Lab Rats 2 v0.1.0 is live!

A android game works, a typo while in the production room, money is misspelled. Unable to produce serum or is that not implemented yet?

Csducks

The missing clothing bug is related to a rendering error (more about that in a recent post, and updates on errors). The other ones definitely need some attention. Funnily enough the "clothes are a mess" message comes up because some of my default outfits are considered too slutty by the starting girls, so they change into something else (which may also then be too slutty). I'll have to handle that slightly more elegantly than I do right now going forward.

Vren

Comments are the best right now, like a fool I neglected to get a bug reporting spreadsheet set up. Oh well, one more day without it won't kill us.

Vren

Hmm, there seems to be an interesting bug going around that's related to that. I'll look into it further and see what the hell is actually going on!

Vren

Also, just some stuff I noticed it could be useful to fix or improve: - When selecting Seduce Her and Kiss, the question that is displayed is "Where do you fuck her?". - After trying to seduce a girl and not even managing to kiss her (and not removing any of her clothes), she says that her "clothes are a mess" and that she needs "to adjust them". - Hubs (Downtown, mall, etc.) are described as "rooms", in particular when examining them.

Norpuma

There is a piece of cloth missing even after the FIX: Couldn't find "Two_Part_Dress_stad3_Fat_D.png"

Norpuma

Is there going to be a standard place or format for bug-reporting? or are we just pasting them here in comments? [Android] Night of the 1st day, explored then went downtown, talked to Jennifer, chose flirt option and saw a response dialog then crashed with following: [code] I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While running game code: File "game/script.rpy", line 2062, in script call File "game/script.rpy", line 2262, in script call File "game/script.rpy", line 2174, in script call File "game/script.rpy", line 2117, in script call File "game/personalities.rpy", line 156, in script AttributeError: 'Person' object has no attribute 'nam' -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ Full traceback: File "game/script.rpy", line 2062, in script call File "game/script.rpy", line 2262, in script call File "game/script.rpy", line 2174, in script call File "game/script.rpy", line 2117, in script call File "game/personalities.rpy", line 156, in script File "/data/user/0/Lab.Rats.Down.To.Business/files/renpy/ast.py", line 603, in execute renpy.exports.say(who, what, interact=self.interact) File "/data/user/0/Lab.Rats.Down.To.Business/files/renpy/exports.py", line 1135, in say who(what, interact=interact) File "/data/user/0/Lab.Rats.Down.To.Business/files/renpy/character.py", line 864, in __call__ what = what_pattern.replace("[what]", sub(what, translate=translate)) File "/data/user/0/Lab.Rats.Down.To.Business/files/renpy/character.py", line 846, in sub return renpy.substitutions.substitute(s, scope=scope, force=force, translate=translate)[0] File "/data/user/0/Lab.Rats.Down.To.Business/files/renpy/substitutions.py", line 229, in substitute s = formatter.vformat(s, (), kwargs) File "/data/user/0/Lab.Rats.Down.To.Business/files/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 549, in vformat result = self._vformat(format_string, args, kwargs, used_args, 2) File "/data/user/0/Lab.Rats.Down.To.Business/files/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 571, in _vformat obj, arg_used = self.get_field(field_name, args, kwargs) File "/data/user/0/Lab.Rats.Down.To.Business/files/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 638, in get_field obj = getattr(obj, i) AttributeError: 'Person' object has no attribute 'nam' [/code]

Minor issue (Mac version), but non-black hair colors switch to black once someone is hired. If you look at them, it will give their original hair color, it's just displayed wrong in the image. This is only in the neutral stance; hair color seems to display accurately in the more seductive stance. I also agree that navigation is a little clunky having to move to the lobby or house entrance every time you want to switch locations.

Scott S.

Oh wow, I don't know how I missed that! I'll be adding the LR1 girls in at some point, the goal is to recreate them with the in game character creator. I might get in touch to get sources on some of the pieces of clothing, but that's still a few weeks away at best.

Vren

Also thought of something that might be easy to help keep track of where employees are assigned: When you show the list of where you can go while in the company lobby, if the number of employees is greater than or equal to one, then show that number in () concatenated to the room label. For example: Marketing Division (1)

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/user/creators?u=3565986">https://www.patreon.com/user/creators?u=3565986</a> Created some Fan Art in your community tab. Some very nice work! I know you are planning on some additional models. CSYF's work looks really well done, and was thinking it might save you some effort??

Completely agree, the current navigation system is a only in as a placeholder. I think you're right about a map being the best way of handling it, expect to see more about this in dev posts in the future.

Vren

I'm not familiar with that abbreviation, what's CSYF?

Vren

Yeah, the list of randomized names is really short right now, only a dozen or so first names and no last ones. I'll be adding a few more just to fill it out, and going forward $10 patrons will be able to suggest names to be added as well. Over time it should be less and less of an issue.

Vren

Fixed up the errors, thanks for spotting them. I was forgetting to reference the outfit rather than the person.

Vren

Noted, I'm planning on doing a redesign for all of the menu appearances so I'll keep this in mind and try and make everything as mobile friendly as possible.

Vren

Hmm, it looks like some pieces of clothing weren't added to the game image folder after being rendered for the 3rd standing posture. I'll get those added to the game and fixed up, I should have a bug-fixed version up in two days or so that will resolve the problem. Thanks for the report!

Vren

That'll definitely be a thing, I'm waiting until the character creator system is a little more filled out to add the original girls but they will be there as a holdover from the old game.

