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I don't think this game is anti shortstack, but I do think the roster is probably pretty close, if not already, full.
My god they're so portable. Just scoop them up under your arm and take them home. So convenient. And think of all the other benefits too. Favourite snack? Put it up on a high shelf and you never have to share again. It's safe forever. I'm starting to understand the appeal here. This is an awakening.
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The game lets you refer to Mason as a her, so I think either should be correct.
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Yes, as far as I know, the plan is to release one more update before doing the rework, so an update sometime this year, then the rework, and then another actual update early next year. Not sure about November for the rework, but should be before the end of the year.I remember a post by the dev where they kinda layed down the plan for next few upcoming updates, like chapter 1 rework in November iirc. Is this still up to date, any news on the current situation? Thanks.
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Hey folks! I've been a little out of sorts for the past couple of weeks. Sciatica acting up, my dominant hand keeps going numb due to a pinched nerve, blah blah blah.. But, I'm feeling better and I want to do some lightning-round Q&A.
The bracelet thing's been answered, but that was just Guy seeing Ashe in a bracelet, and then his brain connecting Ashe --> bracelet --> Brittani --> same bracelet. I had a lot of people speculate on the photo, thinking that it was connected to Brittani wearing the same one during her schoolgirl photoshoot. So, I just wanted to address that. It wasn't an intentional red herring, I just used the same prop twice. But, I thought it'd be fun to give a nod towards the fan speculation.
The car blowjob with Ashe: that's actually a really good point, and something that I probably should've considered. I might put a check in there for "ashhpts" so that if she really likes you, she'll trust you enough to drive while she gives you head, and otherwise won't.
Ashe's job at the museum, and involvement with the movie: Ashe won't be overly involved with the Brittani plotline. Her main focus is still cultivating the 'local artists' collection, and the movie is just a small sliver of that, basically acting as a point of contact for the museum. I plan to have her present to basically introduce Grady to MC, interact briefly with Brittani, and then go back to the museum. It's not an accident that the cast involves a lot of creative people -- Gabby, Jamie, Brittani, Pepper, Viola.. Ashe can plausibly intersect with all of them due to her position.
Ashe's model history was actually revealed previously, albeit very briefly, and only in the path where MC jerks off to the girls' photos in Chapter 3. You're right though, I might tack on a little scene in Chapter Two, where MC looks her up and gathers a little preliminary information.
I'm still kind of surprised nobody's really gotten the photo mystery yet, but it is pretty subtle.. The pieces are there to solve it, but it'll be further explained next chapter on Ashe's romantic sleepover path.
The Orc Exchange stuff, admittedly, is just me having fun with different toys. I'm a fantasy nerd, and I like the idea of MC having a favorite show. Plus, in the re-written Chapter One, I use it to nod towards a future development with Nicki.
Again, big thanks for the notes -- sorry I can't address all of them!
I don't really do flashbacks, since I have a rule to always keep the POV with Guy. That way, we never know more than he does. Sometimes this is a bit of a pain in the ass, because I'd love to just jump over into Gabby or Viola's life and show the player what they're up to, instead of having them deliver some clunky exposition. When the game is all finished, I'd really like to go back and add some chapter breaks that would play like kinetic novels, translating the short stories I've been doing, into playable bits of the game. But, that's a ways off.
The plan there is basically that MC can go one of a few routes: accept Mason's gender and be platonic, romantic, or treat him like a FWB, which can be done nicely or not-so-nicely. Or treat Mason like a girl, and basically stay on a FWB route, where you can be nice or not. Kind of similar to Ashe's corruption route.
The idea is that Mason is basically accepting of anything, but if you want him to genuinely open up, you have to accept him for who he is, leading to friendship or romance. Otherwise he'll just continue to act like what he thinks you want: a dutiful sex-kitten trading his body for sex, whether you call him a boy or a girl.
It'll definitely have repercussions, but I'd expect it to vary based on Ashe's relationship to you. A cowed and terrified Ashe won't respond the same way as girlfriend Ashe, or friend Ashe, or corrupted Ashe.
Thanks, I got this fixed for the next version. Realized that I put that in there meaning to make a variation of the image, and just.. Never did. D'oh.
Ahhhh I can't wait to dig into Pepper's story a little more. I've been dropping little hints as to where it's going, but so far only one patron has picked up on it. Well, at least they're the only one who's said, "I see what you're doing.."
