the mission to repair the church seems to be glitch out somehow. i find dorzakk there but he should be back in place of fenna for the time being. the conversation appears to be stuck in a loop as well with no apparent way to get out of it.
just a suggestion, perhaps you could implement an exit for conversations. it might not fix the underline issue but it'd be a nice temporary patch at the very least.
its definitely a game that looks like its got plenty of potential though. from what i gather at least it kind of has a skyrim/fallout vibe with a slight hint of that adult content magic splashed here and there like a nice spice.
The creator actually does have a Patreon here, which should probably have been advertised on this page. The creator has put the game on indefinite hiatus though, so it may be dead. Hopefully he starts working on it again sometime down the road.
This is really cool, i love the artwork and the characters. If i had any feedback specifically id say the rumor option for further info is a bit odd- feels very old school to type things in ans see if the character knows anything but i never know what to ask, and when i try i don't seem to get any response :/
That function is very bare bones at the moment which is why there's a lack of responses. I'll be expanding it going forward but it likely won't be a mandatory feature to completely the game. I also plan to possibly highlight keywords during general conversations as hints about what you can/should ask.
1. Love the style and the premise. Also love the option of dire serpents as PC. I wish there were insects or arachnids as well, but that's a fairly exotic option and I don't really expect it to come up.
2. The leveling system is a bit strange - the best way to level up seems to be staying in the starting tavern, picking flowers and beating up goblins. Each flower costs 2 points, each shoe also costs 2. As goblins are the easiest enemies, it is by far the most efficient method.
3. An occultist PC doesn't seems to start with any spells. It might be a good idea to add different starting skills to different classes.
4. There seems to be a lot of missing commas, especially before PC's name. When addressing someone, there should be a comma before or after a name.
"Hi, %name%" and "%name%, hi". These are most frequently missing.
Sometimes the descriptions - such as the prologue - read smoothly, sometimes they seem choppy. I suggest you find an auxiliary writer/beta. I assume the text will be polished as the development goes along.
5. "Length" is simply not a good word, it's very reminiscent of paperback romance novels. It's better than "manhood" or "knob", but still. Please consider just using "dick". //Edit: a matter of taste, I admit. I will probably get used to it.
6. Here's to hoping a skeleton romance will be possible.
//Edit2:
7. After Fenn agreed to help Lyra, I got her a room, and went to temple, somehow there's a scene where Darzakk is helping Lyra instead, and it's a looped conversation.
1. Maybe in the future. It's relatively easy for me to add new races at the moment. Though that'll be more difficult if I add some other features I've been considering.
2. That's largely because I haven't fleshed out more encounters. It's intentionally easy to level at the moment because the game is in beta and buggy. Saves might end up bugged, crashes and loss of progress are very possible. So you can just pick flowers freely if you don't mind taking a little time to grind.
3. Occultist isn't a starting class. Which is probably a little weird. Your starting 'class' is actually defined by your race. Your job and personality work like traits in Divinity or background in D&D. They provide unique dialogue options and that's about it.
4. I'll look into the comma issue. I can't afford a beta writer though so this is what people get. I'm doing all the art, writing and coding on my own so although I'd love to have thing really polished, but it's just not likely going to happen. I will always go through and edit things when they're brought to my attention though!
5. Sorry, that's one thing I likely won't change. Porn writing sucks. There's no good word for penis or vagina, period. No acceptions. Dick and Cock create a harsh consonant sound in the middle of a sentence which I find distracting. It just breaks the flow. Like you said, knob and manhood are just weird. Etc. So Length and Shaft are going to be the most common for me to use. But I'm not happy about any option tbh. \o/
6. You can count on it.
7. That's a bug I'll have fixed in the next build. I put in the wrong name in one tiny place and now that whole sequence is borked.
Thanks so much for all the feedback! This is really help and I greatly appreciate it! ^^
And thanks to you for answering! I'm very excited re: 6 in particular. My sympathies re: 5. Yeah, I've been there.
I'm very tempted to volunteer some help with writing, but I'm not a native English speaker, even if my grammar is pretty decent, so I'm not sure whether you'd want it (or any help at all, for that matter).
I'm always very grateful for edits/corrections if people are willing to take the time. If you see any weird grammar or spelling issues just throw me a screenshot or the original line and a correction. I'll do my best to get them in! I do feel guilty accepting the free labor but I'm also not going to turn it down.
Thanks so much! This is a huge help. I just got done making the changes, so they should be live for the next update!
I'm always happy to have any suggestions or content. If you want to submit anything like that you can do so https://forms.gle/x1bMVgS5Xnw1GZGD9 I can't promise that I'll put everything that's sent in but I'm always open to more flavor text and personalization!
Thank you again for taking so much time to do these edits. This seriously helps a ton! I know I waffled a lot on the tense during the beginning especially but I'm gonna try to be more attentive about staying in present tense going forward.
I think it happens to any race, not just kobold, I cant get past race selection without that error. Idk if that makes a difference coding-wise, just figured I should report it.
It said "An exception has occured" along with a bunch of files. There are soooooo many. They don't fit with the word limit so I can't send them altogether. If you want, I can send them seperately.
File "game/script.rpy", line 816, in script call call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy) from _call_scene_battle_setup File "game/script.rpy", line 948, in script call call scene_battle_loop(_weather_active) from _call_scene_battle_loop File "game/script.rpy", line 1264, in script call call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 75, in script call call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_ambush = True) from _call_scene_battle_setup_6 File "game/script.rpy", line 948, in script call call scene_battle_loop(_weather_active) from _call_scene_battle_loop File "game/script.rpy", line 1264, in script call call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 55, in script call call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11 File "game/script.rpy", line 948, in script call call scene_battle_loop(_weather_active) from _call_scene_battle_loop File "game/script.rpy", line 1264, in script call call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 44, in script call call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_4 File "game/script.rpy", line 948, in script call call scene_battle_loop(_weather_active) from _call_scene_battle_loop File "game/script.rpy", line 1264, in script call call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end File "game/scenes_last_drop.rpy", line 796, in script call call talk_dorzakk(_t,True) from _call_talk_dorzakk_1 File "game/scenes_last_drop.rpy", line 835, in script call call talk_dorzakk("Anything else ya need?", _in) from _call_talk_dorzakk_4 File "game/scenes_last_drop.rpy", line 796, in script call call talk_dorzakk(_t,True) from _call_talk_dorzakk_1
I really like the game but hit a problem. I heal the orc's arms then sent the minotauress to the other town after getting her a room key to help Lyra. Now I'm stuck in a loop with Lyra thanking Dorzakk instead of Fenna when I sent her to help. Hope it will be fixed in the next build.
