Month: August 2016

This week, the first blog post from MrStomper regarding his first game, Anna…

Hi all,

I hope you like surprises so I can pleasantly surprise you with a new quest game that is coming soon(ish)!

Because this is the first game I have ever done, the story is fairly simple. You meet a girl…

…you ask her for a date (or not), the two of you have a nice date (or not) and when it is done she invites you in her apartment (probably not) and you have wild sex with her (fat chance)! So what if it did not go according to the plan, at least you may have seen her naked in the shower…

This is how you will probably see the game after a first few tries? Because, even with a simple premise
the game has a few scenarios for you to discover and some of these scenarios are mutually exclusive
providing you with a little different experience as you try to discover the perfect walkthrough.
This is all, of course, based on your choices. Some of them will be right, some of them will be wrong,
some will have short term consequences and some (very) long term consequences. But none of them will be pointless! To encourage exploration, even the wrong choices will provide you will some information that will help you on your quest to ‘get the girl in bed’ and get to know the girl better.

And you will need that, because she will not jump on you just because you told her few nice words (you also need to get her horny). The game is intended to be more difficult than usual and it really isn’t easy.
But worry not, the game is also intended to be fun and not a chore. It has a scoring system so you can navigate in it more easily and it even has a checkpoint system.

And because I don’t want to bore you to tears, this is all for today and expect more information next week.

MrStomper

 

Thank you to everyone who’s been voting in the polls over the past few weeks. They’ve helped me make up my mind about how this game should work quite a lot, even if I’m not exactly going where the polls tell me to with everything.

For perspectives, the plan is this. The game will mostly function in first person, but I’m going to add a ‘cinematic mode’ button. Whenever you see it, you can click the icon (probably a clapper board), and it’ll switch to third person for a better view of what’s going on. It’ll be optional though. If you want to ignore the icon and just the play the game in first person, you can.

I’m reserving the right to just have it switch between first and third though. Having the switching option will probably mean rending two sets of images for things like the sex scenes (one set for each angle), and if it becomes too much work, I’ll probably remove it and just have the game switch between first and third person whenever it seems appropriate.

In order to reduce the amount of images I need to create, I’m also going to skip the option for ethnicity just this once. They’ll be back for Mia, but for this game I’ll just be having the gender options.

Here’s what each of the genders player characters will look like.

I’ve now fully started production of the game, and have a nice pile of renders completed.

There is also one final character I’d like to introduce this week.

This is Dylan. I didn’t mentioned her last week as she isn’t truly one of the main characters though. She’s the receptionist of the Motel who goes missing for most of the plot.

She’s still a notable character though, and the player of either gender will be able to have sex with her.

Last week, I also mentioned that I would be announcing something new and cool to the site, so here it is!

We have a new contributor to the site. You can call him MrStomper, and, similarly to dsp3000 has followed the tutorials to create his own game for the members section. Next week, you’ll be hearing from him about his own creating, Anna.

 

Hello everyone. Time for another blog post, a little earlier this week as I want to work on creating images tomorrow.

While I did say that the polls last week were not a definitive way of judging what game I will be doing next, it looks like I’ve been swayed by them. Using the pool party template as a starting point, I’ve worked on a premise and story I really like. Here’s the basics…

The Motel (working title)

In the middle of the Great Basin Desert, there is a lonely motel. Tired from driving, your only option is to stay there for a the night. The place is a dump, but the only other people there are three attractive female guests and the receptionist. There’s also a very nice pool around the back.

After spending the night there, you wake to discover the receptionist missing, all of your cars have been drained of gas, and none of the phones work. The guests must work together to discover a way out of it, and a way to leave.

Although it probably won’t be part of the game, here’s a promo image I put together to showcase the main characters and the look I’m going for…

As I suggested last week, all of the characters will be based on the Genesis 2 and 3 base model, which generally look better than the ones I normally use.

After ‘The Motel’ has been finished, I’ll likely be working on Mia, then Crystal Part 3.

