Rick and Morty: Another Way Home [r4.0] [Night Mirror]

Several users on Android 11 have had issues installing the app. This appears to be a security change in Android 11, and supposedly, the newest version of Renpy resolves this. However, as I am unable to reproduce the original issue, all I can do is confirm that this version (as did the last) runs  in emulation on the latest version of Android 11.

If you are an Android (11) user and haven’t been able to play the game recently, give the newest version a try.

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Ren’py Ver 1.5-Unity Match Ver 3b

** WARNING r1.5 will not work with old saves. Use them at your own risk!**

If you want to keep your save files, don’t upgrade to r1.5. But they will break when new content comes in 2.0.

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Ren’py Ver 1.4-Unity Match Ver 3b

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Android:

I have tried to make overall improvements to the android experience. I never intended to release on android, but since I have, I’d like it to work a bit better there. Below is a short list of things I’ve done to help improve the play experience for small and medium devices.

Ren’py Ver 1.3-Unity Match Ver 3b

Ren’py Ver 1.2-Unity Match Ver 3b

Sigh, hopefully the last of the bug fixes for now.

Saves should not be impacted by any of this.

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Android

Ren’py Ver 1.1-Unity Match Ver 3b

Nothing ever goes as planed! Round one of bugfixes, thankfully fairly minor issues here.

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Ren’py Ver 1.0-Unity Match Ver 3b

First release of all content up to the current 3b Unity version of the game.

First step is make sure that you have “Allow App Installation from Unknown Sources” turned on. I’m not some big publisher, and I don’t run my release by big daddy google (and not on the play store) so my apps will be flagged as Unknown.

You may get an “Unsafe app blocked” message, with the button “Got it” at the bottom. Instead, click the tiny “more” button, and under that the tiny “Install anyway” button. Because of this whole process, if you are updating, google might comeback and say there is a conflict, in which case, you will need to uninstall the previous version. This will kill your saves, so you should back those up first (internet will tell you how).

Additionally, you can also allow “unknown” apps. The fastest way to do this is go to setting and search for “unknown”, find the entry under “Biometrics and Security”. Scroll down in the list until you find “My Files” (or similar) and set allow. This sometimes worked for me, and sometimes I was forced to uninstall.

If you can’t get the app to launch, you need to make sure you have enough space for the system to unpack it. The APK is roughly around 1GB and it will take at least 1GB when installed, but you will need to make sure you have at least 3 times the space (3GB). I’m not sure why android does this, but I have seen it happen.

Lastly, if you can get the app to open, but it has some problem (either preventing you from playing, or crashing, or something) then I’ll need some info to help troubleshoot the issue. The main thing I need is the log file, which you can find in:

/Internal storage/Android/data/com.nightmirror.rmawh/files/log.txt

This folder needs to be accessed from a computer as it is protected while on the device itself. Android version and device model can also both be helpful, but keep in mind that my “tools” for making the APK is only the Ren’py SDK and a single click button with limited setting.

This is most likely a render issue. With the game open, press “Shift+G”. By default the game usually uses GL2, try switching to ANGLE2 and restarting.

You might be missing the webm codec to playback video, if you aren’t seeing the same animation the Unity game contained.

Sadly, the current version of Ren’py 8.x no longer supports 32-bit. Scripts are no longer backwards compatible with 32bit. Time to upgrade…

Game does not have sound.

Give me as much detail as you can about it, and post it to the thread for me see and it will be fixed in the next update (or, patch if it’s a major issue).

Typos will get corrected in the next patch. Just give me the incorrect text, and I can usually do a search across all the game files to find it. More details are helpful, screenshots not needed.

Damn, I thought we had found all those! I mean… err, let me know what scene it is happening in and I’ll fix it in the next update… fucking blinks…

When there is an issue, Ren’py will often create log.txt and error.txt files at the same level as the .exe. Take a peak at those and see if there are any long nasty lines that jump out, you might be able to google the issue and find a solution. Or you can post it here, with as much detail as you can give me, and I will do my best to help you solve the issue. Keep in mind that if you say things like “it doesn’t work” I’m not going to be able to do much. I’m also not tech support, so while I try to help, I’m not going to dump dozens of hours into troubleshooting 1 specific issue for 1 player.

