Where the Heart is (Adult game in development)

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The Game:
You are returning to your childhood home to visit your mother's best friend Monica and Monica's two daughter's whom you grew up with. It has been several years since you've seen them, so the game centers around the MC's quest to re-build these old relationships, forge new ones and deal with everything life has to throw at you including the fallout from your deceased Father's will.... In addition to these three ladies, there'll be plenty of other characters in play (friends, foes, neighbors, stalkers and the "Coffee-Shop Girl").

"Where the Heart is" is a first-person POV adult adventure where you control the Male Main Character. There will lots of female characters (primary characters and supporting characters) to seduce / romance / reject / be rejected by (Remember: You can always reload)
There will be some minor / major plot storylines with a primary focus on conversation based choices & action based choices.
Some characters will be easier/harder to "crack" and some relationships will be a slow-burn romance (or corruption) while others will be a quick passionate affair (or rejection).
It's up to you to get the required results by figuring out what characters like or don't like and making the right choices to get there. "Where the Heart is" is being developed using the Renpy gaming engine with Full-HD (1920 x 1080) rendered graphics.

Looking for people to test this out and send me any feedback (positive or negative) in the comments.


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buffmuffin

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Can i reject all the ones with artificially large breasts?

Oh wait, no,... I can choose between fake tit A or fake tit B, and if i choose a realistically proportioned human female, that means my selection as a man; or her proportions as a female are 'unrealistic'.

Thanks for yet another game which encourages human females to inject foreign cancer-causing agents into themselves in order to rise to the level of humanity.

You should be ashamed. If you aren't, it only reinforces the level of shame due you... What would your reaction be if she said, oh... only 7 inches.... Not going to remember this one...
 
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That is needlessly hostile. If it doesn't appeal to you then don't play it. You won't find games you like by dragging down and insulting other developers, just find a game you DO like and support them.

As to the game, I actually like how many choices there are to make, it kept it a bit more interesting for the short portion available to play. I think the game certainly has potential if you keep it going, although time will tell, as countless projects have started up in the past and died just as quickly.
 

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Yeah, look, I think the character models need serious work (and models aside, those promotional images are often stretched or squashed) but there's no need to jump down his throat like that. I'm all in favour of getting rid of the "barbie doll body" as the accepted standard of feminine beauty in real life, but there's no need to make a big drama out of it in a fantasy porn game aimed at men. Just because he says he welcomes both positive and negative feedback, that doesn't mean you have to go "Oh boy, now I have free reign to verbally rip off his head and shit down his neck!"
 

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Some technical feedback on the promotional images:

The first image (orange sweater) and fourth image (long-sleeved red dress) have an unrealistic "boobsock" effect going on, where the cloth is perfectly molded to the shape that the breasts would have if they were bare and unsupported.
 
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Can i reject all the ones with artificially large breasts?

Oh wait, no,... I can choose between fake tit A or fake tit B, and if i choose a realistically proportioned human female, that means my selection as a man; or her proportions as a female are 'unrealistic'.

Thanks for yet another game which encourages human females to inject foreign cancer-causing agents into themselves in order to rise to the level of humanity.

You should be ashamed. If you aren't, it only reinforces the level of shame due you... What would your reaction be if she said, oh... only 7 inches.... Not going to remember this one...

WOW. Thanks for the feedback. I doubt if my game is going to encourage any woman to get a boob-job, but thanks for your optimism about my game's ability to influence the masses.
Am I ashamed ? No. It's a game that contains nothing illegal. And compared to other games, it's very tame (with future plans to become much less tame)
"Can I choose between fake tit A or.... blah blah blah..". The better choice for you would probably to have a look at the females in the pictures in the samples shown and if it is going to cause the heightened sens of outrage in you, you can "choose" to not download.
But in saying that, Thanks for the feedback, because for me ALL feedback is good feedback. The more I get a feel for what people like and don't like, hopefully it will aid my game's development.
Thanks. And say hi to all the folks you work with in the boob clinic :). Although they probably shouldn't let you answer the phones.
 
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CheekyGimp

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Some technical feedback on the promotional images:

The first image (orange sweater) and fourth image (long-sleeved red dress) have an unrealistic "boobsock" effect going on, where the cloth is perfectly molded to the shape that the breasts would have if they were bare and unsupported.


Yea. I changed my mind a number of times on whether to go with the "lycra-look" material or less clingy (more realistic) look for these two characters. In the end I went with the former just for a more "erotic/fantasy" look, but left some variety for the other characters. Both of these characters will be getting new outfits in future episodes...

Thanks
 

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Tried the game and I have to say the following:

-First of all I have to say that this game is screaming incest everywhere, while the game says that you are unrelated to those characters it seems like it was just a final modification so that patreon can't go against this game. It wasn't very creative I would say.

-While I don't want to be like the other guy about boobs, if you changed the setting to a farm I would believe that it was a game focused on cowgirls, perhaps at least a more variety of bodies in the future would be good.

-Some scenes are overly long and it feels forced, for example the one of the stairs you can choose so many options that I actually wonder how many stairs does the house have?, not all the scenes should be so long and with so many options, leave that part for meaningful conversations.

