I’m at the point where Tom escaped in act 2 and need to search the church. I talked to nyx but stuck at lomeg (keeps punching), do I need something for lomeg or I need to do something different?
you have to advance their clues, for Morgana its solve the murder mystery that is linked to Pixie's affection, for chastity it involves the Keys in the Nexus.
Friend let me ask you, does the Nexus key option release along with the Nexus, or do I need to do a mission to release it? The Nexus key option doesn't appear in my game, could it be a bug?
Preciso de ajuda. tenho que ir atrás de Tom na igreja, mas primeiro preciso ganhar a confiança de Morgana e Chastity. como faço para ganhar a confiança delas?
if you want a real answer, probably not that many. Diseases aren't universal so any STDs these magical creatures have to worry about may not be capable of affecting humans...
What a fun game. Great art work truly loveable characters . The daycare is just plain fun to do . At first I did not want to " keep the kids" but is a hoot to do so.
I don't know if it's a bug but although the trickster appeared in the bar, I can't progress in Lily's story (it's been 50 days). I can't upgrade the bar and can't progress in the story. Can you help me?
Did you complete the date requirment ? I am doing it a 2nd time in another saved game and that is what u have to do is to have a succesfull date 3 times. Not just a date. She has to like it, not be looking at her watch.
Gwen will not work, so you have to charm Jessica, Madison or Veronica. These are in my call list. Will require some play time doing this currently in one of my save points.
Okay I have all districts cleared except church and train station. Yellow flaged including outskirts on the war map. And there I have stayed. A u tube fellow calls them episodes sorry. So what am I missing ? Playing up another saved game while this one is stuck. I can supply screen shots. Using Autowin in act 3. Cannot do anything to train station or Church. No Chasity .
Chastity appears very early on in Act Three, and it's just for a quick event. There's no way to get her to join permanently just yet.
I'll take a look back over the code to see if there's anything that could be preventing her trigger from activating but if you're using an unofficial version (eg. a translation) then there may be bugs with it.
As for the train station and the church, you can't conquer them yet (for the reasons revealed when you tried to conquer the other side of the bridge).
When you update on Android there is no "old" game - it gets overwritten by the new one. If you mean the .apk files then yes, they can all be deleted after installing the game :)
I'm sorry you don't like the combat mechanics - you can't please all the people all the time - but just so you're aware, you can activate the "autowin" function from the War Room, which allows you to bypass all the fights as well as select either "HP Win" or "WP Win" so you can see your preferred victory screen.
Yes, there's two different ways to get permanent upgrades and a whole pile of ways to get temporary upgrades.
The two ways to permanently upgrade your dice are:
1. Fight and conquer locations. Half of them will give you a unique recipe and the other half will permanently upgrade one of your dice
2. After conquering the bridge and doing the evening scouting event there, you can buy Elixirs from the person who is unlocked that give you a permanent boost (being vague here to avoid spoilers)
There is also a lot of different ways to get temporary boosts and other advantages, but you should discover those through exploration :)
Only one elixir can be active at a time, but between the elixirs, the temp boosts (personal meals and swimming in the Manor pool being the simplest ones to grab) and judicious use of the Goon Tactics you should be able to hammer through all of the Town fights without much difficulty (though I would advise saving Ophelia for last)! :)
While downloading the 20.7 version idk if its an error but i got a notification of prohibited but then everything is normal until the installation of the game says it couldn't be installed on android and its recently
Neither of these is an issue with the game files - the first sounds like your ISP or firewall is being overly-cautious, and the second sounds like you don't have enough free storage space on your phone :)
I have been playing this game as of recently and love what you have done with it in these past few updates, keep up the good work, and I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
Okay it seems like the hearts are locked because the game isn't done ? But I am still not able to get any character pregnant, because of "someone" ?I am so lost
I have had that on and off a lot. Best guess is it's a stability issue with itch.io. I had to go back and fourth between wifi and data when it happened. Once I started using a mesh, it hasn't occurred since; so there's that too (especially useful if you have wide troubles with stability).
I'm not sure what you're asking, sorry. If autowin is active then all fights should be skipped, but if one isn't being skipped for some reason then you can simply drag the dice into the slots you want them to go in and progress the scene (and let me know who you're fighting when the autowin stops working).
