Opinion Poll - Ideas for the future

Since this month's poll was only 2 weeks, and I don't really have anything ready for a second poll yet, I thought I'd do an "opinion" poll. This one isn't to decide anything, it's just to get feedback on some ideas. Vote for every idea you like, no limits!

I can't guarantee any of these will make it in, or if they'll work the same way as described here. They're just ideas and could easily change. I wont really announce a winner or anything either. It's just meant to be feedback so I can better decide what direction to move with the game. They're just some ideas I've been kicking around that I'm unsure if people would like or not. Anyway, here's the options.

1) Lewd cut-ins

Basically what this means is having cut-ins for things that aren't in the actual artwork, but are being described in the scene. A good example is, "You make out with x" and while I don't have the time to illustrate every character making out, what I could do is just make a small cut-in with lips and tongue. Then recolor the skin and lips to match the character. If you've ever played Persona, it's like when the character's eyes cut in when you summon a persona. I had started working on it before getting a little skeptical about it. So here's some linework of what it would be, quickly put onto a screenshot from the game.



I think it would add a bit of polish to the game without being too much more work. I'm mostly worried about the cut ins looking low quality in contrast to the CG. The WW style was designed for the more detailed bodies to balance with the simpler faces, so it can still look both detailed and like an anime. But with just the face, it just looks super simple. Besides that, it would be a lot of work upfront, since I'd have to spend the time to make the cut ins and then go back and put them in existing scenes. I'm just not sure if people would be okay with cut ins as a compromise, or if it would feel too cheap and it's better to just keep things the way they are.

2) Gloryhole 

I had this idea for the original WW, because there were some gloryhole scenes I wanted to put into the game. Basically you'd be able to go into a bathroom in either downtown or the commercial district, and you'd find a gloryhole. Doing full scenes with unique or existing characters would be way too much, but I could do a wall with a hole cut in it, then do different color lips and skin colors and some tongue. And have it be randomized so it's different each time. That way it's more like a real gloryhole, and keeps it anonymous. There was never meant to be any kind of benefit here. You wouldn't get exp or anything, you'd just lose stamina. It was mainly just a way to put in those scenes. But I think it could be a fun little secret thing for people to find. With the game being somewhat grindy, I could maybe even make it worth some exp now. Something super small and fairly insignificant outside of the first couple of levels, like maybe 5 exp, so it can't be abused and is still less effective than seducing literally any woman. But something. Probably only make it doable once a day too so you can't just grind on it. I could maybe add bathroom areas throughout the game to have multiple gloryholes. Maybe with different color variations or something. I'm mainly just not sure whether to put them in because you don't really get anything from them, and it would take up an art slot. Possibly 2. Since I'd probably do two views. Probably one where it's more POV, and another where you just see the lips. I'm not really sure how long that would take or exactly how I'd set it up. I do like the idea though.

3) Rare Women

This idea is one I've been kicking around a bit as a way to get some bonus exp periodically. Basically, some women would only appear sometimes. The only way to get them to spawn would be to sleep and hope they're there the next day. It would be completely random if they show up or not. But when they do, if you beat them, you'd get a ton of exp. Something like 3x-4x the normal amount. Maybe more depending on how rare I make them. To prevent abuse, I'd make sure you can only do them once though. Then you'd have to wait for them to appear again. This would help a lot with how grindy the game is currently, and would make for a fun surprise when they do show up. I'm planning on implementing a feature that lets you replay one-off scenes later (probably v0.1.3), and I could include them there for after you beat them once. That way you can still replay the scene whenever you like. The problem is that since they're random, I'm mainly worried about people liking a character, but being frustrated at being unable to find them. There are going to be stories that have a system like this later, where only certain people will show up in certain spots at random, but the game tells you that during the storyline that that's how it's going to work. You'll be able to find them outside of this system too, they'll just have a different scene. You'll always have access to them one way or another though. I may also have them on a specific rotation instead of being completely random. I'm still working on how I would implement the system if it gets put in.

4) Motion Blur Scenes

Since animation is a no-go right now, I've been thinking about adding a variation to scenes that have motion blur for stuff like boobs and butts blurred a bit to imply motion. Or like an extra sort of phantom hand to imply a hand moving. That kind of thing. Personally, I'm not really into the motion blur thing, which is why it's not in the game now. There's nothing wrong with it, I'm not super against it or anything, I just prefer scenes without it. I like to see everything clearly. But I'm thinking about adding it in as a sort of compromise. Since it wouldn't be animation, but it would be some implied movement to help the scenes feel like they're moving. It would take some time to go back and add it to current scenes, but I could do that over time. It would add a bit of extra time to making scenes though. I'm not really sure how much, since I'm not really sure how I would go about adding in the motion blur yet, but I imagine about another hour or so. To make the motion blur versions and also for exporting the extra CG and creating the different quality versions. I may end up trying it to see how long it would take, but I wanted to see if anyone had an opinion on it.

