"Seleka wasn't a good game."
Well then it was
awfully popular for a bad game.
Just because
you don't like it doesn't mean it wasn't good.
Also, advising someone to remove all of their gameplay features without suggesting anything to replace it with is intensely stupid. You might as well have just told him to delete his whole game.
Tasks are the sole motivation to interact with the world. They're the gameplay hook. You go out into the world and do lewd things to complete your tasks, which rewards you with money and exp.
If they were removed, you'd.... what? Just wander around the city aimlessly, doing absolutely nothing? With zero progression system?
Cmon man.
Granted, tasks could be
better. The first map has the most and the most interesting. The next ones feel almost perfunctory.
Which makes sense, the city map has clearly had the most work done on it.
The standard 'flash upper body/flash lower body/flaunt x' feels like padding, but sometimes padding is necessary.
The really interesting ones are the map-specific ones like getting the shop-owner to call the police and then escaping.
Maybe one to pose (emote?) naked in front of the CCTV cameras in the area? (With a bag on head?)
For the swiming pool, it feels like there should be a lot of cool things you can do there, but the map is kinda bland. There's lots of little corners and nooks but for a map that has A: The only swimming segment and B: locations where narratively people are
supposed to be naked, there's really not a lot to do.
Suggestions:
- Separate out men's and woman's changing rooms? Then have a task to sneak into the men's and hide naked in there for a while? Add a locker you can hide in or a bench/crawlspace you can crawl into and then script a bunch of guys on the map to go in here regularly.
Hell, have one of the guys be scripted to go in and open the only accessible locker every couple of minutes, then you can add a postcard scene of Roxanne being caught naked in some guy's locker.
- Maybe swap out the transparent swimsuit for a white one that becomes transparant when wet? Or just add it as an extra option?
That way you can have Roxanne walk around in a 'normal' swimsuit and look decent, then become indecent after going for a dip. Add a mission to go for a swim and then hide somewhere until the swimsuit dries? (Make it still function partially as a disguise even while transparent, like bodypaint?)
- Better quality bodypaint. Bodypaint of a swimsuit. One that actually looks pretty convincing... until it gets wet.
At which point it transforms into a 'partially washed off' version of itself which doesn't serve to hide her body?
Have a task to enter the level with regular clothes and this bodypaint, (and no actual swimsuit) and then strip off her clothes in the changing-room and go for a swim.
- Add a towel to the women's changing room so Roxanne can cover herself. As like... in-level clothing that you can find. (Not to unlock it or anything, just to use for the level)
A towel can be worn over a swimsuit or bodypaint, right? So Roxanne can go for a dip with her magical vanishing swimsuit and then run for the changing rooms to get a towel so that she can exit the level without failing.
- Hell. I was mostly thinking of the men's changing room as the 'dangerous' location and the girls changing room as 'safe' but you can get caught by girls too in this game. Right?
What if you couldn't? At least in this one room?
If a girl walks into the women's changing room, she shouldn't freak out if she sees Roxanne naked in there, right? It makes sense, this is a room for changing!
So make this a 'safe room' where Roxanne can't lose the game and fail the level, and add some tasks for 'no risk exhibitionism' where she flaunts her huge boobs in another girl's face for a bit.
Do it like the shopkeeper in the city level, where they clearly react (and potentially react diffrently depending on how overt she's being about it) but they won't 'catch' her and make the level end.
- Add a task to stand naked just inside the open doorway of the women's changing room and just pretend that she can't tell that guys can see her.
During this event she can get 'caught' (I.E, become embarrassed) and fail the level, but at a WAAAY reduced speed. So even though the guy is obviously checking her out and can obviously see her naked, unless she actually looks at him and makes eye-contact, Roxanne won't become so embarrassed that she loses the game. (or just make her allow herself to get seen for a bit, then walk out of sight to let the meter go down, then 'accidentally' walk back in front of the doorway again.)
Ah, on that note: I'd move the meter that shows whether you're about to lose the game or not away from the NPCS and onto Roxanne somewhere. Having a 'bar goes up as they notice you' meter on NPCS is a good idea, but it starts to fall apart when they don't all work the same.
You can stand naked in front of the shopkeepers in the city level and Roxanne doesn't collapse to the ground and end the mission in shame, instead they just call the cops.
Colour-coding these bars is a good idea, but whether Roxanne loses her nerve and gives up or not should depend on
her, not on who's looking at her.
So you need an 'attention' meter on the NPC, and a 'shame' meter on Roxanne. The former just changes their behaviour (flinching, falling, running away, approaching, taking photos, calling other people over, trying to touch Roxanne, calling the police, ect) and the latter denotes how close she is to losing her cool and running away.
