HTML Abandoned The Pool Boy [Part 1.0] [AlsoVoche]

[AlsoVoche]

I'm refering to the overview in the OP so I don't know the character names or roles.

"Miss" is usually the title of an unmarried woman, so therefore, all of Dr. Zhao's unmarried daughters would be referred to as 'Miss Zhao'.

If either Amelia or Ava have the surname Zhao and are unmarried, then they could be "Miss Zhao" as well. If they are married to a Zhao they would likely be called "Mrs. Zhao".

"Ms." is a title sometimes taken by a woman who prefers herself to be independent of names attributed by patriarchy, marriange, or social staus.

There are many individual exceptions to all these cultural titles.

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Ah, I see, I don't know much about the forms of Miss, Mrs, and Ms. I have an friend who studied English in Uni check over most of my writing to ensure its correct, but I don't think he thought of that either! But that's really cool man, thanks for the heads up! I will be honest I didn't think of the lore behind if Sophie Zhao's character is married or not, just that they have someone they consider "stepdad" is present in their life, and him and Zhao have some sort of relationship. But, thinking back as I write this, I do believe Amelia says they're married. I'll change it post mortem. Thanks again bud!

 

[murlockwarlock]

Excellent start! Very good breadth of things to do, very lighthearted which is good for a HTML game with no grindiness. The downside of this style is it's basically pure content, requires a lot of work and also we've already fucked half the household after a single visit.

I hope down the road you plan on us cleaning some other milfs pools is what i'm saying.

 

[AlsoVoche]

Excellent start! Very good breadth of things to do, very lighthearted which is good for a HTML game with no grindiness. The downside of this style is it's basically pure content, requires a lot of work and also we've already fucked half the household after a single visit.

I hope down the road you plan on us cleaning some other milfs pools is what i'm saying.

Haha, well, when you say it like that! I was scared to just release a bunch of walls of text with no sex, or minimal, maybe I should have just waited to post until I had written more, but I guess that's a little too late. I wanted to make this game relatively straightforward, nothing too serious, just to tip my toes in the water of writing Html porn games. Perhaps I can reach for more buildup in the next game I make, whatever that may be.

Oh, and I could always write about the non-character Hans!

 

[TheSuperUnknown]

The MC is a pool boy?

I'm surprised he isn't a Courier...

 

[Squib2187]

Very nice, satisfies my yellow fever

 

[somebodynobody]

So some of the images won't show because the code for them calls for a different filetype.

It would probably be in your best interest to only have 1 image type, and 1 video type. thus avoiding the is it a png/jpg/gif problem.

 

[AlsoVoche]

So some of the images won't show because the code for them calls for a different filetype.

It would probably be in your best interest to only have 1 image type, and 1 video type. thus avoiding the is it a png/jpg/gif problem.

I think I found what you are talking about, at the end of Zhao's home with Ava, Ava10.PNG is missing, because I meant to type Ava12.PNG. I should have caught that. Apologies.

 

[somebodynobody]

Shoot! yeah, I agree, I transitioned to using a more uniform system halfway through with PNGs and Gifs, But I thought I got all the old pictures using jpg down correctly. Do you know about what part in the story you had that problem, i'm certain I mis-typed the file extension, i'll get it fixed ASAP.

Off the top of my head, dinner, I forget which choosing, but one of Mia's was wrong, one of Ava's when player goes to her room, the image I think is supposed to be the oh no face. There was 1 or two more I think, but I didn't check all routes. So you will probably just have to check the game via each file name without filetype to see what shows.

I would suggest using webp and webm for html stuff to cut down on size and have a standard.

 

[AlsoVoche]

Off the top of my head, dinner, I forget which choosing, but one of Mia's was wrong, one of Ava's when player goes to her room, the image I think is supposed to be the oh no face. There was 1 or two more I think, but I didn't check all routes. So you will probably just have to check the game via each file name without filetype to see what shows.

I would suggest using webp and webm for html stuff to cut down on size and have a standard.

Yeah absolutely will, thanks for the heads up on webp and webm, I found Ava's will check the other two for sure! Thanks again!

