Ei, Geeseki, você tem alguma ideia de quando estará disponível no Steam?
E se você lançar, fará o que fez com A Town Uncovered?
Ou este jogo será melhor?
Pergunto isso porque gostei muito deste jogo e fiquei muito triste quando joguei o outro e tive que esperar 1 ano para que dissessem que estava pronto, quando parecia que o jogo tinha sido cortado. Gostei muito da mecânica de papel-tesoura para conquistas para dar presentes. E como eu disse há alguns meses ou anos, nem sei quando foi a última vez que falei com você, desculpe. Estou me divertindo muito com este jogo. E obrigado pela atenção e desculpe pelo inconveniente.
Ei, eu já conversei com minha publicadora e estamos trabalhando para colocar o jogo no Steam. Ele deve estar disponível para adicionar à lista de desejos até o final do ano.
Este projeto será melhor do que A Town Uncovered, porque aprendi com meus erros do passado e já planejei e estruturei o jogo com antecedência, então sei que ele terá uma conclusão adequada. ATU foi meu primeiro grande projeto e eu era muito inexperiente para lidar com ele. Fiz o meu melhor para dar um final ao jogo porque já tinha passado quase 10 anos trabalhando nele, muito infeliz, e não queria passar mais alguns anos me sentindo esgotado e infeliz.
Espero que você confie que eu cresci e amadureci como desenvolvedor, e espero que consiga ver com Sugar Service o quanto isso ficou evidente com o aumento na qualidade, no planejamento e na execução.
Thanks for the reply and for putting up with everyone.
ps: I believe you have grown and matured, and that is why every time I come back, I find games that I continue to play even after all the chaos that happens. Town Uncovered is proof of that. Just because it is your first game does not mean that it does not have the story you want to tell. And for that I repeat thank you for putting up with us players
Hello! So the last save file I have is 0.08 and when I load into it, it gives me the warning that this may not allow me to move forward/access new content in the game and to update it. I've download 0.11 and I'm wondering how to continue from where I left off without restarting the story.
Hi, so I figured out the solution to my previous issue. However I have a new one, I've reached the next stage with Harley but when I click hang out (new chapter) it just glitches back to the previous screen/action and I can't actually do anything.
Hi! First of all, love the game. I think you are doing great job with it. Secondly, I might've encoutered a weird bug with Haley. When talking to her I have an option to hang out, but after clicking it, time passes and nothing happens. Could this issue be caused by save transfering?
I think it's a pretty good game. The cards can be frustrating at times because it doesn't seem your opponent's choices are truly blind or random, they will beat you 7-8 hands in a row which is a statistical anomaly. A lot of times you'll win entirely on duels and bird cards and you have to grind A LOT to even get through the existing parts of the game.
I wish I knew Harley didn't have any H-scenes before I gave her lots of gifts.
Some feature suggestions:
- Anal scenes. I think we all want to bury it in Maggie's ass.
- Threesomes or watching. The comments from other girls in the room are hot, but I wish the girls would get turned on and get in on the action while watching.
- Pregnancy. It would be awesome to have both "cum" and "impregnate" buttons, have modified versions of the H-scenes where the girls are pregnant, and have the girls wear out/get tired/quit their jobs/demand child support as the game progresses to increase the difficulty.
- STDs. It would be awesome to be able to like give Linora herpes and have like a detective minigame where you try to figure out which one gave it to you.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. What you mentioned has been improved in later versions, we've overhauled the consumables in 0.14 which gives you SO much strategy and answers to the opponent. We also added a feature in I think 0.13 that allows you to automatically gain the results of an SMS date if you've 5-starred them. This would help the grinding aspect and allows you to reap rewards of dates you've proven to dominate in.
For your suggestions, anal stuff are definitely open, theesomes are being worked on for 0.15 with the implementation of the first calendar event; the MC's birthday party.
Pregnancy will unfortunately not be a part of the game as you say, H-scenes and sprites would need a pregnancy variation which is a lot of additional assets, and on a technical standpoint, it would mess with a lot of features and halt the flow of the game.
STDs are a very niche fetish that we aren't interested in adding to our game.
And animated cumshots, as much as we'd like to have those and think they're cool, with the amount of new H-scenes we add every update, animating each one's cumshot is very very tedious to do and as someone who's done that before with my previous game, I decided against doing it for my own sanity.
If you've already played Maggie's route, there isn't anything new that you haven't already played. If not, I suggest waiting for the next 0.12 Update on the 3rd of May which will include a bunch of new stuff along with the Maggie trigger fix.
Bit pissed right now the game asked me to rate it and offered an ingame reward but after it opened the browser and I wrote my review my phone stopped the app and I lost like 2h of progress because I forgot to save frequently. Maybe consider implementing autosave for promts like that to prevent frustrations like mine. Gotta say otherwise a real fun and charming game though.
