Preparing a game conecpt - suggestions welcome

[leSagi]

Hey guys, I am several years on this platform now and I see many games popping up on this forum, also developed here by community members and other games getting abandoned, through developers disappearing or letting down their game to trash.

Well, there're many thoughts spooking through my head the last years and I thought about developing my own game.
Now it's time for me, to collect notes and write them down, to create an interesting story for a play book that will work as a red line for a game.

So I am asking YOU, what's your opinion, when it comes to games with specific content and what you might think about, when it comes to player choices vs. predecided happenings in the game.

I played many games so far and there are some games, that kept me playing them a long time.
So I'll talk about them first and also want to know your opinion about those games, if you have some.
The first game that I played, was 'Loki's Corruption'. It's from Atarian and the game itself is like a movie put into a game. The story folds about a guy called Loki, who gets betrayed by his comrades and happens to suffer an unusual death, but appears to be alive several hours later, because he got his blood mixed with the blood of a succubus, that got killed with him together, when she was raping him. The following things happening to him alter his mind, but also his body. He is going to change more and more. In the end he's getting corrupted through it and starts to live another life, as before. Also his gender changes and I think, he's getting adapted to this at some point and is accepting, what happens to him.
The second game was 'Cursed Armor'. It's a game about a girl getting corrupted over time through a cursed item, that she aquired through a quest and it's changing her life. Her mind erodes more and more to this of a whore, that loves to have sex, even with monsters and animals, if necessary. The game has alot of fetishes and has kind of free world to explore. It also has multiple endings. But the main features of the game are different routes, that you'll pick through your actions as the mc. It's denpending to your decissions how to act in specific events, how strong Lilianna becomes.
I also played the second game 'Cursed Armor II', but the developer has an ill mind to grab hundreds of bucks from you, only that he will develope the game further. He's so mad about people not agreeing to him, to pay him 150 bucks for a game that has some cosplay outfits no proper implementation of an english translation and also still not fixing bugs (I think, he does this on his own intention.), that he implements traps for players cracking his game. Until now, the game has a interesting story and has fetishes, that are rather rare in the porn game genre.
'Alone Amongst Demons' and 'Alone Amongst Demons: The Change' are also two of my favorite games, telling a story of a guy body swaped with a succubus and searching for his original body and getting it back, to escape from his current succubus body. The game tells you a story about him, how he slowly get's acostumed to his temporary body and slowly corrupting even more.

So I took some notes, what would suit into a game, combining those games' great aspects, but with an own story and world.
Here are the notes and I want you, to make suggestions, if you think there's a thing, that should be added to them.

Races:

- Succubus/ Incubus/ Imp (definitely)​

- Centaur (definitely)​

- Slime Girl/ Tentacle (definitely)​

- Goblin​

- Ork​

- Elf (definitely)​

- Human/ Magic Girl (definitely)​

- Vampire​

- Dragon/ Lamia (definitely)​

- Undead (definitely) -> Ghost/ Zombie/ Ghoul​

- Android/ Robot​

Genres:

- male protagonist (changing in the progress of the game)​

- transformation (willingly or forced)​

-> into mythic creature​

-> into machine like creatures partially or completely​

-> into items​

-> race change​

-> getting extra limbs/ losing body parts​

- gender bender (willingly or forced)​

-> male to female (petite, sexy, bimbo), futa (hermaphrodite), shemale (dom/ sissy/ petite/ sexy)​

-> female to futa (hermaphrodite), shemale (bimbo, sissy, petite, sexy), not sure about male​

- mind control​

- corruption​

- creampie/ pregnancy/ vaginal sex/ anal sex/ blowjob/ un-/consensual sex​

- fantasy (free world in some extend)​

- monster girls​

- tentacles​

- slavery​

- rape​

I think, that's all for now. If you have questions, just ask right away.

Cheers,

leSagi

 

[fyl3toys]

So I am asking YOU, what's your opinion, when it comes to games with specific content and what you might think about, when it comes to player choices vs. predecided happenings in the game.

I play incest games. If the story isn't good it's just generic porn. With a good story I'd rather have a straight forward experience.

 

[MissFortune]

So I am asking YOU, what's your opinion, when it comes to games with specific content and what you might think about, when it comes to player choices vs. predecided happenings in the game.

Nobody can answer this question but you. What are looking to make? A kinetic novel, or a standard VN with choices that matter? It's your game, your story, and your ideas. Where should those choices matter? Is there an obvious difference between flavor choices and meaningful ones? Do those pre-decided events need to happen for the story to make sense? Then don't make them a choice. What content are you into? Rape? Impregnation? Do them because you like them. Again, your game, your choice Not Joe's or Jane's. No point in doing something if you don't enjoy it yourself.

I'll be the one to say it, though. You're in way over your head in regard to scale. Six races, a wide range of genres, and a sandbox (in essence)? That's asking for burnout. Start smaller. I'm not sure what engine you're using (I'm assuming either Daz/Renpy or RPGM and Drawing/ripping art assets), but do something shorter. More focused. Get your feet wet with something more basic and put it out there, get some critiques and work on them. Then jump in.

 

[3D Reaver]

i think adding any fetishes that you are not interested in is a bad idea. you wont understand or wont be able to replicate the appeal of them.
You have to put yourself in the mind of the characters to make the scenes interesting. You will spend a lot of time thinking about this. Do yourself a favor and follow your interests.

 

[Winterfire]

i think adding any fetishes that you are not interested in is a bad idea. you wont understand or wont be able to replicate the appeal of them.
You have to put yourself in the mind of the characters to make the scenes interesting. You will spend a lot of time thinking about this. Do yourself a favor and follow your interests.

+1

I did that, and people who had that fetish could tell I had no idea of what I was writing x).
It is especially bad for me since I am really vanilla.

 

[leSagi]

Well, I don't think, that I'll will add any fetishes, that I don't like. I've seen this before in some games and they got poorly handled.
I see your points and they make sense. I didn't think about this in that way.
Regarding the size of the game, it depends on the story, I can unfold about each character and how much it will take, to develope each character's story on it's own.

Maybe it's a good way, to start in smaller games and put them together in a big final game, when the other parts were succesful?