HTML Become Alpha [v0.3.63] [Grave Mercutio]

[Will-o-Wisp]

Not going to lie, I enjoyed it more than I thought.The silly gif transition and/or narrator lines are sometime hit or miss but I cracked a genuine smile in quite a few of them. It's decently fun and the fap-material is good, so what's not to like?

On the minus side, a few things prove to be a bit tedious or annoying:

1. The save system progressively get more and more laggy (I played it through browser and not the downloadable version, it might stems from that). At first, saving or deleting a save is near instantaneous, after a while it freezes for ten second or so before deleting the previous save. I saw it was improved already in the patch note of the version 0.22, but it was still a small issue in my game.
2. As often with this kind of game (involving real porn), not all the webm/gif fits the characters involved. Again, I saw this was already worked on, so that's a very good thing, because it's always a bit jarring to begin an action with clip of Daphne Rosen then select a specific postion (let say missionary) and see a completely different actress. I know it's not easy to hunt videos that fits all the situation, so I'm glad to hear it also seems to be a thing that grave_mercutio has in mind. I think it would looks better to have some consistency here.
3. Because you can't predict how much energy/stamina an action will take, you can 100% get stuck in some weird situation. If you decide to take a stroll to downtown, you can get stuck outside the house with no way going back because you realize you don't have enough energy to go back, although I though I would have enough to make the trip.

All in all, good job and I wish the dev the best for the development of this game.

 

[Tutuooo]

Heya Dudes and Dudettes. Here's a small hotfix release that I coined last night.

v.0.2.3 includes:

1. New version numbers (I know, awesome, right!?). The new version numbers will look like this: 0.2.3. If the last number changes it might mean anything from a small to medium change, so a new quest, random event, a small new feature, or just a hotfix. The middle number is a big milestone - it might be new location or character, or an impactful, game changing mechanic. And as for the first number - if it changes, it means that Jesus came back to life and is playing Become Alpha. Oh, and just to be clear - in this template the version 0.2.10 is higher than 0.2.9, I hope that's clear.

2. Fixed bathroom event - there was an error message when you're caught by Daphne during peeking at Alexa showering. That no longer should appear.

3. Fixed getting caught with no energy bug - getting caught while looking around in Daphne's room, when you have no energy, resulted in getting stuck. This no longer will happen.

4. Fixed level up if you're maxed out already - so if you were level 13 dom or love and you were leveling up further - the game gets broken. This no longer should happen!

Additionally:

What version of Edge r u using? I've read online that Edge actually struggles with WEBMs. The previous version had GIFs, but this was creating even more problems, especially that GIFs take 5x as much space as WEBMs. But I do hope to make my game fully crossbrowser, so let me know the version number and I'll see what I can do.

The Microsoft edge version is 44.11.9

 

[airze]

Heya Dudes and Dudettes. Here's a small hotfix release that I coined last night.

v.0.2.3 includes:

1. New version numbers (I know, awesome, right!?). The new version numbers will look like this: 0.2.3. If the last number changes it might mean anything from a small to medium change, so a new quest, random event, a small new feature, or just a hotfix. The middle number is a big milestone - it might be new location or character, or an impactful, game changing mechanic. And as for the first number - if it changes, it means that Jesus came back to life and is playing Become Alpha. Oh, and just to be clear - in this template the version 0.2.10 is higher than 0.2.9, I hope that's clear.

2. Fixed bathroom event - there was an error message when you're caught by Daphne during peeking at Alexa showering. That no longer should appear.

3. Fixed getting caught with no energy bug - getting caught while looking around in Daphne's room, when you have no energy, resulted in getting stuck. This no longer will happen.

4. Fixed level up if you're maxed out already - so if you were level 13 dom or love and you were leveling up further - the game gets broken. This no longer should happen!

Additionally:

What version of Edge r u using? I've read online that Edge actually struggles with WEBMs. The previous version had GIFs, but this was creating even more problems, especially that GIFs take 5x as much space as WEBMs. But I do hope to make my game fully crossbrowser, so let me know the version number and I'll see what I can do.

so just a bug fix no new content

 

[Shadowhunter9]

The new release is now playable on Firefox. Thanks for that. I've had no error messages playing the game any more, so I'm guessing it was Chrome specific. Also thanks for reducing the mandatory pauses, the game plays a lot more fluent now. Just curious, were the long pauses planned or because the browser is struggling to load all the media?

Now, content wise I had a couple of remarks:
I know this is just the first (or second) release, so not going to comment on the amount of content available. What I did encounter is double events. This means that when I had a shower event with Alexa and finished it, going out of that event somehow restarts it. I'm guessing it's because she's still present in the bathroom, so the event restarts. Playing through it a 2nd time then properly stops the event.
The other thing might also be because of the early stage of the game, but there's like no progression. I don't know if you plan on writing several stages of relationships with the girls, but at the moment getting to fuck them to my heart's content after just talking to them three times seems a bit weird. And this is after 3-4 days in-game.

