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Jake James

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What exactly is the plan for the pregnancy mechanic? Seems like it'll have a pretty big role in the game.
Current plan is a Persona Valentine's day style scene where everyone you let breed you confronts you at the end. Maybe there's some special scene for certain combinations? Maybe some characters win out by default while others are random? Either way, you have some sort of ending sequence and scene based on your decision. I'll try to tailor the ending scene to the clear preferences you've picked along the way of course.

Still a ways out though, so I'll be taking feedback and ideas along the way.
 

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You should consider not making the cast of characters too large and instead make more scenes for your existing ones.
Although doing that might cause route bloat
At least partially. Since the game is linear, I think I can get away with adding a decent amount of characters to keep things interesting. I'll really only run into issues when writing the ending, but I'm not too worried. This is my first project so it's not gonna be perfect.

There's always Part 2 where I can focus solely on the popular characters from this game in a new story. Or take the popular archetypes and create brand new characters. That's for distant future me to decide.
 

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At least partially. Since the game is linear, I think I can get away with adding a decent amount of characters to keep things interesting. I'll really only run into issues when writing the ending, but I'm not too worried. This is my first project so it's not gonna be perfect.

There's always Part 2 where I can focus solely on the popular characters from this game in a new story. Or take the popular archetypes and create brand new characters. That's for distant future me to decide.
So like Majikoi where they released a dozen spinoffs for routes with literally every side character?
 

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At least partially. Since the game is linear, I think I can get away with adding a decent amount of characters to keep things interesting. I'll really only run into issues when writing the ending, but I'm not too worried. This is my first project so it's not gonna be perfect.

There's always Part 2 where I can focus solely on the popular characters from this game in a new story. Or take the popular archetypes and create brand new characters. That's for distant future me to decide.
Make sure you don't try to do too much. Lots of devs end up trying to do way too many routes/variations and it just ends up making development way too difficult and a lot of the time they either just give up or take months for one update that adds maybe 30 mins of content. Don't fall into that trap.
 

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So like Majikoi where they released a dozen spinoffs for routes with literally every side character?
Not familiar with that unfortunately, but probably not. More like a part 2 where I focus on the characters and content that I did right the first time with a new story/mechanics. Not a bunch of singular character spin-offs
 

Jake James

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Make sure you don't try to do too much. Lots of devs end up trying to do way too many routes/variations and it just ends up making development way too difficult and a lot of the time they either just give up or take months for one update that adds maybe 30 mins of content. Don't fall into that trap.
Yeah, that's good advice. I see that happen all the time, and I'm doing my best to avoid it. There's branches right now, but they all reconverge immediately after they split.

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Honestly, I'm one of those people who likes having multiple endings, but with noticeable differences that motivate me to replay to get them. :cool:
I'm not picky, but at the very least I hope that every futa girl has her happy ending by impregnating the main character and/or having children with her hehe :giggle:
In fact, the "bad ending" with Sethi slightly "disappoints" me because it doesn't show the impregnation or the future "kittens" born. But that's just my humble opinion and personal preference. :sneaky:
 

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Honestly, I'm one of those people who likes having multiple endings, but with noticeable differences that motivate me to replay to get them. :cool:
I'm not picky, but at the very least I hope that every futa girl has her happy ending by impregnating the main character and/or having children with her hehe :giggle:
In fact, the "bad ending" with Sethi slightly "disappoints" me because it doesn't show the impregnation or the future "kittens" born. But that's just my humble opinion and personal preference. :sneaky:
Yeah, I agree with you. I'd say most people do which is why so many games try to have meaningful choices. I think as a solo dev though, the plan I have is what's going to be best. It'll get too complex and some updates will have zero content that people even want to play. There's actually a game that I follow that is doing that right now where there's like X Y and Z path and when Z path gets an update I'm not really interested. There will be multiple "endings", but nothing that changes the actual story. Just a nice scene at the end with who you chose.

Also, the bad end for Sethi is definitely not finished. Just like with Synthia, there will be a game over scene where the player character is pregnant. Bad ends will also get the classic ovum overlay to show impregnation which both Sethi and Synthia are missing but Freya will have in the next update.

I do want to avoid showing the offspring though. I know there are issues with Patreon which I can understand. All characters in the game have to be 18+, no exceptions. The implication that they exist will have to be enough even though they will not be shown or referenced directly.
 
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I do want to avoid showing the offspring though. I know there are issues with Patreon which I can understand. All characters in the game have to be 18+, no exceptions. The implication that they exist will have to be enough even though they will not be shown or referenced directly.
Man that's lame. I would've really liked to see the different interpretations of the offspring. Especially with all the different animal traits and what not the characters have.
 

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Man that's lame. I would've really liked to see the different interpretations of the offspring. Especially with all the different animal traits and what not the characters have.
Yeah, sorry. Hopefully some fanart can cover for that aspect.
 

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If it'd be possible the "ending / bad ending" expansion could be a separate file to be accessed only here if Patron is such a bitch about it. From what I hear nowadays they're bitch about just anything.

Nothing really fancy, I'd say it could probably done in a similiar fashion of replacing or adding art, for example when the censored pictures are replaced with uncensored ones in some games. A simple drag and drop file that'd expand upon the ending by adding a new background with the characters and their offspring/s.
 
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Not familiar with that unfortunately, but probably not. More like a part 2 where I focus on the characters and content that I did right the first time with a new story/mechanics. Not a bunch of singular character spin-offs
Majikoi is a really good eroge with I think 6ish main routes and heroines, but it introduced a LOT of cool side characters. So then they released Majikoi S, and A-1 through A-5 which were routes for those side characters. The side games weren't nearly as large as the first. Kinda off topic but that's what I thought you meant, so for example using the Cat(?) girl at the beginning Fantasy Futa A-1 might just be you traveling the woods with her and coming across mushroom girls and stuff instead.

Well, that's my two cents on it all, either way just don't bite off more then you chew. Burnout IS a thing, as much as devs don't want to admit it's happening to them until they drop off the face of the earth and just stop updating.
 
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Jake James

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Majikoi is a really good eroge with I think 6ish main routes and heroines, but it introduced a LOT of cool side characters. So then they released Majikoi S, and A-1 through A-5 which were routes for those side characters. The side games weren't nearly as large as the first. Kinda off topic but that's what I thought you meant, so for example using the Cat(?) girl at the beginning Fantasy Futa A-1 might just be you traveling the woods with her and coming across mushroom girls and stuff instead.

Well, that's my two cents on it all, either way just don't bite off more then you chew. Burnout IS a thing, as much as devs don't want to admit it's happening to them until they drop off the face of the earth and just stop updating.
Very true, let me get through this first game before trying to worry about anything else. I'm only one update deep so far after all o_O
 
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