Uncle Iroh

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Hi... The screen size issue is something I am not sure how to fix.. You are right I tested on a 1080 monitor however I dont ever run a browser at full screen so I tend to resize it to the game/what ever I am doing to fit... but you do want it to be a decent amount of the screen filled or the text becomes too small.. I get that.. which is why I thought the zoom would fit all.
After a quick goolge, I think you might be using chrome? I think firefox allows for increments of 10..
I think IE (spits) used to allow you to type in any number.. Im not sure about edge?
I am working with both firefox and chrome (this was what I was maninly testing on) and hadnt spoted the jump 110 - 125 - 150...
Will have to think about if there is a solution..
Thanks for the feed back though :)
Yeah I'm using Opera GX which is chromium based. It's not a major issue, I could still read the text, it was just the images for the character information screen and the selection buttons which were somewhat small. I don't know what engine you're using to make the game so I wouldn't know what to suggest. Usually html games are run in sugarcube. One thing I might suggest, is that at first glance, and in it's playstyle. This game actually looks like it would suit the QSP engine way more due to it's UI and how it plays. But that's down to how you want to make the game really.
 

Lampshade15

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At current there is only the porn on the laptop to watch (but this is trap / cuck if you consider that to be gay / bi) and there is the start of event in the park toilets cubicle at night..
There will be more.. (if you recognise any of the neighbours for instance you might have an idea of where content could be heading).. there will be more (AVOIDABLE) gay/bi content with school mates and bullies.. and people you can bully..
Also depending if you feel this classes as gay/bi.. there will also be sissification and trans content.

Id be currious to know.. would you consider either trans or cuck content to be bi / gay. or are you looking for something a bit more clean cut so to say.. You might recognise some of the male school mates as trans or gay porn actors .. so content is there to be added (thats the plan)..

Thanks for your comments :)
I'm just going to butt in here, I'm looking for gay masc M/M content. I wouldn't personally really consider trans/sissy/bi content as gay; cuck can be gay if it's just M/M but otherwise if there's a woman, it's not.

A dateable brother would also be nice, as well as being able to date the dad and grandfather (since the mom and grandmother are dateable).
A timetable or something to better explain the school schedule would be desirable too.
I wouldn't mind seeing some cheats or something in order to skip through the grind on repeat games.

Your game looks to be a good start, lots of potential. It's very impressive how you made the engine yourself, I really like it! It's refreshing in comparison to other Twine HTML games and it feels more like an actual game rather than a visual novel or CHYOA.
 
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Mister_M

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School lessons start at 10 but people start arriving at 9am.. there are then a series of lessons 2 hour lunch and a few more lessons. and an hour after school where some NPCs are still about (might be some content there!).
This is kind of info the player shouldn't have to guess or randomly found out; MC goes to the school for quite some time so he - and in extension the player - should know such things. Having some timetable in the room or forced conversation with someone with a bit of info can go a long way to make the overall experience smoother.
 
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Yeah I'm using Opera GX which is chromium based. It's not a major issue, I could still read the text, it was just the images for the character information screen and the selection buttons which were somewhat small. I don't know what engine you're using to make the game so I wouldn't know what to suggest. Usually html games are run in sugarcube. One thing I might suggest, is that at first glance, and in it's playstyle. This game actually looks like it would suit the QSP engine way more due to it's UI and how it plays. But that's down to how you want to make the game really.
The game engine I am using is 100% self built.. so no sugar cube. I do love qsp games.. and I think that has probably influneced the style of the UI.. but the engine being totally me built means I can most anything I want with it..
Just maybe not get the size of the screen to fit all lol
 

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This is kind of info the player shouldn't have to guess or randomly found out; MC goes to the school for quite some time so he - and in extension the player - should know such things. Having some timetable in the room or forced conversation with someone with a bit of info can go a long way to make the overall experience smoother.
I am going to work on some more info for the user before starting the game.. Also I am going to change the lesson from chatting wiht the teacher to being a button in the action panel I think.. that should make the lesson a bit more obvious to start.
 

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I'm just going to butt in here, I'm looking for gay masc M/M content. I wouldn't personally really consider trans/sissy/bi content as gay; cuck can be gay if it's just M/M but otherwise if there's a woman, it's not.

