Tropecita Games

v.0.13 - P2C1 Progress Report and Table of Contents

Finally, I've finished writing the whole update!

In the last report, I said it would be around 20,000 words and 1,600-1,700 renders. Once again, I've lied. It is around 22,000 words and I've already have passed the 2,000 renders mark (I have over 2,500 renders tagged). Yes, I rendered over 1,000 renders in a week, most of them Samantha double animations (Black Panther/Sphinx Cat) that inc...

v.0.13 - Part 2 - Chapter 1 Progress Report

I haven't posted progress reports for days because I got stuck making the switch to Part 2 (thanks to RiamMar it's now solved) and the new coding and translation system is slower until I get used to it. Now everything finally seems to be working and this last week I've given the upgrade a good push. I have finally passed the 1,000 render barrier!

This update is going to be a bit shorter t...

Testing of Part 2

I've been testing RiamMar's awesome work on My Dorm Part 2.
You can see some of the main screens screenshots above. It doesn't look like a standard Ren'Py interface anymore (it's beautiful) and it works perfectly (with some things to polish, but nothing game breaking).

Importing the saves from Part 1 works great, and I've done a questionnaire in case someone loses their saves (not beca...

v.0.13 Progress Report (II)

Another week and another progress report.

I already have 5 scenes written (and rewritten)! 

Practically all of them needed me to be in a dark place to give them the right tone, being the continuations of the last scenes of v.0.12. It took me a long time, but I'm finally past that phase of development. From here on I'll continue with happier scenes, they have been ~9,000 words q...

Diana

I left this sexy blacksmith abandoned for too long. Today I was in a mood to work on her a bit, and did a fast render.

I hope you like her.

She won't appear in My Dorm, she's a work in progress for something in a far away future.

My Dorm [v0.12.0] - Update only

Once again, Bob has done his magic and released his Update Only patch. Thanks Bob. 

Windows/Linux:
Unzip the content anywhere, move all content to your main folder (where the .exe is). Overwrite all necessary files. (Tested).

Mac:
You need to copy paste every content from the update only folders into  their...

v.0.13 Preview (I) - Kate and Progress report

What is so surprising for Kate early in the morning (yeah, the orange-ish tone is because sunrise)?

You should wait until v.0.13 to discover it. It's hard to make a preview for 0.13 without spoilering anything about 0.12 🤐

Progress Report for v.0.13

I will use this post to tell you how v.0.13 is going. It will have 16 scenes or branched variants. Some of them big.  2023-09-26 12:42:34 +0000 UTC View Post

v.0.12 Release

Here are the links. All the information is on this post.

Windows/Linux Full Quality - 

Windows/Linux Compressed - 

Mac Full Quality -  

Mac Compressed - 

Android -  

v.0.12 Release Schedule, and other news

You better not cry
You better not pout
Twelfth update is coming to town.

Now you can cry. There's a huge post coming too.

I am happy. Today I have finished absolutely all the work I can do on the update and all that's left is for the proofreaders to work their magic. They only have a 73-page document ahead of them.

I'm going to do something I haven't done for a long time...

v.0.12 Progress Report (and IV)

Here I come with the latest (and last) progress report for v.0.12

Everything is finally written, translated, and posed/rendered (28 images are posed but should be rendered, they will be done while I sleep tonight).

Everything but the last two scenes have been tested and proofread by non-natives. Once the last two scenes are tested, I'll send the whole update to native proofreaders f...

v.0.12 Table of contents

As the update is almost ready, with only about 200-250 renders, some rewriting/translating, and the music/sound area to be done, I'm able to tell you what will happen in the update, or at least the scene names to not spoil too much:

• Lisa's nightmare
• Kim wakeup
• Debbie gets what you offered her in the airport (if you did)
• Norah and some towels
• Meema...
  2023-09-16 10:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post

v.0.12 Preview (IV) - A packet for the MC

The MC receives a packet in the afternoon with a Post-it on it that reads:

For (MC's name),
Hope it helps
A. & E.

Helps with what? 

Who are A. & E. (obvious answer for us the players)? 

Is that a teaser about the MC finally meeting (officially) Amanda and Eva? 

What is in the box? 

Do you know how dumb a deve...

v.0.12 Preview (III) - Norah again? Yes

This update has a lot of Norah on it. 4 scenes where she shows up (in different states of "dressedness").

There's also a lot of (needed) hugs. 

I haven't dared to do too many handholding renders, they would have been too risque and perhaps they should go to the Hot preview area.

This update will advance the story a lot for some of the characters. And the characters need h...

v.0.12 Progress report (III)

Yesterday I didn't upload the progress report. It's been a 3-day weekend here in Barcelona, so I wanted to push the update as much as I could before writing it.

It has been a productive week, even with my two lost afternoons due to medical visits.

Scenes finished/Translation: 21% > 60% (9 scenes finished.)
Writing: 54% > 73% (11 scenes written. ~18,000 words written.)
Re...

v.0.12 Preview (II) - Meemaw

You know that the characters have mentioned several times that the relationship between Meemaw and the MC is special. There's a lot of love there, but I haven't yet had time to show it on screen other than in small doses. In this update, Meemaw is going to take center stage. A lot of limelight for her. We will be able to see more doses, this time bigger, of that special relationship for both of...