Vren

Any possibility of getting CSYF's girls into the game?

I'm seeing a fair amount of repetition in names - I had one interview group consists of nothing but Brittanys. Similarly I'm wondering there will be a tidy up of the descriptions at some points .. I use the look closely at XXX option and I receive a "has blonde hair" annotation to girls with black hair.

Kurious

I agree with the navigation. Just have a game map that let's me click on a place I want to go. As new locations become available in the game, have them become displayed on the same game map. I shouldn't need to go to the entrance of the house, then downtown, then the lobby, then the R&amp;D department, etc..

Yes, saw several of these same bugs, but was waiting until I could document them properly, with reproduce procedures :) Guess I need to be a little quicker - lol

Oh, and I can't figure out how to make money. I'm constantly selling the serum I make, but my company's money never rises. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if there's a bug. Thought I'd mention it, either way. Edit: Just read the README file and it looks like making money isn't a thing yet? Either way, I'll follow the guide to see more of the release.

Kedokata

Definitely see something great coming together here, but I will add my two cents to wanting a more streamlined navigation system. Getting anywhere is very tedious, especially having to click six different options just to get to sleep every night. Maybe a special menu that will send you directly to any of the hubs (office, downtown, home)? And maybe a way to navigate to a different part of a place without having to return to the hub (going from R&amp;D to Marketing instead of R&amp;D to Lobby to Marketing)?

Kedokata

Get_sex_response not working, replaced some with call_sex_response and no error occured, but doesn't work for others. Doggy.rpy Line 36, remove [ and ]. Or something to do with ", anyway, a error related to it. Something something about the_girl.tits_visible() not working AttributeError: 'Person' object has no attribute 'tits_visible'

Okay, Fix helps with reagent purification. And with Serum research clogging up the screen. Aaaand during seduction testing (with FIX), I've encountered another exception (on top of some tiny script errors like the_person.name winks at you and the like): [code] I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While running game code: File "game/script.rpy", line 2074, in script call call talk_person(person_choice) from _call_talk_person File "game/script.rpy", line 2186, in script call call talk_person(the_person) from _call_talk_person_4 File "game/script.rpy", line 2186, in script call call talk_person(the_person) from _call_talk_person_4 File "game/script.rpy", line 2282, in script call call fuck_person(the_person) from _call_fuck_person File "game/script.rpy", line 2312, in script call call sex_description(the_person, position_choice, object_choice, 0) from _call_sex_description File "game/script.rpy", line 2386, in script call call sex_description(the_person, the_position, the_object, round+1) from _call_sex_description_1 File "game/script.rpy", line 2389, in script call call fuck_person(the_person) from _call_fuck_person_2 File "game/script.rpy", line 2312, in script call call sex_description(the_person, position_choice, object_choice, 0) from _call_sex_description File "game/script.rpy", line 2343, in script call python: File "game/missionary.rpy", line 18, in script $ the_girl.get_sex_reponse() File "game/missionary.rpy", line 18, in &lt;module&gt; $ the_girl.get_sex_reponse() AttributeError: 'Person' object has no attribute 'get_sex_reponse' -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ &lt;/module&gt;

This was before the fix, I'll update if all of this goes away. I want to suggest an easy hack to reduce movement clickthrough (which is a bit tedious, even for the test version) add Business lobby to bedroom, and back. Also, ingredient purification throws an exception at me (I'll try to reproduce it, and post the traceback here), when I try to add it to the serum design. If I ignore the exception. Also, researching the serum design makes serum details get stuck on the screen, which interferes with other info (i.e. stats during hiring screen).

Not sure where my other comment went. Did I delete it by accident?

Complexity

Also, having the screens/inventory/return buttons be as far as possible in the upper and lower left corners is problematic on Android. You can't zoom in Android Renpy (not your fault) and hitting small buttons that far to edge of the screen is difficult enough. If you have a screen protector with modern curved screens, the edge of the protector runs right down the middle of those corner buttons and makes them near impossible to press. Treating the outer edge of the screen as a no-go zone would dramatically improve your UI on mobile.

SteelPaladin1997

Playing with the Android version and talking to girls gets text cut off sometimes because the girl's model is forced to the foreground, even over the text box. The look works great with menus, but the text box either needs to be further in the foreground than the model or the text needs to be kept far enough to the left to not be obscured.

SteelPaladin1997

And do you have somewhere else ot bug report - copying the clipboard in here caused issues .... ^-^

Kurious

I've been getting a periodic error when talking to random girls in downtown : [code] I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While loading : File "game/script.rpy", line 2074, in script call call talk_person(person_choice) from _call_talk_person File "game/script.rpy", line 2113, in script menu: IOError: Couldn't find file 'Lace_Bra_stand3_Fat_DD.png'. -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ Full traceback: File "game/script.rpy", line 2074, in script call call talk_person(person_choice) from _call_talk_person etc. etc.

Kurious

Intriguing so far. Would love to see the old girls back in some compaciety, Would it be considered nepotism to hire Norma or Stephanie as head of R&amp;D? :D

Gawdzilla

I'm away from my main PC for a day or two, but I'll look into that when I get back and see if I can resolve it.

Vren

I guess that's just the effect you have on women ;)

Eric

Loading the apk file and it says missing resources on launch

Csducks

ok first report everytime i try to strip the girl's clothes an error appear, and everytime I try to seduce a girl she goes bald

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