Right now only a limited amount of playable races are in game, and wererats actually are in game right now. They are in the catagory of Lycanthrope, named Dire Murin.
English is not my primary language so I often feel not good reading so many sentence that stuck together. Perhaps is the problem of the font. It just feel words stick together badly.
Since the game runs on renpy, the PC build has a .sh file, that should be able to run the game on Linux, so could you please tag it with Linux support and set it up so that the itch client runs the .sh file? Hopefully that shouldn't be too much trouble.
Not currently. Because I'm still tweaking the system and figuring out what feels right I haven't set up a proper tutorial or explanation yet. Once I get things polished I'll set up a proper description of everything
I really like this! It's an rpg with dnd vibes with romance!
I have to compliment you on your writing. It's just marvelous! I expected something simple, but your sentence structure is anything but. It's complex and original. I really enjoy it! You do well setting up the scene and it feels like I'm listening to a DM!
Great job! I hope you develop this more and will keep an eye out.
In future build, will player get game over after got defeated and need to load a previous save to continue? Right now after got beaten up by werewolf, from the text I think player got eatten? Yet player still wake up in The Last Drop?
And good luck developing! This game have so much potential!
I haven't totally figured out how I'm going to handle defeat. I don't think I'm going to do something as harsh as loading a save. But I'm probably going to have the player lose a few not equipped items.
Hello, take what I say with a grain of salt because I haven't played the game yet
One challenging aspect of a 'death mechanic' is how to handle it properly. You could just revert to a save, but that is the mainstream of how death is handled and makes death sort of have no consequence aside from having to redo what you already did. You technically didn't 'lose' progress in the game because you just revert back to before you did it and can just retrace your steps to get it back.
A solution to this could be to be sent back to a starting area and losing items, this is also done in many games like in minecraft, terreria, and runescape. It gives death actual consequence, but something like this doesn't make much sense in a more story-driven game. The games I mentioned are more sandbox-like games where that sort of thing makes more sense, but there is a way to get around that limit, and it's by adapting the 'respawn/revive' mechanic into the narrative of the game, like in runescape it's loosely explained as simply 'it's not your time adventurer, return to life' and in bioshock there are actual reviver stations tied into the game.
To throw narrative ideas, perhaps the player character gets into possession of some ancient artifact that revives them after they die, pulling their revived body back to where they wake up. Perhaps they come across a monster or some other supernatural being that is capable of reviving them in exchange for some sort of service, maybe they grow attached to the player or they need the player's help to escape too.
I said all this because if you're still struggling on ideas for a death mechanic, I'm hoping this could help spur some ideas to help improve your game.
Thanks, I appreciate the suggestions. The game itself is going to be fairly story driven and narrative by the nature of being built in RenPy. It will use a lot of RPG style mechanics to guide the players to certain story beats. This ends up creating the issue I'm having where reverting to a previous save is overly punishing and tedious for the narrative side. But simply respawning is to lenient for the RPG side.
I'm currently still leaning towards doing a combination where the player reverts to a save location, and loses some items. Possibly add some kind of negative 'post death' debuff but I'll have to test that to see if it feels right or not.
I'm digging this, but I really feel like the default text could really use some better formatting. Having 4 lines of bigger text would be great, the potential 7 lines of tiny text that can hit you early on are a bit much.
There are some newer releases on my patreon, but no new public build yet. I'll be posting an update hopefully soon. I'm making a lot of changes to core systems and mechanics so it's taking a little longer then I'd hoped to clean things up.
I have some feedback . will there be an option to be human ? will we be able to customise our characters appearance ? will there be images of the monsters when they are aroused ? also I think making the levelling up system more understandable and easy would be good . also there are a lot of random points in the forests , I don't know if you pn in the future to make more specific locations or not . also , when asking the rat about something I think it shouldn't be type anything but rather the questions come up according to the different quests and storylines you have triggered . that's all for now . sorry if I spoke nonsense .
I'll likely add more race options and a bit more character customization as the game develops. I am working on some mechanics at the moment for altering your appearance.
I have things coded so I can add alternate images for normal enemies, injured enemies, aroused enemies and injured+aroused enemies. I don't know when or if I'll end up doing that or not, just because of the amount of extra work that'll be for me. I'm doing all the art, programming and writing on my own and doing alt versions of all the monsters will get pretty overwhelming pretty quickly. I'd really like to do them though so who knows, I might get on a big art kick and do a big update of the enemies sometime.
Level Up system has been tweaked in some of the patreon builds so next public update will hopefully improve some clarity issues.
When speaking with NPCs there will be specific options for major dialogue and quests. The rumors option is there so you can get additional lore and/or clues about other areas and people. If I had individual dialogue options for everything it would get cluttered and people would be compelled to spam through each option without much purpose. I'd also have to add a bunch of checks to see if the player had already learned about X thing before asking about it further which would also get messy.
Thanks for the feedback. I hope the next build improves on these issues ^^
Every dialogue option that leads me to scavenge in the intro to the game ends up in a broken gamestate where the bag icon pops up with no text either there or in the normal textbox, I can't open the menu to get out of it and I can't advance through it. It's only been for male characters so far and I haven't tried being female yet but that stops me from being able to get anywhere with the game.
I played through the game a bit and it's not bad, so far! There is definitely a long way to go, but for where this game is at, it's a great start!
I can't say I'm a huge fan of the current saving and leveling system at the moment, but I understand that, given the fact the game is still in very early development, both these and most other current aspects of the game are subject to change in future builds, so I won't go too in-depth right now unless you want me to.