That's interesting, because there's arguably more good guy content than anything else. Viola's route is longer if both she and Ashe are on speaking terms with you, there's a whole scene where you rescue Viola, there's both friendship and love dates with Ashe, both of which are longer than the corruption or dark path dates, and the love/fwb path has the longest sex scene. I've only played the first chapter of BaDIK, so I can't comment on the comparison.
Nicki will be back, but I wouldn't count on her showing up anytime soon. Fool me once, etc.
Always happy to get some love for the good path! I really want to make the romance paths just as kinky and exciting as the darker paths -- just in different ways. It always killed me that in so many AVNs, the romance stuff basically means super boring sex. Because in my experience, the fun stuff tends to happen when someone opens up to you, and willingly indulges your kinks.[B]RC-1138 Boss said:[/B]Good Guy is pretty much a walking and talking good samaritan. Nice that he could not only give Viola a ride during a stormy night but also help her with her sleemo landlord, all that while Guy ponders about his situation growing up. Well maybe her situation will change enough so she can bring her mother to live in a better place.
And that had the nice side effect of making Ashe even more wet for him. Speaking of Ashe it kinda seems to me that she is the one doing the corruption on the good route: blowjob on a speeding car, incest play, anal plus a bit of spanking/choking. Also the fact they did it four times in one night (counting the shower fade do black scene). Kinky, i liked that change on roles.
The explanation for her accent was funny and i enjoyed when she opened up about how most people see her just as a dumb bimbo who sleeps her way to the top. That leads to Guy likely going to end up becoming a movie producer to help both her and Brittani.
By the way, speaking of Brittani i don't get the bracelet story Guy mentioned. Is he thinking she stole it? Admit i was a bit sleepy when playing the game last night and may have missed something.
The bracelet thing's been answered, but that was just Guy seeing Ashe in a bracelet, and then his brain connecting Ashe --> bracelet --> Brittani --> same bracelet. I had a lot of people speculate on the photo, thinking that it was connected to Brittani wearing the same one during her schoolgirl photoshoot. So, I just wanted to address that. It wasn't an intentional red herring, I just used the same prop twice. But, I thought it'd be fun to give a nod towards the fan speculation.
Thanks for this super thoughtful and detailed review! I'll just address a few points of speculation, as I could otherwise spend an hour replying. :'D
The car blowjob with Ashe: that's actually a really good point, and something that I probably should've considered. I might put a check in there for "ashhpts" so that if she really likes you, she'll trust you enough to drive while she gives you head, and otherwise won't.
Ashe's job at the museum, and involvement with the movie: Ashe won't be overly involved with the Brittani plotline. Her main focus is still cultivating the 'local artists' collection, and the movie is just a small sliver of that, basically acting as a point of contact for the museum. I plan to have her present to basically introduce Grady to MC, interact briefly with Brittani, and then go back to the museum. It's not an accident that the cast involves a lot of creative people -- Gabby, Jamie, Brittani, Pepper, Viola.. Ashe can plausibly intersect with all of them due to her position.
Ashe's model history was actually revealed previously, albeit very briefly, and only in the path where MC jerks off to the girls' photos in Chapter 3. You're right though, I might tack on a little scene in Chapter Two, where MC looks her up and gathers a little preliminary information.
I'm still kind of surprised nobody's really gotten the photo mystery yet, but it is pretty subtle.. The pieces are there to solve it, but it'll be further explained next chapter on Ashe's romantic sleepover path.
The Orc Exchange stuff, admittedly, is just me having fun with different toys. I'm a fantasy nerd, and I like the idea of MC having a favorite show. Plus, in the re-written Chapter One, I use it to nod towards a future development with Nicki.
Again, big thanks for the notes -- sorry I can't address all of them!
Hah! I was aware of this and kept telling my patrons, basically up until the release -- "I'm gonna fix it, I'm gonna fix it!" But, I ran out of time. I've since gone back and corrected those images.
Oh for sure! I'm just saying that, with the way my brain works, I think I'd end up focusing more on the minutiae that interests me, than the sexy fantasy that I feel most people want. Never say never, but with the cast being as big as it is, and Mason already allowing me explore the idea of LGBTQ people, sex work, poverty, and the way they all intersect, a trans girl character would feel a little superfluous. If I was going to do it, I might just introduce a trans lady who's already super successful and well into her transition, as kind of an aspirational figure for Mason. That could be fun.
