Night Games [Monster Girl Hunter b2]

[The Silver Bard]

Hello. It took quite a while for my account to be approved on the new forum, but the game thread is back now.

Your freshman year in college suddenly becomes much more interesting as you’re invited to an underground sexfighting competition. Amazingly, you discover that you are the only male participant this year! You are even being well paid for the privilege of sexfighting your fellow students!
Who is running this competition? How has it remained a secret for so long? Does it really even matter when these four beautiful girls are literally throwing themselves at you?

Night Games is designed as a hybrid between an RPG about a friendly arena style battlefucking competition and a dating sim where you build relationships with your opponents. Rather than random enemy encounters, all the opponents are distinct, persistent NPCs, with fleshed out personalities who use the same combat and experience systems as the player.
Combat skills are split between three basic attributes: Power, Cunning, and Seduction. You can build your character around your style of play. Do you want to incapacitate and pin your opponent before finishing her off? Maybe you prefer sneaky tricks and traps to outwit your opponent. Maybe you just want to be a pure sex machine. Later in the game, you have the opportunity to gain advanced attributes, opening up additional skill trees and unlocking new opponents.



The game loop is split into distinct day/night phases:

• Each night the Player and NPCs roam the campus, engaging in sex fights when they meet. It is possible to set traps and lay ambushes for your opponents to give yourself the edge in combat. You and will gain money and experience for defeating your opponents and stealing their panties. However your opponents will be gaining money and experience for beating you and each other.
  
  
• Each day, you will have some free time to prepare for your match. You can use the time to train or buy items and equipment for use in the match. Alternatively, you can spend some intimate time with your NPC opponents, which will grant access to unique gameplay perks if you build enough affection with them.
  

The game is available for free on my development blog:


http://www.silverbardgames.com/


If you enjoy the game, please consider supporting me on Patreon


https://www.patreon.com/silverbardgames


To run the game, you'll need Java 1.8 or newer. You can get the newest version of java at Oracle.com.


There's a limited amount of artwork in the game, but it is all donated or commissioned specifically for Night Games. I do not use anyone's copyright work without permission. If you enjoy the game and would like to support it, please visit the donation page on my blog. Donations will allow me to afford additional commissions. Alternatively, I'm always appreciative of people who contribute art or writing directly.

 

[nergantre]

Awesome to see you're back , looking forward to it again.

Let me know if you need any help/want anything from the mod too!

 

[BenLawrence]

I really like this.  The premise is a bit odd, but I actually don't mind that, because you've definitely pulled it off.  I look forward to more visuals

 

[CharredNewt]

Wowsie! I was happyto discover your work some months ago, I was elated to discover someone kept on working on a project I thought was abandoned, and now... I'm falling short of words...

I am very glad to see you're back, and I look forward reading some more of your awesome writing!

 

[The Silver Bard]

As I posted on my development blog, I'll be releasing a new Night Games update this evening(EST). I have some last minute testing and fixing to do, but I should be able to finish it in the next few hours.

 

[CharredNewt]

Sounds great! I'll be waiting on the edge of my seat!


Since we'll probably be to busy playing the update to tell you later: thanks and Good luck with the finals!

 

[Legion]

Colour me excited! I'm gonna enjoy this update.


Knock those finals on their ass. They won't know what hit 'em.

 

[The Silver Bard]

New update is posted. Here are some direct links if you don't want to go to my dev blog to get it:


https://mega.nz/#!2RAzXK5L!CbokLXyzW702TTZw3NVkAXaGBKiRRJa54tzixgQ9Bvw


http://depositfiles.com/files/f4aoewz7z


Changelog:

• Lubricants can no longer be used against targets with clothes or already oiled
  
• Sensitivity Flasks can no longer be used against targets with clothes or already affected
  
• Dissolving Solutions can no longer be used against nude targets
  
• Statuses now decay at end of turn instead of beginning, this might not be noticeable
  
• Some statuses can now stack, intensifying their effect and extending their duration
  
• Buzzed status now stacks and persists after fights
  
• Energy Drinks now stack
  
• Sedatives now stack
  
• Horny status now stacks
  
• Shamed status now stacks
  
• Added a menu button that displays the map I posted on the blog for ease of navigation
  
• Boxers only matches now handle other types of underwear
  
• Boxers only matches will not be offered to players who don't wear underwear, except for the initial encounter
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented NPCs from upgrading strapons
  
