VN Ren'Py [Steam Page Avaliable! Wishlist Now!]The Mansion of Whispering Desires [Development Thread]

mibc9394 · Wednesday at 9:34 AM

SirLecherous said:
got mines, lol actually excited to play this on release for got to ask will you have sound/sfx/audio dialogue?

I grab music and sfx from pixabay. No voice acting yet. If the game has good feedback I will definitely get voice acting into the game

mibc9394 · Thursday at 3:49 AM

Just added a road map in the first post to let you guys know the plan of this game in the coming months.

v0.1 will be out next week. Most likely Wednesday

mibc9394 · Thursday at 5:02 AM

Meanwhile steam page is online too! It would be nice if you guys can wishlist it.

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Finuee · Thursday at 5:12 AM

mibc9394 said:
Meanwhile steam page is online too! It would be nice if you guys can wishlist it.

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That's great, you got greenlight very quickly!

Arnav Dasari · Thursday at 1:04 PM

TBH I like the new story better than the previous one. I mean, we never got to know much about the previous one, it was mysterious and that's it - a tabula rasa. The story with a dead girlfriend spoils much from the get go, but it's also more thrilling from the get go.
(May be you could upload your ideas for the previous plot as a Patreon bonus post or something.)

The developers describe the content like this:
Implied sexual content but not explicit

So the Steam version is going to be censored?

Dioniisan · Thursday at 3:48 PM

mibc9394 said:
Meanwhile steam page is online too! It would be nice if you guys can wishlist it.

You must be registered to see the links

What great news!

mibc9394 · 2026-01-16T00:23:15+0000

Finuee said:
That's great, you got greenlight very quickly!

I'll tell you a little secret. I have the store page ready for a few months already. Was planning to publish it next week, but I accidentally pressed the publish button while sneezing

mibc9394 · 2026-01-16T00:46:32+0000

Arnav Dasari said:
TBH I like the new story better than the previous one. I mean, we never got to know much about the previous one, it was mysterious and that's it - a tabula rasa. The story with a dead girlfriend spoils much from the get go, but it's also more thrilling from the get go.
(May be you could upload your ideas for the previous plot as a Patreon bonus post or something.)

So the Steam version is going to be censored?

When I was developing the previous version of the story, my goal was simple. I wanted to place a character in an isolated space and let him encounter beautiful women that he can fuck while being close to some kind of danger. But very soon I encountered a problem because the MC lacked a real reason to stay in the mansion. I tried to make up reasons to justify his stay. For example, he was traveling with his girlfriend and she caught a disease in the mansion, or his boss was investigating the place and asked him to assist. But they were not really strong. What was worse is that I couldn't give the MC a clear goal, which made it difficult to write the endings.

This new direction for the story is about the MC choosing between chasing the past or moving on after suffering a great loss. This should be much better for the story because now the MC has a clear goal right at the beginning and his struggle is obvious. When you play the game, you should be able to get into the story much quicker.

I have quite many unused paintings and written plots for the game. I will put them on my Patreon later.

mibc9394 · 2026-01-16T00:49:06+0000

Arnav Dasari said:
TBH I like the new story better than the previous one. I mean, we never got to know much about the previous one, it was mysterious and that's it - a tabula rasa. The story with a dead girlfriend spoils much from the get go, but it's also more thrilling from the get go.
(May be you could upload your ideas for the previous plot as a Patreon bonus post or something.)

So the Steam version is going to be censored?

Right. The Steam version is going to be censored. I also have two itch pages ready for the game. One is censored and the other one is not.

The reason for doing that is that NSFW stuff gets shadowbanned heavily on Twitter. If I just post NSFW content, then probably no one would ever even know my game exists.

ryg88 · 2026-01-16T02:30:28+0000

mibc9394 said:
The Steam version is going to be censored. I also have two itch pages ready for the game. One is censored and the other one is not.

That's kinda how Japanese devs do it: have a SFW release on the hosting platform and have a patch off-site on the dev's own website.

mibc9394 said:
What was worse is that I couldn't give the MC a clear goal, which made it difficult to write the endings.

This new direction for the story is about the MC choosing between chasing the past or moving on after suffering a great loss. This should be much better for the story because now the MC has a clear goal right at the beginning and his struggle is obvious. When you play the game, you should be able to get into the story much quicker.

As long as the entire game has been outlined, as well as the endings and the penultimate scenes leading to the endings are written out, the game plot should be easier to write to completion.

Finuee · 2026-01-16T06:43:06+0000

mibc9394 said:
When I was developing the previous version of the story, my goal was simple. I wanted to place a character in an isolated space and let him encounter beautiful women that he can fuck while being close to some kind of danger. But very soon I encountered a problem because the MC lacked a real reason to stay in the mansion. I tried to make up reasons to justify his stay. For example, he was traveling with his girlfriend and she caught a disease in the mansion, or his boss was investigating the place and asked him to assist. But they were not really strong. What was worse is that I couldn't give the MC a clear goal, which made it difficult to write the endings.

This new direction for the story is about the MC choosing between chasing the past or moving on after suffering a great loss. This should be much better for the story because now the MC has a clear goal right at the beginning and his struggle is obvious. When you play the game, you should be able to get into the story much quicker.

I have quite many unused paintings and written plots for the game. I will put them on my Patreon later.

Personal MC trauma is the best fuel for the story engine, always. I'm convinced the change was for the better.

Mareeeeta · 2026-01-16T09:13:23+0000

Is it a story-focus VN with H-scenes a bit like Kara no shoujo (I called that one because the vibe look a bit like that) or it's a more classic F95zone AVN ?
It looks cool anyway.

Arnav Dasari · 2026-01-16T11:06:48+0000

mibc9394 said:
This should be much better for the story because now the MC has a clear goal right at the beginning and his struggle is obvious. When you play the game, you should be able to get into the story much quicker.

Exactly.

Finuee said:
Personal MC trauma is the best fuel for the story engine, always.

Unless it's "MCs father gets killed and now he is forced to return to his childhood town and fuck his mother and bratty sisters". I'm all for fucking mothers and sisters, but the "mystery of a dead father" premise is too overused IMO.

Finuee · 2026-01-16T11:31:38+0000

Arnav Dasari said:
Unless it's "MCs father gets killed and now he is forced to return to his childhood town and fuck his mother and bratty sisters". I'm all for fucking mothers and sisters, but the "mystery of a dead father" premise is too overused IMO.

That scenario is not usually portrayed as trauma, but as an opportunity...

mibc9394 · 2026-01-16T15:34:00+0000

Mareeeeta said:
Is it a story-focus VN with H-scenes a bit like Kara no shoujo (I called that one because the vibe look a bit like that) or it's a more classic F95zone AVN ?
It looks cool anyway.

It's a story-focused VN like Kara no Shoujo, but less hardcore on the detective side.

mibc9394 · 2026-01-17T01:16:31+0000

I kind of regret that I didn't use Otose from Gintama as my reference for Sayuri

mibc9394 · 2026-01-17T01:17:39+0000

What are you guys' preferred age range btw?

SirLecherous · 2026-01-17T01:36:59+0000

gilf ftw

Discrepancy · 2026-01-17T01:39:21+0000

mibc9394 said:
What are you guys' preferred age range btw?

Any age as long she's cute or hot and don't get me arrested

QazHentai · 2026-01-17T02:12:16+0000

mibc9394 said:
What are you guys' preferred age range btw?

No crones! Don't generally care about the age in games, but crones make the D shrivel. The closer your characters get to the wrinkledness of a raisin vs the smoothness of a grape the more I want to stop playing. Crones are fine for non-sexual characters, but can be downright horror in sex scenes.

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