A dateable brother would also be nice, as well as being able to date the dad and grandfather (since the mom and grandmother are dateable).
A timetable or something to better explain the school schedule would be desirable too.
I wouldn't mind seeing some cheats or something in order to skip through the grind on repeat games.

Your game looks to be a good start, lots of potential. It's very impressive how you made the engine yourself, I really like it! It's refreshing in comparison to other Twine HTML games and it feels more like an actual game rather than a visual novel or CHYOA.
Thank you for your comments.. I really like the bit you say about it not being a visual novel / chyoa... as this was important for me when making the game..

I can 100% promise there will be (Avoidable) M on M action where no F is present.. and both M are M not T.. I am not that familar with the M on M scene but I have tried to put in certain actors who I was able to find to have a lot of content (which means stuff I can use to make story lines).. I already have in my mind a plan for a first step or two into a quest with one of the other school mates that starts with an invite to theirs to play computer games..
There is also going to be some "forced" M on M action (yes and will be avoidable) with one of the bullies too..
Outside of that.. there will also be Cuck (where a F is present) and Trans.. (for people whos boats that floats..)

I want the MC to be the MC you want them to be, in a world full of possabilities..
 

Lampshade15

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Awesome, looking forward to it and best of luck! The father, uncle, janitor and Matthew the neighbor are all very hot, such dilfs.
 

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Game time = Day 25
I've had it! Click, click, click, grind, grind, grind....
The majority of the images are non-viewable unless I make copies and rename them, since my system is Linux and uses Case Sensitive file calls so I never see any images unless I copy the directories and rename them or edit the game file to make them uniform.
Then ... HOW THE F%$ am I supposed to know who bullies are? I worked out every day and have run into bullies and suddenly I can't even talk to my sister? SHE'S extorting money now? When she likes me?! I've a like in the thirties and she's extorting money?! Only one Pound Sterling a day for an allowance?! WAY unbalanced! Where's the game interaction? I get the very same responses time and again, why bother clicking on someone? Talk about frustrating. Then not to be able to regain some of the unfairly removed stats because I'm not able to edit the save because there is no save? I STILL can't get a date. I got one lousy piccie with her like at over 62? That's it?! Then NOTHING in the hints appear to be the actual values?! WHY?! I need DOUBLE what they call for?! HOW MANY MORE WEEKS OF GAME TIME TO ACHIEVE THEM? I have 35 Like on the shop keep and I STILL can't get a job?! -- FORGET IT!
Now its been a while since I have used Linux.. I would be very interested in making the game as cross platform friendly as possible so if you are able to help with that, I would appricate.. If I put all media files in lower case and referred to them in code the same, would that fix the issue?

Regarding the bullies.. I am going to add a first meeting with each. which will give the user a heads up that these are people you want to avoid unless you are looking to lower your sub/dom (in a quick but costly way).
Did you say your sister is now bullying you? Ok I might need to look at the mechanics of this.. I do want some of the other npcs to bully you more if you become more sub to their dom.. but not for all your money..
Also I want the like to over rule the sub / dom.. so yes if someone likes you say over 10.. then even if they are dom to your sub they should decide not to bully you.. Will look into that also..

It should be 10 pounds a day for pocket money from mother.. which should allow you to afford the mobile phone (if you have lost the 50 you started with) within a few days. At the moment a few of the chars will respond differently at different locations / times.. but most do not (this is only the first release.. eventually they will).

I think I need to double check all the hints are correct.. I think most should be. which tell you what you need to proceed with the quests.. I would say buying(and setting up) the mobile phone is a key starting point.

