VN Ren'Py The Witness's Eye [Development thread]

[Candaule]

A seemingly stable couple in their early fifties slides into perversion—not through “play” or negotiated exchanges, but through a series of credible events that reveal a natural dynamic that was already there.
The story focuses above all on the progression, and on the moment each of them realizes that the point of no return isn’t a grand gesture… but an accumulation of small choices.



Above all, I’m an avid reader and fan of visual novels—especially titles like A Couple’s Duet of Love & Lust, My Husband’s Boss, and Watching My Wife. Often frustrated by the wait between updates—or, in some cases, by projects being abandoned—I decided to take the plunge and start making one myself.




This game aims to highlight situations and the psychologically arousing side of the experience, rather than trying to set records for erotic visuals. If you enjoy a more cerebral approach, you’ll probably like it.




I’ll use this thread to regularly share updates on my modest (amateur) work and to post download links for the first releases.


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[Axekfk]

I think it's a great idea, but I find his wife rather unattractive

 

[Fusionzone]

Yea it sounds nice if you're gonna base it on duet but you can't have the wife being a prune in her 50s. That's like literally every real life cuck dynamic that isn't her selling her youth making an easy to market porn niche is the reason why the dynamic happens is she's not attractive enough to find a better husband and he's too worn down to give a shit anymore. 32 tops and in very good shape not cow tits. You gotta make it not realistic and catering to the fantasy niche or it will just be visually inferior porn with the same story, the mistake a lot of these stories make at the end is too close to ntr, not enough control for the male mc, fmc doing it too much for herself and ending up with porn scenes +1 guy staring at her while she fucks rather as proper nts where wife focus is on the husband's pleasure and is doing it for him. Any corruption would be purely aesthetic to tease him rather than genuine.

Also u have to keep in mind it's hard to give a fuck about a couple been together for 20+ years, there's really no risk like the hot part of duet is they're still a young couple and right at the stage in their lives where they'll have kids soon, and toying with the idea of her choosing not him as not part of the fetish. At 50+ she's doing it half to at least keep his attention away from porn and on to her and half because Darrel will fuck anything and she gets to feel like she's still "got it". These stories usually lose their appeal when she transitions from devoted wife filling a husband's fetish to deranged slut who just happens to be married to a guy who is fine watching.


The big money is tease and eroticism amidst devotion. Lose the 3rd ingredient the 2nd evaporates, and it has to be not just a platitude said now and then it has to be in the subtext and showed how the husband has the true control over the dynamic and she is catering to a fetish. Then you can at least have a slower slide into the inevitable falling off.

 

[Ash22@#$]

Wow good luck dont listen to negative comments just dont quit

 

[Candaule]

Yea it sounds nice if you're gonna base it on duet but you can't have the wife being a prune in her 50s. That's like literally every real life cuck dynamic that isn't her selling her youth making an easy to market porn niche is the reason why the dynamic happens is she's not attractive enough to find a better husband and he's too worn down to give a shit anymore. 32 tops and in very good shape not cow tits. You gotta make it not realistic and catering to the fantasy niche or it will just be visually inferior porn with the same story, the mistake a lot of these stories make at the end is too close to ntr, not enough control for the male mc, fmc doing it too much for herself and ending up with porn scenes +1 guy staring at her while she fucks rather as proper nts where wife focus is on the husband's pleasure and is doing it for him. Any corruption would be purely aesthetic to tease him rather than genuine.

Also u have to keep in mind it's hard to give a fuck about a couple been together for 20+ years, there's really no risk like the hot part of duet is they're still a young couple and right at the stage in their lives where they'll have kids soon, and toying with the idea of her choosing not him as not part of the fetish. At 50+ she's doing it half to at least keep his attention away from porn and on to her and half because Darrel will fuck anything and she gets to feel like she's still "got it". These stories usually lose their appeal when she transitions from devoted wife filling a husband's fetish to deranged slut who just happens to be married to a guy who is fine watching.


The big money is tease and eroticism amidst devotion. Lose the 3rd ingredient the 2nd evaporates, and it has to be not just a platitude said now and then it has to be in the subtext and showed how the husband has the true control over the dynamic and she is catering to a fetish. Then you can at least have a slower slide into the inevitable falling off.

You’re assuming that a 50+ wife is automatically “unmarketable” and that a long-term couple is automatically “low stakes.” That’s a very porn-coded lens, not a narrative truth.


Desirability isn’t an age; it’s presentation. A mature woman can be far more erotic than a “fit” thirty-something if she’s written that way: confidence, elegance, authority, gaze, social intelligence, control of the game. It’s not “less fantasy,” it’s a different fantasy—often more psychological and rarer, therefore more distinctive.


Also, a VN isn’t meant to “beat porn” visually. Where porn wins on immediacy, a VN wins on tension, subtext, progression, rules, and micro-choices. And a more mature woman fits that register perfectly: she can tease without losing herself, play with the implicit, and hold a frame.


In the end, it’s all a matter of taste.

 

[Fusionzone]

You’re assuming that a 50+ wife is automatically “unmarketable” and that a long-term couple is automatically “low stakes.” That’s a very porn-coded lens, not a narrative truth.


