Ren'Py The Spinning Bottle [v0.3.1] [RedPandering]

[TurboKinetics]

We can look at more than one spot at a time, we're not not birds bro, we can move our eyes. And it's fun to make fun of AI slop.

Was just a joke bro relax lol

 

[Benobi96]

Random Dares: Great point! This will evolve with more updates and different scenarios. There will also be opportunities to talk with other players to 'guide' their dares and truths to each other. Already if you ask Ashley for help against Elizabeth, she will dare her to take her top off, which currently the only way of doing that. We are planning on making Chad more useful in that regard as well. If Chad is also after Elizabeth, the two of you will be able to work together to get more interesting things out of her. The entire point of the game is to kind of surf along RNGsus but currently there isn't much content yet. As it goes along, there will be more.

Chad vs Elizabeth: Every day, Chad will pick another girl to focus on. If the two of you are cool, then you will be able to ask him to lay off, and sometimes it might work. Right now he will stop focusing on Ahsley, but I will add that back in. Considering the only other girl usually is Elizabeth, that means he always picks her. When you get other girls to join, it will be broader. Your relationship with Chad will allow him to help you do certain things. Either by being friendly and working together to get girls naked, or by pissing him off enough that Ashley gets closer to you as her relief from the antics of dum-dum.

Bugs: I caught a couple of them buggers myself, but there are always more! I'll keep working on getting the logics right, and each update I'll be getting better at squashing them bugs! Thank you for the help with that Elizabeth bug and getting her dressed. I forgot to add a few lines to see what she was wearing before.

Control: That will be coming in future updates. As MC gets more reputation, you can learn some skills that allow you to better control the round. As it stands, there is precious little control. But eventually in this build you can catch Chad cheating when he spins. Then you can convince him to teach you his technique, allowing you to better land on the player you aim for.

I hope you look forward to more updates! I appreciate your feedback

Hi, I'm definitely looking forward to new updates.

What I would change tho is the staring contest. It takes too long for something you can't win.
Also, the cookie story with Melody is irritating.
The game is about exploration and trying out different situations. Having an element in it that requires a lot of effort but then leads nowhere is unpleasant.

After you wrote that, I took another closer look at the gameplay. I knew that you had to ask Ashley for help, but doing it twice is a bit messy in my opinion.
After asking for help the first time, the option disappears and only reappears when Liz is sitting there in her underwear. Since the second request for help is identical in text and has no effect depending on the game situation (more on that later), it's not immediately obvious that you've done something right. It would be nice if the texts were a little more specific or at least different.

For this request to be successful, Ashley must logically land on Liz with the bottle. This happens in 33% of cases. Then Liz must choose “Dare,” which reduces the chance of success to 17%. In 5 rounds of play, there is a 40% chance that Ashley will not be able to help us.
Some kind of feedback would be nice so that the player knows they did something right but were unlucky. Especially on the second attempt to make Liz lose her top.

What I find really interesting are the characters' special “abilities.” This allows you to avoid the unnecessary baggage that many games have with overly complex “simulations,” while still creating clear individualization.
Liz has pressure, Chad has hostility, Ashley could have something like fame, Carmen something like ambition, etc.

I'm very excited to see what's coming next.

 

[Echox2]

Hi, I'm definitely looking forward to new updates.

What I would change tho is the staring contest. It takes too long for something you can't win.
Also, the cookie story with Melody is irritating.
The game is about exploration and trying out different situations. Having an element in it that requires a lot of effort but then leads nowhere is unpleasant.

After you wrote that, I took another closer look at the gameplay. I knew that you had to ask Ashley for help, but doing it twice is a bit messy in my opinion.
After asking for help the first time, the option disappears and only reappears when Liz is sitting there in her underwear. Since the second request for help is identical in text and has no effect depending on the game situation (more on that later), it's not immediately obvious that you've done something right. It would be nice if the texts were a little more specific or at least different.

For this request to be successful, Ashley must logically land on Liz with the bottle. This happens in 33% of cases. Then Liz must choose “Dare,” which reduces the chance of success to 17%. In 5 rounds of play, there is a 40% chance that Ashley will not be able to help us.
Some kind of feedback would be nice so that the player knows they did something right but were unlucky. Especially on the second attempt to make Liz lose her top.

What I find really interesting are the characters' special “abilities.” This allows you to avoid the unnecessary baggage that many games have with overly complex “simulations,” while still creating clear individualization.
Liz has pressure, Chad has hostility, Ashley could have something like fame, Carmen something like ambition, etc.