I also could't help but notice some similar this project is to Lustful Desires. I don't know whether you've seen/heard of it, but it's the same type of game as this; they do a really good job with combat and character advancement, so I really recommend it! Here are the links to the game's itch.io page and the dev's Patreon if you're interested.
I have seen and played Lustful Desires quite a bit. It was actually one of several games that kind inspired this. Combat is one of the things I kind of have an issue with in Lustful and most turn-based RPGs in this style. They pretty frequently end up being just 'mash attack until you win. If you don't, grind in an easier area until you're strong' Lustful fixes that to a degree with it's potions and item interactions but it can still be a little grindy.
I'd love for you to go in depth about what you don't like about the leveling system honestly. It's early access because I want to know what people think and how they play. It'll be a lot easier for me to make changes to the core systems now rather then later when I have a bunch of content.
(Sorry for not replying sooner. I got very busy with personal stuff)
As far as the leveling system goes, it just feels... well, it feels equal parts exploitable and obnoxious, I guess? Like, don't get me wrong, it's a creative idea to use items as a resource for leveling up, but I feel like giving Vacdes "trinkets" shouldn't be the ONLY means of leveling up.
Basically, I feel like the system is exploitable in the sense that someone with enough patience could just stick to the first few areas to collect trinkets (flowers, sea shells, etc.) to trade Vacdes and end up at a crazy-high level before they even complete the first real quest. On the other hand, I feel like the leveling system is obnoxious in the sense that combat has no real benefit to the player outside of getting sex scenes and grinding for a few types of trinkets to trade Vacdes; essentially, there isn't any huge incentive for the player to really pursue combat.
I think incorporating an experience points system into the mix could really improve these aspects. That isn't to say that I feel the current leveling system needs to be removed or anything; far from it! I think there's a way to combine these systems into something very unique and innovative!
Like, what if, to level up, a character needed to trade Vacdes enough "material" to reach the next level and a "catalyst" to actually execute the process? "Material" could be made up of experience points (earned by defeating enemies, completing quests, etc.) and/or trinkets, where a trinket with a trade value of 1 is equivalent to having an additional 10 experience points, and the "catalyst" could be any trinket(s) with a trade value of 1 or maybe even a trade value equal to the character's current level or something. For example, lets say a level 1 character needs to provide at least 150 experience points worth of material to reach level 2, not including the catalyst; in this example, the character needs to provide any combination of experience points and trinkets with a total value of at least 150 experience points (15 trade value) as material, so they could just defeat enemies and complete quests to collect the needed 150 experience points, collect trinkets with a total trade value of 15 or more, or some combination of the two to collect enough material to level up.
This is all just an example, by the way; I'm not saying that this is the only way to do this. All I'm really saying is that the leveling system should, in my opinion, be modified so that there's some incentive for the player to defeat enemies and complete quests, outside of hoarding trinkets and getting sex scenes.
Just food for thought; you do you with this game and take it where you want it to go. If you like this idea, feel free to nab it for the game, I don't mind; if you don't, well, there are plenty of other options for fine-tuning the leveling system, so just keep my critique in mind, I guess. This is your game, after all, and only you really know what your vision is for it's completion; all I want is to see this project reach the maximum potential I know it has! If you want clarification on anything I said here, all you gotta do is ask and I'll explain it as best I can!
(Don't worry about the late reply! I know as well as anyone that life just gets in the way sometimes. Not like you can spend all your time waiting for and replying to comments on itch.io, right?)
So my only counter argument to the exploitation issue is that pretty much any RPG is exploitable in the same way. You can spend 5 hours in Palette Town grinding pidgeys until your level 40 and continue on. There isn't going to be much I can do to prevent people from grinding in some way. Whether it's scavenging, combat or some other thing. Unless I do the Witcher III thing and have quests be the only way to gain XP but that seems harsh for a game that I'm intending to be a little casual.
I think the system probably feels a lot more problematic right now because things aren't balanced yet. The systems are really bare bones and I haven't balanced item values or the required cost to level up. It's all very theoretical at this point.
The main thing I'm trying to emulate with this system is Dark Souls 'souls' systems, because I love how they handled character progression. I could get really deep into why I love that system but the TL;DR version is that having all of your character progression hinge on a single resource (souls) instead of two (xp and gold) is something that I find brilliant. (I'm admittedly making it a little less clean because of the aesthetic and narrative choices.)
The reason I'm going for that is because I want to let people have options about how they play. If someone just doesn't like fighting things and wants to just forage and do fetch quests here and there then they can play like that. If someone wants to be really aggressive and fight everything that's okay too. And if someone wants to just be horny and flirt with every monster they see, then that's how they can play. I don't want any one play style to be exploitable and I don't want to encourage endless grinding, but I do want people to have options. That said in the future builds as I flesh out content I'll be readjusting item values to better reflect the challenge/reward relationship. Items gained through combat will generally have a higher value then items found through foraging. Stronger monsters will drop higher valued items, and items foraged from more challenging areas will have a slighter higher value then items foraged in easier areas. With that the required 'xp' will increase with each level in a exponential growth rate to force you to go to higher level areas lest you spend 30 hours grinding.
I do also intend to add a unique item(s) either missing pages or golden apples or something that have a base value of 0 but when traded with Vacdes specifically will have a much higher value. These will be used as rewards for beating bosses and completing major quests. This like most things at the moment having been added because I'm slow.
With that said I'm also going to be adding shops which you can also trade your items at for new weapons, armor and skills. To go back to the Dark Souls thing. In the same way you can improve your character by spending souls to level up your stats, buy and improve armor and weapons. You'll be able to do the same thing here only using 'loot' to trade for new weapons, armor or selling to Vacdes for stats.
I hope I understood what you were suggesting correctly and I hope this explained my thoughts and plans properly. It has been a long week and I'm running on fumes at this point. So if I just rambled incoherently I apologize. But I really do appreciate here your thoughts and I love having the opportunity to just ramble about my design choices and ideas!
Wow, never thought about the [using one currency to level up & trade] idea in LMaO came from dark souls! Now come to think of it, prisoners bearing a curse/collar that slowly taking away their humanity/libido, being casted away to a far asylum/prison island. In the end I suppose player gonna rekindle the first flame of lust? XD
And thanks for sharing such detailed thought behind making this game!
