Tierra_Azul

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I hope we get to progress the Cindy storyline, also I dont mind more of Emma, her sex scene is my favourite this far. I also hope for some Lena/Ivy or Lena/Holly lesbian progress. I don't wan't more of Jeremy, he's a snake. Give me more of Cherry instead for the IR content, she has been underused since her last apperance and she's much more likeable.

:LOL: Stan.. Really? Stan is just too disgusting to me, I really don't want to see him or Perry in any sex scenes. But I do hope we get bleed him dry for cash without giving him anything in return. Lena needs extra income afterall, I really liked that part in GGGB where you could just use Arthur (for a while), I think Stan can be completely depleted for riches.
 

hagare

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It would be less popular among guys, but it would be fairly popular among girls. And there's a middle ground between PG-13 and X-rated content, called M-rating. And I have no doubt it would do fine as M-rated visual novel with various plot twists. Most characters are very compelling and relatable on their own. Just look at Ivy or Holly. The most popular girls here are Cindy, Holly and Ivy, none of whom had any X-rated scenes yet.
Whut? Cindy sstill has none!?
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I jumped in too soon
 

Creeping Death

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GGGB vs ORS: Structure

GGGB and ORS follow a very similar structure, but have a couple key differences.

One that’s plain to see is the fact that having only one playable character in GGGB forced me to make Ashley one of the participants in almost every sex scene. I also noticed having a female MC caused the majority of the NPCs to be guys, even though Ash could have a few lesbian relationships with her friends. Having Ian and Lena as playable characters doesn’t only mean I can have way more variety when combining characters for hot and original sex scenes, but also allowed me to introduce more female NPCs in the cast, and I really love those new characters! (Holly, Alison, Cindy, Cherry, Emma...) But the major structural key element for both games lies in their status quo (yeah, I’m gonna use that word a lot from now on).

As I said before, with GGGB I wanted to push choice mechanics and branching possibilities to the extreme, to the point where it’s almost ridiculous (the thug route, for example). The fun was the exploration of how widely paths could vary, and you could end up with a very different status quo depending on your choices, affecting not only Ash but the surrounding characters. The downside to this kind of structure, other than the previously mentioned lack of profundity on its themes, was the lack of said status quo. Things could vary so much that the overall structure lost consistency and became an amalgam of “what if” scenarios, without a defined or conducting plotline.

This problem is intrinsic to all choice-based and open-ended games and stories, I think, and ORS faces the same conundrum. After all, if the story is set in stone, there’s no room for the player to make meaningful choices, and that’s what this is all about! But I wanted ORS to have a more solid structure and a better defined status quo that could serve as a frame for me as a writer and the player. That meant narrowing the possible outcomes, meaning, Ian and Lena’s possible permutations are more focused. Don’t get this wrong, this doesn’t mean there are less permutations than in GGGB: the difference lies in how the choices affect that status quo. While in GGGB your choices created different, varied and somewhat unconnected status quo, with ORS my goal is making your choices affect a single, deeply interconnected status quo. This is what I refer to when I talk about making a more focused and nuanced gaming experience. Hopefully this way your choices as both Ian and Lena will be even more meaningful, having a deeper impact on their environment and personal relationships, where connexions are more clear and explicit and well structured.

What do you think, you prefer the more wide-and-shallowstructure of GGGB or is ORS’s narrow-and-deepstructure gripping you more into the story?
 
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