Q&A #2

Oh wow! Second ever Q&A! These are super fun! Here's the link for the first one if you're curious! I got quite a few questions this time around, so sit back and take your time reading it! (No idea what happened with the formatting for some questions)

Q = Question // E = Elinniel (Me!)

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Q: Who are your favourite characters now?

E: I did anwer a similar question on the last Q&A, but I’m always changing a my favorites. Probably Hapi and Hildegard at the moment. You’d be surprised at how much I love Hapi with how little content she has.

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Q:If you had to redesign one character, who would it be?

E: Thinking about it, I think Nihil is a bit weird, but everyone likes her, so she gets a pass. The thing is, my redesigns are very hit-or-miss. I always think back on how divided people got with Elinnie’s redesign, and how I had to do a partial revert before really bothering with any redesigns.
Ayla is one I think doesn’t look as great as she could, but she is such a minor character that I don’t know if I should. Jill is another one I’d like to redesign! She isn’t as big as she should be.

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Q: What kind of character have you never been able to put into the game but you'd really want to?

E: Hmm, well. There are no cat girls in the game. I guess you can argue Lene and her sisters are very cat-adjacent, but they really aren’t. Retired adventurer bear character that should've been on Clarine's questline instead of the pirate is one that I regret not adding to the game when I had the chance. Ah, and I remember actually finishing a duo of a bikini shark girl unique enemy and a generic fish girl enemy that you'd fish up, who never made it into the game because Zehmun thought she was too anthro.
Also, I’d adore to add a creepy stalker/yandere girl, like, make her really, really creepy. The type that makes you uncomfortable with her devotion. But with how the game is made, there is no way I could do that type of character justice without making her a main girl.

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Q: Would have loved to see monster girls as love interest, will it be in your plans, maybe for a future project ?

E: I think that boat has sailed a long time ago. I’d say, I do regret how similar the main six girls are. Sure, they have different body types and colors, but I really should’ve gone a bit more extreme with them. Back then, I was really focused on making things “realist adjacent”, so none of them are too outlandish like some of the newer designs. (Sure, Lene has a pp, and Illyana’s boobs are massive, but that’s it)

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Q: Artists you really like?
E:I love many, many artists. The one I can say from the top of my head that I absolutely adore is REIQ

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Q: We never got that announcement regarding the elusive side project, (unless I missed it) is it something you are planning for after Sex Valley is finished?

E: My focus is entirely on Sex Valley until I either finish it, or end the storylines. The elusive side project is on a bit of a rough patch. I’ve rewritten the setting a few times over, the only constant being the three girls I showed off.

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Q: As the game continues to develop and all characters continue to be fleshed out, will additional events/ending variations/paths be added to the main cast?
E: I’d very much like to add more content to the main girls, but at this point, I’d rather focus only on their pregnancy content.

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Q: is there any chance of there being a harem ending? want to see if we can get a futa harem ending.

E: I still haven’t done the ending, so anything can change. BUT, I’m planning individual endings for the main six girls, a harem ending for them, and individual endings for some side characters that show devotion/love to the player, like Peach, Hildegard and Sophie. (Considering Nameless)

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Q: Did any of the characters have a major design change while you were coming up with them?
E: Yup! Quite a few in fact! From the top of my head:
-Sarah was once upon a time an Orc named Zota. 

-Hapi was way, waaay more of a furry. She had white fuzzy arms and legs. And, uh, I more than tripled the size of her chest before release. Also, there was only going to be the shy bunny, and she was supposed to be a non-generic enemy, like the Naga.

-Annabeth originally was tall and slender, but I redrew her to be chubbier and more “motherly.”-Not sure I can say it’s a major design change, but Eris and Sophie existed in the game since the third or fourth update, but it took them three years to have a proper name and design. (Same can be said for all non main girls in town, like Jill, Emma, Mia and Nia, etc…)-Emma originally was just a junkie, not a maniac addicted to becoming like a demon.-Roxanne was just… old. I didn’t want to bother with the two grannies who sold animals, and as you can see, the old lady who sold chickens became Therese, who is just old.-Obscuria also existed in the game ever since the caves were in, but she was a generic shady merchant. I attempted to do a design closer to her in-game sprite at first, like Lilian is, but in the way I made a silly face, I loved it so much that I changed everything about her to fit the silly design.-It’s not a visual change, but both Peach and Hildegard had massive changes during their development. Both were supposed to feel nice and kind and end up being absolute assholes underneath and villains/antagonists. Peach was going to be a master manipulator, where all her “My hero” business was only to make the protagonist like her so she could use him to do her chores, and give her stuff. She even has a special expression that I’m pretty sure isn’t used in-game, where she looks evil. While Hildegard wouldn’t have a change of heart, and would be way more ruthless. (She was going to stab Boo, and probably go so crazy at the end that she’d need to be killed)-And in the past, it was planned that some of the six main girls wouldn't answer well to some answers from the player. Lene would get angry if you tried the naughty options, Maribel(Old Maribel) would struggle if you were submissive with her, and Elinnie wouldn't like it at all if you attempted to be "just nice" with her.

