This game seems like it could be interesting in theory but it doesn't seem like its viable to reach that point.
At game start and speed 3 you spend ~6 minutes out of 10 doing nothing (which remains the case for a couple of weeks when you get this down to 5 minutes out of 10). The point at which people start experience discomfort from lack of feedback is measured in units less than seconds.
There are almost no viable paths and the viable paths don't seem to work well ( you need one Male and one female worker and you need to hire nobody else (unless the have a wider client selection than your current hire in which case you want to swap them out as soon as they surpass them in level) and open no new rooms or you can't pay your weekly bills (because focusing on maximising level is the only way to make money). Even this will only get you through Month 2 because the best way to increase fame is to open more rooms but that's too expensive (you don't have enough clients that hiring workers for them is worth the loss of XP).
No investments other than room upgrades are financially viable (it would take spending 2 000 in the shop to pay for the Level 1 -> Level 2 upgrade (I miscalculated this one, pre-edit , this is a net gain but it would take about 5 weeks to pay off ), for the hospital, you will probably not reach the point you can actually do street battles before you get an inevitable game over due to money (the lowest level I've seen is 12 and you're going to be ~level 9 at the end of month 1)).
Advertising does not pay for itself until you're making multiple 1000s per day. The hiring desk is absolutely not viable in the first month (which is about 5 hours worth of real time).
Essentially every action you take is a money trap.
TL;DR: This game needs a serious accelerator pedal, either the base client rate needs to be turned up or the speed increased to ~x6 or (probably) both. The speed would only help with the boredom, increasing the client rate significantly would make it viable to hire extra staff in the early game which would create a virtuous cycle where the extra rooms and room upgrades increase fame at a more natural rate.
I don't know if you're meaning this but you can speed up and down with 1 and 2 keys, that's already in the help but I may have to show the keys at the begining.
Also I will change/remove the debt system, maybe I change it this month.
No, that part's fine, it's just that x3 is not nearly fast enough during the first month, each day takes ~10 minutes at x3 speed (~1 (real) second per (in game) minute for 10 (in game) hours ), but on average you only get 3 clients (who will take 1 (real) minute to deal with first). That means most of the day is nothing happening, but you have to sit and actively watch to be able to assign them.
I did some back of the envelop maths and if you multiplied the base number of clients by 4 , you'd probably still lose money on getting a 3rd and 4th employee initially, but they wouldn't always be competing for XP with the owner and the 1st employee (so they'd eventually get enough XP to turn a profit).
Your installation instructions are incomplete. And your file naming of the download files are confusing.
Game does not run, error about some vxace missing. Is the xp and ace older files or did you upgrade on run time packages. Or are those the rtp.
If I need to install additional stuff, that is needed in installation instructions, and better yet, also in game description near downlaod button.
I do not understand why a self-extractor. You could rename next version as such. like v9.selfextract.exe - and use a decent one. I can repack that with 7z to 66mb self extract instead of 83. The only reason to use a self extractor is for those that would have trouble to extract from your archive. Most just use zip format for that reason, not because it is any good for compression.
I tried the zip first and because of the error, then the exe. I do not understand the differences between those, as the exe is a self extractor, so I would assume is has the same content as the zip. But in your zip there are over 6000 files.
The self extractor by rpgmaker is bad in compression. You should consider ditching it entirely, even more so, if you intend to release the exact same version as a zip. The self extractor has no benefit that I can see. Windows comes with built in zip support and you cannot run the self extractor on non windows.
I have no clue about rpgmaker, but you might want to use some kind of resource files that are archives to hold all those thousands of small files and folders in. I initially thought you did what I have seen elsewhere: pack a big executeable game file, that does not uncompress, but run.
You might have exported that zip different, because the self extractor did not uncompress 6k files and 2k folders.
A buggy nightmare to play. The Y key doesn't bring up anything. After clicking on the phone and selecting the help menu. I get stuck and can't exit out the menu. I have to alt-tab out and close the window and start all over again.
I have one other recommendation. No business I know of kicks a customer to the curb if they come into the place of business just before it closes.
Any Prostitute that starts working with a client before the end of the day, should be allowed to continue working until they finish that client. Right now, if anyone is not finished by the end of the day, the interaction is just terminated.
Not only is it lost income, but in the real world, bad business. Obviously, you shouldn't allow someone to fill the queue after end of day, but finish clients already being worked on seems appropriate.
You include codes for a lot of these and yet it's not clear what some codes are. What is Di, MC, or FC? what are c-boys?
Currently, if you go out to the street you can only recruit for you to work. When I go outside, why can't you send them inside to work with an unoccupied worker? I'm forced to service them even if there is a mismatch between gender and preference.
A couple of other problems have also emerged.
1) There's a LOAD choice on the first sceen, but no way to save the game.
2) I made the mistake of changing it to full screen and wasn't able to change it back. I tried full screen simply bc the windowed version is tiny, and unable to be resized. But, even overwriting the game doesn't change the fact that I'm now forced into full screen with no way to change it.
