HTML Onhold In Her Own Hands [v0.7.0] [Surprise & Delight Media]

[Degeneracy]

Played this for about an hour. Few Things:

Wardrobe:

Beaten to death, unsure if mentioned, bug where at some point you can go out in nightgown after waking, then shower/dressing then back to room, putting on clothes(w/o undressing) will lead to cant leave house even though you are wearing the proper clothes(possible to strip then put on clothes in the code when choosing something that replaces).

Another is to add a back function in each garment selection and/or after the garment selection, show a Wearing: Nothing or Wearing: Tank Top. This way I don't have to remember what I selected then use the < arrow.

Energy:

Beaten to death again, but as previously mentioned some things are too much or bug after masturbating in bathroom causing no energy to get dressed.

So I would say getting dressed, undressing should use no energy.

Adding a bus/taxi(more sex content could be added here) which would use little to no energy(sitting on bench waiting might add energy) which would cost money but lower energy use.

Talking to roommates in general should use no energy as previously mentioned as it doesn't require.

Peeking on roommates should also cost no energy cause its just looking.

Unsure if their is, didnt seem so but add a max stamina which increases via exercise. Maxing energy for good nights rest.

Food should give more, possible to add breaks in jobs to let the character eat, giving energy so they don't pass out after work.

Story:

Unsure what is in and out, if their are any triggers to unlock next steps.

Make the Bar scene date optional, unsure if you can loose virginity to the roommates but forcing it makes it less free roam.

Also unsure if max corruption 20 is max or just blocked by a trigger or content not in yet, but if their is more, a hint system would be helpful.

When selecting a work, having a message in the text or in the char menu regarding lets say "You currently are working for unnamed(maybe call it something in future) bar, you can work anywhere after 12 pm to 11am(considering its 6hr shift maybe changing the work hours to 12pm to 5pm) 7 days a week, etc for each job.
Little nitpicky here but possibly add a (NO CONTENT) for the jobs that are a WIP and have no content so players don't play an hr only to realize there is nothing.

I know this game is new and WIP so all of my issues in the story may just be a, haven't unlocked it yet, issue. Which is why I won't mention what could be added for the house in terms of story content as I may of not unlocked it yet.

 

[Degeneracy]

I ran into the diner waitress uniform counting as sleepwear issue as well, on Chrome. However, making it to the diner in normal clothes allowed me to work there.

To fix it, use the undress all, then choose clothes again, it breaks when you go from nightgown then clothing yourself, the undress all fixes it. At least until you go from nightgown to dressing again....

 

[yurilins]

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I could never have imagined the life that I have now. I live each day with no regrets, but that wasn’t always the case.

I was always the "good girl" who did everything perfectly. I colored inside the lines and never knew what I was missing. When I caught my boyfriend cheating with my best friend, I decided enough was enough. I left college and moved to the city, taking my life in my own hands. Now each day is an adventure, especially for someone as inexperienced at...well, everything...as I happen to be. Moving in with two hot guys started me down a path of temptation, and I'm only looking forward from here. I can't wait to share all my experiences with you.

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Thread Updated: 2020-06-12
Release Date: 2020-06-12
Developer: Surprise & Delight Media

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hmm love this kind of games, good luck young sith.

 

[Dropdude]

How is this game any different from the other " new girl in city life" type games? Young Maria, Girl in the City, etc.

 

[aigimilan]

3. About the wardrobe system: we do have plans to add a couple of "getting dressed" shortcuts in the next release. In this first release, we just needed to be sure that it all worked properly, and what better way to do that than to let the fine folks of this forum test it out for us? Would adding these shortcuts (as a way of cutting down on dressing/undressing time) sufficiently address these issues for those who have expressed these concerns?

4. Wardrobe, part two: the two key rules in this version are (1) her level of comfort is such that she doesn't feel comfortable walking half-naked around an apartment with two guys she doesn't know, so she has to be wearing at least a top, a bottom, and panties to leave her bedroom; (2) she doesn't want to leave the apartment without being fully dressed, so she has to be wearing all of those as well as a bra and shoes to leave the apartment/building. Both of these will have the potential to change in the next update, with interesting(?) results.

