The Weighting Game - WIP

I didn’t know the latest version had more than one “ending”, I would only go back to try for something different if I had a guide because making what seem like bad decisions will bother me too much if I can’t anticipate where it’s going. I’d just get too much anxiety. I would ask how you got different outcomes but even blurred as a spoiler I don’t know if tiggertoo wants us sharing that here.

It’s what would be everyone’s first or second guess :slight_smile: at least anyone who plays this sort of VN. Saying that much isn’t a spoiler.

edit: Now, I don’t know if calling them “endings” is appropriate, but final and most epic scenes of the release is fair. The plot might (imo probably will) merge back together… just like the whole game over scenario plays out… (game over, minor failure, or success being the three routes, two of which merge back to being identical after a period, one of which causes you to load a save). Even though that’s much much much much older I also don’t intend to spoil any details about that… (but it’s probably been spoiled elsewhere in the thread since it is a game over fork)…

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Thought I’d replied to this - obviously not!

I’ve been in two minds about moral choices and their consequences for ages. I’d like to add them, but at present, I’m not sure how much they’d add to the game considering how much extra work would be involved.

This may change at some point though :wink:

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the download link to V 0.5 is not working. such a shame, i loved all the content up until now

Are you on a PC or a Mac? I’ve just checked and both links are fine.

edit Can you PM me a screencap of the error message that you’re getting, please?

I too was unaware of alternate scenes for the end of .5… I guess I found a way to pass time until .6 then

Well, I reckon 0.6 is roughly a week away (give or take two or three days, depending on how testing goes), so you have until then to find all twenty endings for 0.5…

(I’m kidding - there are only two endings!) :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yeah you’re right, the PC one works fine for me, so it’s certainly not a universal issue. Caved in and gave the game one last play through before the new patch so I can notice all the additions. Particularly curious about some of the blurred teasers on the patreon :stuck_out_tongue:

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Jeez, I have an exam at the end of next week…difficult choice, The Weighting Game or my academic success :weary:
I’m super happy and a little worried at the same time ahah

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I’ll try and delay it just for you :stuck_out_tongue:

Joking aside, it’ll probably be the end of the timescale that I mentioned. Testing it is going to be seriously hard work. Remind me never to retrospectively add a shedload of content again! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Ahah don’t worry about me, I will receive threats for this ! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Take your time, I’m sure it will be worth the wait ! :slight_smile:

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PSA

If you’re going to complain that the link to the game doesn’t work, perhaps try subscribing and using the (working) link on the Patreon page, rather than a very outdated link on a piracy website?

Nice try :stuck_out_tongue:

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Dude. You could not have timed this release better. I had saved up all holidays by accident, don’t ask, and I have fourteen days off in February starting on the 7th. And I work four days a week.

If this update really does drop in that time frame, I’m gonna be a very happy lad.

Otherwise, awesome game. I’m assuming that the other ending for the last update involves not giving into Office Girl (forgot her name) when given the options?

My second to last point, I think having their be moral decisions for staying loyal maybe complecated and take longer. An alternative could be that you don’t reciprocate their advances, they get chubby but not FAT and you stick to only Alice. OR if you do start reciprocating, you can go for a Polyamorous with Alice and the other girls.

Lastly, think the game will have a customisable PC by the end? Or at the very least, the ability to choose gender?

Sorry this was a lot, it kind of all came to me at once.

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There is no way the main character is going to have the option to play the entire game as a girl, literally like every single scene would have to be re-written and re-rendered… I mean just think about that?

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Yeah, it’s just unrealistic to think about having customization or main partner choice, it would literally straight up multiply the images for as many times as would be the options; simply not doable.

Don’t get me wrong, I would like nothing more than have loads of options, but we must think realistically here, tigger is just one person with limited time and resources; in the end it is much more sensible for him to focus on one character only and flesh out her story (and her figure :grin:) as much as possible for the best end result

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I’m on the fence with the morality stuff. I think most of us play games because they allow us to do things we wouldn’t do in real life without worrying about the consequences. In reality, I’d never dream of two-timing someone, but in a video game? Why not… And, let’s face it, if you want a more realistic game in regard to morals, there are plenty out there. Never say never though. I do have some morality plotline stuff kind of mapped out, and may add this at some point if I feel the story warrants it.

Customisable characters? I’ve been asked this one a few times and whilst it is something I’d really like to do, it’d be a HUGE amount of work. @namad and @Burpinz are quite correct. My game is different from most in that just about every single image you see is a complete render, not a background with sprites laid over the top. I think the negative points of this are more than offset by the positives.

Unfortunately, this method means that if I were to add even one alternate PC, I’d have to re-render every single image that the PC appears in. Not to mention recode the image triggers throughout the game. There are over 1,900 images in 0.6. Let’s say an image takes an average of an hour (most take considerably longer) to render and that the PC appears in 80% (it’s probably more, but I’m not going to go through them all and count :p) of those images. To redo those would take over 1,500 hours. And that’s not including the time it would take to set up the image for rendering. Realistically, it’s simply not possible, I’m afraid.

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Still boggles the mind that people STILL ask for customisable characters.

But hey, humans be humans. We don’t have the big brains (Present company excepted of course.)

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Wots a brain?

To be fair, I think a lot of people don’t realise that my images are full renders, so customisation isn’t really possible. And there’s no harm in asking :slight_smile:

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“Wots a brain?”

No idea. I never had one to begin with.

brainless

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I had one… but I mislaid it sometime towards the end of the last century…

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