This game has so much potential! Seriously, even though it was pretty short, I really enjoyed it, the characters had cool and interesting designs and the gameplay itself has that really nice old RPG style to it. I really hope you're going to keep working on this game because I'd love to play it if it does come out.
Love the art style. This project reminds me of 'tavern of spear', their doing something similar and they get around the leveling being a slog issue by having fetch quest to supply a merchant in exchange for gold. While fetch quests aren't the most engaging it does give some motivation to grind a bit when necessary also the fact the merchant flirts a lot so getting on his good side's a bonus. link if you want to try their public build for some ideas or just to see how they're handling problems you mite come across: https://www.patreon.com/CaroZalt/overview
I like where this is heading. Love the artwork of the rat and goblin. Would love a dominant goblin, too. :) The inventory system and fight UI could use some work, e.g. showing the stats of the items before you equip them and more clearly show the results of your attacks. Otherwise the player needs to scan the scrolling text for the effects.
Thanks, I do wanna add some different dominant, submissive, and switch scenes eventually because I think options are fun and important.
I'm definitely gonna work on cleaning up the UI and as I go through with this, it's a little bare bones atm because I'm still not 100% sure if this is how I want to do combat or not. Currently your equipment give you different dice that increase your attack or defense. Then during combat when you attack you roll all of your attack dice and the enemy rolls their defense dice and they take the difference in damage.
This is fine at the moment, but I'm worried about expanding on it, because I really don't want to fall into the RPG trap of "Click A until thing dies. If you die go to other area and click A until you level up." Because even though gating and level gating can be important I don't want combat to be a slog.
Once I get that sorted out I'm going to try and add some little combat animations, nothing super fancy just sprite shakes and ideally have damage and status effects show up in the center of the scene, with the combat log in the corner as an "in case you missed it" kind of a thing.
Looking forward to seeing this developed more, the art is quite good the interface is rudimentary and its very short but maybe something will come out of it eh? At any rate, you could create a discord for communication with your fanbase (suggestions and bug fixes) as well as a patreon if you intend to go full tilt on this.
Thanks, I'm hoping something will come out of it. I don't think I wanna get a discord going just yet. This is still in prototyping phase and discord can be a lot to manage but in the future I might if there's a big demand for it. I do have a patreon though, I mostly use it for anyone wanting to support be doing whatever it is I'm doing, though I need to update it with details about this project.
I'll be doing my best to make sure there's something for everyone. I am a guy and gay so my gay woman and straight content might not be totally on point. But I will do my best.
It wold be great if you could turn it off or on depending on what you wanted. The one thing I hate about some of these games is being forced in to M/F stuff when I'm only here for the M/M stuff. I wold imagen Straight people may want to avoid Gay content.
I'm not going to add a hard toggle for it but I'm definitely going to avoid having forced sex scenes for a lot of reasons. First of all it's a porn game, half the reward is the sex scenes so getting sex scenes by losing seems counter intuitive. Second as a gay dude getting forced into M/F scenes feels shitty and finally consent is important, not to be super preachy or pretentious about it but I really think consent is something that's under represented in these games. Not that scenes aren't written with all parties consenting but the player doesn't get a lot of choice which feels weird to me especially in a game where choice is the point. I could get really into it but bottom line is I'm going to make sure that players always have the option to engage or not and that NPCs when engaged are consenting participants.
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the mission to repair the church seems to be glitch out somehow.
i find dorzakk there but he should be back in place of fenna for the time being.
the conversation appears to be stuck in a loop as well with no apparent way to get out of it.
just a suggestion, perhaps you could implement an exit for conversations. it might not fix the underline issue but it'd be a nice temporary patch at the very least.
its definitely a game that looks like its got plenty of potential though.
from what i gather at least it kind of has a skyrim/fallout vibe with a slight hint of that adult content magic splashed here and there like a nice spice.
Love the foundation you've got going, hope this gets to the point of having a patreon.
The creator actually does have a Patreon here, which should probably have been advertised on this page. The creator has put the game on indefinite hiatus though, so it may be dead. Hopefully he starts working on it again sometime down the road.
Will there be a android version
This is really cool, i love the artwork and the characters. If i had any feedback specifically id say the rumor option for further info is a bit odd- feels very old school to type things in ans see if the character knows anything but i never know what to ask, and when i try i don't seem to get any response :/
That function is very bare bones at the moment which is why there's a lack of responses. I'll be expanding it going forward but it likely won't be a mandatory feature to completely the game. I also plan to possibly highlight keywords during general conversations as hints about what you can/should ask.
1. Love the style and the premise. Also love the option of dire serpents as PC. I wish there were insects or arachnids as well, but that's a fairly exotic option and I don't really expect it to come up.
2. The leveling system is a bit strange - the best way to level up seems to be staying in the starting tavern, picking flowers and beating up goblins. Each flower costs 2 points, each shoe also costs 2. As goblins are the easiest enemies, it is by far the most efficient method.
3. An occultist PC doesn't seems to start with any spells. It might be a good idea to add different starting skills to different classes.
4. There seems to be a lot of missing commas, especially before PC's name. When addressing someone, there should be a comma before or after a name.
"Hi, %name%" and "%name%, hi". These are most frequently missing.
Sometimes the descriptions - such as the prologue - read smoothly, sometimes they seem choppy. I suggest you find an auxiliary writer/beta. I assume the text will be polished as the development goes along.
5. "Length" is simply not a good word, it's very reminiscent of paperback romance novels. It's better than "manhood" or "knob", but still. Please consider just using "dick". //Edit: a matter of taste, I admit. I will probably get used to it.
6. Here's to hoping a skeleton romance will be possible.
//Edit2:
7. After Fenn agreed to help Lyra, I got her a room, and went to temple, somehow there's a scene where Darzakk is helping Lyra instead, and it's a looped conversation.
1. Maybe in the future. It's relatively easy for me to add new races at the moment. Though that'll be more difficult if I add some other features I've been considering.
