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Are you new here? 1 and a half years just means Hiddenwall's missed about 1 to 2 updates. Kingsguard was getting about 1 update like every 10 months. Missing for a year and a half due to uni and IRL stuff isn't exactly outlandish in light of how updates had come out before.

You need to do all the routes. Each character get;s their own unique one during the scavenger hunt.

I hope Shiuk is still on board after he pulled out being the artist for violet memoir, last thing this vn needs is for the artist to be to busy to work on it after it died for so long.

There was a patreon post yesterday. It's not dead, Hiddenwalls been swamped with Uni and IRL stuff.

Oh yeah GPT's great for assistance in programing. When you start a conversation with it just make sure to inform it what level your programing skills are. Like: I'm a beginner programer learining python. Can you show me an example of a dictionary?  Something like that and it will give you a basic example with comments explaining what each line of code means. If it does something unexpectedly complicated you can customize it and where it asks 'How would you like ChatGPT to respond?' Just put 'Keep things simple.'

That's this part. If the boss's hp is 0 or less give the victory message then restart the adventure. Think just changing 'return' to 'continue' should just move on the the next choice. Think you might have it as just '<0' which is just anything less than 0 and doesn't count 0 itself.

if boss_hp <= 0:

            print("With a final blow the creature falls to the ground, and the dungeon fall silent.")

            print("Congratulation! You have slain the creature and saved the people from it's evil!")

            return

Honestly if you're a coding amature like me ChatGPT is your friend and i don't mean letting it do the work for you. It's great for error assist, you can just post what error you got and the code and it will usually find the problem and recoment how to correct it and other ways of improving the code. Saves a bunch of time considering most of the time for me it's a spelling error or a missing bracket and i'd need to spend like 2 hrs looking for it. But ChatGPT is good for using it like a teacher in a school, it can show you an example and explain how it works and then you can apply that knowledge to do your own thing. The most improtant thing is that you understand what it shows you, so you can add it to your coding knowledge and be able to use it later on in future projects and stuff.

Looks like you're using random.randint , not sure if it's the same as python but i made a little text game so i'll just copy past the combat here if it helps.

At start of adventure

player_hp = 20

inventory = []

Combat:

def boss_fight():

    global player_hp

    boss_hp = 30

    print(f"The fight begins! You have {player_hp}HP, the creature has {boss_hp}HP")

    while player_hp > 0 and boss_hp > 0:

        print("\n Your turn:")

        print("1. Attack the creature!")

        print("Use a healing potion (if you have one)")

        choice = input("What do you do >> ")

        if choice == "1":

            player_attack = random.randint(4,8)

            print(f"You strike at the creature dealing {player_attack} damage!")

            boss_hp -= player_attack

        elif choice == "2" and "healing potion" in inventory:

            player_hp += 10

            player_hp = min(player_hp, 20)

            print(f"You use the healing potion and recover 10hp. You now have {player_hp}hp.")

            inventory.remove("healing potion")

        elif choice == "2" and "healing potion" not in inventory:

            print("You do not have a health potion.")

            continue

        else:

            print("Now is not the time to waver!")

            continue

        if boss_hp <= 0:

            print("With a final blow the creature falls to the ground, and the dungeon fall silent.")

            print("Congratulation! You have slain the creature and saved the people from it's evil!")

            return

        boss_attack = random.randint(3,6)

        print(f"The creature strikes you with dark fury dealing {boss_attack} damage!")

        player_hp -= boss_attack

        print(f"You have {player_hp}hp left.")

        if player_hp <= 0:

            print("You fall, slain. The creatures dark malice spreads from the dungeon, coating the world in darkness and blotting out the sun.")

            print("You failed to slay the creature and fell in combat. Game Over...")

            return

       
        print(f"Your HP: {player_hp} | Creature's HP: {boss_hp}")

   
    print("/nThe battle ends.")

Sprites are being worked on in the background but the artist Ghosty is dealing with IRL stuff so it's slow going/delayed

Yeah it was finished the ending ended up being split from the main thing in a seperate file if i remember right. 

badtimesstories-1.9_p, addon 1 and addon 2

also a 4 page mini comic about the rino.