• Changed the save and load dialogs to hopefully make them more user friendly
  
• Fixed a null pointer error in EnthrallingTraps
  
• Added message to clarify perks selection screen
  
• Fixed issue where portraits were attached to images option
  
• Fixed issue where portraits sometimes wouldn't clear
  
• Changed how portraits function, so they won't display during double teams
  
• Resourceful no longer affects trophy counts or upgrades
  
• Added perk Cautious
  
• Moved player demands (when opponent is enthralled) to their own page
  
• Shamed now gives a buff to Submissive
  
• Added perk Responsive
  
• Submissive attribute now increases pleasure dealt to opponents when they fuck you
  
• New Submissive skill: Invite
  
• New Submissive skill: Beg
  
• New Fetish skill: Tortoise Wrap
  
• New Submissive skill: Shameful Display
  
• Fixed Shattering Kick also triggering normal kick
  
• Capped the amount of money the AI will spend on consumables each day
  
• Added the game's first futanari character Eve. She's a sadistic hedonist and uses the Fetish skill tree
  
• Eve doesn't have any daytime scenes yet
  
• For those of you reading my code, I'm no longer using the Decider class and can't remember why I ever was
  
• Finally got around to completely rewriting the non-combat AI, hopefully it is better than the old AI
  
• Added some scenes with Kat and Aisha that lead to being able to learn the Animism skill tree
  
• Kat's Feral buff now also applies to players with Animism >= 4
  
• Added some new response messages for Exercise
  
• Added some new response messages for Porn
  
• New consumable item: Summoning Scroll
  
• New consumable item: Dark Talisman
  
• Video Game scenes featuring NPCs now increase their affection
  
• Added three new Video Games scenes featuring Angel's friend, Caroline
  
• Added weekends. You now have more daytime hours on Saturday and Sunday
  
• Feral status now scales with Animism
  
• Added perk Ass Master
  
• Changed how NPCs handle the daytime, making them more similar to how the player behaves. This may make stat growth more variable
  
• Added the introduction scene for Alice, the submissive trainer
  
• Threesome scenes have been grouped into a generic event system, as part of that, I changed their frequency and removed the once per day limit
  
• Made some changes to how postmatch scenes are implemented. They should be easier to add now
  
• Spank upgrade from Disciplinarian no longer procs while having sex
  
• Characters can reach rank 2 at level 20, this comes with a pay increase
  
• Added DNDW's new NPC, Samantha with the Professional skill tree
  
• Added submissive training scene, with a few different variations
  
• Added a couple shortcuts to the map that can be used by character with high Cunning
  
• After visiting an NPC at least once, their attraction will start to be converted to affection, making it no longer useless
  
• Armbar now causes a Power debuff
  
• Leglock now causes a Speed debuff
  
• Added new Status Sore that affects pain damage to different body parts
  
• Added new Status Sensitive that affects pleasure damage to different body parts
  
• Added a proficiency stat that allows modifiers for different body parts used
  
• Changed how strip checks are calculated, they should be easier now and have a bonus from being in dominant position
  
• New starting trait: Brass Balls reduces damage from low blows
  
• New starting trait: Bra Master gives bonus to stripping tops
  
• New starting trait: Panty Peeler gives bonus to stripping bottoms
  
• At 30 Cunning, characters can now strip 2 pieces of clothing at once
  
• Fixed an issue where victories due to bathing ambushes and Spiderweb traps scored double
  
• New starting weakness: Hair Trigger for people who are finding the game too easy
  
• Characters can reach rank 3 at level 30, this comes with a pay increase
  
• Added a new, very powerful, probably familiar NPC who appears as a special event enemy
  
• This NPC has access to the Hypnosis skillset.
  
• There's currently no way for the player to learn Hypnosis
  
• Added Angel double-team scene for NPCs with a dick (slight cheat, it's almost identical to her normal one)
  
• Added Player double-team scene for NPCs with a dick
  
• Added Cassie double-team scene for NPCs with a dick
  
• Replaced the Desperate protraits in Nergantre's portraitset with the Horny ones, hopefully this will not cause confusion
  
• Added Jewel double-team scene for NPCs with a dick
  
• added Mara double-team scene for NPCs with a dick (another copy of normal scene)
  

 

[MotoKuchoma]

Has anyone figured out how to find Eve/Samantha in this yet?

 

[The Silver Bard]

Has anyone figured out how to find Eve/Samantha in this yet?

