HTML The Contest at Houndgate [v2.5 Hotfix 1] [EroFlair]

[ViviX12]

Liking the tags I'm seeing, was about to ask about art and then checked the dev notes.
Paperdoll sounds like a good idea, something simple like that would be much better than ripped art or real porn, in my eyes at least. Unfortunately it's hard for me to focus on pure text based games so gonna wait till that's around before checking in.
In terms of future plans and scope though, aiming broad sounds like a good thing but it's easy to bite on a lot more than you can chew. For the beginning try to keep it more focused not to burn yourself out trying to implement a bit of everything at once, and more importantly build a foundation onto which you can put on new content without it becoming a patchwork of systems.

 

[EroFlair]

Liking the tags I'm seeing, was about to ask about art and then checked the dev notes.
Paperdoll sounds like a good idea, soemthign simple like that would be much better than ripped art or real porn, in my eyes at least. Unfortunately it's hard for me to focus on pure text based games so gonna wait till that's around before checking in.
In terms of future plans and scope though, aiming broad sounds like a good thing but it's easy to bite on a lot more than you can chew. For the beginning try to keep it more focused not to burn yourself out trying to implement a bit of everything at once, and more importantly build a foundation onto which you can put on new content without it becoming a patchwork of systems.

I agree, I'm keeping my own limitations in mind. Future updates are going to be a lot more focused on building up established things one at a time, I don't want to keep making things wider without going any deeper.

 

[EroFlair]

New hotfix is available! Knocked out some more reported bugs and a few others. I think the game needed a little more time in the oven before the first release, and I can see that my own bug hunting skills aren't up to par because I definitely didn't realize it was this bad from my playtesting xD. Patch notes are in OP, and I will update the links. And of course, thank you to everyone for your help and support.

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[mlurker]

Seriously has this game been playtested at all? I find myself running into one game breaking bug after the other, followed by it being fixed in the next hotfix just to run into another game breaking bug.

Right now the Maid doesn't register the player wearing the uniform no matter what.

 

[Gakko_dev]

Is this game going to be text-based only in the future, or will some CSS or visualization be applied?

 

[rllog]

Very cool for a short first look, I like it a lot.


I didn't realize at first there are so many variations of the prologue scene (I thought if you resisted it would just end the scene). If I were to suggest something is to let players decide how harsh the SM scene would look, instead of determining it by "you don't resist, you resist a little, you resist a lot". Submissively asking for harsh treatment can be part of the charm, rather than relying on non-con.

Also I can already see some sandbox mechanics, please don't go overboard with them like some other developers do. Nobody likes to take 50 unnecessary steps just to leave the inn/get to the next scene. And having to change clothes (in your room, in front of your wardrobe specifically) to do work might be already too much. It should be enough that we already bought them. You're complicating your life implementing this and I don't think anybody really enjoys doing that multiple times, it's just a chore.

 

[EroFlair]

Seriously has this game been playtested at all? I find myself running into one game breaking bug after the other, followed by it being fixed in the next hotfix just to run into another game breaking bug.

Right now the Maid doesn't register the player wearing the uniform no matter what.

I'm aware, I tried my best to playtest it by myself but it obviously wasn't enough. I now have some people helping me playtest it so the next updates don't go as horribly as the release.

As for the maid stuff, I broke the inn work trying to fix it, so case in point on me being bad at this. I'm spending more time on this next fix to make sure I get everything instead of releasing a dozen hotfixes that break each other. Sorry you've had a poor experience.

 

[EroFlair]

Is this game going to be text-based only in the future, or will some CSS or visualization be applied?

I'd like to spice up the UI a little to help it stand out, and eventually I'd like some art, but my main focus is adding more content. My ideal goal is I could commission someone to draw some character portraits and pinups.

 

[Dept of Public Worms]

I'd like to spice up the UI a little to help it stand out, and eventually I'd like some art, but my main focus is adding more content. My ideal goal is I could commission someone to draw some character portraits and pinups.

Spoiler: How good at it I used to be varied quite a bit.

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... but I could have a go. It'd be good to put that huge folder of reference material to some actual use.

 

[EroFlair]

Very cool for a short first look, I like it a lot.
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I didn't realize at first there are so many variations of the prologue scene (I thought if you resisted it would just end the scene). If I were to suggest something is to let players decide how harsh the SM scene would look, instead of determining it by "you don't resist, you resist a little, you resist a lot". Submissively asking for harsh treatment can be part of the charm, rather than relying on non-con.