2. That's largely because I haven't fleshed out more encounters. It's intentionally easy to level at the moment because the game is in beta and buggy. Saves might end up bugged, crashes and loss of progress are very possible. So you can just pick flowers freely if you don't mind taking a little time to grind.
3. Occultist isn't a starting class. Which is probably a little weird. Your starting 'class' is actually defined by your race. Your job and personality work like traits in Divinity or background in D&D. They provide unique dialogue options and that's about it.
4. I'll look into the comma issue. I can't afford a beta writer though so this is what people get. I'm doing all the art, writing and coding on my own so although I'd love to have thing really polished, but it's just not likely going to happen. I will always go through and edit things when they're brought to my attention though!
5. Sorry, that's one thing I likely won't change. Porn writing sucks. There's no good word for penis or vagina, period. No acceptions. Dick and Cock create a harsh consonant sound in the middle of a sentence which I find distracting. It just breaks the flow. Like you said, knob and manhood are just weird. Etc. So Length and Shaft are going to be the most common for me to use. But I'm not happy about any option tbh. \o/
6. You can count on it.
7. That's a bug I'll have fixed in the next build. I put in the wrong name in one tiny place and now that whole sequence is borked.
Thanks so much for all the feedback! This is really help and I greatly appreciate it! ^^
And thanks to you for answering! I'm very excited re: 6 in particular. My sympathies re: 5. Yeah, I've been there.
I'm very tempted to volunteer some help with writing, but I'm not a native English speaker, even if my grammar is pretty decent, so I'm not sure whether you'd want it (or any help at all, for that matter).
I'm always very grateful for edits/corrections if people are willing to take the time. If you see any weird grammar or spelling issues just throw me a screenshot or the original line and a correction. I'll do my best to get them in! I do feel guilty accepting the free labor but I'm also not going to turn it down.
Thanks so much! This is a huge help. I just got done making the changes, so they should be live for the next update!
I'm always happy to have any suggestions or content. If you want to submit anything like that you can do so https://forms.gle/x1bMVgS5Xnw1GZGD9
I can't promise that I'll put everything that's sent in but I'm always open to more flavor text and personalization!
Thank you again for taking so much time to do these edits. This seriously helps a ton! I know I waffled a lot on the tense during the beginning especially but I'm gonna try to be more attentive about staying in present tense going forward.
Thanks for letting me know. I'll have the bug fixed next update. I forgot to swap a variable update when selecting female which causes the crash
I think it happens to any race, not just kobold, I cant get past race selection without that error. Idk if that makes a difference coding-wise, just figured I should report it.
This has great potential to be one of my favorites so far.
Thanks. I appreciate it ^^
I tried to use the option to learn from Dorzakk, but it didn't work???
Can you give me some more details? What happened? Did you get an error report or a crash?
It said "An exception has occured" along with a bunch of files. There are soooooo many. They don't fit with the word limit so I can't send them altogether. If you want, I can send them seperately.
If you can just throw the last 10 or so lines that should be enough
File "game/script.rpy", line 816, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy) from _call_scene_battle_setup
File "game/script.rpy", line 948, in script call
call scene_battle_loop(_weather_active) from _call_scene_battle_loop
File "game/script.rpy", line 1264, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 75, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_ambush = True) from _call_scene_battle_setup_6
File "game/script.rpy", line 948, in script call
call scene_battle_loop(_weather_active) from _call_scene_battle_loop
File "game/script.rpy", line 1264, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 55, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 948, in script call
call scene_battle_loop(_weather_active) from _call_scene_battle_loop
File "game/script.rpy", line 1264, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 44, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_4
File "game/script.rpy", line 948, in script call
call scene_battle_loop(_weather_active) from _call_scene_battle_loop
File "game/script.rpy", line 1264, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/scenes_last_drop.rpy", line 796, in script call
call talk_dorzakk(_t,True) from _call_talk_dorzakk_1
File "game/scenes_last_drop.rpy", line 835, in script call
call talk_dorzakk("Anything else ya need?", _in) from _call_talk_dorzakk_4
File "game/scenes_last_drop.rpy", line 796, in script call
call talk_dorzakk(_t,True) from _call_talk_dorzakk_1
Which option did you select? I can't seem to find what would cause this
I really like the game but hit a problem. I heal the orc's arms then sent the minotauress to the other town after getting her a room key to help Lyra. Now I'm stuck in a loop with Lyra thanking Dorzakk instead of Fenna when I sent her to help. Hope it will be fixed in the next build.
I've got that fixed now, next build should correct this. ><
this gets better and better with each update, massive thanks for allowing the player to be trans, i miss when you were able to be a wererat though :/
also, do you plan on adding any scenes with fenna?
Right now only a limited amount of playable races are in game, and wererats actually are in game right now. They are in the catagory of Lycanthrope, named Dire Murin.
Wererats are now under Lycanthrope, Dire Murin.
Fenna will definitely having some more scenes going forwards. She's actually one of the characters I have most solidified in my head.
nevermind i'm stupid, figured that out a bit after posting my comment XD
can't wait to see wherre this is going on the next update, your writing is p good, feels like i'm playing dnd
The word limit when asking Squeeb cause you cannot ask him some keyword s like vergesseneburg
And the word size is a bit too small for reading
Even when full screened?
English is not my primary language so I often feel not good reading so many sentence that stuck together. Perhaps is the problem of the font. It just feel words stick together badly.
That's a bug, it'll be fixed in the next build. =)
Since the game runs on renpy, the PC build has a .sh file, that should be able to run the game on Linux, so could you please tag it with Linux support and set it up so that the itch client runs the .sh file? Hopefully that shouldn't be too much trouble.
I'll upload a linux version next build. I wont' be messing around with the itch client for a bit though.
Your projekt is awsome! I`d love to see it`s growing :D
Thanks ^^ I'm in the middle of a bigger update so hopefully I'll have that done soon
Quick question.
Is there anywhere to see information regarding stats and such?
Not currently. Because I'm still tweaking the system and figuring out what feels right I haven't set up a proper tutorial or explanation yet. Once I get things polished I'll set up a proper description of everything
I really like this! It's an rpg with dnd vibes with romance!