I assume this is Android? It may be that your drives are out of date. If you have any pending updates for your OS, try applying them. After that (or instead of that if you have no pending updates) completely power down your phone and then turn it back on. It worked for someone in the comments a few days back. Good luck! :)
This Game is one of the most interesting games i have play,sorry My English is nota very well, and the story is SO good man, the story the characters the thing with the other versión of the Main character are do interesting and the other world or desmessness of the Fey girls and all the scenes, one of the scenes i like is the act 3 fight, and i feel so sad for Gwen.
Well she did enjoy the ice cream cone at the beach so that would definitely work, yes :) Honestly, you could probably just draw an ice cream on a piece of paper and it has a decent chance of working...
I recently had to replay through the whole game cuz I fucked up transfering data from my old computer to new one, and idk if its a bug or I just don't remember correctly, but didn't Gwen and Chloe have more interactions? (not the sex ones) The hint says that there's nothing more to do with Chloe after the assasin thing.
Gwen and Chloe have a lot of interactions, but they're mostly side content or tied in with other characters. Their personal storylines will take center stage in Act Three :)
Gwen and Chloe's? Play through other characters storylines, and be sure to explore as much as possible. For example, there's a special event with Gwen and Jessica in Act Two in the living room on a certain night...
You can simply move the 'saves' folder from your old computer to your new one - but make sure it's the entire folder, including the 'persistent' file within it! :)
WHERE ARE SAVES LOCATED ON PC?
PC > Local Disk (usually C:) > Users > USERNAME > AppData > Roaming > RenPy > CorruptedKingdoms-1547378918
WHERE ARE SAVES LOCATED ON MAC?
~/Library/RenPy/CorruptedKingdoms
WHERE ARE SAVES LOCATED ON LINUX?
~/. renpy/CorruptedKingdoms/
WHERE ARE SAVES LOCATED ON ANDROID?
Android/data/com.domain.corruptedkingdoms/saves
NOTE:If you're running Android 11+ then Google has hidden your data folder. To access it you need to connect your phone to your PC with a USB cable or use an app like Solid Explorer or X-Plore to give you access to the folder again.
Honestly i was very sceptic at first, but it was awesome! But i will have to use pre-act 3 saves to see what will happens with LOMEG after update, right?
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :) LOMEG will be making another appearance in Act Three, so no need to return to Act Two to experience all that sweet, sweet cardboard mech action ;)
Fish Girls appear to be trapped on the other side of the tunnel... oh no!
Lyx asked me to thank you on her behalf and hand you this gift. Don't worry about the ticking sound, I'm sure it's fine.
bro, i must say the game is very good an' all but can you please make quest hints, more to the point in act 3. i was playin through it and had to talk to Emma to progress further but on the quest tab it continued showing "conquer all the town districts". had to spend way longer than i would've liked to figure this out.
(i know i am dumb to not have been able to find such an obvious thing, but would really appreciate if you understand my concern, believe me there are many others like me out there that will be stuck at points like these)
I will be working LEADS (the quest hint system from Act One and Two) back into Act Three starting from the next update onwards. Hopefully that will help out!
Would the overall speed of the finished product come out sooner without weekly releases and by how much would you think?
Ultimately a pointless question as food, water and home is a daily necessity paid monthly but I do wanna know if and how much the weekly release system delays the final product regardless of how unviable a non-tested full release is.
well i think in both cases the speed of development would remain almost the same, might even be a little faster for weekly updates due to constant pressure to meet deadlines.....
but as they say "there's a downside to every good thing"
the weekly updates may lead to a rather rushed game with the creator not being able to bring out all his imagination and is bound by the constrains of time....
(the above statement is true for almost all games but i'll rather make an exception for this game as Archadian has done a great job of cooping with the stress and developing the game to its full extent.)
(IN SHORT WEEKLY UPDATES ARE BETTER IN CASE OF THIS GAME)
Thanks for the awesome reply! I almost wish I didn't hop on 15 minutes after arcadian's so I could appreciate this one lmao. I guess the difference really is studio size, when theres more variables and perspectives better to sort those out before sending out test products.
