VN Ren'Py Abandoned Shapeshift [Chapter 1]

Would you prefer the MC (as male or female) to have sex with

  • female only

    Votes: 187 43.9%
  • both

    Votes: 133 31.2%
  • both but with a female only switch

    Votes: 106 24.9%

  • Total voters
    426
  • Poll closed .

MrLakes1579

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The pitch of this is very similar to an FMV game I played on PS4. Like the player character even had the same name.

Not complaining, loved the original game and thought the concept had a lot of unexplored perv potential.

And looking a bit deeper it appears to be intentional.

All that said something I noticed I the thread that I'm tempted to address is this. If you stick with DAZ/Renpy for projects where the draw is you have a lot of characters, and you plan to have all of them fuck in every combination possible, that's going to be way more renders than anyone would ever want to do and a project like this could get crushed under it's own weight.


I think a better model for games like this would be House Party in Unity. Youget a set of base animations that everyone is programmed with, you just make slight adjustments on the measurements of each character and put different skins on everyone and instantly get way more bang for your buck.

And even using the model I think this game is using it was set around a hotel so you can limit it to mostly one map.

Not viable at this point but I think it would be really interesting if people start trying this.
 
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UbbGames

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The pitch of this is very similar to an FMV game I played on PS4. Like the player character even had the same name.

Not complaining, loved the original game and thought the concept had a lot of unexplored perv potential.

And looking a bit deeper it appears to be intentional.

All that said something I noticed I the thread that I'm tempted to address is this. If you stick with DAZ/Renpy for projects where the draw is you have a lot of characters, and you plan to have all of them fuck in every combination possible, that's going to be way more renders than anyone would ever want to do and a project like this could get crushed under it's own weight.


I think a better model for games like this would be House Party in Unity. Youget a set of base animations that everyone is programmed with, you just make slight adjustments on the measurements of each character and put different skins on everyone and instantly get way more bang for your buck.

And even using the model I think this game is using it was set around a hotel so you can limit it to mostly one map.

Not viable at this point but I think it would be really interesting if people start trying this.
I'll look what unity brings, I started with renpy because I had some experience with it, I took a week off in the dev part to read every feedback and think about how the project will develop.
 

pilgrim2003

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Well, if you trust polls, do not forget to make another poll to know, how many people voting in each of your three categories are actually willing to became patrons. Maybe this can change the numbers considerably...
 

UbbGames

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Well, if you trust polls, do not forget to make another poll to know, how many people voting in each of your three categories are actually willing to became patrons. Maybe this can change the numbers considerably...
I don't want to adapt for money, and in the end, I'll be the only one taking the decision.
 

MrLakes1579

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I'll look what unity brings, I started with renpy because I had some experience with it, I took a week off in the dev part to read every feedback and think about how the project will develop.
Pretty much the only dev I can think of that's using Unity the way I'm talking about is Eek games with House Party which you can see @ https://f95zone.to/threads/house-party-v0-17-2-beta-eek-games.1209/

A lot of people use it make straight visual novels which would work better in Renpy and really only take up more space on your hard drive.

I'd recommend a bit of free roaming with a conversation system or if you could find a way, just build interrogation rooms for each npc, lock into the conversation when you enter the room and have the possibility to have factors trigger whether someone will have sex with you or not. That could either be animation menu or have a little bit of free roam to it.

Also there was something I noticed at the end of the playthrough of the base game. Your character's name is "Sam" a classicly gender neutral name and by the end of the game you have no indication if "Sam" is male or female. If you're going this route you could have that be a choice at the beginning of a playthrough.

If this route proves successful you could even spice it up by hiring some voice talent from r/GoneWildAudio.
 
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UbbGames

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Pretty much the only dev I can think of that's using Unity the way I'm talking about is Eek games with House Party which you can see @ https://f95zone.to/threads/house-party-v0-17-2-beta-eek-games.1209/

A lot of people use it make straight visual novels which would work better in Renpy and really only take up more space on your hard drive.

I'd recommend a bit of free roaming with a conversation system or if you could find a way, just build interrogation rooms for each npc, lock into the conversation when you enter the room and have the possibility to have factors trigger whether someone will have sex with you or not. That could either be animation menu or have a little bit of free roam to it.

Also there was something I noticed at the end of the playthrough of the base game. Your character's name is "Sam" a classicly gender neutral name and by the end of the game you have no indication if "Sam" is male or female. If you're going this route you could have that be a choice at the beginning of a playthrough.

If this route proves successful you could even spice it up by hiring some voice talent from r/GoneWildAudio.
I plan to stick with Renpy/Daz, about Sam, He (as sam) won't be a main character and he won"t interact much with other people as Sam.
 
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MrLakes1579

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I plan to stick with Renpy/Daz, about Sam, He (as sam) won't be a main character and he won"t interact much with other people as Sam.
Understandable. Scale seems managable for either format. Though not gonna lie kind of hoping someone tries the version I was recommending someday.

Actually played the game since biggest recommendation if you keep it in the current state. Try to plant seeds for multiple pairings, they seem somewhat set currently.
 
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