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                     So, I'm writing my first novel, mostly because I find many of the ones I've played to be lacking in depth. That said, I'm new to coding, I learned a little C++ in high school, but that is now over a decade old, and I understand a only a little bit about python (which I already like more than C++). My main questions as the Title suggests, is what do you guys in the community think of integer based affection tracking vs using simple flags and if statements to determine if relationship content becomes available?
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                     I know for my part, that I find affection tracking systems to be grindy, they kinda take me out of the game, relationships are far too complicated for a basic point system. The system in DMD seems to have been the best I've played with thus far, but it creates an environment wherein every move has to be completely perfect in order to advance at pace. Also, I don't want the sexual content in this game to be the end, I want it to explore the relationships with more depth. Is it just sex, are we dating, are we in a closed or open relationship, what does that mean.
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                     In my experience most games that use points fail here, DMD, changes the entire dynamic from being a blossoming romance between two people who shouldn't have those feelings into one where a father is taking advantage of the sexual confusion he's creating in his daughter. When I play it I feel obliged to decline the advances of any other characters. But that's not to say that games with flags are that much better.
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                     Almost every other Ren'py game I've played seems to have their characters behave according to flags, however those flags are incredibly simplistic and simply serve to make the game about reaching the end so you can finally have a reason to cum. I don't know if that's simply the business tactic of the developers or shoddy storytelling. My favorite among them is probably one of the earliest I played, SisterSisterSister. Each event happens along a mostly linear path, sure you get to choose one kink over another or to interrupt a scene, but with all these binary choices you end up running through it and going back to get  the ideal outcome.
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                     So there, I think we have reached the root of my problem. Too much of the scripting by other developers is Binary. Do you do the exact right thing to get this scene? no? then fuck you. Yes, then good for you, here's a cookie, keep playing if you want more. DMD did have other choices, but if you glance at a walkthrough you see pretty quickly which choices had points attributed, which took away points and which were just filler. You still had to follow a very fixed path, and because of DMD's inherent time constraint of the 2 week period, there was no room to make up for missed points.
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                     Obviously I'll still be using flags, they're hard to avoid. As for the emotional states, I think that's what I'm trying to avoid. To put it simply, I feel like that becomes a game that forces you into constantly trying to trick your way into other characters pants. Without going into too much detail, aside from my 2 protagonists and one other character, every character in my script is going to start out default interested in the proposition of sex. Some might be shy, and at least for now I don't plan on any characters that go all the way the first time, but at no point will the game be about coercing other characters into sex. Essentially I want to avoid the ever persistent "White Knight" element of most VN. Sex isn't something 1 person earns. Its a decision made by both parties and both parties are active participants in it.
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                     Because of this, emotional states could just as easily be tracked via flags, as the events that trigger the emotional state have to simply either wear off, or be addressed. If the event that triggers a character to not be willing to have sex with you is about something you did, then you're going to have to work to be forgiven, and then you might still have lost any chance. Emotional points at that point become ridiculous, if you ask me.
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                     You think most do it this simple because they can't tell a better story? I think most do it the simple way because it's not possible to create too many routes when you're working alone... Not because of the story writing or programming, no because of the rendering and posing and lighting and rerendering because a nipple slipped through the clothes when it wasn't supposed to and so on and so on
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                     Most people try to sell their game OR better said try to get some money in "while" producing the game, via patreon and so on. This gives them a lot of pressure, the patrons want to see updates at least once a month! Well now think of it that way: Your intro has no choices, but in your first scene you create 10 choices with 10 differing outcomes creating 10 different rendering routes making it at least 1 render per choices which would end up hundreds of renders for a good small first scene at least if you want to create GOOD quality renders and not those shitty backgrounds with sprites renderings.
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                     So if you're starting out, don't do too many routes right off the bat, you want to create some later on, if they merge back into a relatively linear story it's alright to do some more but don't do too many
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                     I'm going to post you some  screenshots of a twinefile which shows our chapter 4 of wicked choices... just to show you what crazy work it can become to create many routes and differing renderings in a single release...