I'm a solo dev, so there's a limit to how much I can do in any given amount of time, and aside from the actual game creation I also have to monitor and maintain the Discord server, handle tech support questions, marketing, cross-promotions with other creators, keep my skills up to date, answer messages, host livestreams and - finally - scratch out a few hours for myself here and there so I don't burn out.
These things remain constant no matter my update schedule, and take up a significant amount of time. As for the work on the game itself, it's a balancing act:
Shorter gaps between updates keeps me on my toes as I can't slack off even a little bit, ensuring that I work to my fullest every day. However, it has the side effect that larger events (100+ images) are incredibly difficult to do, and aggravate the nerve damage in my arm.
Longer gaps between updates, on the other hand, allow me to create larger and fuller updates (because I can space the 100+ renders out over multiple days) but have the downside that without a looming deadline it becomes a lot easier to put things off.
Either way, the game should be in beta in a year and completely finished within two. I hope :)
I should really give slack to the other games I don't see as quite the same quality on this site :/ not that I attack anyone but I must underestimate the work put in a lot.
If you want some extra time for yourself or work I wouldn't mind helping out with some mundane tasks if you have a position anywhere, i'm used to moderating chatrooms and forum discussions but regardless I digress & thanks for all the hard work! I would also like to ask if you have anywhere you'd recommend for someone to start in this niche industry of a niche industry as you really seem to have it all together but I don't wanna take advantage of how attentive you are to your comments so no pressure or anything.Cheers!
Hey, sorry for not replying! It's very easy for messages to get buried on Itch so I tend to miss anything too far down. A more reliable way to get in touch with me is on Discord :)
As for recommendations on where to start, I'm not sure if I'm the best person to ask as I'm entirely self-taught and my method was to download a bunch of free SDK (software development kits, for example Ren'py, Unreal Engine, Godot, etc.) and spend a few days playing around with each one, and going on YouTube for tutorials.
Once I found one that I liked and I thought I could make a game with (in this case Ren'py) I made a couple little prototypes to familiarize myself with the systems I'd need to make CK.
That done, I jumped into making CK. I expected to only have a dozen players, which would have given me a lot of leeway to experiment and make mistakes, but, well, it didn't really work out that way... :P
Anyway, that's an extremely truncated version of my method. If you'd like to know more about it, send me a DM on Discord or catch one of my livestreams - I'm always happy to go into my process in realtime when asked :)
Yeah, she is in the manor but her room wasn’t implemented.
It’s weird, in early act 3 the idea was to show people around the manor, so she’s in the east hallway during Mondays mornings and in the afternoon she takes a bath.
It’s one of those things that needs fixing but it’s not high on the list.
It's the "not high on the list" thing :P My priority is the more popular characters, plus story beats, so right now so she's on the "to add when I have some extra time" list, and I just haven't had any extra time recently.
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I’m at the point where Tom escaped in act 2 and need to search the church. I talked to nyx but stuck at lomeg (keeps punching), do I need something for lomeg or I need to do something different?
The game tells you what you need to do - train up your strength.
Need help. I have to go after Tom at the church, but first I need to gain Morgana and Chastity's trust. How do I gain their trust?
you have to advance their clues, for Morgana its solve the murder mystery that is linked to Pixie's affection, for chastity it involves the Keys in the Nexus.
thank you friend
Friend let me ask you, does the Nexus key option release along with the Nexus, or do I need to do a mission to release it? The Nexus key option doesn't appear in my game, could it be a bug?
The nexus appears after progressing with Pixie a bit.
At some point you get invited to visit the other council girls.
I have already released the Nexus, but the Nexus key option does not appear.
Nexus keys unlock as part of the ELDRITCH branch of the main story.
Is there a way to find lynx in act 3 right now or no?
There is in the early access version released today over on Patreon and Subscribestar :) For non-supporters you'll get the update next Monday.
Nice I was actually curious about that myself
What does backward mean?
Just put think backwards as the key and it should work
Awesome game! 😁🎮
Thank you! :)
Question, how do I unlock the character Max Love, because the only characters that I got to max is Lilly and Annie so far.