Doesn't matter, someone will end up looking at the page wondering about updates so answering even if they don't care is still useful.

All the stories are pretty different, Tylos has many endings and a happy one too. Of the top of my head i remember a story of roommates finally getting together, a ghost lumberjack getting fucked as an exorsism, one with a tribal lion and another with a demon. Then theres the over arching thing with anubis.

It's fully done, has been for a while. It was on Chivo's patreon but it's down for review so i'm guessing it's going to be removed since Patreon is going all out on the 'no lewd' stuff, or at least 'no furry lewd'.

Oh a post from 2 months ago, good to know it's not dead after a year silence. Hope you're having a good winter so far.

Because it's done? At least the beta is, there wont be more work done on polishing it up till later. Grizz is currently working on 'the cat's meow'.

Password moving forward: https://www.patreon.com/posts/password-moving-110152262

A public post on how to get to paths A,B,C,D-

https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-topic-of-42690779

Is that a bug or wishful thinking?

Fair enough, but i did say you could just post a simple "Still working on it" rather then months of silence. I think i'm going to go down a rabit hole into how Itch posts work. Does it require something to be attached? Does mods or someone vet them and punish things they think are lackinig? Damn my curiosity, there goes the next few hours.

Thanks, i enjoy your work. But would it kill you to just post a status update on itch, even if it's just 'still working on it'? I'm honestly curious about it because no one seems to do it but the dev for Debtors and it doesn't sound like something hard or time consuming to do. But i've never created a project on itch, maybe they make you jump through hoops when you want to post something.

So there are no updates, but the project is still being worked on.

I fully understand that, but the original question was is this still getting updates. The recent response was yes. But there has been no updates or information for a very long time. Not even just a message saying not dead just busy. It's something that seems common on itch.io that Devs just NEVER post simple status updates. There're fans here waiting but having no signs of life just makes things look very dead and cancelled as is sadly common with furry VNs. So i was asking where the information is so i know where to look and since it was said "for the game to release" that sounds like the WHOLE game released all at once, so i was asking for clarification.

Edit just to add, If Drakes is still working on it that would be the VN being worked on, not an update. So that again just adds to my confusion.

Can i ask where it's getting updates? It doesn't seem to be either on patreon or itch. I also haven't found anything saying Drakes going to write everything for the entire thing and release it all at once. So i'm a little confused.

No idea, i don't use discord much, think i only made one at first because of taven of spear. But two people joined 1/10/24 so there must be a link somewhere out there.

The discord update channel hasn't had a post since 16/1/24 and it was a warning about hacked accounts and people following dodgy links. The last time someone joined the discord was 20/8/24.

To get on other paths you miss passwords usually and the X's mean a character is now dead. Also all paths are complete in this build. A is the true end of the game, the other paths are bad ends and such. 

A public post on paths A,B,C,D-

https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-topic-of-42690779

Also the password is said by one of the characters on the day, The vault gives you a clue where to look when you go to enter it.

It's an easter egg that's been removed. It was 'the end' i think. Now it just force closes password.

Considering the last time hidenwall mentioned trying to get an update out was in december, i dont know where you got that idea from. Also don't know for sure but the next public build will probably be the current patreon build which is build 1.06 Leandros chapter 9.

I'm confused, what do you mean? Sal isn't Flora's kid. Ozwin is Flora's brother, or she's the adopted sister (it's been a while since i played through so i might be misremembering the adoption thing, but she is Oswins sister). Flora married a rabbit (i think he's a rabbit) thats why she's Flora Sinclair and not Flora Hammond. If you're talking about benson, he's still the family servant even if he did pretty much all the parenting as if he was the hammond childrens father.

Well i'm not sure all the details and wont say all i know since it's spoilery but the sequal is called syndicate and will be investigating something involving the police, and at least two of passwords cast i know will be involved for sure.

