Who's your favorite character in SandStorm?

  • Maddie

    Votes: 932 28.4%
  • Nora

    Votes: 928 28.3%
  • Rion

    Votes: 1,367 41.7%
  • The Priestess

    Votes: 539 16.4%

  • Total voters
    3,281

Kame-Sennin

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Yeah, it's a romance one girl kind of game, so on any given playthrough you'll see around a third of the scenes. Not my personal preference, but there's an audience for it.
Damn, so if for example I choose to be with Rion, then Maddie will bang other guy in her room ? I guess its Julian ? is there no way to have 75 points with Maddie to prevent her from doing that even if I am in Rion path ?
 
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hakarlman

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Can the dev do another re-render of ssd2 dream xmaddie 10.png and flip the light around so it's shining on her. For example, make the lighting the same way as in ssd2 dream xmaddieplayer 05.png, so we can see her clearly. You could show this new render right after the existing one:

1. Keep this as is: ssd2 dream xmaddie 10.png
2. Then show the new render after: ssd2 dream xmaddie 10-RotatedLightToSeeHerBetter.png

The whole idea of Maddie being fucked by a statue like that is very erotic. It would be good to see her get fucked by other equally bizarre things, like a dark skinned, demonic human form of a demi-god or other fantastical beings with physical bodies.

(Damn, if the dev is into NTR, he should consider making a PURE NTR game one day where the MC goes on an adventure with Maddie, and ends up getting completely cucked (or netorase if you want him dominant) while watching her get fucked BY EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, lol. But, I'm not suggesting that for this game, because it's not the original vision. Don't want to upset anyone.)
 
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ZagorTeNay

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Julian was my favorite part of this update. While MC is screwing his gf, dude's having the time of his life

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No way this guy lasts more than few epizodes.
 
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GleenXstudio

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Julian was my favorite part of this update. While MC is screwing his gf, dude's having the time of his life

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No way this guy lasts more than few epizodes.
Wait for the next update, he can do even better :ROFLMAO:. Poor Julian, the fate I got for him is...well you'll see soon.

The whole idea of Maddie being fucked by a statue like that is very erotic. It would be good to see her get fucked by other equally bizarre things, like a dark skinned, demonic human form of a demi-god or other fantastical beings with physical bodies.
Thanks for the rating btw. You seem to have enjoyed 100% of 25% of the game :ROFLMAO:, maybe it's better than 25% of 100% of the game? :unsure:.
"Anudik" will be back soon, seems like you will like it, lol. Btw, guys, there are some teasers on Twitter from time to time. (careful there are some BBC on those teasers xD)




(Damn, if the dev is into NTR, he should consider making a PURE NTR game one day where the MC goes on an adventure with Maddie, and ends up getting completely cucked (or netorase if you want him dominant) while watching her get fucked BY EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, lol. But, I'm not suggesting that for this game, because it's not the original vision. Don't want to upset anyone.)
There are no plans for releasing a pure NTR game in the future. However, I made an NTR section on Patreon that is a bit independent from the rest, where I am posting additional renders, I'm pretty sure that I posted there more renders on that scene you are referring to and with different lightings. I am even currently making a comic on that subject which will be released soon on that section. Might do some mini VN for some extreme fetish for fun in the future, but that's not my priority for now.

In fact, the second episode of Erastorm won't even have NTR at all. Honestly, I don't consider the first episode to even deserve the NTR tag as those are options that are a little part of the game, but well it was tagged like that by the admins.
Anyway, It's tedious work to keep a balance between genres and try to provide variety and freedom to the player. And because some tags are present, people think that the game is focused on those tags, when it's not really the case. I just enjoy a lot of different things, want to explore a little bit of everything as it is my first creation and I want to give the player a personal experience where he can have some influence on the story. I can see it clearly with my supporters, I made some polls to see what they liked in the game, and the answers are completely different. In a way, I'm happy the game attracted people that enjoyed totally different aspects of the game, people that like the extreme and mature part of the game, as much as people that like the romantic and funny part of the game. And few people that like both parts (like me), but I'm realizing that most players look for more restricted genres and not so much for "you can do whatever" games. I'm keeping my visions for SandStorm because it's really the game I wanted to make and that I'm loving to make. But the time I'm spending on it is clearly not worth atm, and I can't afford to make a second game like that. So, I'm taking what I learned into account for SnowStorm (Ep2), I'll make it more simple in terms of genres, it will have a little fewer tags (but "adventure" will always remain the first tag) and instead, focus more on immersion and quality. I'll keep my side genre explorations for comics and extra scenes outside of the game,

It feels like the game was supposed to be centered around Maddie, and that Nora & Rion were tacked on. IMO, it should just be the MC & Maddie. Rion & Nora complicate the plot, and unless you're quenten tarantino, it's too hard to bring all these characters together in a story; imo.
I'm not giving more importance to Maddie than to the other girls, but it's undeniable that with Maddie, the player gets a better understanding of the story and probably the most adventurous experience.
Nora has more impact than you think and it will show soon. I believe she is the one that will give the player the most surprising experience.
I didn't expect Rion's to be that successful, but I think I get why now. She is the spice and the sun of the story, and even though she is a bit clueless, I believe many want to protect her from both her jerk BF and the dangers that lie around her as she is not as agile/strong as the other girls.
I believe they all have their purpose and the game can be repeatable as the experience is really different from one girl to another.

