[Ren'py] A Town Uncovered [Visual Novel - Alpha 0.12]

[GeeSeki]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to share the game that we've been and still am working on called A Town Uncovered

Team:

GeeSeki - Creator, Writer, Artist, Programmer
Rubae - Writer
Fealow - Composer
Dexter - Background Artist
DarkMage - QA Tester

About the Game:

You play the new kid in town, a senior high school student is who is just trying to get through the final years of his teenage years, one day at a time. When one night, you accidentally happen across this alternate universe where public lust and sex are societally acceptable. Imagine a world where you can have sex anywhere at any time you feel like it with anyone you want? Which begs the question; What bad could ever happen?

This game features or will feature a main story, character relationships and development, skill stats, side quests, a town to explore with many locations, and of course, semi-animated H-scenes.

Current Status (Alpha 0.12):

+25 Characters
+40 Individual Locations or 13 Area Locations
+43,900 words
+Day/Night Cycle
+Calender System
+Bag and Monetary System
+Skill and Relationship Point System
+Many Branching Dialogues and Paths
+Main Story
+3 Proper Character Side Story
+7 Music Tracks
+Softcore and Hardcore Scenes
+About 2.5 Hours Gameplay

You can check out the proper description and download it on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/GeeSekiVN

 

[Number13]

What fetishes are you having in the game?

 

[karunama]

and what pairings? I'm going to guess that M/F is definitely in. Any others?

 

[Nephilim_Anunnaki]

Mmm I think the creator of this game started to follow me on Twitter, I watched him back and tried the game, not bad so far.
Kinda summertime saga alike.

 

[GeeSeki]

What fetishes are you having in the game?

So far I've listed a couple of them on my Patreon, I'll add them into the description of this thread but the most prominent ones that'll be included in the game are incest, MILF, exhibitionism, voyeurism, Femdom, and Freeuse. Some minor fetishes that'll be implemented into a single character or a single event would be stuff like adult baby, bdsm, orgy, futanari (optional), breastfeeding, pregnant, toys, and cucold.

 

[GeeSeki]

and what pairings? I'm going to guess that M/F is definitely in. Any others?

M/F Definitely, M/F/F and M/F/M are possible during orgy scenes. Possibly an incestuous threesome with M/S/D, as well as F/F during a cuckold scene

 

[GeeSeki]

Mmm I think the creator of this game started to follow me on Twitter, I watched him back and tried the game, not bad so far.
Kinda summertime saga alike.

I don't actually remember if I'm honest. I just follow a lot of people who are artists, game devs or just hentai enthusiasts. And yeah, playing SS was what inspired me to start my own game. I love that game.

 

[Mikey]

ok i know I'm an idiot for this because no one else is having this problem, but how in the heck do I even get out of the house? haha.

 

[GeeSeki]

ok i know I'm an idiot for this because no one else is having this problem, but how in the heck do I even get out of the house? haha.

Are you playing Alpha 0.01 or 0.03? With 0.01 you can't get out of the house but from 0.02 onwards, your mum tells you to wake up your sister, so you head up to her room and wake up up, then head back into the kitchen and you should be good to go

 

[eyecourt]

Pretty neat game, I must say. I'll be keeping an eye on this for sure.

 

[Nephilim_Anunnaki]

I don't actually remember if I'm honest. I just follow a lot of people who are artists, game devs or just hentai enthusiasts. And yeah, playing SS was what inspired me to start my own game. I love that game.

No problem, I ddin't expect you remember me XD

 

[GeeSeki]

Pretty neat game, I must say. I'll be keeping an eye on this for sure.

Thank you for the interest and support~

 

[GeeSeki]

I'm close to release Alpha 0.04 and I just wanted to make a quick update on what I've done so far:
-Added Skill Points

-Added 5 Locations (Street, Park, School Gym, Comic Book Store, Comic Book Backroom)

-Added Scenes for Increasing Skills (INT, STA, STR)

-Added 4 Characters (Coach Fistem, Phil, Jack, Brock)

-Added Miss Allaway Clickable Character

-Added Crowds for (Main Beach)

-Added Background for the Outside of the Café

-Added Effie Date Scene

-Added Splash Screen

-Fixed points with Effie when it goes below 0 pts

-Completely filled in Café Menu Board

-Completely filled the Town Map with buildings and other entities

-Improved the Quit Screen Font

-Improved the Missing Poster

-Improved Dialogue Box to easier see sprites waist area

 

[Alfigar]

Cuckold? Seriously?
I hope it's optional.

