I'm Back!
After a great vacation I've returned! As much as I've enjoyed the time off I'm eager to get back to work and get started on v0.5!
First, a little housekeeping. I see there were a few bugs that slipped by me in v0.4.1 that are causing problems and locking out some sizable chunks of content (Lily's hub scene and access to the purple serum recipe, mainly). To address that I'm going to push out a bug fix build tomorrow night which should resolve those problems and make sure everything is playable while I work on the next update.
Tonight, I will be starting the serious planning for v0.5 and figuring out the structure the end of Lab Rats will have. I'm currently leaning towards a short story section similar to the intro but longer, where your influence with different girls allows you to make different choices which affect the ending you recieve.
For example, a high score with Nora might let you convince her to keep you around after the summer working at the lab. If you're able to do that, and have a high score with Stephanie, you could turn the lab into your personal sex den AND get paid for your troubles. Otherwise, you and Nora have to keep it secret, and Stephanie never finds out. If you don't have a high score with Nora, your position ends after the summer and you stay home. If you have a high score with mom... and so on and so forth.
Let me know what you think, or if you have any ideas for endings you'd like to see in the game.
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Guess this is as good a bug thread as any-- in 0.41 during the party scene with Stephanie: [code] I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While running game code: File "game/script.rpy", line 11239, in script steph "My pleasure, [inputname]. We should do it again some time." KeyError: u'inputname' -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ Full traceback: File "game/script.rpy", line 11239, in script steph "My pleasure, [inputname]. We should do it again some time." File "/Users/<redacted>games/Lab Rats/Lab_Rats-0.4.1a-all/renpy/ast.py", line 603, in execute renpy.exports.say(who, what, interact=self.interact) File "/Users/<redacted>games/Lab Rats/Lab_Rats-0.4.1a-all/renpy/exports.py", line 1135, in say who(what, interact=interact) File "/Users/<redacted>games/Lab Rats/Lab_Rats-0.4.1a-all/renpy/character.py", line 864, in __call__ what = what_pattern.replace("[what]", sub(what, translate=translate)) File "/Users/<redacted>games/Lab Rats/Lab_Rats-0.4.1a-all/renpy/character.py", line 846, in sub return renpy.substitutions.substitute(s, scope=scope, force=force, translate=translate)[0] File "/Users/<redacted>games/Lab Rats/Lab_Rats-0.4.1a-all/renpy/substitutions.py", line 229, in substitute s = formatter.vformat(s, (), kwargs) File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 563, in vformat File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 585, in _vformat File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 646, in get_field File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 605, in get_value KeyError: u'inputname' Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Ren'Py 6.99.11.1749 Lab Rats 0.4.1a [/code]</redacted></redacted></redacted></redacted></redacted>
found and fixed! Thanks for finding it, it'll be pushed out for v0.5
Still getting this in the latest version of the code: [code] I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While running game code: File "game/script.rpy", line 11511, in script $steph_party_event_object.inc_level(5) File "game/script.rpy", line 11511, in <module> $steph_party_event_object.inc_level(5) File "game/script.rpy", line 680, in inc_level self.levelArray[level] += 1 ##should record how often each choice was taken. Might be bugged, and isn't used anyways. IndexError: list index out of range Windows-8-6.2.9200 Ren'Py 6.99.11.1749 Lab Rats 0.4.1a [/code]</module>
Occurs after Stephanie's party scene, right when it is increasing her influence.
As far as I can see "Ask about your new serum research" still checks for RED serum. Did you miss this one Vren, or are we supposed to get this far without the red in order to not miss out on purple?
That was an issue I thought I had caught, but apparently it slipped through. It's been fixed (hopefully) and will be pushed out in v0.5.
We need something more than"chat with mom" in evenings/weekends when score is high
I imagine that is where mom's hub scene (similar to what Lily has when visited in her room) will go when it is implemented.
Good idea to keep the work short and tied. Suggest separating ending to "school", "home" and "bonus". Which means three scenes would be needed, S1: What happen to lab, S2: What happen at home, and S3: bonus for perfect ending. Putting major topic away, I do believe many would still ask for more of this project, and there could be two routes to continue developing this project. First, extending current game, more girls, more scenes. Second, Lab Rats II, continuous of the story after summer vacation. It would be a good time to talk about future planning, with the ending to the game arriving.
I love the idea of different short story endings that depend on your score with each of the girls... that would definitely be my preference. LOL!
Will you also add a walkthrough of some sort in the future?
after lab rats will you make a lab rats sequale or a lab rats 2
More time for the game not only 120 days... and adding a scene when you talk with mom if you have a lot of score and if you have High score with lilly too make a treesome!!!
Search around the files, you can edit the amount of days before the "ending" happens. You can have over 1000 days.
Hey I hate to ask this but can you reexplain how the purple serum's work. I tried using it and all it did was raise control by 1 and still raised resistance, did I use it wrong. Also how will you determine private/ public will that be up to us talking to them or certain actions?
Assuming everything is working correctly, purple serums should lower your influence with a girl temporarily by 15, but halve any resistance gain by them. As for the second question, I'm not sure exactly how it'll be done yet. That'll have to wait for another update (perhaps 0.6?)
Sounds like a good ending, leaving it as a sandbox may make it longer, not many people want to play games multiple times to hit all the paths, though it sounds like you started with that idea. Which is not bad, i personally don't mind playing around that way for games. The images you posted were really good, except the excessive tattoos on the sister, and I can't wait to see you implement those.
Welcome back. The work you have done is really great. I hope that soon there will be more scenes with mom where you can give her the serum. QUESTION: Will Mom be what a private whore? I mean, she already takes money for sex.
I love the concept of branching endings particularly with using the lab. An ending with scores high with every girl can lead to a big "private sex den" ending or a big public demonstration ending that's captured on Alexia's website
First of all welcome back and congrats on getting a new part time job ;) Their are definitely a lot of things you can do for the ending, but personally I love the idea of walking into the lab or house and seeing Nora/Step or Mom/Sis or possibly Alexia with either group, having sex with each other and than just greeting you like that's normal. Etc.