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Latest story release is out!

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Episode 1, Chapter 2 is here! - The Shadow Over Willowtown by VNCraft, LoVNCraft

This update concludes the events of the first day, evening and night and ends in the morning of the 2nd day at Willowtown University. We also introduced all of the main female characters - but there a...
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Official post by VNCraft: Episode 1, Chapter 2 is here!This update concludes the events of the first day, evening and night and ends in the morning of the 2nd day at Willowtown University. We also introduced all of the main female characters - but there are still many side...
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Hello there!
I enjoyed playing the second part, and I must say again, I really like the story, it's interesting to read it now and wait to find out what happens next (y)
One question: if the game is divided into chapters and episodes, and it releases episodically, maybe there's a point in showing it somehow in the game itself? Just text with the chapter name, something like that...
From what else prompted the question, it's in a dream in the second chapter we talk to Black and Green, and the text with the person name (Black) gets lost in the background. But, to be honest, I don't see what can be done here, I can only perceive it as an unpleasant coincidence.
Also I don't know if it's because of me or not, but I was amused by Anya's new makeup - as soon as I saw it, I thought "oh, well, this is the 80s, that's for sure" :)
 
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vic-viper said:
Hello there!
I enjoyed playing the second part, and I must say again, I really like the story, it's interesting to read it now and wait to find out what happens next (y)
One question: if the game is divided into chapters and episodes, and it releases episodically, maybe there's a point in showing it somehow in the game itself? Just text with the chapter name, something like that...
From what else prompted the question, it's in a dream in the second chapter we talk to Black and Green, and the text with the person name (Black) gets lost in the background. But, to be honest, I don't see what can be done here, I can only perceive it as an unpleasant coincidence.
Also I don't know if it's because of me or not, but I was amused by Anya's new makeup - as soon as I saw it, I thought "oh, well, this is the 80s, that's for sure" :)
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Thx! So, the chapters are there only so we can have additional bonuses for our subs. :ROFLMAO:
I mean, I'm trying to end every chapter at some logical point, but they're only so we wouldn't have too big scripts. Episodes, though, have their names and they are clearly marked - like Episode 1 "Ex Oblivione".
vic-viper said:
From what else prompted the question, it's in a dream in the second chapter we talk to Black and Green, and the text with the person name (Black) gets lost in the background. But, to be honest, I don't see what can be done here, I can only perceive it as an unpleasant coincidence.
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I guess you could change the opacity of the text box? I'm sorry but I don't know what else could be done. I didn't have any visual problems, but maybe my monitor is more bright.
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Also I don't know if it's because of me or not, but I was amused by Anya's new makeup - as soon as I saw it, I thought "oh, well, this is the 80s, that's for sure" :)
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I changed her makeup because that previous one, despite looking good in theory, it never looks good in renders. But I'm glad you like it.(y)
 
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I guess you could change the opacity of the text box? I'm sorry but I don't know what else could be done. I didn't have any visual problems, but maybe my monitor is more bright.
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Yes, everything is better on the monitor, even with the screenshot I took, but on the tablet it's black on black. But, as I say, it just happened that way here, because the black color of the text makes sense there.
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vic-viper said:
Yes, everything is better on the monitor, even with the screenshot I took, but on the tablet it's black on black. But, as I say, it just happened that way here, because the black color of the text makes sense there.
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Yeah, Android is a special case. We spent 3 days fixing some unexpected bugs for Android before releasing this update.
 
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ivo-ivic said:
Thx! So, the chapters are there only so we can have additional bonuses for our subs. :ROFLMAO:
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vic-viper said:
One question: if the game is divided into chapters and episodes, and it releases episodically, maybe there's a point in showing it somehow in the game itself? Just text with the chapter name, something like that...
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Shut up Lov!!! (insert shaking screen here) :ROFLMAO:

In reality the chapters are there so releases are faster for our subs...its like them getting early access for supporting us, nobody wants to pay a monthly subscription and see no content 🤷‍♂️

The game is meant to be episodic, and aside from us possible giving it to people who are actually playing it for beta testing or doing something like a translation ;) after the next chapter it will only be released for free per episode.
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From what else prompted the question, it's in a dream in the second chapter we talk to Black and Green, and the text with the person name (Black) gets lost in the background. But, to be honest, I don't see what can be done here, I can only perceive it as an unpleasant coincidence.
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It is unfortunately, I caught it myself testing the Spanish Translation yesterday...but the last time I played through it I could see it clearly, so its a side effect of the background dialogue box color/opacity and the font (particularly the outlines matter here), I'm planning to see if I can tweak the color so it still looks black but it shows up more clearly.

The other option is giving each character a colored box behind the names, if ivo feels up for picking contrasting colors, I thought to invert the name color in code, but in certain situatuons that ends up looking worse so it would need to be done manually...I can add the background if he feels like doing color selection...i'll see what he thinks about the idea.
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Also I don't know if it's because of me or not, but I was amused by Anya's new makeup - as soon as I saw it, I thought "oh, well, this is the 80s, that's for sure" :)
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Try zooming in on her old eye shadow in the early scenes on the boat...it looks detached from her face for some odd reason we didnt notice till many long renders later...VERY neccessary sacrifice :LOL:
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I enjoyed playing the second part, and I must say again, I really like the story, it's interesting to read it now and wait to find out what happens next (y)
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Glad your enjoying the game, not many people really like visual novels for the novel aspect like they did when the concept first hit...its a breath of fresh air to have someone we know playing that actually does ;)
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Yes, everything is better on the monitor, even with the screenshot I took, but on the tablet it's black on black. But, as I say, it just happened that way here, because the black color of the text makes sense there.
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Does changing the dialogue not work on your tablet? Can you show me that next time you happen to load it up?
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Yeah, Android is a special case. We spent 3 days fixing some unexpected bugs for Android before releasing this update.
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He's not kidding there...if I was a wiser lazier person I would stop porting it before fans expect it...lucky for you and for them...i'm more of a stubborn mule when it comes to my programming, i'll check it out though and see if anything can be done.
 
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Reminds me of this.
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That is me...but I enjoy my programming like he enjoys fishing ;)

I may never see a dime from all this, thats never mattered to me.

I refused a job from Microsoft because I thought it would destroy that love...or i'd likely be loaded right now.

Now if I could just escape this dump and find me a nice beach...i'd be happy as shit
 
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