Outfits system in 'The Library Story'
Hello dear friends!
While you're playing 'IQ Intro' the work on LS runs its course. Now I work on upgrade of Belle's outfits. As it was said before, we plan that in the next versions, each of her outfits will have its own line of development (appearance change depending on the parameters). In ver 0.92 you've already seen different types of gardener costume (when Belle's corruption reaches 200, her appearance within the time of gardening changes... for the better;)). In Gaston's training quest the teacher outfit "improves" as well.
So I was thinking that it would be nice to hear your opinion - what exactly upgrade outfits would you like to see in the first place? And is it worth to extend this system to other characters of LS? For instance, maybe Gaston needs to buy more fashionable pants and other like things? :D
In general, how important for you is this system of appearance changing (of course depending on the parameters and events)? Probably these are too vague questions for a classical poll, so I invite you to talk in the comments :-P.
Thank you for your support guys! (and for your interest to our project!) ^^`
Comments (27)
Just saw this post, how far can the corruption on her outfits go? To the point of exposure or just skimpy
in current versions the corruption affects her outfits in some special quests (like Gaston's training and Tentakle-tree), there are still 2-3 upgrades of her outfits in there. In the next versions we plan to add some new special quests outfits and maybe some more upgrades of teacher's and gardener's outfits.
I like the idea of the outfits changing as Belles corruption increases I would also like to see more outfits for specific tasks like the teaching outfit possibly giving Gaston the ability to give Belle a maid uniform for use when she's cleaning the shop
Yeah)) We just about to continue adding new outfits depending on new special quests and upgrade them due to parameters - that is for now and the nearest versions. The most difficulty is being in changings of outfits for all quests of the game becasce of large (and almost senseless) time consuming and efforts for repainting all scenes... Here we haven't found any good decision so far.
Would be especially great if it applies to Betsy as well, at least when she slinks away on her own. Gotta admit, I'm liking Mayor's daughter chain at least as much as the main quest, if not more.
^^` okay, I added your offer in LS ideas list. Actually we've already thought on this topic and most likely there will be possibility of outfit changings for other characters in LS after ver 0.95
I would say keeping it limited to Belle would be fine. I'm very excited about that specific feature for her. I would recommend limiting it as it's what has been teased at the most and adding more of a system for other characters will likely slow development without much overall benefit added.
Oh, I like and appreciate your advice! It sounds really reasonable ;)) I think we will find kind of balance for new outfits and original costume. For now we plan to add new outfits just for definite quests like gardening or Gaston's training (with upgrade depending on parameters)
More outfits is an excellent idea if done well.. There is quite a bit of grinding in the game, and it would be less of a chore if the content changed a bit more each time you saw Belle. This is true for both her day-dress and her sleeping attire. A mechanic I have seen well is to give each outfit a sexiness value. At the beginning of each scene, a random outfit is chosen from the list of outfits possible for that scene. Bell rolls a random number and it is added to her corruption. and if her score exceeds the sexiness value then she dons it; otherwise, another outfit is chosen at random and the process repeats until a "winner" is selected. If you have a decent sized pool (say, 5+ outfits), you get a nice random spread but the "better" outfits are worn much more often as she becomes sluttier. (If the pool of outfits is too small, you are better off just doing it mechanically based on her corruption, otherwise you end up seeing the conservative outfits too often at the high levels.)
Wow! What an interesting idea of outfit selection :D Well... I think if our community agreed and supported this we could be probably making this kind of very special version of the game with just this addition :D Maybe after ver 1.0... who knows... The basic difficulty of that big amount of outfits is time consuming and efforts... because there is a need to repaint all current scenes (there are quite a lot already) so we have to find some compromise option - for example repainting just some selected scenes and adding this effect into dialogue sprites or other like...
