It was hinted at in the first one, and is the reason I stopped reading at a certain point where that outcome felt forced. That's just too much and the only time I've bounced on a good story for non-gore/torture reasons.
Well, as I said, I will include a setting to skip such things as much as possible. I just do want to be able to write dark stuff but I totally get people who want to keep things lighter.
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I can say that I enjoy the darker stuff. I'm glad you're at least dabbling in it. It always makes me sad when people end up bullying creators when they use darker themes. I've seen several creators abandon projects entirely (some even disappear completely from this game space) after being bullied away from the darker games they wanted to make. It's not as bad on this forum, thankfully, but it happens somewhat frequently on others, such as Tfgames.site.
I can say that I enjoy the darker stuff. I'm glad you're at least dabbling in it. It always makes me sad when people end up bullying creators when they use darker themes. I've seen several creators abandon projects entirely (some even disappear completely from this game space) after being bullied away from the darker games they wanted to make. It's not as bad on this forum, thankfully, but it happens somewhat frequently on others, such as Tfgames.site.
I mean on one hand artists should be able to do what they like. On the other hand, dark stuff needs to be balanced somewhat. Otherwise it both loses impact and becomes a turn off.
Thanks for saying that!
Thankfully I've developed a thick skin being an adult creator for a while, and such comments don't bother me. Not that I don't take them seriously, it's just that niche kinky stuff won't hit all people the same way - one person finds NTR depressing, one person finds it hot. It's just how our brains are wired differently. Unfortunately not everything has a tag... I just approach these things from the angle of, "is there some way I can keep doing what I'm doing, and still give players the option to turn stuff they don't like off?" If it's possible to do without impacting the core experience, I really don't mind at all. I guarantee you I will keep making the stuff I really want to do...
But if there's some way I can easily make things a little better for people with different kinks, I definitely will. The only things I wouldn't do are things like create a pure female start - the reason being it would heavily slow down the game development because then tons of stuff would have to be written as two branches. Whereas skipping super dark content will be as simple as (if:$dark_mode is "on")[{dark content}]
Understandable. Makes it sound like there may be some hope for alternative branches that avoid or at least minimize transformation back to male. I probably would choose a female start if there was the option, but I don't mind the male start really. However, the whole "weak female one instant, strong male the next, then back to weak female" thing gives me some kind of boner whiplash. In the original, I found those male sections a tiresome chore at best, so I sped through them as quickly as possible, which sort of cascades into not engaging as much with the game from that point onwards.
Look I get it, it’s not for everyone, but for me the male side of the transformation is important so the transformation feels impactful. For me the story being authentic is priority #1 and I totally respect anyone who doesn’t jive with that.
I think the game should stay true to it's premise and be dark
The bad ends should be bad ends
Personally that's what I want out if it. Not playing to see her live happily being "treated as an equal" or whatever lol
The bad ends should be bad ends
Personally that's what I want out if it. Not playing to see her live happily being "treated as an equal" or whatever lol
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Maybe a quick and dirty way to get around this is to make Elara not pregnant. Then later the FMC can decide whether to take the moonshade, or not. A plot device for the second story can be about FMC and Elara trying to get pregnant, both which one and by whom? And how would Sib factor in, or what happened to any of the goblin babies they had if they had them?
But yeah, I was not a fan of the dissolved baby part. Just from a medical science point, anything that invasive and hostile to the genetic code of a baby would be the same to the mother.
Personal thought, I'm not a fan of killing a baby in the womb. This is a personal line and a fairly large turn off. I can ignore it usually. I have a breeding kink, not an abortion kink.
That said you're free to do what you like.
I could say that this would theoretically be a good way to introduce more corruption though. Perhaps it alters the child into a goblin? Or taints them somehow? Could get Hobgoblins if you haven't introduced them yet or something!
That said you're free to do what you like.
I could say that this would theoretically be a good way to introduce more corruption though. Perhaps it alters the child into a goblin? Or taints them somehow? Could get Hobgoblins if you haven't introduced them yet or something!
That’s probably what I will do with the dark content toggle, I’ll skip any mention of her pregnancy at all.
It's interesting, for me, doing anything transformative to human offspring would bother me more...
I get really interested by anything evolutionarily-driven, or involving sheer macro biological dominance - the Goblin's Pet trilogy, as you may guess, is not really about Aldric - it is about the arc of the goblin species which has evolved into a parasitic species. Their offspring end up as being mostly male, and almost perfect genetic clones of their dads, although they get bigger and stronger with more food.
What they do with humans is based on other animals in nature that exhibit brood parasitism, like the cuckoo catfish. Who, long story short, basically replace cichlid offspring with their own.
What I WANT to do on a macro scale eventually is more like this type of bacteria, I forget what it's called, but essentially it controls the gender of another species' offspring. Goblins will go into "overdrive" with their breeding in the next 2 books. I want to show a complete arc (which gets slightly accelerated by magic when Maraan is unleashed), and basically present it as both hot as well as tragic what happens to them. Goblin women have a really rough time of it, as they are associated with the males culturally but don't have any of the same crazy biology that drives them to do the same sorts of things. But at least they're super hot... that may be their saving grace in the end!
But in order to really tell this story and give it the full impact, it will get a little cruel and sexually messy. But by the end of it it should be a totally unique story and hopefully uniquely hot for some people. I also just like any story where something primitive overwhelms something much more advanced, reducing all that perceived cultural superiority to nil, reminding polite society that they are all just animals deep down...
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I dunno, a subtle thing for goblin girls like they're mildly addictive as well, or they get baby crazy is interesting too. That's again me tho. I like shortstacks, and shortstacks that want big families are entertaining.
That said, it would be amusing that the goblins survive because their girls are hot and make good wives.
Basically you're not too far off at all, it's their shortstacks that will redeem their whole race!
The women are already maintaining their old languages and poetry, and when everyone figures out the solution is to bang as many goblin girls as possible, I'm sure there will be people willing to help out
I was hoping the sex scene with the goblin girl was going to go more in that direction. I did stop reading after like chapter 13, so maybe it changed towards the end. But there was a lot of build up between them in the goblin camp, her betraying goblins to help Aldric, sticking together in the getaway, Aldric covering for her in the town, a song with it's own lore page, followed by some nice rough fucking with a soul saving creampie. Then she's like "But you can't me pregnant right now".The women are already maintaining their old languages and poetry, and when everyone figures out the solution is to bang as many goblin girls as possible, I'm sure there will be people willing to help out
Maybe it was part of despair writing, but it made her story arc ending feel kind of hollow.
Getting into fan fiction territory, there are the potential scenes of Elise breast feeding an offspring that she fathered. And Elara finding out Aldric knocked up a goblin (Plenty of excuses for cheating with Snib, but not that).
I'll join the discord and ask bout it, I'm very interested in doing some cool things for fun with AI.
Am I safe assuming you are the dev of this game? Might I ask what inspired it? I saw a similar story in another VN but it was a small side story that hinted at a narrative like this one.