So sorry to hear that happened to you. Check to see if it did autosave as renpy already does so, autosaves should be under the 'A' section of the load screen, hopefully it had saved then.
We've already implemented that for future versions, adding multiple forced autosaves, reminders, and even forcing players to hard save every in-game week and before that prompt shows up.
Awesome, great to hear! I've only gotten one report ever of someone's game completely wiping all saves (and I can only assume that's the cause of their specific android phone) so be careful.
rather off topic, but i wanted to bring the ATU 1.0 situation to your attention if you weren't already here; a lot of folk are feeling rather scorned that the full release isn't all they hoped to be.
whilst i admit i feel somewhat disappointed at this information too, i'm not here to cast foul words; i understand how it can feel to run out of steam, even when it's something you quite enjoy and are proud of.
all i'm here to say is ultimately this: keep on keeping on, have the best of time, and when you feel you have some motivation back, maybe take another glance at a town uncovered and see how you do.
so, that said, best of luck with the development of Sugar Service!
I appreciate your understanding, ATU is my game after all so it's kinda hard for me to not be aware of people's disappointments and distaste towards me.
Ultimately, it doesn't bother me at all. There's no one else in the entire world that has thought about at extreme depth about what I should do and the best decision I can make than myself. And the decision I made puts my happiness and mental health above everything else.
It's not just that I ran out of steam, I ran out of steam years ago, it's also the fact that I stopped enjoying developing for that game years ago too and I really can't say I'm "proud" of the game. But that is 100% on me for starting an overly ambitious project with the game-dev experience of a few days. I'm proud of myself for attempting it, and learning, and actually doing something big, but I can't say I'm all that proud of what I made to be frank.
The only reason I kept going for as long as it did was because I made a promise to finish the game and I tried so hard to keep it, even if year after year, the end was still far in the horizon. Like trekking through a desert on a treadmill type slow and painful. At the very least, I provided an ending, it's not the best ending and there's lots of plot holes but if my options were to provide a bad ending or no ending at all, I chose to at least try and have a full release.
There's so many things I wish I could change with ATU but the game's far too big to even tackle it, and just thinking about it is very off-putting for me. The list of things I dislike about my own creation now is unfortunately bigger than what I like about it. I liked that it gave me so much learning experience and the opportunity to try again with a new project but that's about it.
Sugar Service is unofficially the game I wish ATU could have been but I just simply didn't have the skills and experience back then and going back to old work is not a very appealing prospect for any creative person. We all wanna feel like we're moving forward, not being stuck in the past.
I'm also aware people loved ATU, way more than I could and I appreciate that. If I knew what I know now and started ATU today, it would be a much different, much better, but much different game. There's not much I can or want to do without jeopardizing my mental health so don't hold your hopes out for ATU. I'll do some hotfixes and polish but that's about it.
and that's perfectly fine; like i said, just take you time and see if your feelings improve; should that prove fruitless, there's always the option of passing the mantle to someone who could fulfill the vision, yours or theirs.
for now though? just unwind the way you see fit, and see where it goes.
Did you click yes? That's a message from the renpy engine itself and it's saying that your save was created on a different device. Maliciously constructed save files can harm your computer. If you trust it, you can click yes, I can only assume that it'd let you open your save.
Not sure, I haven't been prompted with that message before. Did you transfer your save from like a laptop to a PC or something? I can only suggest finding a solution on Google from other renpy games.
I've been playing this game for a while now, and I have a question about Quinni. How do I advance with her, and are you planning to add more scenes or gameplay with her?
Also, how do I unlock the cam girls? Do I need the cheat code thing?
Don't remember quite how many scenes are available in the public version but her story differs from the others in that she advances every at player level 5, 15, 25, 35, etc. Her story is meant to be played out in an entire playthrough of the game.
For the camgirl app, yeah, those are for the 'manager' supporters of the game
after playing for quite a bit, romancing, i think 3 girls? heres my review.
I like the game so far, looking forward to the future, one of my favourite aspects is the "rock, paper, scissors, bird" game, its pretty fun, just have to replay some people in the city to build up your xp to get stronger cards (not a complaint), and i like the stocks aspect, good way to get extra money, if you wait for the right time lol. dont think i have any complaints? currently theres only 4 vip clients i think, but obviously this game is still in very early access. im not sure if i have a favourite girl yet, my favourite girls in a town uncovered were either ellie, or your roomate/friend you live with, build the box fort with etc, only reason i make that comparison is because its by the same developer lol.
*edit* theres one girl that im not sure how to progress with, Quinni, the (possible) trans girl (depending on players choice), but im sure they'll be more progress with her in future updates!
Thank you so much for the thoughtful review! I'm glad you enjoy the game, each version, the game gets better and better for sure and I can't wait for you to experience it at it's full potential in the future.
We always take feedback from the players and look into improving and upgrading parts of the game to make things more engaging, fun, or add quality of life things.
