HTML X-Change™ Life [v0.22.2] [Aphrodite]

[Retired Waffle]

Anyone willing to share the Dev Log from yesterday?

 

[tooldev]

Hi, I'm about to play the game, and there are several character mods and one for Blacked. Is it better to play it without mods first, or are there mods that enhance the game?

Always start any game without mods. In case you experience trouble , it is always a nightmare to figure out what people actually did to their game. Despite that: why throw in stuff , when you dont even know yet how the base game feels? Mods are meant to either enhance your experience, which means you should have experience with it in the first place. Or they fix issues that the dev itself doesnt, which isnt the case either for this.

 

[LynxLinks]

Hi, I'm about to play the game, and there are several character mods and one for Blacked. Is it better to play it without mods first, or are there mods that enhance the game?

I played it without mods and gradually introduced a couple that I thought were interesting, I now play unmodded because Aphrodite added those mods to the base game... and no I can't remember which ones they were now!

 

[Nixi~]

Is it just me, or is the only character in the game depicted liking anything to do with impregnation is the player character? I wonder where the market for breeder pills come from.

 

[remplazo]

So, I downloaded a mod that looked like fun,unfortunately it had compatibility issues with another mod I installed, this is the error I had and for some reason despite removing the mod that gave me the compatibility issues, the error persists, what can I do?

 

[VasaraGlyndark]

Is it just me, or is the only character in the game depicted liking anything to do with impregnation is the player character? I wonder where the market for breeder pills come from.

I think the market for breeder in this game comes from spiking people.

 

[TheFamilyDog]

I think the market for breeder in this game comes from spiking people.

It fits into the lore of X-change, breeder being the best "screw you!" pill for your enemies.

 

[nekpek]

somehow my game is stuck at day 1
all other aspect of the game is working ok. but the days dont progress when sleeping.
(did use cheats)

 

[Nixi~]

I think the market for breeder in this game comes from spiking people.

So it's essentially Galaxy Gas. Sold as whipped cream but in practice it's used for something nefarious with the companies involved knowing full well of what's it's used for.

 

[DavDR]

It fits into the lore of X-change, breeder being the best "screw you!" pill for your enemies.

The lore of X-change is the whole problem.

According to the resistance group (I forget what they're called) that we meet at the beach with the red headed model, Aphrodite is a benevolent Goddess and Summer City is the happiest city on earth. But is it really?

Apparently 'happiness' is Summer City is brought about by a shallow hookup culture fueled by the pill market, which only enriches the corporations.

The culture is highly corrupt, we regularly see employees and managers embezzling their employers resources to obtain sexual gratification.

It's also highly inefficient, distribution systems regularly breakdown, they can't even keep the vending machines stocked.

Pranking, which is poisoning of personal enemies with expensive drugs (further enriching the corporations) that can cause deleterious side effects.

Workers rights are practically nonexistent, with managers resorting to pimping out female employees to satisfy male blue collar workers.

It's a racist society where we almost never see black patrons admitted to bars and nightclubs.

 

[letmein98]

It's a racist society where we almost never see black patrons admitted to bars and nightclubs.

It is still America...

 

[Nixi~]

The lore of X-change is the whole problem.

According to the resistance group (I forget what they're called) that we meet at the beach with the red headed model, Aphrodite is a benevolent Goddess and Summer City is the happiest city on earth. But is it really?

Apparently 'happiness' is Summer City is brought about by a shallow hookup culture fueled by the pill market, which only enriches the corporations.

The culture is highly corrupt, we regularly see employees and managers embezzling their employers resources to obtain sexual gratification.

It's also highly inefficient, distribution systems regularly breakdown, they can't even keep the vending machines stocked.

Pranking, which is poisoning of personal enemies with expensive drugs (further enriching the corporations) that can cause deleterious side effects.

Workers rights are practically nonexistent, with managers resorting to pimping out female employees to satisfy male blue collar workers.

It's a racist society where we almost never see black patrons admitted to bars and nightclubs.

I guess for people with no memories or concept of other places in the world, who also happen to live on a private island and conveniently don't interact with any of the corporations, Summer City must look like paradise on Earth. Specially when they would be hunt down by the "Wolf" in any other place.

 

[ajro413]

The lore of X-change is the whole problem.

According to the resistance group (I forget what they're called) that we meet at the beach with the red headed model, Aphrodite is a benevolent Goddess and Summer City is the happiest city on earth. But is it really?

