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New demo of "House of Hellish Harlots" (ver0.006) - It's Here!

Still fighting winter lurgy, but I've managed to get a new demo of "House of Hellish Harlots" ready.

The first release demonstrated a skeleton of the main game loop as proof-of-concept.  The second added the first harlot to give an indication of what the scenarios would be like.

This release has quite a bit of new content (but is also nowhere near the finished game).  I'll go over the additions here.

First is the addition of a pair of NPCs.

The Madam is already familiar as she's the one introducing the player to the new harlots every round.  Now she can be talked to in-between harlot selections.  She unlocks the ability to socialise with a harlot beforehand and maybe get some more information on her.

The Elegant Woman is an outrageous source of gossip and knows all the girls.  She can be a good source of information, although not all of that information is 'reliable'. 

There are also hints of two further NPCs.  They will be added in future releases.

And now the more important part.  There are 5 new harlots to play with.  They are varying degrees of lethal.

I'm not going to say too much about them, as the fun of the game is trying to work out how to get nice sex without being Bad Ended (or worse, Horror Ended).  I'm going to be fairly strict on 'not-saying-nothing'.  Let me know if you think some behaviour seems a little off, but don't expect any confirmation.  I'm 'not-saying-nothing' about my gals. ;)

As with Sapoonis, the triggers for the new ones are fairly obvious.  You should figure them out if you talk to the right people beforehand, or from simple trial-and-getting-your-ribcage-crushed.  No Volumpulas yet, but I will add some tricksier ones later.

I've tried to be pretty thorough, but there will likely be some bugs I've missed.  If you end up somewhere that breaks or behaves oddly, let me know in the comments below.

One thing I expect will crop up that isn't a bug concerns the selection algorithm.  With some harlots you will be taken straight to the "no more harlots" screen after surviving their scenario, and some will give you the option to carry on for further rounds.  This is because of how the selection algorithm works.  I could get around this by adding more 'dummy' harlots, but then that just decreases the chances of getting a 'real' harlot, so I'd rather this happened for now.  Just follow the instructions to restart if this happens.

The same goes for feedback - positive or negative.  Are these scenarios fun and sexy?  Do you like the concept?  Let me know below.

Also, if you really like it, please spread the word.  I think (hope!) I've got a good idea here and want to grow it further. 

Thanks, and enjoy!

- manyeyedhydra

Comments

I dove through the HTML wondering the same thing but she doesn't appear to have any other endings.

I'm thinking of removing the middle column of "average", to force the player to pick one extreme or other. The one downside is it would force players to make a decision, whereas now, you can just skip straight to the bottom if you think the harlot doesn't care much either way. I'm thinking I might 'borrow' Boobella from the original story I first used her in. I suspect her scene would likely be paizuri-drain. A Suka where she chose the sex act could be fun, if evil. I might put in a couple of harlots with some element of RNG (but also with appropriate warnings as ending runs on bad coinflips could be aggravating). A few encounters like that could work, I think. Having no control is also going to hit the right spots for some people.

Many-Eyed Hydra

Cheers. I'll look into those. I've replicated the Vial of Blood bug. I'm guessing it's an item id mixup. Not sure on the -ve coins issue, but there are probably some spots where I forgot to put the appropriate check in place.

Many-Eyed Hydra

Is it possible to survive Morticia – or at least to have a Bad End with her?

This is great! I did feel the options before entering the room were a bit overwhelming though. Maybe just a simple choice of submissive or confident for example. My favorite Harlot is definitely Suka no -Hirudo. I love when I can choose what part of her she is going to use on me, and a good suck ;) also I always get sad when Boobella comes up as an option. Wish she was an actual selection! Would love to see a Harlot that is kind of a cross between Boobella and Suka no - Hirudo where you can choose or have her randomly choose for you in the next release

Smith lfarrel

Hail Hydra, Anna Boa treats vial of blood as small fluffy thing in some cases. Not sure whats happening. Also, found way to get negative coins through Elegant lady by purchasing after zero

Chris

I'll be trying to keep it fair. There might be unreliable info from the Elegant Woman that could result in the player getting killed, but my plan is to balance it out with other sources of info that are correct (eg socialising), or a very strong hint that the harlot is very dangerous and probably best avoided. Given how the Elegant Woman has turned out, I feel it would be criminal not to give her a scene at some point. ;)

Many-Eyed Hydra

I really liked this one. All the Harlots are unique and the scenarios themselfes are also unique. I also like the fact that every single one will kill you, unless you either have the right stat (Anna Boa 4+ strength for example) or you choose the right options along the way. The spider was tricky, but I found out how to survive and once you know what you have to do it is rather simple. Which goes for all of them... Figuring out how it works is neither too complex, nor too easy. The Elegant Woman was also interesting, especially the fact that you can't trust everything she says (thinking of Suka no-Hirudo and the blood). Thankfully, she doesn't kill you so it was a rather harmless joke. But I am going to assume that eventually along the way she tells you stuff that will end up killing you. Which brings me to the last point. Are The Elegant Woman and The Madam just characters, or do you want to add scenarios for them too? Oh and... Is there a way to survive Morticia Rose? Or is she always 100% kill and what the hell is she? Some kind of loevecraftian cosmic horror entity?

Wakozi

Yep, I might need to clean that up. One option could be to remove the middle "average" column and then force the player to pick one or other of the extremes. I'll wait a week and put that out for feedback.

Many-Eyed Hydra

I just tried it, it's super! But it seemed to me that the mentality before entering the room has too many options, which do not seem very necessary to me.

Jimmyodi841

I might reuse some of those placeholder names for nostalgia. I used Boobella in a previous story and got flak for it, but she was a fairly low-power succubus. I might give her a scene in this. In an earlier idea, Hellacia was the shadowy owner of the House ("Hellacia's House of Hellish Harlots") and the Madam the main manager. Then I decided it was better to make the Madam as the head person/owner, or maybe hint that the House might be a character in its own right. There are still plenty of things I haven't nailed down, but I suspect I will eventually drag elements in to make the game more than just survive X harlots, escape. ;)

Many-Eyed Hydra

I will say this, I hope you have consider retaining Hellacia, or otherwise have a Harlot with a head of flaming red hair and an aggressive attitude - All the better if she focuses on tit-fucks and blowjobs XD

chalemagne


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