I'm very excited to see what's coming next.

Thank you for the feedback! Keep it up! Haha. It all makes the game better. (I mean... hopefully)

Staring Contest: This little minigame is still proof-of-concept, so in a future update there will be a way to win. I also want to add some letterboxing so it seems like our eyes are shutting. And I need to tweak the variables so it is less jarring. And of course, what happens if you can win? Is that even possible without cheating of some sort?

Cookies: Melody's update will add more stuff about cookies with her. It is a mere taste(get it? because food? God, I'm clever) of what's to come. And maybe an achievement for 5 or 10 in a row?

Feedback: I fully agree. Maybe I will add a notification icon or something that shows you are making progress, or that there is something new in the dialogue or something. Not 100% sure how I'll try that out, but I'll definitely do something to make it more likely. And maybe do some cheating behind the scenes so that if Ashley is helping you out, she will FORCE Elizabeth to say 'Dare'.

Special Attributes: Yes, the idea is that in the future, each character will have their own attribute or gameplay thing that makes it more interesting and varied. You hit the nail on the head with that analysis!

Again, I appreciate you taking the time to reach out and give feedback! It's the best way to make this game better!

Hope you look forward to what's coming next! More fleshed out dares and unique dialogues with the players.

 

[AIF Games 99]

Great start so far. Personally, I love "spin the bottle", "Strip poker", "Truth or Dare" type of games. I think the interaction of people outside the game, makeing different choices inside the game is a great way to make and keep things fresh.

 

[AIF Games 99]

Great start so far. Personally, I love "spin the bottle", "Strip poker", "Truth or Dare" type of games. I think the interaction of people outside the game, makeing different choices inside the game is a great way to make and keep things fresh.

 

[Echox2]

Hey, all! Hard at work this weekend on getting the next series of dares ready, as well as fixing some bugs and some QoL features. If anyone is interested:

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is the link to the discord! It'll be a good way to keep in touch with what's going on and let us know about bugs and such!

 

[Cajun Fox]

Thanks

Good luck with your game

 

[TheRetroAiden]

Aw shoot nerd .. you gotta get in on this.

 

[Cucumberpine]

Is there NTR/Swinging/Sharing or anything like that in this?

 

[boon4791]

If all stuff happens randomly, then stuff that can happen to the girls would also happen to the guy, at least to a certain degree?
Also, the NPC can also gang up on the PC? This will make the game funnier and more interesting.

 

[EnTeeArrr]

This setup begs for an NTR route.

 

[Saint Blackmoor]

THX-

 

[JohnNHCor]

First: My Congrats for this game, its awesome, one of best i play recent in my opinion, i play and i love
I'm going to give some tips You.
01- this game has potential for all public audience plays, style "space corps" using content F/M , M/M"BI CURIOUS STYLE" , F/F.
02- More female characters like " Cheerleaders , College Girls, Sporty Girls, Frat"
03- More Male Characters like " Jocks, College sporty Players like " MMA , WRESTLER, FOOTBALLERS, BASKET, SWIM, HOCKEY, RUGBY AND all of you imagine".
04- Roleplay with the possibility of girls give gift for another girls ,giving items and toys such as dildos, plugs and others to the girls, and this unlocks scenes of them using solo in their moment of fun, as well as roleplay between F/F content.
05- Roleplay with the possibility of boys give gift for another boys ,giving items like " Penis Pump - the ideia of this is the jocks use this showing CG , the item used for makes boys more bigger for M/F play and M/M bi curious play "two boys makes a private penis enlargement training" it's a example, another items like " fleshlights, cockrings, cock sounding sticks" for create unique CGS of characters fun with these gifts"
06- Roleplay with Straight content using sex toys. at same ideia of F/F AND M/M.

 

[Echox2]

Is there NTR/Swinging/Sharing or anything like that in this?

There is VERY light NTR. It's more to make the game interesting, as You want to get with Chad's girlfriend, so he asks you to help him with Elizabeth or other girls. Every instance thus far is reluctance on the girl's part, with you having to really convince the church girl Elizabeth who has a crush on you to dance for Chad, but really she danced "for Chad" in front of you, so you get a better view than he does anyway.

