VN Ren'Py Stains of Blue [Game Dev Thread]

zetsupetsu

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Hey everyone.


I’m Zetszuu — some of you might remember me as the guy who made the NETORASE MASTERLIST, or as the one who was working on Tainted Aquamarine.


It’s been about 4 years since then. I kinda disappeared from F95 and the scene in general. Best way I can put it: life got in the way. IRL took priority, I didn’t really have a reason to keep playing or making these games, and when my laptop died back then, that pretty much killed what little motivation I had left. Honestly, I was happy enough with my life outside that I didn’t really miss this.


But — fast forward to now — life’s settled down again. Things are good, and out of nowhere the itch to finish what I started came back. So here I am.


And now, I’m proud (and honestly a little nervous) to finally present to you:

STAINS OF BLUE

This is the project that’s been in my head since the Tainted Aquamarine days.
In a way, you could say Tainted Aquamarine evolved into this. The themes, the color blue (still my favorite), and a lot of the ideas got carried over and expanded into something bigger, better, and more ambitious.

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So.. what is Stains of Blue?

At its core, it’s a game about Netorase — and, to some extent, NTR too.


You pick your heroine from 4 personalities, each tied to a shade of blue, and you pick your dynamic with her.
Your choices shape the narrative — each personality reacts differently to different situations, and each dynamic gives you a whole other flavor of the fetish to explore.


I wanted to create something that gives everyone a chance to experience their own version of “ideal” Netorase — with the kind of heroine and relationship that appeals to them most.


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THE HEROINES.


In this game you choose the heroine to be one of 4 different personalities . Each personality is tied to a shade of blue.

AQUAMARINE -Soft Spoken, Kind, and Sweet

SAPPHIRE - Strong-Willed, Cheerful, and Outgoing.

AZURE - Promiscous, Flirtatious, Aventourous

COBALT - Domineering, Commanding Presence, Confident


If all goes well, I plan to add more “blues” in the future — like CERULEAN, who’s still a secret for now but someone who's personality I’m really curious to write in a Netorase setting.

Each personality have their own dedicated narrative and branching arcs, so you can only imagine the amount of diverse stories and interactions I am excited to share with you all!


BUT... that's not the only thing! You as the Main Character, will actually get to choose the type of Netorase dynamic you have with your heroine as well! Imagine Cobalt being your submissive pet. Or at least try lol.

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THE DYNAMICS


Netorase is a spectrum. After being in this niche for too long I understand there is no one size fits all for this genre and each one of us get turned on by different aspects of the fetish. So that's why, after much research on what part appeals to enjoyers of this, I managed to break them into 3 categories. It's not perfect, but I think these 3 are broad enough categories that they cast a wide net to cover enough of the spectrum as possible.

THE CUCKOLD - Your traditional cuckoldry, humiliation, degradation aspect of the genre. I'm not the best at writing this stuff since I'm not that much of a fan but I promise to try and live up to players expectations when it comes to this. I plan to add all the stereotypical things mostly included in this genre like sph, bbc and most forms of degradation. It's why I created Cobalt, just to cater to this specific thing.

THE STAG -This is by far my most area of expertise as this is what I consider to be my type of Netorase, as you can see in my Netorase Master list. I am looking forward to create many intense stories under this dynamic especially with Aquamarine and Sapphire. Confident, consensual, intense — the thrill of sharing.

THE PIMP - There isn't really a proper name to this yet but I figured "pimp" fits in most cases, despite no actual prostitution involved. Basically this involves most of the netorase that treats her as a sexual object and extreme submission and free use, which fits perfectly for Aquamarine, or a really depraved Azure. Rape, Non-con and sleep sex will also be included in this genre (yes, in the form of Netorase where the MC orchestrates it) and I am very looking forward to write such stories!

If you feel none of these cover what you actually like with the genre, feel free to reach out. Would always love to hear more thoughts and maybe we could add more types.


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One more neat little feature: you also get to pick which part of the heroine’s body you want the sexual scenes to focus on.

I'm too much of a boob man so if I had my way I'd write all sexual stuff to be about her breasts, which unfortunately, is not the way to go, so I made this to give players that option that they willingly chose to see more content of that specific body part (so don't complain, breasts choosers, if I decide to go ham on too much breast focus that's practically my thing)

How it works: Basically it's the same sex scene, but for example in A, they do a tit fuck vs in B, they sit on your face etc. But it is the same scene context and characterwise just different acts played out. I know it will mean more work, but with many tool like AI, it should be doable to make these much variations.



SO WHEN IS THE RELEASE?



No exact date yet — but probably within a week or so, depending on how much more polish I can squeeze in.
And I am also currently undergoing lots of asset upgrades, especially the personality types.


The good news is, if you want a little bit of sneak peak, I managed to record a 5 minute gameplay video of the opening sequence!

There’s plenty more content beyond what’s in the video, but I think it’s a good little teaser to show you what to expect.



PLEASE NOTE THE DEMO USES OLD ART ASSETS, ESPECIALLY FOR THE WIFE
. The new art for the heroines will pretty much look like the image from above, so they all share a single cohesive art style.

