HTML Sheriff (RPG with a Custom Engine) [Development Thread]

[rerzekapsi]

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Hey everyone, I'm a long-time lurker, but this is my first time posting here. "Sheriff" is a game I've been developing for the past 3-4 months. It's not a Twine game – no shade to Twine, just wanted to make something different. I started developing the basics back in January with a completely different kind of game in mind, but I wasn't consistent with my development time and ultimately ditched the idea back in June.

I made some technical changes, switched the theme, and have been spending quite some time with it in the past 3 months. It is a text-based visual novel at its core, with lots of procedural content in various mechanics (most of which I haven't implemented yet). This is still quite early in development, but I wanted to put something out here to help me not lose motivation and manage to release it. I will post about any developments, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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[Saint Blackmoor]

a text-based visual novel at its core, with lots of procedural content in various mechanics

Looks interesting.
Are the real porn pics accurate to the story?

 

[rerzekapsi]

Looks interesting.
Are the real porn pics accurate to the story?

The ones in between the lines in a conversation are accurate. But there are also those that are shown in fullscreen in the screenshots and they are separate from the story.

Most of the characters in the game (except for the ones in the main story) are auto generated, and when you manage to have sex with them the first time, they are assigned a model based on their looks. There are currently over 20 models and each has multiple videos in 6 categories shown in the screenshots (going down on them, getting a bj, casual, hardcore and anal). To see a scene in an encounter you roll the dice, and there are many factors affecting your success (girl's traits, your experience, previous attempts, etc.) You can see some of that in the second screenshot.

 

[Saint Blackmoor]

Pretty cool. I haven't played very into an HTML because the real porn just didn't match the dialogue.
What you're doing seems to improve on that.

 

[hiya02]

Interesting theme, but for fucks sake, do get rid of the awful, horrible watermarked resources!! They are a huge turn-off and break any immersion...

 

[rerzekapsi]

Interesting theme, but for fucks sake, do get rid of the awful, horrible watermarked resources!! They are a huge turn-off and break any immersion...

I could change them later on, but pulling those from ph was easier in adding diversity, especially at such an early stage. I'd like your opinion on that after I release a gameplay video in a few weeks as well. I wasn't bothered by them that much.