Ren'Py RWBY Trainer : Let's be honest, this is a [Devlog] now

[Fatbot]

Another week, another update to say..... ya'll ain't getting nothing new this week.
Sorry
Good news is that the short new skit and intro section for the first academic training sequence is done.
And I couldn't help but maybe throw a couple of digs at the S1 dialogue and show structure in there....
That said it's substantively complete, and leads out directly into what will be the dailies for both reward and punishment in the academic setting, we don't need a "firsts" bit for this as that's covered by the Gym ones.
Next week I'll be building the dailies for Academic training (with placeholders for activities above Academic 25, and vastly slowed growth beyond that point, just like the Gym).
Then comes the laborious task of essentially replicating everything from the Gym's rewards sections with new dialogue, and building a whole new punishments section from the ground up.

ANYWAY. you're not here for me rambling, you're here for the butt right........ yeah you are!
In a shock twist it's nota RWBY character, discussion over on the thread for ONI's Roguelike got me jonesing for some curvy Doreen, so now you have to deal with it.

 

[JimmyJeremyJerome]

More tracebacks. I saved them up this time so as not to spam the chat.

 

[Fatbot]

You goddam legend you!
Mostly typos, found 'em and fixed 'em.
And I already owed you a Butt from over on the main thread, so..........
Have double-butts!

 

[Fatbot]

I continue to plug away.
Got the initial training session finished, the intro to the daily training section with Ruby's mood varying based on her Trust, and first daily training action (where you use little treats to train Ruby).
Additionally I've tried out the random choice from list function for the first time, so that when Ruby fails her tests at the end of the training (which she'll only pass once she reaches the maximum threshold for the training) she'll give a randomly determined wrong answer making repeatedly failing a tad more interesting.
When she passes she'll give a correct answer from the RWBY Lore, the idea being that when you hot 25, 50, 75, and 99 Academics you'll get an answer you need to remember to pass the Quiz-Off vs Glynda (allowing Ruby to top, rather than bottom).

On the subject of Ruby and bottoms.......
She wanted attention (over on the main thread) and, perhaps predictably, she regretted getting it.

 

[JimmyJeremyJerome]

I do actually have two more tracebacks I may have forgot to post. I also made it further into Ruby's masochism stuff. I never would have found the scenes if I didn't know they were there. It took continuing past the point where I had all three bars basically full and grinding on more or less the same content for in game weeks at a time. It's possible my approach was inefficient but since the stat is hidden I didn't know what was affecting it. Probably once there is more content reaching this will feel more natural, but at the moment it feels more like an Easter egg. Consider adding more signposting.

On the subject of the content itself, I don't think it's really my thing. I did like seeing Ruby's attitude toward it shift, especially early on. It was cute and sexy when she started to look forward to getting spanked, but the more intense stuff sort of makes me uncomfortable. The idea of applying irritants to sensitive areas especially. I'd rather dominate her in other ways. Edging, anal training, kinky degredation, that sort of thing. I'm also really into petplay, if you could find a good excuse to include it. I will say I really liked the sort of blissed out state Ruby would be in afterward. I found myself wishing there were more ways to interact with her when she's like that.

I hope this helps.

 

[FrankWestPhoJrn]

I'm excited. I can't wait to see where this goes.

 

[Fatbot]

I do actually have two more tracebacks I may have forgot to post. I also made it further into Ruby's masochism stuff. I never would have found the scenes if I didn't know they were there. It took continuing past the point where I had all three bars basically full and grinding on more or less the same content for in game weeks at a time. It's possible my approach was inefficient but since the stat is hidden I didn't know what was affecting it. Probably once there is more content reaching this will feel more natural, but at the moment it feels more like an Easter egg. Consider adding more signposting.

On the subject of the content itself, I don't think it's really my thing. I did like seeing Ruby's attitude toward it shift, especially early on. It was cute and sexy when she started to look forward to getting spanked, but the more intense stuff sort of makes me uncomfortable. The idea of applying irritants to sensitive areas especially. I'd rather dominate her in other ways. Edging, anal training, kinky degredation, that sort of thing. I'm also really into petplay, if you could find a good excuse to include it. I will say I really liked the sort of blissed out state Ruby would be in afterward. I found myself wishing there were more ways to interact with her when she's like that.

I hope this helps.

