Operation NOVEL: Season 1
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Explosions, Experiments, and Espionage.
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Objective:
Numbuh 62's (Anon) assignment should've been a simple one; Testing experimental weaponry, keeping the armory up to standard, and provide security detail to Sector-G, one of the most technologically advanced R&D facilities within the organization .
SHOULD'VE, being the keyword.
It would have been, if not for the fact that his teammates, while nice enough girls, were either manic, secretive, and/or morally-ambiguous at the *best* of times (and outright bonkers at the *worst* of times). Keeping up with them is enough to drive the poor guy crazy, almost as crazy as they are.
ALMOST, being the keyword.
Living with the day-to-day insanity of spontaneous explosions, secret cameras, and scientific monstrosities has taken its mental toll on the young operative. However, knowing that he is the only thing standing between his teammates and who knows WHAT they might do to the rest of...well...the world, he does his best to try and keep things normal (Or rather, as normal things can get at Sector-G).
TRY, being the keyword.
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Current Operatives:
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Features:
>An engaging and immersive story, faithfully inspired by the original show.
>A cast of memorable characters (and a Neapolitan assortment of craziness).
>Unlockable CG's and Animations.
>Original Soundtrack and Music Player.
>In-Game Codex and Archives that provide additional details about the world and its characters.
>Hours of content for the base game, in addition to Iterative episode releases.
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Team:
Anondive (Writer and Co-Creator) Twitter
Irrelevant (Programmer and Co-Creator) Twitter
Updated | 15 days ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux, Android |
Release date | Mar 18, 2021 |
Rating | Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (349 total ratings) |
Authors | Homeschool Studios, Anondive |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Made with | Ren'Py |
Tags | 2D, Adult, Cute, Fangame, Funny, knd, Ren'Py, Romance, Story Rich, Western |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial_NoDerivatives v4.0 International |
Average session | A few hours |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse, Gamepad (any) |
Download
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Development log
- A Brief-ish Overview15 days ago
- D-D-D-Done, baby, done!18 days ago
- News, news, and, uh… news!31 days ago
- Our 'No, it has nothing to do with Veteran's Day' Devlog!71 days ago
- Devlog? Devlog.Jun 03, 2024
- A (12 days after) Valentines Day Devlog!Feb 27, 2024
- A Milk Day Devlog!Jan 15, 2024
- In today's very special Devlog....Oct 07, 2023
Comments
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Hi Dive and friends. I created an account to leave this comment. I'm absolutely amazed by the content you've made, and after reading the most recent updates, am sad that haters are gonna hate. I check here monthly to see if there any updates, and absolutely love this project. Outside of Twitter, is there another way to see how updates are going. Patreon? Discord? How can a common fan best support your project?
Can't wait to see what comes next! Have a good day.
Since the game's more episodic, how many seasons do you guys plan on making before the game's truly finished?
Bueno me encanto el juego está muy bueno la verdad desbloquee todo y debo decir que está genial me encanta la serie.
Bueno espero el nuevo capitulo jajaja
Okay. I know this is a repolished season one with extra content. And it was nice to go through it again. Didn't mind the extra scenes either.
One thing that bothers me though? Why merge the first three episodes? It was FINE as it was. Even if the first three episodes are shorter. Your episode 2 title "X vs. G 2" no longer makes sense because you no longer have an "X vs. G." Furthermore, you still say that "Episode V has ended" after going through "Scout Squabble." I know you wanted the episodes to be the same length, but that's gonna throw off longtime viewers (like me) who are used to seeing five episodes of your Visual Novel, not three.
If there's anything you should change about this it's definitely this! That and you have missing backgrounds when you try to go through the archives...and...I can't find those comics that everyone was talking about.
Been trying the update. So far so good. Some of the lines of dialogue need to have a smaller font to fit the screen though. Otherwise they go past it and become unreadable.
Also, if it is not too hard to do, I'd like to ask for a way to rename saves. There are just a lot of good scenes in the game that I want to see over and over again. A named save file will make that easier.
