LEWD, an online erotic text adventure (Big update)

[Sadako]

Re: LEWD, an online erotic text adventure

One thing though: I can't stand Corruption of Champions. I hate everything about that game. And, this one seems similar to it, except things happen on a space station.

But, maybe I haven't played enough to see the difference. Anyway, I've got a pretty sizable backlog of games and things waiting for me, so I unless something catches my interest right away, I move on.

What advantage does the multiplayer aspect to this have? I notice there's a chat, and then you mentioned the grid possibly changing, so maybe people will write their own stuff? I tend to think I wouldn't be interested in what players would write though. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

Hm. Interesting. It is an erotica focused game, like Corruption of Champions, but what is it you don't like about that?

I think my writing is very different(You'll need to go to the wilderness area to see more of it. Just 1/3rd of the starting area is my writing), especially the characters I make. It's also not furry or transformation focused.

The only thing I think I took from CoC is that the focus is on erotica, so I'm very curious as to why you'd like erotica but not like this~

The advantage of multiplayer is that all the players can not just change the grid(which would be something like a quest, maybe building a bridge or something to connect two areas, for example, with a quest given out so players can extend it a tile at a time until it finishes. Then you can go back later and see it changed), it's that the NPCs can react to what people do with them.
For example, I was thinking of something in the wilderness, that if one player ends up doing something it could have negative consequences. The plantgirls could get sick, for example. There will be entirely different writing for that, and someone will need to fix it.
Players actions can keep changing the story around, so whenever you log in again, you can see different things.
Sure, it could just be random, but randomness can be extremely annoying when the dice never rolls what you are wanting. This makes a procedural story, basically.

And yes, I would like to have players make their own content. I'm going to try my best to make tools as simple to use, despite how powerful they are.
I would like to at least have something where a player can have their own ship, and write their own NPCS in it.
Maybe you're traveling around, dock to a station, and can leave your ship unlocked so others on that station can go look inside of it and see what you have. Again, that's something that can make the content really dynamic.

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You should check this blog post out~ It details some of this stuff a lot better.

 

[tryguy]

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It's also not furry or transformation focused.

That's good. Perhaps that's what I didn't like about CoC, but I think it was just the pace and style of writing that bugged me.

And, I guess I can go play your game again sometime and see what I missed. I can't quite picture what the dynamic environment might be like, but for those that like multiplayer games, I'm sure it's interesting.

Probably I just like my entertainment more targeted to my individual fetishes. That's not to say I couldn't jump on and make a whole lot of quests all about what I like. But, would I put that kind of time into this? I'm not sure I would.

I like good writing, but there are a lot of sources for good writing, so I just find what's easiest for me to find. Still, I'll play again and then I may comment again, OK?

 

[Sadako]

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Ahh. You mean it being a bit like "meet n' fuck"? Just bam, jumping to sex, or rape in CoC's case.

I do like there being a mix of things with more build up.
I planned to add more of that, and some of the newer content does have more of that.
It's a consequence of a lack of content. But even still, there's going to be a number of easy straight to it encounters as well.

A lot of people do just like one specific fetish or so. LEWD doesn't appeal to that, no.

I'm curious as to what writing you do and don't write. There was two others doing some of the writing in the starting area.

 

[Sadako]

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Big update to it. Go take a look.

Hopefully this better shows more of what I can do, and shows that I'll be able to make the biggest erotica game like I promised.

Even though there is only 5 days left on getting it funded, I'd rather barely hit that 15k goal now and be able to get started on the real game instead of a demo. If I have to relaunch the Kickstarter, which may end up working much better having this at the start instead of what I had 25 days ago, it's going to be 7 days for KS to approve it, then another 30 days for it to run. 37 more days before I can really start working on the game.

I'm hoping people can help spread the word, get that goal hit. I can set up additional funding later to get some of those stretch goals like artwork and such reached.

 

[krisslanza]

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The new map is pretty spiffy. Still not too sure what to expect from LEWD yet though, but there's certain promise here.

