Update - 8th Nov '20
Added 2020-11-09 00:47:07 +0000 UTCThis week I went back to working on House of Hellish Harlots. Rather than try to pick up the old scenarios I went for a fresh start and started on some new ones. How did it go?
The first drafts of two new scenarios and half of another, so not bad.
I was hoping to get more done, but these ticked over reasonably nicely and I suspect I'll get more productive once I'm overlapping typing up/coding with 1st drafts again.
(As for the previous in-progress scenarios, they're not dead. I have every intention of picking them back up again.)
One of the concerns I have with the scenarios is the increasing complexity. It's an easy trap to fall into - the desire to make each scenario hotter, more involved, and just plain sexier than the last one. While that makes for amazing scenarios, there is a trade-off in how long it takes to write them (too long).
For the new scenarios I wanted to get back to original idea - the player goes to the room, has a sex scene with the monster girl/succubus, then they either leave okay or it spirals into a sexy (or horrific) Bad End depending on attributes determined before entering the room (player stats, player disposition, gifts, etc).
Essentially, these are the standard 'mook' scenarios, similar to the basic encounters in the early Monster Girl Quest chapters where the girls had two sex attacks and some sort of special 'finisher' attack. At this point I want to update all the placeholders into live scenarios as quickly as possible. This means no repeat visit shenanigans and no multi-choice sex scenes for now.
This doesn't mean they'll stay like that. If a girl proves popular or I get ideas to take her scenario further, I can always build on it later (I've already made notes for how a repeat visit would play out for one of the new scenarios). For now, though, the goal is to just get a lot of basic scenarios written and then release them in chunks as I add in the remaining NPCs.
Two and a half in a week is okay. I'd like more, but there was other stuff going on and I think I'm still getting a little too carried away with the scenes. The next few weeks I'll just concentrate on the first drafts and see how many I can write.
As for hints on the new first drafts:
Giantess full-body paizuri (more ogreish - she's about 10 foot high rather than huge giant).
Slug Girl
Fairy
I'll keep you updated as I write more. I'm hoping to finally get that next batch out.
Thanks for your interest!
- manyeyedhydra
Comments
I find the ogress types hard to work on as I tend to prefer the more seductive monster girls rather than the brute force ones like orcs and ogres. Even this harlot isn't a typical ogress/giantess. What I wanted her to do isn't feasible for a regular height, so I had to scale her up. She's just a big succubus, effectively. Fitting in the typical ogress type to a high-class brothel is an interesting challenge. They'd probably need to at least stay reasonably classy in the bar areas, but then could be real animals in the bedroom. Feels like that sort of character would be an interesting variation on the hide-wearing goblin girls, orcs, ogresses and lizardwoman that show up in the monster girl H-RPGs. Maybe take one of those, put her in a dress, and then have her bang the absolute shit out the player once she gets him through the door. I think I also have to put a crushed pelvis in somewhere as a homage to the source of "death by snu snu" :D
Many-Eyed Hydra
2020-11-09 22:52:57 +0000 UTCYep. I think this is something I need to take on board. I'm finding even with the simple scenarios, some of the scenes are stretching out where it would be better if they were shorter and snappier, especially in a game with interactivity. I think I'll use the next couple of weeks to experiment until I hit what I think is the right balance.
Many-Eyed Hydra
2020-11-09 22:42:59 +0000 UTCBut a lustful and hungry ogress would be perfect for multi-choice sex scenes. Already because of the possible horror ends: A foreplay with bite. Crushed pelvis bone. To be eaten alive.
2020-11-09 21:52:26 +0000 UTCThanks for the update! Im extremely excited to see your working on a giantess scenario! I've been hoping you'd do one ever since you started your patreon :)
Smith lfarrel
2020-11-09 01:58:40 +0000 UTCKeep it up Hydra, and remember, HoHH scenes are not like your short stories. When I read a story, it's harder to go back and see an edited version as usually the story remains the same, so it's not as novel. With a scene, it's different, it's actually kinda fun to go back and see what changed or the new decisions/responses. So from my perspective, please, dont put too much pressure on yourself to get the perfect HoHH scenes the first time you put them up.
Civil
2020-11-09 01:44:52 +0000 UTCI have some ideas there. 1) I create a bunch of scenarios and then hold polls for which go into the next release. The problem with this is I'm still pretty slow at writing, so I'm unlikely to create a surplus. Maybe if I really get my teeth into this over the next couple of weeks. 2) Create a poll or have a thread for patrons to suggest monster girls and scenarios. This I think is coming in a couple of weeks. I know I have my preferences, and I don't want HoHH to be too lopsided on big boobs and the monster girls I like. I think a way to get around that is to throw it open to suggestions (within reason). For the moment I want to rattle off a chunk of basic scenarios out of my ideas file, but I suspect this will be a post I'll be making either near the end of the month or the start of next month.
Many-Eyed Hydra
2020-11-09 01:29:21 +0000 UTCHydra, Its November, so apologies if I'm thirsty(er) than usual, but some kind of poll for upcoming scenarios would be awesome. (Really only useful if you can't decide yourself between which idea(s) you want to hit. I understand the muse hits us all differently)
Chris
2020-11-09 01:17:11 +0000 UTC
