Fair enough, but I dislike the notion that pregnancy is allowed to be tagged when a character is implied to be pregnant but is not yet visible. I don't like it because so many games go through years of development and the MC has sex with like a dozen different women impregnating all of them, and then the only pregnancy we see is a pregnant harem end screen. Which I think is bullshit. But rules are rules, I guess.
As a developer of a game that has loads of impregnation, pregnancies, childbirth, and toddlers in it...
I get it that many devs have legit reasons for not showing baby bumps or actually dealing with infants and toddlers.
In short: with every variable choice, if a woman is / is not pregnant, the dev has to create 2x teh work for every possible pregnancy. More than 1 pregnant woman on the screen? That's 8x the work because each non-pregnant and pregnant possibility combination has to be included/scripted/rendered/animated.
Devs have to keep in mind the insane variables and combinations of baby bumps vs non-baby bumps. Is the pregnancy accelerated or Normal pace? If normal pace, the woman will not likely need a baby bump showing for 2 months or so of in-game time.
I agree that many game devs push baby bumps/infants to the end of the game. I've played games where one character could potentially get pregnant in the INTRO, and the game plays out over 2 in-game years with her still not showing a baby bump.
The key is to not set your expectations too high. Accept that some devs either don't want to deal with it, some devs don't have the skills/tools/assets to show it, and some devs should not have bothered including pregnancy as an option if they're not going to show any legit signs of it other than a stat point in their info screen.
I agree with you. It can suck. But I accept it as part of the reality of game development.
From what I am seeing on my first playthrough... It is very amenable to an i-patch so far.
Every instance where it is mentioned how MC happens to be living in the same billionaire condo with these people has a 2-4 textbox dialogue explanation of how he is in no way related to them, even if they are "like family"...
Perhaps one of the best i-patches I have seen thus far ... can't recall the game name... it's been a while. It simply created variables in every instance of relationship that the player could set in the beginning/alter in Preferences/options. It left it open to "best friend", "sister", "roomie", "classmate", etc. with the taboo relationship being an identified boolean value, altering context appropriately.
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Being version 0.2 and early game, I won't write a review in the stared review section just yet.
In general, the setup is your standard male MC in a house of women. Regardless of the obvious Patreon censorship that prohibits familial connection, the relationships go from "just cohabitating" to 2-3 choice options later... ballz deep.
I genuinely appreciate the choices to increase "love" values and the option to say yes or no to specific characters. Some players will go all out and try to 100% everyone. Other players are perhaps more discerning and may wish to avoid one or two possible lovers. As long as that is honored in the variables and continues to be something the future story will not be broken by, Aurora Protocol has real promise.
The models are good, depending on player tastes. You have the petite younger "roomie", the busty older "roomie", the MILF with massive saggy breasts, a surprise "girl next door" bodyguard (whose story is sadly so transparent, it could use a bit of rework to make the very obvious twist a true surprise later in the game), and a tiny Chinese princess "long lost friend?"... The variety is very welcome, even if Patreon will likely tell the dev to remove or MILF the body of that Chinese princess or be banned. It happened to my game - a 30+ year old character - who looked like Gwenyth Paltrow in her current 50s - was flagged as "underage" because she wasn't a minimum of a C-cup. SMH...
Anyway
The most distracting thing for me is how 50% or more of the dialogue is missing a final punctuation mark
No period or question mark, just an endless sentence
Like that... A simple fix, to be sure.
Yes, the animations look like Pre-Vis with super-bright lights, glossy (sweaty) skin, completely different skin colors, and hair that would make Medusa's snakes look luxurious. But it's not horrible, and the dev has stated MANY many times it will be corrected later.
In general, it's a promising start. Having made a (completed) game over a 5-year period, I understand what the dev is facing. An insurmountable mountain of updates with eager players begging for more and more.
The best advice I could give to astghik, besides renaming his letter-salad unpronounceable, forgettable nom de plume... is this:
Set your own pace. Make a plan, keep to it.
Focus on quality renders, fix clipping issues during the setup so they don't become impossible during animations.
Don't let players dictate your pace or content.
Accept constructive criticism with a grain of salt and NEVER let it tear you down.
One player's opinion is just that - that one player's opinion. Like these very words you are reading now, you can just ignore it and move on.
If someone trolls you, ignore it, delete it, report and banish them.
And finally...
Remember that not everyone likes every kink. Options and skip choices should be common. Do not let a choice of oral, anal, vaginal, or titf*ck impact the story outcome, only potential for pregnancy and love interest paths.
Good luck.
In general, the setup is your standard male MC in a house of women. Regardless of the obvious Patreon censorship that prohibits familial connection, the relationships go from "just cohabitating" to 2-3 choice options later... ballz deep.
