Hooker Color Variation Poll Results

It ended up being a 5 way tie between, Goth, Green, Grunty, Valentine, and Oak.

So I was originally planning on putting the top two of different skin colors in, but the only non-white one that was voted for was Grunty, which is a green skin version. I want the game to be shaped more by the people who play it, so while I wanted more variety, it's clear people liked the white versions the most. So I decided to make both winners white.

However, to stay true to what I said in the poll, I'll also be adding Grunty in, in a later update. After thinking about it, it would be a bit odd for there to only be one character in the game with an unnatural skin tone, outside of the lab storyline where you're banging otherworldly women, like succubus'. So instead of including Grunty now, there will be two hookers downtown. They'll be identical at first, but once you finish the lab storyline the portal generator explodes and brings some changes to the world. One of those changes will change one of the downtown hooker's skin green. Changing her into the Grunty version. The initial lab storyline that causes the portal explosion is set to be finished in the first update, so that's when Grunty will be added in. Any other variations with unnatural skin that win in later polls will be added in the same way. 

In the meantime, we have to choose our other two winners. Even removing Grunty, it was still a 4 way tie. So to keep things as fair as possible, I put them all into a randomizer, and took the top two. And here's what RNGesus decided.

The winners were - Valentine and Oak!

Here's the artwork so you know which ones they are. First is Valentine.

Her name will actually be Valentine in the game, and she'll be in the University area! School staff isn't exactly approving of working women like her on campus, so you'll have to find her hiding spot.

Valentine is named after her color inspiration, Jill Valentine.

Next up is Oak!

Her name will actually be Ivy in the game, and she'll be in the downtown area. Being a streetwalker downtown, she wont be too hard to find. 

I decided to name her Ivy, because I thought Oak was just kind of an unsexy name. Her colors are inspired by Poison Ivy, but with natural skin. So I thought Ivy fit well.

And last we have Grunty.

As mentioned above, there's going to be two hookers downtown, one will be Ivy and the other will be Grunty. They'll both look the same until you finish the initial lab storyline, but they'll have different names right from the start. That way you know which one will change. Grunty will also be close to the entrance to the lab, to help explain what happened. Grunty will be her actual name in-game. Mainly because I can't think of a clever way to make it sexier without just going with a completely different name.

Grunty's colors are inspired by the sexy version of Grunty in Banjo Kazooie.

Scenes When? - 

I've already made the color variation scenes for Valentine and Ivy. I'm going to wait until Grunty is getting fully implemented before I make hers. From now on, every time a hooker scene gets made, variations for Sandy, Valentine, and Ivy will all be posted at once. I think it'll be fun to keep the first one a bit of a mystery for Valentine and Ivy, so people can see them in the game for the first time. Then I'll post Grunty's full set once they get made and implemented into the game. 

Next Poll - 

The next poll is an important one. It's being used to decide a secondary gameplay system for the game. Basically, something to do that isn't just seducing women. As of now, there's just spending stamina on working to make money and then seducing women. That's about it. So there needs to be some kind of variety so it doesn't get super monotonous. I have 3 ideas that are all very different, I'm just not sure which one to implement. So any feedback and votes would be really helpful.

Thank to everyone who voted in the poll! 

If your favorite didn't make it, there will be another chance for them to make it in in a future round! Next time, I'll probably do only a single skin color for each. Or at the very least, do just tan and black in one, white in another, and then unnatural on their own. I'm mainly just worried that people do like the other skin tones, but maybe no quite as much as one of the white versions. There's also just a lot more white versions right now, so it makes sense more of them would be chosen. Since getting solid black girl colors can be somewhat difficult. In my experience, when dealing with 2D, there's only a few colors that can work with them. Purple, green, brown, and black. Which can severely limit the number of variations. We'll see what happens.

Anyway, there's going to be at least 2 more color variation polls for the base areas for the game. There will need to be one for the shopping district and I want one for the secondary neighborhood where you can buy a house later in the game. Any other areas that get added later will also need one. Since I want them to always be accessible.

That's all for now. Thank you again to everyone who voted!