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minigame ponderings
Apr. 14th, 2023 05:46 pmAs I'm working through storyline scenes, I've been thinking a lot lately about replayability. The typical thing to do in renpy is make two or three variations on the scene and just replay it verbatim every time. I would like there to be a lot of casual sex in the house, but I don't want it to feel repetitive. So I've been thinking about how I could go about giving the player a little more control over things..
I have in mind a UI that would basically look like the fight UI, where you have some choices to make over at the right, and some arousal bars up top. probably no log window. The encounter would consist of groups of 3-6 frame animations, eg.. lets say you're having a sexual encounter with Octave, you'd start out with a couple options like "Kiss", and "boob grope".. you choose one, and you get a replaying animation of the girls making out, until you click something else. As arousal rises, and depending on the interpersonal relationship between the NPC and maya, more moves are unlocked.. Eg "force octave to her knees" if octave is submissive to maya, or the other way around if octave is dominant. When the arousal bar peaks, you can select a finish or continue the scene at your leisure.
The animations would be re-usable, but the player would basically get a build-your-own-sex-scene type interface, so it would be potentially different enough to make it interesting, and it'd be a lot easier to add to and build on than constantly making new scenes from scratch. While making the Harry scene I've experimented a little bit with wiring things up this way, and this video is the result. I think there's a lot of potential here, it's certainly a different style experience from what you typically get with a renpy engine game.
I have in mind a UI that would basically look like the fight UI, where you have some choices to make over at the right, and some arousal bars up top. probably no log window. The encounter would consist of groups of 3-6 frame animations, eg.. lets say you're having a sexual encounter with Octave, you'd start out with a couple options like "Kiss", and "boob grope".. you choose one, and you get a replaying animation of the girls making out, until you click something else. As arousal rises, and depending on the interpersonal relationship between the NPC and maya, more moves are unlocked.. Eg "force octave to her knees" if octave is submissive to maya, or the other way around if octave is dominant. When the arousal bar peaks, you can select a finish or continue the scene at your leisure.
The animations would be re-usable, but the player would basically get a build-your-own-sex-scene type interface, so it would be potentially different enough to make it interesting, and it'd be a lot easier to add to and build on than constantly making new scenes from scratch. While making the Harry scene I've experimented a little bit with wiring things up this way, and this video is the result. I think there's a lot of potential here, it's certainly a different style experience from what you typically get with a renpy engine game.
