HTML SexMachine. Chapter 1: The Essence [v1.0] [SupremeAI]

[SupremeAI]

Hey, cool game so far. Here's my 2 cents

A little grindy in places but its not too bad. Overall I like it, I feel like you've taken much inspiration from inner bimbo.

In the story, you say this essence is supposed to essentially make any woman look like a pornstar, however the thumbnail images of their faces are the same before and after using the essence which is a little immersion breaking. If its not crazy amounts of work I think it would be really good to use different face images for the women before they are transformed.

Inner bimbo is a very good example of this and felt very effective.

Hi! Thank you so much for the feedback and the interesting suggestion!

Indeed, the essence alters the appearance of women, but it specifically refers to their figure and some physiological features. That is, the girls can obtain the figure of a porn model, but not the face

However, the idea of changing faces is quite intriguing and also aligns well with other parts of the game:

The first chapter has an add-on (called "Weird Dream") where Evan is asleep, and he dreams of his workday in the laboratory, but all the staff in the laboratory have new appearances (both figures and faces). This add-on hasn't been published yet, but it's already prepared (except for some minor details). Maybe I'll release it as DLC for the first chapter or as a prologue to the second chapter - I haven't decided yet. But I think when Evan wakes up, he might get the idea that the essence should change the appearance of the girls completely (including their faces). And this will create a connection between the first and fourth chapters:

I planned that in the fourth chapter, the volunteer girls will decide for themselves what appearance they would like to have thanks to the application of the essence:

• fat girls will want to become skinny
• skinny girls will want to become fat
• someone will want a voluptuous chest and ass
• and some girls will want to have a penis
• maybe someone will want to have three tits, who knows?

And the change of faces here will be just perfect.

Thank you very much for your advice, I have something to think about

 

[Aioto]

Can Amy mistake happen only once a day?

 

[freud81]

Hi, I tried the game, I like it so far, something I found odd though is the 15 minute shower, it kinda off-set the time of the day for 15 minutes and then you either arrive late or early at work, maybe there is a path to make the 15 minute go back to 30 to 00 but yeah, it feels a bit odd to be "penalized" because you take a shower in the morning

I cannot speak for everyone but I like to have progression in the sex scenes, as in, it is nice to work toward something and get better sex scenes. I feel like adding some layering to the sex unlocks would create a motivating factor, if you unlock everything on the first essence or sex scene (ie you get blowjob, anal, vaginal...) it kinda just means the rest will be more of the same instead of wanting more.

One failure of some porn games is basically just sending way too much porn early and it does not feel like you "worked for it"; if I want to be bombarded by porn scenes non-stop, I will go on a porn website. The random sex scenes at work feel like it cheapens the overall reward, but not too bad for a random sex scene (not extensive), it breaks the monotony but I would rather have something less explicit, specially when you start the game, ie : the gym pictures or charisma ones but maybe voyeur type and maybe later it progress.

Anyway, I don't want you to redo it all, just things to consider, have fun, thanks for the game.

 

[SupremeAI]

Can Amy mistake happen only once a day?

Hi. Thanks for the question.

Indeed, Amy can make a mistake only once a day. However, you should know that the game implements the concept of pseudo-random events. This means that neither I as the developer nor you as the player know exactly which day Amy will make a mistake. It's not random, but pseudo-random event. That is, there are conditions that can influence it, but they do not guarantee that Amy will make a mistake.

This also applies to some other events in the game, such as:

• The appearance of Joe and Stacy
• Laboratory generator resets
• The attitude of city girls towards your appearance and charisma
• and some other events

 

[Aioto]

The attitude of city girls towards your appearance and charisma

By that do you mean the fact that you have to talk to them first in order to set how much muscles and charisma you need to actually hit on them?

 

[SupremeAI]

Hi. Thank you very much for the detailed feedback. It's really helpful to know your opinion.

I really appreciate feedback like this. This is my first game, and as I wrote in the game's intro: I want to create games the way players want to see them. That's why any comments, criticism, and advice are very important and useful to me.

