Ren'Py - Family Apocalypse [V0.0.1] [Family Apocalypse]

My thoughts on the game:

• I would say the game first and foremost needs a proper introduction. Spend a few screens introducing the background story and the characters. Who are they, why are they driving around in this van, etc. If there is no background story and character development, people will hardly become emotionally attached to the characters and just click through the game for lewd scenes.
• As for the lewd scenes, you made one thing right... you didn't just jump right into fucking. There should be a buildup of tension, teasing and corruption. Make people invest effort (but not just grind mindlessly) to get into the juicier stuff. Once they all fuck with each other, the remaining lifetime of your game will be limited. Characters can ofc still have sex with NPCs / side kicks to keep things lewd enough to keep people invested.
• Try to be somewhat consistent with the porn actresses and your characters. It's difficult but how would you expect people to get immersed in the game and its' characters if your Mom/Sister keeps changing hair colour, face, boob size etc etc. This consistency is imho one major element of what separates the very good games from the average ones.
• Try to allow people to rename the characters, this helps immersion. Ask other devs for guidance how to code it if required.
• Try to use Mom and Dad consistently instead of their names. It will increase the family atmosphere you go for. Should you go for Patreon, you need to switch those to caretaker or so due to their policy but create a family patch here.
• I had two code errors with crashes when trying to explore the suburbs and the abandoned house.Also I didn't identify a possibility to save the game before exploring a new area.

Good luck with developing your very first game further.

v0.0.1

Lots of bad reviews currently, but it's a porn game so first order of business; is the porn good? Yes, the dev knows how to pick quality content. Most of my rating comes from that factor.
There's the illusion of progression and the gameplay loop is sensible (sleep, "research", drive), nuff said. It's not overly complicated and for this kind of game, that's perfect, because I know exactly how to grind for my eye candy (also cudos to the dev for not making the game too grindy or too easy, perfect balance)

That said, early release was posted for improvement, so here it is:
Suggestions:
1. Pick a pornstar for each of the girls and stick to it for the scenes (if the face is shown in the scene). Add a "profile picture" for each girl with their name somewhere on the screen (there's lots of empty space) so we can keep track of who looks like what.

2. Fuel doesn't appear often enough. While I write this, I'm stuck and I can't get the RNG to give me fuel so I can find more scenes, it stopped being fun at exactly the moment I realized I had to spam buttons just to continue. Raise the spawn rate and/or add events at the found locations for huge boosts in fuel (e.g. a fueling station to max out the fuel tank, cars to siphon in suburbs).

3. Food doesn't spawn often enough. When I realized there was no consequence to this, it didn't matter but if I had started losing health and unavoidably getting a game over because, once again, RNG didn't favor me, I would stop playing.

4. Workshop and cooking buttons don't do anything. Remove them until the features are developed.

5. Change "On the Road" to "Drive". Immediately makes more sense.

6. Add option for disable/enable NTR content. It's a simple if/else statement for the event, but it will mean SO MUCH just to have the option.

7. The distance feature for the locations don't make much sense because here's how they're handled.
Find location -> If enough energy, explore 5 times OR if not enough energy -> sleep -> explore 5 times.
Why do they have to still be visible (and clickable) if I finished exploring them
Reduce the distance value to like 3 or 5 so that if you click "On the Road" many times, you don't accidentally drive past it.

8. "Think Well" even in suburbs crashes the game. Couldn't tell you the error because it was in cyrillic.

Good luck to the dev, I'll be back for the next update!

Review of 0.0.1

tl;dr - An incoherent collection of real porn gifs with a weak story stringing them together.

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Pros :
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Cons :
Weak story
Inconsistent characters
Poor UI

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There's little redeeming here. Nothing was compelling, the story wasn't anything we haven't seen before, some of it was in Russian despite English being selected, there were broken links, the gifs were of inconsistent volumes and quality, I could go on for a while.

I would avoid until/if a few more versions come out and some more work is done. There are other games that do the same thing, with nearly the same story, with better quality.

V0.0.1

anyone developing a game would, you would think, know what they are developing before they start. why would you code without already knowing what you are coding? no planning and just throwing together a giant 'whatever' and throwing it out to the public is a disaster waiting to happen.....and that is exactly what this is.
you get one shot at a first impression and they last. fucking it up sets a real tone that no actual game developer is looking for.....or so i thought...
An MC with multiple names, an intro that makes little sense and admits to this being a throw together, coding errors, language switches, two subscription pages to crowd funding sites.....i have found my new neon sign for the term 'cash grab'.
i would point out the positives but the dev killed them with their intro and rush to get money over providing anything of any value

it even had a gif of a naked woman that made me throw up in my mouth a little....gets a star for that