I want there to be tension with girls flirting with other guys, but I don't think I'll ever really tread into the full-on NTR "You're so much better than XYZ! He isn't a real man like you! Fuck me while he sits in his tiny-dick cuck chair"

 

[Echox2]

If all stuff happens randomly, then stuff that can happen to the girls would also happen to the guy, at least to a certain degree?
Also, the NPC can also gang up on the PC? This will make the game funnier and more interesting.

When the girls are more comfortable, I think there will be some teasing/playing. There will be something to stop the party from just being an orgy, but I want there to be some group stuff. Especially when certain new characters come around!

 

[Echox2]

First: My Congrats for this game, its awesome, one of best i play recent in my opinion, i play and i love
I'm going to give some tips You.
01- this game has potential for all public audience plays, style "space corps" using content F/M , M/M"BI CURIOUS STYLE" , F/F.
02- More female characters like " Cheerleaders , College Girls, Sporty Girls, Frat"
03- More Male Characters like " Jocks, College sporty Players like " MMA , WRESTLER, FOOTBALLERS, BASKET, SWIM, HOCKEY, RUGBY AND all of you imagine".
04- Roleplay with the possibility of girls give gift for another girls ,giving items and toys such as dildos, plugs and others to the girls, and this unlocks scenes of them using solo in their moment of fun, as well as roleplay between F/F content.
05- Roleplay with the possibility of boys give gift for another boys ,giving items like " Penis Pump - the ideia of this is the jocks use this showing CG , the item used for makes boys more bigger for M/F play and M/M bi curious play "two boys makes a private penis enlargement training" it's a example, another items like " fleshlights, cockrings, cock sounding sticks" for create unique CGS of characters fun with these gifts"
06- Roleplay with Straight content using sex toys. at same ideia of F/F AND M/M.

I have three more girls in mind I'd like to add, but that won't be for a little bit yet. I'd like to get the ones who are around to be more fleshed out, or in Carmen, Melody, and Mrs. C's case: actually doing stuff in the game.
And two boys who should be interesting to make the game exciting.

I like the idea of toys and NPCs having more interactions with each other, that's going to be in the next update I want to have more stuff for them to talk about together.

Insofar as M/M goes, it's not really my thing, so it pretty far on the backburner. However, I am not opposed to adding something after some time. But it won't be coming for a long while.

Thank you for the input!

 

[BayJay47]

This game is actually interesting. I don't feel like there's enough content for me to leave a review but the premise is enjoyable. A walkthrough may be a good idea in the future as well. Solid start tho, definitely interested.

 

[SanityVoid]

Some advise based on patterns in both game development, dev burnout, and games that were abandoned has buggy messes:

Honestly, more characters seems like a coding nightmare and has a tendency to make a game wide but shallow due to a mixture of workload and characters being just copy pasted with barely and noticeable changes attempting to ease the workload. Maybe make additional characters either new game plus, or rework the intro once the games core functions are ready for such, maybe using and invitation system to allow the player a degree of choice on both how many characters and which ones are present with the current ones being considered mandatory but others will be added later.

The benefit of this is it doesn't for players to include characters they may consider hard turn-offs, which can kill a game's appeal. Especially if mandatory content is a hard pass which I can personally say has happened under a high number of games of many varieties to me but lost all appeal due to mandatory hard turn off content early into the game.

It also has the benefit that it allows the player to create their own mental scenarios to an extent...

the down side is if done wrong the coding nightmare will be even worse... like exponentially worse.

Admittedly I am one of the base that like characters with depth more than a game were you can have sex with a hundred characters and they are all functionally the same because they have no depth or personality.

Also rather than stop short of an orgy that should probably be an option to appeal to the players that like that content... just food for thought... who knows you might get enough support to delegate any MM MMF MMFF content to someone you get to hire... it's possible.

side note don't lump content toggles together if ever added... make each content type different there are at least three game that come to mind that 1. lump them all (I won't play because it doesn't specify a toggle even if most are fine there are some major gross outs that prevent me from playing that one. 2 combines both a hard turn off with a kind of like kink that I will never activate because of the hard turn off... and finally a game that forces gross content while not both warning the player base since the game was supposed to be a less gross remake (which is doubtful) while making progressing the story require content the player may hate... (that dev is an ass ands every game they made is both gross and ultimately sucks.)

tl;dr (for the paragraph above) if you add content toggles and or content that players may feel the need request content toggles for, DO NOT lump the kinks together give them each a separate toggle.

overall a good start point for your game... may good fortune favor this game...