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Ren'Py Goddess Maker - Lab of God [A.2] [Ascension Simulation]
- Thread starter Arshavinstyle
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- Feb 4, 2018
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Holy hell the grind in this is ridiculous. I like the premise but the gameplay needs some polish
For anyone reading through here thinking of playing this consider:
1. This is barebones at best. I spent hours on this and didn't find whatever scenes would introduce the titfuck and sex tags. I poked around in the files and didn't see any art for it there either, just some .rpy text documents for them, which means if they actually are in the game, it's just text, no art. Art wise the previews here have more content than the actual game.
2. There will be NTR. Some of those same files I poked through were straight up labelled "cuckold.rpy". There's also a point where your girlfriend flat out tells you that she's pitting you against the other male characters to maintain your relationship. It'll be optional (for now at least) but unless there's some massive backlash from the supporters, it's 100% going to be in the game.
I'm not going to argue that it's necessary to add the tag here yet, but if the non-existent BJ/Paizuri/vaginal sex is getting tagged, it should be considered.
3. Yes, the chuuni femcell with a literal god complex starts to get a little dommy once she gets a crumb of power. Presumably there will be enough maledom to justify the tag, but don't be surprised if this goes HARD into femdom too, especially given how much of a simp the MC is (not even my label, multiple characters in game call him that, including the gf).
TLDR: even if you don't mind avoidable NTR, or some degree of femdom, let this one cook for a few updates until it at least gets some proper content. If you're here for the art, scroll up, it's all in the previews.
1. This is barebones at best. I spent hours on this and didn't find whatever scenes would introduce the titfuck and sex tags. I poked around in the files and didn't see any art for it there either, just some .rpy text documents for them, which means if they actually are in the game, it's just text, no art. Art wise the previews here have more content than the actual game.
2. There will be NTR. Some of those same files I poked through were straight up labelled "cuckold.rpy". There's also a point where your girlfriend flat out tells you that she's pitting you against the other male characters to maintain your relationship. It'll be optional (for now at least) but unless there's some massive backlash from the supporters, it's 100% going to be in the game.
I'm not going to argue that it's necessary to add the tag here yet, but if the non-existent BJ/Paizuri/vaginal sex is getting tagged, it should be considered.
3. Yes, the chuuni femcell with a literal god complex starts to get a little dommy once she gets a crumb of power. Presumably there will be enough maledom to justify the tag, but don't be surprised if this goes HARD into femdom too, especially given how much of a simp the MC is (not even my label, multiple characters in game call him that, including the gf).
TLDR: even if you don't mind avoidable NTR, or some degree of femdom, let this one cook for a few updates until it at least gets some proper content. If you're here for the art, scroll up, it's all in the previews.
Ya I played this for way too long yesterday. Needs time to cook, but some good ideas and concepts here. Also to echo previous responses, the grind is way too much currently. Slow/gradual progress is fine but here it's maybe 50% slower then I think would be reasonable.
just keep playing, some things are locked behind events that take a few days to occur. Keep researching. Keep manufacturing. And wait like a week at most.
- Mar 19, 2025
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When I started this multi-year project of mine, I made the observation beforehand that this sort of “leaking” can happen, so I put an emphasis on the vision of my pursuit to gather support based on the long-term concept, rather than the periodic releases.
Given the self-evident misfortune of such a deed occurring, I am grateful that it happened now than before when I was still in the stage of establishing myself, as such things can deter projects in their youth.
My ambition is unique in that I’m cultivating something different than the same fetish tropes in games, so I consider myself the vanguard to this new effort.
My main source of motivation is that there really isn’t any “Ascension” Fetish games, primarily not any that focus and exaggerate upon the transcendental process from man to god or woman to goddess.
In Goddess Maker, my current undertaking, it explores binary relationship with scientific pursuits between a pitiful male player who learns masculinity and a female partner character who greatly desires to become an omnipotent goddess.
Much of my complicated plans can be read up on my Patreon for free members, so the resource is there for inspiration for fellow travelers and general understanding of the endeavor.
Taking a look over the thread, some key things I should mention:
-Given that the way this was released, many of you were clueless to that you can stall for time by clicking the brainstorm button twice in a row.
-The main fetishes revolve around growth like height growth, intelligence growth, and so on, so more mainstream sexual content is treated as extra.