5. Energy management: we will definitely take another look at this to get it more balanced. We thought that with the coffee and ability to nap or rest in multiple places, as well as the "sleep for the night" option in the bedroom, that it would be more easily managed. We'll see if we can fix the amount of energy spent per activity. PS--the downtown coffee shop might be a cool place to visit!

I skipped quoting your other points here because I have nothing to comment regarding them, the content you want to add is yours to pick, refreshing changes are a good once in a while.

3/4: The thing for me at the moment is that the wardrobe system is completely exhausting. Aside from what I've noticed is one scene at the bar telling you to change, there's no real reason for the clothing system to be as cumbersome as it is. Some examples:

There's no way for me to buy more clothes, but the clothes are limited to how many times you can equip them before needing to wash them.
Washing them takes 2 hours out of the day any time you do it.
You go into the wardrobe and it gives you a list of all your categories of clothing. You click one and brings you into a separate page, Personally I feel this would be easier if it was menus you can expand and collapse when you click on the category instead of another page.
With it being a separate page for clothing categories, it brings you back to the main wardrobe page any time you pick anything. If you're changing your intimates you have to go to the wardrobe, go to intimates, pick your bra, click on intimates again, pick your panties. I don't think I should need to go to another page to change my underwear, let alone 3 separate pages just to change two pieces of clothing from the same category.

Hmm... that shouldn't be happening. We'll take another look and figure it out. If it happens again, try clicking on "Undress Completely" and then put on each item individually the next time. That should hopefully reset it and clear the issue, letting you continue the game for now. But, as we said, that shouldn't be the case, so thanks for bringing it to our attention. We'll definitely look into it!

The thing about undressing at this point brings about more problems, because now all the clothes I've put on and I'm forced to take off now lose one of their wear cycles and often ends up needing to be washed. There goes 2 hours out of my day again, and having to click through what feels like 40 different pages just to change my outfit all over again.
Just so we're clear:
1 Wardrobe > 2 Intimates, pick Bra > 3 Back at Wardrobe > 4 Intimates, pick Panties > 5 Back at Wardrobe > 6 Tops, Pick Top > 7 Back at Wardrobe > 8 Bottoms, Pick Bottom > 9 Back at Wardrobe > 10 Shoes, Pick shoes > 11 Back at Wardrobe > 12 Leave Wardrobe
So we're at 12 pages to pick 5 pieces of clothing. And then the clothing doesn't work and so you have to go back into the wardrobe and undress all. And then go through 11 more pages again to get dressed.

I love these twine games, they're ultimately sort of my favorite, but this clothing system would prevent me from playing this.

5: It feels like it might be a bit better tuned if things you did in game took a bit longer and a bit less energy. Sleep feels like it should restore a lot more energy too, for how much energy it takes to do anything right now. It seems like after sleeping and then getting ready for the day, I need to spend hours out of the day relaxing to have energy to actually get out walk to work and have a shift without having 0 energy after my shift at work.

 

[leyre]

Judging by the game size i thought it had a lot of stuff but holy shit, there's nothing, 1 image with a 40MB SIZE !!!???

 

[lifesuckz69]

In general I'd love to see this developed, cause it's finally a female protag who takes her perversion 'in(to) her own hands'.
Wardrobe was mentioned, it should maybe have a "set" and "wear" system to choose outfits.
The Laundry also seems rather annoying and with Energy imo the best way is to make actions depending on time, not energy.

 

[Rasler321]

Fuck yeah, no rape bullshit. But what about prostitution (consensual) and pregnancy, any plans for those?

Fuck yeah, no rape bullshit. But what about pissing and shitting on other people's eyes (consensual) and a little of that dog/cat/furry/sonicthehedgehog lactancy we ALL love, any plans for those?

