Ren'Py Black Incense [Prologue] [Himeros Studios]

[drh64]

Good spot 200 art pieces for one release wouldn’t be possible otherwise! Have made sure to label it AI CG, totally get if that’s not some people’s thing though.




That’s the medium term aim! This took long enough for first release, but would love to do it sometime




It will have both but both will be totally avoidable. My game design philosophy is very much pro-player choice. Baldurs Gate 3 is a high bar to aim for but I do want that kind of choice in game as the story unfolds.



Simply a nod to occult themes! Interracial scenes will be available but e.g. two out of thirty of the sex scenes for the prologue, lots of other choice also available.

Thanks will give it a go.

 

[Bobmoy69]

Existe-t-il une version Android ?

 

[GreenDark]

The images are clearly AI generated and that's already tagged. No problem there.
But I suspect the text is AI generated as well. All of it has that overly flowery language insistent on describing every tiny thing in painful detail. To the point where it's hard to know what's supposed to be supernatural, if anything at all. For that reason, even if it's not AI text, it's still annoying to read.

 

[EvolutionKills]

Oh hey, it's that black haired female from that other AI game! No, the other AI game! Wait, no, the other-other AI game. Wait a minute...

 

[EvolutionKills]

Good spot 200 art pieces for one release wouldn’t be possible otherwise! Have made sure to label it AI CG, totally get if that’s not some people’s thing though.

My brother in Christ, folks have been far exceeding that with machinima for literal decades...

 

[anon6076]

The images are clearly AI generated and that's already tagged. No problem there.
But I suspect the text is AI generated as well.

My thoughts exactly. Besides, 100k is fucking lot, it's a novel. Never-seen-it-before developer with novel sized VN as a 'prologue' and promise of 25k words/month? Doubt. He is either a fast writing experienced author, or is using AI for both text and pics, if not for coding too.

 

[W4tch0ut]

looks promising. maybe this could turn out to become a proper nsfw rpg? then again, that would be highly ambitious. I would advise to focus on and polish core gameplay, story and nsfw stuff first, before adding too many mechanisms and making it a chore to work on.

 

[Cajun Fox]

Thanks for the share

 

[Ali ibn Hassan]

Thnks fr shrng

 

[Shelscott50]

Hi Dev, great start! Keep it on!
BTW - one remark/question - why do you force me to play full screen? You know I dislike that...

You are not forced to play full-screen. There is a tab in preferences to adjust to 'windowed'.
(I play in windowed, then enlarge to Full-screen. I do Not like being stuck in FS mode either)

 

[Landerk]

Any chance the required losing of the V to a boy is updated to allow a girl, or not losing it? or is the plan to keep it as is?

 

[Shelscott50]

ai art and only 1 lesbian scene

where is Lesbian scene? what choices do I have to make? (I was at Hoping for at least a Lesbian or Bi route)
I can sorta handle My FC 'losing her virginity' to the ballet teacher's son.
But I am Not cool with her having sex with the other douches'. (especially her friend's boyfriend, or Tyone at the Frat party)
but at least I get a choice to leave the party.

I may come back to this after it logged a few more versions/updates, and after it Exits prologue mode.
( a bit grindy, but I can live with...)

 

[lockerxx]

where is Lesbian scene? what choices do I have to make? (I was at Hoping for at least a Lesbian or Bi route)
I can sorta handle My FC 'losing her virginity' to the ballet teacher's son.
But I am Not cool with her having sex with the other douches'. (especially her friend's boyfriend, or Tyone at the Frat party)
but at least I get a choice to leave the party.

no idea i used Un-Ren to see all the cgs.

 

[Shelscott50]

Any chance the required losing of the V to a boy is updated to allow a girl, or not losing it? or is the plan to keep it as is?

Yes! What she said!

 

[Shelscott50]

no idea i used Un-Ren to see all the cgs.

Oh, thanks anyway.

 

[Himeros Studios]

ai art and only 1 lesbian scene

I promise you, there will be plenty of lesbian scenes to come... although they will all be made with the assistance of AI unless you want them to look like this

The images are clearly AI generated and that's already tagged. No problem there.
But I suspect the text is AI generated as well. All of it has that overly flowery language insistent on describing every tiny thing in painful detail. To the point where it's hard to know what's supposed to be supernatural, if anything at all. For that reason, even if it's not AI text, it's still annoying to read.

