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Rogue scene poll
🕑 Added 2015-03-24 04:24:18 +0000 UTC Ok, so here's my first poll for feedback on the Rogue game. I'm asking you guys how you would like me to render out sex scenes. I'd first like to explain what options I'm capable of here, and make it clear what each would involve. The more complicated methods would of course take longer, meaning that I could get less done, OR it would end up taking longer. Nothing happens without a cost. So here's what I could do. A: Text/Chara-image: This is the method I've been using so far, and can be tested out in the beta. It involves using the character sprite, with limited movement around the screen/zoom, a few alternate hand poses, etc., combined with text descriptions of what's going on. The advantages to this system is that it's relatively easy to do. I can foucs on the scenarios, and can have more of them, and with more versatility. I can easily add more costumes to the game, more easily export the sex scenes from one character to another (with story changes, of course), it basically means I can add a lot more content to the game within any given period of time. B: Unique images: This is like the "event" shots often seen in erogames, and would end up looking like the images I do weekly around here. The downside to this is of course the time needed to produce it. Each shot like this would take me as much time as it would take to do 2-3 of the above scenes. It would also mean that the image would not have as much variety as the chara-image versions, so like if she were wearing the pink outfit, the unique image might not reflect that look, it would be a single image for the sexual event. It also means that you couldn't have the scene in any room you wanted, which would limit the story options. C: Unique images that adapt: This would be the most time consuming, at least that I'm capable of doing, and would involve making unique images as described above, while also making all paperdoll versions available so that the appearance she has in the rest of the game would be reflected on the unique sex image. This would of course be a TON of work, and would grow exponentially the more outfits I added to the game, since it would mean having to redraw and color each outfit for each sex scene I did this way. Doing this would of course slow things down to a crawl and it would take six months or more before I would have anything to show for it. Then there's always the option of having a combination of them, in which most of the shots are one type, but where there might be a few unique story-based sex scenes that use the fancier options. This would still take a lot of time, but would at least take a lot less time than the "all B/C" options. So these are the options (if you have other ones feel free to suggest them, but full animation is right off the table), so check out the poll and vote for the options that seem to work best for you. Also feel free to expand on your choices here or in PM. http://strawpoll.me/3948151 Also, I'm looking for a background artist. I just don't enjoy it, and it takes up a lot of time I could be working on other parts of the project. The person working on this part of the project would be doing 4-6 background settings for the game, and would of course be compensated. If you're interested, PM me or email me at ohoni@hotmail.com.
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Zera
Cool beans. Tinker away, I'll keep testing because this is fun and interesting stuff.
Oni
I hope to impress. I've been plugging away at the coding. I've got it so you can access the wardrobe anywhere (which is a feature that will have to be unlocked), and I have several of the actual "scenarios" in the game, the prologue and a few "triggered" events. My goal is to make the system as flexible and adaptable as possible.
Zera
Voted. I've never played ero games like this before so this is interesting for me. I'm curious to see what else you can do.
Oni
Yeah, fair enough. In my current build, I have a little animation when she goes down for the handy (or other similar positions), in the beta she just teleports there but in the work version she now sort of bobs down, but that's about it. I could work in some more animations like that though, basically anything where two or more objects are just shifting around without much interaction isn't that hard. I'll keep it in mind.
Oni
Right? I mean, I can fake it, by just saying that you're behind her at some point, but that's not nearly as fun. Actually making a full set of sprite elements though would involve almost doubling my character assets, and also probably doubling portions of the code that deal with costuming.
Well hopefully a "backside shot" will come in handy, but that's just my wishful thinking.
I didn't mean full scale animation, I was just suggesting the final part of a scene. The ejaculation part of a handjob scene, the orgasm of a sex scene, the squirting of a masturbation scene, etc... Anyway, it was just an idea.
Oni
Well, it might be worth doing for at least a few. I'm also trying to decide whether I should make a "backside shot" for her character sprite.
Oni
Not really. For one thing, I'm making it in Renpy, and that program doesn't do animation very well. I mean, Akabur has done some nifty stuff with those chibis, but a full scale animation would be complicated. I've done a little animation in the distant past, but not in a long while. If I had any sort of animation, it would be very rudimentary. I've been considering the idea of having a sort of close-up cam of a basic "in and out" type of animation, but honestly I think it would end up looking a bit too robotic.
Also I really enjoy where you are going with this and I like how you are asking for feedback. Is there a chance that any of this game would be animated? Personally while my artwork is no where near the quality of yours', I've still been looking at Blender and Source Filmmaker to see what I can do. Just a thought, really.
I went with "Mostly A, but a couple of special C shots." because while A would work most of the time, it would be nice to have a few C, and a combination would really make things different. Of course as a sex scene goes on and she is wearing less clothes, it will be easier for you to make unique images that adapt because at that point outfits don't matter.
