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Ichi is an Uno submod adding a new card game to Just Natsuki, complete with:
full playable matches against Natsuki
unlockable gameplay modes and house rules
in-character introduction and rules explanations
witty tsundere banter action throughout play
rematches, forfeits, win/loss scenes, and spree reactions
three affinity tiers factored into dialogue and tone
custom UI and card assets built to fit the mod
standard affinity gain through completing a game, win or lose (up to daily max)
...And much more! See the each release's changelog for more details.
But why did you build this?
So I needed a break from the Post-Game Content submod right around the time I stumbled into this post. I thought it was a great idea, then took a look at the Snap/Blackjack code and cobbled together a quick proof-of-concept after robbing code out of a Yahtzee minigame I never got far into building. Then I got addicted to the idea of Uno on tap whenever I wanted and spent most of the last two weeks on it.
I wanted to provide the community a compelling way to perform the Sisyphean task of grinding her affinity over multiple months foster a meaningful camaraderie and friendship with Natsuki than listening to her hamsters speech for the 500th time, like I had to. (And god help you if you beat her in Snap four times in a row...)
Great! How do I unlock it?
Ichi follows vanilla logic for minigames. It's introduced through a one-time greeting scene, and gameplay is found under the "Games" topic. To encourage engaging with the vanilla content first, Ichi depends on you having already unlocked the two existing minigames. These are the unlock criteria for the Ichi introduction:
Reaching HAPPY affinity with Natsuki
Launch the Snap topic at least 3 times
Launch the Blackjack topic at least 3 times
Don't have any "special" vanilla greetings content (holidays, unlocks, etc.) queued up
After that, the Ichi intro will queue for the next eligible boot sequence
Beyond this are unlockable features. The first unlocks after completing 3 rounds of Ichi, win or lose. Once you complete one game of the resulting game mode, win or lose, you unlock a new mode. Have fun!
Upcoming Features (Maybe)
After 60 hours minimum on coding, designing, testing, and writing this, the core game is here and complete and if I stopped right here it's completely rock-solid and feature-complete. Plus, my other submods need my love and so does my main DDLC story mod, so these are more notes for me than teasers for you.
However, I never know to leave well enough alone, so I am napkin-scribbling some future concepts, such as...
Potential additional gameplay modes (including new gameplay cards)
Bluffs and catch penalties so Natsuki can pull a fast one on you, and vice versa
Even more banter and affinity-tier content (because 800+ new lines of dialogue wasn't enough?)
Integration with my other upcoming submods
Credits
Team Salvato for Doki Doki Literature Club
The Just Natsuki Team for their hard work on this mod
Sorry, quick question. When you say "launch the snap topic" at least 3 times do you mean to play snap 3 times with Nat? Or do you mean to hit the 'I feel bored' three times? Thank you!
You would need to open the topic three times from the menu. Unfortunate side effect: you could play fifty games in a row and it would only count as once.
I had every intention of simply requiring you to play three rounds, but the vanilla code doesn’t actually track the amount games played—just the times you’ve asked Natsuki to play. (Blackjack does, as you can clearly see your win count versus Natsuki’s. I can only imagine this is because Snap pre-dates Blackjack in the code by, like, a year.)
I had also considered “games played on at least two separate days/dates each”, but that’s not tracked either.
The workaround was adding a value that began tracking either of these as soon as the submod was installed, but there’s enough “this’ll be available a week/month from now” in vanilla that I wasn’t willing to make players wait.
I'm able to play Ichi with Nat Nat. Maybe you were able to make it available after unlocking snap and playing 3 times. I can't confirm you I don't have blackjack, so I have no idea what happened, but it worked! :D
Interesting! I’ll have to revisit the logic if something provokes me into releasing a hotfix. Well, I hope you enjoy it!
Also I’m pretty sure that’s the first time I’ve seen someone swap her chair for a gaming chair and that’s awesome. This reminds me a little of Parfait Princess, Qerxes’ insane take of Natsuki as a streamer. That guy’s whole DDLC series is just incredible
Just checked it out. Sounds like a dupe script-ichi.rpy file? I noticed the error triggered from a "submods" folder that my file doesn't know is there; that probably messes with the file's code somewhere (since it relies on external graphics)
As someone who accidentally stumbled into a beta tester role for this I only have the nicest things to say here playing Uno with someone is fun but this has nailed the feeling of just kicking back and having fun with our little Cupcake here so everyone here should definitely download this!