There will be a sequal but its set some time after password and wont have Dave in it, or at least last it was mentioned he wouldn't even have a camio. I'm not sure what you mean by Dave's dad not being dead, because he is, the only times he isn't is in the alternate timelines.

If you need something kingsguard related while you wait there's this thing: https://play.aidungeon.com/scenario/843netkCEUL6/kingsguard-vn

its free, no downloads and just plays in the browser. It has some issues, ramos's personality is odd with him knowing who you are even if it's the first time you've met him or being overly romantic. But i don't think it's that bad, leandros is pretty good. If you want it smutty, when you're playing click the little gear in the top right and change the the safety setting in the gameplay tab.

Hiddenwall mentioned trying to get a build out over winter holidays since school would be out, but i guess that things ended up getting in the way as they've paused their patreon payments and have been silent for the last few months.

They haven't been put in yet Ghostlink is still working on them

The cg's aren't done yet, currently Grizz is working on the dean rewrite. But if you're thinking of playing the itch.io version it isn't currently being updated while Grizz works on getting everything finished up. The itch.io version is the complete BETA version. All updates are currently just on patreon that you can get access to for £1 a month.

this is from october so i think its okay to post but yeah the sprites are going great

Didn't expect to talk about this in a comment section, but i get it. I got depression and severe anxiety, but one of the ways i've been told to help with it is 'imagery techniques'. which is just building another place you can experiance in your head and thinking about what you could smell, hear or see there. I normally just use aidungeon.com to help with that, since its like DnD but with an ai dungeon master and can be quite absorbing into other worlds or characters. Like one of them i can be in the beastars universe and can do anything i want like run a black market stall or befriend anyone i feel like. Though melon did fuck me up a bit, guess i cant just walk over and say 'hi' to a psychopath.

damn this just makes me sad, rip four letter word and crescendo

The coffee is a way of getting affection with the boys.

Use 'Dave' to get +1 affection with everyone. You can use any of the friends names to get unique dialogue and +1 affection with that person (names must be capitalised). 

Theres some others just for dialogue like 'Timber' and 'Chase', i dont know them all

i dont really get the point but i'm also tired so wtf. Is the problem you want voice acting or is it just because it's plain text without some mannerisms like slovenly speech?

If its the mannerisms thing the reason is most likely to keep things plain and simple to read. Grizz is australian and some people had problems with the text early on so he changed it all to american. Putting regional colloquialisms into the story would just make it harder for people to follow or understand and in a murder mystery that you need to solve that can be alienating.

It's fine every update you've done so far has been awsome so i can wait.

This was the last public post on patreon.

Status Update~

Jul 27, 2023

Hey guys! It's been a while. I thought I should probably make a news post to tell people where I'm at.

Sorry again for the lack of Pervader content. I really wanted to get back into monthly updates, but I haven't been able to. Life gets in the way, in small ways that don't really seem that big at first, but they get big enough to become obstacles.

I probably won't have another update too soon. The main problem, as always, is writing. There are a few stressful factors in my life which sabotage my ability to work on the text. It's not necessarily for lack of time, though I have been busy IRL too.

As much as I would wish it, I definitely can't commit to monthly updates, as I've failed to do that so many times by now, and I need to stop pretending that I can do it. I wax and wane too much in everything I do for me to keep a consistent schedule of things.

Every month that passes without an update makes me feel bad for disappointing everyone, but I know it doesn't help to dwell on it. Right now, I just want to do more fun artwork, so that's going to be my focus for a while longer. Though I am a bit cautious since I burned out a bit at the start of the year with that daily art challenge I tried. Still, drawing is a great way for me to make content and feel good about it. I haven't yet done those Alen and Jymsar pics you guys voted on either, so look forward to that too.

That's about it as far as Pervader goes. Not much to say, but I figured everyone was owed a little status update. I don't have any Horny Gaol updates I can show either, though I've been reworking and tinkering with its design quite a bit over the past few months, and I quite like where it's at right now.

There's more but the later bit is just going to explain what's going on with the patreon. If you want to read it then here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/status-update-86754669