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                     This "little" bit you see there is our whole chapter 4, it contains 164 Full scene renderings, more than 22000 words and took the writer and artist
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                     I'm still working on the Code of it... So don't think it's so easy to do all that alone
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                     I'm combining a point system with flags, the point system isn't like a grinding game system but more for some special scenes, or some different sentences said by another person, like let's say you have several girls you interacted with, and you're then thinking about the girl you like the most, it will check which girl has the highest "romance points" and give out her "name" so that I could replace it inside the Text (Just a really small example). The flags are the more important thing in our case, they set everything in motion or stop it. Depending on what your decisions were you can lock or unlock some fetishes, you can block a whole girls romantic route and so on.
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                     We haven't yet implemented all the stuff to do much of a check yet
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                        I know for my part, that I find affection tracking systems to be grindy, they kinda take me out of the game, relationships are far too complicated for a basic point system. The system in DMD seems to have been the best I've played with thus far, but it creates an environment wherein every move has to be completely perfect in order to advance at pace. Also, I don't want the sexual content in this game to be the end, I want it to explore the relationships with more depth. Is it just sex, are we dating, are we in a closed or open relationship, what does that mean.
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                     answer explain most of this. The tracking system tend to be grindy because of the CG. So most of the time the coder just rely on one value which summarize everything. But you can do it manually. I mean you can have something like "lust", "love", "fear", "trust", and so on, and also a virtual "affection" value which is computed in real time based on them. Doing this you'll understand why most games rely on a single value... It's not this easy to code because each value should be weighted differently depending of the situation, each other values and the character personality. A nymphomaniac will agree to have sex with MC even with a average "lust" and whatever her low "fear" or "trust" are, but disagree to go on a date with him unless it have a high "love" value. In the opposite, a prude character will need a high "trust" and "love" to agree on both.
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                     In the same time, a flags only system will have the same flaw and, for me, they are what can take me out of a game. Just because they are even more simplistic, to my eyes obviously, each one have it's own taste. It's not because, by example, I gave her flowers, than she'll agree to go on a date with the MC who humiliated her a lot previously during the game. So, to be realistic a game with flag should have a ton of "if" conditions behind each decision.
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                     So in the end, what you should do is not ask for the best system, but make the game the way
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                     I mean, a character will not answer in the same way if it comply to your order because of fear, than it will do if it comply because of love, and it will react still differently if it react because of lust. And this reaction will not be the same if the character is nymphomaniac or prude. A nymphomaniac full of lust will be in a normal state, while a prude one in the same situation will be confused and it should be reflected in the game ; it's something completely new for this character, it shouldn't understand what is happening neither what it really want.
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                     Reflecting this only on the CG or the dialog will make your game look cheap. It must be reflected in both to achieve something which comply with your level of exigence regarding the points tracker.
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                     So yes, in the end just do it the way you find the best, and if you're good at it, whatever it's a point tracking system or a flag based system, the public will be here.
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                     now with OP's explanation (after my post), i would go with flags only.
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                     why? doing a linear game means just a few choices, and those choices often are important key-events.
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                     no need to have a integer.
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                     but as a programmer, i don't reason like this, its not flags vs integer, i use whatever i need without feelings bad about it.
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                     integer gives you more options, you could have 0=not occurred, 1=choice no, 2=choice yes, 3=choice maybe
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                     in the end, the most important aspect is motivation and hard work. to make a game takes time, a lot, its not that simple. that is why we get so many abandoned projects and projects we never see the light of, because people don't release it. flags or integer? use whatever. if you get stuck, theres a lot of programmers and game makers here to ask for help.
