Player: Oh no, I'm going to end up in this animal's stomach...
Wolf: Actually I had a big lunch.
Player: Eat me!
Wolf: I'm really quite full.
Player: *puts apple in mouth and starts self-basting*
Wolf: I'm going to go now.
Wolf: Actually I had a big lunch.
Player: Eat me!
Wolf: I'm really quite full.
Player: *puts apple in mouth and starts self-basting*
Wolf: I'm going to go now.
This looked interesting and I tried it for a while and here's my thoughts.
Map:
You definitely need a map or a representation of the area that you are at.
It doesn't need to be fancy, it can just be Squares joined together by lines.
Just like what Corruption of Champions 2 and Lilith's Throne did. for their maps.
As for the game environment itself. each layer of the depths can be designed to be quite different from each other.
Each of them can have their own danger, that the player character has to overcome somehow.
Combat:
It needs some work, which is not surprising given that the game is new.
You can take inspiration from DoL (Degrees of Lewdity) as well with their combat ending either you win by defeating the enemy, or making them cum and you lose by being beaten up until you cannot continue combat.
You might want to think about a combat system if you want to have ranged weapons or some magic involved.
If you plan to have ranged weapons when maybe combat system that includes distance might be needed, and if there's distance, then speed comes into play.
Leveling system:
Given the inspiration from Made In Abyss, your character will need a lot of skills to be able to survive in the lower depths.
A poor rookie will just perish in the harsh environment.
It seems like there is some sort of leveling system from what I see, you can level up Running in this game.
You can use it to work with the distance system that I mentioned above, get enough distance between you and the enemy and you can then escape the battle. Maybe even have different proficiency at navigating different terrain, so your character can get better at moving in forest area or swampy area or rocky areas, something to think about.
It would be interesting if your character has some sort of scouting skill or stealth skill to be able to spot and avoid dangers, if spotted, be able to run away.
Of course this scouting skill can be helpful for finding Relics or navigating through dangerous terrain.
And since you are inspired from DoL, you can take inspiration from it as well, like the leveling system.
It's harsh in DoL if you have low skills but it becomes easier to manage things when your skills go up, so why not have it in this as well?
It makes a lot of sense to have many skills related to exploring and diving into the depths.
Art:
The AI art as placeholder right now is fine, I suppose.
You can look into Lust Doll Plus for what the Dev did with their paper doll system, to see what might work with your system.
As the game is super early in development, I guess we will have to wait as the game is being worked on.
One piece of advice, break the game development into smaller manageable chunks and don't be afraid to simplify things.
Like if developing a particular part of the game is hard, you can simplify it for now and move on to other parts of the game.
Degrees of Lewdity wasn't made at one go after all.
You can always go back and rework a particular system as you get better at game development.
Map:
You definitely need a map or a representation of the area that you are at.
It doesn't need to be fancy, it can just be Squares joined together by lines.
Just like what Corruption of Champions 2 and Lilith's Throne did. for their maps.
As for the game environment itself. each layer of the depths can be designed to be quite different from each other.
Each of them can have their own danger, that the player character has to overcome somehow.
Combat:
It needs some work, which is not surprising given that the game is new.
You can take inspiration from DoL (Degrees of Lewdity) as well with their combat ending either you win by defeating the enemy, or making them cum and you lose by being beaten up until you cannot continue combat.
You might want to think about a combat system if you want to have ranged weapons or some magic involved.
If you plan to have ranged weapons when maybe combat system that includes distance might be needed, and if there's distance, then speed comes into play.
Leveling system:
Given the inspiration from Made In Abyss, your character will need a lot of skills to be able to survive in the lower depths.
A poor rookie will just perish in the harsh environment.
It seems like there is some sort of leveling system from what I see, you can level up Running in this game.
You can use it to work with the distance system that I mentioned above, get enough distance between you and the enemy and you can then escape the battle. Maybe even have different proficiency at navigating different terrain, so your character can get better at moving in forest area or swampy area or rocky areas, something to think about.
It would be interesting if your character has some sort of scouting skill or stealth skill to be able to spot and avoid dangers, if spotted, be able to run away.
Of course this scouting skill can be helpful for finding Relics or navigating through dangerous terrain.
And since you are inspired from DoL, you can take inspiration from it as well, like the leveling system.
It's harsh in DoL if you have low skills but it becomes easier to manage things when your skills go up, so why not have it in this as well?
It makes a lot of sense to have many skills related to exploring and diving into the depths.
Art:
The AI art as placeholder right now is fine, I suppose.
You can look into Lust Doll Plus for what the Dev did with their paper doll system, to see what might work with your system.
