VN Ren'Py "A Failure to Launch" v0.1 Now Out - [futadom] [femdom] [Devlog]

[doku99]

Any updates soon?

 

[kalevi123]

Good weekend coming. Good job

 

[Osk0]

I'm happy to report that version 0.1 is now complete. It took a while, made a lot of mistakes, had to learn a lot of new things, but moving forward, future updates will be much much faster.

I'm setting up patreon and stuff, there are some issues that need resolving with them. I'm going to give it a few days to see if they get back to me. If they do, perfect, if not, then I'll just go ahead and upload it anyway.

Awesome to hear can't wait to give it a shot

 

[Zoranian]

I'm happy to report that version 0.1 is now complete. It took a while, made a lot of mistakes, had to learn a lot of new things, but moving forward, future updates will be much much faster.

I'm setting up patreon and stuff, there are some issues that need resolving with them. I'm going to give it a few days to see if they get back to me. If they do, perfect, if not, then I'll just go ahead and upload it anyway.

Totally hyped for this one! discord could also be good to set up right now.

 

[kalevi123]

So what's situation?

 

[doku99]

So what's situation?

He just posted and update what do you want exactly?

 

[ThatGuyWhoIsHere]

He just posted and update what do you want exactly?

They're probably curious how the Patreon situation is going, as per the update.

 

[kalevi123]

Yeah i was asking how patreon stuff is going. Update depends about the patreon situation

 

[monsterdragon55]

Apologies for the delay guys. Yeah they did get back to me. But its gonna be a few more days I'm afraid .

ok first of all hello, nice to meet you here, second thing I read everything about your game, when I saw that there will be futanari in the game and that there will also be futanari on male, which I can say I am already a huge fan of yours , I am looking forward to the arrival of your game, I want to try it well and give you a judgment, if in the future there will be many scenes with futanari on male and if you will also add more futanari in the future, I guarantee you that I would only become your number 1 fan know it, having said this as soon as you have a patreon or even a discord group tell me please.

 

[monsterdragon55]

Hi! Thanks, glad you like the idea. The game will primarily be futa on male, so yeah there will be a lot of that. The first version is more of an intro, you get introduced to the girls, their personalities, a little bit about the world. In the second update is where I plan to start the actual meat of the content.

Another thing I just wanna point out to you guys, in this first update I did sort of mix the paths a little bit, so that pursuing one affected the pursuit of the other. But then I realized that its not really gonna be sustainable in the long run, and also I already promised you guys that the paths for every girl will be independent of each other. So from the next update they will truly be independent .

well well, then I'm already a follower of yours and I can't wait to try the demo and then try the game in a complete way much later, it will be a real pleasure to follow the development of a potential masterpiece.

 

[crace98]

 

[doku99]

Hey all, the game is out. I've uploaded it to

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right now. The game request page is also done and I'm gonna post it. I want you guys to give it a go and playthrough it. Look out for any bugs, crashes etc. I've no testers so something could possibly go wrong.

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Some notes as I play:

• I don't like how there aren't controls to go back in dialogue.
• When Sarah mentions her masseuse friend, Alex (MC) cheekily asks if he can get a massage from her. Considering that this is pretty inappropriate and pervy to ask in such a serious moment, I would have preferred this to have been a dialogue option instead.
• The quest markers are pretty ugly, could do with an upgrade.
• When Hannah mentions that she has gone through the trouble of getting the MC a job, he thinks something like "I don't wanna sit behind a fucking desk all day." Again I wish this could have been a dialogue option. We're just a few minutes into the game and the MC already seems really entitled and unlikable. That's fine for a dialogue option but I don't want to be forced to play a character with an openly rude and shitty attitude.
• When Hannah seems to be checking the MC out once they enter her home, the MC cheekily thinks "damn she likes what she sees." Same comment as before, this comes off as just pretty sleazy and makes me dislike him more lol. Better suited for a dialogue option.
• MC again gets all bratty and entitled about the reception job later. Maybe I should just note here, for the future: give us some options for personality beside entitled, perverted douchebag lol.
• The fluctuations in emotion of the characters feels pretty jarring. One moment, Hannah is all nice and generous, the next moment she's screaming in full caps lock, the next moment she's flirting with the MC, then she's furious, then she's kissing him on the cheek, then she's sweet, then she's all mmm, you wanna be a good boy, right? It feels very unhuman, if that's a word. Makes the interactions and characters hard to get into and believe.
• On that note, things seem to be moving way way too fast with Hannah. She met MC less than 2 minutes ago, and already at the first interaction she's slapping him on the ass? And all after having angrily cussed him out and then ... Kissed him? I think their relationship could really benefit from better pacing.
• When MC finds Hannah's strap-on, he just barges in and starts touching her stuff. Again: wish this was an option with other alternatives.
• After MC has settled in, the first conversation he has with Hannah is whether he's a virgin. Then they're onto a conversation about penis size. This whole thing just keeps feeling more and more unnatural and forced and weird with every interaction.
• During the Futademic news cast, the text is hard to read since there is text behind the text.
• The Mr. Bones segment is pretty funny though, I liked that inclusion. Good contribution to worldbuilding too.
• Hannah mentions having monitored the MC's porn history, but we haven't had any scenes where the MC actually watches the porn. I think this would be much better, if there had been previous scenes where the MC chooses whether to watch porn, and then what type of porn. Then it doesn't feel so sudden and jarring, and it's actually a consequence of player choice to be confronted about it.

