DREAMSCAPES TEASE RPG - Beta Release!!!

[oats71]

Hello again, oats.

I have one more idea, what I can try.

That didn't quite go according to plan...
I downloaded v0.921 (to prevent reporting bugs that you already fixed) and started a new game (to prevent bugs that might occur only because I used a savegame from an older version).

I found a few small bugs (see below), but more importantly, I somehow managed to end up with a broken save
When entered the casino for the first time, I talked to the receptionist (the real woman in the brownish outfit).

Then I opened the treasure chest near there and found

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400G

...
That was a debug chest I was using, which I forgot to clean up.
It actually did a lot more stuff than give you 400.

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It set the story to be the last day, which is why you don't see the girls you're supposed to in the casino missions.

Sorry about that, and for anyone playing version .921, don't open that casino chest without a previous save to back out on!

Small bugs

I encountered the immortal enemy again.
Like last time, I had chosen to skip the tutorial. This time, there were 2 enemies in my first encounter, but only 1 was immortal. Go figure...

I removed the Tutorial skip just for the first tutorial. It seems something about that first tutorial battle fixes this random problem, since I never remember it happening or reported when the tutorials were in place. If I figure out the issue, I will put the skip back in.

After you free Hailey and Destiny (in there respective towns), they ask you to

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cum with them. I chose a ruined orgasm, in order to keep my HP.

Btw, why does a ruined orgasm sometimes cost 25 HP and sometimes none?

Hmm, intentional Ruined Orgasms should always cost 25HP.
Accidental ones Should bring you down to 1HP.
Sometimes, the HP deduction doesn't refresh right away, maybe keep an eye on your HP and see if it goes down 25 in the next battle.

Anyway, in both cases, the text

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Old 77

appeared at the very end of their dialogs. Since the cheat codes in this game are purely numerical, I assume this is not intended to show up, is it?

That should not be there. Thanks, cleaned that up.

At the theater club, if Marcia's first outfit is the red one and she is given a second chance, there are 2 pictures of the red outfit first, before it switches to the blue one.

Also at the theater club: during the first audition, Ms. Jayden will tell me that I will be stroking for this one, right before she asks we which option I want. This happens for all 3 girls.

Ok, fixed this.

Did you allow Destiny to use

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Libra and True Sight

during the brief moment between entering Anita's dreamscape for the first time and

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Destiny and Hailey magically disappearing at the castle

on purpose?

Yeah, looking at her Class Level, she should have those skills right after you unlock the 2nd person, I think.
I shoudl clean up the leveling. I changed it a few times, and the text is not accurate anymore.

At the casino, paying back your entire debt works. Paying back an individual amount does not work. After entering the desired amount there is a second number input (this time with one more digit) and no matter where I enter which number, nothing about my debt changes.


I haven't watched the other 2, yet, but I found it a little irritating to see the slideshow timer during Mia's performance @ the casino.

Yeah, I need the timer there to keep pace of the dance. I don't have a way to hide the timer, unfortunately.

In the status menu "Mansion game stats" appears twice. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind that it's there at all, even though the mini game is not available, yet. But twice...

Good catch, took this out too.

One more from my last playthrough: There is a girl at the north-west corner of the museum (forgot her name). After talking to her, the background music suddenly changed to the casino theme. Is that supposed to happen?

Huh, the casino music should not play in the museum at all.
Is this after watching an exhibit by her, or just talking to her? Can you tell me her name?

Last but not least, I decided to switch the walking speed to "fast" this time.
Unfortunately, the game decided to reset it to normal on quite a few occasions. (and there will probably be more, once I manage to proceed further in the game)

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• on day 2 after leaving own house in the morning
• on day 2 after leaving house for study session and again after returning
• on day 3 after getting back home after school
• on day 4 after leaving own house in the morning
• on day 4 after leaving school to go to Destiny's place
• on day 5 after leaving own house in the morning
• when heading for the bus stop
• on day 6 after leaving own house in the morning
• on day 7 after leaving own house in the morning
• after leaving cafeteria for Ms. Betty's place
• after entering the dreamscape from Ms Betty's place.
• after jumping down to maids' quarters (every time)
• after falling down (after getting anitas necklace)
• when reaching wake portal @ start of chapter 3
• right again after leaving the wake portal
• when entering Library for 2nd time
• when entering Jena's dreamscape

I think I did a broad reset of walking speeds before I implemented the app. I'll have to hunt down the resets, thanks for adding those locations of speed change!