 

[PirateLoko]

Well, the game has the potential to be good, but it needs the character to have goals. Choices need to have consequences, por exemple, pregnancy, rape, be hooker or be angel. The game have lots of texts and few gifs images, the game need more gifs images.

The obligation to change clothes leaves the game slow and boring, very boring. It would be a good choice that character gifs need to be fixed and a porn actress. The character must have lactation, piss and become pregnant, be raped, be arrested, turn into a whore, bimbo or nymphet.

So, the game needs to have quick actions, quick consequences and goals to be fulfilled, but most importantly, having a lot of sex, but more sex gifs images.

 

[radical686]

Usually when I see a game with 'taken' porn pictures my assumption is that it's generally very sloppy, grindy, and relies more on the pictures than anything else. But judging from the screen caps the writing looks a bit more promising and I'm going to give this a try.

Pity no 'coerced'. I'm not a rape person but I do like a bit of domination/submission.

The Dev can still have BDSM content. Those are consensual relationships. Too often games and fiction tend to blur the lines. I used to go to a bondage dance club--straight out of the Matrix--for a couple of years and trying to physically coerce someone into a sexual interaction was one of the no-nos that could easily get you ejected. And yes, I witnessed plenty of D/s interactions on the periphery.

 

[The 1★ Dude]

Hope this is a "real" dating sim and not just another fuck feast where the girl wait for her 18th birthday to instantly losing her virginity and being just another bimbo cum slut.

 

[Degeneracy]

Judging by the game size i thought it had a lot of stuff but holy shit, there's nothing, 1 image with a 40MB SIZE !!!???

Thought this was a joke as I seen the dl size and thought it was lots of content, but now realizing it uses gifs....

Another thing to do for this game is convert those gifs to mp4 or webm. It will lower the size dramatically and add sound if you wanted to. Gif has horrible compression, if any.

For instance, the largest gif at 47mb in gif form is now 4.2mb webm. Which one is 1/10th the size?

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[Loqic]

Oof! Better pick up on that starting at the next update before v0.4 is a 4GB download. That's no fun for anyone. x)

 

[Degeneracy]

One thing I forgot to mention in my post, is if you pull from PornHub, you can choose to save it as webm at high quality and with sound. So you could replace all those gifs early on with just that site. That conversion I did took about 5min but I didn't pay for mine so I don't get the full optimization for my cpu which is current gen amd. But I would recommend PornHub as it is real easy to do.

 

[PirateLoko]

Well, iloopit is another website that can create gifs.

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[Nutluck]

I played it some and will echo a few other comments, there needs to be outfits. So you can set up a outfit and then one click dress with all the clothes you preselected for that outfit. Other than that I like how you did clothes.

The most annoying thing though is energy, it really needs to be balanced better, doing almost anything uses 10 or more while eating, resting for a hour only gives 5 energy. So you basically have to rest for 2 hours to do anything in most cases.

It would be nice if a bus was added, a way you could more quickly travel with out using up energy but at a price of course.

It would also be nice if we could make some choices about how the MC looks, hair color, maybe boob size etc.

all and all it is a game with a lot of promise but needs more content and some polish/balance work on what is current there.

edit: Also I agree it would be better to replace the gifs with mp4's or some other movie. They will be much smaller and better quality.

 

[Reapergod36]

Gotta love when these adventures try to offer up choice and end up making it immediately so you can't do things. One of the first things I do is test if I can refuse the "I should get dressed" deal. I hate it because it tends to immediately put me into the shoes of not having full control of the character.

 

[Surprise & Delight]

How is this game any different from the other " new girl in city life" type games? Young Maria, Girl in the City, etc.

I'm a big fan of several of the games in that genre, so there will be some similarities just built into the genre.

The key difference, IMO, is (hopefully) a greater ability to add a wider variety of experiences. While the sexual content is obviously important, we also want to add some variety into the game. For example, most content should be optional. Not all events will be purely sexual in nature. We want to add other types of "corruption" such as drinking & drug use. We also want to provide content that will be more purely customizable by the choices of the player. She might be able to be bisexual, but doesn't have to be. There will be choices that may lead to a more dominant (femdom) character or a more submissive one. Etc.

