I do enjoy the core mechanics and look forward to update.
Just to double check, they are no secret pics yet?
Just to double check, they are no secret pics yet?
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Art looks good, but I'm scared it might suffer Akabur-syndrome where it's mostly chatting and no actual action or purpose behind the game
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Thought I'd try this as it looked like it could be interesting. Honestly, I just don't get it.
So it's a roguelike:
dungeons: no
procedurally generated: yes
physical grid-like movement: no
combat: no
turn-based: no (there's actually a running real-time clock)
permanent death/game over: yes
DnD themed/styled: no
character creation: no
I'm not seeing the connection at all. Just being procedurally generated does not a roguelike make. As far as I can tell the game is essentially a Tinder parody,. The entire game is an endless loop of swipe-left/swipe-right and that's it. The "gameplay" comes in the form of who should go right and who goes left is pre-determined by the game and it is the player's goal to send people the direction the game already decided is correct. There are clues given, so it is not a blind guessing game at least.
The misrepresentation aside, the coding behind the controls/GUI/mechanics are all pretty smooth right now. The graphics are nice. It has a somewhat polished feel to the design. So there certainly are positives.
But the adult theme seems wasted as there's a running clock and the player is penalized for delays. So actually pausing to look at any of the art is a game no-no (although to be fair I did not lose because of timing-out and this may not be possible... one just may need to grind significantly longer if they play slower to reach the same goals). The clues are often vague and unclear. And in the end, swiping left and right just isn't very exciting whether you get it right or wrong.
I didn't file this as a review, as I think this game is likely too early in the process to be fully established. It may change direction quite a bit going forward (not to mention the game's description could be updated at any time to more accurately represent what it is) and I don't want to saddle it with a mediocre/poor rating when I'm currently not planning to re-review it any time soon to update a score.
So it's a roguelike:
dungeons: no
procedurally generated: yes
physical grid-like movement: no
combat: no
turn-based: no (there's actually a running real-time clock)
permanent death/game over: yes
DnD themed/styled: no
character creation: no
I'm not seeing the connection at all. Just being procedurally generated does not a roguelike make. As far as I can tell the game is essentially a Tinder parody,. The entire game is an endless loop of swipe-left/swipe-right and that's it. The "gameplay" comes in the form of who should go right and who goes left is pre-determined by the game and it is the player's goal to send people the direction the game already decided is correct. There are clues given, so it is not a blind guessing game at least.
The misrepresentation aside, the coding behind the controls/GUI/mechanics are all pretty smooth right now. The graphics are nice. It has a somewhat polished feel to the design. So there certainly are positives.
But the adult theme seems wasted as there's a running clock and the player is penalized for delays. So actually pausing to look at any of the art is a game no-no (although to be fair I did not lose because of timing-out and this may not be possible... one just may need to grind significantly longer if they play slower to reach the same goals). The clues are often vague and unclear. And in the end, swiping left and right just isn't very exciting whether you get it right or wrong.
I didn't file this as a review, as I think this game is likely too early in the process to be fully established. It may change direction quite a bit going forward (not to mention the game's description could be updated at any time to more accurately represent what it is) and I don't want to saddle it with a mediocre/poor rating when I'm currently not planning to re-review it any time soon to update a score.
"Huh.. Interesting concept and the art looks pretty goo...." *scrolls to try to find multiple pictures of the same girl with the same clothes/hair but different poses...* "Fuck. This is aicg isn't it?". *scrolls up to tags*. "Yup".
Enough with this crap, please. AI art just isn't ready yet. Even if you render enough images to avoid the horror show images of twisted necks and seven-fingered hands, character consistency just isn't there yet and consistency is important.
Enough with this crap, please. AI art just isn't ready yet. Even if you render enough images to avoid the horror show images of twisted necks and seven-fingered hands, character consistency just isn't there yet and consistency is important.
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Sounds like a challenge
In the meantime, you can check out my tutorial on char facial expr. consistency on
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Additionally, some of my AI assisted works of consistency demo:
If smb can't, that doesn't mean it's impossible for everyone
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Well, none of the things you noted have anything specifically to do with roguelikes either.
I think the game play loop is fine as a mini game, but I need a story.
I just don't understand where the sex is... without sex I don't understand this game. I guess you spend your currency and buy sex scenes in the menu (in the future), but that feels hallow. I don't see where there is a story where I get to fuck chicks.
I love the art styles but AI art does a piss poor job of making sex images. Good concept but I'm not sure the tech is there yet, nor the framework to insert sex into it properly.
I'm really worried about this one. Cool mini game though.
I just don't understand where the sex is... without sex I don't understand this game. I guess you spend your currency and buy sex scenes in the menu (in the future), but that feels hallow. I don't see where there is a story where I get to fuck chicks.
I love the art styles but AI art does a piss poor job of making sex images. Good concept but I'm not sure the tech is there yet, nor the framework to insert sex into it properly.
I'm really worried about this one. Cool mini game though.
approaching 6 pages and people STILL glossing over the fact that this bullshit is AI generated. Like godamn, we've graduated from making bad relationship choices to the concept that you dumbfucks can't even COOM responsibly.
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I'll agree that over the years the definition of "roguelike" has taken on different forms and meaning to different people and its definition can be a bit vague and arguable at the best of times. But no, my points of note were not unrelated to "what a roguelike is."
I can certainly see how this developer used repurposed roguelike code to implement some, even a lot, of his back-end. And from a developers point of view that can make for its own interesting discussion. I appreciate the novel approach to the game. I hope the developer comes up with more ideas to put into new games in the future because this game demonstrates some good creativity. But, at least for me, a game description is about how the game plays from a player's perspective. And for me, the gameplay is not roguelike. I would not even classify it as roguelite.