Ren'Py Game Direction Poll

[Deleted member 3818768]

Heyo. I've started working on a VN recently. (I'll post some early renders.)
I've got a good general idea of how I want the game to play out. It'll be a mostly linear VN style game. I've got the setting and theme figured out, general plot ideas nailed down, etc.
A basic synopsis of the plot would be "M/S move out of city to a rural area where mother was raised. Mom (40y/o) recently divorced. Son (22y/o) recently graduate college, having a hard time putting his degree to use, recent breakup. Sister moves in with them at a point later on." Told from son's POV.
However, I'm not quite sure if I want to make the game involve only one love interest, (M/S)... two love interests, (M/S/D)... or just like a full blown harem game. I had originally envisioned it as a slowish burn M/S romance kinda VN, with a single love interest. I was concerned that too many love interests would detract from the main story. But I'm really considering one of the other options now. (Kinda leaning towards option #2...)
But would be interested to hear opinions!

 

[anne O'nymous]

However, I'm not quite sure if I want to make the game involve only one love interest, (M/S)... two love interests, (M/S/D)... or just like a full blown harem game.

So, you have "a basic synopsis of the plot", but also no idea what the plot will be ?

Since the daughter will join the house at some point, if she isn't involved it mean that the mother and son will have to totally hide their relation. This is a totally different story than if the daughter is involved, and the mother (as well as the daughter) can walk in the house in revealing underwear, french kiss her son anytime she want, and/or be openly groped by him. Despite what it can possibly looks like, it's not just a question of different kind of lewd scenes.
The story of a secret love between a mother and her son isn't at all the same than the story of an opened family that consider sex as an expression of the bound they share together ; ah, Woodstock and the power flower, it was another thing than nowadays stuck asses. And it's yet another story if you turn this into a harem. In this case you'll have to give a reason for the MC to pursue as many girls as he want, and to the mother and sister to accept this.

Therefore, while the daughter be involved or not, will the MC having a harem or not, all this depend of the story you want to tell us, not the opinion of few people on a forum.

 

[Doorknob22]

IMO creating doesn't work this way. You must know the fundamentals of your creation as you know your own face. You must hear the characters speaking to each other in your mind. You must have the urge to create burning inside you. Then you may poll some minor aspects of your work.

If you poll your fundamentals, it might raise some concerns about your vision of the whole project. In other words: write the VN you want to play. Good luck!