re:Dreamer 0.19.0

Zach, a broke college freshman who's been coasting through life without a purpose, just found a curious phone game called re:Dreamer. This incredible phone app has world-bending powers, and he accidentally turned himself into a sexy and voluptuous young woman before he even finished the tutorial. Even worse, he'll never be able to change back unless he wins this reality-editing competitive sex game and he has to keep its existence a secret from everyone except the single friend he's allowed to invite for help playing it!With a lack of sexual experience and an impish and unreliable in-game A.I. who insists on calling him "Zoey" as his only lead on how to compete in this perverted game, will Zach be able to hold onto the things that made him a man, keep his transformation a secret for the six months of the game season, and win a world-changing wish to change himself back, or will he remain stuck as a woman?

Controls:

Use Enter to advance dialogue and activate the interface.

Press Space to advance the dialogue without selecting choices

Hit the Arrow keys to navigate the interface.

Press Escape to access the game menu.

Use CTRL to skip the dialogue while held down.

Select Tab to toggle dialogue skipping.

Press the Page up to roll back to the earlier dialogue.

Press the Down page to later dialogue

Press H to hide the user interface.

Use S to take a screenshot.

Use V to toggle assistive self-voicing.

Press Shift+A to open the accessibility menu.

Characters:

Zach Taylor, the protagonist of this story, is a smugly intelligent but neurodivergent introvert who feels like he doesn’t know who he is. After a gap year taken to find his identity, he’s now a freshman mechanical engineering student at a large university in Portland, OR. He spends his idle time searching for new and obscure phone games to play as F2P user on a broke college student lifestyle.

Zoey Taylor, the name that got thrust upon the woman Zach turned into, is a smugly intelligent but neurodivergent introvert who feels like she doesn’t know who she is, but she’s going to have to find out soon.

Ai is the unreliable and mischievous A.I. that came with Zach’s copy of re:/Dreamer. She seems to treat this all as one big game, though it probably is just that for her. Ai appears to have her head in the gutter 24/7 and seems to take great pleasure in teasing Zach. It remains to be seen if Zach can trust her.

Britney is a dorky young-adult blonde white girl and anime/game/cosplay otaku from Austin, Texas who is quite attractive but abrasive if you can’t keep up with her pace. She and Zach met in high school and bonded over their similar taste in anime and phone gacha. She is also Zach’s only female friend.

Keisuke is Zach’s childhood friend and neighbor. Despite being opposites, the two have been best friends since they were little kids. He’s an athletic prodigy and social butterfly who gets along well with the ladies, despite being a blunt meathead. Though their personalities have diverged since they were kids, they’ve known each other for a very long time and have a strong bond of trust.

Features:

C.H.E.A.T.S. System: This unique system dynamically adjusts Zoey’s personality and behavior based on your choices and actions, leading to a highly personalized and replayable experience.

Rich Storytelling: With over 25 hours of content, re:Dreamer offers a deep and engaging narrative filled with twists, turns, and emotional depth.

Original Artwork: Enjoy stunning, hand-drawn artwork that brings the characters and world to life, enhancing the immersive experience.

Narrative Choices: Your decisions throughout the game will have significant impacts on the story's direction and outcome. Every choice you make as Zoey can lead to different paths and endings.

Skill Development: As you progress, you'll develop skills and abilities that can be used both in and out of the game's competitive scenarios. These skills are crucial for surviving and excelling in the various challenges.

Social Interactions: Building relationships with other characters is key. Each interaction can provide valuable information, support, or even unexpected twists that can turn the tide in your favor.

Changelog:

Sustainer Password is Mother Dearest

Updating the public version. I've been sick for almost all of October (one, two, and three) but I should've done this when it became clear I wasn't going to get the update out this month.

The mom route is back with a major new update of Z and Samantha going to the mall for their first major outing as mother and... well, I guess "child with a female sex" if I want to include all variants.

I know most of you are here for the "z_reaction_to_mom_secret == 'fully_realized'" branch, which (at the default Ren'Py text advance speed) is a whopping 2 hours and 14 minutes long (or 2 hours and 52 minutes with Author's Notes on; I ran out of Adderall during some of the writing and sort of went off the rails with a few tangential Author's Notes due to my ADHD). While there is a decent bit of content with the other variables, it's not nearly as expansive.

