FLOWERTHIEF'S PROFILE

v0.77 is out.
There was a game-crashing bug in the last version when the player visits the Beach, so it should be fixed now.

While I was at it, I added a header command to designate custom story evente as repeatable. So it's now possible to make your own sort of generic events. (though you still can't simulate some things, like mental notes, etc)

Other than that, nothing new in this version.

author=Marrend
Even if it was possible to just enable train encounters, if I recall my help file correctly, getting a phone number from a character disables train encounters with that character.

That's true. (I made that generic train encounter in the first place to provide more opportunities for the player to get phone #'s he doesn't yet have)

I'm uncertain if it's necessary to use OTHER slots to simulate the "chance meeting on a train" situation you might be aiming for, but you may want to be prepared for that contingency.

But the problem is how to allow the generic actions, such as "Ask name", "Ask phone #" and "Just chat". I suppose you could sort of simulate it with your own custom story event...if only the event were repeatable. Would custom repeatable events be useful to you guys? The functionality for that is already in the system, but it hasn't been tested.

flowerthief, you realize I'm saying this because Emiko is not done with the "medium build girl" that everyone else has been using? Well, there's Animetor's various postings, but Emiko differs from that style as well. Ergo, half the fun is the mystery of what she looks like.

Gotcha :)

Oh man everyone is having problems uploading. This one looks like another file type issue. The file type issues can be solved by allowing uploads of any file type, but if I do that then I have to implement user accounts or else anyone could upload nasty files. User accounts isn't hard to do. The problem is maintenance. For forever I would have spammers trying to register spam accounts, not to mention people forgetting their passwords, and everything that goes with running a site that has user accounts. Why is there never a headache-free solution :(

Thank you for the feedback.

Hmm, although it wasn't a negative for you, I do want a players to start getting non-generic endings on their second playthrough at the least. Are other players having a similar experience? Is it still the attribute checks, or is it simply that the story routes are long? (I know that Akari's route in particular is rather long, but I hoped that would be ameliorated by the fact that you only need to pump up a single attribute if you're going after her. Ditto with Tsubasa)

As for whether the girls' behavior is consistent with Japanese culture, probably not. I'm not Japanese myself so it would be impossible for me to write from their perspective. However, I have spent time in Japan, have had lots of interactions with Japanese people, not to mention have played tons of Japanese games in this genre, so hopefully it's not completely off either. There is at least one character loosely based on a real Japanese person, and at least one character loosely based on a real non-Japanese person I knew from high school. I suppose it's probably an odd mix.

You could say that the project stakes everything on the assumption that high school life in its essentials isn't all that different from culture to culture, and that users who expand onto the game by writing new characters and new story aren't and shouldn't be expected to be able to write consistent with Japanese culture.

I think the other attempts may also have been timeouts even though you didn't always see an error. Iirc the max execution time my host has set is 30 seconds. For a case like this I think all we can do is have me be the one to upload it through the back end. Let me know whenever you'd like me to do that.