Eve and Samantha both require level 20, I probably should have mentioned that in the changelog

 

[The Silver Bard]

https://mega.nz/#!rEpG1Z5L!IOpsaeympjeVnxp5Ej1UFrpcTYZAuPzZGovuRNOuCFw


http://depositfiles.com/files/9ftf6tqvr

• Capped the xp bonus from fighting Maya
  
• Fixed an issue where NPCs could miss their advanced class if they hit level 20 too quickly
  
• Fixed an issue where the More Competitors menu didn't appear unless Kat or Reyka were locked
  
• Added Samantha's portraits by Nergantre
  
• Fixed Samantha's panties having wrong name and description
  
• Added default save file name with .sav extension to reduce confusion
  
• Fixed an issue where Locate did not work for Eve or Samantha
  
• Set stun duration back to 2
  

 

[dndw]

I haven't gotten to much of the new content, but the mechanical improvements are very welcome.


I did notice that the Invite skill is bugged, it does not take the player's clothing into consideration.


Angel and Jewel tend to get pretty annoying. Angel because she can finish you off in seven or so turns with basic skills like kissing without the player being able to do anything about (this works the other way around as well; just kissing opponents is far too effective a strategy), and Jewel because she gets you into an infinite cycle of knee/pleasure while stunned/knee. I reckon this only gets worse with two turn stuns. Statuses like the ones nergantre made that give characters a resistance against falling after getting up would be most appreciated. That would also encourage skill diversity. At present, neither the player nor the NPCs have an incentive to mix things up.


Mmm, looking back that reads a bit overly negative. So to end on a positive note, I am very happy to see the progress and despite some reservations I might have it's getting better and better.

 

[The Silver Bard]

Part of the jar didn't get packaged right, so I'm reposting here:


https://mega.nz/#!jI53iIhY!JJ0f3ZpkZmLgpRa0qmXnpIEOvK2XtVYF-d0n51TkQlw


http://depositfiles.com/files/h70c2wlqi

 

[MotoKuchoma]

I haven't gotten to much of the new content, but the mechanical improvements are very welcome.


I did notice that the Invite skill is bugged, it does not take the player's clothing into consideration.


Angel and Jewel tend to get pretty annoying. Angel because she can finish you off in seven or so turns with basic skills like kissing without the player being able to do anything about (this works the other way around as well; just kissing opponents is far too effective a strategy), and Jewel because she gets you into an infinite cycle of knee/pleasure while stunned/knee. I reckon this only gets worse with two turn stuns. Statuses like the ones nergantre made that give characters a resistance against falling after getting up would be most appreciated. That would also encourage skill diversity. At present, neither the player nor the NPCs have an incentive to mix things up.


Mmm, looking back that reads a bit overly negative. So to end on a positive note, I am very happy to see the progress and despite some reservations I might have it's getting better and better.

I tried doing nothing but seduction + kisses for the most part and I reached level 11 in 5 in game days. I nearly never lose a fight and consistently get 12+ wins every day. Yeah I think Kiss could be OP.


EDIT: Found a bug. When you beat Samantha, the game gets stuck.

 

[The Silver Bard]

EDIT: Found a bug. When you beat Samantha, the game gets stuck.

Go ahead and redownload the most recent version, I fixed one of the filenames

 

[ferd]

Yep kiss is overpowered and repeated actions can be less effective

 

[Nebula Fox]

Does Eve have only the one victory scene, does she have one where she's fucking the PC's ass? I can hardly find out, since unlike the mod (no shaming here) there's no option to lay down and take whatever the opponent is dishing out, and I only got her to fuck me once, but it was at the very turn that I lost.


Also as a side note, Kat seems to immediately remove all the PC's clothes whenever she suprises them, as well as (and I haven't been able to reliably test this one) tries to steal imaginary clothing, saying messages about removing my t-shirt whenever I'm having the one no clothing challenge active.

 

[dndw]

Does Eve have only the one victory scene, does she have one where she's fucking the PC's ass?

She does have such a scene, but it's broken. TSB: The scene requires the anal flag, but that is only set if one of the combatants is wearing a strapon when the match ends. Also, I think it would go wrong if the player were fucking Eve's ass and then lost because of the self-damage. Eve would then win with the anal flag, so her alternate scene would play, which assumes she's doing the fucking.

there's no option to lay down and take whatever the opponent is dishing out

If you put a few points into Submissive, you can use the Cowardice skill to get her to hold you from behind. If you're both naked and you are lubricated, the chances are pretty high  she must fuck you. The AssFuck skill is mandatory for her, so she must use it whenever possible.

repeated actions can be less effective

That's an interesting idea. It would definitely solve the 'incentive problem' I mentioned earlier. If repeated actions are only, say, 85% as powerful as normal actions (and hence 72% the third time, 61% the fourth...) then the combatants are basically forced to vary their strategies. It would probably take some additional infrastructure to accomplish this, I think it could be a serious improvement to the game. Familiarity breeds contempt, after all.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

That's an interesting idea. It would definitely solve the 'incentive problem' I mentioned earlier. If repeated actions are only, say, 85% as powerful as normal actions (and hence 72% the third time, 61% the fourth...) then the combatants are basically forced to vary their strategies. It would probably take some additional infrastructure to accomplish this, I think it could be a serious improvement to the game. Familiarity breeds contempt, after all.