Also I can already see some sandbox mechanics, please don't go overboard with them like some other developers do. Nobody likes to take 50 unnecessary steps just to leave the inn/get to the next scene. And having to change clothes (in your room, in front of your wardrobe specifically) to do work might be already too much. It should be enough that we already bought them. You're complicating your life implementing this and I don't think anybody really enjoys doing that multiple times, it's just a chore.

I appreciate the feedback! I see what you mean, and I'll probably implement some shortcuts to changing to reduce pointless clicking. I'm fairly confident it won't get anymore complicated than it is now.

I like the concept of asking for the harsh treatment. I'll explore how it might work into the prologue scene, and I already planned on it happening in future scenes.

 

[EroFlair]

Spoiler: How good at it I used to be varied quite a bit.

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... but I could have a go. It'd be good to put that huge folder of reference material to some actual use.

Wow, I'll keep you in mind! I don't know what art style I'd want yet, but that's for future me to decide.

 

[blblbl6329]

Seriously has this game been playtested at all? I find myself running into one game breaking bug after the other, followed by it being fixed in the next hotfix just to run into another game breaking bug.

Right now the Maid doesn't register the player wearing the uniform no matter what.

i second that. I really want to like the game, it seem promising.But right now it's near unplayable

 

[riadhloch]

There's definitely a lot of good writing here, but to echo others it's awfully buggy. Nevertheless, I'm grateful for the work you've put into it!

If I may make a first suggestion, you may want to check on whether you're echoing/printing errors as in some cases the player merely gets a black screen and it may be difficult to report precisely which bug they encountered.

Also, if I may make a second suggestion regarding reporting bugs, I recommend you ask for them in the following format:

Describe the bug in one or two sentences
- yadda yadda yadda

Steps to reproduce the bug
1.
2.
3.
etc.

Expected outcome
- blah blah blah

Actual outcome
- yackity shmackity

Include your save file in zip or 7z format (so you can see flags or variable states)

This might provide better insight into the bugs reported by your players. I hope this helps!

 

[EroFlair]

There's definitely a lot of good writing here, but to echo others it's awfully buggy. Nevertheless, I'm grateful for the work you've put into it!

If I may make a first suggestion, you may want to check on whether you're echoing/printing errors as in some cases the player merely gets a black screen and it may be difficult to report precisely which bug they encountered.

Also, if I may make a second suggestion regarding reporting bugs, I recommend you ask for them in the following format:




This might provide better insight into the bugs reported by your players. I hope this helps!

This is really good advice! Thank you. I'll put something like this in the bug report tab.

 

[druski789]

What kind of transformations are there in this game?

 

[Dept of Public Worms]

What kind of transformations are there in this game?

There's a dodgy guy at the market who'll provide hair-length, hair-colour, eye-colour, breast-size, penis-existence and suchlike changes, for a price.

 

[mlurker]

I'm aware, I tried my best to playtest it by myself but it obviously wasn't enough. I now have some people helping me playtest it so the next updates don't go as horribly as the release.

As for the maid stuff, I broke the inn work trying to fix it, so case in point on me being bad at this. I'm spending more time on this next fix to make sure I get everything instead of releasing a dozen hotfixes that break each other. Sorry you've had a poor experience.

Rough patches happen. Good luck with the fixes.

 

[Remembrance]

Color me impressed.
I see tags like Feminization, SPH, CEI, CBT etc & immediately think it's another one of those games focused on a sub male mc.
Had even planned on what to comment, using foot fetish as an example - how it's mostly used in femdom for sub mc to worship his Goddess & a male dom mc having his feet licked by a fem sub is practically nonexistent... then I saw the prologue
Certainly impressed by the availability of foot & CEI on a male dom path.
SPH & Feminization seem to be unavailable tho (on dom male mc path)? (I had to google all these abbreviations lol)

Be great to see a game where you can see most/all of the kinks applied through NPCs without any requirements on the MC.
I mean sub male kinks like sissification only require a sub male character, doesn't necessarily have to be the MC, same for like 99% of tags, even NTR you can implement as netori - which is the MC doing the stealing.

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Anyway hope I can experience more on a single dom male play-through.

Looking forward to more, the characters seem interesting, like that mouseboy in the academy.

Good luck dev.

 

[XgoldWolf]

Not sure if this is unfinished or just a bug but, when I joined the adventurer guild it gave me this error mesage

 

[digitalplay]

I'm loving it so far but I keep getting this error when I fought vincent:

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