Ren'Py Guest House [v0.2.3] [Soft Whisper Games]

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Do you want me to delete everything after Chapter 1 and revert the game back to a kinetic novel?


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jclosed

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The game looks promising. For my taste, I would like the models to have bigger breasts.
Hmmm... Not really agree. I think they are big enough. But that's a just personal taste and no critique on your taste.
Personally I just don't like breasts that need a truck to be transported, and make caricatures of women. Those huge blobs of flesh you see in other VN's just feel like they have a terrible disease that deforms their body into stuff of nightmares. For me it's a turn-off..

As said, you have your taste and of course you can ask for those bigger breasts, but at the same time I can ask to leave things as it is now and not increase the breast size.

At the end, of course, it's the developer that will make the final choice.
 

Niuul

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Not a bad start. Got a small dose of the characters personalities so it'll be interesting to see how they're fully written. Only thing that kinda sorta sucks is the KN tag. Not really my cup of tea, but hey, I got the thread watched so if the game written well in the following updates I'll keep checking it out.

That and asian women are my kryptonite so it's nice seeing a VN with a cast of them and it NOT being super giga NTR.
 

Soft Whisper

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Not really my cup of tea, but hey, I got the thread watched so if the game written well in the following updates I'll keep checking it out.
Did I do an okay job writing the intro? Since it's early on, I didn't add any choices. I wonder if that tag is turning some people off the game. I haven't decided what direction I'll take the project in the long run.
 
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Niuul

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Did I do an okay job writing the intro? Since it's early on, I didn't add any choices. I wonder if that tag is turning some people off the game. I haven't decided what direction I'll take the project in the long run.
I found it to be okay. Was short and to the point. Introduces our MC and the reason for going overseas. Introduces the potential main love interests and leaves the game open to whether you wanted to focus more on storytelling while at home away from school, or tell a story that follows the MC while at school in classes. Also helped having a intimate scene in the first update to let players know that you aren't going to super slow burn romance/sex in your game (which could be fine if that was a personality for one of the girls you had in mind. didn't wanna jump in to bed right away but be more of a slow burn romantic relationship)

As for the KN tag, it can be a turn off for some yea. Some people like a VN that lets them have player choice, sometimes a player might not like a love interest and maybe wouldn't want them in the harem or might not want to follow their love path if it was a solo path only type of game and you had to pick.

But it's hard to please every player. Some like a good KN that is well written and some like a VN with player choices.
 

Soft Whisper

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Soft Whisper add a few Japanese milfs please
Ms. Kang is a Korean Milf, if that counts. She's probably going to be the oldest woman you'll see at 40 years old though. If things go well, I was thinking of adding a Japanese Holiday DLC pack where the group flies to Japan for a hot springs getaway. I suppose I could add some Japanese Milfs hanging around the resort lol.
 
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There's only one man in the game and that's you, the protagonist. The player will literally be surrounded by females everywhere he goes.
that's good to hear
how about lesbian ? will that be a thing, as much as this also isn't to my taste, as long as it's avoidable or optional, i'll be fine with it.
like example : Mc has a choice whether the girls do things to each other when he is in a threesome or more.
like if the girls do things it's because the Mc want them to be.
now if there's no plans for lesbian that would be great.
anyway thanks, just need to know before i get invested.
thanks good luck :cool: (y)
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Edhinor

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Did I do an okay job writing the intro? Since it's early on, I didn't add any choices. I wonder if that tag is turning some people off the game. I haven't decided what direction I'll take the project in the long run.
Hey, i just wrote a review of your game, I think you did a fantastic job at writing the intro and for what is there, the lack of choices shouldn't hurt the game too much.

While I say that, I will also be honest and say that usually I stay away from Kinetic Novels. I like to have choices and even if they are simple, they make me feel more like I am playing a game and they make me more invested in the characters and the game itself.

I downloaded it because I thought the premise of the game looked original and I knew it wouldn't be too long so I thought I would give it a try but, in other games, I tend to not download them if they are kinetic novels.

My advice would be to not create a too complicated mess of branching storylines, as they can make your work too difficult and make also each update harder to put out, but give us some small agency, maybe with choices for which girl to date or not (so you would still create nearly the same amount of content for each update but we, as players, can decide if we are not interested in a particular girl and skip her content), also give us maybe options on how the MC interacts with the girls (with nearly the same renders and some small variations in conversations you can probably cover that) and, one of my personal favourites, give us options within the sex scenes themselves. I, for one, hate the whole "cuming on your belly" that is so typical of american porn and many VNs, and I like to be given a choice to creampie (with or without consequences down the line) or come on her face/mouth... etc. I know this would mean more work for you, but it won't cause branching stories and can already give some agency to the players.
 
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Soft Whisper

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anyway thanks, just need to know before i get invested.
I could potentially create a start of game (or pre-scene) variable that let's the player choose whether or not they see certain scenes. However, I may need more information on what you want to avoid. I doubt any of the LI's would go behind the protagonists back and start scissoring one of the other girls randomly, but I could forsee the protag banging one chick while telling two chicks to scissor or makeout with each other in the background because he thinks it's hot. It's really early game to be thinking about group sex sequences though. Most stuff up front will just be one on one.

Hey, i just wrote a review of your game, I think you did a fantastic job at writing the intro and for what is there, the lack of choices shouldn't hurt the game too much.
Thanks for the review! I'm glad you like everything so far. I suppose I could give players the option to avoid certain relationships if they don't like a girl. I'm not sure that's enough to make the game a true VN though.
 
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