VN Ren'Py It's Just a Game [v0.4.1] [DigiDec]

[DigiDec]

First up: love the game so far.
Great characters I love or hate and an interesting story.

One comment on the planned new character:
Past side character the player could decline (club whore 1) started having relations with the sister. Since the second decline she vanished, but now is part of the Izzy relation.
The black whore started being "friends" with the mother without player imput, but that is still in the air I think.
Will the new one (trans if I got it right) also be interacting with major LIs, regardless if the player doesn't want them?
Personally I wouldn't mind a trans LI as long as they are restricted to the MC, but was very disappointed to see the unwanted prostitute being a major part of one of the main LIs, including unskippable femdom scenes.

To the suggestion of taking away the player choice, which sim they see: you had a futa scene in there that I didn't want to watch and I was glad I could choose what to visit.
So please be aware that you also take away the possibility for players to avoid certain content.
A simple save before the sim-choice made it easily possible to visit all I wanted to see.

Dunno if there was a LI-hype already, but please much more of the wonderful breeding-cuckquean, Nat is just awesome.

Keep up the great work.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

As far as the "new" character - they aren't new. Other than the hypothetical introduction of Nat's sister (which is very hypothetical) we were just talking about I don't have plans for any new characters. There might be some girls that show up in very minor roles, like maybe you take another trip to the club with Ness and have a 4 way or something, or I need to add an extra character to a sim scene, but other than that you have met everyone. And Zoe was always with Izzi, I showed the two of them together before you met her at the club. Mol was always going to get a slutty friend character but I will 100% admit that Candi took over that role after I started development. I wanted an extra hook to tie some stuff together and I liked that character model too much to waste it on a one-off scene. With regards to the trans characters, they will still exist and if the player declines their content (I'm considering a kind of one-time "hard no" for them but it might end up being a case by case thing) they'll still see them occasionally interacting with the MC or other characters in non-sexual context. But you won't see any sex scenes involving them unless you choose to.

Nobody really needs to worry about anything changing with how the sims were handled. The only changes I would consider making would also require me to re work a lot of the game, and I don't have any intention of doing that. Love it or hate it, it is what it is.

I haven't done any official "best girl" polls yet but going off my totally vibes-based impressions Nat had a early lead, potentially lost her top spot after I released 0.2, but appears to have reclaimed her crown with 0.3. But, as I said earlier, my supporters clearly like the thicc girls based on where the votes are going in the bonus render/content polls I've ran so far. It's probably not fair to have any serious debate yet since some of the girls haven't even got a sex scene yet. We have to give all the ladies a fair chance to audition before we crown any of them.

 

[RandomGuy99]

God there is too much wall of text in this thread. Gives us TLDR version please.

 

[DigiDec]

God there is too much wall of text in this thread. Gives us TLDR version please.

Almost all of the wall-of-text/essay posts (from me) are me responding to someone else and trying to hit all/most of their points. So, unless you're invested in that particular conversation, they aren't really required reading or anything.

TLDR;
Nat's everyone's favorite
I'm not changing the sim scenes
The game is getting weirder
This Claudette scene is taking forever to finish

 

[Remembrance]

By twincest I meant that obviously, the twin characters would end up getting sexy together. That would be a cruel tease if I included twins (identical or not) but didn't let the player at least get a threesome with them.

I think it only counts as incest if ppl are related to the mc/pc.
Ppl don't even consider step relationships incest (though I find them pretty interesting for being that gray area)
Only Patreon considers threesomes with related characters (sisters, mother-daughters, etc.) incest & they're idiots for that imo. (I mean I get the definition, but not kink wise)
It's painful to see Patreon games try to cope with this. Even if the MC is an orphan with no relatives they still need to go the whole 'patch' or 'define your own relations' route, or dance around the situation, if they dare to put related characters in the game.
Tbh patreon is the main reason I don't like incest games
Good thing there's none of that with this game.

Nat's characterization, the whole assertively-submissive angle, didn't come to be until I was really fleshing out the writing for the last update.