Desirability isn’t an age; it’s presentation. A mature woman can be far more erotic than a “fit” thirty-something if she’s written that way: confidence, elegance, authority, gaze, social intelligence, control of the game. It’s not “less fantasy,” it’s a different fantasy—often more psychological and rarer, therefore more distinctive.


Also, a VN isn’t meant to “beat porn” visually. Where porn wins on immediacy, a VN wins on tension, subtext, progression, rules, and micro-choices. And a more mature woman fits that register perfectly: she can tease without losing herself, play with the implicit, and hold a frame.


In the end, it’s all a matter of taste.

Feel free to demonstrate as such. I don't overtly disagree with anything u say. Like yea it is a porn coded lens, but that's what these usually are at the end of the day is porn but with words. I'm glad that u have a clear vision of what u want though cuz that will make it not change with the wind like a lot do. I like mature women just the narrative of 50 and been married forever means way less agency for her and less potentially in the absolute sense. Life is different for a 28 year old who's been in a 3 year relationship and a 50 year old in a 20 year marriage. I'd personally rather all those things u mentioned in someone who was younger and don't see those traits as just an age thing, but that's cuz I'm closer to 30 than 50 so that could be all it is who knows.

Not necessarily unmarketable but like I said u got a clear idea of what you have in mind so it's on you to execute.

 

[onetwo92]

Will be keeping an eye out always enjoy a well written NTS story, do you have any rough development goals? Release time frame?

 

[Candaule]

Feel free to demonstrate as such. I don't overtly disagree with anything u say. Like yea it is a porn coded lens, but that's what these usually are at the end of the day is porn but with words. I'm glad that u have a clear vision of what u want though cuz that will make it not change with the wind like a lot do. I like mature women just the narrative of 50 and been married forever means way less agency for her and less potentially in the absolute sense. Life is different for a 28 year old who's been in a 3 year relationship and a 50 year old in a 20 year marriage. I'd personally rather all those things u mentioned in someone who was younger and don't see those traits as just an age thing, but that's cuz I'm closer to 30 than 50 so that could be all it is who knows.

Not necessarily unmarketable but like I said u got a clear idea of what you have in mind so it's on you to execute.

I’ll reassure you. Liz (the protagonist) was divorced and has just remarried at the start of the story.

 

[Candaule]

Will be keeping an eye out always enjoy a well written NTS story, do you have any rough development goals? Release time frame?

I have a solid background in IT, but I have no experience developing a VN.
I’m also learning as I build it, so it takes a bit longer. I’m going to work day by day in the narrative, starting with Day 0. For now, I’m aiming for a release at the end of January.

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[Fusionzone]

I’ll reassure you. Liz (the protagonist) was divorced and has just remarried at the start of the story.

Actually the 20 year marriage would have been better in my book haha, confusing i know. but either way it's your story you clearly got a vision for what you've got planned, so I'm eager to see what kind of writing you come up with. Ultimately it's something for you to satisfy yourself with what you come up and not me. Idk fuck do I know, I'm not a writer. As long as you're having a good time you're winning.

Female protag so it's gonna be her pov is what I'm hearing?

 

[Candaule]

Actually the 20 year marriage would have been better in my book haha, confusing i know. but either way it's your story you clearly got a vision for what you've got planned, so I'm eager to see what kind of writing you come up with. Ultimately it's something for you to satisfy yourself with what you come up and not me. Idk fuck do I know, I'm not a writer. As long as you're having a good time you're winning.

Female protag so it's gonna be her pov is what I'm hearing?

The player will have choices to make for both spouses.
Thank you very much for your encouragement.

 

[cold_arctus]

You’re assuming that a 50+ wife is automatically “unmarketable” and that a long-term couple is automatically “low stakes.” That’s a very porn-coded lens, not a narrative truth.


Desirability isn’t an age; it’s presentation. A mature woman can be far more erotic than a “fit” thirty-something if she’s written that way: confidence, elegance, authority, gaze, social intelligence, control of the game. It’s not “less fantasy,” it’s a different fantasy—often more psychological and rarer, therefore more distinctive.


Also, a VN isn’t meant to “beat porn” visually. Where porn wins on immediacy, a VN wins on tension, subtext, progression, rules, and micro-choices. And a more mature woman fits that register perfectly: she can tease without losing herself, play with the implicit, and hold a frame.


In the end, it’s all a matter of taste.

I like her design she kinda gives me Kendra Lust vibes.. don't know why.

Really looking forward to your game.

 

[Marc9]

Some people are so crazy that they're already DEMANDING the same things from the guy developing a new game: DO THIS OR DO THAT, the wife has to be like this or that, the husband has to be X or Y, and other things haha.

At no point do they reflect on the INDIVIDUALITY of the developers. The games belong to them; they define them.

And since I know what the possible replies to what I say might be, I'll say upfront that yes, this is a forum and a suitable place for OPINIONS, and yes, I agree. HOWEVER, giving an opinion is one thing, which is quite different from the unreasonable demands I occasionally see in the threads.