Follow their "HINTS", located in the bottom-right of their Character Cards :)
How do you find Chloe and the Goblin Witch in the Outskirts?
Das Spiel ist echt sehr schön gemacht ! Aber wie finde ich chole beim Exploren ?
Preciso de ajuda. tenho que ir atrás de Tom na igreja, mas primeiro preciso ganhar a confiança de Morgana e Chastity. como faço para ganhar a confiança delas?
Probably a dumb question but considering how many species the MC has fucked, how many STDs does he have?
if you want a real answer, probably not that many. Diseases aren't universal so any STDs these magical creatures have to worry about may not be capable of affecting humans...
Underground tunnels. I'm lost
Follow the flame or buy the map from the merchant
Hi, this is probably a stupid question but how do I get to the club? I'm trying to progress the story for the trickster
buy the pub and buy the club upgrade then the option to go there should appear
Hey, a bug that just appeared with version 20.7 pixie just sort of chills in every gallery thing
Um i can't find Lyx in act 3
What a fun game. Great art work truly loveable characters . The daycare is just plain fun to do . At first I did not want to " keep the kids" but is a hoot to do so.
Could Kana and child be included for beach dates?
Hi
I don't know if it's a bug but although the trickster appeared in the bar, I can't progress in Lily's story (it's been 50 days). I can't upgrade the bar and can't progress in the story. Can you help me?
Did you complete the date requirment ? I am doing it a 2nd time in another saved game and that is what u have to do is to have a succesfull date 3 times. Not just a date. She has to like it, not be looking at her watch.
Gwen will not work, so you have to charm Jessica, Madison or Veronica. These are in my call list. Will require some play time doing this currently in one of my save points.
No I mean I can't have a date in the bar because I can't unlock the club upgrade
You have to buy the bar first from Jessica's office. Then you can buy the club upgrade
I think I am stuck on episode 97. Been 102 play days in act 3 ( 648 total ) and no sign of Chasity or any advances.
Thank you in advance.
Episode 97? The game doesn't have episodes... to get Chastity to appear, simply do battles and conquer locations :)
Okay I have all districts cleared except church and train station. Yellow flaged including outskirts on the war map. And there I have stayed. A u tube fellow calls them episodes sorry. So what am I missing ? Playing up another saved game while this one is stuck. I can supply screen shots. Using Autowin in act 3. Cannot do anything to train station or Church. No Chasity .
Thank you!!!
Chastity appears very early on in Act Three, and it's just for a quick event. There's no way to get her to join permanently just yet.
I'll take a look back over the code to see if there's anything that could be preventing her trigger from activating but if you're using an unofficial version (eg. a translation) then there may be bugs with it.
As for the train station and the church, you can't conquer them yet (for the reasons revealed when you tried to conquer the other side of the bridge).
So some more updates,,,cool. I was afraid I meesed up somewhere and missed Chasity. I am doing another complete run of act 2 will wait for upates.
Thank you. This is going to be fun. Enjoying your story lines and all of the character development.
I should have the correct version of the game as I downloaded it from itch.io . Update with the link here.
Do you plan to add languages to the game?
Yes - once the game goes into beta I will be hiring translators to adapt the game into multiple different languages :)
Am I the only one who's afraid that if I invite Hana to sleep in my bed I'm going to wake up to Ard glaring at me?
No spoilers but, uh, your fears may or may not be justified... ;)
Oh God! >o< Lol, I really appreciate your sense of humor, this game has been a lot of fun so far so thank you for your efforts!
Haha, well thank you! That's always really nice to hear :)
To be fair, if your cock doesn't bend you might want to see a doctor about that ;P
Im new to this so where is the release post
Right above your message :) And the download button is right above that.
When i update the game on android can i delete the old one from files after the update or no ?
When you update on Android there is no "old" game - it gets overwritten by the new one. If you mean the .apk files then yes, they can all be deleted after installing the game :)
Okey thanks very much
Whats new about 0.20.7 update
The entire changelog is contained in the release post.
Was great until season 3 and they totally changed all the combat mechanics making it lame and unplayable. Guess I'll never see how the story ended.