Typos found and fixed
Thank you for the sterling work

Good points on multiple fronts!
On the signposting front I was considering using skits (with associated repeatable sex acts) to indicate Ruby's progress down the horny and masochistic stat growths, triggering at measured steps.
The more extreme stuff would (with the full suite of content) take a more natural path to unlocking than just grinding actions, because the extra levels of punishments would more naturally unlock her more extreme submissive and masochistic sides.
We're hitting that grind without new content because it's all written but the game building up to it is incomplete.

Maybe I should include an option to lock her progress in some way as part of the skits though too, or make it so her desire for increasingly intense pain only grows with more extreme punishments, the idea's to make this more of a playground so if moving into the more hard BDSM content isn't lockable or reversible then that rather fails the project brief.

On the content front I was considering introducing various additional kinks later with new characters.
With submission, pain dependence, and wedgies already currently on Ruby's radar alongside the obvious class-room dynamic.
Trying to get everything into Ruby seemed like I'd have to develop a lot of specific paths for her, and was outside of the original scope
TBH Weiss seemed like the perfect pet-play character choice, her anti-faunus racism seems tailor made for fun with breaking her into a pet. Likewise Yang seems like a good choice for edging, since her whole bag semblance wise is building something up and releasing it. I don't know why, and Nora strikes me as an anal gal, but electric play just feels right for her, and so on....


As for interacting with Ruby once she's gone full endorphin mode, that's a great idea! I could probably add some way to use it to build trust, punishment, horny, or pain dependence with an associated act or two.

Since you worked so hard I present to you an extra special generative Ruby butt : Pet-play edition!

 

[JimmyJeremyJerome]

Oof. I appreciate the gesture, but the AI really doesn't handle it well. Maybe pet-play content should wait until after you've found an artist. On that topic, are you sure you want to go for 2D art? Normally I prefer 2D myself, but RWBY was a 3D animated show to begin with and as I understand it 3D renders are usually less expensive.

My thoughts on fetish content turned into an essay, so I put it in a spoiler to make it easier to scroll past.

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[Fatbot]

Yeah the AI thing really isn't my bag either, so I never bother to learn how to use it well. I just mash in some prompts and hope for a good update butt (which I'm not sure why I adopted doing, other than that I wanted to give people following my madness something when I was just posting "no updates").

I could probably do 3d myself, there are enough programs out there with the models already made etc. But I'm a 2d guy myself when it comes to porn comic content, and if people are gonna pay for this I wanted that money going to fund someone's talents.

Edging Ruby (and later girls) could make it's way into punishments fairly naturally, with the content we actually have written we've barely scratched the surface of punishment (I just got over-excited writing the rewards content and it pulled way out ahead of the rest, because if I'm honest I think being on the dom end of enthusiastic submission to and enjoyment of domination and pain is definitely my bag.

 

[JimmyJeremyJerome]

No dev blog update this week?

 

[Fatbot]

No dev blog update this week?

Hello all!

This is a non-update non-update!
I've been frantically prepping for a real-world event the last couple of weeks, and I've only just finished this afternoon :O
I'm away for said event next week, so work on Ruby's further education will have to continue in a fortnight.
But then I'll be back at it with a vengeance, sorry for radio silence.

Looks like while I was away Summer got her hands on Ruby's PJs.
They do not fit.

 

[JimmyJeremyJerome]

Fair enough. You had me worried just 'cause I'd got so used to your regular Tuesday updates. Enjoy your trip.

 

[Fatbot]

Fair enough. You had me worried just 'cause I'd got so used to your regular Tuesday updates. Enjoy your trip.

Yeah, mea cupla.
I just fully blanked like a goofus.

 

[Fatbot]

Update over on the main thread!

A reasonable amount of work, and a fair dose more coding, but now we've got a reasonable dose of extra content and the framework to build a lot more!

renpy.random.choice may be my new greatest foe though.

But an update none the less.

Over on the main thread Ruby got her rather stretched out PJs back from Summer., and they wouldn't stay up.
Turns out she didn't need them anyway

 

[JimmyJeremyJerome]

What's here is good, although at the moment the lack of study options just makes the game feel even more repetitive. I'm definitely looking forward to having more events fleshed out. Here are the tracebacks I found this time. Only one was actually in the new content, oddly enough.