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                        I mean you can have something like "lust", "love", "fear", "trust", and so on, and also a virtual "affection" value which is computed in real time based on them. Doing this you'll understand why most games rely on a single value... It's not this easy to code because each value should be weighted differently depending of the situation, each other values and the character personality. A nymphomaniac will agree to have sex with MC even with a average "lust" and whatever her low "fear" or "trust" are, but disagree to go on a date with him unless it have a high "love" value. In the opposite, a prude character will need a high "trust" and "love" to agree on both.
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                        In the same time, a flags only system will have the same flaw and, for me, they are what can take me out of a game. Just because they are even more simplistic, to my eyes obviously, each one have it's own taste. It's not because, by example, I gave her flowers, than she'll agree to go on a date with the MC who humiliated her a lot previously during the game.
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                     Completely agree, but you should use those 'if's as flags.
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                        now with OP's explanation (after my post), i would go with flags only.
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                        why? doing a linear game means just a few choices, and those choices often are important key-events.
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                        no need to have a integer.
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                        but as a programmer, i don't reason like this, its not flags vs integer, i use whatever i need without feelings bad about it.
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                        integer gives you more options, you could have 0=not occurred, 1=choice no, 2=choice yes, 3=choice maybe
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                        in the end, the most important aspect is motivation and hard work. to make a game takes time, a lot, its not that simple. that is why we get so many abandoned projects and projects we never see the light of, because people don't release it. flags or integer? use whatever. if you get stuck, theres a lot of programmers and game makers here to ask for help.
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                     If you look at the psychology behind the interactions of two people, some events stick out in the mind more (flags) whereas the typical day-to-day interaction could be expressed as an integer.
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                        It became tedious, a game about amassing points rather than about advancing a plot and fostering a relationship
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                     But it have nothing to do with the points system. It's how it feel, yes, but the reality behind is more a lack of writing skills. You take
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                        I see a value in points, the way they appear to work in DMD. DMD doesn't seem to realize their potential though, as there is rarely a reward inherent in losing points that offsets the loss.
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                     They see it, but the idea came really late in chapter one. They changed few things in the start of the chapter, but were limited by the story already wrote. One game which do it better is
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                     . Here there's time when you need to loose some points. Some times there's no more reward than advancing in the story, some other there's a biggest amount of points as reward. In the end, it's a better depiction of a real relationship. You don't pass your time trying to seduce at all cost, you're just you and what you do isn't always well perceived by your "crush" (well, technically none of them are one), or you've hard time understanding each other, but finally solve it by talking some more.
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                     So basically speaking, it's not the system you use which matter, but the way you use it. If you don't have the writing skills to weight your story according to the point's value, a couple, counter + flag, can do the same ; like for Man of the House, count the number of chores done by sis, then raise the flag after the right amount. But if you aren't this bad at writing, you can do beautiful things.
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                        i say it again, its not integer vs flags, you use what you need to create whatever you want to make.
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                        no matter how smart you are with numbers and complex algorithms, if you suck with the story or rendering, then the end result will be bad. the importance is the "whole" perspective and have a good overview what the game is about and what you want the user to do and experience. theres no right or wrong, just good or bad game experience.
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                        we can discuss forever what system is the best, but who cares? in the end what we want is a game that is enjoyable.
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                     I don't say this to be insulting, more as a critique, but what you're saying here is meaningless. I don't think you intend to be, but the way you brush off the question as if it doesn't matter and then talk about overall quality makes what you have to say rather insulting. As a player, what you're saying could be true, that you don't care about the nuts and bolts, but obviously the nuts and bolts do matter, they are what brings together the whole. If I were worried about my story skills or my renders, I'd be asking about them. I didn't. I came to ask a question about a feature of the coding process that I, at first, thought little of. The people who actually came with answers to my question opened my eyes, but you simply dismissed it as silly.
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                     the reason of my posts is to widen your perspective, as you seems to think you one of the above is right or better. no, dismiss that, and focus on the importance, thats my answer, but you cant take that as criticism instead of personal attack. well guest what? its you not me, also, theres no game to show so how can i say anything about your render skills or story? no, the question is about integer and flags and nothing else and my answer is that you should use whatever and focus on the game, if you can't take it, its your problem not mine, dont put it on me.