3) My preferences are randomly generated, why can't I choose some of my preferences? I could see limiting my choices, but just randomly being forced into a preference is unfortunate.
Thanks for ask, I forgot to add the notes for the codes in the game help there are:
Ma-Male Fe-Female Di-Dickgirl
Fu-Futanari MC-MaleCuntboy FC-FemaleCuntboy
Cuntboys are: Males with vagina and in this game females without breasts too.
At the street you can accelerate the time till a client with the gender preferences appear, I'll add the option to send a worker instead of you in the nexts versions thanks for the suggestion.
1-To savethe game you can open the menu with the S letter in the keyboard and go to File>Save.
2-Pressing the F1 will show the game engine options where you can activate/deactivate the fullscreen mode, I will add the option to make it in game.
3-Yes, the avatar is generated randomly for fast start but you can personalize your avatar and preferences at the start of the game: after the introduction question, you will be asked if you want to personalize your avatar, you can go Personalize>Likes for choose a max of two genders, before you can add more by training.
Assumed the avatar question was just about an image. You should indicate you can change your preferences there too. Thanks for the other replies. You should have another help doc that has some of this information. It would help if you allowed increasing the size of the window.
Thanks for comment it, I forgot to pass some of the stuff to the project folder, also i'm going to test it without the RTP to check if it can work without it to make it needless to have the RTP.
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Dunno why but the game always force close when I try to play it on mobile, descendants of the forest works fine though
I will check it.
i tried to download but i couldnt play cuz i was missing a file started with rpg i cant remember the rest
This game seems like it could be interesting in theory but it doesn't seem like its viable to reach that point.
At game start and speed 3 you spend ~6 minutes out of 10 doing nothing (which remains the case for a couple of weeks when you get this down to 5 minutes out of 10). The point at which people start experience discomfort from lack of feedback is measured in units less than seconds.
There are almost no viable paths and the viable paths don't seem to work well ( you need one Male and one female worker and you need to hire nobody else (unless the have a wider client selection than your current hire in which case you want to swap them out as soon as they surpass them in level) and open no new rooms or you can't pay your weekly bills (because focusing on maximising level is the only way to make money). Even this will only get you through Month 2 because the best way to increase fame is to open more rooms but that's too expensive (you don't have enough clients that hiring workers for them is worth the loss of XP).
No investments other than room upgrades are financially viable (it would take spending 2 000 in the shop to pay for the Level 1 -> Level 2 upgrade (I miscalculated this one, pre-edit , this is a net gain but it would take about 5 weeks to pay off ), for the hospital, you will probably not reach the point you can actually do street battles before you get an inevitable game over due to money (the lowest level I've seen is 12 and you're going to be ~level 9 at the end of month 1)).
Advertising does not pay for itself until you're making multiple 1000s per day. The hiring desk is absolutely not viable in the first month (which is about 5 hours worth of real time).
Essentially every action you take is a money trap.
TL;DR: This game needs a serious accelerator pedal, either the base client rate needs to be turned up or the speed increased to ~x6 or (probably) both. The speed would only help with the boredom, increasing the client rate significantly would make it viable to hire extra staff in the early game which would create a virtuous cycle where the extra rooms and room upgrades increase fame at a more natural rate.
I don't know if you're meaning this but you can speed up and down with 1 and 2 keys, that's already in the help but I may have to show the keys at the begining.
Also I will change/remove the debt system, maybe I change it this month.
No, that part's fine, it's just that x3 is not nearly fast enough during the first month, each day takes ~10 minutes at x3 speed (~1 (real) second per (in game) minute for 10 (in game) hours ), but on average you only get 3 clients (who will take 1 (real) minute to deal with first). That means most of the day is nothing happening, but you have to sit and actively watch to be able to assign them.
I did some back of the envelop maths and if you multiplied the base number of clients by 4 , you'd probably still lose money on getting a 3rd and 4th employee initially, but they wouldn't always be competing for XP with the owner and the 1st employee (so they'd eventually get enough XP to turn a profit).
is there some sort of debug or cheat menu or mode?
Currently no.
how do i get characters to accept my invite to my home
Giving them items, some stars will appear in its status screen, you need 3.
thanks
Your installation instructions are incomplete. And your file naming of the download files are confusing.
Game does not run, error about some vxace missing. Is the xp and ace older files or did you upgrade on run time packages. Or are those the rtp.
If I need to install additional stuff, that is needed in installation instructions, and better yet, also in game description near downlaod button.
I do not understand why a self-extractor. You could rename next version as such. like v9.selfextract.exe - and use a decent one. I can repack that with 7z to 66mb self extract instead of 83. The only reason to use a self extractor is for those that would have trouble to extract from your archive. Most just use zip format for that reason, not because it is any good for compression.
I tried the zip first and because of the error, then the exe. I do not understand the differences between those, as the exe is a self extractor, so I would assume is has the same content as the zip. But in your zip there are over 6000 files.
Anyways, will try later. Brothel games are rare.
I though I added that info already, sorry.