I have to compliment you on your writing. It's just marvelous! I expected something simple, but your sentence structure is anything but. It's complex and original. I really enjoy it! You do well setting up the scene and it feels like I'm listening to a DM!
Great job! I hope you develop this more and will keep an eye out.
Thanks so much. I DM pretty regularly so I'm really glad to hear that's coming out in the writing ^^
love this game, i hope you continue working on it! although in the future will there be romance options?
That's the current plan
In future build, will player get game over after got defeated and need to load a previous save to continue? Right now after got beaten up by werewolf, from the text I think player got eatten? Yet player still wake up in The Last Drop?
And good luck developing! This game have so much potential!
I haven't totally figured out how I'm going to handle defeat. I don't think I'm going to do something as harsh as loading a save. But I'm probably going to have the player lose a few not equipped items.
Thanks for the support ^^
Hello, take what I say with a grain of salt because I haven't played the game yet
One challenging aspect of a 'death mechanic' is how to handle it properly. You could just revert to a save, but that is the mainstream of how death is handled and makes death sort of have no consequence aside from having to redo what you already did. You technically didn't 'lose' progress in the game because you just revert back to before you did it and can just retrace your steps to get it back.
A solution to this could be to be sent back to a starting area and losing items, this is also done in many games like in minecraft, terreria, and runescape. It gives death actual consequence, but something like this doesn't make much sense in a more story-driven game. The games I mentioned are more sandbox-like games where that sort of thing makes more sense, but there is a way to get around that limit, and it's by adapting the 'respawn/revive' mechanic into the narrative of the game, like in runescape it's loosely explained as simply 'it's not your time adventurer, return to life' and in bioshock there are actual reviver stations tied into the game.
To throw narrative ideas, perhaps the player character gets into possession of some ancient artifact that revives them after they die, pulling their revived body back to where they wake up. Perhaps they come across a monster or some other supernatural being that is capable of reviving them in exchange for some sort of service, maybe they grow attached to the player or they need the player's help to escape too.
I said all this because if you're still struggling on ideas for a death mechanic, I'm hoping this could help spur some ideas to help improve your game.
Thanks, I appreciate the suggestions. The game itself is going to be fairly story driven and narrative by the nature of being built in RenPy. It will use a lot of RPG style mechanics to guide the players to certain story beats. This ends up creating the issue I'm having where reverting to a previous save is overly punishing and tedious for the narrative side. But simply respawning is to lenient for the RPG side.
I'm currently still leaning towards doing a combination where the player reverts to a save location, and loses some items. Possibly add some kind of negative 'post death' debuff but I'll have to test that to see if it feels right or not.
Definitely gonna add more top and bottom options but I'm going to avoid defeated sex scenes
fair enough sounds great, looking forward to your next release.
I'm digging this, but I really feel like the default text could really use some better formatting. Having 4 lines of bigger text would be great, the potential 7 lines of tiny text that can hit you early on are a bit much.
So glad to see this updated! I thought it had die
I'm noticing the game is crashing after I click explore short after I load the game
Are you loading a save from a previous version?
yes but I tied making a new one but it also crashed ...
Can you post the crash report?
alright
do you mean to copy the BB code ?
Yeah if you can that will help me figure out what's causing the crash
Is there a way to bottom for enemies you defeat?
Not yet but I do plan on adding that option as soon as I can
how many sex scenes are there?
12 currently
IS there more
There are some newer releases on my patreon, but no new public build yet. I'll be posting an update hopefully soon. I'm making a lot of changes to core systems and mechanics so it's taking a little longer then I'd hoped to clean things up.
is this going to be a RPG type game or something ?
More or less a choose your own adventure with RPG elements
I have some feedback . will there be an option to be human ? will we be able to customise our characters appearance ? will there be images of the monsters when they are aroused ? also I think making the levelling up system more understandable and easy would be good . also there are a lot of random points in the forests , I don't know if you pn in the future to make more specific locations or not . also , when asking the rat about something I think it shouldn't be type anything but rather the questions come up according to the different quests and storylines you have triggered . that's all for now . sorry if I spoke nonsense .
I'll likely add more race options and a bit more character customization as the game develops. I am working on some mechanics at the moment for altering your appearance.
I have things coded so I can add alternate images for normal enemies, injured enemies, aroused enemies and injured+aroused enemies. I don't know when or if I'll end up doing that or not, just because of the amount of extra work that'll be for me. I'm doing all the art, programming and writing on my own and doing alt versions of all the monsters will get pretty overwhelming pretty quickly. I'd really like to do them though so who knows, I might get on a big art kick and do a big update of the enemies sometime.
Level Up system has been tweaked in some of the patreon builds so next public update will hopefully improve some clarity issues.
When speaking with NPCs there will be specific options for major dialogue and quests. The rumors option is there so you can get additional lore and/or clues about other areas and people. If I had individual dialogue options for everything it would get cluttered and people would be compelled to spam through each option without much purpose. I'd also have to add a bunch of checks to see if the player had already learned about X thing before asking about it further which would also get messy.
Thanks for the feedback. I hope the next build improves on these issues ^^
thanks for the reply!!! very excited to see how the game progresses !!!
Man, so much of the display and ui remind me of Darkest Dungeon.
Android build? Looks really good!
Thanks.
Not super likely for Android, I'm not really intending to do multiple builds outside of Mac and PC
Pretty immediate bug I've found in 1.1
Every dialogue option that leads me to scavenge in the intro to the game ends up in a broken gamestate where the bag icon pops up with no text either there or in the normal textbox, I can't open the menu to get out of it and I can't advance through it. It's only been for male characters so far and I haven't tried being female yet but that stops me from being able to get anywhere with the game.
