for ntr and non ntr?

 

[truonghq]

The NTR isn't really avoidable in a normal playthrough

yea, it seems to be an indispensable part of this genre. i just passed by and read the discussion, found it amusing, so i joked back. nvm, ahaha...

 

[JagOvv SmearOvv]

Naw, not anything heavy. More fun trivia, slightly plot-reelvant, but definitely no subplot of low-balling people and coming out with absolute steals. It surely factors into his life outlook, but we are not Pawn Star simulating ahaha. Gotta keep things on-point and manageable but there are small segments here and there.

Only dealmaking here is bargaining with ugly bastards

Judging from the art, text, and voice-acting, you're trying to market to both Japanese and English-speaking audiences at this stage in development. Right now, there's only Japanese voice acting. Would you commission for English voice acting provided you have the budget?

 

[skyblueaster]

Judging from the art, text, and voice-acting, you're trying to market to both Japanese and English-speaking audiences at this stage in development. Right now, there's only Japanese voice acting. Would you commission for English voice acting provided you have the budget?

IF I had the budget, I would promise the stars and everything.

Unfortunately, our budget is really small, our Patreon doesn’t even bring in enough to pay for an editor, let alone JP voice acting ahaha. I don’t do "rev-share" or make my artists work free or that nonsense—everything is paid up full and upfront at fair rates. It’s a disaster working on credit, that’s how games get canceled, and I refuse to hire anyone without the cold solid cash on hand to pay them.

Now, if some kind soul wants to pay for English voice acting, I’ll gladly take them up on it, but for now the only thing I can do is write and write, and hope more people notice us and subscribe uwu. Until then, I’m not making any promises. The same way I can’t promise "vanilla" H-scenes, cure to cancer, Tom Brady retiring, etc.

My marketing skills are zilch, so I’m totally depending on you guys’ word of mouth (and the game being good) to carry me ahahaha. If even 5% of ppl that DL'ed the game subbed to the lowest tier, we would have enough funding to finish with plenty of scenes, but that's a pipe dream haha. (Actual conversion rates are like, lower than 0.01%).

BTW, we aren’t actually marketing to JP. The game’s script is way too big for that, someone will need to fan translate or our Patreon will need to giga explode for me to do that. (I won't use MTL out of respect to my players.) We do plan to sell on DL site English if we get accepted there (hence mosaics) but the uncensored visuals will always be available on my Patreon.

This has always been a game for NTR EN fans who love slow corruption and hand-drawn anime visuals. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[skyblueaster]

In order to have less discussion about avoidable need to add the answer in the game description in big red letters. But then it will become a boring discussion and waiting.

Judging by Akari's reaction to the train scene, the answer to the main question is clear. The prologue is really obscure and cut off, leaving questions. Why Rei and Akari's names in dialogue are not fully visible.

It will become clear when this first scene in train can be played from Akari's point of view.

"I spend an ungodly amount of time writing and perfecting routes, so both will be extremely satisfying no matter which you end up on IMO. " What does that mean? It's routes for ntr and non ntr?

Whew, I’ve written quite a bit on this subject already. There is NTR and there is a more… vanilla route. Both are stellar IMO and answer different questions; you won’t get a half-ass route that ends in 5 minutes, that’s for sure. But NTR has much more scenes definitely, because that's the theme of the game.

As for me, I didn’t even want to say there was a "vanilla route," but I get asked this everywhere in DM and here, even some Patreon subs ask this, haha. So I’d rather answer the question directly instead of being annoyingly vague about it.

As for the prologue video, what has happened does indeed happen. A red-haired girl who knows R×× did get assaulted. Ch. 3 will explain everything, and you can make your judgment there whether you will accept the truth (or not).

 

[Dadash13]

good luck with the game man. I dont feel bad toward ntr, opened, played , liked. Gonna buy it when more content added.

 

[megamanx06]

Oh yeah. I upgraded the sound samples and added new H sounds in preparation for Ch3. Some of these are ASMR-tier so the quality is high. The older files were OGG, but I reasoned there are enough audiophiles and HD space now that leaving it in WAV is okay!

Doesn't make much difference to me either way, so don't take this as a recommendation/request. But from what I've seen people complain about here, it's not just HD space, it's also the download (download limits on file hosts and/or the speed of the download). Just something to keep in mind. If it gets more than about 5GB you'll probably start getting a lot more complaints

Anyway, really looking forward to playing this when there's more content! Keep up the good work

 

[skyblueaster]

What a wonderful idea. I’ll include more files so the size is 5.1GB, which is just over Mega and Pixeldrain’s free download limit.

Don’t worry, the size will be smaller in v0.3 since I will prune some unused assets! I know there are some duplicates I left in there, just in case shit hit the fan.

