Drow/Elf Trainer Game

Alright! I got a bit derailed earlier today, but now I'm back to my Regularly-Scheduled Programming, so to speak. This post is a bit long, sorry :-(. It's got a lot packed in that I'd really prefer you read...but if you just want to see the new game proposal, skip down to the heading for it! 

Okay! I mentioned previously that, as we're getting vaguely near the end of The Dungeon of Lewdity's originally planned content-life, that I'd be putting up some proposals for new games to see what people liked.  Now, there are a minimum of 4-5 builds of DoL left, so releases of it won't stop until AT LEAST Feburary of 2020. As such, this might seem a bit pre-mature. However, there are two reasons I'm getting a jump on this now.

1) I need to sort out what I'll be doing, either extending DoL is some fashion or making a new game, soonest. This is so that I can get at least one oversized initial build out (if it's a new game) BEFORE DoL ends. This insures continuity of games with significant amounts of content, so to speak. I don't want there to be a point where the game(s) being regularly updated don't have much content in them.

2) I've hit a serious wall with The Sexy Cosplay Cafe. Despite the improvements I've been making, there just doesn't seem to A) be much interest in it and B) even the newer art has drawn more disparaging comments than anything else. Add in the sheer time-consumption issues, due to me hitting said wall on the Art side of things, and there's something of a problem. I'm NOT going to abandon the project, I like the idea and think it can be an amazing game. However, I'm not ignorant to the fact that many (maybe even most) of my current patrons have come here for either The Dungeon of Lewdity or Eros Academy (when it was still active). As such, after presenting a number of these game options this month, I'll be running an ALL Patrons poll next month on what the future of this Patreon will look like. 

Depending on the response, I may pause production of Cosplay Cafe while I work on overcoming the art issues. IF THAT HAPPENS, it would be accompanied by immediately beginning releases of one of the new games (patron selected). This would see a new game being updated alongside DoL either monthly or bi-monthly. Then, when DoL ends, one of the options would be to resume Cosplay Cafe work either with my own art or, if the patreon has grown a bit more with the new game, possibly with an artist brought on board.

Having said all of that:

The Drow Trainer Game:  

I'm guessing most of you here have played at least one 'Trainer' adult game ;-). They are a staple of the Adult Game's community, with some of the most famous adult games creators (Like Akabur) specializing in their making. Now, I personally think that a lot of those trainer games are a bit...uninspired, shall we say? Sure, many are decently made...but they tend to be awfully vanilla. Sure, you're 'training a slave' so there's a little bit of kink there...but that's as far as most of them take it (not all, there are some good exceptions!). Where's the options for training your girl, whatever the setting, in logical extensions of the kink? Things like bondage play, public use, pet play, chastity belt training, and...well...pretty much all the other stuff you see in my games! Generally, at best, you see an option to whore the character out or something equally blah.

As such, my proposal for this is sort of an extension on The Drow Room of The Dungeon of Lewdity. As with ALL of my games, things will be done in as sex-positive a manner as possible (in other words, no rape, non-consensual mind control, torture, etc), which means that the background would change a little bit. Let's take a quick look at the general outline!

Background:

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You are the youngest daughter of the house of R'lunda, living in the city of Titian's Grace. You've recently struck out on your own, establishing your own shop to prove to your family you aren't just another spare. You've met with excellent success so far...and for the first time have the chance to expand. And you know EXACTLY what you want to do.

You want an assistant. 

More exactly, you want one of your oldest friends as your assistant, so you can finally be in a position to make her yours. You chose to make your shop focus on lingerie and 'adult maritial aids' for a reason, after all! You and she have been playing 'games' since your teen years and you long ago figured out that she's both into you...and at least a little submissive. No one is that willing to be tied up and 'molested' by the 'villains', normally. So you're going to make her your assistant. And from there...well, you've got quite a list of things you want to see her do...

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That's a snippet of one of the possible backgrounds for the game. The other possibility is a variant,  similar in setup, except that instead of a 'friend' you take in a criminal or debtor who has either the option to work for you (with magical oaths) or spend the next century in prison. Which way it would go would be put up to a poll. And, of course, eventually, you might be able to have both....