The shopkeep need like 30+ the mobile phone and charisma 20... and then you can start the quest with him at 9am saturday..
Hope that helps.. sorry its been so frustrating.. I hope to iron out most of this by the next release.. I do appricate you taking the time to tell me your issues with the game as I will help me make it better :)
 

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Awesome, looking forward to it and best of luck! The father, uncle, janitor and Matthew the neighbor are all very hot, such dilfs.
have you not meet Rico? He lives with his daughter who comes to the school...
There is already a quest where during the quest you end up with an encriminating pic of your father... (the job quest)
 
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Now its been a while since I have used Linux.. I would be very interested in making the game as cross platform friendly as possible so if you are able to help with that, I would appricate.. If I put all media files in lower case and referred to them in code the same, would that fix the issue?
Yes -- The issue is that you've mixed case. You're making calls with caps, yet your files are lower case. Then there's the file tags in upper and lower case as well. One way or the other, Please!

egarding the bullies.. I am going to add a first meeting with each. which will give the user a heads up that these are people you want to avoid unless you are looking to lower your sub/dom (in a quick but costly way).
Did you say your sister is now bullying you? Ok I might need to look at the mechanics of this.. I do want some of the other npcs to bully you more if you become more sub to their dom.. but not for all your money..
Also I want the like to over rule the sub / dom.. so yes if someone likes you say over 10.. then even if they are dom to your sub they should decide not to bully you.. Will look into that also..
Sure did say Sis was doing a number on me. Tried to speak with her at dinner and OUCH! I only had four pounds and without sufficient capital to take it away, it doesn't get taken away, so it didn't matter, but still! At the time, she had a like well into at least the thirties. I can't look back at it now, since I got disgusted and tried again, then did my best to avoid males. At least you don't get bullied that way.

It should be 10 pounds a day for pocket money from mother.. which should allow you to afford the mobile phone (if you have lost the 50 you started with) within a few days. At the moment a few of the chars will respond differently at different locations / times.. but most do not (this is only the first release.. eventually they will).
One pound a day, I can vouch for that. The FIRST thing I did was buy the mobile, so that i couldn't be done over by the bullies by accident. It happens when you're click-click-clicking just to get through stuff you've already seen, which is one of my issues. At one pound a day, it sounds like a punctuation issue. I'd look for a full stop where it doesn't belong. Computers don't require the trailing zeros readers rely upon.

Haven't seen much in the line of different responses, unless they were in different locales. First time through i made the mistake of getting rid of the porn mag. early. This run through, I have to ask, Why Do I Have Lock Picks when they're COMPLETELY and TOTALLY USELESS? I was able to run my corruption up by sitting there and wiping out my wrist and finger to run that up over 200. At least THAT was on target. However, I got GF's text addy. long before I got the scene where she grabbed the mobile from me to add it. You need to look at that.

Something else you need to think about is, when your strength is well over 70, as mine was, why do you lose strength when you're bullied? That's PAINFUL to overcome, when you lose 10 strength and who knows how much Fight when you're bullied and you aren't expecting it. That and while 10 Pounds doesn't sound like much, when Mummy only gives you one, that's agonising! It's well over a week to replace it!

When i play games, I'm something of a completionist. I want to see all the faces in the rogues' gallery. THAT'S how i lost it all. I had no idea i was wiping out so much at one time. The only value i was watching was Dom/Sub. The cash was bad, but the strength? OUCH. That was well into the negatives. You only gain up to 3 strength per day. But to lose 10? On TOP of 10 quid? NO FAIR, INEQUITABLE, and just plain BOGUS! It left me with this really manky looking wounded look.

I think I need to double check all the hints are correct.. I think most should be. which tell you what you need to proceed with the quests.. I would say buying(and setting up) the mobile phone is a key starting point.
You do. In this run through, I have the shop keep at 27 or 28 and No Job Offer Possibilities. I HAVE found the three times per day you can go and speak with people to rack up the likes, but that's STILL a S$&^ Tonne of clicking to get through the day.

Yep, Buy that puppy straight away. That way, bullies can't slow your progress. At one pound a day, it's MAJOR SLOW DOWN. Needing the balaclava and having to pay 100 quid is outrageous! No more than ten or twenty! What's it made of, Platinum? They're not even wool these days! 100 Days to a balaclava? No WAY!

