HTML - The Up And Cumming Pornstar [Ep.1 Rewrite] [Gabe Inhalls]

Very unique and innovative game.
Characters are interesting. Big brother kind of approach and game concerned with porn industry is something I have been drawn to and it clicks so well.
Adding the bisexual element on top of that is chefs kiss

I normally hate these types of games made in html and with real porn instead of renders of the characters. The writing isn't usually up to snuff and the differentials in what is supposed to represent characters takes me out of the game. I still don't like the real porn aspect of the game, as it breaks immersion and pictures some characters that look nothing like their sprite or change drastically from scene to scene. It would be nice for the renders that are on the banner on the main page to be in the scenes we see in the game. However, the writing is very well done in this one, despite being such a basic and simple premise. I am thoroughly enjoying what is here so far. The writing is logical, choices matter, and there's plenty of options to choose from. There's a ton of characters in the game at the moment, but all of them feel unique and realistic. I'm also enjoying the kind of Big Brother feel from the reality competition, resulting in a lot of interesting drama. One thing I'm definitely hoping for is a romance option to be added in the game. It feels like there is already a steady one forming between the MC and Matt. I just hope to be able to continue it further with a romance resulting from it eventually. I will definitely keep an eye out for future updates.

It's weird that even after I read into this game's html code, I still feel choices and consequences in the story stay smooth. A big thumb up to author's plot and writing!
It's also a very inclusive "bi" game. This is the first game here I, being as gay as I am, don't feel turn off by reading their straight/bi porns.

I cant suggest this game to anybody its awful

all the sex scenes have this terrible filter that ruins the scene

all the characters are copy paste stereotypes

you are not allowed to choose anything, you have no control of the story or your partner(s)

the ratio writing to roleplay is all fucked up
options dont matter, it would work better as a kinetic novel
chapter 3 is a fucking slog reading all that episodic thingie
despite the fact that you can toggle your preferences the only way to advance the story is sucking the black dude dick and playing the gay part
dont play this

Bugged. Stalls game until preferences changed. The videos with the fuzzy outline effect are meh. I get it but still they look like crap imo. Played a TON of html games here and this one just feels like it wastes any potential. Could be good but much work needed.

Quite boring game with a few choices and boring sex scenes. I could not sympathize at my character, nor care for his fucking in and out of porn movies.
Visuals are short videos of stylized porn. Gay porn is optional, but consistent across the story if you leave it on.

The idea is great. I don't know how many people ever heard of The Sex Factor, Xhamster's attempt at a reality porno where people competed for a contract in the adult industry...but this game is that. With gay/bi scenes added.

There's not that many games for bi fans at all, so it's ambitious for a real porn game, and it should get credit for that. The story line is you're a young man in need of cash who takes a chance on this adult reality show. You'll be living with a group of young and adventurous people all exploring their sexuality on and off camera. It's a nice change of pace from the usual harem builders or take-over-the-world type stories, and it's not something I've seen tried before. Again, rare to find untrodden territory in these games.

I played through a few times to get different scenes, and each choice so far indeed leads in a very different direction (who you do a scene with, how well your choice pays off). The illusion of choice is often a big negative for VNs so great so far.

The unfortunate thing, and the reason for dropping my score. is that the game is very dialogue heavy. That's not a problem to me in itself, but the dialogue often falls very flat. Dry or stilted. A lot of games get away with that when they have few lines between the action. When your game revolves around dialogue between the characters and you're asking the player to read pages of it then it needs to be on point.

As I've played it so far, it's a great effort, well worthy of taking a chance on, but to push it to a four or five star game it really needs the characters to come through in their speech. Work on refining that, maybe cutting out bits that don't add anything, trying to make it a little less dry, and you've really got a winner here.

This is an incredibly competent first release!

The writing is excellent and very sex-positive, the porn clips are consistent for the scenes they're intended to portray and there's a fair bit of variation depending on the player's choices.

The author has smartly decided to set a few major story beats in stone to prevent the plot from sprawling too much, which gives me hope that this project will actually be completed at some point.

Overall, I'm very jazzed about this game and I hope the author takes these criticisms in stride because they have some serious potential.

EDIT: The author has addressed each of my issues with the game in the latest build (file size, portraits and having to scroll through long porn scenes with pairings I'm not interested in), so I've updated this review accordingly.