-As much of the development so far was focused on the foundation of the primary game section’s gameplay, a lesser focus was placed on the graphics. Nevertheless, there is plans for many more graphics.
-As my endeavor is unusual to the norm, there is quite a degree of misunderstanding that can occur, when applying priors to this original work. It is best to judge it in terms of its overarching journey.
Given the self-evident misfortune of such a deed occurring, I am grateful that it happened now than before when I was still in the stage of establishing myself, as such things can deter projects in their youth.
My ambition is unique in that I’m cultivating something different than the same fetish tropes in games, so I consider myself the vanguard to this new effort.
My main source of motivation is that there really isn’t any “Ascension” Fetish games, primarily not any that focus and exaggerate upon the transcendental process from man to god or woman to goddess.
In Goddess Maker, my current undertaking, it explores binary relationship with scientific pursuits between a pitiful male player who learns masculinity and a female partner character who greatly desires to become an omnipotent goddess.
Much of my complicated plans can be read up on my Patreon for free members, so the resource is there for inspiration for fellow travelers and general understanding of the endeavor.
Taking a look over the thread, some key things I should mention:
-Given that the way this was released, many of you were clueless to that you can stall for time by clicking the brainstorm button twice in a row.
-The main fetishes revolve around growth like height growth, intelligence growth, and so on, so more mainstream sexual content is treated as extra.
-As much of the development so far was focused on the foundation of the primary game section’s gameplay, a lesser focus was placed on the graphics. Nevertheless, there is plans for many more graphics.
-As my endeavor is unusual to the norm, there is quite a degree of misunderstanding that can occur, when applying priors to this original work. It is best to judge it in terms of its overarching journey.
I would not overly concern myself with the opinions of pirates. You clearly know what you're making, and I would assume your supporters do to.
We aren't going to have the same opinions as someone who is financially invested, but we do want to see more good, interesting games come out. Yes, you will get the occasional "I doN't LikE NTR" or "wHy caN't I FUck hER yeT!?" but more bug reporting or opinions on balance can be beneficial, despite how shitty this situation is.
A LOT of games get uploaded to this site, and yours stood out. Even in its current state we've already put hours into it, and our takeaway was to let it cook. That means it's clearly going somewhere, and that either because, or despite, the current build, this is worth paying attention to.
In the opinion of this pirate, for whatever it's worth, you have something interesting here, and regardless of what you decide to do about this leak, I hope this project reaches its potential.
- Mar 19, 2025
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Honestly, it’s a flaw of a capitalist system that I need to rely on the support of others to pursue this work.
It doesn't beckon me to personally blame others when we're pretty much all caught up in this dog-eat-dog game of trying to navigate it the best we can.
Love the dev blaming players for not figuring out his UI/UX choices while complaining about his game leaking, that's some peak f95 forum action...!
FYI, for UX/UI game design, if someone can't figure out how to do something in the game intuitively, it's not the player... it's the dev. A lot of games possess a tutorial for a reason! Although I will admit tutorials are rarely integrated over time, usually they just get slapped on right before 1.0.
FYI, for UX/UI game design, if someone can't figure out how to do something in the game intuitively, it's not the player... it's the dev. A lot of games possess a tutorial for a reason! Although I will admit tutorials are rarely integrated over time, usually they just get slapped on right before 1.0.
- Mar 19, 2025
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You would think I would've acknowledged this issue with a simple "Click the Brainstorm Button twice in a row to stall for time." direction if my intention is for the player to use it.
But my direction is currently to deter the player from using it, but the game balancing is still a bit off as there are still players who run into this issue, and so it provides me with some insight to why it happens.
I recently held a poll about if players wish a comfortable experience or challenging experience, and based on comfortable experience winning a super majority, I may very well implement more hand holding through the partner's AI, like automatically averting these sorts of "soft locks" through her own action.
- Jul 28, 2018
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Please try not to get discouraged from anything you read around here, I for one do like what is there at the moment (one of the few people who are into size fetish stuff), but there is quite a huge grind part that makes the game bland, but that's all I have to say.
