VN Others Kindred (No-NTR Phone Texting/VN Game) [Game Development Thread]

[dustypug]

Summary​

Your best friend has just unveiled the Social Recorder, a revolutionary invention hidden within a pair of glasses designed to secretly archive every social interaction. While his intense paranoia over corporate takeovers keeps you on edge, you find yourself at a crossroads with Amy, your innocent 21-year-old girlfriend. As you navigate the high-stakes journey of scaling your company, you are surrounded by flirtatious temptations that test your resolve. Will you remain devoted to Amy, or will you succumb to your desires and risk both your relationship and your company’s future?

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Hey y'all

I really wanted to make own game one day and due to my lack of knowledge in coding or making a game in general, I deciced the easier route of making a Ren'Py game. From there I learned in the ins and outs of Daz3D and launched myself to create my first game.

After countless hours of development, I would quickly lose interest and just restarting the project being in an endless loop of restarting.

Around that time, I started playing phone texting games and I really loved how they work despite certain limitations.

It also made me realise how much I hate NTR but understood why phone texting games were mostly all NTR.

Then I realised that the reason I was always losing interest is because I was limiting myself to what Ren'Py could do. So instead I started looking for a new engine. After many hours or research and testing, I chose Godot to make ZERO NTR phone texting game.

Kindling (Name not final)

• Branching, Affections, Good/Bad Story
• Game switches from both phone gameplay and visual novel gameplay
• Visual novel gameplay rendered with Daz3D for both images and animations
• No AICG
• Multiple Functional Phone Apps

Here is a working demo video, very early stage like missing a time passed transition. The demo is not representative of the storyline, just a test render to test with the GUI

Can't wait to release for free here!

 

[dustypug]

The game will branch in different ways to the trigger element of the story.

How you interact with the main LI will open different solutions to solve the problem.

Will you stay faithful to her?
Will you cheat on her?
Or will you openly have a harem?

There will be hidden secondary LIs and multiple endings.

Technically the easiest ending will be the pure love ending in which you stay faithful to her.

 

[labbu]

will you openly have a harem can this have a good ending?

 

[dustypug]

will you openly have a harem can this have a good ending?

Yes I plan on having good/bad endings for all 3 branches: Faithful, Harem, Cheating

 

[dustypug]

One of my biggest challenge with developping this game was to understand how in-game time would work.

Since multiple conversations can happens at the same time, there would be time paradoxes everywhere. So I looked around into how other game manages time and decided on using main story context to determine time.

Small things you realize while developping games...

 

[dustypug]

Some updates:

Finished working on the time management backend, very proud of what I did with this one. The messages follows an in-game time and dynamically chnages as messages are sent and received. Different timings can trigger new messages, new social media posts, etc.

Now squashing bugs to have a working auto-save system that saves at the beginning of a new conversation.

 

[dustypug]

Auto-save system is complete and bug-free (for now)

Current priority is writing the script to the story!

 

[dustypug]

Right now having a lot of bugs have the phone interface transition well to the visual novel part of the game.

Working as a 1 man team requires a lot of patience but working about 8h a day to work on a full first release as soon as possible. Will post more screenshots and videos soon!

 

[labbu]

can i select my main character physical trads like for example Hight weight cock size etc

 

[dustypug]

can i select my main character physical trads like for example Hight weight cock size etc

Sorry no that was won't be possible, the logistics behind it would create massive delay between updates

 

[SirLecherous]

congrats fam and looking forwards to your success , I know it's unpopular but u can use claude ai for brainstorming / ideation it goes pretty far wont do actual porn scenes tho . and u can use grok for the xxx as far as you want ideation/dialogue etc.

 

[dustypug]

congrats fam and looking forwards to your success , I know it's unpopular but u can use claude ai for brainstorming / ideation it goes pretty far wont do actual porn scenes tho . and u can use grok for the xxx as far as you want ideation/dialogue etc.

Thanks for the advice, I do consult with AI to understand actual human psychology on gaslighting behavior and things like that. And ask it to generate some dialogue ideas, my goal is to never copy/paste from AI.

 

[dustypug]

The logic behind switching from text messaging to VN and back in forth is a lot more complicated than I thought, lot of time spent making it work seemlessly

 

[dustypug]

Animated idle animation, proud of this one