Best way I can think to do this is to track the last four moves you used in a queue.  When you use an attack, it checks the queue to see if that move appears at all in it before applying damage.

 

[Nebula Fox]

If you put a few points into Submissive, you can use the Cowardice skill to get her to hold you from behind. If you're both naked and you are lubricated, the chances are pretty high  she must fuck you. The AssFuck skill is mandatory for her, so she must use it whenever possible.

Ah, alright then. I've been so spoiled with the mod that it's kinda a stretch and almost a whole new experience to go back to the original game, haha.

 

[dndw]

Ah, alright then. I've been so spoiled with the mod that it's kinda a stretch and almost a whole new experience to go back to the original game, haha.

I know what you mean; through an improbable sequence of events succubus-Angel got into cowgirl and I was like 'shiiiit!' because in the mod that would drain attribute points. Then I realized I wasn't playing the mod, and that it's actually possible to fuck succubi here without slowly resetting your attributes back to level 1.


It's kind of refreshing to have things relatively 'normal' compared to the utter lunacy (in a good way) of the mod.

 

[The Silver Bard]

Best way I can think to do this is to track the last four moves you used in a queue.  When you use an attack, it checks the queue to see if that move appears at all in it before applying damage.

I actually implemented this system fairly early in development (I think I tracked 10 moves). I don't remember what issues I ran into that prompted me to discard it. It might have been because there are some positions where you only have access to a few skills. Maybe it'll be fine. I'll try reimplementing it and see what happens.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

I actually implemented this system fairly early in development (I think I tracked 10 moves). I don't remember what issues I ran into that prompted me to discard it. It might have been because there are some positions where you only have access to a few skills. Maybe it'll be fine. I'll try reimplementing it and see what happens.

Well, fucking moves should probably be immune from this, as well as position changing moves, utility moves, and stripping moves.  Maybe moves that require your opponent be naked first are less affected?  Other than that, it might be a good incentive to change positions.

 

[nergantre]

I actually implemented this system fairly early in development (I think I tracked 10 moves). I don't remember what issues I ran into that prompted me to discard it. It might have been because there are some positions where you only have access to a few skills. Maybe it'll be fine. I'll try reimplementing it and see what happens.

I remember thinking about doing this too in the mod, but it ended up being a ton of work. You would need to somehow add a "skill effectiveness" modifier to every skill, and what that meant usually is different in terms of each skill. Does it only apply to raising lust/dishing out pain? or does it need to be more accurate? or does it apply statuses for longer? Or does it make your buffs stronger?


You would need to go in and code each skill to take advantage of a skill multiplier. And it doesn't necessarily make much of a difference in cases where the effects aren't very high (like if it's a lust gain of 4, there's literally no difference at 100% or 85% depending on how you round).


I guess what you could do is make skills fail when you use repeated moves. Like if you already used kiss, the next time you use it, kiss has a chance of failing because they're expecting it? But then as dark master says, you would then need to go in and tag different skills differently


Anyhoo, thanks for the update


If you have any descriptions for the new NPCs, I could probably make a few new portraits for them? I'm out on business again til mid january though, so contact will be pretty periodic.

 

[dndw]

I mentioned a probable bug in Invite before. I've found another: it always calls deal() even when it should call receive().

 

[MotoKuchoma]

Maybe just nerf kiss to do less damage when your opponent has high arousal. Kiss is really the only skill which is problematic when spammed.

 

[The Silver Bard]

I mentioned a probable bug in Invite before. I've found another: it always calls deal() even when it should call receive().

Thanks, I often do that when copying and pasting, but usually I catch it in testing.

Maybe just nerf kiss to do less damage when your opponent has high arousal. Kiss is really the only skill which is problematic when spammed.

That's an interesting idea. I don't have anything that negatively scales with opponent's arousal, but it could be usually to enforce more structure into a fight. Kiss and a few other skills could be good skills for opening a fight, while encouraging the player to strip the opponent to access better finishing skills. I'll play with that a bit before the next update.