 

[GeeSeki]

Cuckold? Seriously?
I hope it's optional.

I still haven't yet decided if it'll be in the game, some of the fetishes may not even make it (The ones near the bottom of the list on my Patreon page).
And if it is in the game, it'll be optional. I want to make all H-Scenes optional by giving the player the decision to opt out before it happens.

 

[GeeSeki]

It's about 1.5 weeks from the ALL Patrons release of 0.06 so I here's what has been done so far in prep for that:
-Added Background People in 5 Locations (Café, Classroom, School Hallway 1, Comic Book Store, Park)
-Added Popup Notifications
-Added New Intro Sequence
-Added Sister in Bathroom Sequence (Scheduled Event [Sis=Tue&Thur Morning/ Sat Afternoon])
-Added More Hitomi Side Story as a Random Event
-Added Fades to Naps and Sleeps
-Added Fuck Bitches Pay Weekly Magazine Item
-Fixed Sequence so the player can only go home after Effie’s H-Scene
-Fixed and Improved Dialogue and Sequences to fit with the New Story
-Italicized All Main Character’s Thoughts
-Improved Sister’s Wake Up Scene
-Improve Sprites for ALL Characters
-Completed the Comic Book Store
-Completed the Café Interior
-There’s a bug with Item and Money disappearing when game is refreshed

 

[Musicfruit]

Great start, looking forward to future updates.

 

[Dragon]

I'm surprised if haven't said anything yet, i really like where this is going.

 

[Musicfruit]

After giving the whole thing an second tought, maybe you have to chance something on the stat or saving system, because you can grind you stats easy if you savescum (save and reload after failure) a little.

 

[Moon_Dew]

Semi-related: How do you launch Ren'py games anyway? I was able to before but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how.

 

[GeeSeki]

Hey guys, sorry I'm not all that active on forums. I spend my time solely on the development and managing the Patreon page. If you have any questions and or general comments that you want to bring my attention to, please visit the Patreon page and make a new post.

Otherwise, I just want to let you know that I've released 0.06 as a public release and have released 0.07 as a Patron-Only release!

Another thing is that I've updated the OP's image, story summary, and features.

 

[kinky_borg]

Cuckold? Seriously?
I hope it's optional.

why is it strange. it is popular category on porn sites. I like it.

 

[Nephilim_Anunnaki]

Well, cuckold it's not my cup of tea...

 

[Tinman]

why is it strange. it is popular category on porn sites. I like it.

Popular on the strange porn site maybe

Cuckold seems like the kind of fetish where you're either really into it or it kills your boner. If you don't want your wife (fictional or real) cheating on you, or don't want to be the other man cuckolding some poor dude, it's not a very pleasant thing to have forced into a story. Those that do like it... well

 

[Ethereal Dragon]

Popular on the strange porn site maybe

Cuckold seems like the kind of fetish where you're either really into it or it kills your boner. If you don't want your wife (fictional or real) cheating on you, or don't want to be the other man cuckolding some poor dude, it's not a very pleasant thing to have forced into a story. Those that do like it... well

Funny how a lot of VN in Japan have a Nice Time for Roo/Cucking fetish applied to them and notice how popular they are.

 

[Tinman]

Funny how a lot of VN in Japan have a Nice Time for Roo/Cucking fetish applied to them and notice how popular they are.

I think it's a dominance thing. Women are still expected to be submissive demure housewives in Japan while men are pressured to be dominant successful businessmen. For those that want to submit being cuckolded is like submission by proxy, and for those that want to dominate taking another man's wife is evidence you're more dominant than he is.