We won’t have to worry about size afterward, at least until I add massive amounts of animation and L2D. I hope our Patreon grows one day to that stage, since it would be a very nice problem to have, LOL.

TBF, it’s also another reason why leaks are a bit unconvenient for me sometimes. These aren’t really public releases; occasionally I’ll release things early for Patrons to experiment/act as guinea pigs. So there might be stuff like missing voice lines, a bit of glitches here and there, broken choices, etc.

Patrons are generally understanding (since they’re literally funding development). But sometimes you get a raging Joe with no attachment to the game absolutely rip everything apart because they’re judging it from the standard of completed, polished games sold in retail stores. (Which also tend to have a lot of Day 1 patches nowadays, go figure.)

I've seen strange reviews here slamming WIP games for "lack of content" when they’re only in v0.1 (and not even in beta). Some people are weirldly entitled, ahaha.

But yeah, thanks for letting me know. I’ll keep a lookout and downgrade lesser used assets/sound files if space becomes an issue in the future. I’m still laughing at the thought of increasing the file size just over free download limits. It’s such a deliciously scummy thing to do that I can definitely see some spiteful devs doing it ahaha.

 

[NTR Apologist]

I've seen strange reviews here slamming WIP games for "lack of content" when they’re only in v0.1 (and not even in beta). Some people are weirldly entitled, ahaha.

You're not wrong about the entitlement thing, unfortunately. I think it comes from a severe addiction to porn unironically lol. They've gone through every other porn game, so when they see a new game uploaded here, they don't even read what build/version it's on. They just want to get straight into cranking their hog and when it ends on a TBC, they take to the forums complaining that the dev is a hack and they're shit, etc. I honestly do kinda hope you increase the file size of the game so that you can spite people. But that'd probs lead to bad press, in turn making fewer people go to your Patreon to support you.

Have you thought about contacting a moderator or something similar of F95 to try and stop people from uploading the newest update of your game onto the forum? Or asking them to let you be the only one to upload an update of the game as it's yours to begin with? Haven't been here long enough and don't know much but I'm sure there's something to be done about this issue if you talk to someone who's in charge or near in charge of the site.

 

[sosoisdas]

everytime i open the game i get an error, anybody else has that problem?

 

[MKaiba]

Looks nice and the art is great, does the game have any actual H scenes? And does the artist have more art that can be found?

 

[skyblueaster]

Looks nice and the art is great, does the game have any actual H scenes? And does the artist have more art that can be found?

It’s a slow-burn NTR game so there aren’t any early sex scenes besides the teaser you see in the prologue. Chapter 3 is coming up which does contain a hot and heavy H-scene.

Since this is a gradual corruption game, I’m planning to make H-scenes long and high-quality, instead of numerous and all over the place. The first H-scene will be ~15k words and fully voiced. It’s longer than some AVNs really, which is why I’m spending so much time making it pefect.

Anyway, by subscribing to my

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I can commission more art. Which means more pretty things for you to look at. :3

Here is the artist's pixiv, though they haven’t updated it in a while.

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I want to do one new voiced H-scene per month, but it will be a while until we hit that goal. If any of you can afford a cup of Starbucks a month… please know that I could really use it.

 

[Enlight432]

Damn! Why does this game have the "Japanese game" tag ... I just saw this tag in all Japanese NTR games, the MC is a complete loser/stupid/pathetic, and the FMC quickly falls in love with others' dick!
Well, thank goodness the developer said this game isn't like that...

 

[skyblueaster]

Damn! Why does this game have the "Japanese game" tag ... I just saw this tag in all Japanese NTR games, the MC is a complete loser/stupid/pathetic, and the FMC quickly falls in love with others' dick!
Well, thank goodness the developer said this game isn't like that...

I hate spoiling my own game, but I can tell you definitely that the MC and heroine are not like that. :3

 

[nicoprogaming21]

dang this looks good, but its incomplete? Ill wait for more contents, I dont want my peepee to be left hanging, for now ill sub on the patron

 

[skyblueaster]

dang this looks good, but its incomplete? Ill wait for more contents, I dont want my peepee to be left hanging, for now ill sub on the patron

Ahhh, I’m working hard on Chapter 3 right now! The scenes there are quite long (and hot and voiced), but I'm working on it everyday! I should be able to provide an update soon(ish). I’m a bit of a perfectionist at times, so you’ll have to excuse me xD.

If you subbed, please let me know your Patreon email and I’ll manually assign your Discord role/deliver your rewards! (I didn’t see any notification on Patreon, so I’d like to follow up on that and make sure you get your rewards.)

 

[skyblueaster]

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[metalgears2]

I appreciate your effort.and patreon tiers look very fair. Subscribed.

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[skyblueaster]

Hehe, thank you! Let me know your thoughts~