- Mar 19, 2025
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Furthermore, when the game aims to place the player character in competition with the partner character, as per the concept of workplace dominance (management and such), there is the apparent difficulty of balancing the two where the partner character's AI is competent enough to challenge the player's choices, but not have the gameplay feel like the player is yielding his initiative for a more powerful partner.
To solve this conundrum, the first part of the game is meant to diverge the player to pick the path of complete worship of the partner character which will change up the gameplay to one of handing holding, or the path where it's a cooperative-competitive battle between maledom vs. femdom, alongside all the external influences, like how the concept was originally intended.
To solve this conundrum, the first part of the game is meant to diverge the player to pick the path of complete worship of the partner character which will change up the gameplay to one of handing holding, or the path where it's a cooperative-competitive battle between maledom vs. femdom, alongside all the external influences, like how the concept was originally intended.
- Mar 19, 2025
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The grind is definitely victim to how its been developed currently, as it is part of the foundation that legitimizes the mechanic of daily progress to up to 365 days, and as more mechanics are introduced and specific goals are preferential to meet certain open side objectives, my intention is something closer to Persona, but even more multi-linear, as "Lab of God" is only one game section of many.
As per the discouragement, it's a matter of clearing up the ignorance since people don't understand what my endeavor is for playtesters, as it's typically a 1:1 experience, but the way it was distributed here is a free-for-all without prior guidance.
I don't know why Arshavinstyle broke my trust, but it's expected per the type of business I'm engaged in, so I'll leave it as that. Not as an endorsement, but as a bitter concession with the hope that it can strengthen the Ascension Fetish Game Development Community I hope to foster.
This is correct advertised fetish list if it can help people understand the type of game this is:
Core Transformation Fetish List
*Per the Male Character and Female Character
•Giant | Giantess Growth
•Male | Female Intelligence Growth
•Muscle Growth | Beautification
•Penis Growth | Breast Expansion
•Male | Female Soul Growth (Psychic Powers, etc.)
•Man to God | Woman to Goddess
•And All of the Above Inverted, but not Sex Swapped
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For anyone who wants to know, Yes this has Cuck and NTR in it. Mind that's only if you don't do exactly what your partner would want.
Spoiler:
If you don't go to the intelligence contest or whatever it was called, she will meet a guy and then a while after you watch her do stuff with the guy.
Spoiler:
If you don't go to the intelligence contest or whatever it was called, she will meet a guy and then a while after you watch her do stuff with the guy.
- Aug 18, 2018
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you have to buy gas
On another note, the nutrient intake system seems to easy lead to "long wait" while you have to intake 128 different products when you start reaching 7+ feet and I would guess it gets worse exponentially ? Maybe an option to switch from "single units" to bulk to add a multiplier to cost and nutrition of each item could help
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"Watch her do stuff", you gave me a chuckle.
This whole NTR thing hasn't even been close to being implemented yet, apart from some inclinations.
When it's implemented, the player literally has to act toward ruining their relationship deliberately and then if the size difference goes the partner character's way, it's treated as bad outcome karma.
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There's eight nodes on a spectrum in where the relationship can end up, and to move it left to right it's a combination of good over bad, meeting the partner character's lower, sexual, and higher expectations, and player betrayal / reasons to hate the player.
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You pretty much reached the end of the demo, so it's content that contradicts with non-implemented content.
If you use the debug mode, the higher levels of growth are skipped since the mechanic is already expected to be superseded by a new growth method.
I don't know which version you have since this website's distribution situation is out of my control, but there's been some hotfixes that made the counting process more efficient.
- Aug 18, 2018
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tbh I noticed that even if you give no reason for partner to hate you she tends to slap intel serum when you try to use it around 15% of time. (lvl 5 relationship) maybe im using too much of it (I tend to divide into research days where I take energy drink + intel serum to oneshot research and "down" days where I manufacture/test)
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Yeah, a bit of a silly inquiry on my part, but I wanted to see if people encountered both the partner character slapping it away and stealing it in the same playthrough.
The full implementation of the chance rate will be combination of the partner's envy, dislike, and such.
Speaking on the serums, as the intelligence serum seems to be the only good serum now, it will not be the case in future builds as the others will have more merit as opposed to just being sell items.
As Goddess Maker starts feeling more of a RPG than a game of intelligence; height, intelligence speed, strength, penis, and soul will all play a part in the gameplay.
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