Unreal Engine Breeders of the Nephelym [v0.761.52] [DerelictHelmsman]

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Cor'ali

Cor'ali

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mecha_froggy said:
IMHO, the reason Breeding Season imploded was that a bunch of greedy narcissists got together and decided that they'd all be equal partners and get equal shares, which of course failed because being greedy narcissists everyone considered themselves to be the MVP and deserve a bigger slice than everyone else. Goes with the territory.

The solution to that, however, is not to have one guy isolate himself on some island and work alone forever. The solution is to

1) Start a legit company and place himself at the head of it. This is a lot cheaper and easier than most people think, especially for a "game studio" because you don't need any physical workspace to put it in. It only need to exist on paper, which is good enough for the government.

2) Hire staff as needed. Not partners, not shareholders, not friends and/or family. Employees that work for the developer doing specific tasks, getting paid a predetermined amount for their work (it's called a CONTRACT - figure it out), no more, no less. Need animations? Hire an animator. Explain exactly what you want done, negotiate a price and timetable and put it all in writing. If they don't measure up, replace them with someone who does.

3) Enjoy the freedom of getting more shit done and not having to deal drama bullshit because if people get annoying you can just fire them and get new ones.

The problem with Breeding Season is that they ran it like a fucking pirate ship, with voting and shares and trying to get everyone's input and letting all these different people just "do their own thing at their own pace." And because it was all done in shares when money started vanishing (as it always does) everyone got pissy about it - and rightly so, because that was their money too, to one degree or another.

I say fuck that noise! Start an actual business, hire actual staff, reward results and punish failures because you're the fucking boss and your pay is whatever is in the contract. You can just snort the rest up your nose for all the difference it makes to your underlings paycheck.

No drama, no bullshit, just results. It can be done... provided you aren't just slacking off and making play forts out of stacks of money all day.
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This ^^ This is the kind of comment I can FEEL.. This I feel would make it work better.. "The Who not the How" Get someone who can do the things you aren't good at so you can focus on the things you ARE good at.
 
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Cor'ali said:
This ^^ This is the kind of comment I can FEEL.. This I feel would make it work better.. "The Who not the How" Get someone who can do the things you aren't good at so you can focus on the things you ARE good at.
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I'd say "how" is a very big component of what happened to Breeding Season. An artist was brought into the project with a contract that gave him the ability to rescind the project's right to use his artwork. He made use of that clause, and the project folded as a result. Who the artist was and why it was done are less than relevant compared to that. It was a bad contract, for the same reason partnerships are an inherently unstable type of company.

That said, I do agree that making use of said clause was a major dick move. I also think making your own variation of the project you killed is a dick move. The story involves a lot of finger pointing and 'he said', so I don't presume to know either side's actual reasoning.
 
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Release Notes: 0.741 Alpha
  • Added Cove of Rapture gate progression
  • Male breeding tasks are no longer generated when futa only is on


Release Notes: 0.740 Alpha
  • Added Hivelands gate game progression
  • Updated translations
Special thanks to translators:
  • Stringfish (Japanese)
  • Kirofox (Italian)
  • banankita (Swedish)
  • jpegfile (Turkish)
  • lAmirale (French)


Release Notes: 0.739 Alpha
This is more of a trial build than anything else. I tweaked the game design, and want feedback before going forward.
The intro quest was removed in favor of a simpler system. Collect keystones to open Cockblock Gates. Keystones are acquired from blessed ones by doing breeding requests or simple puzzles.
Note: only two are implemented in this build, so many areas are open by default. Once I get some feedback, I will continue implementing the rest of them.
Please share your thoughts in Discord.
  • Tweaked game progression 1
  • Fixed camera issues, and other small things
 
Schlong50

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Still glad I got an old version. While I don't mind futa content much with a female character its a bit red flag for my male one. And that progression sounds like, unlike now, it will become mandatory unavoidable. :cautious:
 
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One of the "issues" with this game, at least for me personally, is the egregious theming of "oh haha look almost everything's a sex reference." I already fuckin' know I'm playing a porn game, I don't need it bashed over my head constantly with fast-travel portals shaped like vaginas or areas named shit like "Moaning Crags" or "Pleasure Pastures." Doesn't help that sex seems to be about the only (meaningful) form of interaction with anything in the game, and there's no... quality to the dialogue or anything to make you invested in the sex scenes themselves. It also doesn't help (again) that the generic monsters you're going out and fucking have nothing going for them besides their appearance (and invisible stats and modifiers that you won't even know about until after you've acquired them.) Not to compare it to a big, "professionally-released game," but even generic Elder Scrolls bandits have more life and personality, and they only really exist to give the player an obstacle to defeat.
There's other games out there with even raunchier, more explicit content that manage to make things feel less stupid. Even fuggin' Corruption of Champions, where you had a variety of weird things trying to fuck you, still managed to play just enough parts of it seriously. "Everything in moderation" can be shit advice sometimes, but I'd say here it's totally justified.
 
