Triangle has pregnancy, MC's girlfriend/wife is pregnant for most of the game (early, so she doesn't look pregnant) and Jenny (MC's is her guardian, not related) can get pregnant. You and Jenny have a talk, you can get a boy or a girl (choice) and at the end of the game you see their kids in a few scenes.
The example itself or what genre it falls under is irrelevant, what I'm trying to illustrate is to think outside the box. Since you're bringing up Oppai Cafe, I'm going to guess you usually play VNs.
But for the moment I'm going to assume this is the case. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but I hope what I would change about Oppai Cafe will convey my thoughts clearly.. So what would I change about Oppai Cafe? I would add more choices for a more diverse set of endings. Maybe the player doesn't want the harem, and just the sister? Maybe they want just the mother? Or maybe the player is just a terrible relative and angers both of them for a bad ending? Find them all and you'll have 6 kids between two women after 5 years! That's a given. Your #1 is exactly what happens in the Polarity game I mentioned. These two characters fuck because animal magnetism. Cumming inside or not affects the MC's future and his relationships with other women. Typically, if a woman finds out a guy got another woman pregnant and did not commit to her, she's probably going to think very poorly of him. So from there, salvaging the relationship would be a tumultuous ordeal. This is what makes a story in a game worth reading.. A white knight MC would accept the shotgun wedding, but then what do you plan to do from there? I'm not seeing the game, I'm seeing a romance story. Nothing wrong with romance , and everyone loves a good story. But you're looking to make a game that revolves around a romance story, right? So where is the game?
My ideo of the "game" inside my game is that you can miss or win entire H scene depending on your choices and if you get enough relationship points until that moment, you can also make H scenes longer and have more variation if you get enough points in that scene. There also some flags planted here and there that will influence on what endings do you get but my game is in v0.1 so I'm not really thinking about the endings right now. Also when I said "taking responsability" I didn't mean accepting the shotgun wedding, I meant just supporting her and being there for her, it's a harem game after all, you can't fully commit him to one woman.The example itself or what genre it falls under is irrelevant, what I'm trying to illustrate is to think outside the box. Since you're bringing up Oppai Cafe, I'm going to guess you usually play VNs.
From what I can remember, Oppai Cafe had only harem endings, either a pregnant harem, or not pregnant harem. I also believe that there were very few choices to be made in that game. My memory is fuzzy, I wasn't particularly impressed with the game, cuz different interets.
This is a common problem for me, with all VNs, especially when there is only one ending and no choices, I will lose interest in it completely. If there is nothing to interact with, then it doesn't feel like a game to me at all. So I just hold the skip button until I get to the first image that looks fap-able until I get bored with it
Another idea, that I just thought up, would be to add hidden collectables to hunt for in the illustrations. Maybe finding these provides Love Points that affect the end in some way, like how many kids you make in the epilogue before your ladies say they've had enough?
Unless the goal of a game is comedy, no developer would have the MC go, "let me put a baby in you, uh-huh, yeah!"
If your female character is supposed to be the main heroine, and she is supposed to get/be pregnant, then by all means write it into your story if that's how you want to make your game
You are right, and it's a game I really liked as well! I must have had a blackout...
Variable H-scenes are actually not a bad idea at all.
Very interesting.
I mostly disagree with this point. I would argue that pregnancy itself is already a consequence that goes above and beyond what most porn games do. Sure, I like Violated Heroine's pregnancy system, but that's mostly because it's a fleshed out system that tracks Nanako's menstrual cycle, has different dialogue when she's having sex close to her ovulation period, has birth control, etc, not because she loses 50 gold for every baby she has in her inventory.- Zero consequences: Pregnancy is a life-changing event, for both the mother and the father. For it to not impact the story is just bad writing. Erotic Trap Dungeon only utilized pregnancy as a status condition that went away after walking it off for a minute. Maybe for that game it's fine. But if you look at, Leanna Slice of Life, you could get Leanna pregnant from 10 different guys
Yeah, but porn usually does. Most people aren't playing porn games because they want to hear someone's life story.
I think it comes up the most in VNs because those are usually the more interesting games for it.
Oh, I'm just explaining why Pregnancy % systems usually aren't in VNs. The longer the game runs, the more Renders you potentially have to do. My suggestion for it's inclusion in VNs really comes down to the idea that "Specific" periods in the game /may/ trigger a pregnancy, and perhaps doing the Long Term consequences of Birthing as part of the End game / Post-game, which doesn't require any where near as much work as the alternative.
It's just like that in VN. Lots of expressions, angles and poses need to be rendered.
