HTML Debasing Grounds [v0.4.3] [Rax Lorax]

[Deleted member 2261700]

Dunno if the dev is here has a major loop issue with confronting enemy where you cannot get to anywhere but get stuck in a rape loop after visiting the sex shop and street ect.
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good luck dev. yeah its good you have your priority straight and clear goal in mind and more on your creation's development. Hope to see more interactive options and possibly drop flavor text in favor of "numerical results" for certain actions.

 

[BigH34]

Massive rape time mate

 

[herbz]

Is there anything to do in this game besides getting raped by random people.

go to the police station in Keep street

 

[bakerarts]

go to the police station in Keep street

I did I got arrested and raped repeatedly

 

[GracefulDarkness]

how do you load from file??? i try to do so and it shows me this, which i have no idea what that even means

 

[Joe Steel]

go to the police station in Keep street

And the gym, if female (and maybe male PC, but didn't check).

It's pretty bare-bones at the moment, but the writing is at least decent and there's some evidence of a story amid the twenty consecutive "random" rapes.

 

[chu2834822]

Nice, I found gangbang and forced scenes, and all of the heroine's interactions are optional.

 

[Kruxis]

This is giving me a strong "Ethos of Darkness" vibe. That's good because that game was great

 

[Ravenmore]

Is there anything to do at the Pangolin Pharma location? The option to undress seems to do nothing.

 

[baduserexp]

Fun little game, there are some dead ends though, so make sure to save often

saving and reloading works on the dead ends, you don't need to save in advance.

Scenes so far:
1. police rape (and they lie! you never get an ID!)
2. your choice of fetish grinding or submission grinding at the mind-control VR center.
3. gang rape at the gym. Seems oriented towards feminizing male PCs. If you strip in the changing room, the trainer will comment on you showing up naked
4. become a spanked fetish maid for the woman in East Street #5 (knock on the door or find her on the streets). The cleaning mini-game isn't bad actually.
5. get laughed at with a customized insult in East Street #4 (or she just calls you dumb-looking, if nothing stands out?)
6. oh yeah, and a single random encounter on the street. It'd benefit from a cooldown.

Most scenes seem to be written first for a male PC, there are frequent glitches in the text that refer to a male PC, and it follows the trend of such games that people are always just weirdly uninterested in one out of a female MC's three holes. But, very promising start. Some bugs, but the custom engine(?) shows its worth in making them recoverable and with the cleaning mini game, and the dev has the good sense to lead with lewd scenes instead of getting lost in other aspects of development.

 

[LawhornLeo]

Deciding to give it a go, I've so far come up with the following as a bit of a bug report for for dev:



As we can see here my dickgirl's pronouns seemed to change about 6 times during this particular scene "You reach a thin street running through small shops to one side and to poorly built small houses on the other. A group of men come from one of the houses and quickly surround you. The lead man steps forward as he speaks menacingly: "What do we have here?""


I'm not sure what functions you're using to cause the NPC's to reference the PC's gender, but funnily enough it's actually giving me a good laugh xD

If you have a preferred method for me to deliver further bugs other than posting here, please let me know, yes?

 

[Urka]

Not working for Android

 

[Remembrance]

The path you choose is yours alone in Debasing Grounds. Will you become a beacon of hope, another victim lost to the world, or will you just seek more and more power to try to dominate others?

Looking at the comments so far, it seems the content is mostly about getting raped so far.
Hopefully a path to avoid that & take control/assert dominance will be present later on.
It may be tempting to make this unavoidable in early game as a way of showing the mc's powerlessness for immersion, but these content (dom/sub) don't mesh very well together, even more than gay/straight content. Most ppl aren't switches, and if the mc keeps being getting taken advantage of early, most dom playthru preferring players will not stick around until the mc gets enough power to turn the tables.
Hopefully there will be choices where you can escape from the npcs, creating a route with the mc vowing to get powerful enough to be on the other side (seek more and more power to try to dominate others).

Unavoidable non-consent sub scenes are really off putting, hope the mc gets some choices to struggle & escape, for a dom/assertive route.

Anyway, good luck on the project dev

 

[Candy1970]

Yes, the text is focused on 5-6 longer scenes, but other parts of the town are still rather bare boned.

There's no art at the moment, only text. At some point I'll probably add something basic like portraits (similar to Degrees of Lewdity) but before that I want to focus on the mechanics and text scenes.

It's bi, and in fact there's no opting out of either type of scene. I don't think it's very realistic to have a world where male characters are constantly being accosted and coerced by female characters, for example. I may add that option in the future, but it is not a priority right now.

I like it its a good start , there is a bit of a problem with the gang that catches you on the street ,in that after they are finished with you you can't get away sometimes . but other than that and the map being confusing as hell , it shows promise , can't wait to see more of it filled in

 

[jrkirby]

Did you make this in rust or c++ and wasm compile for web? This ain't your standard sugarcube, that's for sure.

Interesting ideas, but not enough content for an enjoyable experience yet.

 

[Repreive]

Glad to hear we'll have gals with cawks soon. All the better if we can make the player-character one.