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SukebeDude

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forthelolzguy said:
Stupid question but are there snake monsters in the game? I see one on the promo picture... or I guess that's a snake monster.
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There are but they can't be bred, you can fuck them, just not breed them.
Unless he removed them, i haven't played this game in months.
 
mineride

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I will do the devil advocate on that one because there is still element in the game who might be a little itty bit too much for giving this impression that sex is everywhere but can be against your logic so : let's just sit a moment there for what you are saying icollectsouls :

icollectsouls said:
It also doesn't help (again) that the generic monsters you're going out and fucking have nothing going for them besides their appearance (and invisible stats and modifiers that you won't even know about until after you've acquired them.)
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There is a possibility to see all the stats of the girl befoire you capture them : You have to interact with the girl and then, like in the ranch, you have a little down arrow at the top right of the screen who can give everything

icollectsouls said:
One of the "issues" with this game, at least for me personally, is the egregious theming of "oh haha look almost everything's a sex reference." I already fuckin' know I'm playing a porn game, I don't need it bashed over my head constantly with fast-travel portals shaped like vaginas or areas named shit like "Moaning Crags" or "Pleasure Pastures."
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well the creature in the game lore (if we can say "lore" lel) always think about sex and as the first person you saw in the game said (don't know the correct words) it's suprising that they have a civilization as they basically fuck on a nearly minute basis everywhere and whenever they can. So if everything is about sex, i don't see a breaking point between the """"""story"""""" and the gameplay + level design.

icollectsouls said:
Not to compare it to a big, "professionally-released game," but even generic Elder Scrolls bandits have more life and personality, and they only really exist to give the player an obstacle to defeat.
There's other games out there with even raunchier, more explicit content that manage to make things feel less stupid. Even fuggin' Corruption of Champions, where you had a variety of weird things trying to fuck you, still managed to play just enough parts of it seriously. "Everything in moderation" can be shit advice sometimes, but I'd say here it's totally justified.
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True moderation is everything but consistency is also a thing. the creature don't speak because they are more feral than something else as the blue elf said except of the "woke" one who basicaly get a blessing to avoid being an animal and fuck like rabbits and with that blessing can build things (like house, economy...) so it's normal they don't have a lot of personnality.... yet. i can see for exemple bound between the creatures and you but the bound can't be more than a bound between a dog and a master or a cow and a farmer (with benefits..... thats weird but i don't have better exemple) and at some point like you so much than you can have it as a companion or it can help around the ranch. On this island, your are the only one who have a bigger self-control on sex and now we have a sort of gameplay mecanic to unlock the area which give a sort of new progression outside of the ranch production.

Maybe the game can be more serious but if we look at other game which have the same gameplay (breeding season or breeding farm for exemple, good one to see where we can go with that game with more time), however you can see something if you compare things between them. the dev have prioritise thing before others and some of your point is on the one the dev didn't do at first
The force of breeder of nephelym for now is : no loading / massive variety of animals / graphics / a basic "backstory" for the island who make kind of sens. / animation with no colision problem and good one (aka stationmaster for the one who know but well it's not dev fault if he wanted to see bigger than the engine limits) /
and of course the weak point : repetitive gameplay (but well we are here to breed but we can do something more i think) / the face..... The goddamn same FACE every fucking time / no other way to gain outside of semen and milk (fern don't give a enough to consider it as a source so i don't put it there) / no restrain or quest (like in the other breeding game with a debt or something) who give you a road to follow, there is only secondairy objectives and unlocking new creatures objectives but not as main objectives in any others games (do first creature - > give XXX milk and XXX semen of XXX to unlock selling semen....)./ items? anyone? sound of the wind and dust... well shit

here's what i have to said. Cheers and happy fapping or play time (or both)
n.b : sorry not sorry for that book to read and the bad english
 
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mineride

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Schlong50 said:
Still glad I got an old version. While I don't mind futa content much with a female character its a bit red flag for my male one. And that progression sounds like, unlike now, it will become mandatory unavoidable. :cautious:
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well yes and no, "sugar wall before balls"? they have still the correct materials to do the quest as a men but it can be weird yes.... but not for me anymore (thank you internet and sfm artist)
isn't better with mandatory unlocks? because you have now some sort of objectives to reach and not wandering around like a goddamn mad man with his dick as a sword all the time...
 
Honars

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To participate in all interactive scenes, your character must be a futa. It's a shame that the game ties you to the gender of the character ... I mean, for 4 years that the game was created, there is still no anal sex ... even as a milking scene ... even as training characteristics for yourself and creatures... it's always breeding ... even if you don't want to breed right now ... you can only have classic sex to raise the stats of the creature and yourself, and at the same time a creature can be born that you don't need now...
 
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