That's like the best thing in the whole game. The assertively-submissive thing feels fresh & very well done.


Also for Ness, I didn't mean dom sub in the bdsm sense, but more like her acting at the start of the game or the beginning of the Rose-Ness scene was dominant while how she melted when mc fucked her or how she dressed up for the mc was her being more submissive i.e. I was referring to her being tomboyish/hard-headed/tough, etc. vs being girlish/romantic/etc.

I just thought of her like a coconut: hard & prickly on the surface but tender & soft on the inside. I just like the duality of such characters & feel there's a depth to them.
Her 'you think I look pretty?' was very cute.
There's just something about such a abrasive tomboy suddenly dressing up for you, add that to the layered character angle (further hinted by izzy how her personality is a result of her desire to get mommy's approval by being the son she always wanted) Maybe the real, girly, Ness is hiding behind all that, wanting to behave & be complimented & treated like a lady. (& that's why she falls to nat's manipulations)
(Also loved stella's insecurities. Compared to body types, I love a character's depth of personality)

 

[s1im]

The dictionary/legal definition of incest in most jurisdictions is M/F vaginal sex between two people who are too closely related to be legally married.

So gay/lesbian 'incest' isn't really incest (though it's kinky, yes).

Anal sex is not incest.

Oral, handjobs, etc. are not incest.

Basically, unless the related people get together and put a penis into a vagina, it's not incest.

But F95, Patreon, and most of the rest of the Internet will call it incest if people who are related as first-cousins or closer get naughty sexually in almost any way. YMMV.

 

[DigiDec]

I think it only counts as incest if ppl are related to the mc/pc.
Ppl don't even consider step relationships incest (though I find them pretty interesting for being that gray area)
Only Patreon considers threesomes with related characters (sisters, mother-daughters, etc.) incest & they're idiots for that imo. (I mean I get the definition, but not kink wise)
It's painful to see Patreon games try to cope with this. Even if the MC is an orphan with no relatives they still need to go the whole 'patch' or 'define your own relations' route, or dance around the situation, if they dare to put related characters in the game.
Tbh patreon is the main reason I don't like incest games
Good thing there's none of that with this game.


That's like the best thing in the whole game. The assertively-submissive thing feels fresh & very well done.


Also for Ness, I didn't mean dom sub in the bdsm sense, but more like her acting at the start of the game or the beginning of the Rose-Ness scene was dominant while how she melted when mc fucked her or how she dressed up for the mc was her being more submissive i.e. I was referring to her being tomboyish/hard-headed/tough, etc. vs being girlish/romantic/etc.

I just thought of her like a coconut: hard & prickly on the surface but tender & soft on the inside. I just like the duality of such characters & feel there's a depth to them.
Her 'you think I look pretty?' was very cute.
There's just something about such a abrasive tomboy suddenly dressing up for you, add that to the layered character angle (further hinted by izzy how her personality is a result of her desire to get mommy's approval by being the son she always wanted) Maybe the real, girly, Ness is hiding behind all that, wanting to behave & be complimented & treated like a lady. (& that's why she falls to nat's manipulations)
(Also loved stella's insecurities. Compared to body types, I love a character's depth of personality)

For sure I wouldn't tag the game as "incest" unless the MC is the one related, and I agree -


That is kind of the angle I was going with Ness. More of a "she can be more than one thing" than "MC's dick turns her into a submissive". So, yeah, she's still going to threaten to body slam you (and possibly follow through), but she also wants to put on some makeup and behave a little more stereotypically "girly".

The dictionary/legal definition of incest in most jurisdictions is M/F vaginal sex between two people who are too closely related to be legally married.

So gay/lesbian 'incest' isn't really incest (though it's kinky, yes).

Anal sex is not incest.

Oral, handjobs, etc. are not incest.

Basically, unless the related people get together and put a penis into a vagina, it's not incest.

But F95, Patreon, and most of the rest of the Internet will call it incest if people who are related as first-cousins or closer get naughty sexually in almost any way. YMMV.