Since this is game of experimentation, there’s one more thing I’m considering and would like some feedback on. I’m thinking about not having it be in first person. Some of the shots and plot twists I have in mind would work much better from third person cinematic angles. It also means I can use some poses for the sex scenes I don’t normally have, which might be interesting.

Just to clarify for those who don’t understand what I mean, ‘first person’ is when you see everything through the eyes of the character. Essentially, the camera is their eyes. ‘Third person’ is when you can see all of the characters and the camera is watching them.

So, just this once, I’d like to have a player character you actually see, but I want to have some feedback on the idea.

As I said, it’s not the regular way the games will be going from now on, It’s just a one time experiment. He will be a white male, and you will be able to name him and control his personality, pick dialog responses etc. It’ll basically be the same as what I normally have, except you’ll actually see him.

Next week, I’ll be announcing something cool and new for the site which I’m sure will be making a lot of you happy.

EDIT : Here’s a large promo to give you a good look at each of the main women.

And for the hell of it, let’s have another poll over them.

EDIT 2: Another poll with more specific options fro what people want to see.

Now, that The Academy : Part 2 has been released, It’s time for a quick summary of what I’ve been doing over the past month.

First though, since the last blog post had a lot people dicussing hints and tips for Academy Part 2, it seems prudent to mention the new lagoon for those who aren’t aware. It’s a forum that specializes in erotic games, and it has a thread discussing dsp3000s game already : http://the-new-lagoon.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3862

EDIT : Walkthroughs for The Academy Part 1 & 2 now added to the members area, under the ‘help’ section.

Feel free to continue discussing the game on this blog if you wish, but I find reading a forum thread much easier that wading through blog comments. It should be fairly easy to find hints and door codes there if you need them.

So, what have I been up to?

Well, first of all, I’ve been experimenting with some new base models. Most of my characters use something called the “Victoria 4” base, but there has been newer base models released over the last few years, most notably the “Genesis”. These new bases produce characters with more realistic body shapes and higher resolution skins. The new versions of Daz studio also come with something called a IRAY render, which can also produce much more details images.

I’ve also been trying to decide what my next game should be. Here’s the options I’ve been considering…

Option 1 : Crystal

I’m still considering Crystal Part 3. I have a story and premise I’m very happy with, but I’m kinda feeling like I want to work with something new. I love Crystal, but it’s not like I haven’t done anything with her before.

Option 2 : Mia

A character I created a while ago, but have yet to use is Mia. I seem to be really into her right now, so I have more enthusiasm toward the idea of a game with her. It would also balance out the ethnicities of the characters in my games a bit more.

Option 3 : A set of new characters all with Genesis and iRAY.

A third option I like is something a bit more story driven and with a selection of characters all made with Genesis and rendered in Daz Studio for maximum quality. This could be another pool party game or something similar. So, not really a date game, but four or five characters in one situation, all of which have naughty scenarios to unlock.

Here’s a poll to have your say (also feel free to comment below as well, of course). I’m not guaranteeing that whichever option is most popular will be what happens, but I’m hoping for something to help me make up my mind.

Before you vote, I encourage everyone to look through the images below first so you can see what all of the characters will potentially look like.

It is also worth noting that, I will probably end up doing Crystal Part 3 no matter what, so you would just be voting on whether or not I do another game first.

There’s also one more brief thing I wanted to discuss.

For a few years now, I’ve always had the option of choosing your gender and ethnicity. Are people really bothered about having this choice though? I was looking through the site statistics and a majority of players just play as a white male.

If I didn’t have to render four sets of animations for all of the gender and ethnicity combinations (plus anything else I have to do for them), I could probably produce even bigger games, or at the very least more games per year.

So, keeping that in mind, do you think I should just have the player character being a white male, or do you think it’s important to have the other options?

Here are the preview images for each possible game for your consideration…

Crystal

I’ve subtly upgraded Crystal for her part 3 appearance, giving her a bit more muscle tone. This makes more sense with the plot I’ve developed as she is now competing professionally as a swimmer.

Mia

Genesis

Random characters I put together using Genesis 2 and iRAY. I probably won’t be using these exact characters for a ‘pool part 2’, or whatever I make, but you can see examples of the body shapes and skin details from these images.