Apparently 'happiness' is Summer City is brought about by a shallow hookup culture fueled by the pill market, which only enriches the corporations.

The culture is highly corrupt, we regularly see employees and managers embezzling their employers resources to obtain sexual gratification.

It's also highly inefficient, distribution systems regularly breakdown, they can't even keep the vending machines stocked.

Pranking, which is poisoning of personal enemies with expensive drugs (further enriching the corporations) that can cause deleterious side effects.

Workers rights are practically nonexistent, with managers resorting to pimping out female employees to satisfy male blue collar workers.

It's a racist society where we almost never see black patrons admitted to bars and nightclubs.

The setting of Summer City is heavily inspired by 1980s Miami/Vice City nostalgia. In my own headcanon, I like to think that the X-change pills have similar qualities to antidepressants on top of its obvious nefarious and sexual uses. Kind of similar to the game 'We Happy Few', where characters who take the pills experience their dystopian world in a much more happy state than those who don't. It's possible that some inhabitants of Summer City take X-change just to experience an artificial state of happiness while living in a dystopian future.

I know it's just a porn game, but the lore and world-building of the game is very interesting. It's one of the things I look forward to with every update.

 

[DavDR]

The setting of Summer City is heavily inspired by 1980s Miami/Vice City nostalgia. In my own headcanon, I like to think that the X-change pills have similar qualities to antidepressants on top of its obvious nefarious and sexual uses. Kind of similar to the game 'We Happy Few', where characters who take the pills experience their dystopian world in a much more happy state than those who don't. It's possible that some inhabitants of Summer City take X-change just to experience an artificial state of happiness while living in a dystopian future.

I know it's just a porn game, but the lore and world-building of the game is very interesting. It's one of the things I look forward to with every update.

I wrote my post as a parody.

When the update came out with the first 'resistance' content I assumed that Aphrodite's partisans were the good guys and that the story would play out with the player character helping the resistance to bring about the victory for Aphrodite, but after a good long yawn I began to wonder.

When you take a shallow glance at the games society you can pick at quite a few flaws in the social fabric, although most can be chalked up to the availability of real porn content, so I decided that a parody post was in order.

But!!!

When Tubbs rescues the PC after the first Hot and Ready demo I was genuinely surprised that you get the option to agree with him about how dangerous Aphrodite and her drugs could be for society. There was some actual grey areas here!

Going back to the dialogue with whatshername (somebody help a brother out here, what was those characters names and what is that slur that the zombies use?) you are told that the pills that the knock off corporations produce are inferior because of all the side effects. But there's one big side effect to Aphrodite's pills that's absurdly obvious, the loss of identity which is the zombies main problem. So right from the start, they're lying to the player to try and enlist us in the cause.

I'm reviewing the lore very carefully now because I'm sure there are some more clues out there. If anyone has noticed anything please share.

 

[TheFamilyDog]

I wrote my post as a parody.

That was your first mistake, which reminds me of a quote from the 1987 movie Roxanne with Steve Martin.

Roxanne Kowalski:
I was being ironic.

C.D. Bales:
Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at.

 

[l1lym]

0.22 has just gone into playtesting with subscribers! Really excited to get this one out, a lot of big ticket items:

1. Purchasable car
2. Huge bukkake / gokkun sex scene to win the car without buying it, but it's a pretty degrading sex scene
3. Overhauled IndexedDB save system - no more corrupt saves and dumb issues from Twine's local storage nonsense
4. A new addition I really like from McLurkington, the ability to see what is affecting your skill rolls under the hood:

 

[KillerFish66]

0.22 has just gone into playtesting with subscribers! Really excited to get this one out, a lot of big ticket items:

1. Purchasable car
2. Huge bukkake / gokkun sex scene to win the car without buying it, but it's a pretty degrading sex scene
3. Overhauled IndexedDB save system - no more corrupt saves and dumb issues from Twine's local storage nonsense
4. A new addition I really like from McLurkington, the ability to see what is affecting your skill rolls under the hood:

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when do you think this will go public?

 

[TheFamilyDog]

when do you think this will go public?

I'm guessing it will be a week or two, since playtesting just became available today.

Let it be noted I'm horrible at the driving game.

 

[scannatore]

I'm guessing it will be a week or two, since playtesting just became available today.

Let it be noted I'm horrible at the driving game.

Let's hope it's not long like the first titris.

 

[danco91]

anyone know how to get the strippers on parade achievement last time i looked you have to try and leave when taking the job as a stripper for dred and have the exhibition side effect i have that but see no option to leave