Good news
I also have something positive to report. Before starting this new playthrough, I renamed the www/mac... folder and there were no "file not found" issues because of it. So it seems Windows users really don't need that.
(I had already renamed it in version 0.920 before I got to the point where I am now in my 2nd playthrough)

If you can't find a way to make it disappear within RPGMaker, just exclude it while zipping the compiled game. That way we have to download a whole GB less.


I hope all this proves to be helpful for you.

Have a nice day and good luck fixing those bugs!

I will remove that folder for Version 0.922, and hopefully nothing breaks!!

Thanks for all your help and good note-taking! I shoudl have these bugs taken care of soonish. hopefully later today.

[N3R0]

Hey oats,

Thanks for all your help and good note-taking! I shoudl have these bugs taken care of soonish. hopefully later today.

Damn! You're fast.

I looked up the name of the girl that triggers the museum music bug: it's Nia.
Interestingly, this bug only occurs when you choose "not now" when she asks you, if you want to see her exhibit.
And it only happens if you haven't seen her exhibit before. If you watch it and talk to her again, choosing "not now" doesn't change the music anymore. Even if you leave the museum and come back.

I noticed in your last post, that you didn't write anything about the casino debt bug (which also ocurred in 0.920 btw.). Did you just forget to mention that or haven't you found a solution so far?
(again, I'm not trying to pressure you, I just know too well (from personal exp.) how easy it is for a busy software dev to forget something.)


There's something I haven't quite understood, yet: sometimes where is a message on the screen, that says "Got contact info of XXX".
What is special about those girls? I mean, every girl you talk to ends up in your phone's contact list (which is good, how else would we adjust the Wisp appearance rate). What's different when there's that message, too?

[oats71]

Hey oats,

Thanks for all your help and good note-taking! I shoudl have these bugs taken care of soonish. hopefully later today.

Damn! You're fast.

I looked up the name of the girl that triggers the museum music bug: it's Nia.
Interestingly, this bug only occurs when you choose "not now" when she asks you, if you want to see her exhibit.
And it only happens if you haven't seen her exhibit before. If you watch it and talk to her again, choosing "not now" doesn't change the music anymore. Even if you leave the museum and come back.

I noticed in your last post, that you didn't write anything about the casino debt bug (which also ocurred in 0.920 btw.). Did you just forget to mention that or haven't you found a solution so far?
(again, I'm not trying to pressure you, I just know too well (from personal exp.) how easy it is for a busy software dev to forget something.)


There's something I haven't quite understood, yet: sometimes where is a message on the screen, that says "Got contact info of XXX".
What is special about those girls? I mean, every girl you talk to ends up in your phone's contact list (which is good, how else would we adjust the Wisp appearance rate). What's different when there's that message, too?

Alright, amongst the stuff I mentioned in the previous post, I fixed the Casino Debt issue, and I think I fixed the Music in the museum thing too.

As for the walking speed issue, I think that's because of cut-scenes. Whenever there's a cut scene, I sometimes need to set walking speed of the main character so people can walk together, and pacing of dialogue etc. I don't have a good way of fixing this now, but I'll think about it.

Als, I removed the Mac folder, but for some reason, it cause issues with uploading to Mega, and unzipping, so I tried a different zip utility. Let me know if you can download and unzip this version ok.

Thanks for debugging so much!

[N3R0]

Hi,

As for the walking speed issue, I think that's because of cut-scenes. Whenever there's a cut scene, I sometimes need to set walking speed of the main character so people can walk together, and pacing of dialogue etc. I don't have a good way of fixing this now, but I'll think about it.

