Ren'Py Big Brother: Another Story Rebuild [v0.05.02] [Aleksey90]

[Master Bates Games]

The Original game did NOT need the EVIL Scum Eric character to create struggles to overcome. We have the issue of the Cameras and where the equipment to run them is located (why wasn't there a hidden room with a server to be found).

You know, I always did wonder how Max is running a multi-camera live streaming site with nothing but a laptop lol. I doubt those tiny spy cameras he gets could encode the video and connect to the site to stream it by themselves.

It's even suggested that they have to be connected to something to work, so what are they connected to?

 

[WhiteFireDaemon]

I always assumed that part of setting up the website would be arranging for the use of a server. The laptop would've just been for accessing that.

 

[firevoodoo]

Without Eric this whole story would were forgotten years ago.

There would were no BBAS, PGN spin-off etc.

That’s just a clinical fact.

 

[always86]

How far has the rebuild got so far. I played the original and the original Another Story a lot so don’t really want to play again until things catch back up. (Appreciate that may well be years)

 

[Nemo56]

How far has the rebuild got so far. I played the original and the original Another Story a lot so don’t really want to play again until things catch back up. (Appreciate that may well be years)

There is some new stuff, but the things you know from the old build haven't progressed a lot so far.
We are somewhere in the middle of the spider prank / foot massage arc. Since the renders for the other cameras are still missing, only one camera can be set up so far.

 

[always86]

There is some new stuff, but the things you know from the old build haven't progressed a lot so far.
We are somewhere in the middle of the spider prank / foot massage arc. Since the renders for the other cameras are still missing, only one camera can be set up so far.

… So check back in a couple of years.

 

[Mysters90]

Over the past few days, a lot has been said here about the antagonists and their influence on the plot.
Many interesting observations were presented.
However, it was also noted that the plot twists and turns can be so complicated and twisted that the protagonist does not need an opposing character.
For example, in Bad Bobby Saga, there is no antagonist as such, but this does not make the main character's life any easier.
As for this game, thanks to the efforts of the author, there is no antagonist here. Why, you ask? Because the one you take for a classic villain is actually a gaslighter. He's just a pest - a great manipulator and trust player, who sometimes succeeds just for what he is.
In any case, now the blind will start to persistently prove that I am wrong.

And I'll just add that this story will only benefit if there is an antagonist in it, but they forgot to invite him.

 

[kaokao13579]

Over the past few days, a lot has been said here about the antagonists and their influence on the plot.
Many interesting observations were presented.
However, it was also noted that the plot twists and turns can be so complicated and twisted that the protagonist does not need an opposing character.
For example, in Bad Bobby Saga, there is no antagonist as such, but this does not make the main character's life any easier.
As for this game, thanks to the efforts of the author, there is no antagonist here. Why, you ask? Because the one you take for a classic villain is actually a gaslighter. He's just a pest - a great manipulator and trust player, who sometimes succeeds just for what he is.
In any case, now the blind will start to persistently prove that I am wrong.

And I'll just add that this story will only benefit if there is an antagonist in it, but they forgot to invite him.

Why I choose to play a sandbox game that hasn't many sex scenes in years, is because I want to beat the competition(Eric) through my own efforts an operations. From this perspective, the fake friendship route is the most resonable and fulfilling one.

 

[Nemo56]

In the rebuild there will only be one "pro" Eric path, it's unknown if it will be more like the true or the fake friendship path.
But in the old version it was planned for every path for him to be gone at some point (in the "true" path he would try to get rid of Max), so it's very likely that it will happen in the rebuild. Makes sense since most opportunities don't involve him at all. He'll return as nuissance later however, he's still Ann's boss after all. In the previous person this brought Ann closer to Max since she needed a shoulder to cry on.

 

[dreamlord666]

without eric game boring

 

[Lordildo69]

So what game has more content. this game or the original with mods?

 

[keer]

So what game has more content. this game or the original with mods?

the original with mods

 

[Mysters90]

Spoiler: I can see everything... (v.0.05)

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[sn1978a1]

i played rebuild version 0.04.02
21days passed in game...erik...mother fucker...when appear?
Hasn't it been implemented yet?

 

[Nemo56]

i played rebuild version 0.04.02
21days passed in game...erik...mother fucker...when appear?
Hasn't it been implemented yet?

Number of days don't mean anything, except for very few events.
He visited shortly. His story arc will begin in a later chapter, probably CH2.

 

[Allen0206]

Fully agree with this. I have no problem with a villain like Eric existing. But he starts off too powerful and has nothing redeeming about him. If he had started as a more typical boyfriend who doesn't have near mind control levels of power over Ann and there was a struggle for dominance between him and Max, that would have been much more interesting IMO.



Yeah I definitely think Kate's mother was a huge missed opportunity as someone who could have developed into a villain who could have been overcome in a much more satisfying manner for an adult game than Eric. I do think both Alice and Lisa are better characters for an adult game than Ann is since they both have their own motivations for advancing naughty parts of the story line without Max having to corrupt them into it. I really wish the story revolved a lot less on blackmail.



Well from Max's perspective I think the bathroom makes perfect sense. It's the one place in the house where ALL of the females in the house are guaranteed to be completely naked on a regular basis. Naked trumps bikinis every time...

the only think is you are trying to get viewers and typically it is quantity over quality. They will be in the pool longer than they will be in the bathroom so which camera are you going to watch.

 

[khumak]

the only think is you are trying to get viewers and typically it is quantity over quality. They will be in the pool longer than they will be in the bathroom so which camera are you going to watch.

I don't watch webcams personally so maybe the market for that works differently than porn, but I'm not sure quantity over quality is going to work that way. If you're looking for porn are you going to watch the girl in the bikini lounging by the pool or are you going to watch the naked girl masturbating in the bathtub? Presumably Max's webcams are not the only choice people have to choose from even if we as players don't have access to anything else in this game.

What about the girl laying on the couch fully clothed watching TV all day? Are you ever going to choose to watch that? I'm not. Now in terms of game mechanics you might be right and it might not make any difference what's happening in the room as long as someone is there, but that's not true in the real world and that certainly wouldn't be true if Max was just interested in watching for his own amusement either.

Even the game itself drives this point home eventually when Alice makes more progress with her blog. When all she's doing is solo lingerie shows she's not making much. She only starts really making money when she starts fucking Max on camera.

 

[Nemo56]

It would definitly be a nice gameplay element to get more income when we manage to get the girls to wear revealing outfits or even strip down or do something lewd (and of course having a camera in that room).

 

[khumak]

It would definitly be a nice gameplay element to get more income when we manage to get the girls to wear revealing outfits or even strip down or do something lewd (and of course having a camera in that room).

Yeah, it wouldn't even be hard to do. Just give some sort of naughty rating to each scene based on the clothing being worn (say 0 for fully clothed, 1 for bikini/underwear/towel, 2 for topless, 3 for naked) which serves as a multiplier for the income you would normally get. Then also give an additional naughty rating for whatever action is happening (0 for nonsexual stuff like watching tv, 1 for massage, 2 for oral, 3 for sex).

So you get nothing for a girl watching TV fully clothed (0 rating for both clothing and action), you get the most basic level of income for something like massaging Alice's feet while she's fully clothed watching TV (0 for clothing, 1 for the massage), double that if she's in a bikini by the pool (1 for clothing options and another 1 for the action), etc. Or you might want to give a higher rating for the action so for instance a massage might be worth 2, oral might be 4, sex might be 6.

 

[Nemo56]

Taking it a step further would be to have the factor being calculated on how frequently we manage to do that. Most people don't turn on the cam when something is happening, but when they actually expect something to happen.