I'm sorry you don't like the combat mechanics - you can't please all the people all the time - but just so you're aware, you can activate the "autowin" function from the War Room, which allows you to bypass all the fights as well as select either "HP Win" or "WP Win" so you can see your preferred victory screen.
Autowin?
I am so happy, I really wanted to experience the rest of the story so that is a total win!
It seems you can please a lot of the people most of the time.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it!
My pleasure, and I'm happy you're happy! :)
Use Auto win feature. Works good
I do not enjoy the dice either so I use auto win,
Bro if you hid the H scenes you could make this a five-star anime.
I would watch this .
Haha, well thank you! If you know of any anime directors with low standards, point them my way! ;)
Um do you have to start a new game to see the update stuff.
No ! If you're on MacOS, Delete the previous version and start the new one and it will work instantly. I think it'll be the same for windows
Thanks
is there a way to permanently upgrade the dice beyond d4s?
Yes, there's two different ways to get permanent upgrades and a whole pile of ways to get temporary upgrades.
The two ways to permanently upgrade your dice are:
1. Fight and conquer locations. Half of them will give you a unique recipe and the other half will permanently upgrade one of your dice
2. After conquering the bridge and doing the evening scouting event there, you can buy Elixirs from the person who is unlocked that give you a permanent boost (being vague here to avoid spoilers)
There is also a lot of different ways to get temporary boosts and other advantages, but you should discover those through exploration :)
had to ask cause I got tired of losing to a certain someone once you deal with the enemies of the area and go visit out the town.
are the elixers limited to only having one active at a time or can you use multiple
Only one elixir can be active at a time, but between the elixirs, the temp boosts (personal meals and swimming in the Manor pool being the simplest ones to grab) and judicious use of the Goon Tactics you should be able to hammer through all of the Town fights without much difficulty (though I would advise saving Ophelia for last)! :)
While downloading the 20.7 version idk if its an error but i got a notification of prohibited but then everything is normal until the installation of the game says it couldn't be installed on android and its recently
Neither of these is an issue with the game files - the first sounds like your ISP or firewall is being overly-cautious, and the second sounds like you don't have enough free storage space on your phone :)
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i finally installed it after checking the space so it was it thx 👍
Glad you got it working! :)
I have been playing this game as of recently and love what you have done with it in these past few updates, keep up the good work, and I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it! :) I hope you continue to enjoy everything I have planned for the future (and into the sequels)!
I really don't understand why I have the last heart locked on each character ? Help please !
Okay it seems like the hearts are locked because the game isn't done ? But I am still not able to get any character pregnant, because of "someone" ?I am so lost
The final locked heart will be unlocked in Act Three (not in the game yet) but that's not what is stopping you from getting the girls pregnant.
To activate the pregnancy mechanic, you need to have accessed the Nexus at least once. Continue with the main storyline and you'll get it :)
Yes I finally figured it out ! Thank you ! I was kind of desperate, I looked all over internet and the wiki and couldn't find information about it :/
Sorry about that - the Wiki is maintained by players, and so it relies entirely on people submitting content for it to stay up to date and relevant :P
Yes no worries ! It just took me a while to figure it out :)
Is anyone else having issues downloading the game on andriod. Won't let me download' it get about half way and then stops.
I have had that on and off a lot. Best guess is it's a stability issue with itch.io. I had to go back and fourth between wifi and data when it happened. Once I started using a mesh, it hasn't occurred since; so there's that too (especially useful if you have wide troubles with stability).
Either your ISP is unstable, or your WiFi is, or Itch is having server issues. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do in either case :/
ive been using autowin in the war (i know i know) im trying to save kana and got to the screen with three dice. how do i advance?
nothing wrong with auto-win.. I found some of those encounters to have odds stacked against you haha
I'm not sure what you're asking, sorry. If autowin is active then all fights should be skipped, but if one isn't being skipped for some reason then you can simply drag the dice into the slots you want them to go in and progress the scene (and let me know who you're fighting when the autowin stops working).
