Crimson High

Thank you! Not gonna lie, when I saw the notification for your comment, your username made me expect that I had to delete another spam bot message :D

Ah, no. Crimson High will stay free to play indefinitely. While I can see how one could get tempted to add a paywall, I personally think it's a bad business model, and something that instantly and irreversibly turns me as a player away from a project.
Do I think my work and especially my consistent and reliable output deserves more, especially when compared to some of my.. let's say less motivated colleagues? Sure, yeah. But I don't think forcing people to pay to be able to access updates is the way to go. Either people recognize and cherish the game for what it is, or they don't and I gotta do better with my next project.

The only thing I will say is that I may add optional paid content at some point. However, that will not be in any way restricting the main game slash story. If anything, it will be something that enhances the experience in some way.
I do have some ideas already, too, but I have yet to decide if I actually want to implement them in CH or keep them for a future project. And like I said, they won't be in any way detrimental to the current, free to play experience, but rather just an optional bit of flavor for whomever wants it. Think cosmetic/soundtrack DLC for games on Steam, or the like.

As for your wishes.. well, all I can say to them is: maybe? :P

Maybe?

I'm worried about Kana too. I assume that's who you're talking about.

While I can't speak for every choice, they do matter in some ways. If you take the panties in the beginning, and if you look into Mariko having sexy time or not, those choices do affect things down the road. Also, some choices will result in "search for hamster" or not - one of the choices results in sexy time with your valley girl friend and the other results in search for a hamster. Not sure about ignoring some girls though.

This AVN is not the strongest candidate for 'choices matter'. You can avoid lewds with some of girls and avoid a scene of dialogue or two.

This is very common for AVNs.

Personally I don't think its too much to ask for choices to matter in more than just lewds but it would increase the complexity of the programming and story, probably to the point that Dev time will jump up immensely.

For me Crimson High is great because of the characters and the story but also because it has an extremely fast Dev time and the Dev is very reliable.

So I would vote against that change.

It's usually 5-6 weeks per update. Last update was a bit of an exception since I decided to keep going with the writing for v0.43 (the upcoming update) instead of making it the usual length, and with the way I work (I finish writing for the very next update before rendering and releasing the current update at the time), that ended up extending the development time for v0.42. :)

Love her spit takes and her tendency to say "fricking" since she's so flustered!

I wasn't quite able to reproduce this on my end, but fixing it should be as easy as copying this variables.rpy file into your /game folder.
Thanks for the report.

I think we all knew Kana was gonna take this poorly. Vertigo doesn't torture us, but Kana being cool with the harem idea would've been way too easy.

Good question. The short answer is: No, I generally don't do that.

The slightly longer answer is: In rare cases, I do go back and rephrase a few lines of dialogue here and there - if they stick out particularly badly.

While I do feel the same as the other dev, in that my early scenes feel very subpar to me, I don't think it's a good use of my time to go back and rework them.
Early-game reworks aren't exactly uncommon in AVNs, but as a player myself - and based on what I've heard from other players - they're generally not received very well, especially by supporters on Patreon and the like.

Sure, it's nice to spruce things up a bit, but for someone who’s already seen the early content, there's little value in slightly enhanced visuals. And new players won't exactly notice the difference if they don't know how it looked originally either.

Now, you could argue that a polished early game might hook more players - especially in a mostly linear VN like CH - and I get the appeal. After all, Junichiro being more hateable or Suzu more adorable could tighten the emotional beats. But in my opinion, it's a slippery slope. You risk sacrificing current supporters' goodwill for the hope of impressing newcomers. That tradeoff rarely pays off in the long run.

The way CH's quality increases throughout the game is a testament to my own journey as a developer. Once the story is finished, I'll have a complete game, as well as a lot of experience to bring into my next project.
Yeah, CH as a whole isn't perfect - I had (and still have) a lot to learn - but that's life, isn't it? No point in fretting over it - especially if it means basically exploiting my supporters' patience and desire for more content, when I could instead just keep going, finish the story, and then move on

I hope this answers your question :P

Also, the 7th isn't that far off anymore :)

Your statement is impossible.

Suzu cannot be any more adorable than she already is.

One cannot make perfection more perfect :P

I'm releasing bees at every one of them I see. 

hina is just adorbs in general, i dont think there was ONE scene that she wasnt adorable and cute in, in fact i DARE vertigo to try to make a scene that she isnt adorable in which i sincerely doubt is possible:)

cant wait to see more of the little cutie patootie

Lol I didn't know taking the panties has consequences! I have never once done it, not my kink.

Still fascinating to learn that it is a thing that can happen! 

Just goes to show you how good this AVN is. Sometimes actions have consequences, not just an excuse to see another lewd...

That combined with an intriguing story, wonderful characters and a remarkably fast and reliable Dev honestly makes this the best AVN currently being produced. 

Hands down.

She is, yeah. It's just a character quirk, because I find it adorable lol

We'll be getting some Perrine texts and more content of her soon enough :)

Hey, glad you had fun! I try my best with the writing and everything :)

As for Claws - well, we'll see more of her, but she won't ever get an own arc within the game. Mami, as well as the majority of the other non-main cast girls, mainly serves as a supporting character to further the story and to make the world feel alive.

It's unfortunate that I can't give all of the characters in the game the attention they deserve, but I still prefer this over having a world that's either filled with non-descript shadow people or that's completely empty besides the few characters that actually get their own arcs.
Anything more than what I'm currently doing would either require a full team of people working on the game, or would significantly extend the time needed to work on updates. Neither is a good slash viable alternative right now.

I hope you understand. :)

add a woodchipper and a chainsaw mate>:)

That's probably just you. My updates are consistent in length, with v0.41 being pretty average in that regard (13,800 words).

That being said, the feel of an update gets influenced by a bunch of things, such as the amount of different scenes and their variety, as well as how heavy the topics discussed are, and even the length of the individual lines of dialogue.

Also - and this is unfortunate, but it's still content that needs to be produced and thus takes time - anything that happens behind the scenes (text conversations that MC has with the girls but which don't actually show in game until the next time their conversation gets brought up) as well as hidden content might be there but you may not actually notice it. Hidden content would, for example, be scenes that you only get to see when you've made a specific decision in the past. Like most Mariko lewd content.

In the case of v0.41 specifically, however, I'm pretty sure that the main reason for its feeling short is the rather lengthy scene with Mana and Hina in the park. It's so far the longest scene in the game and takes up almost half of the update, thus making it feel like the update has "less" content than usual (quantity of scenes vs. time spent on the update). In reality, you've probably spent about the same amount of time on the update.

Last posted the 0.42 was only 45% completed but that was a few days ago so I'm betting it's closer to 55% now

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