Maybe so far my only real quip is just while the plant girl reminds me kind of Monmosu, since there's really no way to track how close a character is to orgasm, and it just kind of happens...

Then again, this is simply because that's how it's written. I suppose a textual game may not be the best for a way to track that kind of thing... it's late, and I may not be making ANY sense at all, come to think of it.

 

[Sadako]

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Took me a moment to get what you meant. Like building orgasm bars? Heh.
I don't really see a place for that. That's more a eroge thing, where this is supposed to be more like a novel where you're a part of it. The engine I'm making does support eroge style games, but it's just not what I'm making for LEWD.

I know there's not really game mechanics to show, and so on, but I can clearly program anything people can think up if they have a good idea.
I'm not sure how I want some of the gameplay to be, because this is a new game and all. I'll have to prototype things and get feedback.

But unlike a RAGS game or something, this is my own engine. There aren't limitations to the tools or engine that stops me from making something a certain way. I just have to like the idea, and have the support.

 

[Thorn14]

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So whats the new content at the wilderness area? I can't find anything other than the plant girl and the Taur who does nothing for me after I talk to her.

 

[Sadako]

Re: LEWD, an online erotic text adventure (Big update)

The amphibious girl got deleted due to an issue with the database module. :/ Well, it was never permanently saved to begin with.

So it's just the 'taur, plantgirl, and Caysey there.

 

[krisslanza]

Re: LEWD, an online erotic text adventure (Big update)

Took me a moment to get what you meant. Like building orgasm bars? Heh.
I don't really see a place for that. That's more a eroge thing, where this is supposed to be more like a novel where you're a part of it. The engine I'm making does support eroge style games, but it's just not what I'm making for LEWD.

I know there's not really game mechanics to show, and so on, but I can clearly program anything people can think up if they have a good idea.
I'm not sure how I want some of the gameplay to be, because this is a new game and all. I'll have to prototype things and get feedback.

But unlike a RAGS game or something, this is my own engine. There aren't limitations to the tools or engine that stops me from making something a certain way. I just have to like the idea, and have the support.

Yeah I kind of typed that up before going to bed, so my brain wasn't exactly making sense.

But something like that. I think it's just kind of something that always feels kinda "sudden" in most H-type games, because you're just reading along and then suddenly BAM - orgasm happens or something.

Just a nitpick though, and thinking on it, it's not like LEWD has battlefuck combat, or is about the enemy trying to make your orgasm so...

 

[Sadako]

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Yeah. That has its ups and downs.
Personally I don't like it much, because you can be sort of close yourself, and then that best part passes by~
With it being more about the writing, I like how you can go back and reread.

There are some parts that could use an extra paragraph lead up to the orgasm(or complete rewrites), though.

I did wonder if it is weird that you don't actually control your characters orgasm and such. Maybe there should be more options to interject and fuck more, or cum right away.
But I don't want to keep repeating humping writing, as some games normally would. I want nice writing. The other thing is that people would probably just always choose to keep fucking until they reach and end, just to see that extra content.

 

[krisslanza]

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Yeah. That has its ups and downs.
Personally I don't like it much, because you can be sort of close yourself, and then that best part passes by~
With it being more about the writing, I like how you can go back and reread.

There are some parts that could use an extra paragraph lead up to the orgasm(or complete rewrites), though.

I did wonder if it is weird that you don't actually control your characters orgasm and such. Maybe there should be more options to interject and fuck more, or cum right away.
But I don't want to keep repeating humping writing, as some games normally would. I want nice writing. The other thing is that people would probably just always choose to keep fucking until they reach and end, just to see that extra content.

A balance you could reach would be, as I kinda wondered, you may have limited control over it. You can opt for your character to cum right away, or have them able to hold out for a bit.

It does add a bit more RP aspects, rather then just whenever the orgasm comes in the writing. Less predictable, and it doesn't make the characters feel as unique if they ALL succumb just as easily. It is, however, yeah a lot more writing.

