ParasiteInfection

2.4 - "Frustration update" (plot advance)

Added 2018-09-24 09:03:16 +0000 UTC

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wu5lfeyl1a5u51c/Parasite_Infection_2.4.rar/file

I had a plan for the construction of this game:

- Figure out all the core features
- Refine the core features
- Figure out the core plot
- Refine the core plot
- Figure out and refine secondary features
- Upgrade all the art (happening in parallel with everything else)
- Initial round of dedicated bug-checking
- Balancing the flow of the game (checking for overpowered stats, speed)
- Polish the audio
- Final round of bug checking
- Grammar check
- Aesthetics (spacing, font colors, font type, etc)
- Completion

Well, conceptually the sex module core feature is being a pain in the ass. And it's absolutely necessary for the encounter module.

The problem is how to organize the act of sex. It needs to cover all these cases:

- Normal sex
- Infestation
- NPC-NPC sex
- Forced sex
- >2 person sex
- Werm brain infestation (self and NPC)

The design problem involves the level of freedom allowed to the player. Should any sex act be able to lead into any other sex act? Should the player be corralled into specific options? Should the category data be on the front end of the sex acts, or on the back end? Should sex acts be functions that detect available actions once they are complete, or should a larger overall engine determine what is available based on current conditions? I've looked to other games, but couldn't find an ideal system that exists. Generally speaking, when people try to create an interactive sex system, I find it to be the most boring and tedious part of the game. I'm always thinking "what am I supposed to do next", worried that there's some hidden option that I'm not seeing. But if it's too straightforward, does that make it so obvious that it loses any appeal? One thought experiment I've been doing is to take the art out of interactive sex scenes, and see if it still holds up as being interesting.

It's a headache. It's totally doable though, it's just a slugfest getting through the design aspect.

So I ran away from it, for now, because it's just so 'ugh', and did a bit more of the plot instead. I went back through part 1 to get myself back into the game, and holy crap were there a lot of weird broken things going on.

Changes:

- Cleaned up part 1. It should take slightly longer to turn female on the spaceship.
- Added the beginnings of plotlines for Sandra, Julie, Jessica, Robyn, and Claire mindfucking the player and imposing their will upon them.
- There is an encounter with Joan that happens 10 days after beginning part 2, as long as someone in the house has been infested in the brain with a werm. I will be able to continue all these plotlines after the sex module is done, hopefully this week.
- Fixed the massage parlor person not being able to be infested. It was trying to infest the vagina. Males have no vagina.
- Updated Robyn's main art, nude/parasite version still being worked on (new artist, hopefully will be working on the side-characters while ModeSeven does the main characters)
- Fixed z-index on enlarged breast starfish parasites so they show correctly
- Fixed torso disappearing from Chet once breasts grow too large
- Added squishy audio loop when infested in the brain by a werm

There's some kind of memory leak going on with Twine. If you save and reload, it plays faster. Might have to take drastic measures regarding the native rewind mechanic.

Post Script: Wow. For some reason I'm feeling a lot better about this. Incredibly weird. But getting back into the writing portion seems to have lifted something from me.