You have to click the bag and equip the stick to continue
After doing the quest and opening the inventory:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 640, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy) from _call_scene_battle_setup
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 82, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_ambush = True) from _call_scene_battle_setup_6
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/scavenge_forest.rpy", line 51, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy) from _call_scene_battle_setup_1
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 47, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_4
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/scavenge_forest.rpy", line 61, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_pc_ambush = True) from _call_scene_battle_setup_2
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 60, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 60, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 60, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 60, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 60, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 47, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_4
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 47, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_4
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 60, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/scavenge_forest.rpy", line 51, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy) from _call_scene_battle_setup_1
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 60, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 47, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_4
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 47, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_4
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 73, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_eq_acc = _a,_eq_torso = _t,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_5
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 60, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False) from _call_scene_battle_setup_11
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_beach.rpy", line 27, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right) from _call_scene_battle_setup_7
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_beach.rpy", line 27, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right) from _call_scene_battle_setup_7
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_beach.rpy", line 27, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right) from _call_scene_battle_setup_7
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_beach.rpy", line 27, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right) from _call_scene_battle_setup_7
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/encounter_forest.rpy", line 31, in script call
call scene_battle_setup pass (_en = _enemy,_con = chooseCondition(),_ambush = False,_eq_right = _eq_right,_eq_acc = _eq_acc) from _call_scene_battle_setup_3
File "game/script.rpy", line 959, in script call
call scene_battle_end pass (_e) from _call_scene_battle_end # from _call_scene_battle_end
File "game/scenes_forest.rpy", line 47, in script
menu:
File "game/inventory_screens.rpy", line 15, in execute
screen inventory_screen():
File "game/inventory_screens.rpy", line 15, in execute
screen inventory_screen():
File "game/inventory_screens.rpy", line 173, in execute
frame:
File "game/inventory_screens.rpy", line 178, in execute
if selected_item != None:
File "game/inventory_screens.rpy", line 179, in execute
add inventory[selected_item][0].img pos (6,6)
IndexError: list index out of range
Hmmm.... I must've not reset selected_item or forgot a check somewhere. Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into it as soon as I get home.
I played through the game a bit and it's not bad, so far! There is definitely a long way to go, but for where this game is at, it's a great start!
I can't say I'm a huge fan of the current saving and leveling system at the moment, but I understand that, given the fact the game is still in very early development, both these and most other current aspects of the game are subject to change in future builds, so I won't go too in-depth right now unless you want me to.
I also could't help but notice some similar this project is to Lustful Desires. I don't know whether you've seen/heard of it, but it's the same type of game as this; they do a really good job with combat and character advancement, so I really recommend it! Here are the links to the game's itch.io page and the dev's Patreon if you're interested.
I have seen and played Lustful Desires quite a bit. It was actually one of several games that kind inspired this. Combat is one of the things I kind of have an issue with in Lustful and most turn-based RPGs in this style. They pretty frequently end up being just 'mash attack until you win. If you don't, grind in an easier area until you're strong' Lustful fixes that to a degree with it's potions and item interactions but it can still be a little grindy.
I'd love for you to go in depth about what you don't like about the leveling system honestly. It's early access because I want to know what people think and how they play. It'll be a lot easier for me to make changes to the core systems now rather then later when I have a bunch of content.
(Sorry for not replying sooner. I got very busy with personal stuff)
As far as the leveling system goes, it just feels... well, it feels equal parts exploitable and obnoxious, I guess? Like, don't get me wrong, it's a creative idea to use items as a resource for leveling up, but I feel like giving Vacdes "trinkets" shouldn't be the ONLY means of leveling up.
Basically, I feel like the system is exploitable in the sense that someone with enough patience could just stick to the first few areas to collect trinkets (flowers, sea shells, etc.) to trade Vacdes and end up at a crazy-high level before they even complete the first real quest. On the other hand, I feel like the leveling system is obnoxious in the sense that combat has no real benefit to the player outside of getting sex scenes and grinding for a few types of trinkets to trade Vacdes; essentially, there isn't any huge incentive for the player to really pursue combat.
I think incorporating an experience points system into the mix could really improve these aspects. That isn't to say that I feel the current leveling system needs to be removed or anything; far from it! I think there's a way to combine these systems into something very unique and innovative!
Like, what if, to level up, a character needed to trade Vacdes enough "material" to reach the next level and a "catalyst" to actually execute the process? "Material" could be made up of experience points (earned by defeating enemies, completing quests, etc.) and/or trinkets, where a trinket with a trade value of 1 is equivalent to having an additional 10 experience points, and the "catalyst" could be any trinket(s) with a trade value of 1 or maybe even a trade value equal to the character's current level or something. For example, lets say a level 1 character needs to provide at least 150 experience points worth of material to reach level 2, not including the catalyst; in this example, the character needs to provide any combination of experience points and trinkets with a total value of at least 150 experience points (15 trade value) as material, so they could just defeat enemies and complete quests to collect the needed 150 experience points, collect trinkets with a total trade value of 15 or more, or some combination of the two to collect enough material to level up.
This is all just an example, by the way; I'm not saying that this is the only way to do this. All I'm really saying is that the leveling system should, in my opinion, be modified so that there's some incentive for the player to defeat enemies and complete quests, outside of hoarding trinkets and getting sex scenes.
Just food for thought; you do you with this game and take it where you want it to go. If you like this idea, feel free to nab it for the game, I don't mind; if you don't, well, there are plenty of other options for fine-tuning the leveling system, so just keep my critique in mind, I guess. This is your game, after all, and only you really know what your vision is for it's completion; all I want is to see this project reach the maximum potential I know it has! If you want clarification on anything I said here, all you gotta do is ask and I'll explain it as best I can!
(Don't worry about the late reply! I know as well as anyone that life just gets in the way sometimes. Not like you can spend all your time waiting for and replying to comments on itch.io, right?)
So my only counter argument to the exploitation issue is that pretty much any RPG is exploitable in the same way. You can spend 5 hours in Palette Town grinding pidgeys until your level 40 and continue on. There isn't going to be much I can do to prevent people from grinding in some way. Whether it's scavenging, combat or some other thing. Unless I do the Witcher III thing and have quests be the only way to gain XP but that seems harsh for a game that I'm intending to be a little casual.
I think the system probably feels a lot more problematic right now because things aren't balanced yet. The systems are really bare bones and I haven't balanced item values or the required cost to level up. It's all very theoretical at this point.
