Lifepath Beta
Added 2018-08-12 17:48:36 +0000 UTCHere's a sneak peek of what I've been hiding away working on.
A lot of this stuff might seem over-engineered for a porn game – do we really need to track how good she is at speaking Russian or managing business finances?
But one of my the main objectives of creating the RPG ruleset is that it will support all kinds of stories going forward. (As a small example, there's a planned subplot involving the Hard Cock Cafe running into financial problems. An agent with a business studies or accounting qualification could find herself managing the books and taking over the relationship with the bank manager in an effort to keep the doors open.) It's my belief that having interesting, engaging non-sex scenes is vital for making the sex scenes exciting.
This Beta is missing lots of content, but will give you an idea of the structure we're working on right now. Please post your thoughts here or in Discord!
Comments
yea I just used google chrome and it worked fine
Susan Hernandez
2018-08-24 14:48:54 +0000 UTCAre you using Safari? That gives me an error message, but doesn't seem to cause any actual problems in-game beyond that. It runs fine on my Macbook in Google Chrome.
Crushstation
2018-08-23 15:42:54 +0000 UTCFor some reason every time I try to open it, it tells me there's an error maybe because I'm using a MacBook idk anyone else having the same issue ?
Susan Hernandez
2018-08-23 00:32:32 +0000 UTCA, thanks for your remarks on Bilingual. This actually gave me an idea just now that I brought up with Crush on implementation that I think will be quite fun. I also believe the intent is to have an Agent who picks Cheerleading to have less Skills to pick from because of the time invested. I also am interested in adding other packages to the Lifepath with this concept and Crush also likes the thought as well. Lastly, we know about being able to pick more than 3 Skills at a time and there's been some heavy lifting done coding wise by Hyneman, walrus extraordinaire, to address this.
esclavage
2018-08-21 13:52:32 +0000 UTCOren, thanks. We're excited with the possibilities the Lifepath brings us. With regards to limiting the number of Skills/Hobbies you can pick I can confirm that this has been addressed by the amazing Hyneman, walrus extraordinaire.
esclavage
2018-08-21 13:49:40 +0000 UTCDennis, The Skills you pick on the page don't get added to the character sheet until the next section. So if you picked things for Kate age 12, they won't get added until Kate age 16, etc
esclavage
2018-08-21 13:47:54 +0000 UTCIn all seriousness, I'm not if I'm just blind or something, but whenever I would get the base stat increases, like from school and such the like, and I would open the stat list, those stats wouldn't be present. Is that just me being dumb? Or do they show up after the page you obtain them?
Lemon Knight
2018-08-21 02:49:35 +0000 UTCThanks Dennis, that pleases me greatly. :-D
Crushstation
2018-08-20 20:08:49 +0000 UTCI start up the beta, and the god damn baby avatar icon just made me burst out laughing. I was honest to god not expecting that. 10/10 game, glad I'm able to see this.
Lemon Knight
2018-08-20 15:44:03 +0000 UTCGood job on the beta! It looks really cool, and I'm looking forward to seeing it in the game. One testing point you might want to look into- when selecting several options for skills and hobbies, there's no system in place to count your choices, so you can pick more than the allotted amount. Keep up the good work!
Oren Barzilai
2018-08-18 01:56:20 +0000 UTCBaby \ Family Circumstances: I wasn't able to change relationships with either father or mother. The background/social class/siblings choices didn't affect this. Relationships were locked at "Loving". Optional Packages (Bilingual/Cheerleading): a) I think you should give the player options to balance out choosing these options. Maybe not for bilingual, but for cheerleading, I was expecting the Hobbies available to decrease from 3 to 1. Without a penalty, I didn't see a reason to pass it up. b) Maybe the optional packages should be on their own page. Downside is more clicking/less tinkering and minmaxing but maybe if you want every choice in the life story to have real weight, you could consider it. Choosing new skills to add: I'm guessing you're aware but there's nothing stopping me from selecting more than 3 skills at each choice. Just in case this was an oversight.
A
2018-08-17 22:43:55 +0000 UTCI suspect it's just a bug but some of the computer related skills from the Operative line seem to be missing from the final character sheet. Looking at the Android and Linux ones in particular. I did wonder as well if you chose a poor background if i may have become an option to do some exotic dancing to pay your way through college... Just a thought..