Hi, I tried the game, I like it so far, something I found odd though is the 15 minute shower, it kinda off-set the time of the day for 15 minutes and then you either arrive late or early at work, maybe there is a path to make the 15 minute go back to 30 to 00 but yeah, it feels a bit odd to be "penalized" because you take a shower in the morning

The idea was that taking a shower (providing 100% hygiene) and having breakfast (providing 100% energy) together take 30 minutes. Evan wakes up at 8:00, and he needs to be at work by 9:00 (30 minutes to commute to work). So, taking a shower (15 min) + having breakfast (15 min) + commuting to work (30 min) = the start of the workday. That was the concept. However, you can always buy one-time consumables from the Mall to boost your energy and hygiene, and then you don't need to take a shower or have breakfast. Just go to work as soon as you wake up and press the button: Wait 30 min.

I cannot speak for everyone but I like to have progression in the sex scenes, as in, it is nice to work toward something and get better sex scenes. I feel like adding some layering to the sex unlocks would create a motivating factor, if you unlock everything on the first essence or sex scene (ie you get blowjob, anal, vaginal...) it kinda just means the rest will be more of the same instead of wanting more.

One failure of some porn games is basically just sending way too much porn early and it does not feel like you "worked for it"; if I want to be bombarded by porn scenes non-stop, I will go on a porn website. The random sex scenes at work feel like it cheapens the overall reward, but not too bad for a random sex scene (not extensive), it breaks the monotony but I would rather have something less explicit, specially when you start the game, ie : the gym pictures or charisma ones but maybe voyeur type and maybe later it progress.

This is the first game I've developed. While creating it, I faced a dilemma:

Add as many erotic scenes as possible (so that the player doesn't get bored).
Make the player "work" to get the erotic scenes.
Thanks to your comment, I realized that I need to reanalyze the concept of player interaction with NPCs, and now I really have something to think about.

Thank you once again for your feedback, it was very helpful

 

[SupremeAI]

By that do you mean the fact that you have to talk to them first in order to set how much muscles and charisma you need to actually hit on them?

Absolutely right. Ideally, you should talk to each of the city girls first, and then try to seduce them But that's our little secret

 

[Fstop]

You should heavily reconsider the amount of dmg that the Fly Hybrid event does or include in after the sex scene the money needed for the repair. When I tried the game out and was buying food and hygiene product the Fixed Damage/Essense Lost/Giant Repair Cost combo basically made me feel it was the equivalent of a game over screen since it came out of left field.

Didn't have enough essence to sell on the black market to get to the 340ish$ I needed, didn't know if there is even a secondary way of making money if you can't cook (I was not about to grind 1 essence per time slot and 1 dollar per time slot). So I just reset the game didn't eat or shower since you its not required to work at the lab and the cost is way to high and the fixed Energy=80 Hygiene=0 just encourages me to not engage with that side of things until I finish the lab event and have a surplus of money to spend on food and soap.

Personally think you should just remove the food/clean item system and just have it taken from you cash pool at a much reduce rate 2$/Shower 5$/Meal or just remove the system all together. If you really like the system in be in the game at least adjust the item prices and not it the Refresher Kits/Energy Drink aren't better than Food/Soap. Maybe keep current price but a Food/Soap is actually *5 Uses.

This is of course just my personal opinion do what you will with it.

 

[laxioor]

Do you plan to add versions with sound in the videos for patrons, for example?

 

[freud81]

The idea was that taking a shower (providing 100% hygiene) and having breakfast (providing 100% energy) together take 30 minutes. Evan wakes up at 8:00, and he needs to be at work by 9:00 (30 minutes to commute to work). So, taking a shower (15 min) + having breakfast (15 min) + commuting to work (30 min) = the start of the workday. That was the concept. However, you can always buy one-time consumables from the Mall to boost your energy and hygiene, and then you don't need to take a shower or have breakfast. Just go to work as soon as you wake up and press the button: Wait 30 min

Makes sense, I felt the breakfast was a bit underwhelming since I had to pay for it for the amount of energy, but I guess I will use it now. In the same vein of progression, maybe add something in the future to automate the morning routine, maybe around day 10 or 15 or maybe something to buy at the store.

