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

[tortorus]

Why? Those are great games and inspire a lot of my writing. You must think I'm making this game for the softest men imaginable. I'm not really targeting "harem players"... The story of Guest House is a recollection of my time abroad. It's an asian fetish game that happens to have multiple women. Some of the girls I met were sex workers. I hit up KTV bars and hung out with camgirls. Idk how else to tag this game since there aren't any men. I could hypothetically rewrite Hyuna to attract a wider audience, but I'm not confident it will help.

Hello Mr dev... i see you have an hard time.
Remember what i said to you ? Here you are...

Your problem now is now people know you game, it had 1 year old... flaw are well know now and here in f95 there are 10 new games/week so why go again with a one we don t like ?
To attract more people you don t have many way now...

First 250 render for 2 month minimum or better 125 render month, it give you the visibility of the lastest updates tab in f95 (i look only this page to look for game and i m not alone, so be here more often). For now you are too slow, 10 min update are no good. A lot of peoples will wait to see, or give up if they feel your game will take 10 years to end.

Stop your kinetic game (Give the player the right to choose the li they like), you can make a sandbox but it have to be well done (with quest log, and proper clues to what to do next in the dialog or log quest, and no grind) i don t like sandbox game because i feel like i am in a maze. If your game had the sand box tag the first time, i had never try it, like the kinetic... Even if i like your asian models.

Above all, flesh out this story... as i said in my previous post you have a pacing problem. I want to love my girls but for his i need to know them, what they like, what they don t, some fight to choose tv show, some funny moment, some romantic, some intimate, in two words, trust build... Don t try to force sex it s a marathon not a sprint with li, on the contrary with seconds caracters go fast to sex... make more girls but dont forget to let the player a choice.

And for the end i will said (for me...), a lot of people put them self in the mc shoes like me and i am self-centered, i want my li just for myself, she can be cam girl but with me, if she have an exhibitionist fetish, but no without me. if she want sleep with a girl again not without me, if she was a wore for me she become an angel... That is harem game.
If she can t, i will rejet her and keep to friend level. if i can t this harem game is not for me.

Now if you want your game pale carnation like, you should rewrite your start completly a looot darker... Not really the same vibe.

Good luck Mr dev.

 

[Errmirand1]

nice game

 

[Nimbus Commando]

I am honestly 50-50 on the cam girl, I don't really care about her, it's the sandbox for me, but other than that I like the game.

 

[Soft Whisper]

Sorry about the long delay between posts, but I've been completely swamped with IRL stuff lately. In an effort to secure some financial security, I’ve recently taken on a new and demanding job and it's impacting the amount of time I can devote to working on this game. To be fair to my Patrons, I'm pausing billing and additional updates will be shared for free until I'm back in the regular flow of things. Unfortunately, I’m only able to work on the game about once per week now and it would be unfair to continue charging everyone for so little content. As always, thank you for your understanding.

F95 mods, you can mark this game abandoned if you feel so inclined. Though, I'm technically still working on it... It's just progressing at a very slow pace due to my job. If the situation changes, I'll be sure to say something.

 

[Anteron]

Sorry about the long delay between posts, but I've been completely swamped with IRL stuff lately. In an effort to secure some financial security, I’ve recently taken on a new and demanding job and it's impacting the amount of time I can devote to working on this game. To be fair to my Patrons, I'm pausing billing and additional updates will be shared for free until I'm back in the regular flow of things. Unfortunately, I’m only able to work on the game about once per week now and it would be unfair to continue charging everyone for so little content. As always, thank you for your understanding.

F95 mods, you can mark this game abandoned if you feel so inclined. Though, I'm technically still working on it... It's just progressing at a very slow pace due to my job. If the situation changes, I'll be sure to say something.

On hold would be more accurate. Besides last update was nowhere even close to long enough ago the get the dreaded "A" tag. As long as you post on Patreon, etc it has to go for a year and a half no updates for that unless you would say you are no longer going to work on it period.

 

[divingmedic]

Sorry about the long delay between posts, but I've been completely swamped with IRL stuff lately. In an effort to secure some financial security, I’ve recently taken on a new and demanding job and it's impacting the amount of time I can devote to working on this game. To be fair to my Patrons, I'm pausing billing and additional updates will be shared for free until I'm back in the regular flow of things. Unfortunately, I’m only able to work on the game about once per week now and it would be unfair to continue charging everyone for so little content. As always, thank you for your understanding.

F95 mods, you can mark this game abandoned if you feel so inclined. Though, I'm technically still working on it... It's just progressing at a very slow pace due to my job. If the situation changes, I'll be sure to say something.

As another posted above me, just take 3 minutes once a week to on your Patreon or Subscribe Star to keep the abandon tag away.

 

[Grimlar]

For me it's mainly about the story. The interaction between the characters, the way they build and show affection to each other. From that point of view I don't really like sandbox games as I feel they break up the flow of the story.

As for the Camgirl or any of the girls really, what kind of character they are at the start of the story is far less important to me than who they are during the story and at the end of it all. If some players don't want to interact with those girls, give them the chance to ignore the girl, perhaps give the player a second chance to interact with the girl in a different way that affects her story, show a different side of her character that allows the player to interact with her but without so much Camgirl content for example. People are mostly more than 1dimensional. I seem to recall Sisterly Lust giving a romance path and a blackmail/sub path option to one of the girls. Most of the story stayed the same, but the minor differences in the text/context gave it a different flavour that worked well.

As for the amount of content, I would suggest that given your IRL situation, you aim to under-promise and over-deliver if you can. By that I mean change your schedule to a 3 or even 6 month plan but include as much content as you can in that. Please don't try to keep up a monthly schedule with tiny updates, it generally seems to create a load of stress and discontent for everybody. If you are worried about people losing interest over that timeframe, don't. A well written game with a storyline that makes us care about the characters will pull people in, easily. Light of my Life for example, or even the situation Killer7 has found himself in with My New Family and My New Memories.

As such, given what you and some of the other commenters have said, it seems to me that you might want to consider putting the game On-hold for a while, deciding what you really want this game to be, because if you try to please everyone and end up losing your own interest in it, we all lose out. Then I would suggest working on the story to give a little more depth to your characters, more time for the relationships to develop, and rebuild the game from there.

Your girls are very pretty, it would be a shame to see this game fail as so many do.
Best wishes.