Iain
2018-08-17 20:21:18 +0000 UTCTeacher's pet could also be fun ;)
Marcmad
2018-08-17 20:10:49 +0000 UTCReally nice, I love it! Would be nice to be able to choose your first crush tough and maybe it could determine your first Kink at the same time like: A teacher for ''like older men'', a childhood friend for bisexual, basketball team for ''promiscuous etc. That way you could justify the kink more easily.
Marcmad
2018-08-17 20:09:47 +0000 UTCThanks, Jim!
Crushstation
2018-08-15 17:53:24 +0000 UTCLike a Mean Girl clique? Thanks bread :-)
Crushstation
2018-08-15 17:52:06 +0000 UTCWow. Well, that was infinitely more developed and in-depth than I was expecting. Kudos. I look forward to the fully working version. By the way, I fully agree with you that the non-sex scenes are just as important as the sex scenes. Far too many “adult” games make this mistake. They don’t flesh out the world, situation or characters and just go straight for the rude stuff. It never works as well. Keep up the great work!
Jim Reaper
2018-08-14 19:32:18 +0000 UTCI very confused as to why you would be against having the option to do something that someone else wants to do. You can always choose not to do it after all.
deamonmaster
2018-08-14 18:43:20 +0000 UTCAfter reading Green Man's comment, I realized that I was missing the option to be a bitch. That would be sweet. Could be another option on the clique menu, for example!
Breadloaf
2018-08-14 06:16:33 +0000 UTCYou don't really need cheats if the story is developed in such a way that it's player agency driven. Such as, if the player wants the agent to remain uncorrupted, keep focus on the mission yet enjoy all the sex then that playthrough shouldn't really end up with the opposite. Meaning, the agent ends up as you want her to be. Then you don't need to alter skills because she can't succeed with a particular task, even though you think she should be able to.
Breadloaf
2018-08-14 06:14:16 +0000 UTCSeems like a lot of fun so far, can't wait to see how it gets implemented into the main game and what other additions will come along by then ^.^
Lauren
2018-08-13 21:06:55 +0000 UTCHmm, charisma too low. A step back. Activate cheats Increase charisma by two points Continue in the game Sample passed. Is that fun? Why not play a new Kate and train her differently, explore other ways, find other solutions? My opinion about it. After all, I think you pay for it and you do not get it anymore for your money?
Falloutbabe
2018-08-13 20:14:42 +0000 UTCSeems good so far, though a way to manipulate skills in-game for Patreons would be cool, so that you could increase, decrease or add skills in the middle of playing
deamonmaster
2018-08-13 19:20:02 +0000 UTCOf course, if you were not the total gray mouse, you have already gained a lot of experience. Nevertheless, something very important should be considered here. This is just a history to define their later attributes and abilities. Installing everything now does not exactly match the sense of the game, in which you can later - in much better texts - experience these situations. Of course you can have auspicious gangbangs at the university celebrated (Promiscuitive), but this loses the game in later sections after all, do not you think?
Falloutbabe
2018-08-13 17:28:16 +0000 UTCIt would be great if we could playthrough her first time and other important events in her exploration of her sexuality during that character building bit. Like with different points being attributed to her depending on how she handled an opportunity to have a threesome or similar stuff. However, if the character building should become even bigger than this demo, I think there should be an option to skip it and just get to choose attributes based on a few choices.
elmagio
2018-08-13 17:09:52 +0000 UTCI also had to get used to the fact that it is just a preliminary version and many options still locked. But since the general feedback is very good, there will probably be a lot of additional content. I am very confident.
Falloutbabe
2018-08-13 16:08:29 +0000 UTCfirst of all I dig the set up, it gives a lot of opportunity for little events in the game. One thing though, why is it always the boyfriend who give the character her kink? Can she not decide what she's into? Other than that I like it.