I can assure you the text is not generated. Believe me, I experimented with it, the levels of floridity were inescapable. Unless there are people on here with a kink of excessive uses of em dashes, and tedious "it's not X, it's Y" every other sentence, I don't think any game generated using AI text would get very far. I also experimented with using it just to suggest the beats of scenes (if you try and write 18 unique scenes of a character losing her virginity, sooner or later you're going to hit a creative block). But it was more trouble than it was worth, it was amazing how little it could stray from one narrative every time even when I was just asking it for ideas. In the end I found it was far quicker to just write it myself.

As for the length of the descriptions, that's just partly my writing style. But also, there's a famous quote, I don't know where I heard it from, that said something along the lines of "apologies for the length of this message, I did not have the time to write a short one". I think as a game dev it would be very easy to let perfection be the enemy of good and never get anything done, but I'd rather crack on with making something, even if that means not drafting and redrafting until I've whittled each scene down to its essence.

Any chance the required losing of the V to a boy is updated to allow a girl, or not losing it? or is the plan to keep it as is?

I had originally planned to have an option not to lose it right through to her getting in a relationship with Josh at the end if the player wanted. But I quickly realised that would have meant writing an alternative version of every single gap year sex scene (11 of them) to cover the possibility of that being the main characters first time. The same would apply if the first time was with a woman. The one set factor in the prologue I had to make stick was having Josh at the end, as the story itself needs to start with the main character in a relationship. That's why I stuck Josh in as an option for the first time as well, so if a player wants to play a good / loyal route the whole way through, they can do (there might even be an achievement in game for kicking that off in the prologue...).

 

[Shelscott50]

I promise you, there will be plenty of lesbian scenes to come... although they will all be made with the assistance of AI unless you want them to look like this

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I can assure you the text is not generated. Believe me, I experimented with it, the levels of floridity were inescapable. Unless there are people on here with a kink of excessive uses of em dashes, and tedious "it's not X, it's Y" every other sentence, I don't think any game generated using AI text would get very far. I also experimented with using it just to suggest the beats of scenes (if you try and write 18 unique scenes of a character losing her virginity, sooner or later you're going to hit a creative block). But it was more trouble than it was worth, it was amazing how little it could stray from one narrative every time even when I was just asking it for ideas. In the end I found it was far quicker to just write it myself.

As for the length of the descriptions, that's just partly my writing style. But also, there's a famous quote, I don't know where I heard it from, that said something along the lines of "apologies for the length of this message, I did not have the time to write a short one". I think as a game dev it would be very easy to let perfection be the enemy of good and never get anything done, but I'd rather crack on with making something, even if that means not drafting and redrafting until I've whittled each scene down to its essence.



I had originally planned to have an option not to lose it right through to her getting in a relationship with Josh at the end if the player wanted. But I quickly realised that would have meant writing an alternative version of every single gap year sex scene (11 of them) to cover the possibility of that being the main characters first time. The same would apply if the first time was with a woman. The one set factor in the prologue I had to make stick was having Josh at the end, as the story itself needs to start with the main character in a relationship. That's why I stuck Josh in as an option for the first time as well, so if a player wants to play a good / loyal route the whole way through, they can do (there might even be an achievement in game for kicking that off in the prologue...).

Just as long as they are NOT scenes from porn movies.
(I don't know what Ppl's issues are with AI art. I enjoy/appreciate Ai art)

 

[link18]

Nice start got me hooked! and can't wait for the real fun to begin
good luck

 

[Bullyoukos]

I never complain about the usage of AI art. I will complain, however, about not fixing the images. I've only done it in passing 2 years ago now, but I know you can use tools such as inpainting to fix mistakes (fingers, joints, wave-y/melting background). It might be nitpicky but, for example, the bedsheets in pic 6 completely turn me off.

 

[KungFuKitteh2]

Liking the concept, but the images could really use some touching up. The spider-hands in almost every scene are extremely distracting