It's been too long since I used RPGMaker myself. Can't you just save the walking spped chosen by the user in a temp variable, do your cut-scene stuff, and then set it back?

Als, I removed the Mac folder, but for some reason, it cause issues with uploading to Mega, and unzipping, so I tried a different zip utility. Let me know if you can download and unzip this version ok.

Huh? How? Did you zip it with the folder in place and then remove the folder from the zip? If so, why?
Just move the macOS folder to a place outside of the game's root (or simply delete it) and THEN zip the game with your usual tool. That's much faster and won't result in any issues regarding the zip file.

Download and extraction went well. Game starts up just fine. I started a new game - again - but due to a lack of time I'm still @ day 1. Everything works so far.

Every time you uploaded an update and I extracted it, Win Explorer would tell me about the files with the whitespace problem. I finally figured out how to make Explorer show me the full paths of those files and not just the names.
Here they are:

• www/img/characters/DoubleHeightItems.png
• www/img/characters/RoomNumbers.png
• www/img/characters/UsefulTiles.png
• www/img/pictures/UsefulTiles.png !!
• www/img/characters/UsefulTiles2.png !!

That should help you solve those whitespace bugs for good.
IMPORTANT: the 2 with the exclamation marks had different file sizes (i.e. version with space =!= version without space). So make sure, you pick the correct pictures there!

Thanks for debugging so much!

My pleasure.


My freetime will be rather limited in the next 4 weeks, so I won't be able to do much testing. Especially because I owe the Milovana community a new release of my own software "TAIPEJ".


One more thing: it seems to be impossible to finish the side quest about

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getting charley some clothes

Maybe I made a mistake, but it seems the items you need are not yet available when you meet her in the waking world. And when you encounter her in the dream world, you can hand them over (which gets you further in that quest), but it's not finished, until you see her in the real world again. Except you never get back there afterwards.
Is this designed to be completable once there's more content or did I just miss something?


Good day to everyone.

[oats71]

Hi,


It's been too long since I used RPGMaker myself. Can't you just save the walking spped chosen by the user in a temp variable, do your cut-scene stuff, and then set it back?


Huh? How? Did you zip it with the folder in place and then remove the folder from the zip? If so, why?
Just move the macOS folder to a place outside of the game's root (or simply delete it) and THEN zip the game with your usual tool. That's much faster and won't result in any issues regarding the zip file.

Download and extraction went well. Game starts up just fine. I started a new game - again - but due to a lack of time I'm still @ day 1. Everything works so far.

Every time you uploaded an update and I extracted it, Win Explorer would tell me about the files with the whitespace problem. I finally figured out how to make Explorer show me the full paths of those files and not just the names.
Here they are:

• www/img/characters/DoubleHeightItems.png
• www/img/characters/RoomNumbers.png
• www/img/characters/UsefulTiles.png
• www/img/pictures/UsefulTiles.png !!
• www/img/characters/UsefulTiles2.png !!

That should help you solve those whitespace bugs for good.
IMPORTANT: the 2 with the exclamation marks had different file sizes (i.e. version with space =!= version without space). So make sure, you pick the correct pictures there!

One more thing: it seems to be impossible to finish the side quest about

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getting charley some clothes

Maybe I made a mistake, but it seems the items you need are not yet available when you meet her in the waking world. And when you encounter her in the dream world, you can hand them over (which gets you further in that quest), but it's not finished, until you see her in the real world again. Except you never get back there afterwards.
Is this designed to be completable once there's more content or did I just miss something?


Good day to everyone.

Yeah, I will look into the walking speed thing. I figured you could do that but I haven't had time to figure it out yet.

The Mac folder thing, I did delete it and zipped it, but whenever I uploaded that version, it showed a smaller size on the server, and that raised a flag for me, so I tried downloading it, and it was corrupted. It doesn't make sense unless the folder is somehow tied to the mac compression utility. So I tried using a different utility, and it works, so I dunno. Might have just been a coincidence.