The shopkeep need like 30+ the mobile phone and charisma 20... and then you can start the quest with him at 9am saturday..
Hope that helps.. sorry its been so frustrating.. I hope to iron out most of this by the next release.. I do appricate you taking the time to tell me your issues with the game as I will help me make it better
Hints show Shopkeep needing 25. Last game I was at 33 and still no joy when i created a new game. Charisma is EASY. The mirror in the toilet at home, plus the four books. Borrow all four at the same time and you just keep them. Then, once per day, you can read the books and bump your stats, giving you two charisma per day. I had forty some charisma by the time i tried to land a job. Day 25, remember?

I was super frustrated. I mean, really. How many hours of unrewarding clicking do you need to reach day 25? Think on that. That's where i was. I trust I didn't call anyone names? I hope. I was about to that point.

IF I DID: i'm sorry.


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I've been playing with 'puters for quite some time. In MY estimation and IMHO, file name tags like .jpg, .png .gif and the like, NEED to be lower case. They are system tags, not name tags. You've a gif file for Mum at work that had a file tag of .GIF. Then there were the jpeg files that had .JPG for tags. Talk about beating my head against the wall. Thankfully, Caja has a renaming routine that allows me to change the case of all the files in multiple directories by searching for jpg or gif. Now if it would only allow me to use wild cards. For that, i have to go to a command line and it's been aeons since i played that game. There was a time when things were almost strictly UNIX commands. Times have changed.

Like/Dislike and Bullying:
You need a mechanism to gain back the likes, as well as replenishing your dom portion of your stats. You can't just strip it, or you lose out. People should be allowed to redeem themselves.

STATS BEING FINAL:
Being able to bounce your stats up and down should be something you can do. It will prolong game play for one thing. It will reduce, NOT remove the need to be able to edit the save. I MISS being able to save-scum. It forces me to play the game all the way through for every different scenario and that can be PAINFUL, given how much grinding there is. I don't have qualms with playing by the rules, but there comes a time when you want a REVENGE tour and being able to edit a save to become GODDESS-LIKE is a requisite for that.

A game mechanic for that could be, selling images of Sis to Arnold. That should give dom points, since it's an evil Bas#$@# who would do that to his or her sister.

Even taking secret up-skirt photos should give you a dom point.

Speaking of sales ... WHEN can you do that? A hint should be there for that. That, or the dialogue for it should be removed until you can.

Another is, what purpose does the music CD serve? So far, it's dead weight ... unless you can sell it. Why can't you?

What purpose does it serve?

What purpose does the Music stat have or serve?

Why do I need socks and pants?

Why can't I go without socks until someone requires i wear stockings or tights, be they sheer or otherwise?

Why can't I go commando until someone requires i wear knickers?

It's an If Then Else statement in pascal. I don't know about html: If Stockings Required by XX can't leave house = false then go outside, else put stockings on.

Are you a CSN fan? With a handle like yours, it makes me think of the CSN song Darkstar.

Why is the sky blue?
 
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Oliz82

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Hello.

Thanks for the answers.

The school lessons, i did want to force anyone into as I felt it would take away from the time you could be going doing other things.. So the lessons are really there for you to level certain stats and to get more friendly with the teacher.
It shouldnt have been too hard to get to the lesson time.. Did you use the time skip button on the top right? School lessons start at 10 but people start arriving at 9am.. there are then a series of lessons 2 hour lunch and a few more lessons. and an hour after school where some NPCs are still about (might be some content there!).
You are correct that skills are a bit hard to grind.. but that is partly down to the lack of early game content.. I want to make more content you can complete with lower stats, but in doing so will gain you more stats..
Some stats can be grinded by two different way (charisma for instance). And relationships can be improved via talking and texting (if you have phone)..
Thanks for the useful informations about the school's schedule.

The skip button is helpful for full hours. If you happen to be at :15, :30 or :45. It messes everything when a specific time is required. Maybe adding a + :15 skip button could solve it.

About the stats, do you intend to work with levels or just adapt with each event? For example, we need X for the job quest so will all other possible future other jobs require the same? I think it would be easier for you to make similar events/situations trigger the same way.

regarding reprecussions to not doing something like going to school or working or speaking to someone for a time. I am thinking about how they could be implemented but at the same time I dont want push the user to have to do certain things every day leaving them no time to do other content.. I think the most I would probably implement in the future would be to say that you have to attend a lesson at least x number of times a week or you mother grounds you for the weekend.. or something to that effect..
Yeah, that's what I thought : light repercussions and not heavy consequences, mostly a decrease in relationship points (or a specific event if you have something in mind).
And it could also apply to other situations like missing a date, not going to a party, being late...