I find the game like one week ago after finding Canterlot Exchange so for me all was new content lmao, and gotta say:
Firstly im so sorry for the drama, make a full game with a small team working to deliver something so cool and polished must be hard, i hope you all keep having fun making the game after this
Secondly, IT WAS SO GOOD, the game got the spirit of KND just right, every character is funny and interesting, the art style is pretty charming, i got very invested in seeing more about the game now, the soundtrack is full of bangers hello!? (Especially Vol 3, Pastime and Pastel Bubbles has no right to go that hard)
Based
Look i understand waiting a year for a update and then for no content at all to appear is gonna pretty much suck, trust me I know how that feels.
But we are talking about four people (correct me if i am wrong) singlehandedly, writing a story,coding a game and making art plus music.
Give them a break, they been taking time from their lives to give you FREE CONTENT.
So please, be a little open minded that life doesn't give a crap about your plans, and they specially give a crap about it if you are working on something and not in a good way.
It's not gonna be an easy ride.
Coding sucks, i know this because I coded some mods and other stuff.
So i understand that this was probably not what they wanted to give us in the end, but they pulled a effort to at least deliver us something and they made something to help our experience with a game they made free for us.
So what i am saying is give the guys or gals developing the game a break, saying shit about them is not gonna solve anything, and if you didn't like it?, well the rating button is here so use it.
Thanks Operation Novel team, looking forward to what you create, not even if it take 84 years.
There seems to be multiple problems with unlocking extras. I used every possible dialog option, but the following didn't get unlocked:
* The comics
* I have only 8/9 of the "Full CG's" in the Scout Squabble episode. I have the "Kourtney as cheerleader", "404 in scout uniform", "Kourtney changing clothes", the 3 pics with 62 in the janitor's closet and the 2 final pics with Betsy. Not sure if there's really any missing.
* Another user below mentioned: "Kuddlefury links in the "Order of the furry paw" causes my game to crash." - I have no idea what that's supposed to be.
On the plus side, I have the 4th episode, which I guess was meant with [Readacted]. I also have 8 recordings, which is probably also the complete batch.
Maybe you could make a version with everything unlocked available for download.
thanks and im sorry for being blunt
Glad to see we’re finally getting a new chapter. Two years was not worth having a truncated season one with just some minor extra content.
Can’t wait to see Rupert’s Rampage at last.
“Hey, Dive. Hey, Irrelevant. Thanks for giving us more free stuff.”
You’re welcome.
This is the internet.
ALL of the stuff is "free stuff", if you are capable of finding a proper piracy site.
Just saying. This game being "free" doesn't free it from the scrutiny.
can anyone tell me how to unlock other gallery content i just finish and they say i have unlock other but unlock nothing no comics redacted or music any help here
go back through the game and choose the other options that you didn't the first time around. that should get you basically everything.
Great stuff! And though it'll be sad that we won't be getting any future updates with our lovable idiots for a long while, Canterlot Exchange has piqued my interest quite a bit so I'll for sure check it out when it's done.
I know many others are disappointed and it's understandable seeing how long it's been without seeing these characters again and the latest update mostly just enhances the overall game. I would be lying if I said that I didn't wish we saw more of the characters in the update, but I still think we should be thankful that we're getting a good sendoff and hopefully something more in the future. They've shown that they communicate with their community frequently rather than stay radio silent and let us never forget, we're paying them squat! We get all this quality writing for free so be a little more understanding you fuckers!
Anyways, Great job to the devs as always and I'll see you all soon when the sun explodes and Operation Novel Season 2 is complete.Considering that the update was already prefaced to be a clean up of all the previous content, I can't say I'm disappointed like some people seem to be. I knew what I was getting from this and it seems to have been a nice polishing of the previous version.
Overall I enjoyed the new additions, small as they may be, since they were able to lightly enhance what was already there and good.
Mostly I'm just glad to see that there is another release, especially one that can mark something off the todo list. Hopefully next release is before 2030.
That's it?
Had to create an account just to say this update has as much content as a bug fix update
this was NOT worth the wait
Alright, all the little issues with text and crashing should be resolved. Thanks for the feedback, y’all. If you find anything let us know.
Hey, I know this was not precisely an update with ten extra hours of content but, as a KND diehard, I appreaciate all the efforts your team is making and I hope to see more in the future.
Do you know what else? I have never been into My little pony, but Canterlot Exchange got my attention and I will be there ready to try it when it comes.
