Thoughts on the "Not Safe Fur Work" Experiment?
by Sashka
Now that Fur-Cretary is out in the wild, should we extend this concept further/how? (note: you can vote for multiple options). This is potentially a complicated add, so this poll is more guidance than binding/but we'll report back after we have seen/discussed results.
The April Fools Joke was fun, but don't do any further development.
Make a "furry" avatar option for the MC (feel free to suggest animal in comments).
Make furry alternate art for additional NPCs (suggest NPC prioritization in comments)
Expand the furry alternate art to handle other NPC outfits for the existing NPCs (eg: Bob normally has different outfits for work, casual, and gym, but the furry variant only currently has one outfit)
Make additional alternate options for existing NPCs (eg: catgirl Alex, make suggestions in comments) Text/scene variants to take into account furry versions of characters (descriptions, etc.)
Comments (11)
It just seems natural to see a bovine version of the MC when she's doing the hucow stuff! :)
it would be nice if you can go to the bodyshop and let them do you real fur ears and tail like the foxgirl in sun dungen
It was a fun little bit for April Fools I think. My personal desire would be to see some of the scenes that have been tagged *Future Development* for some time get attention - the things that come to mind are: - More scenes wherein you impersonate Mistress Antlers (and possibly show off your developing managerial skills + Dominance) - The scenes that would've involved Primrose attending Bimbo Fitness classes - Scenes with your "Waitress Friend" at the parties. These are just what I could think of but if there's others that would prove more popular, that's fine. Obviously, this is all personal preference and if it doesn't fit with current development priorities, I certainly won't complain, lol. I LOVE this game - it's probably my favorite, of all the games out there :)
so re: the impersonating Manager... suggestions for what that might entail would be useful because I'm a bit out of ideas, (not guaranteeing that a suggestion will be written but, without an idea writing more becomes much harder + I'm very much an inspiration-writer/this is a fairly universal recommendation, suggest things and [disregarding things that just don't make sense in-game] the worst you'll get is it goes into the pool of items for future polls/inspiration/etc. and if you have a good enough idea you might trigger the "sash is compelled to write" prize) Primrose Bimbo fitness class is still coming, but the primary writer for Primrose is currently focused on the evil stage 5 endings/once that's done Primrose bimbo fitness + Primrose dating will be their next Secretary target.
When scenes like the First Spanking don't even cover the different options you can get for that scene (No I don't expect that for later scenes but that one I feel deserves it) and things like the pegging scene are still practically line art. I just feel like Art tends to be such a bottleneck for any content and updates. The game currently has a serious lack of art during scenes specifically that I would much prefer that be a focus than an April fools update regarding a fetish that's controversial to work on due to it's fans being rather demanding. Rather than a furry or no furry poll like this one, I'd much rather see a poll regarding ideas for scene's currently missing art that the community might want to see.
Scene art is tricky in that, while it's great to have, it's a HUGE amount of work (due to all the player variants for hair/genitals/breasts and we have to be very judicious in terms of choosing scenes due to "clothing" in the abstract being a completely intractable issue) for something that may appear in only a couple passages, also we occasionally run backer polls for what scene to add art to and they don't tend to get particularly high feedback (including soliciting for "what scene should get art"? to initially populate said poll)
While for those who want it, I don't want to have them be upset that it doesn't get expanded upon. Personally, I'd prefer development focus going elsewhere. If you essentially make a furry togglable game, you're gonna get a huge influx of furries who want to see every game you make have furry options. Which is great for people who want that, but it sucks for the overall development time and your patience if you have to deal with a large number of people demanding for a furry version. (You could make a compromise by once the game is completely finished; you give permission for people to be able to freely mod the game so the people who want a furry version can make it themselves.)
The work would be primarily on the art side, which, while it is something of a bottleneck, is something that can proceed without interfering with "core" development (writing/coding), and if it substantially increases our reach/backers then it would net out positive for everyone.
I would love an option for going furry...or even convincing human lovers to embrace their inner beast....maybe even have one form.for.dominants, another for submissives.
There's a lot of potential for furry stuff.... Maybe too much? But I think it's worth exploring a little more... Maybe a little more integrated. Since Soto already grew little horns 😈
Other: I'm happy with more fur-velopment, but there's other content I'd prefer first (Ugh, sent this as an email reply first. I'm a bad secretary, lol)