Also, we hope that the quality of the writing will help the game to stand out from the others.

Gotta love when these adventures try to offer up choice and end up making it immediately so you can't do things. One of the first things I do is test if I can refuse the "I should get dressed" deal. I hate it because it tends to immediately put me into the shoes of not having full control of the character.

That will be changing over time. While not having full immediate control of the character (we are trying to balance between a "story" progression and "sandbox" control), we will continue adding content with each update, so that the control aspect builds over time. We do want it to make some sense, though---a girl who just met two guys/roommates in a new city after spending most of her life in a single long-term relationship is not likely to just start strolling around naked in front of them. Not at first anyway.

I played it some and will echo a few other comments, there needs to be outfits. So you can set up a outfit and then one click dress with all the clothes you preselected for that outfit. Other than that I like how you did clothes.

The most annoying thing though is energy, it really needs to be balanced better, doing almost anything uses 10 or more while eating, resting for a hour only gives 5 energy. So you basically have to rest for 2 hours to do anything in most cases.

As mentioned in a comment above, both of these will be fixed in the next release.

It would be nice if a bus was added, a way you could more quickly travel with out using up energy but at a price of course.

It would also be nice if we could make some choices about how the MC looks, hair color, maybe boob size etc.

all and all it is a game with a lot of promise but needs more content and some polish/balance work on what is current there.

edit: Also I agree it would be better to replace the gifs with mp4's or some other movie. They will be much smaller and better quality.

We already have two additional transportation options typical of today's cities planned. We just didn't implement them prior to this release. They will definitely be added into the next release, though.

We also discussed a possibility for adding some customization---hair color, at least---possibly as an add-in image pack, possibly a Patreon benefit. We're still thinking about it, though. We don't want to create any disconnect by showing a blonde on-screen when the player chose to be a brunette. OTOH, we don't want to increase the file size unnecessarily, esp. as we are trying to figure out ways to make it smaller. (We already experimented a little with webm and didn't really like the results, but we will be trying that again, as well as MP4 and other formats.)

Oof! Better pick up on that starting at the next update before v0.4 is a 4GB download. That's no fun for anyone. x)

Definitely a top priority. We experimented a bit with webm and weren't thrilled with the results, but we're going to try again, as well as other options like MP4, etc.

Thought this was a joke as I seen the dl size and thought it was lots of content, but now realizing it uses gifs....

Another thing to do for this game is convert those gifs to mp4 or webm. It will lower the size dramatically and add sound if you wanted to. Gif has horrible compression, if any.

For instance, the largest gif at 47mb in gif form is now 4.2mb webm. Which one is 1/10th the size?

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Thank you for your advice. We briefly tried webm but didn't love the results. We will be trying again, as well as other formats like MP4, etc.

The Dev can still have BDSM content. Those are consensual relationships. Too often games and fiction tend to blur the lines. I used to go to a bondage dance club--straight out of the Matrix--for a couple of years and trying to physically coerce someone into a sexual interaction was one of the no-nos that could easily get you ejected. And yes, I witnessed plenty of D/s interactions on the periphery.

Definitely! BDSM can (and should) very much be fully consensual. Some women are even into the fantasy of simulated non-consent, itself a consensual choice. We just want the main character to be fully in control of her actions---not molested or blackmailed or threatened or (and I can't believe I have to say this) raped as the only reason she ever has sex. Some women just willingly have sex, in a healthy way.

 

[Nutluck]

Understandable, when Girl Life switched from gifs to mp4's our at the time image pack went from almost 5gigs to around 1.8 gig if I recall. It was a massive savings in DL size for us and the quality went up as well.

 

[xeivous]

Well I just found out that you can softlock yourself if you get all your clothes dirty by dressing and undressing until you have nothing to wear.

Anyways, this game could use a bit of a hint system or signposting to point towards content. As I've not managed much beyond hitting up the halloween event and very slowly building up stats with roomies.