-Give meaningful options, acting perverted from the start it may seem as a joke if you do it once and I would understand that if the girls are taking a bath and you have a chance then you could peep, but there are many options overly perverted, in fact I would say Monica's scene on the bed was a bit too fast as a development. In fact your MC has lost his father recently, however his personality is almost like nothing happened and too perverted with the options. The main problem that you have is that the setting and the current MC are in constant conflict. It would make sense that at the start the MC was kind of depressed and that he didn't bother about being perverted.

I would say that it's a good try but it needs quite a bit of work to achieve a high level of quality, well except the images which are good already.

Lastly I would analyze what does the game offer compared to other games that do the same:

"There will be some minor / major plot storylines with a primary focus on conversation based choices & action based choices.
Some characters will be easier/harder to "crack" and some relationships will be a slow-burn romance (or corruption) while others will be a quick passionate affair (or rejection)."

Personally I just find it absolutely standard on this point, basically you are just doing the "choose the correct option to continue if you don't want to be rejected", which is exactly something that receives a lot of critics and deserved. What many creators forget to do is that sometimes you have to argue with the person or take an option that would decrease your affection with them so that it doesn't have a bad effect.

For example just think about the glasses girl for a moment, she decides to force herself to change and she decides to buy "clothes that don't leave many things to imagination" a.k.a slutty clothes, if you go for the easy affection points saying how she looks great she would continue to force herself to change, however asking her why the sudden change rather than complimenting could generate a tiny fight and that she expected our support over it. But think for a second, what would be the effect if a girl is forcing herself to change while having provocative clothes? I don't see many good things happening to the girl and even less if you have a relationship with her.

This is just an example of what I mean about the "correct choices".

Finally I would like to ask a few points about the game:

-Is it visual novel style or free mode? (in free mode you can choose where the MC goes and have different events with the girl, while visual novel style is kind of linear, usually you just choose options during the story and that's it, personally seeing the number of girls I think that it would be better to use the free mode event based).

-Another thing that actually gets my attention is that when you talk about characters you include foes and stalkers, which makes me think that this game is gonna have competition to get the girls or perhaps even Nice Time for Roo, this is something that should be clarified before you get a big train of hate related to it.

-Lastly I would recommend that you make a tiny list with all the fetishes that you are gonna include in the game, this is because people usually give it a try based on the fetishes, usually if the game contains something that the person finds disgusting then they will get kind of mad if they find it while playing.
 

Nephilim_Anunnaki

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Tried the game and I have to say the following:

-First of all I have to say that this game is screaming incest everywhere, while the game says that you are unrelated to those characters it seems like it was just a final modification so that patreon can't go against this game. It wasn't very creative I would say.

-While I don't want to be like the other guy about boobs, if you changed the setting to a farm I would believe that it was a game focused on cowgirls, perhaps at least a more variety of bodies in the future would be good.

-Some scenes are overly long and it feels forced, for example the one of the stairs you can choose so many options that I actually wonder how many stairs does the house have?, not all the scenes should be so long and with so many options, leave that part for meaningful conversations.

-Give meaningful options, acting perverted from the start it may seem as a joke if you do it once and I would understand that if the girls are taking a bath and you have a chance then you could peep, but there are many options overly perverted, in fact I would say Monica's scene on the bed was a bit too fast as a development. In fact your MC has lost his father recently, however his personality is almost like nothing happened and too perverted with the options. The main problem that you have is that the setting and the current MC are in constant conflict. It would make sense that at the start the MC was kind of depressed and that he didn't bother about being perverted.

I would say that it's a good try but it needs quite a bit of work to achieve a high level of quality, well except the images which are good already.

Lastly I would analyze what does the game offer compared to other games that do the same:

"There will be some minor / major plot storylines with a primary focus on conversation based choices & action based choices.
Some characters will be easier/harder to "crack" and some relationships will be a slow-burn romance (or corruption) while others will be a quick passionate affair (or rejection)."

Personally I just find it absolutely standard on this point, basically you are just doing the "choose the correct option to continue if you don't want to be rejected", which is exactly something that receives a lot of critics and deserved. What many creators forget to do is that sometimes you have to argue with the person or take an option that would decrease your affection with them so that it doesn't have a bad effect.

For example just think about the glasses girl for a moment, she decides to force herself to change and she decides to buy "clothes that don't leave many things to imagination" a.k.a slutty clothes, if you go for the easy affection points saying how she looks great she would continue to force herself to change, however asking her why the sudden change rather than complimenting could generate a tiny fight and that she expected our support over it. But think for a second, what would be the effect if a girl is forcing herself to change while having provocative clothes? I don't see many good things happening to the girl and even less if you have a relationship with her.

This is just an example of what I mean about the "correct choices".

Finally I would like to ask a few points about the game:

-Is it visual novel style or free mode? (in free mode you can choose where the MC goes and have different events with the girl, while visual novel style is kind of linear, usually you just choose options during the story and that's it, personally seeing the number of girls I think that it would be better to use the free mode event based).