The bullying might give an option to try to run.. with a random chance to succeed..
At the moment the bully can only take some money.. (i might limit this to 1 bully a day).
I am thinking that you might be able to bargin with them to get them a pic of your sister by next day or pay double.. or something like that.. or depending on the bully to be able to offer sexual fav.. but this is going to have to be avoidable, so would probably only trigger if the player has taken the mc down a certain path and therefore is open to that content..
On a more general note, I hope the bully aren't there for that purpose only and they have understandable reason to react that way (love, revenge, someone's tool, ...). Otherwise, I may just avoid them since I hate hurting or being hurt.
On a side note, can we prevent them from bullying others too if we can overcome our weaknesses?

Yes so the mc starts off straight but as you raise the bi stat you will be more open to gay bi content when its available..
Would come from initially watching the right porn.. but then there is also a certain park toilet and a school friend who is going help lead you do some paths.. and also there will be a few other chars who are going to force you down that path (so to speak, but by force i mean forced bi content , that you have chosen to engange in.. this will be avoidable to anyone reading this who is concerned)..
Ok. It's still vague but I'll see how it's included.
Just a question though : do you intend to include real bi scenes (with a man and a woman at the same time) or just straight on the right/gay on the left separated?

I can 100% promise there will be (Avoidable) M on M action where no F is present.. and both M are M not T.. I am not that familar with the M on M scene but I have tried to put in certain actors who I was able to find to have a lot of content (which means stuff I can use to make story lines).. I already have in my mind a plan for a first step or two into a quest with one of the other school mates that starts with an invite to theirs to play computer games..
There is also going to be some "forced" M on M action (yes and will be avoidable) with one of the bullies too..
Outside of that.. there will also be Cuck (where a F is present) and Trans.. (for people whos boats that floats..)
Be careful on how you say it. It's avoidable but also forced : it could confuse some players.

If you want some ideas for M/M scenes, try games like Young Marcus Expanded by Randiel or Grizzly Grove from Rafster among others. You can also interact with the gay community in the development or discussion sub forums.

I forgot to report a bug so 'll do it this time :
When we speak to a bully, the message on the right stay, making everybody we talk after bullies (cf screenshot) :
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There's no teacher in classroom 1 at 11:00 (cf screen shot) :
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To finish, I wanted to thank you about your disponiblity and attitude in this thread. You make communication easier, even with people not that much friendly.

Good continuation.
 
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At current there is only the porn on the laptop to watch (but this is trap / cuck if you consider that to be gay / bi) and there is the start of event in the park toilets cubicle at night..
There will be more.. (if you recognise any of the neighbours for instance you might have an idea of where content could be heading).. there will be more (AVOIDABLE) gay/bi content with school mates and bullies.. and people you can bully..
Also depending if you feel this classes as gay/bi.. there will also be sissification and trans content.

Id be currious to know.. would you consider either trans or cuck content to be bi / gay. or are you looking for something a bit more clean cut so to say.. You might recognise some of the male school mates as trans or gay porn actors .. so content is there to be added (thats the plan)..

Thanks for your comments :)
I am gay, and therefore specifically looking for M/M content. Trans content is separate from gay / bi content, or at least for the sake of the tagging system on AO3. In my experience, gay men are attracted to MEN, so trans-woman porn is a turn off cause I'm attracted to men, not women. Cuck content is more about the power play than actual sexuality in my experience. As someone whos gay, why do I wanna watch some guy fuck some girl? Like sure the guy might be hot so its fine to see him naked, but I'd rather just watch a guy solo than watch him with a girl. Its very funny to me watching straight men call NTR, sissification, and trans content gay when on all the gay gaming pages and discords i follow the gay men usually all agree its not for us lol

Yeah i recognized a lot of them, i just coudn't figure out how to make any progress with them, but also the hints on the questlogs didnt work for me (the word hint was underlined but i couldnt actually get the hint) so that may have been why
 

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Anyone know what I need to do to earn money in this game and how to increase the corruption and lust of the npc in this game I already have the keys in parents room also have sisters panties the hockey stick at sisters room and cigar but I don't know what these items are for so hope someone can help
 

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So my strength is very negative at this point (day 20 or so, but it feels like longer) and so I really can't risk talking to the sister character or most guys or they'll take money (if I had any) and reduce my strength even further negative.