Anyways, the route features Samantha and Z engaging in a wide range of activities together, some wholesome, some stressful and taxing, and some enlightening. Two of them (a visit to a carrier store for a new phone that leaves Z empty-handed and a "z_reaction_to_mom_secret == 'fully_realized'" exclusive visit to a legally-distinct Build-A-Bear Workshop) were Sustainer patron requests. I won't spoil even more, but I think the writing is sharp, nuanced, enjoyable, satisfying, and long.

The "cracked" variables in the mom route have been switched to "realized." Not only does that better match with "repressed," but I am done using that rhetoric. This will break saves, which is why there's a jump point to get to the new content.

Fixed an issue with Ai's dialogue in Britney Day 3 throwing an error in the history screen.

The custom wait tag no longer has issues with kicking you from the history screen. I'm not sure if that existed before Ren'Py 8.2.3, but it's been fixed now.

Fixed a 0.019s discrepancy with the audio of Zoey's main walk cycle. I'm a former speedrunner with current OCD, in case you couldn't tell.

In related news, fixed an issue with text tags not filtering right in the history screen when they should.

Fixed an issue with some animations of characters dropping down a few pixels at times

Added an easter egg on Ai's spriteviewer screen in the mom route.

A few more Author's Notes here and there as I re-read the game's script, the most notable being at the start of Keisuke Day 9.

Shifted some of the fonts' text shaper back to freetype. I got really fed up with how the kerning looked "off" and how lines got lengthened with this game's main font (Gilroy https://www.myfonts.com/collections/gilroy-font-radomir-tinkov), even if the harfbuzz shaper is more "capable" for other fonts. Hey no wait why is this font #7 bestseller on MyFonts? I need to be more hipster!

Speaking of hipster, I made both variants of the CaptainCaption sprites have the square glasses as I now own a very similar pair and just think it looks better on the sprites.

The Sam sprites (so both Samantha and CaptainCaption) got fixes to some expression parts, as well as some brand-new expression parts. This gives her/me more range and allows a few more expressions more in line with her daughter. I thought about doing "her/mine" there, but eh...

Fixed Britney's hand being cut off in the sprite viewer on pose A.

The textbox has been adjusted to let me push text (and the Author's Notes sprites) around on the fly.

A number of typo and bug fixes.

Thanks to being told draw.io has a desktop version, the flowchart can now properly export as a full-sized and legible PNG again!

Reviews:

I just wanted to say, thank you for working on this masterpiece of its genre (the genre being - Erotic Visual Novels about MtF Genderbending).This game has changed me when I was in a very bad phase, it helped me accept that I needed help, and that the fact that I hated myself wasn't a feature, but a bug.It made me want to correct the way I treated myself, and made me reanalyse why I liked what I liked.Just in 2 playthroughs (Britney route & Samantha route (Samantha being my favorite)) it had that much of an impact.P.S: Sorry for using this comment section for your game as a way to vent and share my (very subjective) experience about this. Best of luck in finishing this BEAST of a Visual Novel.

Interesting lore.... probably not sensible lore but we'll work with it. I still don't see how the Tohoku Earthquake gets worse in this timeline though.Edit: What? Blanchard's typology is problematic while more or less you just recreated his definition............ Honestly sounds like a weird sidestepping considering I doubt Zach's identification affects his liking of his female body.Overall though, the theming is quite profound, and I love the explanations overall given there so don't get me wrong. Everything is wonderful from a writing perspective. It's top-notch and a masterpieceUpdate: So far I've decided to go for Mother's help because it's the most sensible one to me. I mean, she's 180 iq, you cannot make a mistake with looking for her help. (Also there's an inkling suspicion that some of the other paths will make me like Mom but I'm clueless).Otherwise I will note how it's sort of silly to demonstrate smartness with what for some people are middle-school lessons in maths. No, seriously. Look up Additional Maths. Even without that you generally are armed with that stuff with A-levels. Might be some sort of illusionbreaker.He honestly sounds to me more like a motivation-dependent 125 iq than someone anywhere near his mother. 

Hello, I like this game very much, so I want to translate this game into Chinese, so that more Chinese players can play this game. But I couldn't generate the translated tl folder on renpy. (after unpacking rpa and rpyc), I don't know what encryption the game did because I'm not too familiar with renpy either.So can you send me an unencrypted version of the game (public version is fine), or send me an rpyc file with text, or can the author use machine translation to help translate it? (I know you are not well, so I dare not bother you)I don't know of any software that can send you messages privately, so I'll have to post them in the itch comments section.Finally, I wish you good health. (The above text is translated by machine. Please forgive me for any inaccuracies.)