When Hank got an internship in the university lab under the sexy Dr. Wilma, he didn't realize that his entire world was about to change. But in the DNA of a lost human ancestor was something that would transform everyone who came in contact with it. Soon Hank will find his boss being changed, even he himself is becoming different, stronger, more powerful... more dominant. What will Hank do? Make one woman his? Gather a harem? spread the blessing to the world? Unravel the mysteries of the DNA and become its master? You decide!
Once, long ago, I wrote erotica for Amazon. And times were good. Then Amazon started getting more restrictive, and I wasn't willing to risk a permaban+losing all my royalities, so I dropped my adult pennames. But then I realized that I had a ton of half-finished novels, some time, and a desire to do something new, so decided "why the hell not, I haven't coded since 1985, but what's the worst that can happen?"
Fertile Blessing is a renpy game based on the unpublished story of the same name, where an accidental release of an RNA virus from an extinct branch of humanity is going to have an impact on our PC and his characters. (fetishes: MC, BE, transformation (tall to short)*, muscle growth (male), Male dominant, harem*, pregnancy*) Anything with a * is optional and can be ignored if the player isn't into that.
To date, I have successfully created a program that lets you walk all over campus and town, and introduce yourself to your doctor. Not much else, but I expect to have a very, VERY early beta ready for release in a few weeks.
What I am doing:
1. Keeping my expectations low. If people love it and my patreon lets me buy a small island, cool. If not, cool, because I learned Renpy and Python, can try again, and if you're not prepared for failure in the writing business, you're in the wrong business.
2. Focusing on incremental improvements, rather than trying to add a bunch of stuff at once.
3. Having an ending already in mind. This isn't a game that goes forever it has an ending. Pragmatically, by the time I finish it, I figure I'll see enough issues with my earlier work that it'd be wiser to either totally redo it or go on to something else.
Project specific assets:
1. Phases. I've divided the project into several phases. The first one, creating the world, and letting the character walk around in it, is completed. The next one will be adding the main plot, without a lot of the choice branches.
Each addition will start out with "flat progression" more like a novel than a game, and then have the game components added so I know where to look if something breaks.
2. Art.
Art will start as AI art, and if the game becomes popular that might be replaced by human art. HOWEVER, I'm a fairly decent stable diffusion runner, and have used it for some of my covers. The goal of this will be providing art assets while learning how to make SD art generations, via LORAs or Checkpoints, sufficiently similar in clothing and look that they will be... not terrible.
3. Crying. I'm certain everything will go wrong at some point, as I realize I spent two hours screaming at the computer and didn't realize I'd accidentally left a stan in there when the name variable was Stan. I've budgeted crying time.
I don't really expect this to become a tremendous hit, but I'm putting it here because well, when I start putting it out, this'd be a good place for feedback and information on what I'm doing right or wrong--because Lord, I know I'm gonna be doing something wrong.
Once, long ago, I wrote erotica for Amazon. And times were good. Then Amazon started getting more restrictive, and I wasn't willing to risk a permaban+losing all my royalities, so I dropped my adult pennames. But then I realized that I had a ton of half-finished novels, some time, and a desire to do something new, so decided "why the hell not, I haven't coded since 1985, but what's the worst that can happen?"
Fertile Blessing is a renpy game based on the unpublished story of the same name, where an accidental release of an RNA virus from an extinct branch of humanity is going to have an impact on our PC and his characters. (fetishes: MC, BE, transformation (tall to short)*, muscle growth (male), Male dominant, harem*, pregnancy*) Anything with a * is optional and can be ignored if the player isn't into that.
To date, I have successfully created a program that lets you walk all over campus and town, and introduce yourself to your doctor. Not much else, but I expect to have a very, VERY early beta ready for release in a few weeks.
What I am doing:
1. Keeping my expectations low. If people love it and my patreon lets me buy a small island, cool. If not, cool, because I learned Renpy and Python, can try again, and if you're not prepared for failure in the writing business, you're in the wrong business.
2. Focusing on incremental improvements, rather than trying to add a bunch of stuff at once.
3. Having an ending already in mind. This isn't a game that goes forever it has an ending. Pragmatically, by the time I finish it, I figure I'll see enough issues with my earlier work that it'd be wiser to either totally redo it or go on to something else.
Project specific assets:
1. Phases. I've divided the project into several phases. The first one, creating the world, and letting the character walk around in it, is completed. The next one will be adding the main plot, without a lot of the choice branches.
Each addition will start out with "flat progression" more like a novel than a game, and then have the game components added so I know where to look if something breaks.
2. Art.
Art will start as AI art, and if the game becomes popular that might be replaced by human art. HOWEVER, I'm a fairly decent stable diffusion runner, and have used it for some of my covers. The goal of this will be providing art assets while learning how to make SD art generations, via LORAs or Checkpoints, sufficiently similar in clothing and look that they will be... not terrible.
3. Crying. I'm certain everything will go wrong at some point, as I realize I spent two hours screaming at the computer and didn't realize I'd accidentally left a stan in there when the name variable was Stan. I've budgeted crying time.
I don't really expect this to become a tremendous hit, but I'm putting it here because well, when I start putting it out, this'd be a good place for feedback and information on what I'm doing right or wrong--because Lord, I know I'm gonna be doing something wrong.