5) Discord Server

Been thinking about starting a discord server to show stuff I can't share on Patreon, as well as stuff like WIP sketches, without having to actually make a whole post. I also work in 3D, so when I do stuff like that, I could also share 3D renders, WIP animations, or unused renders/animations from failed projects like A Perfect Ten and Teach Me. I rarely do 3D lately with WW taking up so much time, but I do want a good excuse to start messing around in Blender or DAZ again. I'd have dedicated channels for stuff and access would be linked to patron tiers. So like for the WIP tier you'd need to be a Waifu WIP patron.

I'm not really into social media in general (which is one of the reasons I'm truly terrible at advertising lol) so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to offer with a discord or if that'd be enough. I really only use discord to keep up with people I know or network with professionally. So outside of a FFXIV hunt server, all the servers I'm in are small ones where I know at least some of the people.

Anyway, vote for this if that kind of server would be enough. Feel free to comment or send me a DM if you have other ideas of what you would want to see in a discord server.

6) "Random" Women

The last idea I've been thinking about doing is "random" women. Like when you're wandering the city you can find a "random skank" or "random student" or "random teacher" etc. These would be women who would only exist to help you get exp and fill out the world so it isn't so empty. All "random" characters would have the same character CG and scene for each type, but with different color variations. Like all the random skanks would be one CG and one scene, but there'd be something like 8-12 color variations A blonde, brunette, dark skin, light skin, different color clothes and makeup, etc. I'd then set which variations show up each day on a randomizer. Each spawn would have a few different variations they could show up as. Which is why there would be so many. I've been trying to avoid using color variations, but I'm trying to think a bit more practically about how to continue developing the game. Since everything is done by hand and takes so long, filling out the world as planned with completely unique characters is just going to take a very long time. But if I can implement a "random skank" and have one or two of them in two or three areas, that will fill the world about 3x-4x faster. I could also periodically do slightly more complex variations for these too, to continue to add some variety. Like maybe one week I make one that has a different hairstyle. That kind of thing should be fast enough that I should be able to do it without having it take up an art post. Now there's more women out in the wild and I'm not having to spend much time to do it. Still the same scene, but different enough to be distinct.

Being "random" people, I wouldn't have to worry about creating unique dialogue or anything either, so they should be a lot faster to implement. I could also make their scenes extremely short, since they're just "random" people who don't really matter.
Their scene could just be something like,
Random Skank - "Hey, you're cute."
"You see a random skank."
"Do you want to seduce them?" Y/N
You successfully seduce them.
Random Skank - "Now let's have some fun."
You take them back to your place.
You strip down and move over to the bed.
You slide inside of her.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Splurt.
The two of you get dressed.
Random Skank - "That was fun."
The random skank leaves and you go back to what you were doing.
And that's basically it. Maybe a couple extra lines for clarity, but something extremely fast to just get you through as quickly as possible and make getting exp faster.

Basically the idea is for these "random" women to function a bit like normal encounters in a normal RPG. Like trash mobs that aren't too hard and just give you exp. Don't worry though, they wouldn't be random encounters. They would be on the map and you would have to talk to them and choose to seduce them. Then to keep you from having to hard grind the same woman over and over, since that can get dull very fast, I'd make each one disappear after you seduce them, until you sleep for the day. But there would be more than one on the map. So you could still go around, bang all the ones that spawned that day, and still get exp quickly. I'd make it so that these random women give more exp than the normal women too, at least double, mainly to incentivize people to seek them out, instead of just grinding the same scene over and over. Since that's just not fun.

I have plenty of ideas for unique characters, but implementing 2 a month, and around 12 or so per update cycle just isn't very many. Even if I really pushed it, I don't think I could do more than 3 a month. On top of that, doing unique characters to fill out the world every week means that existing storylines and characters have to wait longer to get new scenes. If I could just spend a month doing a little extra work to create a few "random" characters with a dozen variations, the game could go from super grindy and empty to much quicker, smoother, and more alive in just one update. I'd the game ends up getting enough support, I could always go back and start replacing then with unique characters like I originally planned much later too.

I'm just not sure how people would feel about having those kinds of repeating characters. I'm mostly worried that it'll make the game feel cheap. I am leaning towards doing this though. I think that a smoother gameplay experience and being able to work more on storylines may be worth the dip in overall quality. Out of everything, this is the most likely thing to be implemented. Either this or rare women. Maybe a combination of both. With certain variations being rare. I just want to do something to help ease the grind as quickly as possible.

That's All

That's all the ideas I'm unsure of for now. They're mostly for later updates, but outside of the cut-ins and motion blur, none of them are really more work on top of what I'm doing. So don't worry about that part. If I do end up doing cut-ins or motion blur, it'll be gradually when I'm ahead of schedule. Then it'll just get released when they're all done.

Just vote to let me know which ideas you like! Feel free to comment if you have any thoughts as well!

This poll will be up until June 30th. Then the next real poll to actually decide something in game will be up on July 1st! Not sure exactly what the poll will be for yet, but I'm leaning towards it being a character design poll.