RON: Au Naturel

[Radiant]

Renegade Implementor has responded,

"I've had time to reevaluate things, had already made a decision and was waiting for a reply from bitby when the above situation unfortunately happened on the forum. I'm sorry that I wasn't in a position to deal with it earlier today, but it's the first thing I set upon the moment I got home.

So, yes the game has been added to the site. To anyone who has been under stress during this time, I apologize. It was never my intent to act as some sort of morality barometer or cause anyone duress."

So that's a definite improvement

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Yay, the democratic process combined with peer pressure prevails!

[bitby]

This is a copy of my post to the RON forum:

Wow.

Thanks to RI for reconsidering (and reversing) his initial decision. I think that while it may or may not have been a mistake to initially turn down the game, RI took a reasonable approach to a difficult situation -- he listened to my appeal, sought a second opinion, allowed the game to be posted in the Game Announcement forum, listened to community feedback and every step of the way did what he thought was best for the community.

Thanks to Brentimous, Orange, Dave Gilbert, Creed Malay, Turquoise Daffodil, SSH, Trovatore, Duchess, Radiant, Mr. Colossal and Grundislav (and sorry if I forgot anyone) for supporting my game and putting so much energy and time into advocating for it. It has been amazing and deeply gratifying to read your posts in support of Au Naturel. Thank you.

Oggdaughter, thank you for articulating what actually IS offensive about this game, namely, that in it, the player helps the protagonist to look at naked pictures of an established likable female character without her consent. This is, as Duchess says, "mean." I am squeemish about this, I hope people who play the game are squeemish about it. Gower, in this game, is an anti-hero. You are not supposed to admire or emulate his conduct, but to laugh at it. I STRONGLY disagree with your statements that this game is on a continuum with sexual violence or in any way related to child pornography.

Brentimous, thanks again for your really thorough work in betatesting this game, and thanks for all the encouragement. I am certainly more interested in making the sequel to this game after seeing how much people care about what happens to RON. I am thinking about making a full-length follow up to Au Naturel, in which Mika sets sail to avenge herself against Hooky McPegleg. I'm not sure if a big production is realistic for me. Would anyone be interested in teaming up, or helping out with coding, art, music sound effects, etc? If yes, please PM me here or on AGS forum, or post or email bitby@boyinthebasement.com ... or skywrite, I don't care, just let me know.

-Bitby

[TwinMoon]

Having followed this with great interest, I say: "Three cheers for common sense!"

Going slightly off-topic, has anyone noticed you can download and play "Davy Jones C'est Mort" without being warned about it's content?
To quote SSH: "Of course, the whole thing was probably just a publicity stunt to try and kick-start RON." I see the next debate coming

[FireOrange]

Nice to hear that the episode is part of the site now.

[Ozzie]

Amazing! I'm glad to see that the RON community is still capable of releasing such a quality game!!

I can also recommend it for newcomers since it contains a funny and informative exposition. For now my favorite RON game.

[Wogoat]

Wait a minute, I never did a nude sprite of Mika...

That said, I thought the game was very funny, and wonderfully tongue in cheek about the many faces of Mika.  And yes, she did change her shoes.

I agree with Grundislav that it's a little awkward seeing my spites presented in such a way, but you've got to let them leave the nest eventually.

Good work.  It's wonderful to see that RON is still peeking it's head out once in a while.

[vertigoaddict]

Does this mean there WILL be a sequel?!