Man im low-key kinda sad it won't even stay open for 30 seconds without immediately crashing
I assume this is Android? It may be that your drives are out of date. If you have any pending updates for your OS, try applying them. After that (or instead of that if you have no pending updates) completely power down your phone and then turn it back on. It worked for someone in the comments a few days back. Good luck! :)
didn't work:'(
This Game is one of the most interesting games i have play,sorry My English is nota very well, and the story is SO good man, the story the characters the thing with the other versión of the Main character are do interesting and the other world or desmessness of the Fey girls and all the scenes, one of the scenes i like is the act 3 fight, and i feel so sad for Gwen.
Your English is great, so don't worry about it :)
And thank you for the kind words! I really appreciate it, and I'm glad you're enjoying the game so much! That really means a lot to me.
Quick question: hypothetically... if pixie once again stole my ice cream. What kind of ice cream should I use for a trap?
Edit: I believe she's never seen the ice cream drum sticks before. Imma try that.
Well she did enjoy the ice cream cone at the beach so that would definitely work, yes :) Honestly, you could probably just draw an ice cream on a piece of paper and it has a decent chance of working...
I recently had to replay through the whole game cuz I fucked up transfering data from my old computer to new one, and idk if its a bug or I just don't remember correctly, but didn't Gwen and Chloe have more interactions? (not the sex ones) The hint says that there's nothing more to do with Chloe after the assasin thing.
Gwen and Chloe have a lot of interactions, but they're mostly side content or tied in with other characters. Their personal storylines will take center stage in Act Three :)
How to unlock these scenes ?
Gwen and Chloe's? Play through other characters storylines, and be sure to explore as much as possible. For example, there's a special event with Gwen and Jessica in Act Two in the living room on a certain night...
Happy timezone!
How would I go about transferring save data from an old computer to a new one?
I have the same question
You can simply move the 'saves' folder from your old computer to your new one - but make sure it's the entire folder, including the 'persistent' file within it! :)
WHERE ARE SAVES LOCATED ON PC?
PC > Local Disk (usually C:) > Users > USERNAME > AppData > Roaming > RenPy > CorruptedKingdoms-1547378918
WHERE ARE SAVES LOCATED ON MAC?
~/Library/RenPy/CorruptedKingdoms
WHERE ARE SAVES LOCATED ON LINUX?
~/. renpy/CorruptedKingdoms/
WHERE ARE SAVES LOCATED ON ANDROID?
Android/data/com.domain.corruptedkingdoms/saves
NOTE: If you're running Android 11+ then Google has hidden your data folder. To access it you need to connect your phone to your PC with a USB cable or use an app like Solid Explorer or X-Plore to give you access to the folder again.
I think, translate the folder of the Game in a USB and Transfer for the new computers but You have to download Game and replace the folder
Honestly i was very sceptic at first, but it was awesome!
But i will have to use pre-act 3 saves to see what will happens with LOMEG after update, right?
I wonder what happened to fish girls in act 3
Lyx is the best girl!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :) LOMEG will be making another appearance in Act Three, so no need to return to Act Two to experience all that sweet, sweet cardboard mech action ;)
Fish Girls appear to be trapped on the other side of the tunnel... oh no!
Lyx asked me to thank you on her behalf and hand you this gift. Don't worry about the ticking sound, I'm sure it's fine.
bro, i must say the game is very good an' all but can you please make quest hints, more to the point in act 3. i was playin through it and had to talk to Emma to progress further but on the quest tab it continued showing "conquer all the town districts". had to spend way longer than i would've liked to figure this out.
(i know i am dumb to not have been able to find such an obvious thing, but would really appreciate if you understand my concern, believe me there are many others like me out there that will be stuck at points like these)
but all this aside 9/10 game for me.....
kudos
I'm glad you're enjoying the game! :)
I will be working LEADS (the quest hint system from Act One and Two) back into Act Three starting from the next update onwards. Hopefully that will help out!
Would the overall speed of the finished product come out sooner without weekly releases and by how much would you think?
Ultimately a pointless question as food, water and home is a daily necessity paid monthly but I do wanna know if and how much the weekly release system delays the final product regardless of how unviable a non-tested full release is.
well i think in both cases the speed of development would remain almost the same, might even be a little faster for weekly updates due to constant pressure to meet deadlines.....
but as they say "there's a downside to every good thing"
the weekly updates may lead to a rather rushed game with the creator not being able to bring out all his imagination and is bound by the constrains of time....