I tried the game and really enjoyed it. It's still very barebones, but I like where things are going so far. Had I tried any version before .06 there probably wouldn't have even been enough for me to say that. While most of the girls are definitely on the busty side (the principal looks like she should be making milk baths for witches) Hitomi is a good indicator that there will be plenty of boob variation to come. I have 2 main issues I've seen so far. The first is the lack of control over interactions. Finding your sister at the beach doesn't seem to affect interactions with her, even if it happens before you get in trouble for sleeping with Effie. Raising relationships also doesn't seem to affect available interactions. You get the same conversations and the same sex scenes with Effie whether your relationship is at 1 or 10 (not sure about 0 since the things leading up to sleeping with her the first time do improve her score).

The second issue is skill training. It's not very obvious beforehand what trains what. Sure studying in class is fairly obvious, but when you first encounter the fight club it seems more like something you need to train for rather than being a way to boost strength. There's also the matter of charisma and strength training. With only 3 time periods a day each action has to serve a purpose and with 2 stats only trainable during the last part of the day it becomes an unpleasant grind to improve them. This is made even worse by the fact that skill actions lower that skill, and failed training attempts will lower certain skills. It's very difficult to get skills up and impossible to keep them up making the effort feel wasted.

 

[GeeSeki]

Alpha 0.10 has recently been released and I haven't updated this thread in a while. So here's that needed update. Nothing else.

 

[dragonboy888]

I remember playing this demo back in June! It seems like a good game, and I like the art style too! Good luck with this! <3 Oh also, I noticed on the patreon you might be adding in "Trap/ Futanari", does that mean there might be some M/M content, as I did like the male characters, and Jacob seems like he'd be up to it at least.

 

[GeeSeki]

Just updated the thread with up-to-date information

 

[Jash]

If I might give feedback, there's one thing about the game that really bothers me. It's during the mother route, where you spend "mother/son time" with her sucking on her tits. I went through this for a while, taking time out from my day (and it's a HELL of a commitment, 2/3 of your time) to be with her. One time I tried to see if I could just meet her at night rather than going in the afternoon and waiting around for titty-time, and consequently got the scene where you catch her and your father fucking and have a big argument, losing all your relationship points with her. Thinking that I'd totally screwed up, I went back to my last save and continued on without missing a meeting with her, but was getting bothered by the fact that nothing seemed to happening, contrary to what the game kept telling me. So eventually I just googled a guide to see if there was something I was supposed to do.

Oh. Apparently missing a meeting and having the relationship meltdown IS the way to proceed.

Now, this really annoys me. Not because I'm getting "cucked" by my father (even though I personally can't stand Nice Time for Roo) because I'm not; as your mother points out, she's married to your father, not to you. No, it's because the game had been lying to me. The actual quest tracker for the mother romance path had continued to insist that the next step was to meet her every day. At the end of every titty-sucking scene I was told "she ain't putting out yet, but keep on doing what you're doing, surely she will eventually" (spoiler: she won't). Even when I (accidentally) proceeded with the quest, the argument with my mother had cost me almost all our relationship points, which is a strong in-game mechanical indicator that I'd done something wrong rather than something right. I don't know if you thought this was clever and subversive to encourage the player to experiment with deliberately failing to proceed, but I don't look for clever subversion of game mechanics in a pornographic visual novel.

Aside from the deception, I'm also bothered by the fact that this is effectively a 'Fission Mailed' scenario. Yeah, sometimes failure is unavoidable in games. Your party can't stop Kefka from blowing up the World of Order. Shirou and Rin can't stop Gilgamesh from tearing Ilya's heart out. Shephard cannot avoid having to kill Matriarch Benezia. But this isn't really "unavoidable failure" as such- while your mother IS asking a lot (2/3 of your day, EVERY day) there's nothing stopping you from actually meeting her requirements. You have to actually CHOOSE to fail in order to proceed. There's no reason you couldn't conduct a quiet, surreptitious incestuous affair behind your father's back other than "the game doesn't proceed until you fail". If you want to tell a simple linear story where we have to follow the plot from start to finish, that's absolutely fine. But you really need to write it more to guide us that way. Instead of the script telling us "just keep doing what you're doing, you're almost there" forever, maybe have the MC express some discontent that he's going out of his way for his mother but she's not reciprocating. Make it feel less like "you have to screw up" and more something inevitable or that you have a reason to do other than 'But Thou Must'.

Otherwise I really like almost everything about the game. This is just the #1 thing that leaped out at me that I DON'T like.