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I'm still working on Week 2 of The House on Cherry Bluff, but I'm almost done!!! I just need to write the "House Games" endings, which will take some time because there are a bunch -- you'll see what I mean :)

But I need your help. Week 2 is all about earning 10 points with at least one of the characters. There are tons of different ways to play, so rather than try to play-test them all by myself, I thought I'd let you guys give it a try. Many hands makes light work, right??

NOTE: If you play PAST the point of Friday night in Week 2, you'll start running into the stuff I'm half-finished writing. You can ignore everything after choosing a partner for the House Games!

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See if you can find the following scenes in the characters' bedrooms:

Amanda & the night shift

Bella & the secret message

Candice & the demon wedgie

Daphne & the blame game

Elizabeth & the lotions

Fiona & the machine

Grayce & the panty-raid scheme

Let me know if you run into bugs before Saturday of Week 2 (that's where this demo ends). I also want to be sure I haven't made things too hard, or too easy...and of course, if you like certain scenes or have ideas for future content, make sure to let me know.

I'm (clearly) having so much fun with this (and I really hope you are too), but I am working on other projects as well, so expect some other updates soon. STAY TUNED!!!!

UPDATES

THANK YOU everyone for your help! Here are the bugs I've fixed:

Fixed Amanda's bedroom accidentally routing to the TV room

Fixed "no continue button" issue with the demon summoning

Fixed problem with Candice DOM option ("...Halloween...")

Fixed Amanda calling you Amanda in restaurant scene

Added exit to the "use treadmill" scene

Fixed "no continue button" error in Amanda's event path

Fixed error with secret code in Bella's event (SO sorry...)

NOTE: If you play PAST the point of Friday night in Week 2, you'll start running into the stuff I'm half-finished writing. You can ignore everything after choosing a partner for the House Games!

Comments

Paul

When on the second floor the first picture takes you to the TV room not the bedroom

wbvm

Which bedroom did you click on? Do you recall?

wbvm

Oh wait now I see you said the FIRST picture - so the blue one, right? I’ll look into that!!!

Jack_davis

I found that you can't enter Amanda's room it just takes you to the TV room when i click on it and the rest of the the scene with Candice & the demon scene doesn't load/continue after she says ("But I guess if you're gonna be a baby about it...") also noticed in week 1 when meeting Candice in the kitchen for the first time neither dialogue options work i click on them and they just gray out like I've selected them but it doesn't continue

Jack_davis

should be Amanda's door the green one that sends the player to the TV room.

Abdelmonem Abdelgadir

Bugtesting notes: 1. When talking to Candice for the first time, selecting the "What's your deal? It's not Halloween yet, y'know." option results in it turning to white text, and nothing else happening. 2. During the event where you earn some extra trust by helping Amanda, she calls you Amanda. 3. the button to Amanda's room leads to the Tv Room. 4. Not sure if this is a bug, but Amanda's event triggered at 9 trustworthiness instead of 10. I did clean the car beforehand, if that clears anything. 5. I bought multiple gifts, but only the carrot cake shows up. is there supposed to be only one slot for gifts, or is it a bug? I genuinely can't tell because the option to buy things at the store was available since week 1, but giving gifts is available at week 2. If collecting a bunch of gifts at week 1 to give to the girls at week 2 isn't supposed to be possible, then maybe the option to buy things during week 1 should be disabled. 6. Elizabeth's room has the header/banner of Daphne's room 7. Candice's event stops at her insinuating the player is being a baby, after which there is no option to continue. 8. Working out on the treadmill provides no option to exit at the end, this isn't a big problem with the map banner available, but it is there nonetheless. 9.Completed Bella's event, and I can't tell how you were supposed to solve that one with only KEYBOARD as a hint, so I had to resort to reading the source code. Could you explain how I was supposed to reach the conclusion? 10. Earning certain attributes is much harder than others. Reading books stops improving intellect one you reach 7. the yellow attribute is super unclear on how to improve. 11. I don't know how to raise the yellow attribute to trigger Daphne's event, or the pink attribute to trigger Grayce's event.

