About the genderbender feature
Added 2018-04-09 10:39:28 +0000 UTCHey folks,
Ok, I've gone through a number almost 2 routes and here's what I've figured out, or rather, here's what's going to happen when it comes to the gender feature:
1.) There is going to be a secret-code activated gender selection. So only those who want it can activate and see it. Otherwise, the game will assume the usual BxG relationship.
2.) There are two questions that will be asked, your fictional GENDER, and your preferred fictional PRONOUN reference. Under gender, there's going to be Guy, Girl and Futa. Under Pronoun, it'll be Masculine and Feminine. I didn't include the non binary reference of They/Their since this opens up a can of worms when we're talking about grammar checking edge cases.
3.) The pronouns will automatically be applied to the text, separate from your chosen gender. So don't be surprised when you're being to referred to as a "He" when you've chosen a Girl gender + Masculine pronoun lol!
4.) Depending on your gender, the text dialogue may change.
So here's what I figured out. Do you guys remember Ranma 1/2? The case will be the same here where the personality of the hero/heroine is of the one MC we have right now. It'll be assumed that in our game's world, these BxG, FxG and GxG relationships are all normal. The relationship in this game is going to be about pursuing girls (since this isn't an otome game.) To save my sanity, all special scenes' graphics will not be changed. We'll keep the invisible person graphics style in there. Text dialog may change slightly though to accommodate the type of gender chosen. But to also save my sanity some more, it's understood that the MC has some sort of dick or pseudo-dick to use.
What this gender feature is for is to give players of our game a chance to slightly bend the rules of the gender references (ex: a girl player wants to be referred to as a girl while playing this game, or a guy players wants to be referred to as a futa, etc...), but it doesn't necessarily mean that playing as a girl or futa will have its unique story routes or unique CGs/animated scenes. I mean that's *technically* possible, but that's crazy right now lol!
These edits are taking some time, and another thing I'm doing is fixing up how the special events are organized within the game. I'm thinking this might come in handy in case of the time when I'm looking at being able to select different artists' character and special events graphics, and use them in-game. Wishful thinking on my part for now I guess, but the only way I'll know if this is feasible is when I start digging deeper into this.
Anyway, I'll see if I can update the game mid-way before the next major update so y'all can give this a try. This update will likely only be in the patreon builds so I don't spend too much time deploying the demos.