I can perfectly imagine the script of each chapter of N.O.V.E.L as an official one and I know you are putting heart, flesh, blood and soul in this.
P.S: not many people talk about the music, but Rodrick Scorpion made a great work here.
The only thing that I would change right now is to add another background picture to the "Anon attacks enemy base to steal their chili recipe" arc.
Right now when Anon destroys tv by accident, the background picture is not changed to reflect that.
It's especially noticeable because the camera pans to the intact tv, while the text says it got 'destroyed'.
Not only that, but there is a version of that background picture with said tv destroyed! (and an angry girl glued to the floor via bubblegum)
It would be simple to use 'lasso' tool to select the destroyed tv in said picture and then 'paste' it onto the original one!
Please do this guys, the lack of destroyed tv really triggers my autism ;x
Not as much content as I was expecting, but definitely a good polish on what was previously made. Since Season 2 is set to come out "soon...ish", I'm assuming a 2027 release date and will go into hibernation until then.
Okay, I finally played through season 1
There are a few things that bugs me off:
1. In the new expansion of chapter 1, the one where we meet Sonia, there is a problem with the textbox overlay.
While it's cool that it looks like old CRT monitor, it is misaligned with the text, so it cuts off the bottom-most line of the dialogue. I had to use "dialog" button to see what was cut off.
I noticed the same problem with the "recordings" as well. I had to use "history" tab to see what was cut off in Sandra's recording.
I suggest putting text higher when that overlay is displayed.
2. Clicking on the Kuddlefury links in the "Order of the furry paw" causes my game to crash.
3. I was genuinely sad that the main theme was changed.
Don't get me wrong, the new there is good in isolation.
BUT the old one is so iconic to me... I really miss it when I open the game.
Maybe add an option to choose what kind of main theme plays when game is in main menu? Like, put that option in "config" or something?
Nothing new got added, waited a year or so and this was it ? It said end of episode 5 and there was like 1 picture new, nothing in gallary or mini cg added, i feel so scammed.... even download says now act 1 demo
I don't want to sound rude or anything but what was added? I still only see 3 episodes
You have to play through episode 3 to get the new episode
at what point does it unlock? i had a save right as the "end of episode 3" text appeared also right before that text it says "end of season one"
I just started the episode skipped through then at the end it unlocked
just unlocked episode 4 and i think it's for chapter/season 2
i got it thanks, doesn't seem like much though but still
Yeah, in the devlog 'Veterans day' they changed their plans, they decided that the best place to end the season WAS episode 3, so this update is basically just a re-polishing of the entire game, adding text, comic strips, ect.
So what did they add in this update?
Play through episode 3 to get the new episode
It's finally here :D
gamer time at long last is here
Going to prank Anondive when ACT I releases
Kek. Check the devlog. Irrelevant is just getting some stuff fixed.
of course, take as much time as you guys need!
sorry for our bad behaviour me and others are just excited about the update and we really love this game it's just when you love something it's hard to be always patience sorry again take your time with the game
Lol. Nothing to be sorry about, boss. Hope y'all enjoy.
FINALLY! ILY
2 thousands years later... its past 5 already....
I think it's should be in 30 minutes
I think ur wrong
A-a-any minute now.... Right?
Any time now. We ran into an issue or two while we were getting it ready last night. Irrelevant is getting it all handled.
soon...........
Very much looking forward to that new update. Solid VN so far. Can't wait to see how the first season wraps up.
Cmon, almost there!
we are so close
Lol. Probably gonna be fairly late in the night tonight.
Oof.
Any time now
Any time tomorrow~.
(:
Now that I think about it different timezones really screw up making precise dates of releases.
Like, when you release a new update in a specific day, which timezone you should be using? The one from the country from which you come from? Or something more 'universal' like European timezone?
I guess this is another headscratcher that comes from making a game with international audience...
the difference between the place iam and USA is 7 Hours you can imagine how this is annoying
the game is good, though it wouldnt hurt for more porn in a porn game, it is a good game none the less. Can't wait to see more.
I see it better focusing on jokes and situations
The (relative) tameness of the game is what adds to the charm. TBH
I predict that the update will come out on December 20th... at 11:59PM.
still waiting
Yes :'3