Add as many erotic scenes as possible (so that the player doesn't get bored).
Make the player "work" to get the erotic scenes.
Thanks to your comment, I realized that I need to reanalyze the concept of player interaction with NPCs, and now I really have something to think about.

I totally get not wanting to get bored, there is a fine line between "player gets not enough reward" and "too much", striking the right balance is hard. I think that's why lots of game have "red district area" where if they need a little pick me up, they can pay for cheap sex, often with less desirable pornstar or in kinda shitty setting.

Maybe you picked your scenes already so it will be a lot of work to redo it all, so I would not be shocked if you decide to keep it as is.

Anyway, have a good one, thanks for the game, still lot of fun.

 

[ARDATR103]

I just started the game, there is no sound in the first scenes, I don't know if the rest of the game is like this, but it would be better if you choose the scenes with sound.

 

[Greenhorn2013]

Some suggestions:

• Autosave on Day Turn
• Audio in Video Files and option to mute sound
• Choose character Name in start

Bugs:

• Staff Punishment Room doesnt work if Mistake Counter >5

 

[Pink kink]

cheat code?

 

[onoxlol]

Hi! Thank you so much for the feedback and the interesting suggestion!

Indeed, the essence alters the appearance of women, but it specifically refers to their figure and some physiological features. That is, the girls can obtain the figure of a porn model, but not the face

However, the idea of changing faces is quite intriguing and also aligns well with other parts of the game:

The first chapter has an add-on (called "Weird Dream") where Evan is asleep, and he dreams of his workday in the laboratory, but all the staff in the laboratory have new appearances (both figures and faces). This add-on hasn't been published yet, but it's already prepared (except for some minor details). Maybe I'll release it as DLC for the first chapter or as a prologue to the second chapter - I haven't decided yet. But I think when Evan wakes up, he might get the idea that the essence should change the appearance of the girls completely (including their faces). And this will create a connection between the first and fourth chapters:

I planned that in the fourth chapter, the volunteer girls will decide for themselves what appearance they would like to have thanks to the application of the essence:

• fat girls will want to become skinny
• skinny girls will want to become fat
• someone will want a voluptuous chest and ass
• and some girls will want to have a penis
• maybe someone will want to have three tits, who knows?

And the change of faces here will be just perfect.

Thank you very much for your advice, I have something to think about

Oh ok, that makes more sense regarding the women. The dream sequence sounds great and so do your other plans! Youre welcome, its a very good start for the game and I look forward to your future releases.

 

[onoxlol]

Hi, I tried the game, I like it so far, something I found odd though is the 15 minute shower, it kinda off-set the time of the day for 15 minutes and then you either arrive late or early at work, maybe there is a path to make the 15 minute go back to 30 to 00 but yeah, it feels a bit odd to be "penalized" because you take a shower in the morning

I cannot speak for everyone but I like to have progression in the sex scenes, as in, it is nice to work toward something and get better sex scenes. I feel like adding some layering to the sex unlocks would create a motivating factor, if you unlock everything on the first essence or sex scene (ie you get blowjob, anal, vaginal...) it kinda just means the rest will be more of the same instead of wanting more.

One failure of some porn games is basically just sending way too much porn early and it does not feel like you "worked for it"; if I want to be bombarded by porn scenes non-stop, I will go on a porn website. The random sex scenes at work feel like it cheapens the overall reward, but not too bad for a random sex scene (not extensive), it breaks the monotony but I would rather have something less explicit, specially when you start the game, ie : the gym pictures or charisma ones but maybe voyeur type and maybe later it progress.

Anyway, I don't want you to redo it all, just things to consider, have fun, thanks for the game.

Totally agree with a bit more of a slow progression on scenes, especially with the people you interact with outside of the test subjects, such as your work colleagues etc.

 

[SupremeAI]

Do you plan to add versions with sound in the videos for patrons, for example?

Hi. That's actually an interesting idea. And I've received such suggestions multiple times already. Well, there's no problem in adding a version with sound, but most likely it will be implemented in the next chapters of the game. The main idea was to keep the game under one gigabyte. That's why the audio was removed.