 

[Sadako]

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The thing is that I think people would always hold out to get more writing, so the other thing would be wasted.

 

[Sadako]

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I'm curious if anyone has input on the leveling mechanic, even though this is the fetish centric board and all~ I do want to add some more gameplay things to it.
I don't like grinding in typical RPGs and MMOs, but there needs to be some advancement.
Perhaps I should do away with "experience", and instead just occasionally hand out stat points or trait points, up to a cap?
It would do away with having to go to "high xp areas", even though you could like the content in lower ones more.
There are already diminishing returns on stats, so it doesn't seem like there needs to be one on "character progression".

 

[krisslanza]

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The thing is that I think people would always hold out to get more writing, so the other thing would be wasted.

You never know! Although, I suppose realistically, yeah... but hey, you still never know!

I'm kind of working on an H-game myself, and I'm willing to bet a lot of the stuff I write just won't get seen, since I'm mostly writing all the non-H stuff. Stuff that I'd assume not as many people will seek, but hey, I never know! They might. Can't hurt to write it out anyway.

 

[Minerve]

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You never know! Although, I suppose realistically, yeah... but hey, you still never know!

I'm kind of working on an H-game myself, and I'm willing to bet a lot of the stuff I write just won't get seen, since I'm mostly writing all the non-H stuff. Stuff that I'd assume not as many people will seek, but hey, I never know! They might. Can't hurt to write it out anyway.

+1 :3 ?

 

[Sadako]

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Well as the video on kickstarter shows(with more detail on the third update there) there's already going to be tons of content that's probably never seen, because of the dynamic/procedural nature of it. It just lacks content to really show that now, since so much has to be written that might not be seen by one player or another.

I fixed some issues with some of the old scenes not being compatible with some new writing parser features. For example, as female-sexed when given the alien symbiote by Kaeleigh, there should have been a sex scene which wasn't showing.
I also added a "solo" mode that essentially makes it like playing single player. Lastly, I fixed a few grammar mistakes.

 

[Stranger]

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how do you guys get into the game? i fill out two pages: "basic details" and "stats and traits" press play and nothing happens
I have java installed - just checked on their own website and use google chrome.

 

[Sadako]

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If the play button does nothing, it means your ISP or some "security" program on your computer is blocking the connection to the game server.
It only happens for around 0.5% people, or less.
Short term, there is nothing I can do about it. It's not an easy fix, because it involves figuring out a multitude of ways to fool those rare things that block it, for each thing that blocks it.

I fixed the zone/area camera on lower resolution screens. It should be fine now.
Of course, later, I'd like to add another camera setting to have it stay centered on you and just move the world under you. But options like that are going to need to wait for beta, and for me to redo the UI.

 

[Sadako]

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Well, less than 36 hours left. I'm going to keep working on it.

I put a lot more detail in a reddit post. Instead of copying that whole long thing here, here's a link:

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It basically says that I have forums set up that I'm going to direct the people who tried to support it to.

A number of people were asking about direct donations and such, but this isn't a case where I'm going to be homeless or something without that being funded. It's a matter of taking time off my usual work(freelance) to focus on this.
So, I'm comfortable and I don't need donations. I need that actual budget to work with instead of spending more of my money instead of just my time. I wouldn't be comfortable taking people's money without that goal hit first to just add on top of it, since without that whole amount I can't promise its completion. After I launch a new kickstarter later, which will hopefully hit the 15k, I will have a way for people to contribute with dwolla/paypal/bitcoin.

 

[xivvix]

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I tried this a while back and it seems interesting. Sorry to see you're having problems raising funds, though it may be due to using Kickstarter itself. It's pretty crowded, lot's of people have heard about the super successes, so it might be difficult to get noticed unless people are already looking for your project. You might want to try

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, which is basically an adult material version of Kickstarter. Now I'm not saying you'll definitely see similar success, but Fenoxo (maker of Corruption of Champions) raised almost two hundred thousand dollars after asking for just ten thousand.