I will check that both files match, I left the whitespace files in in case they are still used and don't break some peoples games.

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The Charley Quest should only allow you to give her one outfit at the moment. I think. It should continue in part 2.
I think you can give her Destiny's Pink outfit? Or the White Outfit after Castle, but not sure if you can give her both.

Oats

[a_non_o]

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Im on 1st floor in castle an i encountered the 4 maids who say you will stroke 100 times for us heres the first or sum like that, then i ran away and the game made me walk into the wall like the pic and im stuck cant move or access menu, no goin back on save don't work it makes me walk into the wall each time, and i think that maid wasnt their to the left before the encounter

is there any way to fix cuz my last save is day 5 , Love this game tho 10/10

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[N3R0]

Hi,

is there any way to fix cuz my last save is day 5 :\'(

if you send me your save file, I'll take a look. MAYBE I can fix it, but no promises!
Which version of the game do you use?

[a_non_o]

Hi,

is there any way to fix cuz my last save is day 5 :\'(

if you send me your save file, I'll take a look. MAYBE I can fix it, but no promises!
Which version of the game do you use?

folder says .921 but I thought I downloaded .923
how can I send the save file?

[N3R0]

how can I send the save file?

you can either send me a PM and attach it or - if you don't mind the publicness - you can attach it here to your post.
The savegames are stored in
<dreamscape folder>/www/save/fileXX.rpgsave
if you have more than one save, make sure you upload the right number.

[oats71]

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Im on 1st floor in castle an i encountered the 4 maids who say you will stroke 100 times for us heres the first or sum like that, then i ran away and the game made me walk into the wall like the pic and im stuck cant move or access menu, no goin back on save don't work it makes me walk into the wall each time, and i think that maid wasnt their to the left before the encounter

is there any way to fix cuz my last save is day 5 , Love this game tho 10/10

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Hi a_non_o,

I found the bug and fixed it, but the problem is now it thinks you're supposed to take a number of steps up, and there's a wall there. It locks up the game, and I don't think there's a way to un-lock the game. You'll probably have to go to the previous save.
The Bug is it set the progress of the game up to a future point in the game, and you were supposed to walk up from the entrance. But even if you get out of the locked state, you'll now break a bunch of other stuff too, because of the progress variable.

Sorry about that one. You should save more often, there's still a few bugs discovered here and there and while most are minor, a few game breaking ones still pop up every now and then.

The new version (0.924) with the fix will be up soon so it doesn't happen again.

Oats

[oats71]

Version 0.924 is up now

[oats71]

Definitely enjoying the game. One of my top favorites in all Milovana. I can only imagine how much time and effort you have put into development - wow. Thanks very much. And "only" version .920!! Not only great play but the story is engaging and fun too. I'm currently enjoying the casino. Really great. It could be a stand alone game all on it's own - as could many of the other sections. Did I miss it or will there be there some way to come back and play at the casino whenever I want? (I hope so) In fact I hope there is or will be a way to revisit all of the various scenes in the game. I appreciate the auto save - nice and thoughful addition that has 'saved' me several times ( I have had the game lock up quite a few times - possibly to do with my computer settings or possibly the game?)

There's just sooo much in the game. I think I often forget or maybe even never learned to use many of the extra bits like in the various menus. As has been mentioned by others, things like the photo viewer are a bit clunky but I'm not sure it matters much -as the viewing of them doesn't seem too high a priority.

I, for one, really like the battle system. I like how it allows me to choose from random offers to play it safe if I want or to go more all out and play at sometimes much more difficult levels. I also like that there are ways (Hailey, phone) to influence what's offered if desired. So far I find the levels very challenging but doable. Very much keeps me going and excited throughout. I agree the counting can sometimes be awkward but not so bad and understandable that it is what it is. And at times it gets a bit of seemingly excessive input clicks especially when the girls are along for the party though I can't think of a way that could be improved.

