On Distant Shores [v0.13]

I am the actual author of this game. Please be aware it is a slow burn. A visual novel first and a porn game second. You also don’t get penalized for choosing everyone as this is a harem game of sorts. I hope you enjoy playing as this has been a true labor of love. I’ve included a link in case you are interested in supporting development of On Distant Shores. If not, I completely understand, but I would love if you would share any honest feedback in the comments.

v0.13 Release
— Day 38 & 39 content
— Added Relationship Viewer/Change Screen*
— Compression of Android version**

* This feature is in beta right now. I advise saving your game before making any changes. If you click on the red icon for the Character Information screen you will see a new option called “Relationships”. Click on it to see where everyone is at. You can click on any Love Interests relationship text (i.e. Friend, Lover, etc.) and it will cycle through the available options. Most will cycle between Friend and Lover, but some of them have more options. Two things to note. One, it does not become available until Day 22. It would break the game if you used it before then. Second, it has a number of sanity checks. If you try and change a relationship at a bad time during the game, it will stop you and give the reason why. I don’t recommend changing anything unless you specifically feel that it is hurting your enjoyment of the game, or a Love Interest isn’t what you wanted them to be (either through choices you made, or from previous bugs in the game).

** I have elected to use one of the cruncher apps for the android release. I have tested it and everything seems to run normally. This has gotten the Android version down to 1GB in size. I will be doing this going forward to manage the 2GB limitation of side-loaded APKs.

v0.12 Release
— Day 36 & 37 content

v0.11 Release
— Day 34 & 35 content
— Fixes some minor syntax issues

v0.10 Release

– Day 32 & 33 content
– Added images of the NPCs for the character information screen (most are mild nudity for fun)
– Fixed some very minor bugs from previous releases (spelling and fixed a couple renders)

v0.9 Release

— Day 30 & 31 storyline

— No updates to the Character Information Screen in 0.9, hope to have images for this in 0.10

v0.8 Release

Includes Beta v0.1 of Character Information Screen
—A very early change to the game that allows you to click on a red orb (after Day 8) on the bottom right hand portion of the screen. It will provide a text only description of NPCs you have met during gameplay. It will be improved for releases 0.9 and 0.10, to include character images. The orb is available during 95% of the game. When it disappears it is to prevent it from interfering with other in-game scripts. The first time you play this release it populates the information immediately after the beginning of a new day. Until then it will give you a funny reply to let you know it isn’t ready to be used yet.

Changes to text location for Android version
—Please let me know if it sucks or not. I don’t have an Android device to test it on, so my testing is only with the built in Ren’py virtual Android environment.

Substantial Developer Error with Lily
—This was mentioned in the posts as well. There is a key error with Lily’s storyline. An important variable was not properly set. This error caused the user to miss out on one large (non-sex) scene with Lily, both for people who chose Lily and those who rejected her. It also causes the user to miss out on a few small scene changes and some dialogue changes as well. It likely explains why players have been confused with how Lily’s story unfolds. You can either A) keep playing normally and the game will have an in-game dialogue interaction that will fix this issue on the morning of Day 28. Or B) restore the game from a Day 18 save before you first accept or reject Lily. Or C) start the game over. B & C allow you to see the full plot line with Lily. However, due to how long ago that was I put in the A option to allow you to simply press forward with the game. I apologize for this error and hope it will not ruin your enjoyment of the game.