I'm making a new game: Reparations

Jobeo

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Hello Friends.

I am returning to announce that I'm working on a new game: Reparations. The game will be free and I won't have any Patreon.

I want to express my appreciation for all the words of support and encouragement over the past few months. Many people reached out to me and urged me to keep going. Hopefully I won't let you down with Reparations and it will live up to the standards of my previous game.

I've been away from development for a while now so definitely a bit rusty. But thankfully a lot of the old tricks are coming back to me and I'm getting up to speed with it.


RELEASED: https://f95zone.to/threads/reparations-ch-1-jobeo.37620/#post-2455594
 
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Jobeo

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Your previous game was great ! Just dont put any scat content... Thanks.
Thanks for that. If it is included it would definitely be avoidable.

One of the benefits of starting over is that there are a lot of lessons to be learned from Bully. All the feedback people provided is very helpful and there are obvious areas for improvement which I intend to address in the game.
 

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It's great that you get back to work! It's a shame what happened to your game 'Bully', it really was a dark, evil and unique game, I hope your new game follows that path. Can you tell us a little about the synopsis of your new game?
 
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Jobeo

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hey JOBEO , great to hear you are coming back.
i really miss you're BULLY game.
will any of the characters from BULLY be making an appearance in your new game?
Thanks buddy. No, all new characters. An all new, larger, family. All new locations, hopefully nothing gets reused but you never know.


It's great that you get back to work! It's a shame what happened to your game 'Bully', it really was a dark, evil and unique game, I hope your new game follows that path. Can you tell us a little about the synopsis of your new game?
Thank you. I can't give away spoilers. Know that if you liked Bully then you will like the new game. People would always give feedback and say the game should have started this way or that way... but that was never something I could address since chapter 1 was what it was. But I think a lot of it was good feedback and I hope to use it in chapter 1 of Reparations.
 

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Are you afraid that your new game will have the same fate as the previous game? Do you have a plan in case that happens so that people know how to find your game? something like creating a website for your new game and promoting it on f95? You're a guy with extreme ideas and I liked that in 'Bully', I hope you still have that extreme essence of yours
 
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personally i'd prefer you to push the limits without being banned again!
i'm not truly sure , but i think the baby in a bottle was the thing that f95 was upset about?
though imo for the premise of the BULLY storyline it was an obvious progression to the storyline.
 

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Everybody has a different limit to what they can find exciting, even in fiction. If each chapter gets more extreme than the last, no matter how tame it all begins, it can end up being too much too quickly. It's good to keep in mind that a game is not like a porn scene that you close when you bust your nut and forget about it, a game keeps building up from previous scenes and once something extreme has happened it's VERY difficult to deescalate or ignore.

In Bully, some bits of ch. 4 and most parts of ch. 5 were too much for me to enjoy as a porn game and, in my mind, it became a psychological horror game instead. Taking the story or tone back to what was enjoyable for me in the first chapters was pretty much impossible at that point.

Considering Jobeo doesn't charge anything for the game or even has a patreon, it's undebatable that he doesn't owe anything to anyone and the game can be whatever he wants it to be. Having said that, if he wants to have a bit of a following and a solid ground to let the new game grow, he has to lay some plans about where Reparations is aimed to go, what sort of progression he wants it to have and what are the limits the player can stomach.
 
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Baka!

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Everybody has a different limit to what they can find exciting, even in fiction. If each chapter gets more extreme than the last, no matter how tame it all begins, it can end up being too much too quickly. It's good to keep in mind that a game is not like a porn scene that you close when you bust your nut and forget about it, a game keeps building up from previous scenes and once something extreme has happened it's VERY difficult to deescalate or ignore.

In Bully, some bits of ch. 4 and most parts of ch. 5 were too much for me to enjoy as a porn game and, in my mind, it became a psychological horror game instead. Taking the story or tone back to what was enjoyable for me in the first chapters was pretty much impossible at that point.

Considering Jobeo doesn't charge anything for the game or even has a patreon, it's undebatable that he doesn't owe anything to anyone and the game can be whatever he wants it to be. Having said that, if he wants to have a bit of a following and a solid ground to let the new game grow, he has to lay some plans about where Reparations is aimed to go, what sort of progression he wants it to have and what are the limits the player can stomach.
I personally like psychological terror, I think Jobeo can get to the point of psychological terror if he wants to, but I guess Jobeo will have to be more peaceful with babies and children ... remember that the theme of 'dead babies' was one of the reasons why his game was eliminated, despite not breaking any rules of f95
 
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Jobeo

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Thanks for the feedback guys. I think it's safest just to stay away from babies in general, no need to bring them into the game.

In terms of Chapter 1, I have a very clear roadmap in mind. It all makes perfect sense to me, it's very clear the story that chapter 1 should tell. From there it is really wide open. Many many things will be setup and the directions are really limitless.

I think that once people see Chapter 1 they are really going to want to see Chapter 2, no doubt about it. So people will need to be very vocal and share their feedback.
 

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Thanks for the feedback guys. I think it's safest just to stay away from babies in general, no need to bring them into the game.

In terms of Chapter 1, I have a very clear roadmap in mind. It all makes perfect sense to me, it's very clear the story that chapter 1 should tell. From there it is really wide open. Many many things will be setup and the directions are really limitless.

I think that once people see Chapter 1 they are really going to want to see Chapter 2, no doubt about it. So people will need to be very vocal and share their feedback.
We never saw the main girls of the previous game being pregnant, it would be great to see pregnancies in the new game, although for that to happen it must take some time for the game to be more developed, right? Can you tell us a little about the new MC and the differences between him and Bobby? it would be interesting if your new game was connected to your previous game, for example, at some point in your game the MC could meet Bobby and his family, maybe months or years have passed since the last events of your previous game, Bobby and his family doesn't have to be main characters but it would be a good detail if your stories were connected in that way ;)