Parllyarp
2018-08-13 15:43:02 +0000 UTCI do not think now that poor people rather a Deepthroth or a butt fucking accept as richer. Likewise, both ends of the money get access to drugs. Only the quality is likely to differ slightly. I think, especially in times of social media, it has been shown that much more extreme forms of sex find acceptance, as was the case 30 years ago. If you see today 18-20 year old girls on the internet, who gild their ass, then just in groups (fraternity or even in college) the compulsion to keep up much larger. Every "star" has to have a sex video on the internet today. They started at Paris Hilton, Selena Gomez at 19 or Pamela Anderson with several videos, and they are all building up a big scandal about it, just to make some speeches. When I was still a teen, there was nothing in the circle of friends with assfuck. It was not disclosed who did it and who did not. Today it looks very different. Sex meets meanwhile in every life situation. Be it the girl from page 3, social media, where you have not passed Kim Kardashian's ass for 10 years, or JLo, who has her for a few million insured (which one should say that cellulite is not staying leaves) or just all the porn sites you land on, if you follow 5 or 6 links. When I hear what my two older daughters are talking about, even I learn something else. Luckily, my youngest is not quite there yet.
Falloutbabe
2018-08-13 15:23:54 +0000 UTCVery much enjoying the beta, Crush. Curious to see if your agent picks a prominent language spoken in the region (Thailand) then you could get a bonus of some sort. Also wanted to ask if you were planning to have the agent be more prissy/picky in the beginning based on upbringing. Richer agents would have more of an issue just starting to deepthroat guys (at first) while poorer agents might have already dealt with enough hardship that they might just be resigned to the fact. Thanks, as always, and keep those claws working!
L.A.W.
2018-08-13 13:46:43 +0000 UTCNoted!
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:54:44 +0000 UTCGreat! It's gonna be even better when all the options are unlocked.
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:54:38 +0000 UTCThanks so much man :-)
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:54:11 +0000 UTCWe probably can't add it before she hits 18. :-(
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:54:00 +0000 UTCThanks Toad, I'm really relieved that people like it!
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:52:35 +0000 UTCThanks man :-)
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:52:16 +0000 UTCThanks Dmitrii. I know not everybody waits 'til they're 18, but we won't be able to describe her sex life before then because of Patreon's rules, so we'll have to leave it to your imagination.
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:51:36 +0000 UTCI'll take a look at ways to bring that out more, maybe linking it to the Promiscuous kink.
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:48:34 +0000 UTCThanks! LOVE your avatar. :-D
Crushstation
2018-08-13 10:47:10 +0000 UTCImo it's an absolute necessity to add weightlifting as an option. We need the option for a muscle babe who is thicc
Kurt Wagner
2018-08-13 07:59:19 +0000 UTCtegli4, as I mentioned to Breadloaf there's a design doc that Crush has called SURPS (Sugarcube Universal Role Play System) that'd help define what the numerical values mean. I'll see if Crush will release that to Patrons or further clarify what the values will mean in-game. I'd also note that the original Agent characterization always had her with Operator experience hence the callbacks to her military training and such. Crush's noted the potential Analyst path that will allow a Player to play a far less experienced Agent for this reason like you mentioned.
esclavage
2018-08-13 03:21:10 +0000 UTCI imagine these things are just locked until it's actually viable. Like how your Coordination can't be lower than -1 but that's because it's currently locked to Field Operators but will one day be open to the Analyst. Better to have the framework working and active if you ask me.
hornguy6
2018-08-13 03:06:08 +0000 UTCPlayed the beta and I'm loving it.
Ashley Johnson
2018-08-13 00:14:38 +0000 UTCI saw the older brother thing too but there was a lock symbol next to it so I assumed it's just one of those things that was meant to be consistent no matter what option you chose.
hornguy6
2018-08-12 23:02:33 +0000 UTCOk tried it enough. It's so beautifully complicated and deep. I'm amazed. And scared. :)
Enrico
2018-08-12 22:35:51 +0000 UTCTotally agree with the importance of building something around the sex scenes (as you already did in the prequel to Bangkok, as a matter of fact), especially when interacting with and characterizing NPCs.