As the game is super early in development, I guess we will have to wait as the game is being worked on.
One piece of advice, break the game development into smaller manageable chunks and don't be afraid to simplify things.
Like if developing a particular part of the game is hard, you can simplify it for now and move on to other parts of the game.
Degrees of Lewdity wasn't made at one go after all.
You can always go back and rework a particular system as you get better at game development.
*Sex* isn't even implemented, unless you count jerking off/frotting only.
Also, tip for the dev: Please make running away/submitting options to do in the future. It's annoying to keep running into things I don't want anything to do with (most notably females, lol) and I have to kill them or get them off to progress. Also also weird when I try to sex things up and they keep biting/attacking me.
Oh and one more thing, it'd be cool if we could toggle genders of encounters so your experience can be purely what you want to see, hint hint. (+1 for toggling on/off species of encounters, like if I didn't want humans for example, though in the future if there's ever special/boss encounters, I totally understand we can't disable those).
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i'm a little bit lost. the english here is pretty good, actually, in an unpolished sort of way. it's definitely a first draft, and honestly, are you gonna complain about poor english from someone that can actually write english as comp0ared to the poetry-spewing MTLs on here?
just assume they're spelling mistakes, my guy, and don't get all bent out of shape on them.
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So you can play the game without being completely confused as to where your meant to go, what your meant to do, and where things are?
You can work, and there is a west, nothing is west, you need supplies and money but nothing is clear if it's even single use or not. The design for this main as well be MTL, like a bad one. In fact it might be, given all the AI assets.
Legitmate question, do you want this? I know nothing about vore, but Im more than happy to add this in. Furthest Ive gotten is in DoL when a giant snake eats you so my plan was just big giant plants, or things the size of whale. But wolf?Player: Oh no, I'm going to end up in this animal's stomach...
The whole map idea is something Ive been going back on forth on alot. Liliths throne works with it, but man it looks basic. The current plan is more like a fully dawn map, with dotted lines showing the paths as you explore it. So we'll see how it goes.
Everything else super helpful!
Yeah techinically sex is in the game, only issue is once and NPC starts somethign they tend to jsut keep doing it,and jerking off takes less steps than stripping down for sex. Im in the process of fixing that.
As for the desired gender/species etc, I do want to add in some sandbox settings, even have things like I want no futa's in the game, but that will be a while off.
My man, if you got an issue with the translations, let me know where, cause on my end I can't find it. That said
"The project is still very much in the early prototype phase, things will break a lot and things will be missing."
Theres going to be placeholder art, missing translations, crashes, missing content.
The demos out there so people can try its broken ass quality, and let me know what else they want to see, at this point its not a game.
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I'd have to re-download to find the exact part, however as whole none of the labels seem to actually give enough detail to make out what is inside of them, and a bunch of resources are spent on each transition from locations.
As a whole I think I know what your going for, but even then the lack of any idea of what you need and what is what, makes it unplayable.
As a general idea of how this could be improved, maybe add a description under the selection option to go to a location, as well as just giving the player basic supplies for their first delve, or giving them a suggested list. As is this is worse then a text adventure without a manual for a commodore.
A lot of locations don't do anything, or at least I cant figure out what they are meant to do. Also the job you can work in town seems to not actually give you money even if you work hard the whole shift.
Items are very unclear, like is a camping supplies a consumable, torches seem to be but I have no clue, I also don't know how long anything will last.
As a whole for movement I'd either say to stick to just cranial directions or use only locations and be more vague. Having them both just makes it very unclear where things are in relation to each other, which makes manually mapping this place out impossible as a player.
Edit: By vague I mean do it like Corruption of Champions, a location is just 1 zone, you click it then hit progress X number of times with random events from a deck.
What I mean with the map is that even if it looks basic, as long as the player has visual representation of the area, it's good enough for them.
A square tile based system is enough, it doesn't need to look super good.
The effort saved here can be put to good use in other, more important parts of the game.
I think the smart thing to do, is to implement a basic map system, like Lilith's Throne or Corruptions of Champion 2 does.
It works pretty well for them so it can work pretty well here as well.
Given that you said that you are going back and forth a lot on this whole map idea, it's safe to say that you have no finalized idea on how it actually should be.
Once most of the game is up to a good standard, then you can think about reworking the map system.
By then, you should have a pretty good idea of what you need and what you don't need.
Agreed on the map. Even simple squares would make navigation much easier.
Personally, no. But as long as content can be turned off, it won't turn me off from the game. In face I disabled a lot of toggles.
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If I were you id consider opening up a poll to guage the level of interest before deciding where to focus your efforts so you dont waste time making content that maybe only a few people are interested in, vs making content the majority is interested in.
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