 

[dndw]

That's an interesting idea. I don't have anything that negatively scales with opponent's arousal, but it could be usually to enforce more structure into a fight. Kiss and a few other skills could be good skills for opening a fight, while encouraging the player to strip the opponent to access better finishing skills. I'll play with that a bit before the next update.

<brainstorm>


It would be a bit of work, but perhaps you could add an 'intensity' rating to all skills, and low-intensity skills become less powerful as the target's arousal gets higher. If that works, you could even do more fancy stuff like saying that high intensity skills require high arousal or high mojo to pull off. Most of this could probably be implemented in Character#[pain,pleasure,tempt,weaken], so that's less of a burden on each of the individual skills.


</brainstorm>


Edit: This has the distinct stench of a decompilation-induced bug, but the switch statements in the showScene() methods in Exercise, Porn and VideoGames seem to have the wrong scenes mapped to the enum constants... Like I said, probably caused by decompilation, but I thought I might as well mention it just to be sure.


Edit 2: The ability for high-cunning characters to strip two items is flawed: The minimum is 39 instead of the advertised 30 (curse those slippery keys!) and it's only implemented for tops.

 

[ScarredEyes]

Woah, so the original creator was still working on the original? 


I thought you actually stopped apart from here and there and nergantre modded it. Glad to see that this is still here - guess I'll check it out too! I'll consider it a Christmas gift or something


I'd second dndw's idea, but I'd like to suggest something that might aid future work... Although I'm not a developer or programmer, I was wondering if this would work...


You *could* have a sort of "heat" meter, which is increased to a cap as you get more and more pleasured towards orgasm. The higher your "heat", the more effect some of your opponent's skills have on you. It's supposed to stack further as you orgasm more and more during a fight. Heat can be reduced drastically (though not completely) by orgasm, raised at a slower rate my masturbating and surrendering (THERE's A POINT TO SURRENDER NOW?!), increased dramatically by having arousal over it's set limit (orgasm denial) and erased completely by bathing. Also reduced by finishing and gradually outside combat.


....and now I awkwardly notice that arousal and heat kinda means the same thing.


My point is, having something stackable to that effect as a separate statistic might be something that will allow dynamic changes in combat to happen. Intensity ideas can benefit, we can adjust success rolls based on heat (insertion-based moves become easier the more heat you have), etc. It IS, I do admit, almost the same as arousal, but the point is its stacking. You can scale it with the willpower bar, if anything. I'm not a developer, so I don't know how easy it is to implement, but it's just an idea - a more persistent, over-reaching yet separate version of the Arousal stat, scalable with willpower, that acts as a modifier rather than a tracker.


After all, if Angel jumps on you at 99% arousal and 15% willpower while she is at 99% arousal and 100% willpower (oh god you're screwed), surely that really should succeed more times than not.


Of course, you can make this more complicated by, say, faster stacking through certain moves if your Heat is high, or implement dndw's idea of intensity through it's use.


math wise, maybe something like...


Let x be " intensity" = heat/willpower, and... Let y be  = 1-x


To explain, x is what to use for high intensity actions, while y is for low intensity actions. For coding, though, 


For intense moves like fucking,


Thrust = score * (0.7+x)


For low-intensity moves,


Kiss = score * (0.2+y) = score * (1.2 - x)


In other words, 


[High Intensity] Total = subtotal * ( modifier + intensity ), where modifier < 1


[Low Intensity] Total = subtotal * (modifier - intensity), where modifier > 1


This also allows for different move versions to have, say, different modifiers. Or different perks even modifying this further. Unfortunately, it does mean a possible fuckton of headaches and frustration balancing the crap out of it all. To give a suggestion, try... 


IF "semenphage"=yes, then


[High Intensity] Total = subtotal * ( {modifier + 0.1*OrgasmCount} + intensity), OR


even just x = heat/willpower + 0.1*OrgasmCount --> i.e. Less talking, more fucking.


It DOES, however, pseudo-allows the, for example, reduction of effect of Kiss over time since, you know, intensity brah. 


Sorry for the long comment, and even more if you've thought of it before / is already implemented / definitely waaaaay too much. I'm not a developer, but at least I understand logic, and I can at least see that if you go deep into this, you'll be having the system do a ton of checking through perks and calculations. But it's just an idea to develop the background works to allow all the dynamic changes that might make all the ideas others have a reality.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

There's one big problem with your suggestion, ScarredEyes.  That's that the main game doesn't have willpower or multiple orgasms, the first one to cum loses.