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Q: I hate Eris. Could you let us kill her off?
E: Eris was written with the intent to be hated, so I get it. But I don’t think that option will happen.
Ah, one thing that is cool about Eris, though. Right when I first had the idea for the goth tavern couple, I had a different approach to make Eris hateable. She was, in essence, the exact same character, but with the addition of: Sophie was already married and had a daughter when Eris came to town. Sophie’s daughter would always be covered in bandages to hide the beatings and abuse she’d suffer from Eris, while Sophie would gleefully neglect her daughter, kept in her stupid drunken state.

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Q: Would there be android ports? Or has it be strictly set onto PC only?
E: I have nothing against having android ports, I just suck at making them. There are a few olf versions that has android ports, but I really, really don’t get why I can make them work sometimes, and sometimes not. So to avoid the absolute headache, I just do them from time to time.
Using RPGMaker, there is also the option to export the game to Mac and Linux, but as I don’t have either, I can’t test it.

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Q: Have you considered adding more pregnancy content?

E: I did, in fact. The problem with that was the lack of early planning on the matter. If I added pregnancy of any kind into the game now(For the main girls), it’d break so many things if not implemented in a controlled environment! There was a moment in time I was going to make possible to get Viz pregnant(She even mentions it in her dialogue. It is a big part of her character, being less fertile than the rest of the goblins), but Zehmun insisted that the energy going that way would be better used somewhere else.

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Q: Do any of the girls have parents alive that we haven't see yet? In particular do any of their fathers still live even if they're never seen?
E: Parents. Lamir and Illyana have their mothers in-game. Lene and Clarine have dead mothers mentioned in their stories. Elinnie and Maribel's parents aren’t ever mentioned, but you can say they don’t have anyone.
As for the fathers, they are all kept vague for a reason. I’d say Lamir’s dad is probably still alive and kicking somewhere far away from the story. With Illyana’s dad specifically he’s either dead or ran away from home. Poor dude. Hard to keep a healthy relationship when forced to marry Hellena.
Ah! Let me tell you something fun about this topic! Lamir’s dad was going to appear on her questline, and the player would need to gain his approval! And not only that, it’s heavily implied that her dad is also Rosie’s dad(Rosie is the small girl with the beaver)! I was planning on making the fact that Lamir is Rosie’s half sister something impactful for her stories, but Zehmun made me make an oath of “No other man is allowed to exist in-game”.

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Q: NTR Valley when 🤣?

E: Not the right type of game for that. The most you’re getting is a girl stealing the protagonist away from the others.

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Q: Veremos avances en la historia lamiriel x lene x protainsta?
E: I’ll be adding a new variant for their threesome soon! More than that is hard to say. It is a quintessential unrequited love story between Lene and Lamir.

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Q: Will we see more succubus corrupted/transformed characters?

E: That’s a bit hard to say. Maybe? I’d rather not make the established character be transformed without giving the option to turn them back, and that… is a lot of work.

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Q: Will you be adding any more futa characters or a way to temporarily turn existing characters into a futa(like with a potion or magic item)?
E: I have nothing against the idea, however, the game is kinda set on its ways. “Only man, and all” I did go around the issue a few times over

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Q: Are you bothered that most people prefer the futa content in the game and in most polls choose that over normal girl scenes?

E: Not really? I mean, I did add them into the game, so I guess I’m reaping what I sowed. And if people like them, who am I to complain?
Still, I like doing many different stuff, so as long as futas win every poll, I’ll probably only do non-futa stuff for non-poll content, just so I balance out stuff.

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Q: What are the goals for the game? Anything you the devs are specifically working towards?

E: Currently, my goal is to make it to the game’s ending! Do a long, cool finale for the main characters' relationships, pregnancy stuff, and whatnot, and get the credits rolling!
After that I do think I’ll continue adding some scenes and content for Sex Valley, but at that point I can say I’d like to put a bit more focus on the Elusive Side Project!