Shame on me! I've been developing this game for too long, and unfortunately, I can't get back the time I've wasted, but now I've decided to take a much more responsible approach to the game.
One of the reasons why I took so long was perfectionism.
Perfectionism prevented me from making decisions; sharing details about what I was doing, which made the development process very secretive, fear of creating something bad that people wouldn't like. As a result, the development took too long.
So I decided to make the development open so that feedback and suggestions could help me. That's why I'm going to make a build in which I'll create everything necessary, but with very rough graphics, very rough dialogues, etc.
I will try to update the demo version regularly (once every 2 months), and I will also publish a plan for the next patch. I think for such purposes, I will create a Discord server, where, in addition to leading development and releasing new versions, there will also be chats for suggestions and feedback. It's time to let people help me, instead of doing everything myself.
In addition, if I am in doubt about various decisions, I will ask what you think is more interesting.
And now I will briefly describe what the game is at the moment (as you remember, a couple of years ago I decided to start a new project instead of psycho triumph, which I am currently working on).
So, this is a game with the genres NTR and slice of life.
Story:
The heroine has always been shy, staying at home and playing games, but she decided to completely change her image. She got a new hairstyle and decided to start her life from scratch. She moved in with her boyfriend (with whom she had a long-distance relationship) and enrolled in university.
She loves to stream at night, but her boyfriend was her only viewer. He works the night shift, so while she streams at night, he watches her streams at work. After her image change, a bunch of new viewers took notice of her.
Now she decides that in order to become more successful, she needs to be more liberated. So she decides to engage in exhibitionism to boost her confidence. After one of her acts of exhibitionism, one of her classmates takes a photo of her and starts blackmailing her.
Gameplay:
The gameplay is divided into 2 phases
1 - Normal life, where you have to walk around locations, talk to different NPCs, go shopping, engage in exhibitionism, prostitution, and many other activities that will affect the stream. For example, buying books and reading them in the library will unlock new actions on the streams.
2 - Streaming. I have already shown what the streaming system looks like. There will be various nodes and an available amount of energy. By connecting the nodes (which represent actions on the stream), you create a stream schedule. After the start, the player will see the heroine's stream, and sometimes various events will occur.
Most of the interactions on the stream will NOT be hentai, but will represent a variety of ordinary actions in order to focus on making the streaming interesting and diverse with gameplay mechanics. Therefore, the graphics will be in chibi style, but some nodes will be hentai and represent full-fledged scenes.
However, these will be available closer to the end of the game. I also decided to make the earnings from the stream non-linear. In other words, if you get 1 coin for 100 viewers, then for 1000 viewers you will get not 10, but 2. There are also several other interesting mechanics planned, which I will talk about later (so as not to make the post too long).
18+ content:
Although some of the scenes will be during the stream, many scenes are made as usual. I decided to make a system similar to what you saw in Psycho Triumph (the demo of which I posted a long time ago), there will be different categories (exhibitionism, perversion, etc.). By filling the progress bar, you will gain access to different scenes after you fill it to the maximum.
A special event will open, and after completing it, the heroine will receive a new level in the category, and a new progress bar with new events will become available. In addition, leveling up will unlock different nodes for streaming. In addition to hentai progress bars, there will be branches focused on streaming and unlocking nodes (charisma for communication, gaming, overall streaming level, etc.).
Thus, the usual gameplay is that first, players do various things during the day, and then at night, the heroine will start streaming.
Also, since the heroine entered university, locations related to the university have been added, as well as a school uniform (which I think I will make the main clothing).
In addition, writing dialogues from the point of view of a female character seemed very difficult for me, so as not to make it cringe-worthy. Therefore, I decided that it was not worth spending too much time on it, and for now, the dialogues will be very... primitive, just so that there is something. Of course, it will be possible to rewrite them in the future.
Also, in the future, I think I will only make games with male characters and not only NTR, for example, dating simulators similar to Summer Memories.
I also made a new post on ci-en, you can check it out, there are some graphics there (but they are rough) -
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What do you think about all this? Right now, I'm thinking of spending 1-2 months putting together a rough demo version and setting up a Discord server.
Of course, this build will be extremely rough and is needed to make the work more efficient, because if I try to perfect the build, I risk wasting too much time.