(the above statement is true for almost all games but i'll rather make an exception for this game as Archadian has done a great job of cooping with the stress and developing the game to its full extent.)
(IN SHORT WEEKLY UPDATES ARE BETTER IN CASE OF THIS GAME)
hope u got ur answer, kudos
Thanks for the awesome reply! I almost wish I didn't hop on 15 minutes after arcadian's so I could appreciate this one lmao.
I guess the difference really is studio size, when theres more variables and perspectives better to sort those out before sending out test products.
lolpokemon is pretty much correct :)
I'm a solo dev, so there's a limit to how much I can do in any given amount of time, and aside from the actual game creation I also have to monitor and maintain the Discord server, handle tech support questions, marketing, cross-promotions with other creators, keep my skills up to date, answer messages, host livestreams and - finally - scratch out a few hours for myself here and there so I don't burn out.
These things remain constant no matter my update schedule, and take up a significant amount of time. As for the work on the game itself, it's a balancing act:
Shorter gaps between updates keeps me on my toes as I can't slack off even a little bit, ensuring that I work to my fullest every day. However, it has the side effect that larger events (100+ images) are incredibly difficult to do, and aggravate the nerve damage in my arm.
Longer gaps between updates, on the other hand, allow me to create larger and fuller updates (because I can space the 100+ renders out over multiple days) but have the downside that without a looming deadline it becomes a lot easier to put things off.
Either way, the game should be in beta in a year and completely finished within two. I hope :)
Damn, Gamedev rough.
I should really give slack to the other games I don't see as quite the same quality on this site :/ not that I attack anyone but I must underestimate the work put in a lot.
If you want some extra time for yourself or work I wouldn't mind helping out with some mundane tasks if you have a position anywhere, i'm used to moderating chatrooms and forum discussions but regardless I digress & thanks for all the hard work!
I would also like to ask if you have anywhere you'd recommend for someone to start in this niche industry of a niche industry as you really seem to have it all together but I don't wanna take advantage of how attentive you are to your comments so no pressure or anything.Cheers!
Hey, sorry for not replying! It's very easy for messages to get buried on Itch so I tend to miss anything too far down. A more reliable way to get in touch with me is on Discord :)
As for recommendations on where to start, I'm not sure if I'm the best person to ask as I'm entirely self-taught and my method was to download a bunch of free SDK (software development kits, for example Ren'py, Unreal Engine, Godot, etc.) and spend a few days playing around with each one, and going on YouTube for tutorials.
Once I found one that I liked and I thought I could make a game with (in this case Ren'py) I made a couple little prototypes to familiarize myself with the systems I'd need to make CK.
That done, I jumped into making CK. I expected to only have a dozen players, which would have given me a lot of leeway to experiment and make mistakes, but, well, it didn't really work out that way... :P
Anyway, that's an extremely truncated version of my method. If you'd like to know more about it, send me a DM on Discord or catch one of my livestreams - I'm always happy to go into my process in realtime when asked :)
Still love this game but honestly I'm going to wait until its done that way I can binge the whole story
It might be for the best, in terms of getting to enjoy the story without having to get it bit by bit.
Still a long wait.
And even then, once the main story is finished Arc is going to polish the early game, so you might find it worthwhile to wait even more.
Up to you, as tech support, I need to stay up to date.
it honestly is worth the wait for a good quality game like this especially when I go crazy everytime there's a cliffhanger
Is Lucille in the manor in act 3? I don't see her room. She was in the manor and helping at office before coma.
Yeah, she is in the manor but her room wasn’t implemented.
It’s weird, in early act 3 the idea was to show people around the manor, so she’s in the east hallway during Mondays mornings and in the afternoon she takes a bath.
It’s one of those things that needs fixing but it’s not high on the list.
Either that or Arc forgets.
It's the "not high on the list" thing :P My priority is the more popular characters, plus story beats, so right now so she's on the "to add when I have some extra time" list, and I just haven't had any extra time recently.
I appreciate the responses. Just making sure I didn't overlook or glitch something. Keep up the amazing work.