Quinni's character is unique one because she's neither a camgirl or a VIP client but a rival. So her story chapters are actually triggered every 10 player levels; 5, 15, 25, 35, etc. Her story stuff is meant to be played and experienced over the full length of the game, and I'm planning to add more special characters like her, that evolve over a long-term period
By player levels, do you mean, if i keep doing the RPS battles with clients, and leveling up my deck? Right now my deck/player level is 13, and my game version is 0.11B_a, so maybe i'll keep playing, leveling up, see if i can progress with her.
One possible minor bug, im not sure if it is a bug or not, i have $13k, but i cant open a pack silver cards, it says theyre $8k, when it happened before, i just got more money and it let me, so im not sure its a bug, i figure you may just need enough to at least purchase the 2nd or 3rd silver pack.
i did sort of like the animation and art style more in ATU, like, in the NSFW scenes, those animations, but of course this is still early acess, and as for the art style, well, this is a different game, i wouldn really expect the art style to be totally the same.
I'll have to look into that bug. I shall do it for the upcoming 0.15 update as I also include the gold packs.
As for the animations. What you see right now is pretty much how it's going to be. There's not gonna be some magical update where I suddenly choose to rework 100s of animation. The style and way it's done is chosen on purpose to balance quality, ease, but also the amount of work needed.
ATU's art style is very "manufactured" and was done so to help the game stand out from the crowd visually. It's not very natural for me to draw, hence why it comes off as rougher and creatively, takes a lot more work, and effort to produce for a result I'm not very proud of. I'm glad you like it but I've avoided that style for this game because I simply hate drawing like that.
Alright yeah i can understand that, about the ATU art style,
in the future, when i download an updated version of the game, would i be able to load a current save and keep playing from that save file, or have to restart anew? im unbothered if i have to start anew lol, just wondering.
Yeah, Sugar Service has an 'update old save' feature and you'll be prompted on how to use it when you attempt to load an old save file. The general rule though is that the bigger the gap in between the save file and the version playing, the less reliable it is. You'll be able to attempt to try and use it but there's too many big changes and updates in between to guarantee a smooth transfer.
Alright I'm pissed.... While I must admit I am half heartedly to blame since I didn't make a hard save myself but I'm so used to the convince of auto save.... But that's not even my issue and it's crazy cause I've had 0 issues till now and I've been playing almost 3 days now, here and there....(even loaded a save file through the auto save folder this morning to start the game up) But As I was playing though I got a pop-up notification asking if I liked the game so far + said I'd be in-game credited like $20-50k (don't remember exactly which) if I said yes and rated the app 5 stars so I did and when I finished rating it I went to reopen the game and it basically forced restarted the app loading me into the main menu and now all my auto saves vanished..... + To add insult to injury: when I started up the new game I STILL DONT HAVE THE FUCKING MONEY .!!!!!! 😡🤬💯
Oh my God, I'm really sorry to hear that. That kind of thing is something that's out of my control though since it's to do with the app engine and perhaps even how your particular phone handles opening up apps and background apps. This is the first I've ever heard of this happening so I pretty much concluded that that notification wasn't problematic.
I really couldn't tell you why it wiped all your auto-saves like that. I'll add in some hard-save reminders throughout and before that notification to future proof this from happening.
Game is off to a great start, big fan of ATU, this might just be me being a dumbass but how do I "advance" the roommates' relationships, I've gifted them a bunch and talked with them as well, just a little confused, is there a guide I can read?
As long as you have 3 stars and a heart symbol on the gift icon, you'll be able to advance to the next chapter. The guide is in the web app in the in-game phone
Where can I get a completed save file? I already played the old content and would like to just skip to the new content, but I don't have any save files still.
Thank you. I played the game for the first time yesterday, but was too tired. Then I clicked on everything on the cell phone and everywhere but found nothing.
*edit, nevermind, saw your reply saying 2025-2026! :) *
Hey! just downloading now, really liked A Town Uncovered, hoping there will be more to that in the future too, but will this game also be on steam in the future? i hadnt seen anything about it on this page.
ATU is in its finished state, excluding some polish and bug fixes that I've yet to do. Mainly it's so I can focus on this game and have it grow and thrive. Sugar Service will be on steam in the future for sure!
Be careful about supporting this dev, he will abandon projects as he gets bored of them, a town uncovered was basically not updated for a year before he just "condensed" aka cut a lot of the story and then just pushed it out the door to be able to do something else.
Valid take. A Town Uncovered was a game I've started 9 years ago and it was the first ever project I worked on. I knew nothing about the importance of planning a project, feature creep, and I was literally learning how to do things as I was making it. Cool ideas were out of my wheelhouse and by the time I knew how to code it, there was too much content for it to be feasible.
