Sprint 009, day 9
I was hoping to finish this sprint and get a new version out today, but being sick last week cost us some time.
4 more tasks were completed today:
[T6] Fix broken ENF pose in "P001 Balcony showing off"
[T17] Add fake orgasm roll and logic
[T21] Add logic to handle Kate being at zero arousal in "P001 Balcony Max fingers Kate"
[T54] Add Deception skill to the game
Zero Arousal
[T21] in particular was pretty interesting, because the way it's executed solves a design problem that existed from the very first prototype: what happens if you get to the sex scene and the heroine isn't turned on enough to have sex?
We tried a range of solutions in the past (including "they just repeat the makeout scene infinitely until the NPC finally makes the dice roll").
This latest solution feels like the right one, though. Here's how it works: Max's arousal is hardwired into the scene (this won't always be the case, but it works best for this scene). The heroine has a number of opportunities to become turned on during the scene, but if it gets to the point when the foreplay's over and she isn't turned on, she gets to make a choice: end the date, or resort to a BJ instead.
Based on dice rolls, the BJ scene has three branches:
The heroine makes Max come through her own efforts
The heroine can't make Max come, and he reäcts
Giving head turns on the heroine, and she decides to switch to the sex scene
How does this all fit into the big picture?
Most players won't even see this part of the Dubai scene. But what's important isn't so much the content as the design.
The game needs a robust, repeatable system for handling "arousal fails". So – like the rest of this scene – the things we're creating now are templates for all the future sex scenes in the game.
Okay everybody, that's it for today. Next update is tomorrow, stay alive until then!
Comments (3)
Thumbs up for the Zero Arousal and the 'design thinking'
Shouldn't there be an option for the woman to simply fake it and have sex anyway? Certainly that should be an option in Bangkok.
Yes. The agent has four Arousal States, ranging from 0 (dry as the Mojave) to 3 (wet as the Mariana Trench). She's physically capable of having sex in states 1-3 (although she gets a penalty to her enjoyment at stage 1). (Interestingly, the game now calculates partner enjoyment independently, so a partner with a small cock may find sex more enjoyable when she's at Arousal 1 and less enjoyable when she's at Arousal 3.) Having penetrative sex while she's at state zero requires access to lube or a partner who's willing to injure her, neither of which are true in the Dubai scene, so we had to come up with a solution to handle cases like this. When working In Bangkok she'll normally have access to lube, but not all sex scenes there will be at her work.