crushstation

Eureka!

Added 2019-11-05 18:49:48 +0000 UTC

Okay, it's done! I've drafted a new set of rules that govern attraction, mental & physical arousal, various sex acts and NPC AI during sex scenes.

I was having some challenges making them all fit together in an elegant way, especially the NPC AI rules. When I playtested them (using a D10 and a pen and paper, because that's how I roll 👴🏻), the NPCs all behaved either like timid pussycats, or like they were Pascal White and they'd just snorted three lines of coke.

Yesterday I was tempted to cut mechanics because I couldn't make them work, but today I realised there was in fact a missing mechanic. Once I introduced it, everything seemed to start working elegantly.

So, the rules are working! The next task is to type up my notes so I can get them out to the team and the community for comments and feedback. I'll start on this on the next dev day, which is tomorrow.

Personally: I'm so relieved this task is done. In my mind this was a thing that would take a few days, and it's stretched to 9 dev days (plus however long it takes me to document it). Game design is hard! But I'm confident that these new rules will make all the sex scenes in the game sexier, more fun, and quicker to write. 🤞🏻