It was the singular project that made me hate being a game dev, the only reason I didn't "abandon" it sooner was because I felt like I owed people to continue working on it. Most of it, especially the last few years were mentally painful. Until I finally decided to finish the game as best I could do without having to commit to something I hated for another x amount of years.
Yeah, it's not a perfect ending and the me from 9 years ago would've hated it too. But I believe it was the right decision for myself as a game dev and it's at least something rather than ACTUALLY not having a conclusion. THAT would be the definition of abandonment.
It was one of those "can't people tell I really hated developing for this game, why are they still supporting it". I was pretty vocal and it wasn't a secret that I really just didn't wanna do it. So yeah, I'd rather pursue something I'm super excited, passionate, and proud of, like Sugar Service than some amateur project I made 9 years ago that so happened to find some luck and success within the community.
I acknowledge that without ATU, I wouldn't be able to make Sugar Service, so I thank it for that but I'm not sorry that I decided to call it quits earlier than it needed. I've taken all the mistakes I've learnt from ATU and have and will continue to put it into Sugar Service's development. I've planned the game out and designed it in a way that makes me motivated and has a clear end game.
I'm sorry for not giving the ATU that we envisioned together but I'm putting my happiness and mental health before that.
Absolutely love working on Sugar Service, I feel the complete opposite of burnt out whenever I'm working on it. I get excited about what new content I can make and share with ya'll
"can't people tell I really hated developing for this game, why are they still supporting it" - Ummm.... No. People can't see in your head, and most people don't really care about the person behind it. That isn't meant as an insult, it is just a reality. I guess that's the best possible outcome at this point - but really, there are no winners here; still, as you laid out, it could have been worse. Just checked- game was put on steam almost 4 1/2 Years ago, so basically "halfway in" at this point, since it isn't too recent, you get a pass here. It is sad, because I really liked it (def. in my top 5, if not 3 in this genre) and held back playing it for some time, to not burn out on content drip. I feel kinda burned here, but I understand your where you are coming from. I don't think there's going to be support for your new projects from me for the time being (still wish you luck and success, but I'd rather wait and see the finished product before investing in it). It'd be nice if you decided in the future, after taking a break from this game, that you revisit it with fresh ideas and improved competence and confidence. But that's not a decision for today.
Absolutely fair, hopefully we can produce a finished product that you'd be willing to try out in a few years. As for ATU, I may come back to it every once in a while to do some minor clean up on some parts, like making certain scenes more grounded but I highly doubt I'll have any drive or motivation to actually improve it in a noteworthy way. Nothing that requires a replay of the whole game.
To me, I'd rather spend my time working on the NEXT great project instead of trying to salvage (in my eyes) a big mess of scraps, clunkily put together with super glue and glitter. I'm happy just having it sat in the garage as an occasional reminder of where I started from and that it gave me the experience to create better things.
I think most people, if asked to instead of working on a new, exciting project that would be better than the last, they should try and improve the work they did 10 years ago when they were fresh faced, green, and learning the fundamentals. They'd scoff at the idea, it just doesn't have a single appealing aspects to it. And that's not towards you specifically, I just mean in general, we sometimes forget how soul-sucking backtracking is, in art, games, work, life, whatever. Everyone wants to feel like we're moving forward and not back.
I appreciate you having ranked ATU so highly on your personal favorites, I wouldn't even rank that game in my top 20. Which is good for me personally, it means my standards for a game I can create is still sky high.
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I hope there will be a translation for all languages
While there isnt official localization, I believe there is a third-party renpy translation app you can look into.
Ei, Geeseki, você tem alguma ideia de quando estará disponível no Steam?
E se você lançar, fará o que fez com A Town Uncovered?
Ou este jogo será melhor?
Pergunto isso porque gostei muito deste jogo e fiquei muito triste quando joguei o outro e tive que esperar 1 ano para que dissessem que estava pronto, quando parecia que o jogo tinha sido cortado. Gostei muito da mecânica de papel-tesoura para conquistas para dar presentes. E como eu disse há alguns meses ou anos, nem sei quando foi a última vez que falei com você, desculpe. Estou me divertindo muito com este jogo. E obrigado pela atenção e desculpe pelo inconveniente.
I should have sent it in English, but that's okay, what matters is the intention. 🤣🤣🤣
no worries, google translate
Ei, eu já conversei com minha publicadora e estamos trabalhando para colocar o jogo no Steam. Ele deve estar disponível para adicionar à lista de desejos até o final do ano.
Este projeto será melhor do que A Town Uncovered, porque aprendi com meus erros do passado e já planejei e estruturei o jogo com antecedência, então sei que ele terá uma conclusão adequada. ATU foi meu primeiro grande projeto e eu era muito inexperiente para lidar com ele. Fiz o meu melhor para dar um final ao jogo porque já tinha passado quase 10 anos trabalhando nele, muito infeliz, e não queria passar mais alguns anos me sentindo esgotado e infeliz.