 

[Fatbot]

What's here is good, although at the moment the lack of study options just makes the game feel even more repetitive. I'm definitely looking forward to having more events fleshed out. Here are the tracebacks I found this time. Only one was actually in the new content, oddly enough.

The anonymous sprite, the myth, the legend.
Your help is as always appreciated
I'm gonna get the rest of the base-level educational approaches sorted ASAP.
Then punishments, sex acts, and aftercare.
Then we're finally ready to expand.
Have an improved go at pet-play Ruby from the AI.

 

[Fatbot]

Another week and more work done!
We've now got an academic training process as fleshed out as the GYM one, a study based rewards section that works, and 1/3rd of a study punishment system.
And TBH it's pretty much all flavour text and and skit animation from here on out all the way to and through Aftercare.
At this rate I'll be dropping another update next week.

Week off next week and I've got a few days worth of activities booked with my wife, not least of which is the Switch released date for Paper Mario which we'll lose at least a couple of days to playing together.
Ah middle-aged life is fun.

That said I'm imagining I'll get extra work on this done next week; so while the update won't necessarily come Mon/Tues as usual, it should be reasonably substantial. I'll try to drop a Mon/Tues post anyway just to make sure I'm checking in

Updates mean butts, we know this to be a scientifically established fact.
And this week I've been playing with PixAI's "Model" types a bit more, it's made some fairly cute sorta-Ruby's.

So I made it spank them!

Peace fellow pervs

 

[Fatbot]

It has been nearly a YEAR! A Year of this madness.
I've probably sunk about 60 days worth of work into this, which also shows the difference between home-brew hobbyist work and doing this for a living.
If I'd be pulling this as a full-time job this would have taken me 12 weeks not 11+ months.

Musing aside today went really well
I got the punishment and post-punishment sequences down.
It was previously pointed out that this BDSM was a tad light on the B, so these punishments involve tying Ruby up
With red rope because TheeSonus made the pun and I liked it.

Sex and Aftercare (including new lewd placeholder images for the study butt-job) to come, and then we have a fully functional first-stage of academic training.

Butts, Butts, Butts!!!!
I post, therefore always a Butt.

 

[TheeSonus]

I have been summoned.

It was previously pointed out that this BDSM was a tad light on the B, so these punishments involve tying Ruby up
With red rope because TheeSonus made the pun and I liked it.

The council finds this... acceptable.

 

[Fatbot]

Version 0.03 LIVES!

That's right, bug and spelling mistake laden it may undoubtedly be, but we've now got the following content;
Intro
Basic Day Loop
Training Ruby in Unarmed Combat (3 levels of harshness)
Rewarding Ruby in the Gym (she picks from 30 odd different rewards based on visible and invisible stats, from a chaste hug to some very horny behaviour & hornier behaviour is unique to gym)
Punishing Ruby in the Gym (with 3 levels of harshness and post-punishment actions)
Buttjobs in the gym (2 levels of hardness, and varying response based on how spanked Ruby is at the time, in a prone position)
Aftercare in the Gym (varying from caring to cruel with unique cruel activity for gym)
Tutoring Ruby in basic learning and concentration skills (3 levels of harshness)
Rewarding Ruby in the study (she picks from 30 odd different rewards based on visible and invisible stats, from a chaste hug to some very horny behaviour & hornier behaviour is unique to study)
Punishing Ruby in the study (with 3 levels of harshness and post-punishment actions)
Buttjobs in the study (2 levels of hardness, and varying response based on how spanked Ruby is at the time, in a kneeling position)
Aftercare in the Gym (varying from caring to cruel with unique cruel activity for study)

That deserves the integer jump to 0.3 I figure.

I've done SOME test runs and bughunts so far without major issues, but there's a few things to polish now (I've noticed that not all of the skit heights match for example and that bugs me).
Next I need to do all of the other "tones" of convincing Ruby into sex (bar force, which needs it's own thing sorted for background stat and future interaction purposes), then a load of "Milestone Skits" the idea being that I can setup a load of skits that both track Ruby's progress in invisible stats in a way the user can see, AND lock them from developing further if the user so wishes.
Once those are done it's a quick re-balance of the stats for pacing purposes, and you'll have a fully functional demo with approximately 20% or so of Ruby's content in it
Huzzah!

Over on the main thread Update Butt Ruby was feeling a bit sad we rejected her from the main game in favour of a thicker assed version, so we gave her a consolation spanking.
Looks like she enjoyed it