1.6 Dev Poll

It turned into a real grind, but the avatar upgrade is finally complete!  

The plan for 1.6 was always to Upgrade the Random NPCs.  This is required before we implement Bangkok, because right now all the NPCs feel very “same-y”.

This is because NPCs only have a few distinguishing features programmed in.  They don’t have their own Kinks, or preferences about how and where to fuck the agent.  They’re all exactly as good in bed as each other.  

So we need to code in some differences to make sex with them more interesting, as this will be a core part of the gameplay in Bangkok.

However: there's an option to sneak in a little side quest first.

A target of opportunity

Five Kink Vignettes happen in university:

• During a party game of spin the bottle, the bottle lands on another girl.
• A professor develops a flirtatious relationship with the PC.
• Two soldiers hit on the PC at a party.
• The PC can model nude for an art exhibition at university.
• A partner gets off on hurting the PC’s boobs during sex.

The game picks 5 Kink Vignettes at random in each playthrough.  (Since there are only five in total, you always get the same ones).

A while back I asked the fans to submit their own ideas for Kink Vignettes.  I got loads of great storyboards back, including but not limited to:

• The PC has sex with her boyfriend in front of his “sleeping” roommate.
• The PC has sex with a guy she met in a bar and watches herself in a mirror.
• A geek girl PC is propositioned for sex by her favourite author at a book signing.
• The PC gets a booty call text from one guy while she’s in bed with another.
• While clothes shopping, the PC is hit on by a handsome, wealthy older guy.
• The PC can pity fuck a classmate who is dying of cancer.
• One of the PC’s friends asks her to take part in a threesome for her boyfriend’s birthday.
• A geek girl PC’s boyfriend asks her to dress up as Lara Croft during sex.
• The PC develops an online porn habit based on one of her Kinks.
• The PC learns that a Japanese exchange student is a budding shibari photographer, and can model for him in bondage.
• Elite or Upper Middle Class PC gets in a hot tub with her friends at a ski resort.
• Cheerleader PC gets hazed by the cheer captain.
• North American or foreign Elite social class PC goes to Burning Man festival and can go nude, topless or body painted.
• The PC’s normally timid boyfriend asks if he can handcuff her during sex.
• The PC goes to a toga party at a local student night. She can choose how short to make her toga, and whether she wears underwear or “goes Greek” for authenticity.
• The PC meets and can be seduced by a sexy girl at her first Pride parade.
• A geek girl PC, video gaming against a room full of men, can debuff their skill rolls by “accidentally” showing some skin.
• The PC can go naked for a PETA demonstration.

I’d like to propose that we use the 1.6 sprint to polish up at least some of these storyboards and get them into the game.  My suggestion is that we time limit this sprint, so at the end we release what’s complete and move on – no extensions.

Pros

• We add a bunch of short, sexy scenes to the game
• We test the viability of incorporating user-submitted story content into the main game

(That second point is the strategically interesting one.  My plan is to edit the new ideas, so they feel consistent with the rest of the game.  But ideally, I’ll work with the people who want to become regular contributors so their submissions need less and less editing in the future, and eventually we’ll have a circle of people who can all write in the “game style”.  If it works, the flow of new high quality content into the game could be much faster.)

Cons

• We push Bangkok back by the length of this sprint

I would like to do this, but it’s a deviation from the plan, so it’s over to you to decide.  

Be like Nacho Sarah and vote!

PLEASE NOTE: if Option 2 wins, we'll hold a short follow-up vote to decide whether the sprint should be 30 or 60 days long.