In fact, I don't want to have a main love interest + 2 others side love interests. That's something that I find too often on games, especially eroge, and which I don't really appreciate. Since minute one, you know that's the girl you will have no choice but to end up with. The main storyline is with one girl, and the others are just decoration, but still, you have to date/fuck the others for some fake sense of choices, but in reality, they don't matter. Not really my thing and not what I want for SandStorm.
I prefer to make 3 ways of living the adventure with a different girl each time. But I agree it makes the story harder to build, I'm calling Tarantino every night for some piece of advice. :KEK:

Damn, so if for example I choose to be with Rion, then Maddie will bang other guy in her room ? I guess its Julian ? is there no way to have 75 points with Maddie to prevent her from doing that even if I am in Rion path ?
If you don't look for Maddie in the first place when you are supposed to hit on Rion (means you have to make some illogical action on purpose), you won't even know that she is banging another guy. Plus it's warned by NTR tags, so it's not even a surprise. If you get to that scene, it's because you wanted to go there at some point.
If you don't even want the options to even trigger, you need to have more than 50 pts with Maddie. Which is hard to do, if you romance Rion, but maybe it's possible, but then you won't have many points with Rion and probably won't be able to romance Rion at the end. Like when you pursue 2 rabbits...you catch none of them :). Nora is a bit different, she won't "suck" points from other girls that much, so it might be possible to do some "stuff with her" while dating the other girls. I won't give more details, but that was some Tarantino idea. Must be good I guess. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Kame-Sennin

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Wait for the next update, he can do even better :ROFLMAO:. Poor Julian, the fate I got for him is...well you'll see soon.


Thanks for the rating btw. You seem to have enjoyed 100% of 25% of the game :ROFLMAO:, maybe it's better than 25% of 100% of the game? :unsure:.
"Anudik" will be back soon, seems like you will like it, lol. Btw, guys, there are some teasers on Twitter from time to time. (careful there are some BBC on those teasers xD)






There are no plans for releasing a pure NTR game in the future. However, I made an NTR section on Patreon that is a bit independent from the rest, where I am posting additional renders, I'm pretty sure that I posted there more renders on that scene you are referring to and with different lightings. I am even currently making a comic on that subject which will be released soon on that section. Might do some mini VN for some extreme fetish for fun in the future, but that's not my priority for now.

In fact, the second episode of Erastorm won't even have NTR at all. Honestly, I don't consider the first episode to even deserve the NTR tag as those are options that are a little part of the game, but well it was tagged like that by the admins.
Anyway, It's tedious work to keep a balance between genres and try to provide variety and freedom to the player. And because some tags are present, people think that the game is focused on those tags, when it's not really the case. I just enjoy a lot of different things, want to explore a little bit of everything as it is my first creation and I want to give the player a personal experience where he can have some influence on the story. I can see it clearly with my supporters, I made some polls to see what they liked in the game, and the answers are completely different. In a way, I'm happy the game attracted people that enjoyed totally different aspects of the game, people that like the extreme and mature part of the game, as much as people that like the romantic and funny part of the game. And few people that like both parts (like me), but I'm realizing that most players look for more restricted genres and not so much for "you can do whatever" games. I'm keeping my visions for SandStorm because it's really the game I wanted to make and that I'm loving to make. But the time I'm spending on it is clearly not worth atm, and I can't afford to make a second game like that. So, I'm taking what I learned into account for SnowStorm (Ep2), I'll make it more simple in terms of genres, it will have a little fewer tags (but "adventure" will always remain the first tag) and instead, focus more on immersion and quality. I'll keep my side genre explorations for comics and extra scenes outside of the game,



I'm not giving more importance to Maddie than to the other girls, but it's undeniable that with Maddie, the player gets a better understanding of the story and probably the most adventurous experience.
Nora has more impact than you think and it will show soon. I believe she is the one that will give the player the most surprising experience.
I didn't expect Rion's to be that successful, but I think I get why now. She is the spice and the sun of the story, and even though she is a bit clueless, I believe many want to protect her from both her jerk BF and the dangers that lie around her as she is not as agile/strong as the other girls.
I believe they all have their purpose and the game can be repeatable as the experience is really different from one girl to another.