I enjoy your choices of model pics, but then I'm never too picky. More non-vanilla? Sure that'd be great too. Hardcore? Kink? Sure, whatever works.

Your future plans for kinks sound great -I'm eagerly awaiting. Adding them into battle scenes sounds fine, though any added elsewhere would be great too. I'm not a huge fan of pain or cross dressing but great that you're thinking of including as much as you are for everyone. I hope with things like cock/ball bondage and such that you're able to put in a bit of directions rather than just a simple 'tie them up.'

I'm also looking forward to your planned specific stroking instructions. Great ideas.

Really you're doing a stellar job producing a tremendously addictive and fun game. I'm sorry if my comments aren't terribly specific on suggestions, but I've really just enjoyed it all. Looking back on your updates and tweaks, while each certainly improved the game, I was enjoying so much I hadn't even noticed their need. The only negative that comes to mind is the size of the updates and difficulty downloading them on mega with a free account - which with the game as great as it is is worth that small hassle. Thanks so much for all you've put into it so far.

Hey Carnal1, Thanks for the comments!

The casino, and all the areas can be revisited if you find all the water temples and unlock them. On the last dream day, you will be able to clean the portals out and use them to travel to any of the previously visited towns, and there's extra quests to complete at that point as well.

I'm glad you enjoyed the casino, I was particularly proud of those games.
I'm thinking of adding a couple more for the next part of the game when that gets released.

Yeah, the photo viewer if more for collection purposes, to get people to explore and search for stuff when they go to places.

Hmm... your excessive clicks gives me an idea... maybe I will look into adding a autoplay mode for the girls, or even all the characters, so they will choose their own actions if you want...

The next part of the game will introduce kinks and more hardcore and varied types of pics.
I do plan to allow for people to choose which kinks to activate and which to leave off.

While I think the game should be challenging, I also want people to have fun int they way they would enjoy.

I got some suggestions to add a jdownload2, or some other way of downloading which won't break peoples abilities to download the game more often.

Again, thanks for the feedback!!
Oats

[N3R0]

Hi oats,

I got some suggestions to add a jdownload2, or some other way of downloading which won't break peoples abilities to download the game more often.

I'm not sure, whether I correctly understand what you're trying to say with that.
But if you are trying to solve the problem of the big downloads, I can help with that.

Do you have java 8 or later installed on your machine (or are you willing to install it)?
If so, I can help you to create patch files (i.e. zip files that only contain the files that have changed, compared to the previous version).

A friend of mine wrote a java application for this earlier this year (for providing updates for his own [SFW] game). I think I can get a license for you, if you're interested.

I tried this on the update
0.921 -> 0.923
and the result was a 6 MiB zip file! I verified the result with KDiff3 and it works like a charm.

See ya,
N3R0

[oats71]

Hi oats,

I got some suggestions to add a jdownload2, or some other way of downloading which won't break peoples abilities to download the game more often.

I'm not sure, whether I correctly understand what you're trying to say with that.
But if you are trying to solve the problem of the big downloads, I can help with that.

Do you have java 8 or later installed on your machine (or are you willing to install it)?
If so, I can help you to create patch files (i.e. zip files that only contain the files that have changed, compared to the previous version).

A friend of mine wrote a java application for this earlier this year (for providing updates for his own [SFW] game). I think I can get a license for you, if you're interested.

I tried this on the update
0.921 -> 0.923
and the result was a 6 MiB zip file! I verified the result with KDiff3 and it works like a charm.

See ya,
N3R0

Hey N3R0,
I do have Java 8 installed.
I would greatly appreciate a Patch Utility, thanks!!

Oats

[zenetix]

I think some of the photos for the fishing section might not be set up properly. Despite any small bugs I keep coming back to this game - it's a lot of fun.

Also, here's a utility that could be useful for testing or just if people want to play around with the game a bit. It's basically a cheat menu that lets you edit most values/variables and teleport.

https://github.com/emerladCoder/RPG-Mak ... enu-Plugin

Looking forward to the next update!