Cultural Replay: A Culture Shock Fanwork [v0.30] [APK]

The original game has a myriad of bugs, pacing issues, continuity errors, and sporadic quality in the writing that will probably never be addressed because of the incremental nature of any AVN with a subscription model. Their paid customers want new content and if they don’t deliver, it can hurt their finances. That can leave little time to go back and fix major issues for the health of the game.

If the original developer wants to use any part of this project in the original game, they are welcome to have it. The end goal is to get the story in a state that the community thinks would be a good jumping point for the original developer to build off of. I already post any fixes for bugs that would be in the original game in their discord.

Why am I doing this specfically?
I’m unemployed and bored.

That would require participation from the original developer and they are a notoriously difficult person to get a hold of.

To give context, I patched the original game and sent them documentation and the files months ago. As far as I know, the OG game still hasn’t been patched.

I’d rather post here and actually see people benefit from the effort.

I was originally posting in the thread for the original game, but it had such little traffic that it felt like entire pages were just me posting updates. It was also very difficult to distinguish which comments were discussing the rewrite and which ones were talking about the OG game. After discussing the situation with the mods of this site, I was advised to make the rewrite it’s own thread.

I like programming and I like writing. Modifying the game is enjoyable for me. I showed my initial work to a few people I made unofficial patches for and they encouraged me to continue it and share it with others. I’m aware of the ethical gray area of rewriting a game that is still ‘in development’, which is why the project will never be monetized.

The technical reason I chose Culture Shock and not another game is because it has a lot of renders. And those renders were made with a lot of composition choices that allows one to easily reuse or rearrange them.

Creating the renders is the most expensive and time consuming part of AVN development, imo. Which is why the original creator should receive any financial benefits from this project.

If you REALLY feel the need to contribute, try to commission new render sets for scenes that could be added to the project. Or scrape the unused preview renders from the Patreon so I don’t have to pay for it myself. Last time, I paid extra for access to the Developer discord thinking I could talk to the creator there. To my disappointment, there hadn’t been any traffic for years. I am unwilling to pay that much again.