[HELP] Need Community Help and Advice [18+]

[Channing Tater]

I must say that the images you have posted are very interesting, but they are not enough, you have to build a compelling story on them, you must first of all BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!! You seem a little shy about starting this project, but you said your head has been itching for a while, so what are you going to do? scratch it away, or let life pass you by and regret these days that could be the most inspiring??
life is a thrill that flies away, it's all a balance above the madness...
I can wish you good luck, and hope that your project sees the light soon, so that you can play with it and only then can I give you a more precise evaluation.

WOW... Thank you so much for these inspiring words Eagle1900 .

Its not really shy as more it is my previous expiriences. As I said I had 2 failed ideas before. One failed because google glass failed (as it was app for them) and other failed because I assumed other people are like me and will find the same thing helpfull. This is kind of reason I moved from dev to product management (to dark side of IT ) to learn.

Thank you again eagle you really helped me out .

 

[Ophanim]

Hello Ophanim thank you so much for the input .

Currently there is no project per say as it is mostly Idea. Idea is to make a parallel set of VN tools for Unity as well as a game. Once I pull the trigger I will write up Product Doc for the toolset as well as GDD for the game. This post is mostly doing due diligence and reaching out to community asking for their experiences and inputs (which so far I got a lot of useful information).

The reason why I put only images is simply because 3D and rendering was my weak suit, as I mostly did dev and PM through my life.

Thank you again for input... and once I have firmer grasp I will post another post with the link to GDD about the game and gameplay.

Oh! So the project you're asking us if we think you should go for (the subject of the poll) is essentially a unity-based toolset for making VNs? In that case, I think that's great! I just really wish you were clearer in the OP that that is what the poll is about. The reason I was so snarky there is bc I saw the poll, then saw the OP, and was like 'but what am I meant to vote on? Whether render be good? Whuh?'

 

[Channing Tater]

Oh! So the project you're asking us if we think you should go for (the subject of the poll) is essentially a unity-based toolset for making VNs? In that case, I think that's great! I just really wish you were clearer in the OP that that is what the poll is about. The reason I was so snarky there is bc I saw the poll, then saw the OP, and was like 'but what am I meant to vote on? Whether render be good? Whuh?'

Well Idea is a game... and while I am developing it to create set of tools I can share with people to help them make their own games... Kind of no code thing...

I didn't take your comments as snarky. Everything you said was on point.

'but what am I meant to vote on? Whether render be good?

Kind of exactly that. As rendering is my weakest point ( and I am still learning) I was kind of looking for community input. To find out on what level I am at and how I can improve and already got some great feedback and help.

I have been member since like 2017 and haven't posted single post. Since I am making these tools I wanted to get in touch with community developing games to bounce the ideas and engage. Maybe I should have been more clear but this was just first post kind of introduction and meeting.

I'm planning to create a separate post for tools and maybe discord channel so I can bounce the ideas and get input from developers. Once the story is somewhat written and I feel comfortable with it I will create the first version.

 

[Ophanim]

Kind of exactly that. As rendering is my weakest point ( and I am still learning) I was kind of looking for community input. To find out on what level I am at and how I can improve and already got some great feedback and help.

In that case, I would say I'm probably not your target demographic, both because I'm a text game enjoyer who's happy with 16 bit graphics, and because of the subject matter on display, since I'm not a straight man lol

It's encouraging that you're presenting toys as existing in this universe, and that one of the renders features a man giving oral sex though I imagine if the renders were presented in a way I found appealing, I would be quite satisfied with the quality. Oh, btw, why does the dick look absurdly long in the blowjob scenes on the couch, but on the bigger side of normal (holy crap a normal looking cock) on some of the third person shots? Do dicks just look bigger when you're looking down at them from a male POV?

Speaking of the subject matter though... I would also caution you, as a user, that I see roughly a billion of games that look much the same as this every day. I never click on them, or their banners which are just a lineup of women clustered together, because it's impossible to tell them apart, even when you read the descriptions most of the time. That is <Vanilla Straight Dude> branding, to me, and it carries a sense of tone and framing that typically makes me bounce right off, which is somewhat present in these renders.

Speaking of tone though, I just played a really short game about a man having sex with absurdly stacked, sentient statues from a solely male POV. Despite being, in theory, the most 'straight man' game ever, and a fantasy about having lots of sex, the writing and tone are respectful to the agency of the statues once they're revealed to be sentient. Whether they can talk is taken into account, and if they can't, they're not treated as less of a person. The talking one is sassy and secure in herself without care for whether it's going to make a teenage boy chimp out for being 'disrespected by his woman' or whatever. Everyone has sex because sex is fun and they all want to, not because of plot contrivance or outright magic.

The protagonist, for that matter, can take a joke, and can resist being horny enough to make decisions, and overall just worries about things in a way that feels effortlessly more mature and sexy than your average man in porn. When it comes time to make your game, it might give you some insight on the kind of writing and framing that is painfully lacking on here, even in the 'oversaturated' field of vanilla straight boi games

 

[Channing Tater]

Thank you so much for your input Ophanim .

In that case, I would say I'm probably not your target demographic, both because I'm a text game enjoyer who's happy with 16 bit graphics, and because of the subject matter on display, since I'm not a straight man lol

Fair enough .

Oh, btw, why does the dick look absurdly long in the blowjob scenes on the couch, but on the bigger side of normal

These are kind of progressive renders . Living room scenes came earlier. Once I learned how to modify genitals and rig them to a somewhat normal size there is still learning and work to be done there.

Speaking of the subject matter though... I would also caution you, as a user, that I see roughly a billion of games that look

I do to... They all feel the same...

To be honest worst offence for me and what I am not a fan of is how you make 2-3 decision with any character and oops they are in your bed. And usually these decision are same. No character development... no character personality... any personality characters have are already established tropes without any depth to them. Thats why I thought I can make this better.

But there is this fine line you have to find and walk... kind of shakesperean to sex or not to sex .

I noticed that people dislike some encounters that are overused. Such as peeping through keyhole, sleep invade, yoga scenes. I am a big fan of not limiting and giving a choice. If you want to peep, then peep if you want to yoga than do it. Not forcing player to do something in order to do something else.

a really short game about a man having sex with absurdly stacked, sentient statues

I will definetly take a look. Thank you for the suggestion