Jack_davis

i was able to raise Grayce's attributes in week one by watch TV with her and Daphne's by giving the correct type of cake to the right roommate. the rest I ran into as well except the reading one it always worked for me and all the roommates events trigged at 9 for me except I couldn't trigger Amanda's due to her room taking me to the TV room.

wbvm

First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! 1. Fixed! 2. Fixed! 3. Fixed! 4. When you say that her "event" triggered, do you mean you were able to go to her bedroom or able to ask her to be your House Games partner? The idea is that at 9, you get invited to their bedroom, and then the event in the bedroom brings you to 10, and THEN you can be their House Games partner. 5. The gift giving is supposed to work like this: you buy the cakes at the store, then give the cakes to the correct people to earn charisma (YELLOW points). It should NOT limit you to one slot, but it SHOULD prevent you from buying the same item if you already have it. Gonna need to check this one out. I wanna keep the ability to buy stuff in Week 1 because it's how you earn YELLOW points. 6. I haven't been able to replicate this one -- need to keep working on it. 7. Fixed! 8. Fixed! 9. Lol I thought that might be too hard. It's a letter->number code -- A:1, B:2, C:3...etc. -- except that instead of the numbers I used the symbols on the keyboard ABOVE the numbers :) 10. I was worried about that -- depending on the other feedback I get, I may need to recalibrate :) 11. Jack_davis is right about the YELLOW (give gifts) and PINK (watch TV) events. I have not had that issue with the reading -- reading generates a couple of random options, and some of them increase ORANGE or RED instead. Are you sure that wasn't what was happening? I can't thank you enough for playing all the way through and being so thorough -- you have helped me make the game better, and I hope you liked it!!! :)

Paul

Amanda's bedroom

Abdelmonem Abdelgadir

In regards to 11 and 4, both do actually work, but I was making the notes on bug-testing in a single file that I then immediately copy-pasted without double checking. I wasn't aware of the pink/ yellow attribute, so I'll check them out later on. In regards to 9, I did figure out that the symbols corresponded to numbers, but the letter->number code (which is apparently known as the A1Z26 cipher) portion was beyond my ability to guess. Personally, I'd add a second hint regarding said A1Z26 cipher.

Red Darlek

The event with Amanda just stops after you have selected one of the three options.. nothing more after that!.. Can't even continue, you have to go back in time, and then not talk to her.

wbvm

Fixed! Good catch! I hope Amanda's path works now -- thank you so much!!!

wbvm

Fixed! THANK YOU!

Soot

Spoilers for Bella Running it through the Cypher I got... HOPE IN THE CHERRY TRCC Which didn't work. I then tried HOPE IN THE CHERRY TREE Also didn't work. I also tried both versions as one word with no results. I triple checked and I'm fairly certain I got my symbols right. Any idea where I'm going wrong?

wbvm

Those are SO close -- maybe I made a mistake?! ...hang on, let me check

wbvm

GODDAMMIT YOU'RE RIGHT AHHHH I'M SO DUMB

wbvm

Fixed! So sorry, Soot. The code is: (SPOILERS) HOLE IN THE CHERRY TREE

Soot

No worries lol. It was driving me crazy with how close I was. I'm really enjoying the premise so far! Super excited to see the House games!

Yeasti

Toward the end of week 2 when I click on Bella. After I meet with her I click the continue button which just takes me to a screen that says this These should be placed in a separate file, I think. with nothing to do afterwards

wbvm

Uh-oh -- somebody didn't do their chores :) Lol. That's GOING to be the spanking scene you get for not doing your chores in Week 2, but it isn't ready yet -- that's the placeholder. I've been bugtesting in the same file I'm writing in, so that's why that's in there. It will be fixed soon!!!

Verzerren

I can't continue at the obstacle course . There doesn't seem to be a prompt to continue.

wbvm

Sorry, I've been working on the same game you've been bug-testing, so you're actually seeing stuff that I have HALF FINISHED. Everything after choosing a PARTNER on Friday night is still a WIP

FlowJohnson

So I've run into a few things so far. It seems like friendship quests can get bugged if you get a +2 that puts you past 9. So if you start at 8, get a +2 and go straight to 10 it won't activate. This might have caused a cascading series of bugs for me when it happened with Amanda, because I ended up being stuck on day 1 of week 3.

FlowJohnson

Also, maybe not a bug but friendship quests have a tendency to repeat when you visit people in their rooms (at least initially)

wbvm

Great catch, Flow -- you're right about the +2 bug. To get the friendship event, you've got to be at nine. The "groundhog day" problem on Day 1 of Week 3 is something slightly different, though, which I fixed in a different way. Just FYI, this is the WEEK 2 bugtest post. You don't need to repost or anything but if you find more Week 3 bugs make sure to put them on the more recent post :)

wbvm

I definitely don't want those events to repeat. That was happening with Fiona, but I just fixed it!

FlowJohnson

Lmao no idea how I ended up commenting on the wrong post, thanks for letting me know