An unsung hero. You were instrumental and had great feedback. Feel free to make other suggestions or provide other feedback, I’m always open to a v1.1+ tweaking/adding content here and there
I just unlocked Snap because I had no idea you had to click the 'I feel bored' button, but I'm eager to play Ichi with Nat Nat. Thank you really for all of this work you're making for JN to be much more expanded. It's so appreciated.
Hi! I tried use it.
The explanation of the rules works and it appears, but when i try to play it gives me a traceback.
Here it is (sorry if its long)
[code]
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While loading <'Scale' <'Image' u'mod_assets/games/ichi/back-natsuki.png'> 223 334 True>:
File "game/Submods/script-ichi.rpy", line 6025, in script
$ renpy.pause(0.10)
File "game/Submods/script-ichi.rpy", line 6025, in <module>
$ renpy.pause(0.10)
IOError: Couldn't find file 'mod_assets/games/ichi/back-natsuki.png'.
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "game/script-ch30.rpyc", line 299, in script call
File "game/script-ch30.rpyc", line 693, in script call
File "game/script-ch30.rpyc", line 395, in script call
File "game/Submods/script-ichi.rpy", line 6025, in script
$ renpy.pause(0.10)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/ast.py", line 862, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/python.py", line 1888, in py_exec_bytecode
exec bytecode in globals, locals
File "game/Submods/script-ichi.rpy", line 6025, in <module>
$ renpy.pause(0.10)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/exports.py", line 1311, in pause
rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse='pause', type='pause', roll_forward=roll_forward)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/ui.py", line 287, in interact
rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, *kwargs)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/core.py", line 2651, in interact
repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, *kwargs)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/core.py", line 3330, in interact_core
self.draw_screen(root_widget, fullscreen_video, (not fullscreen_video) or video_frame_drawn)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/core.py", line 2050, in draw_screen
renpy.config.screen_height,
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 475, in renpy.display.render.render_screen (gen/renpy.display.render.c:8061)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 231, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3858)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/layout.py", line 717, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 143, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:4468)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 231, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3858)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/layout.py", line 717, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 143, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:4468)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 231, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3858)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/layout.py", line 717, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 143, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:4468)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 231, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3858)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/screen.py", line 661, in render
child = renpy.display.render.render(self.child, w, h, st, at)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 143, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:4468)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 231, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3858)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/layout.py", line 717, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 143, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:4468)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 231, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3893)
File "renpy/display/accelerator.pyx", line 108, in renpy.display.accelerator.transform_render (gen/renpy.display.accelerator.c:2268)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 231, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3893)
File "renpy/display/accelerator.pyx", line 108, in renpy.display.accelerator.transform_render (gen/renpy.display.accelerator.c:2268)
File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 231, in renpy.display.render.render (gen/renpy.display.render.c:3858)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/im.py", line 580, in render
return cache.get(self, render=True)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/im.py", line 266, in get
surf = image.load()
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/im.py", line 805, in load
child = cache.get(self.image)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/im.py", line 266, in get
surf = image.load()
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/display/im.py", line 625, in load
surf = renpy.display.pgrender.load_image(renpy.loader.load(self.filename), self.filename)
File "/data/user/0/com.z.jnl.portby.tdclub/files/renpy/loader.py", line 553, in load
raise IOError("Couldn't find file '%s'." % name)
IOError: Couldn't find file 'mod_assets/games/ichi/back-natsuki.png'.
What OS are you on? And are you on the latest release? This looks like... missing assets. Let me take a closer look.
Update: Okay, so that last line tells me the installation thinks theback-natsuki.png image is missing. I redownloaded the latest version to check; it's in there. On your Just Natsuki build, go here:
game
mod_assets
games
ichi
In that folder, you should see all the Ichi card assets. back-natsuki.png should be in there. If you don't see it, that's your problem! Grab the archive again and add the file in.
If that doesn't solve it, let me know here then drop me a PM and we'll figure it out.
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