different outfit are nice, but i think what's best is a oufit progression depending on a character stat because it actually offer the player some visual milestone to look forward to and beside the mental change we can actually see the character actually changing. Now i would prefer that the focus of the oufit would be on Belle only because she is the main character that we toy with and as of right now beside event we dont see the corruption actually affecting her in a visual sense. I also think it would be great to have alternative oufit for when belle grow a nice pair of jug now i know making all of this is time consuming, but im willing to wait because the game has gotten so much better from the first version you guys released and im still hoping that one day we will see a LS like the trailer on YouTube with all the different stats and crap ton of outfit variation. so here's my 2cent on the subjet. :)
oh, thanks a lot for your nice feedback! (I appreciate your words about improving the game :D really nice to hear!) as for outfit changings - yeah, we plan it in about a was you wrote: it'll be depending on the parameters and is planned to show more visual effect of them)) (actually we've already started trying this system - in tentakle tree quest and Gaston-'s trainings)
As you can tell, the additional clothing options are desireable, they really do add to the overall atmosphere to the game. If you could do some simple color variants, along with the style variants, that would be fantastic. People might have a similar style from day to day, but they tend to have minor color variations... unless maybe you're this guy: <a href="https://www.boredpanda.com/retired-teacher-wears-same-outfit-40-years/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.boredpanda.com/retired-teacher-wears-same-outfit-40-years/</a> Then again, even he had a purpose behind it. I might add my support to Skarkey's comment, regarding having a long term effect with the larger boobs, with the appropriate completion of the potion quest. To keep it within reason, have the boob enlargement quest have a goal of finding "the right size" that takes some experimentation, two or three iterations, to get the right size, and then make permanent as the final step. Yes, work, more work, and then perhaps even some more work. At any rate, we do appreciate what you do. Thank you.
thank you for your feedback and offers! Yeah, it's quite possible to add color changings! (I noted it) More difficult (and time consuming ) is to implement style changings depending on the parameters. But I think we'll start to add gradually some outfit changings for different types of quests primarily. Regarding big boobs potion of long term effect - there is a difficulty of the need to repainting/correction of all current scenes into the game ((( And that's veeery time consuming... Here we have to find some compromise option - for instance repainting of some selected scenes and adding this effect into dialogue sprites... I dunno now, but it need to be solved for continuing this quest. Perhaps it's a topic for another poll :D
BUONASERA OTTIMO SU BELLE LAVORARE ANCORA MOLTO SU DI LEI MENTE SUGLI ALTI NO BUON LAVORO
I don't know Italian well, I'm sorry... can you repeat on English please?
Sexier costumes the more corrupted they get is fun and all, but what we really want/need is the permanent big tits potion ...... Skimpier clothed Betsy would make for fun stuff when you catch her with her dad in the town square and talk to them
haha, I understand it (regarding tits potion), though there is a little bit difficulty related to the need of repainting of all possible scenes for this addition (if to implement this permanently) :D So... we will think what might be done in this case... perhaps not all scenes would be repainted (just several selected) or something like that.
I think it is a great idea
^^` Thanx
Хотелось бы разнообразия нарядов у Бинкертелл. А то и активностей каких. Вроде как в раннем тренере принцесс было - инвестируешь в магазин, а продавщица тебе потом "бонус" показывает.
хаха, вообще это идея:D в целом и общем, возможно в ЛС будет развитие линии с Бинкер, так что будет и апгрейд костюмов))
As others have stated we know that this is something that can be very time consuming. As a gameplay element I feel, if done well, then it can add a massive amount to the game in a positive way. As a booby lover, I would love it if you could do a version of the costumes with a bustier belle (after you do the correct potion quest), this would add so much to the immersion. I don't expect all of our ideas to be developed further, but it is nice to be asked. I hope you can at least think about our suggestions.
of course, huge thanx for your feedback and ideas! we really appreciate your opinions (that's the point of different polls holding ;)) I definitely enlisted your offer to LS note ^^` And think it's quite possible that it'll be implemented into the game in one form or another :D As for time comsuming of this game addition - most likely new outfits will be available in definite quests (like tentakle tree or Gaston's training)
I'd be nice to see some outfits in the game for cosmetic purposes, adds personal flavors and preference for players. It'd be nice to some reactions and personality change when wearing different outfits similar to the magic bra. It's importance in the game is around 50/50.
I would defenetly appreciate those type of Feature in the game. I am not interested in Gastons Outfit, maybe you start with Belle and see what it will Need to do and how it works. Already the Pictures/teasers in the post are looking very interesting. I loved for example alraedy the bees Event Outfit, if there will be more of those it will improve the fun (for me of course, because its my opitnion :-) ) For me such Outfits changes are a good break, Milestone, short Motivation between Long quests/grinds. In the last Version I already had a difficulty to stay with the game (maybe also because I Level Gaston again and again, but still). That the clothes are not just painted for one Event, you could also have something like Gaston watching Belle through the Windows and you could like influence what Belle could try on, but just an idea. Hope it helps
In my humble opinion additional clothes in games are a great feature that adds to overall immersion. It's always better with a lot of them (kinky and more standard). But on technical side it's just an addition and one that requires some time. I would give it a go but only in small number. Something could be added later on.