I genuinely appreciate the choices to increase "love" values and the option to say yes or no to specific characters. Some players will go all out and try to 100% everyone. Other players are perhaps more discerning and may wish to avoid one or two possible lovers. As long as that is honored in the variables and continues to be something the future story will not be broken by, Aurora Protocol has real promise.
The models are good, depending on player tastes. You have the petite younger "roomie", the busty older "roomie", the MILF with massive saggy breasts, a surprise "girl next door" bodyguard (whose story is sadly so transparent, it could use a bit of rework to make the very obvious twist a true surprise later in the game), and a tiny Chinese princess "long lost friend?"... The variety is very welcome, even if Patreon will likely tell the dev to remove or MILF the body of that Chinese princess or be banned. It happened to my game - a 30+ year old character - who looked like Gwenyth Paltrow in her current 50s - was flagged as "underage" because she wasn't a minimum of a C-cup. SMH...
Anyway
The most distracting thing for me is how 50% or more of the dialogue is missing a final punctuation mark
No period or question mark, just an endless sentence
Like that... A simple fix, to be sure.
Yes, the animations look like Pre-Vis with super-bright lights, glossy (sweaty) skin, completely different skin colors, and hair that would make Medusa's snakes look luxurious. But it's not horrible, and the dev has stated MANY many times it will be corrected later.
In general, it's a promising start. Having made a (completed) game over a 5-year period, I understand what the dev is facing. An insurmountable mountain of updates with eager players begging for more and more.
The best advice I could give to astghik, besides renaming his letter-salad unpronounceable, forgettable nom de plume... is this:
Set your own pace. Make a plan, keep to it.
Focus on quality renders, fix clipping issues during the setup so they don't become impossible during animations.
Don't let players dictate your pace or content.
Accept constructive criticism with a grain of salt and NEVER let it tear you down.
One player's opinion is just that - that one player's opinion. Like these very words you are reading now, you can just ignore it and move on.
If someone trolls you, ignore it, delete it, report and banish them.
And finally...
Remember that not everyone likes every kink. Options and skip choices should be common. Do not let a choice of oral, anal, vaginal, or titf*ck impact the story outcome, only potential for pregnancy and love interest paths.
Good luck.
My only expectation is that when a game is tagged with pregnancy it contains actual pregnancy content. Most of the time I don't even expect it to be decent quality, but at least it's accurate and I didn't waste my time downloading it and scrolling through the game files, of which there are sometimes thousands, to see what the content looks like in that regard only to find there is none. The trouble I have is if I download 10 games with pregnancy tagged, 9 of them have absolutely no pregnancy content. The reason I scroll through the files first is pregnancy is niche, seldom well done, and I don't want to waste hours playing a game that ultimately is very much like most other games only for it to not contain what I'm looking for at all. If the content is meh, I can't even be mad. I just think "oh, that's a shame." but at least it's there. It just really bothers me when it's not even there, I've wasted my time, and I feel like I've been told a fib.
What would probably be a good idea is to implement an impregnation tag to use until the point where pregnancy is visible and then apply the pregnancy tag once it actually is visible. A lot of these games don't even reach the point of being visible, a female character only just confirms she's pregnant, and only a few updates later the dev disappears and the game is abandoned. I get impregnation=pregnancy and all and you really can't have one without the other but it would make a fine rule of thumb that impregnation means a character has or can become pregnant and pregnancy means there is actual content in which it's visible, at any stage. I just think it's silly to allow the tag when a female character is like 10 minutes pregnant and her sex scenes are exactly the same as any other sex scene.
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I just want to add my voice to this. I hope that we can shut down any sharing even with other girls in the harem. I have zero desire to engage in any form of sharing.Hopefully we can shut this down. People that doesn't like Lez content doesn't like to read their Li's talking about it. Hopefully we don't have to constantly read talk like this unless we choose it.
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Also, the Mc says this:
I'm not a fan of polyamory, I prefer a real harems (polygyny), not sharing the girls with other girls. Polyamory is where everyone fucks each other, and my mindset has always been, if the girls really love each other and are happy getting each other off and fucking around, then why bother with those girls since the Mc is basically just a walking dildo and baby batter producer for them, if that. If the dev thinks you need polyamory for a harem to work then I'd hope they take some time to research and discover that you can have a harem without the girls being forced to fuck each other (check the guide in my signature if you want to take the time to do so).
Hope the dev just used the wrong word, or at least lets us control if it is polyamory or polygyny by shutting down lesbian stuff. Besides her tossing out those two lines (and this line from the Mc) I like the game and find the story interesting and want to know what's going to happen.
As an aside, I don't always hate optional girl-on-girl. If it is fully for, and controlled by, the Mc then I can sometime enjoy it, in small portions. What I really dislike is when girls want to do it on their own and take the initiative for it and have, or begin to have, feelings for each other. Such comments as those given by Yushu here are very close to sharing/swinging.