Espero que você confie que eu cresci e amadureci como desenvolvedor, e espero que consiga ver com Sugar Service o quanto isso ficou evidente com o aumento na qualidade, no planejamento e na execução.
Obrigado!
Thanks for the reply and for putting up with everyone.
ps: I believe you have grown and matured, and that is why every time I come back, I find games that I continue to play even after all the chaos that happens. Town Uncovered is proof of that. Just because it is your first game does not mean that it does not have the story you want to tell. And for that I repeat thank you for putting up with us players
Hello! So the last save file I have is 0.08 and when I load into it, it gives me the warning that this may not allow me to move forward/access new content in the game and to update it. I've download 0.11 and I'm wondering how to continue from where I left off without restarting the story.
can you screenshot the message for me? I'm not sure I recognize what that message is.
Hi, so I figured out the solution to my previous issue. However I have a new one, I've reached the next stage with Harley but when I click hang out (new chapter) it just glitches back to the previous screen/action and I can't actually do anything.
I mentioned this in another comment but Harley in this update is still a new character with WIP content so that is just one of those WIP parts.
Ahh okay, thank you for the update, looking forward to the future content😁
Hi! First of all, love the game. I think you are doing great job with it. Secondly, I might've encoutered a weird bug with Haley. When talking to her I have an option to hang out, but after clicking it, time passes and nothing happens. Could this issue be caused by save transfering?
it's not impossible but I'll say the likely cause is more likely that she's a newer character in that version so her stuff is a little WIP still.
Is there any consistent way of solving stuff like this?
To solve the WIP stuff? Play the newer version where more content has been added.
I think it's a pretty good game. The cards can be frustrating at times because it doesn't seem your opponent's choices are truly blind or random, they will beat you 7-8 hands in a row which is a statistical anomaly. A lot of times you'll win entirely on duels and bird cards and you have to grind A LOT to even get through the existing parts of the game.
I wish I knew Harley didn't have any H-scenes before I gave her lots of gifts.
Some feature suggestions:
- Anal scenes. I think we all want to bury it in Maggie's ass.
- Threesomes or watching. The comments from other girls in the room are hot, but I wish the girls would get turned on and get in on the action while watching.
- Pregnancy. It would be awesome to have both "cum" and "impregnate" buttons, have modified versions of the H-scenes where the girls are pregnant, and have the girls wear out/get tired/quit their jobs/demand child support as the game progresses to increase the difficulty.
- STDs. It would be awesome to be able to like give Linora herpes and have like a detective minigame where you try to figure out which one gave it to you.
- Animated cumshots
Keep up the good work!
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. What you mentioned has been improved in later versions, we've overhauled the consumables in 0.14 which gives you SO much strategy and answers to the opponent. We also added a feature in I think 0.13 that allows you to automatically gain the results of an SMS date if you've 5-starred them. This would help the grinding aspect and allows you to reap rewards of dates you've proven to dominate in.
For your suggestions, anal stuff are definitely open, theesomes are being worked on for 0.15 with the implementation of the first calendar event; the MC's birthday party.
Pregnancy will unfortunately not be a part of the game as you say, H-scenes and sprites would need a pregnancy variation which is a lot of additional assets, and on a technical standpoint, it would mess with a lot of features and halt the flow of the game.
STDs are a very niche fetish that we aren't interested in adding to our game.
And animated cumshots, as much as we'd like to have those and think they're cool, with the amount of new H-scenes we add every update, animating each one's cumshot is very very tedious to do and as someone who's done that before with my previous game, I decided against doing it for my own sanity.
Besides that, thank you so much!
I think i have a bug with Maggie?
She hasn't been available for a while now and when I try to call her I get error: maggie5550
What should i do?
What version are you playing on? Make sure you're on 0.11_a if not.
Im playing 0.11 version yes
with the _a? That part is important because it's a hotfix that might've potentially fixed that.
Yep, im playing the version 0.11B_a
If you've already played Maggie's route, there isn't anything new that you haven't already played. If not, I suggest waiting for the next 0.12 Update on the 3rd of May which will include a bunch of new stuff along with the Maggie trigger fix.
Bit pissed right now the game asked me to rate it and offered an ingame reward but after it opened the browser and I wrote my review my phone stopped the app and I lost like 2h of progress because I forgot to save frequently. Maybe consider implementing autosave for promts like that to prevent frustrations like mine. Gotta say otherwise a real fun and charming game though.
So sorry to hear that happened to you. Check to see if it did autosave as renpy already does so, autosaves should be under the 'A' section of the load screen, hopefully it had saved then.
We've already implemented that for future versions, adding multiple forced autosaves, reminders, and even forcing players to hard save every in-game week and before that prompt shows up.
Oh yea I just noticed. I wasn't aware where the autosaves are. Thank you so much it did in fact save before.