A huge amount of things have been modified in some way. However, the biggest changes are:

Check out this post for info about what sorts of requests I take, and how likely they are to go into the game.

In general, if you are just asking for more scenes of a specific character or content, the answer is no.

Requests should be a specific change rather than a board generic thing you want added to the game. Most new content will come from Ferdafs, not me.

Ferdafs appears to be back. I will continue bringing over updates as I have them.

For now, ending plans are on hold. More details in the future plans post.

Just above, there is a spoiler tag called “Genre Details” in which I break down all the “trigger” tags in this game, including NTR. In my opinion what NTR there is, is mild at worst, and the tag is mostly included because it is required.

Version number matches the unity numbers ,but with an “r” for renpy.

Technically, this is a remake, or a mod? I’m taking the original content and making something similar, but different out of it. The two games a very similar but certainly not the same.

While the animations are taken directly from the Unity version, they are not implemented the same way. For Ren’py they are Webm animation files and have been compressed (from 4GB down to 500mb). This means there will be some loss in quality but it is mostly color detail. Unless you are looking at the animations side by side it is (imo) very hard to see.

Animations are still 1080p at 30fps (a few at 24fps). If you found one that looks particularly bad let me know and I’ll see if I can improve it.

These are all the game images without any compression. They are still sliced, so viewing them outside of the game will be a bit of a hassle.

Short answer: Check Genre Details above to see game content.

Longer answer: As soon as I think it can work in the game or Ferdafs does it. It is coming at some point, (main) characters will tell you they are pregnant and have bellies (if you’ve meet the conditions), but I don’t know when that will happen.

Not everything, but damn close. It includes all scenes up to the latest release of the game (see change log). However,  as I have modified a lot of it, it’s not 1-to-1 with the original, this isn’t a port. That being said, I did try to include all the original assets of the game and stay somewhat true to most scenes.

Short answer, no. Longer answer also probably no. As strange as this may sound, the two games are not really compatible. This is mainly down to two major things. First is the wandering mechanic used in the original game. I’m… not a fan, to be as nice as I can about it, and I think this style inherently hurts the game instead of helping it, so I’m 100% unwilling to reverse course and add it in. Second, is that I have leaned heavily into some themes (incest) that pateron frowns on. And again, I’m unwilling to censor my work.

On top of all that, I’m doing this project for fun, and free. Getting paid for it changing both the expectations and my enjoyment.

Plus, I’m not sure how much people would get out of something like this, it would be a very different dynamic working under someone as opposed to the level of control and communication I current have.

Plan is now monthly until the conclusion is done, I’ll do my best… Don’t know the schedule for the epilogue yet.

Sigh…

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It started off just for a few scenes I wanted to re-watch without the Unity hassle, but expanded until I finally just said fuck it, how hard can it possibly be to port it over? 6 months later and I finally  posted version 1.

I actually never intended to share it, but then I figured, eh, why not? So here it is… and now I’m tech support! yay…

Short answer is, I like renpy and lots of people also seemed to want it in renpy.

Longer answer is, use the right tool for the job. I’ve worked in both Unity and Unreal and they are great engines in their own rights. But they really do best with non-visual novel games. Things like platformers, shooters, rpgs, etc… Games where you have levels, and items, fight enemies, stuff like that. Sure they can do a visual novel, but most devs that do make them in those engines use another API to run them. Case in point the VN part of the Unity version of this game is run by Fungus.

So, the right tool for the right job. You wouldn’t cut wood with a hammer, sure, you could make it work, or attach saw like blades to your hammer. But, people have already spent time, effort, and better design elements into a saw, so why wouldn’t you use that?

The same is true here, Unity/Unreal or any game engine worth it’s salt can do VNs. But Renpy, it was designed for visual novels. Lots of smart people have made it a powerful tool. And I think it does really well.

I never pretended it was anything more than a remake of the Unity version, and tried my best to communicate that fact to people. While I have added additional content, that was mostly for me? Stuff I wanted to see in the original that just isn’t or can’t be there.

This project was never about making a brand new completely different game, but it wasn’t about making a perfectly identical one either. The original still exists, you can go play it, enjoy it. But this one also exists for people who were looking for a different way to enjoy the content.