For those unable to watch the video, I've gather up a bunch of screenshots so you can see how the game will look in general.
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Where to reach me, I'm currently setting up my official links and will share here as soon as the official release drops.
But for now, I've made a barebones discord where you can discuss with me some ideas in there.



I'm also setting up my Patreon and Itch pages, so I'm looking forward for your support if you like the direction this game is headed to!



Anyway — thanks to everyone who’s been around and supported me back then, and to everyone discovering this for the first time.
I’m really excited to finally share this project with you, and I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I’ve enjoyed creating it.


Looking forward to hearing what you all think when the first build drops.


— Zetszuu
 
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Xill

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This looks pretty high quality. In the video it shows that some paths aren't compatible with certain personalities, like Cobalt not being compatible with the pimp route. That means you can't pick those options together, or something else?
 
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zetsupetsu

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This looks pretty high quality. In the video it shows that some paths aren't compatible with certain personalities, like Cobalt not being compatible with the pimp route. That means you can't pick those options together, or something else?
Yes exactly. Like it doesnt make sense for a shy personality like Aquamarine to dom you one day so I've placed some restrictions.

For now at least. I plan to eventually release something called a "dichotomy" update, which allows to pair even the contradicting ones, because it will thematically fit with the 5th personality I am working on which imo is a whole dichotomy to the NTR genre.
 
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zetsupetsu

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I don't suppose we can get android support for this at the time of release
I'm sure JOIPLAY can support it.

Regardless, I'll see what I can do. No promises though since I don't really know where to start with that, but I do know the value of android as someone prefers playing VNs on it myself.
 
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That video demo looks incredible. I was worried when reading the overview that this might be too ambitious for a dev to deliver, but it looks like you might actually be able to pull if off.

Quick question, do the tags from Tainted Aquamarine (Swinging, Shota, Pregnancy, etc.) carry over to this game?
 

zetsupetsu

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That video demo looks incredible. I was worried when reading the overview that this might be too ambitious for a dev to deliver, but it looks like you might actually be able to pull if off.

Quick question, do the tags from Tainted Aquamarine (Swinging, Shota, Pregnancy, etc.) carry over to this game?
Swinging for sure and eventually Pregnancy. Shota is kind of dicy because of Patreon but it's still one of my faves ngl. Maybe some unrelated dev will create a "mod" for it who knows.
 
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Picking a colour for the wife shouldn't be too problematic for me, and I wouldn't mind trying different things either. But picking one hard defined archetype for the MC might be a challenge. I guess I would have to go with the Stag-option, but there are elements from both the Cuckold and the Pimp category that I also would like to dabble in, albeit not in their most extreme forms.

While I'm glad the developer is very cognisant of the fetish' various nuances, making all these choices for both the LI and MC in the beginning seems not only overly ambitious, but potentially quite restricting for everything that happens after character creation. The fun thing about choose-your-own-story are the choices made as the story unfolds. I fear that this complex character creation turns into merely a choose your own kinetic novel.

These concerns aside, I am very excited to see where this project goes. The high quality production, and the developers essay on advanced quantum netorase mechanics alone makes me optimistic.
 

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Ok I was skeptical at first but when you showed actual "gameplay" in the sense that the dialogue parts of the VN, then I'm convinced.

I just thought you were just starting to create the character creation screen. I guess there was more content to it afterall.
 

zetsupetsu

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While I'm glad the developer is very cognisant of the fetish' various nuances, making all these choices for both the LI and MC in the beginning seems not only overly ambitious, but potentially quite restricting for everything that happens after character creation. The fun thing about choose-your-own-story are the choices made as the story unfolds. I fear that this complex character creation turns into merely a choose your own kinetic novel.

I'm glad you mentioned that because that actually is my intention! Although not to an extent that it entirely becomes kinetic, my vision was to overload the player with fully customizable starts so basically they're simply setting their own story up to read.

I do not like arbitrary choices that gives you a random +1 to a stat and you can't get to a scene if you dont have high enough points, or you playing a game with choices, but you still end up just choosing the choice that goes to your current path anyway which was already your intent in the first place. I feel these are all unecessary.


Choices past the character creation screen will be very minimal, BUT I assure you will hold significant weight because it will only be used if the game needs the player's preference again to get to a direction. Like if they get in a scenario where they choose between an old man or a young guy, or if he wants to see her get raped or slowly introduce to swinging. These choices just aren't one time things that happen in that scene only. It basically tells the game that i.e, you want rape content and that will be the new path you are locked to. So when you get a choice, you're actually moving to an actual new direction.

Ignore the choices in the demo video I deliberately added that in just to showcase how it looks like lol. The actual real first choice is stil far off.
 
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As someone who lives in a country dominated by sanctions i hope it also releases for free players too because as much as i love netorase because of sanctions i can't use any paid services online :(
 
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As someone who lives in a country dominated by sanctions i hope it also releases for free players too because as much as i love netorase because of sanctions i can't use any paid services online :(
of course! We are all here in F95zone afterall.