I finally triggered the quest with the shopkeeper, but it requires I take a pic with the phone to actually get the job. But I have no money to buy the phone. And so I can't get the job to make money to buy the phone to get the job.

Otherwise, I really like the foundation of the game. A wide variety of characters that you can choose to interact with or not. The map has a lot of locations but you only need to know where the characters you're interested in live. But the stats and quests are way too grindy. Some hints about time-specific events would also be helpful. I would also like it if the NPC you're talking to has their name displayed somewhere when you click on them or are interacting with them. You have to find their names after the fact by looking them up in the character viewer. You could display information/hints on there related to special time-specific scenes (i.e. "Find this character at 4:00pm in the Park") which would give players a reason to look at it aside from checking the stats of the NPC and figuring out their names.

There doesn't appear to be any reason to raise any of the NPCs' stats at this point. I've managed to unlock a way to increase Coco's corruption (which unlike the "Like" stat doesn't seem to be restricted to once every 2 or 3 hours), but apparently I can't progress her quest without the phone either. I can raise the mother's corruption by talking to her while she's showering, but I haven't seen any benefit to this yet.

I was hoping more quests would unlock as you started to progress through the game. Is the plan for all the quests to be displayed from the start once they're added? Or will that section dynamically update throughout the game?
 

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Yes -- The issue is that you've mixed case. You're making calls with caps, yet your files are lower case. Then there's the file tags in upper and lower case as well. One way or the other, Please!



Sure did say Sis was doing a number on me. Tried to speak with her at dinner and OUCH! I only had four pounds and without sufficient capital to take it away, it doesn't get taken away, so it didn't matter, but still! At the time, she had a like well into at least the thirties. I can't look back at it now, since I got disgusted and tried again, then did my best to avoid males. At least you don't get bullied that way.



One pound a day, I can vouch for that. The FIRST thing I did was buy the mobile, so that i couldn't be done over by the bullies by accident. It happens when you're click-click-clicking just to get through stuff you've already seen, which is one of my issues. At one pound a day, it sounds like a punctuation issue. I'd look for a full stop where it doesn't belong. Computers don't require the trailing zeros readers rely upon.

Haven't seen much in the line of different responses, unless they were in different locales. First time through i made the mistake of getting rid of the porn mag. early. This run through, I have to ask, Why Do I Have Lock Picks when they're COMPLETELY and TOTALLY USELESS? I was able to run my corruption up by sitting there and wiping out my wrist and finger to run that up over 200. At least THAT was on target. However, I got GF's text addy. long before I got the scene where she grabbed the mobile from me to add it. You need to look at that.

Something else you need to think about is, when your strength is well over 70, as mine was, why do you lose strength when you're bullied? That's PAINFUL to overcome, when you lose 10 strength and who knows how much Fight when you're bullied and you aren't expecting it. That and while 10 Pounds doesn't sound like much, when Mummy only gives you one, that's agonising! It's well over a week to replace it!

When i play games, I'm something of a completionist. I want to see all the faces in the rogues' gallery. THAT'S how i lost it all. I had no idea i was wiping out so much at one time. The only value i was watching was Dom/Sub. The cash was bad, but the strength? OUCH. That was well into the negatives. You only gain up to 3 strength per day. But to lose 10? On TOP of 10 quid? NO FAIR, INEQUITABLE, and just plain BOGUS! It left me with this really manky looking wounded look.



You do. In this run through, I have the shop keep at 27 or 28 and No Job Offer Possibilities. I HAVE found the three times per day you can go and speak with people to rack up the likes, but that's STILL a S$&^ Tonne of clicking to get through the day.