A bumper scene is a short segment connecting two bigger scenes. I have used a lot of these throughout to help make things smoother when going from one scene to another. Since the Unity game is non-liner, the “walking” segments serve as the bumper in that game.

Here, since it is liner, the characters will often need to travel to their new location, or do some action to setup the new scene. Bumpers don’t get their own replay in mindblowers but are usually added as part of a scene when it makes sense.

Do Over is a system that let’s view past choices with characters, change their names, and ages. Characters start “soft locked” meaning their portraits are dark until you met them in game, or pass the day in which they are introduced. However, you can still access them early by clicking on the silhouette. This will permanently unlock them for the playthrough.

Day selector is way to quickly see where all the events in the game take place. By clicking on a day, you can jump to the start of that day and play right from there, either form an existing save, or a new one. Day Selector also shows where new events were added/updated, providing a quick play banner (“New”/”Update”/”Dialogue”) that will jump you right to the content!

A New feature for day selector has been added that will let you set the version number, so you can see when past scenes were put into the game or modified in previous updates. The main goal here is to help players that have missed a version or two know where all the new stuff is without forcing them to play the whole game, looking for changes.

Scene Selector is an even more granular navigation tool that lets you see and quickly jump any scene in the game! Use “w” to show/hide the menu, “q” or “e” to goto the previous or next day and F1-9 to select a scene to start. This is mostly meant for returning players to replay rather than new players, but it can be used to skip over content as well.

The main game will always be the compressed version. I am now also including an Uncompressed Images Patch.

*ouch* my brain… Look, if you’ve dug into the FAQ this far I can guess this isn’t a question you are likely to ask, but seriously, is it SO hard for people to read? This just… frustrates me so much… sorry, had to rant somewhere, and no one is every likely to read this…

Unforunitly this appears like a near impossible dream. It may seems as easy as cut and paste, but the result is pretty terrible. Animations move at different speeds, and start on different frames, so the xray never matches. Add onto that the positions and it just won’t look right in many cases.

While this is something I’d love to add, I think the effort of work here is out of reach for me.

At the moment I’m all set on beta testers, but in a way, all the thread is my QC staff looking for mistakes! If you find a bug, typo, or plot issue in the full game, just let us know and we’ll do our best to correct it!

It doesn’t, at least not directly. As long as Ferdafs keeps making content, I’ll keep updating the renpy game. As to how the show effects Ferdafs, that I can’t say.

While I have a number of them I’d love to do, the simple truth is that my art skill isn’t good enough to make things from scratch. While not impossible I’ll make my own scenes, they won’t be often. Them’s the nature of things.

Right now? This post edit, adding even more FAQ stuff people will never read… If you mean “game” wise, then the answer is almost always drawing more fucking blinks until I die…

It’s a big game, I did my best to test as much as I could but I can only do so much.

If you found an issue post it in the thread and I’ll try and fix it in the next version. If it’s major, I might do a patch for it.

Some of the strange text is there because of how I got the text in the first place. I built an OCR (optical capture and recognition)  script to pull the dialogue out of the game. I did this for about half the game and even then it only worked for maybe 80% of that. So lots I’ve had to hand type or correct from the capture. At 300k+ lines of dialogue there is just too much to find it all on my own.

Plus the original has a LOT of typos in it too and while I fixed lots of them I’m sure I added lots of my own. Did I mention this was a big game, right?

The original game doesn’t have sound, so I would have had to make or source sounds for this game. That is a very major task, like, months of work to go do. And, if I went about including sound I would want the audio to match and be impactful, not just generic background music.

I personally turn off sound in all but a very few VNs, and a lot of people seem to feel the same. So I think my time is better spent on other things.

Too much effort for too little payoff. Instead of trying to animate them in their puppet poses, I decided to add more pose options, such as new outfits, hand positions and stuff like that.

I’ve tried to include every scene from the original, no matter how small. While I think I got mostly everything, the Unity game is a bit of a mess, so it’s possible I missed something. There are some dialogues I didn’t include (such as characters telling you “not now” when you’re not on their quest). But I tried to get most of the game.

While some scenes do have choices in them there are no “paths” for the game. Only one scene has any major differences based on past actions. All other scenes mostly have choices on how you want the scene to play out, so just save or roll back to see other options in that scene.

