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In-game Achievements Coming (work in progress) - The Shadow Over Willowtown by VNCraft, LoVNCraft

A preview of an early WIP towards adding Achievements into the game prior to the Steam release...since I'm making the base for it from scratch and reworking the gallery section is my first priority, i...
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For the lazy people.


That popup is custom (and ugly a/f IMO--intend to change it)...obviously not steam since we don't have steam incorporated yet...but the code works with the client backend once we do.
 
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oldwhiskeypete said:
Try adding that Trump Brp-Brp noise as the unlock sound.
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What trump noise? I've been living under a rock the last month or two so if its a recent jab I probably missed it.

I haven't got to sounds yet obviously, but it certainly won't be silent at the end :LOL:

I literally did that just to see if it was possible BEFORE we included the Steam Libraries...once I did I decided it would be better to let subscribers unlock them now so they don't need to restart later...but i'm still too busy to really go full throttle into it right now.
 
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contdejocuri-ded said:
It should have been a free upgrade imo, nobody wanted a new version of the first game
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Nobody puts effort into free stuff these days, sadly, unless the original game no longer functioned...and even then, thats probably a pipe dream.

It pains me to say it, but most developers only care about making a profit...especially larger companies. When your paying employees it complicates things, same as it does if you end up at odds working with someone else--this was actually the first thing me and ivo covered before even discussing the game plans, our expectations and our morale grounds about subscription based income and half finished VNs etc. etc.

If we didn't have the same distaste for people basically getting shafted after supporting developers we probably wouldn't be working together. One of the biggest concerns we shared was something bringing a wedge between us that caused the game to become a dispute or a difference in values making things a mess...obviously we realized we felt the same about those situations and had no reason to worry.

But the reason I have a disgust for most developers isn't really a lack of skill, its a lack of skill born from a lack of love for programming itself, most book or school taught devs are just in the field to make a buck and most projects are based on that simple concept.

These days its just getting sad, people re-releasing DOS games on Steam with emulators and zero fixes, no support, etc.

To hope a company will release free anything is pretty wishful thinking.

One of the hardest things for me personally...is trying to give our subscribers benefits that don't ruin the actual game for free users...like achievements, something that would be included if you paid for the game on steam but otherwise unnecessary to enjoy the game...but we're a unique pair in the gaming world :LOL:
 
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whatnitrus said:
Nobody puts effort into free stuff these days, sadly, unless the original game no longer functioned...and even then, thats probably a pipe dream.

It pains me to say it, but most developers only care about making a profit...especially larger companies. When your paying employees it complicates things, same as it does if you end up at odds working with someone else--this was actually the first thing me and ivo covered before even discussing the game plans, our expectations and our morale grounds about subscription based income and half finished VNs etc. etc.

If we didn't have the same distaste for people basically getting shafted after supporting developers we probably wouldn't be working together. One of the biggest concerns we shared was something bringing a wedge between us that caused the game to become a dispute or a difference in values making things a mess...obviously we realized we felt the same about those situations and had no reason to worry.

But the reason I have a disgust for most developers isn't really a lack of skill, its a lack of skill born from a lack of love for programming itself, most book or school taught devs are just in the field to make a buck and most projects are based on that simple concept.

These days its just getting sad, people re-releasing DOS games on Steam with emulators and zero fixes, no support, etc.

To hope a company will release free anything is pretty wishful thinking.

One of the hardest things for me personally...is trying to give our subscribers benefits that don't ruin the actual game for free users...like achievements, something that would be included if you paid for the game on steam but otherwise unnecessary to enjoy the game...but we're a unique pair in the gaming world :LOL:
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whatnitrus said:
Have you paid for a single game in your library in the last year? Serious curiosity here :LOL:

*not in credit.
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Not with money. As you guessed, I do use credit every now and then. I don't see it as necessary expense, so don't. If I want to play something I have piracy, unless it's MP.

The first game I paid for on Steam, and the reason I even made a Steam account in the first place was to play a MP that looked interesting. I spent a few hundred hours playing it, and enjoyed it, but it was buggy and my ingame banked items went missing and were not replaced. Obviously you save your favorite items for the bank. You could get looted in the game. Meanwhile, the game itself looted me. Then they removed the only server I got decent ping to and the people playing on the server moved to a different one, and I didn't like the new people. So quit the game.

I don't pay for internet or phone either. Although in the case of the phone, I do have to pay for calls I make, but I can receive them, as well as messages, free.
 
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ausf said:
Not with money. As you guessed, I do use credit every now and then. I don't see it as necessary expense, so don't. If I want to play something I have piracy, unless it's MP.

The first game I paid for on Steam, and the reason I even made a Steam account in the first place was to play a MP that looked interesting. I spent a few hundred hours playing it, and enjoyed it, but it was buggy and my ingame banked items went missing and were not replaced. Obviously you save your favorite items for the bank. You could get looted in the game. Meanwhile, the game itself looted me. Then they removed the only server I got decent ping to and the people playing on the server moved to a different one, and I didn't like the new people. So quit the game.

I don't pay for internet or phone either. Although in the case of the phone, I do have to pay for calls I make, but I can receive them, as well as messages, free.
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