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The Alpha Gender [Story] - Where are we right now?
🕑 Added 2021-08-04 02:39:20 +0000 UTCSo, what has been created so far, and what's the order of the next few steps to move toward initial release?
STORY - as many/most of you know, I've written 15 chapters (126 pages) of the story in novel form, but it doesn't come to a conclusion yet. I also have a good deal of the rest of the novelized story bumping around in my head, unwritten. A lot of that unwritten part will go into the VN too. I have 3 ideas for how to end the visual novel that I'm rolling around in my head and comparing, but I'm also open to suggestions from those who have read all I've written so far.
The VN isn't going to follow the "novel" totally, because I think the pace has to move faster in the VN, and then of course there needs to be branching to give the player choices along the way. So far I don't see these choices changing the ending of the VN, but as I work through the possibilities, I might change my mind on that.
I need to get a handle on (or list of) all the choice I'm going to offer players. This is one area I'm struggling with, but I think I need to get it under control soon to get clear 'scope of work" defined. There's an online "world-building" tool called Campfire Blaze that's been recommended to me to manage the characters, plot, scenes of the story, and while it doesn't specifically address story branching, I think that if I can get all the other puzzle pieces organized with it, then It'll make my path forward uncluttered enough that I can focus on it without any need for a software tool. I'm going to review the capabilities of that tool tonight and decide whether it makes sense.
Someone on F95Zone who's interested in the VN suggested I give each player choice as to what femdom elements to include. I hadn't planned on that but so far don't think it would add too much extra work on my end and could greatly increase each player's enjoyment of the game. I found a list of the 15 most popular femdom fetishes and culled it to remove those that aren't something any of the main female characters would do, as well as those that are hard limits for me personally, and here's that curated list:
1) Facesitting
2) Foot Domination
3) Ballbusting - though not used as gratuitous torture
4) Strapon/Pegging
5) Spanking
6) CNFN (clothed female/naked male) - this will happen often enough anyway
7) Cuckolding - since we're dealing with male harems, it's already "cucking squared" lol
Last two don't need to be on the list since they'll already be omnipresent in the story but I could see that including at least some of these as player prefs would allow me to tailor certain scenes to be more targeted to the individual player without adding too much work on my end.
