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

[EroFlair]

So far, so good. Would be nice to set the PC's sexuality, though; I've no interest in catgirls if I'm playing a female. Or any other non-futa women, for that matter, as my signature might suggest.

That's not the same as "no girls allowed", mind you.

Addendum: Eh. I have "Player sex with NPCs with Vaginas" turned off, so when the amazon woman in the adventurer's guild was being pushy for oral, so I simply had no option but to run away. I think that's a tad too binary of a setting; while I'm not into lesbian oral sex, I would be up for the whole public humiliation thing part of that scene, and not having it be an option because I'd like to avoid normal lesbian scenes seems.. eh. Rephrasing:

I think the settings are too restrictive, being either 100% on or off. Perhaps instead the game would prioritize following the player's preferences, and instead of cutting out scenes would offer them with a disclaimer. Or, ideally, have multiple versions of any given scene that, if the player does not allow for particular fetishes, would leave said fetishes out, unmentioned.

What I'm trying, poorly, to say is that I'm not a fan of the game telling me "You didn't allow this thing", as opposed to simply not mentioning that which I disabled, or giving me a "well, I'll allow it this time" option.

I mean, imagine if the foot stool scene had a foot fetish part in it- since I have that turned off, there's simply no mention of foot fetish content, and the scene plays out well- and my submissive PC would only have the option of.. not being submissive.

I hope I made sense. Brain's not working at full capacity, it seems.

I think I understand where you're coming from, not to worry. Some scenes do have optional parts pertaining to a specific fetish, but when disabled still plays out without that fetish. However, with something like the amazon scenes, the context of the scene is inherently sexual involving that NPC, so from my perspective it's still important to filter it for people that don't want to be in a sexual context with NPCs like her.

I also think that having disclaimers or visible tags to a choice in the scene would break the immersion, so I like having the options pertaining to a specific fetish/kink/preference simply not pop up when the player has it disabled. That way someone wouldn't even need to see it referenced in case the mere mention really bothers them (i.e. the planned NTR content, body odor stuff, oviposition, more fringe things like that).

I do think your particular issue is an outlier, but I appreciate the feedback nonetheless. There will be more opportunities for public humiliation in the future that might be up your alley, and I'll take what you're talking about into consideration in terms of having more of the scenes play out differently as opposed to just being strictly locked.

Thanks for playing!

 

[EroFlair]

Speaking as one that is going throught the painful process of learning to draw, that is far easier said than done. Especially when you add multiple elements of transformation and customization to the mix.

Let's say there is an option to become a gobo from a experiment gone awry, for example. Now any art showing the pc would have to be doubled.

Even if it's just a portrait of a supporting npc that'll take time to create.

Writing, programming, bugfixing, especially for a plot with multiple threads is not simple to do either. It all eats up time. That's pretty rough when game is being hammered into existance by a sum total of one.

Not saying images wouldn't be welcome, but yeah. Oof.

I couldn't have said it better myself. A planned feature would ideally be some sort of paper-doll system to represent the character just on the sidebar or something, but even then it's a LOT of art to commission considering all the body types and the potential for like you mentioned having your race changed to something significantly shorter, it'd end up a lot of effort making individual pieces of art for just ONE shirt to fit on everyone, never mind the entire wardrobe.

One can dream, though. I toyed with Daz3D for a bit to create body templates, but I'd still just be drawing MS Paint clothes onto the templates. Art is definitely something I don't even have a scrap of propensity towards. I hope you keep up with your learning though!

 

[ViviX12]

I also think that having disclaimers or visible tags to a choice in the scene would break the immersion, so I like having the options pertaining to a specific fetish/kink/preference simply not pop up when the player has it disabled. That way someone wouldn't even need to see it referenced in case the mere mention really bothers them (i.e. the planned NTR content, body odor stuff, oviposition, more fringe things like that).

A possible solution could be an optional toggle, like Paradise Inc did. So it's up to player whether they want to be "spoiled".

 

[EroFlair]

A possible solution could be an optional toggle, like Paradise Inc did. So it's up to player whether they want to be "spoiled".

That's a really good point, actually. I'll have to consider that.

 

[Catholicgoose]

Hello I was wondering if you plan on adding the option to bottom while being dom

 

[EroFlair]

Hello I was wondering if you plan on adding the option to bottom while being dom

Power Bottoming is planned, yes.

 

[shadow415]

Speaking as one that is going throught the painful process of learning to draw, that is far easier said than done. Especially when you add multiple elements of transformation and customization to the mix.

Let's say there is an option to become a gobo from a experiment gone awry, for example. Now any art showing the pc would have to be doubled.

Even if it's just a portrait of a supporting npc that'll take time to create.

Writing, programming, bugfixing, especially for a plot with multiple threads is not simple to do either. It all eats up time. That's pretty rough when game is being hammered into existance by a sum total of one.