One other thing to note. Depending on what Patrons would most like to see, I might make both characters drow...or make one or the other a regular elf. In example, a Drow protagonists 'training' a regular elf.

Gameplay:

First. The protagonist. I've learned the hard way not to overcomplicate my games while I'm working solo. So, the protagonist will be either be Male, Female or Futa, not all-of-the-above. I'd run an All Patrons poll to see which gender people would like to see the main character be and go from there. Personally, I'd be interested in doing it with a Female or Futa protagonist, simply because I don't think I've seen it done before. Oh and the 'trainiee' character would be either Female or Futa (Again, patron choice). I've no interest in making a game about training a male character. Sorry.

Next, while the background mentions a shop, I'm not going to make the mistake of making you run one in detail. The actual shop portion of the game would be kept extremely simple, mostly being there to provide you another way to 'use' the girl you're training. Possibly with a fun minigame or two thrown in. 

For the most part, the gameplay would be focused on taking in the friend/prisoner you'd be training...and training her. She'd start out just a touch reluctant but, via various means, you'll be able to raise a simple set of stats such as LUST and OBEDIENCE. This will, in turn, unlock more types of training or new options for trainings. Some things that would feature would be:

Bondage Clothing(Harnesses, Arm Binders, Chastity Belts, Etc.)

Bondage Devices(Stocks, Horse, Bondage Benches, Etc.)

Cosplay/Roleplay(Maid Outfits, Bunny Girl Clothes, Etc.)

Exhibitionism/Voyeurism(Working the shop nude, or displaying erotic shop wear on her body)

Pet-Play (Pony and Cat most likely)

Toys (Dildos, Remote Control Vibrators, Inflatable Sheep. Well, probably not the sheep...)

Sex, lots of sex (All the typical range in a variety of positions)

Assets/Game Engine/Art:

I want to get back to original art. I never really thought DoL would take off as it did...and I honestly feel a tiny bit bad about not using original art in it. Even if I'm crediting the artists as much as I can. 

As you can see from the renders I've included, the most likely thing for me to do art-wise would be a return to Daz3D render. I now have access to much better hardware than I did for Eros Academy...plus an actual budget to spend on assets. The renders I've included are TESTS only, simply me proving that I can make high-quality renders of a Drow character. If you look at the two renders, you can see that they were rendered to two differing styles. One is photo-realistic, while the other is more game-model like. Strangely enough, the photoreal version actually rendered faster -_-. 

Both of them are rendered at 2K Resolution, a MAJOR upgrade from the barely-hd (720p) renders I used for Eros Academy. They're also using both Iray technology and Daz3d's new Genesis 8 body. That later fact is part of the reason these are only a test, not a finished character of any sort. I don't have the full morph packages for Genesis 8, yet.  Meaning I can't do things like properly manipulate breast size. 

That means there would be some initial outlay of money on my part for the major assets...and a constant trickle after that for other new assets. I'm okay with that. In fact, it's part of the reason I'm willing to return to Daz3D. Before, when I was making Eros Academy, I just couldn't afford to buy any serious amount of assets. Now, with the additional support I have these days, I could buy a few new professional assets each month. This would/will allow me to make MUCH better-looking scenes, with much less aggravation on my part. 

As for the game engine... I'm going to be honest here, I've grown to HATE working with Ren'py. Meaning this game is unlikely to use Ren'py. I think it more likely I'd either use TWINE again (I'm pretty sure it can handle it) or else I'd move to another VN engine. The Sexy Cosplay Cafe still uses Ren'py mostly because it HAS to. The simple truth is, that game is closer to a full-blown RPG than it is a visual novel. It needed the power and tools that Ren'py provides. This game will be simpler on the code front, allowing me to do it in TWINE, RPGMaker(with very little actual moving around on the tileset, except in the shop. I hate most RPG Maker games, so don't worry that it would look much like one) or some other engine.