-Another thing that actually gets my attention is that when you talk about characters you include foes and stalkers, which makes me think that this game is gonna have competition to get the girls or perhaps even Nice Time for Roo, this is something that should be clarified before you get a big train of hate related to it.

-Lastly I would recommend that you make a tiny list with all the fetishes that you are gonna include in the game, this is because people usually give it a try based on the fetishes, usually if the game contains something that the person finds disgusting then they will get kind of mad if they find it while playing.

Yeah, when I saw it at first I said to myself "wtf, they are his mother and sisters).

Nowadays is that or say the mother's character is the landlord and the sister(s) are roommates.
In what universe a "landlord" tells you what to do with your life? Is really bothesome XD
 

CheekyGimp

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Re-rendering a lot of those images over the next couple of weeks (in addition to working on episode 2) to get rid of that boobsock look
 

CheekyGimp

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Tried the game and I have to say the following:

-First of all I have to say that this game is screaming incest everywhere, while the game says that you are unrelated to those characters it seems like it was just a final modification so that patreon can't go against this game. It wasn't very creative I would say.

-While I don't want to be like the other guy about boobs, if you changed the setting to a farm I would believe that it was a game focused on cowgirls, perhaps at least a more variety of bodies in the future would be good.

-Some scenes are overly long and it feels forced, for example the one of the stairs you can choose so many options that I actually wonder how many stairs does the house have?, not all the scenes should be so long and with so many options, leave that part for meaningful conversations.

-Give meaningful options, acting perverted from the start it may seem as a joke if you do it once and I would understand that if the girls are taking a bath and you have a chance then you could peep, but there are many options overly perverted, in fact I would say Monica's scene on the bed was a bit too fast as a development. In fact your MC has lost his father recently, however his personality is almost like nothing happened and too perverted with the options. The main problem that you have is that the setting and the current MC are in constant conflict. It would make sense that at the start the MC was kind of depressed and that he didn't bother about being perverted.

I would say that it's a good try but it needs quite a bit of work to achieve a high level of quality, well except the images which are good already.

Lastly I would analyze what does the game offer compared to other games that do the same:

"There will be some minor / major plot storylines with a primary focus on conversation based choices & action based choices.
Some characters will be easier/harder to "crack" and some relationships will be a slow-burn romance (or corruption) while others will be a quick passionate affair (or rejection)."

Personally I just find it absolutely standard on this point, basically you are just doing the "choose the correct option to continue if you don't want to be rejected", which is exactly something that receives a lot of critics and deserved. What many creators forget to do is that sometimes you have to argue with the person or take an option that would decrease your affection with them so that it doesn't have a bad effect.

For example just think about the glasses girl for a moment, she decides to force herself to change and she decides to buy "clothes that don't leave many things to imagination" a.k.a slutty clothes, if you go for the easy affection points saying how she looks great she would continue to force herself to change, however asking her why the sudden change rather than complimenting could generate a tiny fight and that she expected our support over it. But think for a second, what would be the effect if a girl is forcing herself to change while having provocative clothes? I don't see many good things happening to the girl and even less if you have a relationship with her.

This is just an example of what I mean about the "correct choices".

Finally I would like to ask a few points about the game:

-Is it visual novel style or free mode? (in free mode you can choose where the MC goes and have different events with the girl, while visual novel style is kind of linear, usually you just choose options during the story and that's it, personally seeing the number of girls I think that it would be better to use the free mode event based).

-Another thing that actually gets my attention is that when you talk about characters you include foes and stalkers, which makes me think that this game is gonna have competition to get the girls or perhaps even Nice Time for Roo, this is something that should be clarified before you get a big train of hate related to it.

-Lastly I would recommend that you make a tiny list with all the fetishes that you are gonna include in the game, this is because people usually give it a try based on the fetishes, usually if the game contains something that the person finds disgusting then they will get kind of mad if they find it while playing.

Lots of good inputs there. At the moment the game will be more linear, rather than be free mode. I am struggling to make progress as it is (doing the wiriting, coding, artwork myself, while working fulltime is very time consuming). To go free-mode, I'd have to beef up my coding knowledge and I just have too many other things on the to-do list at the moment. I tried to cram a lot of options into the first release to give people a feel for the game as I seen a lot of feedback on other first releases that there is a lack of progress and nothing more than a few opening scenes. I'm making some changes to Episode 1 flow based on where episode 2 is going.
And also what I'm aiming for in specific scenes is to have some fast-track/get out early options for players that aren't digging the particular scene / options and have extended choices/menu items only for players that (through their previous choices) want to extend the particular scene/conversation. Just means a lot of duplicate writing for scenes, but that's where I want to go with it. And not all of the character plotlines will follow the usual cliche route.........

And as for a list of fetishes, I'll get on that shortly ....
 

CheekyGimp

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Updated link for latest Version 0.03 release. This includes approx. 60-70% of episode 2.

For those who've played the previous version, you might notice I've removed/ reduced some scenes from Ep1. These aren't gone -they've just been re-sequenced and will appear at the end of episode 2. This current release contains a revised episode 1 (renders & script) and an unfinished episode 2. The final version of episode 2 will be ready in a week. I also switched from .png to .jpg, to reduce the file size.