Java Tales of Androgyny [v0.3.52.1] [Majalis]

[LostNumberXIII]

I have no idea what's the plan for having so many sex actions, I can only guess it's a way for player to "direct" a sex scene, with the finishing product having art/animation for each action. But I'm not sure how's that feasible given there's only Majalis as artist I believe, 1 art per sex action, dozen sex actions for each enemy. And animation will put even more work.

I think Majalis said something about this, that all the extra actions are there to "role play" and like you said, direct how the scene ends up.

 

[Deleted member 81848]

I could see people arguing they're dragging it out if it was like the game I won't mention T**** O* T****** which hasn't seen an update in forever. But these game devs have been consistently putting out content and each update is a decent amount of content. So even if it never got finished there would still be a huge amount of content from all the weekly updates. So I don't see the issue.

 

[mygfishung]

If we added voice acting, it'd be minimal (non-verbal VA like moans, possibly small phrases) and optional. We could use the same infrastructure we have for playing other audio for playing voice acted lines.

We've made the determination that animations are worth it. People like them, and they're actually easier to work with in some ways than still images for variation, so we can add a lot of nuance and diversity with them. To clarify, we don't want to hire a contractor to help with animations so that Alis can focus on the Important Art Stills, we could hire a contractor to work on the animations and we can't do the same for an artist to replace Alis working on the stills. It's not a matter of which is important, it's a matter of which ones are even viable to get extra hands on. Someone might notice that this or that animation was done by a different animator, but they'll definitely notice if we use different character artists.

A video editing contractor would basically just be for trailers and other marketing stuff - like if we go up on Steam it'd be helpful to have some footage roll in the previews and the like. Not necessarily for the game per se, although a little attract mode could be cute.

The thing is, while I want the game done, we don't actually have any kind of Release mechanism the way a traditional game does. It's possible the game won't even be allowed on Steam, and we already have it on itch, so the release build is going to be v1.0 and... that's it. We don't have marketing or merchandising tie-ins that need launch by a certain date. Nobody's printing discs or packages, and the wholesale retailers are not waiting for their shipments, the reviewers are not waiting for their review copies. I want the game to be a playable experience Start to Finish, but the game being "done" doesn't actually really buy anyone anything. Plenty of patrons (and otherwise) would want us to just continue working on the game indefinitely, similar to, say, Dwarf Fortress. I don't know exactly what the post-Release support is going to look like, but it's probably going to look much like pre-release updates for a good while.

Like, I don't like saying this because it feeds into the "they don't even want to finish!" narrative, but it doesn't actually matter when we finish, and we didn't go into this saying "we need to get this game done before the third fiscal quarter of 20XX or the brass is going to have our asses!" As long as we're still adding things that people like to the game, nothing explodes, nobody dies, and I'm not sure why anyone thinks otherwise other than a misguided belief that the way typical game development works is universally applicable, even when (for reasons I mentioned above) it obviously isn't.

People have long lists of what they think we need to do to finish the game, and those lists are basically all wrong and have nothing to do with either what we've planned or the commitments we've actually made. I'm hoping we'll finish next year, but I haven't left my apartment in nine fucking months, and I certainly didn't plan that for this year, so who knows what next year will bring. Also, 2022 is probably a more realistic target, and it's extremely unlikely we wouldn't be able to finish by then.

The roadmap to release is the beta roadmap, so if you want to see what we have left, it should basically all be in there, barring stuff on the feature request backlog that will be added from the patron surveys.

Merry Christmas. I'm working on a new cave encounter with a naga.

I've asked this before but I'll ask again. Have you thought about expanding the "bad end" scenarios and class changes? I thought this was a very interesting idea especially when it was paired with a side-story like the centaur mare area and the mouthfiend one. I think it would be a great outlet to expand content into sub-stories with class changes (size queen, mare, bunny, bitch, schoolgirl, prostitute, other bad ends etc.)

 

[Majalis (ToA)]

I've asked this before but I'll ask again. Have you thought about expanding the "bad end" scenarios and class changes? I thought this was a very interesting idea especially when it was paired with a side-story like the centaur mare area and the mouthfiend one. I think it would be a great outlet to expand content into sub-stories with class changes (size queen, mare, bunny, bitch, schoolgirl, prostitute, other bad ends etc.)

We're definitely willing to do more of those, and that was effectively how we wanted story mode to go - a bunch of bespoke endings. We may incorporate more of it into both modes. But they are just that, bespoke features which were never intended to be the baseline for how every type of enemy you come across was going to go.

 

[errte13]

Small question; whenever Hiro use his butt to resolve a situation (like in a fight), the outcome is pretty much Hiro being a sub. Is there plans to make Hiro a more dom personality even though he uses his derrière, somewhat like the madam of the brothel or the drow with huge cat mount?

 

[Majalis (ToA)]

Small question; whenever Hiro use his butt to resolve a situation (like in a fight), the outcome is pretty much Hiro being a sub. Is there plans to make Hiro a more dom personality even though he uses his derrière, somewhat like the madam of the brothel or the drow with huge cat mount?