 

[RottenPotato]

Very buggy and not deep enough, but to be fair its new and too light (not even MB in size) compared to DOL
But very refreshing to see HTML games so potential and not made with stock 3d images found on google

 

[Rax_DG]

So you'll be using Pixel Arts?
IMO it's better to put in some concept art upfront even if you don't plan to develop them for awhile, so you can attract more eyeballs.
Even when it's a Text-based game, arts help a lot on the world- building,

Personally I'm all in for this.
I'm gay, and I only asked to see if there's something for me - since I don't like femboy/trap/sissy.
But for a bi porn game, Skip contents is quite needed as Quality of Life feature.
Even if you wont be able to opt out encounters for immersion purpose, you surely need to be able to skip scenes you don't wanna see (Especially for straight audiences).

That's a good point. It wouldn't be too difficult to add pictures between paragraphs. It's a matter of time and priorities at the moment.

how do you load from file??? i try to do so and it shows me this, which i have no idea what that even means View attachment 2594002

You can copy the contents of the save file there. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make it so you can directly upload the file.

Is there anything to do at the Pangolin Pharma location? The option to undress seems to do nothing.

There should be, I'll test if it's bugged.

saving and reloading works on the dead ends, you don't need to save in advance.

Scenes so far:
1. police rape (and they lie! you never get an ID!)
2. your choice of fetish grinding or submission grinding at the mind-control VR center.
3. gang rape at the gym. Seems oriented towards feminizing male PCs. If you strip in the changing room, the trainer will comment on you showing up naked
4. become a spanked fetish maid for the woman in East Street #5 (knock on the door or find her on the streets). The cleaning mini-game isn't bad actually.
5. get laughed at with a customized insult in East Street #4 (or she just calls you dumb-looking, if nothing stands out?)
6. oh yeah, and a single random encounter on the street. It'd benefit from a cooldown.

Most scenes seem to be written first for a male PC, there are frequent glitches in the text that refer to a male PC, and it follows the trend of such games that people are always just weirdly uninterested in one out of a female MC's three holes. But, very promising start. Some bugs, but the custom engine(?) shows its worth in making them recoverable and with the cleaning mini game, and the dev has the good sense to lead with lewd scenes instead of getting lost in other aspects of development.

Thanks for the spot-on review and the support. I think you've missed a couple of locations (the brothel and the pharma company).

Deciding to give it a go, I've so far come up with the following as a bit of a bug report for for dev:

View attachment 2594530

As we can see here my dickgirl's pronouns seemed to change about 6 times during this particular scene "You reach a thin street running through small shops to one side and to poorly built small houses on the other. A group of men come from one of the houses and quickly surround you. The lead man steps forward as he speaks menacingly: "What do we have here?""


I'm not sure what functions you're using to cause the NPC's to reference the PC's gender, but funnily enough it's actually giving me a good laugh xD

If you have a preferred method for me to deliver further bugs other than posting here, please let me know, yes?

I'll have a look at the pronouns for d-girls. Sure, you can let me know of bugs here or in Twitter,

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... whatever you prefer.

Looking at the comments so far, it seems the content is mostly about getting raped so far.
Hopefully a path to avoid that & take control/assert dominance will be present later on.
It may be tempting to make this unavoidable in early game as a way of showing the mc's powerlessness for immersion, but these content (dom/sub) don't mesh very well together, even more than gay/straight content. Most ppl aren't switches, and if the mc keeps being getting taken advantage of early, most dom playthru preferring players will not stick around until the mc gets enough power to turn the tables.
Hopefully there will be choices where you can escape from the npcs, creating a route with the mc vowing to get powerful enough to be on the other side (seek more and more power to try to dominate others).

Unavoidable non-consent sub scenes are really off putting, hope the mc gets some choices to struggle & escape, for a dom/assertive route.

Anyway, good luck on the project dev

Next version is going to let the player pick a set of starting skills. If the right ones are chosen, this will let the player get away or win early encounters.

Glad to hear we'll have gals with cawks soon. All the better if we can make the player-character one.

You can play as one already in this version. Seeing the interest, I'll add d-girls as NPCs soon.

 

[Remembrance]

Next version is going to let the player pick a set of starting skills. If the right ones are chosen, this will let the player get away or win early encounters.

Well I played the game & here's how it went: After character creation I was dumped in the middle of the city with no guidance. I checked out 3 locations - the VR booths, the sex club & the police station. Seeing sub only content in all 3, I just quit.
So the 2 problems I faced were lack of guidance/hints & finding only sub mc content, no dominant route.

For the 1st problem you could probably add some rudimentary guiding starting quests & also give players hints about what to expect.

Like when entering the vr booths you could be like "I have a strong feeling I need some 'Mental Fortitude' to have any control in there". Or when entering gang territory "Entering such a shady location without any 'Fighting Prowess' is probably not a safe route"

As for the 2nd problem, writing content in pairs is probably the best option. Like you write the dom(victory) & sub(surrender) scenes together in one update & give options in most/all scenes.

Like in the VR, you are placed in the avatar of the sub to be trained. As an alternative, if you resist(add option) with the proper stats, the machine cannot place you in that body & places you in the nearest body, which is the dom. So you end up enjoying inflicting pain & taking control instead of the opposite, building domination fetish stats instead of submission ones.

Ofc that's if you plan to make it balanced between sub & dom content with a "Path to Power" type route.
Current version entirely feels sub mc focused. Nothing wrong with that, just clarify if the game will be balanced between the mc being powerless & submitting and the mc avoiding those interactions & making others submit as he gathers power/control/influence(Path to Power); or if the content will lean towards either side.

Looking forward to some dom scenes with the mc making others submit (if planned) while avoiding the sub scenes.
Good Luck eitherway

 

[Kruxis]

This game looks like it'll include more slave/prisoner contenta. Am I right?