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FIRST - I want to make it clear... I only play games if impregnation is a possibility. I am fully on board with your motivation and desire. I love the idea of being able to fulfill the fantasy of making babies in a fictional universe.
For example, I have a Hazumi save file with over 100,000 babies born, MODS installed that permit up to 999 babies to be born per birth event (at one point, I taped down the dialogue skip key to get through it... it took 10 minutes to run through all 999 of the repeating birth dialogues and animations). I have also played through Lab Rats 2 Reformulate where all 300 of the procedurally generated women are pregnant yet again with 10+ kids EACH - "living with grandma"... and I'm still going/restarting to see if I can beat that total. I have Skyrim installed and legit spent 10 hours every day for over a week (when not at work) installing and reorganizing, testing, uninstalling, mixing and matching mods, then retesting combinations of mods until I could legit get followers and random NPCs pregnant in Skyrim. My latest save file has 200+ newborn babies in Skyrim with Dragonborn DNA.
So... My point:
In general, if a game is not at least up to version 0.5 or so... it likely has no actual pregnant women as a result of gameplay and choices of the player. In this game, there is 1 choice thus far to either pull out or take the risk.
F95 has no "IMPREGNATION" tag. The debate has been going on for a long time. Here's just one of the forums talking about it: https://f95zone.to/threads/separate-pregnancy-tag-into-impregnation-and-pregnantsex.49998/
AFAIK, the moderators and management of F95 has shown zero interest in dividing the tag into multiple variations.
So... up until the management of this forum decide otherwise... any game dev who has the promise of future pregnancies in a game can legit tag their game "pregnancy" for current and future impregnation content.
You can complain about it here, but it won't change the fact that there is a single choice in version 0.2 of Aurora Protocol to try for a baby. That justifies a "pregnancy" tag since an "impregnation" tag does not yet exist.
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I haven't played this yet I just opened it, but holy fucking shit is it loud. Damn. And the title screen with the gif of a raining city is a fucking CPU stress test it got my laptop on 90% CPU usage, what the hell is up with that.
4k assets, works fine on my computer (i'm on 3xd architecture tho). But yeah.. higher quality means higher resource demand. I think someone posted a lower quality version (compressed formatting) for lower end machines
nah the rest of the game worked perfectly fine, it was just the title screen that was trying to light my laptop on fire
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I never played a game where that overused trash is "controlled"
It's always the same - like it or gtfo dear player. What is even worse in some games MC manipulate girls to do "that" to satisfy his wet lesbo dreams even if they don't want to do that.Could be another walking dildo - sharing simulator, we already get preview where girl "outta nowhere" is attracted to other. It's already out of player control
Good update. I like the scifi horror apocalyptic vibe.
I like that the Mc takes Lis out on dates before having sex with them. In most vns I've played maybe one Li gets a romantic date, while the others all have sexual actions with the mc while pretending they don't have feelings for him.
The visuals are good but the sex animations need serious work. It feels like it was designed by a drunk AI. The Lis look different in the animated sex scenes (worse).
I'm a harem kind of guy and I like lesbian fun in the threesomes, but I understand that's not everyone's cup of tea. So a choice would be for the best.
The problems...
I also really love the music. I think that the song playing Yushu's sex scene (Burning Room) could have been louder.
Good luck to the devs.
I like that the Mc takes Lis out on dates before having sex with them. In most vns I've played maybe one Li gets a romantic date, while the others all have sexual actions with the mc while pretending they don't have feelings for him.
The visuals are good but the sex animations need serious work. It feels like it was designed by a drunk AI. The Lis look different in the animated sex scenes (worse).
I'm a harem kind of guy and I like lesbian fun in the threesomes, but I understand that's not everyone's cup of tea. So a choice would be for the best.
The problems...
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I also really love the music. I think that the song playing Yushu's sex scene (Burning Room) could have been louder.
Good luck to the devs.
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During the first sex scene with Aurora I noticed some of the sex sound were tied to the "music volume" slider, while the rest was tied to the "sound volume" slider. Also the sex animations didn't play very well as it kept abruptly jumping around.
Another thing is that the dev should consider changing the text. It's hard to read it if the dialogue box opacity is at 0%. Maybe put a slight black border around the white text.
Another thing is that the dev should consider changing the text. It's hard to read it if the dialogue box opacity is at 0%. Maybe put a slight black border around the white text.
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I plan for Aurora Protocol to be a trilogy with 2-3 parts. But I am curious what other art styles you guys like. I would consider Aurora Protocol to be "3d realism", are there other styles that you like more?
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the game looks good and the models are nice the story a bit confusing at the start but welp 2 patches is not much to say about it so i will keep following this game
The freaking out by some over lesbians is weird to me... I mean since when is girl on girl not hot?
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since people acquired preferences
Will the women interact with each other sexually? I prefer them not to interact with each other and focus on the MC only.
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