Not saying images wouldn't be welcome, but yeah. Oof.

Yeah doing actual images from scratch is hard, time consuming or very costly. That's why a lot of games pick the easy route of putting in real porn images and gifs.

 

[ViviX12]

Yeah doing actual images from scratch is hard, time consuming or very costly. That's why a lot of games pick the easy route of putting in real porn images and gifs.

Which honestly looks cheap as fuck, works pretty bad and at least for me it's an instant nope-out. Same for ripped art and even more so AI CG.
So yea I'd rather look forward to even a simple paperdoll system.

 

[AelphysTerra]

I'd rather have a 90% text-based game with the only image being a paperdoll or something similar than using RL porn or AI CG.

 

[Oliz82]

Hello.

Yeah doing actual images from scratch is hard, time consuming or very costly. That's why a lot of games pick the easy route of putting in real porn images and gifs.

Which honestly looks cheap as fuck, works pretty bad and at least for me it's an instant nope-out. Same for ripped art and even more so AI CG.
So yea I'd rather look forward to even a simple paperdoll system.

I'd rather have a 90% text-based game with the only image being a paperdoll or something similar than using RL porn or AI CG.

While I understand the worries about art, I prefer when there are some visuals I can focus on, though I'm pretty flexible (from real porn to 3dcg, 2dcg, ai cg, pixel art, animated or not, censored or not, even text based).
The colors are also participating in this process. The character font, text boxes, ventilation of the text, screen organization can also be included. Maybe more that don't come to my mind.
The only one I can't is paper dolls. On one end, it's really good at showing how the body change. On another hand, it isn't appealing at all.

Good continuation.

 

[shadow415]

Hello.




While I understand the worries about art, I prefer when there are some visuals I can focus on, though I'm pretty flexible (from real porn to 3dcg, 2dcg, ai cg, pixel art, animated or not, censored or not, even text based).
The colors are also participating in this process. The character font, text boxes, ventilation of the text, screen organization can also be included. Maybe more that don't come to my mind.
The only one I can't is paper dolls. On one end, it's really good at showing how the body change. On another hand, it isn't appealing at all.

Good continuation.

Yeah so does most people. Everyone needs/wants some type of visual component. If you look at the popular games in F95 non of them are only text based.

 

[EroFlair]

Yeah so does most people. Everyone needs/wants some type of visual component. If you look at the popular games in F95 non of them are only text based.

I agree for the most part, text-based games serve their own niche, however you're correct in that it seems like I could count on one hand the number of purely text games there are on this site. Its just not the typical medium for this community, something that I'm aware of and taking into consideration as I plan out some visual aspects.

I think starting with updating the UI, and maybe adding some backgrounds to scenes (if I can figure it out) will be a good start and something that might make the game a little more attractive for people.

 

[KoropeiniKi]

this game looks like the kinda game that would be abandoned in the next 3 months

 

[EroFlair]

this game looks like the kinda game that would be abandoned in the next 3 months

It definitely does, I'm trying my best to not let that become a reality.

 

[KoropeiniKi]

It definitely does, I'm trying my best to not let that become a reality.

no offense are meant by my comment.

all the best to you, making games is quite hard (obviously) so you'll need all the support you can get.

 

[KoropeiniKi]

one thing i would suggest though, if you ever wants to add visuals to this game, please, for the love of whatever god you worship, don't use real porn.

it's a real turn off. i would rather just imagine what they look like myself.

 

[ViviX12]

one thing i would suggest though, if you ever wants to add visuals to this game, please, for the love of whatever god you worship, don't use real porn.

it's a real turn off. i would rather just imagine what they look like myself.

Already in the OP it's stated the dev intends to have a paperdoll system, so don't worry about that.

 

[EroFlair]

no offense are meant by my comment.

all the best to you, making games is quite hard (obviously) so you'll need all the support you can get.

None taken! It's as much of a concern of mine as it is yours lol.

one thing i would suggest though, if you ever wants to add visuals to this game, please, for the love of whatever god you worship, don't use real porn.

it's a real turn off. i would rather just imagine what they look like myself.

Yep, absolutely no plans for that. Besides the fact that I think it's morally dubious to steal the content and not credit the performers, there's no way it'd even work with the level of customization and dynamic appearance the PC can have.

 

[sasha2]

Already in the OP it's stated the dev intends to have a paperdoll system, so don't worry about that.

A paperdoll does not preclude real porn, see The Making of a Slut.

 

[EroFlair]

A paperdoll does not preclude real porn, see The Making of a Slut.

Paperdoll will be commissioned art and the best I could do personally. Something akin to Lust Doll and Lust Doll+ in terms of dynamic posing based on context of the scene/variety of customization.