Awesome, great to hear! I've only gotten one report ever of someone's game completely wiping all saves (and I can only assume that's the cause of their specific android phone) so be careful.
rather off topic, but i wanted to bring the ATU 1.0 situation to your attention if you weren't already here; a lot of folk are feeling rather scorned that the full release isn't all they hoped to be.
whilst i admit i feel somewhat disappointed at this information too, i'm not here to cast foul words; i understand how it can feel to run out of steam, even when it's something you quite enjoy and are proud of.
all i'm here to say is ultimately this: keep on keeping on, have the best of time, and when you feel you have some motivation back, maybe take another glance at a town uncovered and see how you do.
so, that said, best of luck with the development of Sugar Service!
I appreciate your understanding, ATU is my game after all so it's kinda hard for me to not be aware of people's disappointments and distaste towards me.
Ultimately, it doesn't bother me at all. There's no one else in the entire world that has thought about at extreme depth about what I should do and the best decision I can make than myself. And the decision I made puts my happiness and mental health above everything else.
It's not just that I ran out of steam, I ran out of steam years ago, it's also the fact that I stopped enjoying developing for that game years ago too and I really can't say I'm "proud" of the game. But that is 100% on me for starting an overly ambitious project with the game-dev experience of a few days. I'm proud of myself for attempting it, and learning, and actually doing something big, but I can't say I'm all that proud of what I made to be frank.
The only reason I kept going for as long as it did was because I made a promise to finish the game and I tried so hard to keep it, even if year after year, the end was still far in the horizon. Like trekking through a desert on a treadmill type slow and painful. At the very least, I provided an ending, it's not the best ending and there's lots of plot holes but if my options were to provide a bad ending or no ending at all, I chose to at least try and have a full release.
There's so many things I wish I could change with ATU but the game's far too big to even tackle it, and just thinking about it is very off-putting for me. The list of things I dislike about my own creation now is unfortunately bigger than what I like about it. I liked that it gave me so much learning experience and the opportunity to try again with a new project but that's about it.
Sugar Service is unofficially the game I wish ATU could have been but I just simply didn't have the skills and experience back then and going back to old work is not a very appealing prospect for any creative person. We all wanna feel like we're moving forward, not being stuck in the past.
I'm also aware people loved ATU, way more than I could and I appreciate that. If I knew what I know now and started ATU today, it would be a much different, much better, but much different game. There's not much I can or want to do without jeopardizing my mental health so don't hold your hopes out for ATU. I'll do some hotfixes and polish but that's about it.
and that's perfectly fine; like i said, just take you time and see if your feelings improve; should that prove fruitless, there's always the option of passing the mantle to someone who could fulfill the vision, yours or theirs.
for now though? just unwind the way you see fit, and see where it goes.
Are you planning on making a Discord server where people can ask for help and discuss the game in general?
Link on the page.
Why i cant open my save?
Did you click yes? That's a message from the renpy engine itself and it's saying that your save was created on a different device. Maliciously constructed save files can harm your computer. If you trust it, you can click yes, I can only assume that it'd let you open your save.
thanks for the suggestion, but I can't open the save even though I pressed yes, do you have any other suggestions dev?
Not sure, I haven't been prompted with that message before. Did you transfer your save from like a laptop to a PC or something? I can only suggest finding a solution on Google from other renpy games.
I've been playing this game for a while now, and I have a question about Quinni. How do I advance with her, and are you planning to add more scenes or gameplay with her?
Also, how do I unlock the cam girls? Do I need the cheat code thing?
Don't remember quite how many scenes are available in the public version but her story differs from the others in that she advances every at player level 5, 15, 25, 35, etc. Her story is meant to be played out in an entire playthrough of the game.
For the camgirl app, yeah, those are for the 'manager' supporters of the game
after playing for quite a bit, romancing, i think 3 girls? heres my review.
I like the game so far, looking forward to the future, one of my favourite aspects is the "rock, paper, scissors, bird" game, its pretty fun, just have to replay some people in the city to build up your xp to get stronger cards (not a complaint), and i like the stocks aspect, good way to get extra money, if you wait for the right time lol. dont think i have any complaints? currently theres only 4 vip clients i think, but obviously this game is still in very early access. im not sure if i have a favourite girl yet, my favourite girls in a town uncovered were either ellie, or your roomate/friend you live with, build the box fort with etc, only reason i make that comparison is because its by the same developer lol.
*edit* theres one girl that im not sure how to progress with, Quinni, the (possible) trans girl (depending on players choice), but im sure they'll be more progress with her in future updates!
looking forward to the future updates!
Thank you so much for the thoughtful review! I'm glad you enjoy the game, each version, the game gets better and better for sure and I can't wait for you to experience it at it's full potential in the future.
We always take feedback from the players and look into improving and upgrading parts of the game to make things more engaging, fun, or add quality of life things.