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                        so this is what i get for trying to help you? just because the answer dont suits you?
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                        you says you dont have much experience? guest what, i have, have been doing programs for decades.
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                        the reason of my posts is to widen your perspective, as you seems to think you one of the above is right or better. no, dismiss that, and focus on the importance, thats my answer, but you cant take that as criticism instead of personal attack. well guest what? its you not me, also, theres no game to show so how can i say anything about your render skills or story? no, the question is about integer and flags and nothing else and my answer is that you should use whatever and focus on the game, if you can't take it, its your problem not mine, dont put it on me.
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                     Bare hostility and still no substance. You completely missed the point of my criticism and instead reacted negatively to having been criticized. You are the one who suggested I should worry about the whole, make sure I have a good story and renders. I didn't bring them up. YOU DID. So when I addressed that in my criticism I brought them up only to say that they have nothing to do with the question. The question you continue to dismiss. This is your failing. Yes I'm inexperienced, so when I ask a question what I look for is a coherent answer and explanation. Look to the other people in the thread, examples, reasoning, understanding. From you, starting from your first one sentence post, you were dismissive. Your second post, I don't say this with malice or any intent to harm your ego, but either there's an english error on your part, or you don't understand the integers. And finally there's the post that set me off, once again dismissive, haughty, and superior.
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                     Basically, you said the same things than anyone who answered his question. But while others explained their positions, trying to make him think about their own point of view, you just goes and put your answer like it was an indisputable fact.
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                     This is disturbing because if my own coding experience taught me something, it's surely that there isn't any indisputable facts in this field. What was true when I learned to program, more than three decade ago, is mostly wrong now. There's paradigms, and even languages, entirely made around massive use of flags/semaphores, while there's ones where using flags is banned and seen as a lack of understanding of what you want to do.
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                     Visual novels tend to resolve around flags, while other don't even use a single one of them, relying on branching only ; the last option is even the one promoted by Ren'py's author. But there's also pure visual novel which use representing values (what he called "integer"), like
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                     They are better than flags... But, when used outside of multi threading, for a lot of people, including well knew coders, they are just a special kind of flags. They don't represent a value, but a multi state flag. Then, when talking about visual novel, most of the time both "flag" and "semaphore" are interchangeable words.
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                     In the end, you answered a question, but it wasn't the question asked here. And don't start to blame him because of his misleading question. You are the own which "have been doing programs for decades", so you are the one who should adapt to people without experience ; lowering to both their level of knowledge and nontechnical speaking.
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                     He isn't a coworker asking how he must wrote it's own part of the code, he's a trainee without any knowledge of practical programming. You can't answer to the later like you would have done to the first one.
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                     Once again, it was the answer made by the others, and he take it, asked about it and, according to him, learned some things. So perhaps he isn't this wrong on his saying.
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                     Given that I am fairly new to the development of games, I've played around with a few ideas regarding this (how to display / manage affections, kinks and other values in-game). I'm personally using floats for the various stats and modification-values that might occur. My game is built on the premise that you need to up specific stats to be allowed to do specific things to specific people. The values can turn negative, which will mean you'll have to work on getting them up, and while I haven't done it yet, I plan on having multiple random dialogues happening depending on what stats show what, and when.
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                     For instance, you mess up something with a loved one / love interest, or similar. This takes their current stat, and lowers it by a set amount of points then and there. This might affect the overall status (depending on what the number is to start with), or it might not do anything at all, if the stat is high enough from before. However, doing something like this will also cause the stat to decrease daily - until you make a mence, either by gifts, or by saying sorry, or both. This way, your misdeed is consequential for multiple things.
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                     Random dialogue-options makes it seem slightly less repetitive, and notifications to the player reminds him/her that there are unsolved situations that should be handled. And so on.
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