This is kind of like the legal definition of sodomy compared to how it's typically used. Way back when "don't ask, don't tell" was a thing I would occasionally point out to fellow service members that getting a blowjob was technically a violation of the UCMJ whenever they tried to hide their bigotry behind regulations.

But yeah, I think we all agree that if you want to satisfy the incest kink, a male MC needs to put it in a close blood relation. Or a female MC needs to get it from a blood relation but that's a little less relevant here.

 

[sadklouds]

Did every character in this game snort a line of moon sugar?

 

[DigiDec]

Did every character in this game snort a line of moon sugar?

I've played the elder scrolls games but I'm a little lost on your meaning.

 

[Scotsman1989]

I've played the elder scrolls games but I'm a little lost on your meaning.

Moon Sugar is the main ingredient in the very popular and highly addictive elder scrolls drug Skooma.

 

[sadklouds]

I've played the elder scrolls games but I'm a little lost on your meaning.

Magic coke/cat nip

 

[Dr. Mick]

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[DigiDec]

Magic coke/cat nip

I got the reference; I just wasn't sure what you meant since you said every character. Poor Haru out here catching strays.

 

[gregers]

Spoiler: Coffee, corrupted and spoiled

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And was as blasé and impassive about that as he is about anything. "Oh dear, it seems my sister and my girlfriend just conspired to drug me. Oh well, probably nothing to worry about."

 

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[Fapmaister]

Please update for v. 0.3.2

i have been waiting for that update for a week now.

 

[TigerWolfe]

And was as blasé and impassive about that as he is about anything. "Oh dear, it seems my sister and my girlfriend just conspired to drug me. Oh well, probably nothing to worry about."

Sometimes you just gotta roll with it.

 

[DigiDec]

And was as blasé and impassive about that as he is about anything. "Oh dear, it seems my sister and my girlfriend just conspired to drug me. Oh well, probably nothing to worry about."

Sometimes you just gotta roll with it.

It was somewhat intended to read, from the MC's perspective, as not clear enough for him to be certain. So, there's a little hesitance around asking his sister - "Did you just slip me some molli/viagra?" because that's not the kind of thing you would reasonably expect your sister to do. Then he gets the implant and that episode is kind of the least of his worries now.

 

[gregers]

To reiterate:

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[DigiDec]

To reiterate:

Yeah, maybe I've inadvertently made him look clueless, but this also ties into the conversations I was having regarding how I handled the different sims or any of the cutaway scenes where I show the player something outside of the MC's perspective. It's easy to say that, as a player, you'd separate what you know from what the MC knows but in practice that's almost impossible to do. So, in defense of our clueless hero, try to limit everything to his perspective *and* remember that he doesn't really have any reason to suspect anything abnormal is happening with Nat, Mol, and Sara. If someone close to you starts acting a little bit wonky and you quickly come to the conclusion that there's some sort of conspiratorial force at play, you're probably the crazy one.

Then again, the people close to you probably don't have neural implants and you probably aren't regularly interacting with a potentially defective AI so maybe it isn't as much of a stretch as I think.

 

[Dr. Mick]

Yeah, maybe I've inadvertently made him look clueless, but this also ties into the conversations I was having regarding how I handled the different sims or any of the cutaway scenes where I show the player something outside of the MC's perspective. It's easy to say that, as a player, you'd separate what you know from what the MC knows but in practice that's almost impossible to do. So, in defense of our clueless hero, try to limit everything to his perspective *and* remember that he doesn't really have any reason to suspect anything abnormal is happening with Nat, Mol, and Sara. If someone close to you starts acting a little bit wonky and you quickly come to the conclusion that there's some sort of conspiratorial force at play, you're probably the crazy one.

Then again, the people close to you probably don't have neural implants and you probably aren't regularly interacting with a potentially defective AI so maybe it isn't as much of a stretch as I think.

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...and that's still only the second most disturbing thing from the latest update.
Looking forward to the story unfolding further, seeing what comes next, and (most) of the future content.