Overall:
You have some amazing renders and the game is presented very nicely. Visually, it's a treat and it's doing a LOT of work for your game. In that way, it has serious potential. The renders and the girls are just crazy hot. However, the writing could use a serious touch-up. It all feels sort of weird and unnatural, and the characters don't feel real or human at all. I also couldn't relate to the main character what so ever. He's just really unlikable, all the time, seemingly without any redeeming qualities at all. The cast of characters also seem to lack any real personality, aside from being sexually aggressive eye-candy. They don't feel human, and that makes it very hard to care at all about any sort of plot or character arc.

With all that being said, I don't think it's anything to panic too much over. Maybe get a writer or some people who can go over the script with you. It's mostly stuff that can be fixed, and if these things do improve, you will have something really special on your hands.

 

[doku99]

Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the MC being sleazy/douchebag/unlikeable, I just planned him this way. This is the reason he's been sitting at home, ignoring what his parents tell him and just an overall useless kinda person. I could've made these dialogue options but they would've been kinda useless, because apart from just that one dialogue line it wouldn't have had any consequence.

Maybe I'll go for more of "blank slate" type MC in the future updates, perhaps people can self insert more easily. Hannah is just crazy . She can just jump from emotional state to another, the sister hinted at that in the beginning.

Good catch on the news renders text, I'll fix it.

I agree with the characters personalities etc. I wasn't really going in with the plan to make well-written game storywise or dialogue-wise, but I did sorta struggle with the pacing. Thanks I'll keep all these things in mind.

I think you can have a MC consistent with your idea of a failure to launch while not having him be completely detestable. You can have different "versions" while still having the game make complete sense. One can be like he is now, total douchebag with a shitty attitude. Another can be more withdrawn and timid, and one can be more neutral. You can build that into dialogue choice, nothing about the game's trajectory would really change. Thanks for considering though

 

[James_Locksley]

I really bloody loved this and can't wait for more! There's a severe lack of futadom content with high quality renders so this has seriously scratched an itch for me!

My only request is to be able to name the MC at the start of the game. Always makes a VN hotter when you see your own name in these scenarios!

 

[atulkiid]

i like it hoping for the next update

 

[Shenhan]

I'm sorry, I know this has probably been asked a thousand times, but I've searched through both the game thread and this one and can't find the answer for the life of me.

Is the femdom stuff avoidable? I've been on the hunt for Futa on Male game that isn't just focused on femdom, humiliation, sissification.

 

[doku99]

Is the femdom stuff avoidable?

If you mean futadom, no, it's a futadom game

 

[PinkNova]

UPDATE #01

So, some minor updates. Been chipping away at the content slowly. Got a lot more renders done for the content after the prologue, more scenes, more character sprites etc. Also made some choices about game mechanics I've been thinking about. Also certain fetishes and kinks I want to explore.

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Hannah's gotten a lot thicker since the last time Alex saw her​

Color coded choices:

One of the things I really dislike is choices being vague, and not knowing what decision might lead to what. Imo this is bad design, and ultimately requires walkthroughs etc to play. I want to avoid a lot of that, which honestly is not easy, and is at odds with providing the player freedom. Therefore my story will be mostly linear, and what choices it will have, will be as clear as I can make it.

One solution to this is color coding the choices to make the immediate/near future consequences clear to the player. I've seen this in a lot of RPGs and I thought why not just do that. So far I have the following:

• WHITE colored choices will have little to no consequences in terms of story or scene access, these are simple dialogue options for immersion and to get more information. A simple example is asking a character some basic stuff like who they are what they do etc. Clicking on the choice will result in a small dialogue and it will loop back to the choice menu. The scene will not progress.

• YELLOW choices mean that they will progress the scene, and if there are multiple, you can only pick one. They will have more significance on the story and can change the scenes you will see. Like choosing between a few different clothing options for your date or yourself. It might have an effect on certain dialogues etc. I will try not to permanently lock out content because of these.

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An example of white and yellow choices​

• PINK choices will be the most significant, they represent that this choice will lead to an erotic scene either immediately or in the near future. If you have multiple pink choices you can only choose one, so you know another/different erotic scene was available if you chose the other one.

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An example of all three choice types
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Choice remembrance:

I'm thinking of setting up a system to store every single choice made by the player. So later down the line I can always add small little dialogue details here and there depending on what the player knows, or what they chose in the past. I think its easy enough to implement and can do some pretty cool little things with it.

Cheating/Sissification/Chastity:

I'm gonna be incorporating these fetishes into the game. This did lead to a headache though, I had to change Alex's model (I already had some renders done with the old model, gotta redo them) and make him slightly less masculine, and more importantly had to give him a nice round ass.

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Can you really blame the girls for wanting a piece of that?​

I'll have a separate route where Alex can cheat on Olivia behind her back with another futa. Sissification and chastity will be a part of that route too.

I'm still wondering if I should just throw all these fetishes in there, or let the player choose what fetishes they want and don't want. Allowing the player to choose could however severely limit the content for them though. Next up I have to work on the map and setup all the code for it.

Glad I found this since my questions on the sissy stuff went unanswered in the game's comments, lol. Still would like to know how far we'll dive into the fetish.

 

[Shenhan]

If you mean futadom, no, it's a futadom game

*Sigh* Yeah, I figured it'd be another one of those. Oh well, back to the search.

 

[atulkiid]

Well I'm not sure about what you mean by avoiding futadom in a futa on male game . There will be routes that will be romantic in nature if that's what you mean. But in terms of who's dominant in the bed, it'll be mostly be the futas.

when is the new update coming ? im dying to play