Health issues

You know that I have had some minor health issues since I started My Dorm development, and I have tried not to let them affect publication times. I have never understood developers who use health problems as an excuse to delay. You should be writing and/or rendering if you're not dying!

This time the problem is less minor. I have been found to have a huge thrombosis (or one big one and se...

v.0.12 Progress Report (II)

The second week of development is coming to an end, it's been 13 days since I started with v.0.12 and it seems to be going at a good pace.

I'm a control freak, I think you've already figured that out over the last year or so. 

When it came to Progress Reports I had a serious problem. I wanted to give the most accurate data possible, but how can I say what percentage is done if ...

Special Render (I) - Girls'n'Guns - Eva

With this render I start a series of 4K renders that won't appear in the game, to be published without any planned schedule. When I need to disconnect for a while from writing or rendering, I usually design characters for future updates. Since I already have designed all the characters I plan to use in My Dorm, last night I decided to play a little with Eva.

Here you have her!

I'm an idiot

I was so eager to solve the issues with the last compilation that I removed the script text files and the images for the next version (v.0.12), but not the compiled ones.

If you downloaded v.0.11B.1, you will arrive at this sentence:

"It seems like two months since you woke up."

Please, save the game there, because the next click will show an "image not found" error. 

Links for v.0.11B.1

I have recompiled the game because some bugs had appeared.

* If you are not in Scarlett's path an error appeared.
* The game didn't save if you got Scarlett pregnant.
* The RiamMar mod had a couple of incorrect texts.

I have corrected 35 places where the default names appeared in previous updates (12 in English and 23 in Spanish).

The links in the Release and Update-Only...

v.0.12 Progress Report (I)

It's the 4th day of development for v.0.12 and I'm already here with some news.

Since no bugs have been reported so far, I have been able to advance a lot in the update. So far I wrote three mini-scenes (189 renders/2,600 words combined) and render 155 of them. I consider them, combined, as v.0.12's first scene.

I also wrote the intro for the second scene (94 renders/~1,300 words) b...

My Dorm [v0.11B.1] - Update only

Bob once again has done a terrific job and we have here the Update Only for Windows, Linux and Mac. Thanks, Bob

Windows/Linux:
Unzip the content anywhere, move all content to your main folder (where the .exe is). Overwrite all necessary files. (Tested).

Mac:
You need to copy paste every content from the update only f...

v.0.12 first preview

Yesterday v.0.11B was published, and here I come today with the first preview for v.0.12.

In v.0.12 the summer courses start (that's why Lisa, Kate, Debbie, and Kim are in Newport). Someone has woken up too early after the previous day's events.

It's the first time we see Lisa without makeup and without her hair done.

v.0.11B - Release!

It's finally here.

Changelog

20,426 words in English (286,159 total).
19,002 words in Spanish (266,032 total).
1,391 dialogue lines (20,118 total).
2,463 renders (17,337) divided into:
* 1,089 stills (9,711 total).
* 19 (201) animations with 1,374 (7,626) animated frames
4,505 (53,696) code lines divided into:
* 2,624 for each language
* 1,881 shared (it's ...

v.0.11B Release Schedule and Table of Contents

I come today with great news. The update is finished!

I was aiming for a Sunday release but the proofreader made a terrific and fast job and I've been able to finish today. I'm compiling right now and then I should upload it to Mega/Gofile, so you can expect a Spanish afternoon release.

So the Release Schedule is as follows:

Martha's Savior and Meemaw's Joy Tiers: Today. Augus...

Almost there - v.0.11B Progress report

I'm finishing posing/rendering/translating. Writing has been finished.

Yesterday I finished writing the last (long) scene and translated half of it (it can be splitted in two story-wise) so the betatesters can betatest and do the first (non-native) proofread. The update has 18,000+ words in Spanish (around 20,000 in English), positioning it as the 6th longest.

Rendering the last par...

v.0.11B Preview - Scarlett

You haven't forgotten that you have a scheduled date with Scarlett at her home, right?

She's waiting for you and won't be as smiling as in the image if you forgot about her! Luckily, the MC didn't forget.

It's a date that will go a bit differently than both of them thought.

This week you will be able to know how the date went (if nothing weird happens)

Commissioned Art (V)

Once again, Skyborn has allowed me to share this custom art made under his request.

He asked for a family rock band in the fashion of some old 80s rock video clip, so here you have the family band "Ravens and Flamingo"! (3840x2160)

Thanks, Skyborn! Get well soon!

DnD Game - Continuation

When I get stuck in something while doing the current update, usually while writing or posing animations, I go far into the game's future and design the characters I will need. Kim, and Kate were designed in August last year, and made their appearance in January this year, for example.

I will need this character, Thiel, for the DnD game as an NPC. She's a half-tabaxi (tabaxi are humanoid ...

v.0.11B Progress Report (II) and Table of Content

Here I am with my boring progress report!

The update is on schedule (even a bit ahead) and right now I have done some work:

• A couple of menus will solve a problem with some variables to make the saves compatible. These menus will only show up if you are affected by the issue, since it was solved mid-patron cycle.
• Lisa's scene continuation (written, translated, rendere...
  2023-08-09 18:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post