thank you for the heads up!
i'm interested anyway since i heard your mc is a dominant one. if thats the case i enjoy most things. but i definitely have a thing for treating the girls like sex toys. if i understand it correctly the slave route is not developed yet for any girl?
then i will probably just go with the submission route for now
always imagined that devs kinda have to develop almost 2 or 3 different full games if they include very different paths
sounds promising anyway! thank you for clarifying
Currently, you don't really start the routes for any of the girls. You sort of can, but it's more or less like "Route started, end of content for this girl in the current version." (It doesn't actually tell you you've started a route. Next version does kinda.)
Everyone hates it when content ends, but there's no way around it really when it's in development I guess.
Most girls are in a neutral state where their scenes aren't tied to specific routes. There is some punishment content, but it's not the main focus of the early game. Later on in development though.. Heh.. Despite the game having been out for a year almost, it's still fairly early days. These games take a lot longer to make than I expected when I started lmao
Worth noting, that it's not a game where there's just one chance to get on to specific routes. For example, 2 of the punishment scenes in the current version can be missed as a result of choices which aren't obviously connected. It would be a bit bullshit if it was like "You can't ever punish this girl now because you didn't pick a flower 2 hours ago" (Fake example, it's not that dumb), so in cases where you miss a chance due to a choice, you'll be given another chance later on. Though these later chances may not always be in the same version of the game, so it can seem like you make a bad choice because it leads to less sex scenes or whatever, when really it just leads to some that you otherwise wouldn't get in the next version. I'm making the game with the finished version in mind, rather than trying to make each update its own self contained chapter.
I'd say MC is dominant if you play him that way. I wanted to avoid making a total pushover, but he's not meant to be an asshole. The slave routes will generally feature him being a bit more of an asshole though. Submission routes are meant to feature more of a harsh but fair kind of MC. Only time will tell if I'm able to do this well. Since MC has only recently met the girls, most of their content isn't split into paths at this point, so you could call it neutral content. The paths are more for mid and late game stuff where you'll be getting specific scenes and sequences of events that only happen if a girl is on a specific route.
The idea is to not worry so much about the routes. It's meant to be built around the idea of the player doing what they feel like when given choices, and the results making sense in terms of the relationship dynamics. Generally, making choices that lead to a certain type of content, will usually lead you to more of that type of content.
It's hard to explain, but it's stuff like rejecting a girl's romantic advances, and punishing them at every opportunity probably isn't gonna lead you to a vanilla relationship with the girl. Likewise, being romantic with her, and deciding to never punish her most likely will. Getting all the scenes is a lot more walkthrough worthy than getting on to specific routes.
(If you are someone who likes to know the outcome of choices before they're made though, the PDF walkthrough in the OP is up to date for 0.21 and fully accurate as far as I can tell.)
Currently, the only ways to lock yourself into a specific type of relationship with a girl surround whether you decide to punish them or not. If you haven't been given that choice, you're not locked in to a route. Even if you decide to enter a romantic relationship with a character, whether that relationship stays romantic, or shifts to a more dom/sub relationship is based on whether you decide to punish her later on. If you end up playing it and have questions about specific choices, feel free to ping me on discord. I'm usually in the server in some capacity.
always imagined that devs kinda have to develop almost 2 or 3 different full games if they include very different paths
This is probably gonna end up being quite true. While the submission path will feature content from both the other paths to a certain extent, I still have to make sure dialogue matches depending on the nature of your relationship with each girl, so there will likely have to be several versions of each scene. Stuff like this is why the game isn't all that far along yet, but that's fine. It'll take as long as it takes I guess. I like choice, and creating work for myself apparently.