Yep, Buy that puppy straight away. That way, bullies can't slow your progress. At one pound a day, it's MAJOR SLOW DOWN. Needing the balaclava and having to pay 100 quid is outrageous! No more than ten or twenty! What's it made of, Platinum? They're not even wool these days! 100 Days to a balaclava? No WAY!



Hints show Shopkeep needing 25. Last game I was at 33 and still no joy when i created a new game. Charisma is EASY. The mirror in the toilet at home, plus the four books. Borrow all four at the same time and you just keep them. Then, once per day, you can read the books and bump your stats, giving you two charisma per day. I had forty some charisma by the time i tried to land a job. Day 25, remember?

I was super frustrated. I mean, really. How many hours of unrewarding clicking do you need to reach day 25? Think on that. That's where i was. I trust I didn't call anyone names? I hope. I was about to that point.

IF I DID: i'm sorry.


File Names:
I've been playing with 'puters for quite some time. In MY estimation and IMHO, file name tags like .jpg, .png .gif and the like, NEED to be lower case. They are system tags, not name tags. You've a gif file for Mum at work that had a file tag of .GIF. Then there were the jpeg files that had .JPG for tags. Talk about beating my head against the wall. Thankfully, Caja has a renaming routine that allows me to change the case of all the files in multiple directories by searching for jpg or gif. Now if it would only allow me to use wild cards. For that, i have to go to a command line and it's been aeons since i played that game. There was a time when things were almost strictly UNIX commands. Times have changed.

Like/Dislike and Bullying:
You need a mechanism to gain back the likes, as well as replenishing your dom portion of your stats. You can't just strip it, or you lose out. People should be allowed to redeem themselves.

STATS BEING FINAL:
Being able to bounce your stats up and down should be something you can do. It will prolong game play for one thing. It will reduce, NOT remove the need to be able to edit the save. I MISS being able to save-scum. It forces me to play the game all the way through for every different scenario and that can be PAINFUL, given how much grinding there is. I don't have qualms with playing by the rules, but there comes a time when you want a REVENGE tour and being able to edit a save to become GODDESS-LIKE is a requisite for that.

A game mechanic for that could be, selling images of Sis to Arnold. That should give dom points, since it's an evil Bas#$@# who would do that to his or her sister.

Even taking secret up-skirt photos should give you a dom point.

Speaking of sales ... WHEN can you do that? A hint should be there for that. That, or the dialogue for it should be removed until you can.

Another is, what purpose does the music CD serve? So far, it's dead weight ... unless you can sell it. Why can't you?

What purpose does it serve?

What purpose does the Music stat have or serve?

Why do I need socks and pants?

Why can't I go without socks until someone requires i wear stockings or tights, be they sheer or otherwise?

Why can't I go commando until someone requires i wear knickers?

It's an If Then Else statement in pascal. I don't know about html: If Stockings Required by XX can't leave house = false then go outside, else put stockings on.

Are you a CSN fan? With a handle like yours, it makes me think of the CSN song Darkstar.

Why is the sky blue?

Wow that was a great read.... Ok I will see what I can do with getting the naming all to lowercase.
Ok I have just run the mother dinner money and we are both wrong.. she gives you £5 a day.. I am going to tweek that to 10
The main NPC at the moment is the sister who has a totally different response at every location and weekday/weekend different.
There are a few others like mother who has the main response but also will vary at some locations, Coco, Effa(cousin). Elsa.
There are 15 npcs in total that have at least 1 location response thats unique. (this is going to expand in time.. but it take forever to build, as I want to content to make sense. and not just be a random pic of someone saying nothing in particular)

The strength currently doent play the part in bullying its the sub/dom... but maybe I need to think about that.
Strength like music skills and some of the other stats are really there for future development.

I am going to have a good think about the bullying as I want it to occur but I dont want it to be as harsh as it has been..

I am going to lower the corruption needed for the shopkeep quest a little now. Until more content comes in.
Lock pick is a system to come. The cd was an early item I put into the game to test the ability to carry and store items in the storage box and also for clothes to be able to be taken on and off and stored in the wardrobe.
The CD will be sellable (I thought i had done this) for a small amount.

