I'm currently making a game.

(A mlp game, sorry for those who do not like that sorta stuff)

It will be a text-based game, tho after seeing "Tits" and "COC" clearly you people do not mind those types of games.

It will be a fairly simple game, involving making decisions based on the end goal of trying to get Queen Chrysalis to sleep with you.

Eventually this game will be uploaded here for all to play. At the moment, the game starts in a bar where you must choose which drink to buy her. (Including expensive and non-expensive drinks, leaving you to decide which will impress her most)

I don't want to give too much away, but for example if you buy the lowest price drink the guards stop you and ask for a bribe to let you speak with her, a bribe that will be more then the amount you carry.

If you buy her the medium priced drinks, she is skeptical so you must do more to "sway" her affections.

And finally if you buy the most expensive drink, you get the easiest chance of seducing her.

What other types of choices should I add here? I don't want to make the game too limited otherwise it's boring, so what type of choices should your character have to make to seduce the great Queen?

-Anyone who contributes to an idea I use will get their username in the credits of the game for helping out.

Cutedementia said:
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It will be a fairly simple game, involving making decisions based on the end goal of trying to get Queen Chrysalis to sleep with you.

I'm interested

What other types of choices should I add here? I don't want to make the game too limited otherwise it's boring, so what type of choices should your character have to make to seduce the great Queen?

I'm not really familiar with drinks, but I can suggest... I dunno... a dinner? a walk at the moonlight? man, that's so cliché

Cutedementia said:
...if you buy the lowest price drink the guards stop you and ask for a bribe to let you speak with her, a bribe that will be more then the amount you carry.

Hmm for this choice, if you don't have enough for the bribe, maybe you can do a favor for the guard in order to talk to the queen

If you buy her the medium priced drinks, she is skeptical so you must do more to "sway" her affections.

For this, maybe the character can try to woo her with his flirting skills, masculinity, charm, sense of humor, etc.

And finally if you buy the most expensive drink, you get the easiest chance of seducing her.

If seduced, the two can go to a secluded area to get it on :p

TheHuskyK9 said:
Hmm for this choice, if you don't have enough for the bribe, maybe you can do a favor for the guard in order to talk to the queen

For this, maybe the character can try to woo her with his flirting skills, masculinity, charm, sense of humor, etc.

If seduced, the two can go to a secluded area to get it on :p

By "ideas" I did not necessarily mean restricted to the things I have already created. But the guard favor thing is a good idea, perhaps you would need to speak to another mare in the bar and hook the guard up with her in exchange for a chance to speak with Chrysalis.

Also, I'm not sure if my skills will allow me to make stats in a wide array, perhaps only 2-3 stats such as charm, humor, or speech.

This is the part where you all say I'm doing this wrong:

I'm coding this in turing, so everythings a bit crazy. I'm only coding in this because I was challanged to do it by a friend, once the game is done I'll be swapping over to C++ to make a better version of the game.

Xch3l said:
I'm interested

I'm not really familiar with drinks, but I can suggest... I dunno... a dinner? a walk at the moonlight? man, that's so cliché

It is made with the intention that you take her home right from the bar. But perhaps if you do not sway her affections fully in the bar you would have to go through a walking scene where if you select the wrong things to say you increase/decrease your chance of sleeping with her. Interesting.

Have you already chosen a certain game engine? I was looking forward designing a easily localizable implementation-agnostic VM-based engine, with volatiles and saveable variables to hide the complexity of saving the game to the programmer, but didn't had anything as testbed.

We would have to talk about the syntax, though.

Lizardite said:
Have you already chosen a certain game engine? I was looking forward designing a easily localizable implementation-agnostic VM-based engine, with volatiles and saveable variables to hide the complexity of saving the game to the programmer, but didn't had anything as testbed.

We would have to talk about the syntax, though.

Pretty sure RenPy covers most of those points (yeah, it's a visual novel system, but there's no obligation to actually have pictures).
I'd recommend it, personally. It would also open up the option to easily incorporate some graphics (eg . fan art) that people want to contribute.

Ren'py, apart from being huge (25MB for a text game engine? seriously?), does not offer transparent translation (translations are done in pure python)

My goal was using translations independent from the actual code, using i18n. A text print for example would be done as:

print("Life: %1", life)

The VM itself, without any intervention from the programmer, would attempt to localize the string "Life: %1" by looking on a i18n file with all the strings localized.

Any ideas for the bedroom scene?

>>>var condom_or_no_condom : boolean

pfft.

Cutedementia said:
Any ideas for the bedroom scene?

>>>var condom_or_no_condom : boolean

pfft.

if you managed to sway her, she should question you or probably having a dialog like this:

> "No. Take it off"
> Why?
> "I want you"

orsomethinglikethat...

Xch3l said:
if you managed to sway her, she should question you or probably having a dialog like this:

> "No. Take it off"
> Why?
> "I want you"

orsomethinglikethat...

You kinda lost me at "I want you"

What are you talking about exactly?

Progress update:

imgur.com/hyHhZ5x,xyQ5t8H,7vTENNL,P9TmGle#3

This is -part- of the game as of right now, parts being withheld for spoilers atm.

Right now it has -no- graphics at all, however those will be added later. Including better fonts, backgrounds, and interaction icons instead of just flat text.