The Human Heart
The Human Heart v2.5! (The Reboot)
Hi welcome to The Human Heart version 2.5! (Complete Redo Update)
Hello! It is Leo here!
It has been two years of me not touching development on this game and I am completely doing it over from scratch!
Honestly it is because I prefer doing art over this project. Drawing is fun and I can do it in a day, and it helps me have a stable income, so I was focusing primarily on that for the time being... Putting this game on the indefinite backburner, because to be honest, I am not a writer or a programmer... I am not good at those two things and doing them gives me headaches sometimes lol. But yeah those are my excuses lol
Looking back on my game I noticed a lot that could be improved on... Mainly the graphics were very tiny, it worked for me when I was developing it because I had a smaller screen, but ever since getting a new larger monitor and all of those playthroughs of my game looked super blurry. Plus my art is something I keep improving upon and it is constantly changing to the point of when I see the old art I did for this game I think it looks horrible in comparison.
Another thing I noticed from other people playing was how I wrote, a lot of the dialogue was clunky, messy, and there was a lot of filler text I would use just to extend the day. Along with this some characters felt a little undercooked, The main character Hugh for example; A lot of his dialogue was the afformentioned filler text, mainly consisting of questions instead of indicating any actual personality, Dylan as well suffered from a lack of characterization, a lot of people attatched themselves to Cade because of his loving himbo energy, but I felt like his sidekick Dylan was severly lacking in his role as the geek, a lot of what I wrote for him didn't really give off a solid personality other than being the defacto leader, on the same note Tyler suffered from being liked by everyone, He was supposed to be the sheltered dork of the group, I could only describe his old personality being similar to that of Sidney's but people like Sidney more because he was sad and talked less lol.
So yeah those were my two main focuses for this do over;
• Better Looking Art
• Better Writing and Characterization
Drawing all the new assets were easy enough for me, as I mentioned above previosly, the hard part came in during the writing and the coding aspects of this, which is what I will blame for me taking so long on deciding to actually go through with the redo.
But nonetheless I powered through and finished Day 1 and Day 2, now they are the same story wise, but I've polished up the dialogue so it should flow better and allow the dialogue to establish all the characters new personalities!
I hope the new personalities are not too much for everyone, they may seem a little exaggerated but it just made much more sense than before.
Huge thanks to Sammuel08 and @ChowUrsane for helping me with my writing troubles, they laid out a lot of paths that helped the writing process easier!
Thanks as well to @ManelessBurr for helping me with some of the bulkier coding tasks that actually required code and not just renpy script, such as the entire Sprite Room and Gallery!
And as always thanks to @RJ_Kuns for the super cool intro music!
My Concerns:
• I think if you have the previous version installed it shouldn't override if you try to install this one? As far as I'm conserned this is an entirely new project altogether.
• I'm keeping the old versions up on the game page, as it is more complete with there being 6 days and since the story remains the same I want to keep it as an option.
• I don't have my computer right now, so unfortunately 2 in-game sprites still use the old version, they are not main characters though, so don't worry!
• Save files will not carry over, cuz I'm dum
• I think the main character is still a little bland in comparison to everyone else, but at least his dialogue isn't 80% questions any more lol
• I don't actually know if the iOS version works, be warned lol
This Update Includes:
• Fully reworked Day 1 and Day 2!
• Fully reworked dialogue and personalities!
• New Day 2 CG!
• Fully reworked Sprite and Image Gallery!
Bugs:
> If you play on mobile and there are images blocking the text box at the bottom, please reinstall, thank you!
> If characters on Day 2 keep calling you "Hugh" even though you typed a custom name, please reinstall.
> If game crashes on Day2 because of [Name], please reinstall
The Future:
I don't really know what will happen to the future of this game, but no matter how hard it is for me to work on I WILL NOT ABANDON THIS PROJECT!
Also if anyone wants knows how to make translations for a Repny game, please let me know!
Thank you for reading this lengthy-ass thing and I'm sorry I couldn't deliver something better within a two year span. I will understand and accept any and all criticism that comes my way.
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The Human Heart
A fish out of water, slice of life, dating sim about mammals.
| Status | In development |
| Author | Leo |
| Genre | Visual Novel |
| Tags | Bara, Furry, Gay |
More posts
- The Human Heart v2.4!Oct 29, 2021
- The Human Heart v2.3!Mar 31, 2021
- Focus PollJan 07, 2021
- The Human Heart v2.2!Dec 30, 2020
- The Human Heart v2.1Oct 13, 2020
- The Human Heart v.2.0Aug 29, 2020
- The Human Heart v.1.6Aug 03, 2020
- The Human Heart v.1.5Jul 22, 2020
- The Human Heart 1.4Jul 14, 2020
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Love this reboot so much! Played through it after revisiting the old version so I noticed a lot of the changes. My only concern was when I thought that you had written out the "a friend is just a stranger you haven't met" joke (my favorite one) but then it showed up in a later scene. The writing is also great, I love the foreshadowing and the fixing of problems and plot holes I never would have even noticed were there since my brain is just way too used to bad writing. Especially love the new character sprites, especially especially Tyler's, idk what you did to him that makes him look so goddamn cute but he immediately shot up to the top of my list the moment I saw his new look.