In fact, I don't want to have a main love interest + 2 others side love interests. That's something that I find too often on games, especially eroge, and which I don't really appreciate. Since minute one, you know that's the girl you will have no choice but to end up with. The main storyline is with one girl, and the others are just decoration, but still, you have to date/fuck the others for some fake sense of choices, but in reality, they don't matter. Not really my thing and not what I want for SandStorm.
I prefer to make 3 ways of living the adventure with a different girl each time. But I agree it makes the story harder to build, I'm calling Tarantino every night for some piece of advice. :KEK:


If you don't look for Maddie in the first place when you are supposed to hit on Rion (means you have to make some illogical action on purpose), you won't even know that she is banging another guy. Plus it's warned by NTR tags, so it's not even a surprise. If you get to that scene, it's because you wanted to go there at some point.
If you don't even want the options to even trigger, you need to have more than 50 pts with Maddie. Which is hard to do, if you romance Rion, but maybe it's possible, but then you won't have many points with Rion and probably won't be able to romance Rion at the end. Like when you pursue 2 rabbits...you catch none of them :). Nora is a bit different, she won't "suck" points from other girls that much, so it might be possible to do some "stuff with her" while dating the other girls. I won't give more details, but that was some Tarantino idea. Must be good I guess. :ROFLMAO:
Thank you for the info, but nevermind I found a really good way how to get 50 pts with Maddie to avoid her banging other guys and still can romance Rion
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, I am into team Rion even though I find Maddie more sexy and attractive because I feel like the Netori in Rion's route is well written and the NSFW scenes are way better than Maddie (needs improvement) , I don't know about the others though but based on the voting poll I guess I am right
 

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IDK bros, I'm into team Rion because she has the most genuine emotional connection to the MC story-wise, it's only a bonus that she's the hottest of them all(in my opinion).
 
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On the contrary, I'm into Team Maddie 'cause, like DEV himself wrote, she's the most connected to the main storyline, and without her the risk is to lose the most important parts of the storyline.
Rion doesn't seem interested in the "Anubis problem", while Maddie went to Egypt just for that.
 

Kame-Sennin

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On the contrary, I'm into Team Maddie 'cause, like DEV himself wrote, she's the most connected to the main storyline, and without her the risk is to lose the most important parts of the storyline.
Rion doesn't seem interested in the "Anubis problem", while Maddie went to Egypt just for that.
I want to go with Maddie too, but her scenes are a bit lacking for now compare to Rion
 

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Btw, guys, there are some teasers on Twitter from time to time. (careful there are some BBC on those teasers xD)

Wow those teases look great. Looking forward to the rest of Day 3 with the next update.

Just couple of questions,

1) I love how you've injected flashbacks for both Rion and Maddie of their time with MC in their school days. How long will these flashbacks continue?

2) Nora only recently came into the fold, but any chance of some flashbacks with her? Granted, there won't be MC to quite connect it to the current story, but since Rion and Maddie are getting flashbacks, I was wondering whether she's getting it too.

3) For Day 2, Rion and MC's restroom sex (lust choice, instead of romance choice on bed) was "oh my lord!" :love: hot. Kinda hoping that sex scenes with romance choices can get just as steamy hot though (I mean, that sex with Rion on the bed scene was nice, but if I had to rate them both, I'd say the restroom sex was definitely better).
 

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1) I love how you've injected flashbacks for both Rion and Maddie of their time with MC in their school days. How long will these flashbacks continue?
Rion has one more planned. Then, it's whenever I have time or if I'm in the mood for a change of pace, so I don't know^^.

2) Nora only recently came into the fold, but any chance of some flashbacks with her? Granted, there won't be MC to quite connect it to the current story, but since Rion and Maddie are getting flashbacks, I was wondering whether she's getting it too.
MC didn't know Nora in the past, so no reason to do flashbacks for her. But she has "shows" instead ;).

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Rion wants something, guess what?
 

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Rion has one more planned. Then, it's whenever I have time or if I'm in the mood for a change of pace, so I don't know^^.


MC didn't know Nora in the past, so no reason to do flashbacks for her. But she has "shows" instead ;).

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Rion wants something, guess what?
Looks like a "please be my minion and help me make my next cosplay" kinda look. Then again, I suck ass at deciphering women's stares....
 
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CrazyRabbit

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By the way, I posted a new poll, this time not about your favourite LI, but about your favourite kind of routes
https://f95zone.to/threads/erastorm-episode-1-sandstorm-v0-5-gleenx-studio.70133/
Oh right, the kind of favourite route.:unsure: Well ya know ; I'm a classic so mostly pressed tar.....white lines....if you could throw some protections on the side that'd be...
I'll stop that joke right now *cough*

But the deep, drawn-out romance with plenty of wholesomeness is my favourite.
 
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