The main thing I'm trying to emulate with this system is Dark Souls 'souls' systems, because I love how they handled character progression. I could get really deep into why I love that system but the TL;DR version is that having all of your character progression hinge on a single resource (souls) instead of two (xp and gold) is something that I find brilliant. (I'm admittedly making it a little less clean because of the aesthetic and narrative choices.)
The reason I'm going for that is because I want to let people have options about how they play. If someone just doesn't like fighting things and wants to just forage and do fetch quests here and there then they can play like that. If someone wants to be really aggressive and fight everything that's okay too. And if someone wants to just be horny and flirt with every monster they see, then that's how they can play. I don't want any one play style to be exploitable and I don't want to encourage endless grinding, but I do want people to have options. That said in the future builds as I flesh out content I'll be readjusting item values to better reflect the challenge/reward relationship. Items gained through combat will generally have a higher value then items found through foraging. Stronger monsters will drop higher valued items, and items foraged from more challenging areas will have a slighter higher value then items foraged in easier areas. With that the required 'xp' will increase with each level in a exponential growth rate to force you to go to higher level areas lest you spend 30 hours grinding.
I do also intend to add a unique item(s) either missing pages or golden apples or something that have a base value of 0 but when traded with Vacdes specifically will have a much higher value. These will be used as rewards for beating bosses and completing major quests. This like most things at the moment having been added because I'm slow.
With that said I'm also going to be adding shops which you can also trade your items at for new weapons, armor and skills. To go back to the Dark Souls thing. In the same way you can improve your character by spending souls to level up your stats, buy and improve armor and weapons. You'll be able to do the same thing here only using 'loot' to trade for new weapons, armor or selling to Vacdes for stats.
I hope I understood what you were suggesting correctly and I hope this explained my thoughts and plans properly. It has been a long week and I'm running on fumes at this point. So if I just rambled incoherently I apologize. But I really do appreciate here your thoughts and I love having the opportunity to just ramble about my design choices and ideas!
Wow, never thought about the [using one currency to level up & trade] idea in LMaO came from dark souls! Now come to think of it, prisoners bearing a curse/collar that slowly taking away their humanity/libido, being casted away to a far asylum/prison island. In the end I suppose player gonna rekindle the first flame of lust? XD
And thanks for sharing such detailed thought behind making this game!
Not super likely, I'm not really intending to do multiple builds outside of Mac and PC
This game has so much potential! Seriously, even though it was pretty short, I really enjoyed it, the characters had cool and interesting designs and the gameplay itself has that really nice old RPG style to it. I really hope you're going to keep working on this game because I'd love to play it if it does come out.
Thanks very much. I've been working as much as I can on it, holidays and such slowed me down but I'm getting back into the swing of things now.
Love the art style. This project reminds me of 'tavern of spear', their doing something similar and they get around the leveling being a slog issue by having fetch quest to supply a merchant in exchange for gold. While fetch quests aren't the most engaging it does give some motivation to grind a bit when necessary also the fact the merchant flirts a lot so getting on his good side's a bonus. link if you want to try their public build for some ideas or just to see how they're handling problems you mite come across: https://www.patreon.com/CaroZalt/overview
Oh I've seen screenshots of this around. I'm going to give it a download now and check it out. Thanks for the link! =D
I like where this is heading. Love the artwork of the rat and goblin. Would love a dominant goblin, too. :)
The inventory system and fight UI could use some work, e.g. showing the stats of the items before you equip them and more clearly show the results of your attacks. Otherwise the player needs to scan the scrolling text for the effects.
Thanks, I do wanna add some different dominant, submissive, and switch scenes eventually because I think options are fun and important.
I'm definitely gonna work on cleaning up the UI and as I go through with this, it's a little bare bones atm because I'm still not 100% sure if this is how I want to do combat or not. Currently your equipment give you different dice that increase your attack or defense. Then during combat when you attack you roll all of your attack dice and the enemy rolls their defense dice and they take the difference in damage.
This is fine at the moment, but I'm worried about expanding on it, because I really don't want to fall into the RPG trap of "Click A until thing dies. If you die go to other area and click A until you level up." Because even though gating and level gating can be important I don't want combat to be a slog.
Once I get that sorted out I'm going to try and add some little combat animations, nothing super fancy just sprite shakes and ideally have damage and status effects show up in the center of the scene, with the combat log in the corner as an "in case you missed it" kind of a thing.
Looking forward to seeing this developed more, the art is quite good the interface is rudimentary and its very short but maybe something will come out of it eh?
At any rate, you could create a discord for communication with your fanbase (suggestions and bug fixes) as well as a patreon if you intend to go full tilt on this.
Thanks, I'm hoping something will come out of it. I don't think I wanna get a discord going just yet. This is still in prototyping phase and discord can be a lot to manage but in the future I might if there's a big demand for it. I do have a patreon though, I mostly use it for anyone wanting to support be doing whatever it is I'm doing, though I need to update it with details about this project.
seems bare for rn but it is a good start that can be built upon
Will the content be exclusively LGBT or will it be "do what you want" kind of thing, in the vein of Trials and Tainted Space?
I'll be doing my best to make sure there's something for everyone. I am a guy and gay so my gay woman and straight content might not be totally on point. But I will do my best.
That's cool. Do your best!
It wold be great if you could turn it off or on depending on what you wanted. The one thing I hate about some of these games is being forced in to M/F stuff when I'm only here for the M/M stuff. I wold imagen Straight people may want to avoid Gay content.
I'm not going to add a hard toggle for it but I'm definitely going to avoid having forced sex scenes for a lot of reasons. First of all it's a porn game, half the reward is the sex scenes so getting sex scenes by losing seems counter intuitive. Second as a gay dude getting forced into M/F scenes feels shitty and finally consent is important, not to be super preachy or pretentious about it but I really think consent is something that's under represented in these games. Not that scenes aren't written with all parties consenting but the player doesn't get a lot of choice which feels weird to me especially in a game where choice is the point. I could get really into it but bottom line is I'm going to make sure that players always have the option to engage or not and that NPCs when engaged are consenting participants.
sounds grate can't wait to see it.
Getting, "No Compatible uploads were found for this title," when hitting windows download.
That's very weird. It seems to work fine on my end, what OS are you using?
Do it through a web browser not itch.