All in all, looking forward to how this game is going to progress

 

[grave_merc]

The new release is now playable on Firefox. Thanks for that. I've had no error messages playing the game any more, so I'm guessing it was Chrome specific. Also thanks for reducing the mandatory pauses, the game plays a lot more fluent now. Just curious, were the long pauses planned or because the browser is struggling to load all the media?

To be honest the pauses were there simply because I liked them I mean - I know it's a porn game, but I'm trying to create a specific gaming experience, and I wanted to make player wait, so that he'll actually read the text. But is seems people are reading it anyway, and the pauses were just annoying. Well, I'm learning

Now, content wise I had a couple of remarks:
I know this is just the first (or second) release, so not going to comment on the amount of content available. What I did encounter is double events. This means that when I had a shower event with Alexa and finished it, going out of that event somehow restarts it. I'm guessing it's because she's still present in the bathroom, so the event restarts. Playing through it a 2nd time then properly stops the event.

That's super strange, I'll take a look. Which shower event you mean - you were peeking at her on the shower, or you knocked in the doors? Or just entered maybe?

The other thing might also be because of the early stage of the game, but there's like no progression. I don't know if you plan on writing several stages of relationships with the girls, but at the moment getting to fuck them to my heart's content after just talking to them three times seems a bit weird. And this is after 3-4 days in-game.

Yup, I addressed this in the other post, so I'll just paste it here:

The current mechanic is kind of wrapped around the fact, that there's no proper story yet for Daphne, Alexa, or for player for that matter. Basically I had to give player opportunities for sexy time that come right from the grinding, otherwise there would be nothing at all. That's how it evolved into this "do something and hope for random event" mechanic that there is now.

As 0.22 is online, I'll start focusing on the aspect of adding quests and story elements, that hopefully at some point will take over the current grinding element of the game, and will let more smooth progression of the relations. This would require some balancing but basically - bigger yields from following the story than from grinding should aim player at following that path. That would probably require to raise the minimum desire level for sex encounters too, as there would be more love and dom coming your way, but it's easily doable.

What stands on my way is time. Hopefully, as my Patreon would grow, I would be able to do it on a daily basis, but unfortunately we're still far from that point, so it's hard to say how long this transition and building up the story part will take. But I'm doing all I can!

so just a bug fix no new content

Yup. Content is coming probably next Friday. Bugfixing is quick, as I know the code quite well, and I'm able to more or less quickly recognize how to fix the problem. But content requires much work, so it'll take couple days. My plan is to release "Get to know Alexa" quest + some additional stuff. It should be fun!

The Microsoft edge version is 44.11.9

So from what I gathered this is Edge for Android? Or XBOX?
Anyway, from what I read - it doesn't have webm's. Which is super strange. I think they will add the support soon enough.
I don't think there's any workaround, but I'll look for something

 

[grave_merc]

Not going to lie, I enjoyed it more than I thought.The silly gif transition and/or narrator lines are sometime hit or miss but I cracked a genuine smile in quite a few of them. It's decently fun and the fap-material is good, so what's not to like?

Thanks, Dude! Much appreciated!

The save system progressively get more and more laggy (I played it through browser and not the downloadable version, it might stems from that). At first, saving or deleting a save is near instantaneous, after a while it freezes for ten second or so before deleting the previous save. I saw it was improved already in the patch note of the version 0.22, but it was still a small issue in my game.

Let me know if it works better in the current version. I'm still trying to figure out how to make it even better, but the current save system is default from Twine, and I haven't really cracked how to improve it.

As often with this kind of game (involving real porn), not all the webm/gif fits the characters involved. Again, I saw this was already worked on, so that's a very good thing, because it's always a bit jarring to begin an action with clip of Daphne Rosen then select a specific postion (let say missionary) and see a completely different actress. I know it's not easy to hunt videos that fits all the situation, so I'm glad to hear it also seems to be a thing that grave_mercutio has in mind. I think it would looks better to have some consistency here.

You should definitely check the new version. I think the way it works now is actually quite good - Daphne and Alexa have a lot of clips with them that will play during sex, and you have an icon saying if this position has individual clips or not. Unfortunately as you said it was impossible to find clips for every position (there's 26 of them), but there's enough to make it fun.

Because you can't predict how much energy/stamina an action will take, you can 100% get stuck in some weird situation. If you decide to take a stroll to downtown, you can get stuck outside the house with no way going back because you realize you don't have enough energy to go back, although I though I would have enough to make the trip.

I fixed the problem of getting stuck because of energy yesterday, and will upload the fix online over the weekend (need to test it). Also, in the future updates I'll try to make it clearer from the start how much energy each action takes. At the moment in most cases it's 10 energy, but chores and travel between areas takes 20. But as there's no way to say what is a chore and what is not, then it creates problems.

 

[Koda-]

For the future benefit of people like me who thread search 'femdom' to see if suspiciously tagged games actually have any femdom in them: this game contains the real deal.

Spoiler: Mini Femdom Review

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grave_mercutio Really neat start so far. I normally prefer more serious dialogue in ero games, but the 'wingman' was actually quite charming and both added spice to what would've been dull/generic moments, while also knowing when to fade back a little and let the hotness be hot.