In it's current state, this first episode is damn near perfect and I'm very much looking forward to it's continuation.

honestly, the game is great. it's an actual reality TV show simulator where 16 wannabe pornstars are locked in and have to do tasks and vote eachother out every week.

the script is surprisingly smooth, you have multiple small choices, and they do matter so far. you truly feel like you are actually in a real show like that playing the protagonist

the thing is, i got really bored. this is not my cup of tea, so i can't rate it above 3 because for me this would be an OK "game" but not a "porn" game. for me the scenes are nothing erotic or to fap to, everyone is a pornstar so sex is like second nature to them, so there is no drama or anything. no forced sex, no reluctant groping, no corruption, no reluctant straight-have-to-do-gay-stuff or anything.

so for me this is not a good porn game, but it's probably a decent game with porn elements in it and if you ever liked watching these elimination TV series then you will definitely like it.

Even though it's only the first episode so far, I think this game is incredibly well done so far.

The story is quite well written, and the scenarios I played so far (all gay ones), were really hot. Special mention to the one where MC gets paired with 'straight guy' Matt for a gay scene; MC practises some intimacy with him the night before which leaves Matt hot for it when they call it a night before clinching the deal, so that lust carries over into the filming on the next day when they do the 'jock giving in to his student tutor's lust' scene. That was hot af. I honest to god would love to see Matt discovering he's bi for MC in this game. Maybe even a romance developing behind the scenes. Yummy.

Also, the gay pornstar who plays Hugo in those scenes is cute af and automatically makes scenes hot just by being in them. Even tho I still preferred MC's jock/tutor scene with Matt over all others, Hugo is such a passionate hottie, you can't help but feel your eyes pull to him in every scene!

Another reason that I found this game well executed was the subtle and well-thought out variations it gave to scenes depending on certain choices you made. I felt that attention to detail showed the love and care the dev put into this game. For example, choosing to physically practise with Matt the night before to help him become more comfortable injects a passion into the scene you film the next day that isn't there if you don't. Your choices actually mean something every time, and that's a big pro.

Now for the reasons why I couldn't rate it even higher. There were honestly only 2.
First was that it was a little too wordy at times, though it was mostly only with the content I wasn't interested in. Only being interested in the gay and bi (if it included m/m), meant I had little interest in the straight or lesbian porn scenes between other characters. Having to sit through them during the competition at the end of ep 1 was a bit of a drag and scrolling and clicking through that content again and again is a bit annoying. That is no criticism on the writing, just on my personal taste tho.
Second was the one other people have mentioned, and I feel like this is a BIG issue. It's hella shady and wrong for the dev to use pictures of Instagram models, etc as the characters in this game and then put the onus on THEM (the influencers) to contact the dev if they don't like it and want their picture removed. The dev should have asked them first, but probably because the dev knows they would say 'no' and that it's wrong, the dev chose not to go this route. That would already be bad enough if this was a free game, but the fact that the dev also has a Patreon and is making money off of something so suss... I feel like this is gonna end up badly for the dev and this game.

Interesting idea and engaging writing! I hope for quick updates, because this story really drew me in. The only downside is the porn gifs, because I usually hate them in text sex games, but the "cartoon" filter makes them more attractive.

The quality is amazing for a first release. Love the inclusivity and customizabilty. It can be enjoyed by everyone no matter their tastes. Personally I hope the dev doesnt stop giving a lot of care to the gay content, since it's so much harder to find

The Up and Cumming Pornstar [Ep.1] [Gabe Inhalls]
Version reviewed. (this is the shared public might not have the same issues for the supporters take this with a grain of though.)
Cons
- Needless large files
- No color marker on decision choices
- Felt like a broken sandbox
- The images loading size was sewed by window size to the point it made it difficult to look at anything.
- Felt like i was watching a demo/testing ground advertisment porn site using f95 as a test zone
- Reading the flavor text was underwhelming, best to put it at place+pick character+read interaction text. Mandatory reading is fine but making the whole event a needless time eating read was a con.
- This is better as card frame click option or renpy. (not much to say since im not a coder but a consumer in less sugar coated way to put it.)
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Pros
- Diverse option
- Good concept
- Large character pool
- Very ambitious
-Great use of fonts and spacing (did not hurt to see the text as much 4/5)

PS. : Could compare this to most "slave"+"management" games but this was in early phase somewhat understandable . Do you best will gladly recheck and share this but... Man~ GB upon GB of massive space this would fit in 100mb+ if not for the image size.