Thursday, June 8, 2017

Template for Diary Entries: June 8, 2017

People who are interested in contributing diary entries (see the previous blogpost) have requested a template of some sort to help them get started in an organized way.  Here's something I put together that should hopefully help.  A few notes and example entries are also included.  Thank you all for your interest!  Anything you can send my way at tyroflux@gmail.com will be greatly appreciated.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Open Call for Diary Entries: June 1, 2017

We're looking for a bit of help writing varied diary entries for the mom.  If you think you might be interested in writing either a few or a lot, read on!

As I'm sure you know, Momcest Trainer involves the son earning "Good Boy Points" from his mom, which he then trades in for increasingly sexual favors under the veneer of semi-plausible scenarios.  If you played the public tech demo we released ages ago, you might remember that the mom's diary entry gets displayed to the player each night.  On days where a sex scene or a flavor event occurs, the diary entry will reveal her perspective on it, including her private thoughts.  On days where she decides to masturbate, the diary entry will describe that in detail.  On days where nothing eventful happens, a random diary entry will be selected from a large separate list.  It would be nice if a player could play through the game and never see the same random diary entry twice, so I humbly ask your help in creating as many as humanly possible.

Ideally, random diary entries should provide at least one of the following: characterization for the mom, characterization for the relationship between the mom and the son, and/or titillation for the player.  They should be short, like on the order of 2-3 sentences unless more are required.  Here's a pastebin of the diary entries already implemented into the game (please excuse the code).  As you might be able to tell, they're classified into "Tame", "Risque", and "Lewd" depending on how far the player has progressed in the game (in other words, depending on how corrupted the mom is).  Some diary entries have three versions (one for each phase of the game) that are tweaked to reflect her sluttiness.

There are other diary entries that are set so they only appear on certain days of the year (e.g. holidays), during certain seasons, when she's feeling particularly horny (which can occur at all stages of the game, though it's more common later on in the game), on weekdays only, etc.  Others require a Personality Card to have been used (Personality Cards magically alter the mom's behavior, beliefs, or appearance).  Here's a list of some of the relevant Personality Card changes we were thinking of including.  So far, Halloween is the only holiday whose diary entries have been written.  "Tame", "Risque", and "Lewd" each have a few possible Halloween-related diary entries to choose from.

To characterize the mom, she starts out innocent and uptight so her "fall", so to speak, is more pronounced.  She's also gullible and well-wishing enough to believe the pretexts the son uses to instigate the sex scenes.  She can get angry at the son, because I think players want her to have resistance for them to overcome, but at the end of the day, she's also loving.

The story and current diary entries have already established a few friends of the mom's, if you need to use any when creating new ones.  Lois and Cheryl are her best friends.  Lois is slutty and extroverted, and Cheryl is an ostensibly modest, submissive new mom who is lactating.  Maria is a Hispanic friend/acquaintance of the mom's.  The son is friends with Ellen Jones' son Randy, but the mom and Ellen Jones don't get along.

When the mom decides to masturbate, her lust meter will get lowered because she has released her pent-up sexual energy.  Since these diary entries will play on days where she does not masturbate and her lust meter will not get lowered, they should typically not involve her actually orgasming (but anything sexual up to that point is fine).

Also, I should mention that the already-implemented stuff I linked above calls on some code I created that randomly inserts synonyms, adjectives, and even sexual actions depending on how corrupted the mom is, which should hopefully add some variety.  I can edit that stuff in after the fact, though, so don't worry about it when writing--just send your list of diary entries for me to add to tyroflux@gmail.com!

If you've gotten this far, thank you so much for reading!  I think these diary entries will add a lot to the game, because they will decrease the feeling of grinding and increase immersion for the player.  Also, I'm still looking for talented writers to work with on scene dialogue, so please hit me up at tyroflux@gmail.com if you're interested!


Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Behind the Scenes: May 9, 2017

You guys don't deserve to be left in the dark, so here's what's been going on behind the scenes.  Since the last blogpost, the project has died, been reborn, and died again due to creative differences, management issues, and other commitments.  We were hoping to update everyone with another blogpost when we had a lot to show off, or even a demo ready, but the project fell apart before we reached that point.

I've started tinkering with Momcest Trainer again in the past week, but I'm primarily a programmer, not a writer or artist.  Many sex scenes and random events still need to be written.  Once I have some more cash, I will probably try to commission an artist or two to draw the required characters and sex scenes, as well as a near-infinite supply of clothing.  I expect to wait until the writing is almost complete before shifting focus to the art, though.

I know it hasn't been fun for you guys for the past several months, and I apologize.  Your interest and support means a lot to me, and I hope you know that I want to play Momcest Trainer as much as you do.