Obviously Roxanne's shame should rise faster the more people notice her, (although her maximum shame meter should grow as she levels up and becomes more confident/perverted) or slower, depending on the situation.
In a situation where she has a plausible reason to be wholey/partially nude, she has 'an excuse' and doesn't become embarrassed so quickly.
As roxanne becomes more and more perverted, this would allow play where people clearly notice Roxanne, but the level doesn't (immediately) end so you can continue and see the results of that.
I know that you're not interested into progressing into sex, but a crowd of boys (and maybe one girl, lol) following her and taking photos would be neat, or people seeing her and flinching away/falling over.
That would be 'high level play' obviously though, after Roxanne's perversion has grown and she isn't so shy that she immediately gives up when seen.
Other ideas:
- Didn't you have cars that you could get into in a previous version? Or was that a diffrent game? Adding unlocked cars to the city map as hiding places would be interesting. Get inside, press one button to crouch down and hide, press another to flaunt or do an emote.
- IIRC you also had the ability to jump/vault fairly tall walls? That would be an interesting way to break LoS.
- More crawlspaces to break Line of Sight or lose pursuers. The one in the store on the city map is neat, but mostly useless since people don't really chase you in there and it doesn't really lead anywhere. Some way to cross over the gaps between houses?
- Something to do with the falling over mechanic? Walk around in naked-towel and hit a button to 'fall over' and lose your towel? Or walking around in a skirt with no panties and add a 'trip and fall' task/postcard to give someone an upskirt view at her bare pussy?
- The task to find the condom had potential. Both in terms of 'find sexual items' and 'shoplift'
There was another 'find x time in level' task, but I don't know what it was, so it clearly wasn't memorable.
Add a task to find more lewd items (Probably in the mall level?)
Add a task to shoplift? And presumably a postcard for getting caught?
>Naked under a long coat, caught shoving something into her pocket, security guard makes her open her coat.
- Add a sex-toy store to the mall. Add a postcard of her staring awestruck at a massive dildo.
- Add a task to steal a (much more reasonably sized) dildo by smuggling it out in her pussy.
- Doing this unlocks a dildo-using emote?
- Change the sneak animation? It looks kinda cute, but it's much too slow to actually use for any kind of sneaking. it's even slower than crawling. Or add a task/postcard to 'sneak' from one location to another, nude? (then tweak npc pathing to actually make it possible)
- Add emotes that you can use while dressed (so they're not all her masturbating in various positions)
- Shaking her ass (dressed or undressed)
- Dancing (dressed or undressed. If done in a skirt with no panties, viewers can see up her skirt when she moves?)
- Just something innocent but eyecatching to draw people towards her. Maybe loud?
- Eating an icepop with blowjob motions. Draws guys attention, doesn't make Roxanne embarrassed? (Mission/postcard to do this one somewhere in the city?)
Might add some more ideas later.
Edit: So the pool DOES have two changing rooms. It also has two more completely unused rooms.
I think I just didn't see the prompt to open the doors before this. The second changing room has a guy in it, but he never seems to leave and there's nothing to do in there.
The empty rooms are just empty.
Still
- Do something with the lifeguard towers? Posing, sitting nude, ect?
- Do something in the showers off to the left side of the map (Add a showering animation here, have a task to do it naked? It's isolated but it's still outside and kinda exposed.)
- Make use of the fact that the shower-area has a dip in the floor and a waist-high barrier to get the player to use masturbation emotes here where they're out of sight?
- The sorta hidden nook between the boys changing room and those two girls on the bench. This area is sorta hidden. Do something here?
Edit:
Biggest suggestion: Seleka let you gain exp/money by doing lewd things outside of missions. Stripping or walking around nude or posing or masturbating even without an task/quest to do it.
You don't get a
lot of points, but it's a continuous trickle of like 0.5p per second. This rewarded players for doing lewd things even outside of the mission system. For your game, your exp is too tightly controlled for that, but you could do it for money, to let the player buy new clothes with.
I mean, you already have the Live mechanic for that, but currently there's not a lot going on there.
When I was grinding money through Live, I ended up basically just stepping outside of her house, stripping off in the safety of her garden and then going live and alt-tabbing out, because you can't actually DO anything while streaming yet.
Obviously that's probably going to change later on, but i'm not sure how viable it is to have her be going around flashing people, crawling through bushes naked and masturbating all while streaming.
Most of those things take two hands!
... maybe you could get an upgrade to send out a flying camera-drone that follows you around and films Roxanne's adventures? (or get old-Roxanne to stalk and film her? Lmao)
Anyway, a mechanic like that would add replay value to maps that you've already beaten.