You are very right about being able to make your sub/dom to be able to go more dom once its gone towards the sub.. that is something I think i missed when trying to make sure that most stats could be gained.. Will have a think about what would make sense to making you more dom (other than bully others (this will get you money fast also) which it does, but you need to already be quite dom for this to work)

cost of the balaclava was to try and give a level of grind to the quest (s) it is needed for. I think alot of this comes back to being able to earn enough money more that the cost of the items..
Selling pics to arnold is exactly what is going to be possible once you have finished his upskirt king quest (at the moment that cant be completed as there is just short of 20 photos to be taken).
You can sell your sisters panties to arnold.

Taking upskirt pics should improve corruption.. you are right.. I thought I had done that.. but could be wrong..
I will tweek the leaving your room without socks and pants as ok!

No names being called all friendly feed back :)
Just googled CSN.. and cant say i had heard of them before.. sorry.. look a bit like a creedence who I do like.

To answer a question with a question. What is blue?
 

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Hello.

Thanks for the answers.


Thanks for the useful informations about the school's schedule.

The skip button is helpful for full hours. If you happen to be at :15, :30 or :45. It messes everything when a specific time is required. Maybe adding a + :15 skip button could solve it.

About the stats, do you intend to work with levels or just adapt with each event? For example, we need X for the job quest so will all other possible future other jobs require the same? I think it would be easier for you to make similar events/situations trigger the same way.


Yeah, that's what I thought : light repercussions and not heavy consequences, mostly a decrease in relationship points (or a specific event if you have something in mind).
And it could also apply to other situations like missing a date, not going to a party, being late...


On a more general note, I hope the bully aren't there for that purpose only and they have understandable reason to react that way (love, revenge, someone's tool, ...). Otherwise, I may just avoid them since I hate hurting or being hurt.
On a side note, can we prevent them from bullying others too if we can overcome our weaknesses?


Ok. It's still vague but I'll see how it's included.
Just a question though : do you intend to include real bi scenes (with a man and a woman at the same time) or just straight on the right/gay on the left separated?


Be careful on how you say it. It's avoidable but also forced : it could confuse some players.

If you want some ideas for M/M scenes, try games like Young Marcus Expanded by Randiel or Grizzly Grove from Rafster among others. You can also interact with the gay community in the development or discussion sub forums.

I forgot to report a bug so 'll do it this time :
When we speak to a bully, the message on the right stay, making everybody we talk after bullies (cf screenshot) :
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There's no teacher in classroom 1 at 11:00 (cf screen shot) :
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To finish, I wanted to thank you about your disponiblity and attitude in this thread. You make communication easier, even with people not that much friendly.

Good continuation.

Ok thanks for the big reponse.. all helps :)
Ok so events happen based on the hour not the minute.. So if an event happens at 9, i mean it can happen at 9:00, 9:15, 9:30 or 9.45... So the hour skip shouldnt be a problem.. I do have a function to skip to the next full hour, so 9.15 would take you to 10:00... but I didnt feel it was needed as a button..

All different quests will require a different level of stats (and different stats).. and this is kinda part of the problem on this version, I have included some quests that I thought were interesting, but these are not starter quests.. so to get the stats you need to do these quests require too much grind. Where as if you was completing lower quests while pushing up the stats, when you move on these ones it would be more natural.. (hope that makes sense).

I like the idea of a quest to save someone from being bullied by one of the bullies.. I would say that in high school, bullies were there, they didnt have a point.. they just were..

There are going to be scenes with M/F M/F/F M/M/F M/T Maybe even M/M/F/F and M/F/F/F etc.. it will be upto the user to choose which paths they take as if they want to be part of each type.

What I mean by forced Bi.. is the idea of the MC being reluctent to engage in, but be forced into.. but the player being able to choose if they want to avoid that content or not..

If I am struggling for some ideas, I might take a look in the forums you suggested.. I do believe I have look at both the games you suggested. But it was a time ago.. might revist them in the future also.

The first screen shot I will look into..
The second is not a mistake.. talk to elsa (there is an event here.. hope you got your camera ready)..

Thank you for your kind words.. I am trying to take all feedback as possitive. And I'm glad that no one has just dropped a negative review of the game.. I do get that people are frustrated that the game is not yet what they would have hoped it to be.
 
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