 

[AlsoVoche]

Off the top of my head, dinner, I forget which choosing, but one of Mia's was wrong, one of Ava's when player goes to her room, the image I think is supposed to be the oh no face. There was 1 or two more I think, but I didn't check all routes. So you will probably just have to check the game via each file name without filetype to see what shows.

I would suggest using webp and webm for html stuff to cut down on size and have a standard.

Just ran through all the photos individually, there were exactly three off, you hit them all. But, i'm sure you aren't the only one, they're all fixed now. Thanks to you, I noticed there were 6 pictures in the archive which just don't show up! They were meant to replace some of the more monotonous ones which show up too often. Thank you so much man, I will get the update fixed with the extra 6 pictures tomorrow morning. What a mistake! If any problems persist, please let me know.

 

[somebodynobody]

Just ran through all the photos individually, there were exactly three off, you hit them all. But, i'm sure you aren't the only one, they're all fixed now. Thanks to you, I noticed there were 6 pictures in the archive which just don't show up! They were meant to replace some of the more monotonous ones which show up too often. Thank you so much man, I will get the update fixed with the extra 6 pictures tomorrow morning. What a mistake! If any problems persist, please let me know.

No problem.

If you are looking for games to get more visual ideas from.

Become Alpha

Favorite Teacher

Crucial Investigation

There are a bunch of others which kind of do "best practices". Also if you need sound, I suggest using Opus files to keep it small.

Things like being able to use numbers as a way to do choices (either keys or numpad), trying to make sure there is no need to scroll (helps for both mobile and pc users. If a lot of text needs to be used with a picture the text is to the side instead of below), just making it prettier, etc.

 

[AlsoVoche]

No problem.

If you are looking for games to get more visual ideas from.

Become Alpha

Favorite Teacher

Crucial Investigation

There are a bunch of others which kind of do "best practices". Also if you need sound, I suggest using Opus files to keep it small.

Things like being able to use numbers as a way to do choices (either keys or numpad), trying to make sure there is no need to scroll (helps for both mobile and pc users. If a lot of text needs to be used with a picture the text is to the side instead of below), just making it prettier, etc.

I'll look into the coding aspect of it all, for the last two, i'm sure it not hard. I'll check out those three as well, I appreciate any and all feedback! Thanks a lot man!

 

[MissFortune]

mor than 500MB for first release? lets try

Haven't downloaded it yet, but the typical story here for a first release is badly formatted images/videos. Typically of the oversized GIF/MP4 variety. They create ridiculous files sizes quickly (I personally use .webp and .webm wherever possible and only resort to gifs if the quality degrades with either of the prior options.). Just an assumption, though.

 

[AlsoVoche]

Haven't downloaded it yet, but the typical story here for a first release is badly formatted images/videos. Typically of the oversized GIF/MP4 variety. They create ridiculous files sizes quickly (I personally use .webp and .webm wherever possible and only resort to gifs if the quality degrades with either of the prior options.). Just an assumption, though.

Indeed, indeed, it's true, I will be updating to Webp and Webm as per SomebodyNobody's comment ASAP. There is still a decent amount of content, I ensured all PNG files were under 800Kb and then used the HTML to blow them up as to save space but not cut down on quality. Altogether there is 124 PNG's and a whopping 80 gifs, which should explain the file size of it all!

 

[PlayHardQuest]

Quite a funny story turned out, many options for passing, not bad!)
In some moments, there is a lot of text and few pictures and videos - when scrolling, only text remains on the screen.
It would be better if everything ended at about the same time.

And the quality of some pictures leaves much to be desired.
Good job overall, good luck developing!

 

[MonteChristo]

Small bug:

at /The%20Pool%20Boy%20Part%201.0/The%20Pool%20Boy%20Part%201.0.html
the image Amelia6.PNG is not loading because the HTML call is missing a "/" . It says "The%20Pool%20Boy%20Part%201.0/Images/Part1Amelia6.PNG" instead of "The%20Pool%20Boy%20Part%201.0/Images/Part1/Amelia6.PNG"

 

[Terakahn]

For some reason all the text is squished to one side

 

[riderfan097]

Not sure if the dev still checks here, but all of the text seems to be squished to one side of the screen, only showing one word per line.

 

[Deleted member 2422104]

New update when?

 

[Deleted member 2422104]

When is the update coming?