This is pretty much a liner game, choices just show different animations but have very little impact on the story. There are no bad ends, or locked scene behind love/corruption/bullshit points. There is one scene that has a condition based on a past choice, but the game lets you view if you want anyway.

You can turn these off from preferences by selecting AutoMenu-Half. They are there mostly to let people skip content they don’t want to see. Skipping has no story impact.

I’ve recently become aware of one of the major cause of save corruption, so I will do my best to avoid this issue moving forward. That being said, this process is not perfect and in some cases, save issues will still happen in some scenes. The game does give many tools for quickly restoring your progress if lost (via Do Over and Day Selector), so while a pain in the ass, you shouldn’t have to replay the whole game if for some reason all your saves don’t work.

Some players like to play *cough* hands free and would rather not be interrupted every few lines by another fucking menu. While this game is fairly light on menus, it does have more than a few. AutoMenu lets you pick the style you want, and the choices select for you. It isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough.

I’m approximating a bit here. Before posting I did a final full playthrough to see what I had missed and fix some continuity issue and stuff like that. I thought I would knock the run out in a few hours tops, right, it can’t be that long. Six days later playing 5-9hrs a day, I finally crossed the finish line. Not counting re-watching scenes or taking alternate paths my monkey math says that 5 x 6 = 30hrs minimum.  Your playtime will vary depending on how fast you read, or how much you skip.

Edit: The game has had 10 Major updates since I wrote that, so it’s even longer now… you’re welcome.

Not a question… but okay, I don’t care? It’s free, don’t play it, or go back to original.

Also not a question… but okay, thanks?

Nope. Please support the original dev if you want to give someone money, that’s the only way this game will get more content.

Nope.  Ferdafs  has no idea this exists at the time of posting.  Ferdafs  has no input or creative control on this project. Although, I have no problem with them using any part or whole of this game if they so choose.

You’re on a pirate site, what the fuck did you expect? But, technically yes. I am using large portions of dialogue and art assets from the Unity game made by Ferdafs. It’s not a port, not exactly a remake either. I also never tried to pass this off as mine. The original dev name is still attached to the game and I give them credit.

Well, I mean, I hope not. Actually, I’m hoping this will make it sort of more popular?

Look, we’re on a pirate site, people downloading the Unity version here already aren’t paying for it. If they grab either the Unity or Renpy version it’s more or less the same from the devs view, money not spent on them. But, if people stop playing the Unity version, interest in the game also drops off. Like it or not, f95zone gets people to find/support devs they otherwise wouldn’t.

And I’m sort of hoping this game will help boost interest in the Unity version, or supporting the dev, cuze damnit I want more Rick and Morty porn and I suck at art! I can’t make more of this game without updates from Ferdafs version. Thus, I’m hoping giving people a more user friendly experience will get them to support that game, to get more content here… yes, I understand that’s needlessly convoluted.

Or another way to put it, my game is like free adverting. Especially since I will not accept any payments or donations for this project. If you feel the need to give, please send it to Ferdafs, that is the best way to keep this game going.

Short answer is no. Longer answer is also no.

The reason I have changed SO much has three parts to it. First, I’m not going to implement the “sandbox” (it’s not really a sandbox, it’s a wandering mechanic). It’s a feature most people don’t enjoy (myself included). This means events would just sort of happen with little to no context if the dialogue is unaltered. It would be much more like jumping around from replay to replay rather than playing a game.

Second, it’s not motivating to copy without creating. The most boring and difficult parts of this project for me have been reimplementing exact content without changing it. It’s boring ass data entry.

And lastly, this is a free project I’m doing mostly for myself and sharing here so others can also enjoy, which means things I don’t really want, I’m not going to waste time doing.

Now, if someone wants to make a mod or use my version as a starting point for a direct port, I’m 100% on board with that, you don’t even need to ask!

This game may be distributed on any site, so long as it is NOT sold.

Sure.

Yes. My work on these notes will never be done…

I like typing, and not a lot to do while waiting for stuff to upload, so I just keep adding more stuff here as like, an Easter egg I guess, its mostly for me. You’re probably not even reading this right now. I can say anything I want!… boobies