Yeah, on my internal task list I've got more power bottom content.

 

[nissan]

Whose the mod that removed my messages? Since when does a direct dialogue with a developer constitutes a trolling?
Doesn't that breaks a narrative if an original posts gets deleted but the bits of quotes appear in a response.



Given that and that the Majalis_ToA response to my posts persisted i believe it's better if the community puts an effort to provide a complete profile.json further as i won't be doing that if the one deleting my posts won't step up.
No big difference if the authority is abused be this a police baton or a button in a browser.

 

[BABPEEG]

I vote for a warlock extended end!

 

[broly965]

^ Like marriage ending or something?

 

[EagleCarSausage]

We're definitely willing to do more of those, and that was effectively how we wanted story mode to go - a bunch of bespoke endings. We may incorporate more of it into both modes. But they are just that, bespoke features which were never intended to be the baseline for how every type of enemy you come across was going to go.

I just want to see an expansion of the cultist scenes, man... but they never show up in the patron polls.

 

[Geralt_of_Trivia]

man... but they never show up in the patron polls.

you are literally replying to the dev account

 

[Hese_1]

you are literally replying to the dev account

Maybe that was the point.....

 

[jtypezaku]

If we added voice acting, it'd be minimal (non-verbal VA like moans, possibly small phrases) and optional. We could use the same infrastructure we have for playing other audio for playing voice acted lines.

We've made the determination that animations are worth it. People like them, and they're actually easier to work with in some ways than still images for variation, so we can add a lot of nuance and diversity with them. To clarify, we don't want to hire a contractor to help with animations so that Alis can focus on the Important Art Stills, we could hire a contractor to work on the animations and we can't do the same for an artist to replace Alis working on the stills. It's not a matter of which is important, it's a matter of which ones are even viable to get extra hands on. Someone might notice that this or that animation was done by a different animator, but they'll definitely notice if we use different character artists.

A video editing contractor would basically just be for trailers and other marketing stuff - like if we go up on Steam it'd be helpful to have some footage roll in the previews and the like. Not necessarily for the game per se, although a little attract mode could be cute.

The thing is, while I want the game done, we don't actually have any kind of Release mechanism the way a traditional game does. It's possible the game won't even be allowed on Steam, and we already have it on itch, so the release build is going to be v1.0 and... that's it. We don't have marketing or merchandising tie-ins that need launch by a certain date. Nobody's printing discs or packages, and the wholesale retailers are not waiting for their shipments, the reviewers are not waiting for their review copies. I want the game to be a playable experience Start to Finish, but the game being "done" doesn't actually really buy anyone anything. Plenty of patrons (and otherwise) would want us to just continue working on the game indefinitely, similar to, say, Dwarf Fortress. I don't know exactly what the post-Release support is going to look like, but it's probably going to look much like pre-release updates for a good while.

Like, I don't like saying this because it feeds into the "they don't even want to finish!" narrative, but it doesn't actually matter when we finish, and we didn't go into this saying "we need to get this game done before the third fiscal quarter of 20XX or the brass is going to have our asses!" As long as we're still adding things that people like to the game, nothing explodes, nobody dies, and I'm not sure why anyone thinks otherwise other than a misguided belief that the way typical game development works is universally applicable, even when (for reasons I mentioned above) it obviously isn't.

People have long lists of what they think we need to do to finish the game, and those lists are basically all wrong and have nothing to do with either what we've planned or the commitments we've actually made. I'm hoping we'll finish next year, but I haven't left my apartment in nine fucking months, and I certainly didn't plan that for this year, so who knows what next year will bring. Also, 2022 is probably a more realistic target, and it's extremely unlikely we wouldn't be able to finish by then.

The roadmap to release is the beta roadmap, so if you want to see what we have left, it should basically all be in there, barring stuff on the feature request backlog that will be added from the patron surveys.

Merry Christmas. I'm working on a new cave encounter with a naga.

i personally think your game is excellent and loads of fun keep up the great work. i think a weekly release schedule is dam good one .

 

[Tokyo Partner]

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[RC-1138 Boss]

Hot art as always.

 

[nissan]

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[taglag]

Thank you Tokyo, and the Makers of the game.

Good stuff, may not be game changing, but it is definitely immersion changing to see the gear, gag's cage what ever that you are wearing displayed during the event.

 

[n27anuxi]

How to get Puca cowgirl scenes?

 

[mygfishung]

We're definitely willing to do more of those, and that was effectively how we wanted story mode to go - a bunch of bespoke endings. We may incorporate more of it into both modes. But they are just that, bespoke features which were never intended to be the baseline for how every type of enemy you come across was going to go.

I suppose it would be impossible to have this with every enemy. I just hope eventually it reaches across all the ones that have negative perks associated with them I.E. Size queen, cuckoo, etc. I love the centaur plains.

 

[lmlAzazel]

Good content for the end of the year, thanks

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