Quinni's character is unique one because she's neither a camgirl or a VIP client but a rival. So her story chapters are actually triggered every 10 player levels; 5, 15, 25, 35, etc. Her story stuff is meant to be played and experienced over the full length of the game, and I'm planning to add more special characters like her, that evolve over a long-term period
By player levels, do you mean, if i keep doing the RPS battles with clients, and leveling up my deck? Right now my deck/player level is 13, and my game version is 0.11B_a, so maybe i'll keep playing, leveling up, see if i can progress with her.
One possible minor bug, im not sure if it is a bug or not, i have $13k, but i cant open a pack silver cards, it says theyre $8k, when it happened before, i just got more money and it let me, so im not sure its a bug, i figure you may just need enough to at least purchase the 2nd or 3rd silver pack.
i did sort of like the animation and art style more in ATU, like, in the NSFW scenes, those animations, but of course this is still early acess, and as for the art style, well, this is a different game, i wouldn really expect the art style to be totally the same.
Yes, exactly. The card game level.
I'll have to look into that bug. I shall do it for the upcoming 0.15 update as I also include the gold packs.
As for the animations. What you see right now is pretty much how it's going to be. There's not gonna be some magical update where I suddenly choose to rework 100s of animation. The style and way it's done is chosen on purpose to balance quality, ease, but also the amount of work needed.
ATU's art style is very "manufactured" and was done so to help the game stand out from the crowd visually. It's not very natural for me to draw, hence why it comes off as rougher and creatively, takes a lot more work, and effort to produce for a result I'm not very proud of. I'm glad you like it but I've avoided that style for this game because I simply hate drawing like that.
Alright yeah i can understand that, about the ATU art style,
in the future, when i download an updated version of the game, would i be able to load a current save and keep playing from that save file, or have to restart anew? im unbothered if i have to start anew lol, just wondering.
Yeah, Sugar Service has an 'update old save' feature and you'll be prompted on how to use it when you attempt to load an old save file. The general rule though is that the bigger the gap in between the save file and the version playing, the less reliable it is. You'll be able to attempt to try and use it but there's too many big changes and updates in between to guarantee a smooth transfer.
Alright I'm pissed.... While I must admit I am half heartedly to blame since I didn't make a hard save myself but I'm so used to the convince of auto save.... But that's not even my issue and it's crazy cause I've had 0 issues till now and I've been playing almost 3 days now, here and there....(even loaded a save file through the auto save folder this morning to start the game up) But As I was playing though I got a pop-up notification asking if I liked the game so far + said I'd be in-game credited like $20-50k (don't remember exactly which) if I said yes and rated the app 5 stars so I did and when I finished rating it I went to reopen the game and it basically forced restarted the app loading me into the main menu and now all my auto saves vanished..... + To add insult to injury: when I started up the new game I STILL DONT HAVE THE FUCKING MONEY .!!!!!! 😡🤬💯
Oh my God, I'm really sorry to hear that. That kind of thing is something that's out of my control though since it's to do with the app engine and perhaps even how your particular phone handles opening up apps and background apps. This is the first I've ever heard of this happening so I pretty much concluded that that notification wasn't problematic.
I really couldn't tell you why it wiped all your auto-saves like that. I'll add in some hard-save reminders throughout and before that notification to future proof this from happening.
If you'd like, send me a DM on discord (link on the page) and I can probably aid you further
that sucks im sorry :/ i had the same thing pop up a couple weeks ago, i clicked yes and rate, with no issues, not sure why you wouldve gotten that :/
Game is off to a great start, big fan of ATU, this might just be me being a dumbass but how do I "advance" the roommates' relationships, I've gifted them a bunch and talked with them as well, just a little confused, is there a guide I can read?
As long as you have 3 stars and a heart symbol on the gift icon, you'll be able to advance to the next chapter. The guide is in the web app in the in-game phone
Thanks, I was being an idiot, I was talking with them out of their rooms and when I tried inside their rooms it brought up the hang out option.
Nice, glad you got it. The 'ghosted' (!) icon means its either the wrong location or wrong time.
I haven't played the game entirely but can I ask if there is option available to disable voyeurism entirely ?
There isn't but you can just choose not to peek at them. Voyeurism is a major, primary fetish of the game
Where can I get a completed save file? I already played the old content and would like to just skip to the new content, but I don't have any save files still.
How do I save in this game?
Press escape on PC or the menu button at the bottom
Thank you. I played the game for the first time yesterday, but was too tired. Then I clicked on everything on the cell phone and everywhere but found nothing.
