New release - Sextropolis Episode 2 - Thief. - A live action PMV game

just cant get it to work on main pc.

tried the codecs, saw posts around amd scaling mode (reference) tied adding property commands to startup exe (i.e which version of DirectX to use and being windowed mode etc.

But just remains - unity logo works then when intro video should play black screen. mouse click moves to game menu > start new game (when video should play - blank screen again).

Can playback various types of media files and even 4k vids no issues. Very puzzled why not having it on this machine.

Hi there
I booted up the game, and its overlapping my monitor, is there a way to size it down?

That’s an odd one.
Most of the game is mp4 files dropped into Unity so not sure how to work around that.
Curious question, does the audio play in the Main Menu? That is an mp3 file and not a video.

I can look into it.
The game is made for 1920x1080.
What resolution are you running?

Hello, I just defeated the final boss, hehe, and I didn’t want to let the moment pass before giving some feedback or suggestions.

I liked the RPG part with Scripts, it seemed very well executed, as well as how you handled the filters, the selection of paths, intros to the characters, and the surprise battles. I think I would have liked it more, or it would have been more challenging if the bosses were intense scenes with action scripts or very intense PMVs. The mix between real scenes and PMVs didn’t quite convince me (for my taste).
I had bad luck and found the toys on the first try twice in a row and couldn’t advance due to lack of HP and Skills. I’m not sure if there’s a way to escape this, I had to restart the game I think twice for this reason.

Regarding the overall gameplay, I would like it to incorporate some dynamics with Edgings, where the game tells you to do Edging at some moments and have some skills to use during the PMVs that allow for several edgings, but not indicated by the game, rather when you reach the edge you would use the skill to not finish and thus have successive Edgings until the skills are exhausted.

I had theorized some skills for edging in Cock Hero Inferno and its Erosphere proposal, here is the link where the scripts and notes of the skills and dynamics are, in case you’re interested.
https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/cock-hero-inferno-canto-i-ii-iii-adventure-2-5-hrs-detailed/90866

Finally, thank you very much for the time and work on this game that is spectacular, I am very glad that EDI implementations continue to be made.

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Hiya,

Yeah the audio plays fine, I can see and interact with the UI and even goes into battles. Literally just the video files not displaying. tried the codecs and various tweaks with graphics card, display settings etc. Can’t spot what’s causing it though.

I dont know if it will help @ThatOneGuy4

you might be able to launch the game and then hit:
Alt + Enter keys together while in the game, or by pressing Ctrl + F. and it should pop the game from Fullscreen to windowed mode. Allowing you potentially to be able to resize to your screen size.

I tried for my issue but no joy.

More awesomeness. Big thanks!

I posted a new update today.
New version 1.6

The big improvement is a new battle UI. The videos are now full screen. I hope it feels more immersive.

Right click or press spacebar to skip a PMV if you have already unlocked it. This should make replaying the game to unlock the bonus PMVs less repetitive.

Fixed an issue with Feel the Fire PMV script. I think having a period in the old file name messed something up.

Changed the canvas options to match height instead of width. This should help those with screen ratios wider then 16:9. This issue was brought up by @isaacclarke80 and might be the issue that @ThatOneGuy4 had as well.

Hope you all enjoy it.

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Hey @BitterSwee,

I can’t remember if I mentioned, but I finally did that pc upgrade and picked up a 4070super. So all is great on playing these games now :slight_smile: was certainly the graphics card causing me the issue (as OS, codecs etc are unchanged)

anyway I don’t know if this has been mentioned but the extra bonus scene (when you have completed all other videos) pauses at this point. I tried a reinstall and even tried on the laptop that never had issue, seems to have occurred for some reason in version 1.6.

p.s the spacebar idea is epic on the replay to finally unlock all :slight_smile:

Nice catch. I was able to fix that and should have an updated version posted in the next few days.

I’ve been busy working on Episode 3. I’ve created several more games to play beside the battles, including a game that can only be played with the feedback from the handy/device. Pretty sure that’s a first for any interactive game.

I’m coming up on a good milestone and might be able to release a demo in a few weeks depending on how it comes together. Still would need a lot of time to complete though. Lots of assets like video clips to cut up and sequences to script.

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Update 4/20/2024 Version 1.8

Link is in the main post.

This update took longer to do then I thought’ but it turned out there was more to fix then I thought.

First I fixed the issue @MaoMao brought to my attention where the last bonus video would freeze at the end. Not sure how I missed that one.

Second I fixed an issue where the 2nd bonus script did not play. Another script with a period in the filename. Hard to notice when skimming through since it just keeps playing the previous script.

Third is actually big. I changed the video mode of the game canvas so that it will always fit into your monitor. The default in Unity is to match the width. I had some complaints that elements were cut off in monitors wider than a 16:9 ratio so I changed it to match height. However, I launched the game on a mini laptop I have with an odd aspect ratio and the sides got cut off. This led me to hopefully the final fix that keeps the game screen at 16:9 despite having a monitor with a different aspect ratio.

Awesome work @BitterSwee will get the download running…seems I have been called for another trip to Sextropolis :slight_smile:

Just to confirm, Re-test with v1.8 is all working fine for me :slight_smile: tried that problem bonus scene and the extra scenes and all work ok.

Only thing I need to figure out is how to get EDI to work with nordvpn. Added under splittunnel but unless i disable nord it cant find myhandy.

anyway awesome work and thanks for fixing, waiting excitedly for future releases :slight_smile: if you need a tester you know where to find me :smiley: (likely in sextropolis)

Just trying to confirm or not that this will work with the SR6? I have tried to to do it once, but before I chase my tail wanted to check and see. (Does it need to be wired, or can it be wireless)

This uses EDI to connect to the device.

Check out the post and download EDI from there to see if it works with the SR6.
EDI has some samples included for testing.
I think it works with initface and buttplug so there probably is a way to connect it.

Thanks, I will try to look at it. Hope it has good documentation, for us technology unsavvy old folk.

I hope this comment doesn’t come across the wrong way. I know you put a lot of effort into making this game and it seems like a lot of people really enjoy it. Thank you for sharing with the community.

I am not very interested in a videogame interface, but I’m really interested in the PMVs you used for the game. Is there any way you’d be willing to share a list of the PMVs you used (ideally the funscripts too if you have them or links if they are already listed in the community).

I know this may be contrary to your goal with the game, so no worries if you don’t want to, just thought I’d ask. Thanks again!

All of my PMVs with funscripts are on FapTap.
https://faptap.net/u/bitterswee

You can download the script from there as well as go to the source video if you want to download them.
Have fun.

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thanks! i appreciate it