Also really enjoyed the ambiguity of choices (sometimes needing a soft touch to be dominant; sometimes needing to assert yourself to be submissive, etc.); it felt immersive and encouraged actual roleplaying. Being lampooned for tunneling a single approach with the increasingly silly classes was also a cute meta gimmick, and the "twist" that being 'alpha' is more about being well-rounded rather than strictly machismo is quite wholesome.

In terms of criticism, I agree with others that the trivia was a bit frustrating (layered RNG with regard to a new topic being available at all, then having to guess it). Stuff like room-snooping to learn things was fun though. I think the foreplay quiz should also only have to be done once (or, if you want repeatable foreplay, have it include something sexy).

The continuity is also a bit chaotic as the girls' attitudes towards you doesn't seem to persist beyond an individual scene, but the variety and fun in unlocking the various scenes more than makes up for this, and I assume will improve in the future as you build up more of the story.

As you can guess by my mini-review in spoilers, I'd certainly lobby for some femdom progression that represents being/becoming an actual sub and not just criminally naive or refusing to heed our wingman's advice. (Not necessarily with the two starter girls, but I saw eg. a Dominatrix trait in the game HTML that got me excited.) Totally understand if it doesn't fit the vision of the game, though.

Looking forward to what comes next!

 

[grave_merc]

For the future benefit of people like me who thread search 'femdom' to see if suspiciously tagged games actually have any femdom in them: this game contains the real deal.

Thank you so much for this! What you wrote in spoiler is exactly what i was aiming at, and this is exactly what i was trying to get across to other people asking about femdom in my game - you nailed it!

As for the future - actually some femdom mechanics are built in the game. For example - each character trait (milf, whore, dominatrix, etc.) will only want to interact with specific traits of the player. So for example dominatrix will only like you if you're a nerd or vegan This means that to approach this type of character you kind of need to be overall submissive. So these are not huge things, but this we'll see how it'll work.

Also, each character in the 'full' version will have a story, that you will be able to explore through quests. This will also hopefully add a bit of a character angle to the way you approach each relation, so that relation with dominatrix will be even more oriented on femdom stuff.

But it's all in the future, for now I'm fighting to add some quests for Alexa and Daphne

 

[Prevat]

What is the level cap in this version?

 

[airze]

What is the level cap in this version?

13 look at v0.2.3 change log post #202 for more info

 

[Reezo]

How mutch female domination content is there? Can be MC dominated by women?

 

[Koda-]

As for the future - actually some femdom mechanics are built in the game. For example - each character trait (milf, whore, dominatrix, etc.) will only want to interact with specific traits of the player. So for example dominatrix will only like you if you're a nerd or vegan This means that to approach this type of character you kind of need to be overall submissive. So these are not huge things, but this we'll see how it'll work.

Sounds good. Trait-gating should help players find girls that meet their taste and potentially avoid those that don't, giving you more freedom to take each girl in their intended direction rather than trying to sate all player types with all of them (which is probably impossible).

Anyway, I'll edit my original post to reflect your comment. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out (and in the meantime, being Daphne's 'corgi' was a perfectly palatable appetizer. )

 

[Zurkei]

The Microsoft edge version is 44.11.9

It works with edge, your browser is just hella outdated. Update it here:

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Do this and it will work.

 

[Tutuooo]

It works with edge, your browser is just hella outdated. Update it here:

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Do this and it will work.

I update and it doesn’t work just some show up

 

[Zurkei]

I update and it doesn’t work just some show up

Can you tell me some that are not showing up because everything shows up when I test it on the latest version of Edge.

 

[Tutuooo]

Can you tell me some that are not showing up because everything shows up when I test it on the latest version of Edge.

More of the beginning and most random ones some show others don’t

 

[Skyedge]

Congrats dev! Absolutely great game. I'm sure this reference has been made many times, but I sense the next The Company-level game in the making.

 

[grave_merc]

How mutch female domination content is there? Can be MC dominated by women?

Read this review by Koda- for your answer: https://f95zone.to/threads/become-alpha-v-0-22-grave-mercutio.50468/page-11#post-3373100

More of the beginning and most random ones some show others don’t

What show is the JPGs and PNGs images. What doesn't show is WEBMs. I'm pretty sure Zurkei is right, and you're having problems because of the outdated browser, but the same problems appear with Safari browser, so the next release will address this issue and hopefully make it better for everyone. I hope to publish it tonight or tomorrow, but it's taking time, because simultaneously I'm trying to write some new content.

Congrats dev! Absolutely great game. I'm sure this reference has been made many times, but I sense the next The Company-level game in the making.

Haha thanks. Yup, The Company was mentioned a lot, and It's also the game that originally inspired me to write BA, so I guess it's a nice thing that people see the correlation.

 

[Prevat]

I really wish the limp dick mechanic wasnt a thing so annoying lol

 

[grave_merc]

I really wish the limp dick mechanic wasnt a thing so annoying lol

You mean during sex? How would you do it? This whole sex thing was a shot in the dark, I'd really appreciate some feedback regarding balance and such.