Enrico
2018-08-12 22:16:51 +0000 UTCIs there any chance that "promiscuous sex" will be added earlier to the hobby list?
hornguy6
2018-08-12 22:16:33 +0000 UTCThe whole thing is very beautiful and developable and it seems that some of my inspirations have found their way into the game. Thanks for that. However, I also posted several minor bugs in the bug thread on Discord. For example, those that do not respond to elected decisions. So I chose an older and a younger sister, but my first friend is a friend of my brother. As for your concerns about too much content, so you know my opinion. Big can not be big enough. ;) I also like it and support it when there is something to discover in the game, apart from the sexual life. After all, it will be a kind of life simulation and also sex addicts have a life next to sex. It also promotes replayability when, as a player, you realize that a particular path is closed to you and you can only reach it when Kate has taken a different path in training. P.S .: I left something on DOC's a few days ago. Maybe you like it. ;)
Falloutbabe
2018-08-12 21:09:28 +0000 UTCHoly hell, that's an impressively involved character creation system - I love it! I can't wait to see what the main portion of the game is going to be like, once the PC finally makes it to the brothel. Keep up the good work!
Toadsith
2018-08-12 20:54:01 +0000 UTCAnd asking your question I think we really need to track how good she is at speaking Russian or managing business finances and so on
Dmitrii
2018-08-12 19:50:20 +0000 UTCVery good idea. I really enjoyed creating a character with a detailed story.Why not diversify the sex life of the heroine in adolescence? Do you have a deadline for the alpha release? Sincerely, Dmitry.
Dmitrii
2018-08-12 19:47:55 +0000 UTCFirst of all, I like it in general. It gives small choices as the character grows from a baby to where we start the game. As you said though, it feels a bit too much. Are we going to use all of those skills? If we do, it is all good, but we will see the benefits of the system only in very long run. At the moment it feels more like a point fiesta. We also lack scale to measure what +1 and +3 is. What are the max values you can have? Also, what is the purpose of the choices that are bellow CIA standarts? For now I see that the first +1, gives the skill at 0. Another thing I would say is that I was under the impression the agent is an analyst that just fits the physical appearance of the German backpacker and that was the main reason for the assignment. In that sense, the option to choose operative training feels like change in the introduction. I don’t mind that but this feels like change in the general direction. I was seeing one of the big challenges for the heroine, besides the sex, was that she lacks the field work experience and training. Of course that could be just me. I see you have used the “big 5” to define the character. This is good, but frankly, the CIA will not put someone with high neuroticism in that position to begin with (unless I guess they had no choice). How much freedom will we have and how you will justify it? The hypno path could be interesting tool here as making it mandatory if the character has deficiencies in her personality (just a suggestion). Can you expand on the type of random encounters we might get in that character generation part? Also I will point out that sex with minors is a no-no on Patreon, so I am sure we won’t see anything like it until the agent is 18 yo. Finally I will ask about the rolling of dices in the game. Adding randomness like that is a two edged sword. I don’t want the success of the mission to be completely random. Right/Wrong choice at the right/wrong place should be more of a deciding factor than the roll of a dice. Of course it creates variety and if the dices are limited to mostly repetitive parts of the game, I am all up for it, but in crucial moments, I think the choice should be more in the hands of the player.
tegli4
2018-08-12 19:43:22 +0000 UTCWhen I select the link, I get an error message on Mircosoft Edge (my default browser). When I copy the link and put it on Mozilla or Google Chrome, I get into character creation. no idea if the error lies with me or something goes wrong on your part.
Falloutbabe
2018-08-12 19:40:53 +0000 UTCThe only thing I would change is probably to grey out some of the options on the drop down menus at the section "capability assessment". That way we know that the scale goes from +3 to -3, but we don't have to waste time by clicking "0" on intelligence only to be notified that it can't be chosen. Saves just a few seconds, but it's things like that which annoys me. With that being said, I think everything else is amazing and a massive upgrade to the previous character creation system!
Breadloaf
2018-08-12 18:42:58 +0000 UTCLooks good, could even be a few more things to show levels of sexual experience or lack of. The high school slut or the school virgin.
Jacara368
2018-08-12 18:38:57 +0000 UTCWow, fantastic work! It does a great job of really building a character and not just picking some stats from various drop-down menus.
Antilles
2018-08-12 18:13:45 +0000 UTC
