I think i'm going to release this game in 3 stages.
You make a good point, i have a maledom harem ending planned. but i should also do a femdom harem too.
Renpy is just the game engine, i won't be using any daz renders i also hate the way daz looks.
I had figured this would be more of a D/s context than a gladiatrix one. Even so, I could see making one of the woman a drunkard who comes home and beats the stuffing out of MC when she comes home from the bar. It could be like the beginning of Dragon's Lair 2:
This is good advice. It's best not to stray too far from your idea otherwise you can make the same mistake as Deka. Shoehorning in a bunch of kinks while leaving out the lore and setting that you wanted to include.
I'm now seeing this as an issue, giving the player a ton of choices takes a lot of time on top of the alternative ideas being harder to write since they weren't in line with your original idea. i'm currently at a crossroads where the player has 7 choices on one choice prompt, while i think high variation high choice count visual novels like crimson gray are really cool i also have to be realistic with what i can produce on my limited free time. releasing a game that can be played is better then having a cool idea that nobody ever sees, two fold that for a game that has 15 routes but never gets an ending.
And just like that you realized a truth about game development that even Koda and Deka have yet to learn. Feature creep is a thing that can get out of hand real fast. I would start with writing out a rough draft of the top 3 paths where you want the story to go. The key is to keep it simple and do a few things great instead of a bunch of things meh. (See: Last Man on Earth).
I think a trap a lot of people fall into including myself is writers block, all of these routes wouldn't be an issue if i was writing at the pace i started at. but my progress has slowed down to a halt due to writers block. even worse what i do write feels like kindergarten scribble compared to what i was writing.
That makes sense. The key is to have a write something everyday even if it's only a single line.
Funny story, i do plan on there being a murder plot device near the end of the game.
Eh, i try to make a little progress everyday but setting a hard rule that i have to write something everyday would inevitably make my writers block even worse.
I'm at a bit of a crossroads. i want to do basically what you suggested where you get "Bad end points" for cheating that eventually lead to a "bad end" but i also want endings with the other girls to be possible, unsure how to do both at the same time.I'd like for there to be some sort of feeling of unease and uncertainty... danger. If you're too free with your affections you earn displeasure that affects the perceived loyalty to your lady, if you fuck around real bad and act like everyone's little slut then you can have the "sold to a brothel" bad end forced upon you. It'll be like that scene with the doctor from Rainbow.
Loyalty is naturally rewarded.
Not sure that kind of thing would really make sense with the current cast of characters.