ALSO THE REVELATION THAT THERE ARE REVERSE FURRIES BRING SO MANY QUESTIONS OMG like do they have humansonas? Do Retsuko and Haida shoot lasers out of their eyes and possess souls in this universe? Considering what Tyler says about beasts vs. animals, is the MLP knockoff literally just MLP with absolutely no changes? Are there human characters outside of anime? IS DYLAN A REVERSE FURRY? DOES DYLAN LIKE THE MC BECAUSE HE'S A REVERSE FURRY? I need an answer to at least one of these questions because it would be so entertaining
this is all your fault, thank you
Are you going to keep updating the game every 2-3 months as before?
Im just glad you are ok you were so quiet i started worrying somthing bad happend to you stay safe man and I'm glad you are taking back control of this project 😝🥳
Never leave us again...
Will the revamped have NSFW stuff? Just curious.
Probably not because in the desc. of the VN it says SFW, so I doubt the creator will go back on their word.
The creator does do NSFW based stuff with the characters on his other accounts. But as far as translating it into the visual novel, now that would ultimately be his decision. While i would like for this to be nsfw down the line as everything is getting fleshed out, i also don't mind if it ends up staying sfw.
OMG I DID NOT EXPECT THIS BUT DAMN THE GODS FINALLY HEARD MY PRAYERS.
Hey I found a problem inside the code:
elif Lname == "MappleBottom": show cade Base MouthS BrowN mh "That's just his name…" mh "But it's mine too right?" show cade EyesH MouthO c "I guess that why yous were laughin! We gots the same last name!" m "It's a pretty big coincidence, but it is kinda funny." show cade EyesN BrowC c "Does that done makes us brothers then, ei?" show cade MouthN EyesH m "That's not how that works…" show cade MouthT "Cade chuckles."You can't input your last name as 'MappleBottom' due to the string character limit being 10, making the special dialog untriggerable.
Sorry for any typos, but I hope I got the message across.
iM SO GLAD YOU BACK--
Im confused. How come it only goes up to day 2 on the new update? The OG game went further unless this is a completely seperate remake, and not just updating and reworking the original game
Go read the devlog again bc it explaind what the author is planing 😅
are people getting approved on discord? I did the verification and my message just got wiped lol
If you notice you have access to more channels, then yes you were approved, if not please retype it so we can actually verify, sorry.
well, this is a pleasant surprise.
the king is bac
Ive been waiting for ages.
This is a VN I like a lot because it reminded me of a bug game called Evolution, IDK why dont ask me. But the nostalgia hits hard.
I am going to give it a playthrough very soon!
WELCOME BAAAACK!!! Oh dang I am so excited!
I can’t find out where I can download the iOS version of the game although it’s in the “Files”. When I go to the download site, It disappeared.(Sorry for my bad English)
Oh sorry, people who downloaded it told me It wasn't working, so I removed it.
Even if there’s isn’t a big story difference/addition, I’m glad the game is back and running. Kinda though it wasn’t gonna get updates anymore but it’s good to know that you won’t be abandoning it, so to do now is wait for each masterpiece to appear.
Woo can’t wait to read this when I charger comes in
How's is it possible this is even cuter than before?
I reckon [Name] is not the correct variable
Edit: Somehow, the only time they successfully call the MC's name is when Cade said goodbye to him at the end of Day 2
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While running game code: File "game/scripts/days/day02.rpy", line 311, in script c "They're our friends, [Name]! They ain't gone hurt ya, they're good people I reckon." KeyError: 'Name' -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ Full traceback: File "game/scripts/days/day02.rpy", line 311, in script c "They're our friends, [Name]! They ain't gone hurt ya, they're good people I reckon." File "E:\New update\TheHumanHeart-2.5-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 930, in execute renpy.exports.say(who, what, *args, **kwargs) File "E:\New update\TheHumanHeart-2.5-pc\renpy\exports.py", line 1473, in say who(what, *args, **kwargs) File "E:\New update\TheHumanHeart-2.5-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1337, in __call__ what = self.prefix_suffix("what", self.what_prefix, what, self.what_suffix) File "E:\New update\TheHumanHeart-2.5-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1251, in prefix_suffix return (sub(prefix) + sub(body) + sub(suffix)) File "E:\New update\TheHumanHeart-2.5-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1231, in sub return renpy.substitutions.substitute(s, scope=scope, force=force, translate=translate)[0] File "E:\New update\TheHumanHeart-2.5-pc\renpy\substitutions.py", line 278, in substitute s = formatter.vformat(s, (), kwargs) # type: ignore File "/home/tom/ab/renpy-build/tmp/install.linux-x86_64/lib/python3.9/string.py", line 165, in vformat File "/home/tom/ab/renpy-build/tmp/install.linux-x86_64/lib/python3.9/string.py", line 205, in _vformat File "E:\New update\TheHumanHeart-2.5-pc\renpy\substitutions.py", line 168, in get_field obj, arg_used = super(Formatter, self).get_field(field_name, args, kwargs) File "/home/tom/ab/renpy-build/tmp/install.linux-x86_64/lib/python3.9/string.py", line 270, in get_field File "/home/tom/ab/renpy-build/tmp/install.linux-x86_64/lib/python3.9/string.py", line 227, in get_value KeyError: 'Name' Windows-10-10.0.19045 AMD64 Ren'Py 8.1.1.23060707 The Human Heart 2.5 Sat Jul 8 10:34:46 2023Hello, this bug has been fixed as stated in the bugs section above, please redownload the game and reinstall x3
I would be happy to help you with the Polish translation, if you want it
Send me a message on Twitter and we can talk about it!