I do actually plan to do a short story for Patreon/SubStar, focusing on Nicki's time with Vaughn, and her experience with the pornographers. But, I'm rewriting some of that plotline in Chapter One/Two to make it less convoluted, so I'm kind of waiting to have that stuff all hammered out.
I don't really do flashbacks, since I have a rule to always keep the POV with Guy. That way, we never know more than he does. Sometimes this is a bit of a pain in the ass, because I'd love to just jump over into Gabby or Viola's life and show the player what they're up to, instead of having them deliver some clunky exposition. When the game is all finished, I'd really like to go back and add some chapter breaks that would play like kinetic novels, translating the short stories I've been doing, into playable bits of the game. But, that's a ways off.
Glad to have you! Love seeing people discover the game for the first time.
But the most beautiful thing about her is her giant -- personality. Right? Right?! ;_;
I had to go back and look at that, but after getting the blowjob and misgendering Mason, you can still cuddle, he's just clearly not as into it. And as Mason remains slightly on guard, he doesn't relax enough to crawl into your lap and fall asleep. But, you can still kiss him, showing you're not just going to be a total jerk about the whole thing.
The plan there is basically that MC can go one of a few routes: accept Mason's gender and be platonic, romantic, or treat him like a FWB, which can be done nicely or not-so-nicely. Or treat Mason like a girl, and basically stay on a FWB route, where you can be nice or not. Kind of similar to Ashe's corruption route.
The idea is that Mason is basically accepting of anything, but if you want him to genuinely open up, you have to accept him for who he is, leading to friendship or romance. Otherwise he'll just continue to act like what he thinks you want: a dutiful sex-kitten trading his body for sex, whether you call him a boy or a girl.
Man, I'd love to do big dates for all the characters, but this Ashe update nearly killed me.. In the future I'll probably just make it an option for love path only.
Sadly another casualty of me running out of time. Going to see what I can do about that, though.
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I try to avoid setting hard deadlines, because I invariably miss them. We'll get at least one more chapter before the end of the year, though, followed by the Chapter One rework. And I'm going to try to do another holiday special, with a limited number of renders.
Everyone yelled at me about it last year, but that's fine, their hatred sustains me.
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So, that means on my two saves(Gabby and Mason) we'll get huge dates for them?
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NeonGhosts is putting little clues in the story about what's going to happen with the characters
And here I am over here drooling over Nicki & Mason too much too notice
And here I am over here drooling over Nicki & Mason too much too notice
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What you want is called Netori. Usually when people say NTR, they mean the most popular and OG version of it.I like NTR but i prefer our mc is the one who steal other people lover. Goddammit Neon just let us fk Ashe mom already
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I wanted to reply to this, since you got dog-piled a bit. Unfortunately, NTR kinda falls into that group of kinks that I just don't really get. So even if I were to do it, it'd come off as kind of limp and half-hearted, and would likely leave you unsatisfied. My personal preference is doing it from the other side, where we control the character who's sleeping with someone else's girlfriend/wife, with the goal of humiliating/dominating the girl or her partner.
This will probably get me some face-palm reactions, but I have some plans for optional MMF/FFM/gangbang scenes, predominantly in the darker paths. But, those would all be at the direction of the player, with the goal of dominating certain love interests. So, not really the same goal of NTR.
So, yeah. My personal position is not to indulge in fetishes I don't get, if I can't find some way to engage with them. I also don't really like femdom stuff, but I have a good friend who's done dominatrix-y stuff before. So, when I did the scene where Brittani channels her moody goth persona to degrade the MC, I was able to ask her what kind of stuff she might say, what a guy who's into that would want to hear, etc.
I must say after reading this makes me look forward to future updates even more as you clearly put alot of thought into everything. I never hated or disliked NTR but the fact you don't want to add it because you don't feel it would come out to your standard which is something I like about you. As I always thought NTR in general should only ever be in a game if it serve a purpose in the story even if it's off screen NTR and shouldn't be forced just to check off a kink or fetish for other players.
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Seems legit to me. Although I'll probably skip the MMF ones.
As I've always said about going into a game thread and asking for a certain kink the dev doesn't like... it's like going to a BBQ restaurant and asking for their vegetarian option and then being upset when they say they aren't serving that. You knew what you were walking into.
Meh , you gave them food and now they'll ask for more. Good luck with saying netorase is not ntr.
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