-The self extractor is created by the RPG Maker itselft.
The differences in versions are just changes in the gameplay I'll fixit.
And the zip is for those who play it in Joy Play.
The self extractor by rpgmaker is bad in compression. You should consider ditching it entirely, even more so, if you intend to release the exact same version as a zip. The self extractor has no benefit that I can see. Windows comes with built in zip support and you cannot run the self extractor on non windows.
I have no clue about rpgmaker, but you might want to use some kind of resource files that are archives to hold all those thousands of small files and folders in. I initially thought you did what I have seen elsewhere: pack a big executeable game file, that does not uncompress, but run.
You might have exported that zip different, because the self extractor did not uncompress 6k files and 2k folders.
I will check that.
I will check that.
A buggy nightmare to play. The Y key doesn't bring up anything. After clicking on the phone and selecting the help menu. I get stuck and can't exit out the menu. I have to alt-tab out and close the window and start all over again.
I already fixed that in the ver 0.8.1.
Can you release a version of the game in zip or rar form with all the files so it will work on joyplay?
I uploaded in .zip
thank you. Could you do it to descendants of the forest at somepoint well?
I'm currently updating it.
how do i play it on joiplay? It work but i cant start the game,what button that should i press?
The RPG Maker buton is C.
In PC keyboard is Z, Space Bar, and Enter key.
I dont have an Android so I dont know more.
Do this work on JoyPlay?
It should, I don't know, I don't have a way to test it.
Ill try it then
Nope, looks like it need to be as a zip or rar to have all files
I uploaded in .zip
Thank you very much
I have one other recommendation. No business I know of kicks a customer to the curb if they come into the place of business just before it closes.
Any Prostitute that starts working with a client before the end of the day, should be allowed to continue working until they finish that client. Right now, if anyone is not finished by the end of the day, the interaction is just terminated.
Not only is it lost income, but in the real world, bad business. Obviously, you shouldn't allow someone to fill the queue after end of day, but finish clients already being worked on seems appropriate.
Yes I know is just that a bug made me to leave it that way I will fix it.
Glad to hear it is just a bug.
I'm having problems using the game not at full screen, because the extremes of the screen are cut out.
Can you send me a screen capture?
You include codes for a lot of these and yet it's not clear what some codes are. What is Di, MC, or FC? what are c-boys?
Currently, if you go out to the street you can only recruit for you to work. When I go outside, why can't you send them inside to work with an unoccupied worker? I'm forced to service them even if there is a mismatch between gender and preference.
A couple of other problems have also emerged.
1) There's a LOAD choice on the first sceen, but no way to save the game.
2) I made the mistake of changing it to full screen and wasn't able to change it back. I tried full screen simply bc the windowed version is tiny, and unable to be resized. But, even overwriting the game doesn't change the fact that I'm now forced into full screen with no way to change it.
3) My preferences are randomly generated, why can't I choose some of my preferences? I could see limiting my choices, but just randomly being forced into a preference is unfortunate.
Thanks for ask, I forgot to add the notes for the codes in the game help there are:
Ma-Male Fe-Female Di-Dickgirl
Fu-Futanari MC-MaleCuntboy FC-FemaleCuntboy
Cuntboys are: Males with vagina and in this game females without breasts too.
At the street you can accelerate the time till a client with the gender preferences appear, I'll add the option to send a worker instead of you in the nexts versions thanks for the suggestion.
1-To savethe game you can open the menu with the S letter in the keyboard and go to File>Save.
2-Pressing the F1 will show the game engine options where you can activate/deactivate the fullscreen mode, I will add the option to make it in game.
3-Yes, the avatar is generated randomly for fast start but you can personalize your avatar and preferences at the start of the game: after the introduction question, you will be asked if you want to personalize your avatar, you can go Personalize>Likes for choose a max of two genders, before you can add more by training.
Assumed the avatar question was just about an image. You should indicate you can change your preferences there too. Thanks for the other replies. You should have another help doc that has some of this information. It would help if you allowed increasing the size of the window.
I will do it.
How much transforming is there? Will c-boys and male herms transformations be possible? Will mpreg be possible?
There are:
-male to dickgirl/herm
-male to c-boy
-male to female
-female to futanari/herm
-female to c-boy
-female to male
I will add pregnancy in next versions.
Cool! I'll try it out!
I will upload a new version in some hours.
running in to this crash issue after getting a few months in
edit: I found what caused this, its because i turned on the "increase client rate" in publicity
Thanks, I have redone various system already but i'm going to check it, just in case.
Every time I play the game crashes not sure what to do. Has multiple errors
Can you send me a screen capture?
It's a little annoying that this game doesn't work with a mouse
I'll try to use a mouse system but I don't guarantee anything...
It doesnt seem to work
Elsewhere it was mentioned you need rpg maker xp rtp. That could be the issue but may be from a previous version
Thanks for comment it, I forgot to pass some of the stuff to the project folder, also i'm going to test it without the RTP to check if it can work without it to make it needless to have the RTP.