This game has some kind of strip game? (sorry but my perv mind can't separate strip and cards when the letter H is involved)
there's no strip game, it's just a card game. I don't know where the letter 'H' came from, there's no 'H' in the title.
i think you accidentally listed the mac download for 0.11B as a linux download
You're absolutely right! That's my bad, I've fixed it. Thanks for that
Is it possible to "add" an optional Futa protagonist (male protagonist skin swapping)
Acceptable for me even if I need to pay extra for this
Not possible, because it's hand-drawn assets with unique art asset requirements, it's a LOT of workload for a feature I never intended to add.
Got it, thanks for the reply
*edit, nevermind, saw your reply saying 2025-2026! :) *
Hey! just downloading now, really liked A Town Uncovered, hoping there will be more to that in the future too, but will this game also be on steam in the future? i hadnt seen anything about it on this page.
ATU is in its finished state, excluding some polish and bug fixes that I've yet to do. Mainly it's so I can focus on this game and have it grow and thrive. Sugar Service will be on steam in the future for sure!
okay great! thank you!
Be careful about supporting this dev, he will abandon projects as he gets bored of them, a town uncovered was basically not updated for a year before he just "condensed" aka cut a lot of the story and then just pushed it out the door to be able to do something else.
Valid take. A Town Uncovered was a game I've started 9 years ago and it was the first ever project I worked on. I knew nothing about the importance of planning a project, feature creep, and I was literally learning how to do things as I was making it. Cool ideas were out of my wheelhouse and by the time I knew how to code it, there was too much content for it to be feasible.
It was the singular project that made me hate being a game dev, the only reason I didn't "abandon" it sooner was because I felt like I owed people to continue working on it. Most of it, especially the last few years were mentally painful. Until I finally decided to finish the game as best I could do without having to commit to something I hated for another x amount of years.
Yeah, it's not a perfect ending and the me from 9 years ago would've hated it too. But I believe it was the right decision for myself as a game dev and it's at least something rather than ACTUALLY not having a conclusion. THAT would be the definition of abandonment.
It was one of those "can't people tell I really hated developing for this game, why are they still supporting it". I was pretty vocal and it wasn't a secret that I really just didn't wanna do it. So yeah, I'd rather pursue something I'm super excited, passionate, and proud of, like Sugar Service than some amateur project I made 9 years ago that so happened to find some luck and success within the community.
I acknowledge that without ATU, I wouldn't be able to make Sugar Service, so I thank it for that but I'm not sorry that I decided to call it quits earlier than it needed. I've taken all the mistakes I've learnt from ATU and have and will continue to put it into Sugar Service's development. I've planned the game out and designed it in a way that makes me motivated and has a clear end game.
I'm sorry for not giving the ATU that we envisioned together but I'm putting my happiness and mental health before that.
W dev, dont care what others say.
Well i hope you enjoy working on this for the future. not because you feel you owe anyone, but because its something you want to do, for you!
Absolutely love working on Sugar Service, I feel the complete opposite of burnt out whenever I'm working on it. I get excited about what new content I can make and share with ya'll
thats great! good for you! :)
"can't people tell I really hated developing for this game, why are they still supporting it" - Ummm.... No. People can't see in your head, and most people don't really care about the person behind it. That isn't meant as an insult, it is just a reality. I guess that's the best possible outcome at this point - but really, there are no winners here; still, as you laid out, it could have been worse. Just checked- game was put on steam almost 4 1/2 Years ago, so basically "halfway in" at this point, since it isn't too recent, you get a pass here. It is sad, because I really liked it (def. in my top 5, if not 3 in this genre) and held back playing it for some time, to not burn out on content drip. I feel kinda burned here, but I understand your where you are coming from. I don't think there's going to be support for your new projects from me for the time being (still wish you luck and success, but I'd rather wait and see the finished product before investing in it). It'd be nice if you decided in the future, after taking a break from this game, that you revisit it with fresh ideas and improved competence and confidence. But that's not a decision for today.
Absolutely fair, hopefully we can produce a finished product that you'd be willing to try out in a few years. As for ATU, I may come back to it every once in a while to do some minor clean up on some parts, like making certain scenes more grounded but I highly doubt I'll have any drive or motivation to actually improve it in a noteworthy way. Nothing that requires a replay of the whole game.
To me, I'd rather spend my time working on the NEXT great project instead of trying to salvage (in my eyes) a big mess of scraps, clunkily put together with super glue and glitter. I'm happy just having it sat in the garage as an occasional reminder of where I started from and that it gave me the experience to create better things.
I think most people, if asked to instead of working on a new, exciting project that would be better than the last, they should try and improve the work they did 10 years ago when they were fresh faced, green, and learning the fundamentals. They'd scoff at the idea, it just doesn't have a single appealing aspects to it. And that's not towards you specifically, I just mean in general, we sometimes forget how soul-sucking backtracking is, in art, games, work, life, whatever. Everyone wants to feel like we're moving forward and not back.
I appreciate you having ranked ATU so highly on your personal favorites, I wouldn't even rank that game in my top 20. Which is good for me personally, it means my standards for a game I can create is still sky high.