 

[SupremeAI]

You should heavily reconsider the amount of dmg that the Fly Hybrid event does or include in after the sex scene the money needed for the repair. When I tried the game out and was buying food and hygiene product the Fixed Damage/Essense Lost/Giant Repair Cost combo basically made me feel it was the equivalent of a game over screen since it came out of left field.

Didn't have enough essence to sell on the black market to get to the 340ish$ I needed, didn't know if there is even a secondary way of making money if you can't cook (I was not about to grind 1 essence per time slot and 1 dollar per time slot). So I just reset the game didn't eat or shower since you its not required to work at the lab and the cost is way to high and the fixed Energy=80 Hygiene=0 just encourages me to not engage with that side of things until I finish the lab event and have a surplus of money to spend on food and soap.

Personally think you should just remove the food/clean item system and just have it taken from you cash pool at a much reduce rate 2$/Shower 5$/Meal or just remove the system all together. If you really like the system in be in the game at least adjust the item prices and not it the Refresher Kits/Energy Drink aren't better than Food/Soap. Maybe keep current price but a Food/Soap is actually *5 Uses.

This is of course just my personal opinion do what you will with it.

Hi! Thank you very much for the detailed feedback!

Parameters like hygiene, energy, and others do indeed slow down gameplay progress. I thought it was the right approach. But to keep the player engaged, I added the concept of generator resets and events with Joe and Stacy: so while you're replenishing your resources, Joe, Stacy, and generator resets keep things interesting.

However, deep down, I believe it's worth removing anything that slows down progress completely:

• hygiene
• gym workouts
• travel time in the city
• etc ...

I'll think more about this balance because the game should be enjoyable and comfortable.

In any case, I plan to implement several new gameplay mechanics in the second chapter. Let's see if I can make the gameplay more interesting. I also sent you a private message. Please, take a look.

 

[SupremeAI]

Thank you for the wonderful ideas and advice. Once again, you've inspired me with interesting thoughts.

Makes sense, I felt the breakfast was a bit underwhelming since I had to pay for it for the amount of energy, but I guess I will use it now. In the same vein of progression, maybe add something in the future to automate the morning routine, maybe around day 10 or 15 or maybe something to buy at the store.

The idea of removing the morning routine starting from day 10-15 is brilliant.

I totally get not wanting to get bored, there is a fine line between "player gets not enough reward" and "too much", striking the right balance is hard. I think that's why lots of game have "red district area" where if they need a little pick me up, they can pay for cheap sex, often with less desirable pornstar or in kinda shitty setting.

Thank you for the great suggestion. The red light district will definitely appear in the third chapter of the game. In the second chapter, there won't be access to city locations - the locations will only be inside various buildings because the second chapter is more about the plot than strolling around the city.

Maybe you picked your scenes already so it will be a lot of work to redo it all, so I would not be shocked if you decide to keep it as is.

Anyway, have a good one, thanks for the game, still lot of fun.

Thank you for playing my game. I hope it brought you some enjoyable emotions

 

[SupremeAI]

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Oh ok, that makes more sense regarding the women. The dream sequence sounds great and so do your other plans! Youre welcome, its a very good start for the game and I look forward to your future releases.

Thank you very much for the kind feedback. It really supports me and motivates me to work on developing the game I hope I will meet your expectations. Also, I want to thank you once again for participating in the discussion of the game Players' opinions are very important to me because they help me understand what you will truly enjoy

 

[shackle123]

Hi. That's actually an interesting idea. And I've received such suggestions multiple times already. Well, there's no problem in adding a version with sound, but most likely it will be implemented in the next chapters of the game. The main idea was to keep the game under one gigabyte. That's why the audio was removed.

Game seems solid but haven't gotten far maily because of Audio that was missing for me and figured I'll keep it on the watchlist till it maybe gets added. Understand the want to keep it tight on filesize which is also appreciated though audio would be a big part in enhancing the experience, atleast personally speaking, without it I get a somewhat empty feeling like something is missing.