Friday, July 26, 2013

Status

Personal
personal health still a problem for me so things are still a little slow.

My home phone died again yesterday. So far the internet is working fine (ASDL) so seems to not be a general line issue. Still possible I may have an internet outage.


Game
I just had a new slave posted at the Futanari Palace and that is number 90 for the game. I had to do a small change to the game as I had an arbitrary limit of 99 slaves set (a speed optimisation) so I have increased that limit.

For note recently I have had posted the slaves

Naoto Shirogane from Persona 4
Renamon from Digimon
Rouge the Bat from Sonic games
Otokawa Saori from game Discipline: Record of a Crusade

A couple need tweaks before a public release, others are ok, but I'll repost here together unless the developers are slow at responding.

They are all available at the Futanari Palace for download, Rouge and Saori are slightly broken currently/ (Saori very broken)

Also I have had the assistant Nagissa (from a H Game) posted that I have been slow to repost. No reason, sorry SimounRules I have just been distracted.

Chaos-X has sent me a new Glory-Hole event, still pending me to get my act together and review.


Other pending/possible releases
A couple of slaves have had closed alpha releases and nothing since. I have asked the developers to do a vanilla release for them
- Boa Hancock from One Piece
- Charlotte Dunois from Infinite Stratos

I have also been sent partial slaves (incomplete) for
- Haruhi from Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
- Rider from Fate Stay Night
- Mia Fey from Mia Fey Ace Attorney
- Mui from History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
- Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo
all in various states of incompleteness, Rider probably closest, Miu least

I also personally have a few in various states of completenenss
- Lum (almost complete as a vanilla slave)
- The Dirty Pair (lots of image but not sorted)
- Astaroth (vanilla ready too)
- a generic Dark Elf or maybe Pirotess from The Record of  Lodoss War. Here there are insufficient images for Pirotess, so it is do you select images for an original character or pick images similar to Pirotess
- Deedlit from The Record of  Lodoss War

with Holo, Ranma and Krystal the Star Fox in active development.

36 comments:

  1. Nice, thanks for the update; it is good to know. Hope to see more soon and maybe some of the developers will get there time cleared out and be able to finish some of there projects that they have started... But who knows.

    As always thanks for the great game and hope to see more soon on the flip side.

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  2. 90 Slaves and none of them are remotely interesting, well done, properly created or fleshed out.

    This is a classic case of feature creep if I have ever seen one. Author keeps adding more and more features, keep breaking more and more features, while nothing being completed or perfected.

    Not to mention, the game STILL has no interesting plot or reason for a slave maker to exist and keep going. Why do I join Slave Guild? Guild only shows up at the end and has like 2 lousy activities associated with it in-game (which don't explain what guild is, any secrets it has, any hidden benefits it can give us.. etc. etc.).

    Same goes for selecting a house, no story going on there. Same goes for half-assed locations you keep visiting over and over and over with only 2-3 new people you meet. STILL the slave maker keeps running into same people every turn every day, sometime same person 3-4 times. WHAT THE FUCK? How the hell can someone run into same person 3-4 times with nothing else gained? (no stat boost, no conversation, nothing)

    It's like the game world is filled with puppets and the puppeteer is busy doing god knows so he left them on the stage with a note attached. Not that keeps saying same thing over and over to the audience while the puppet just sits there doing nothing. Hmm.. well that analogy got messed up, but you get the idea.

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    1. I didn't even mentioned unfinished dialogues that have been lost to time and author never expands on conversations or quests. ALL characters say SAME THING they have been saying FOREVER while doing nothing new. Because apparently they are 'completed'. Oh wait, they aren't they are unfinished, so is the game world that already exists.

      Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining because I hate this game. I am complaining because I have been watching this game for a long time (cause I enjoyed it.. when it was a new game for me) and it just has been stuck in a feature creeped loop with author wasting his time adding so many broken features while breaking the ones that already exist.

      MORE SLAVES ADDED? Wow thanks. Nothing more I like than more unfinished slaves where the third party gets bored half-way through and never updates them ever again. Yeah, lets break your own game by adding half-assed quests and slaves made by random people on the net. WHO DOES THAT?

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    2. MORE SLAVES ADDED = Quantity over quality.


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    3. Wow a little harsh Bored.

      You do make a couple of valid points though. The incomplete 3rd party add ons are frustrating to say the least. Also the adding of one feature which breaks another makes little sense.

      Cmac I know you are doing your best, the demands for new product are unrelenting. Just a suggestion, get the base game stable. Don't add anything more untill it is. I have played this game for a long time. It became unstable 3 or 4 versions ago. It is frusterating when you know that if I do this another event will happen, and it never does.

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    4. OK, yes, it was a bit too harsh, considering only one guy works on the game. Kinda unfair to go off on him.

      I got pissed off after waiting for ANOTHER update (also, I am a game developer myself), only to end up getting a post about new slaves added.

      Cmon, don't you guys see? He is basically increasing his work load every update by adding to the game while the game doesn't need more slaves.

      He can actually decrease his work load by updating what he has ALREADY IMPLEMENTED and left unfinished/un-updated.

      He needs to focus on few things only to make this game actually fun (after first playthrough, why would I wanna replay the game with any other slave when I end up doing same thing without any changes to the world, story and characters?)

      Focus on:

      1) LOCATIONS >> Improve them. Add detail to the world. Add more mini-quests/events. Add more images to make them fresh. No need to add more locations, just add small events which describe new locations in the same places (cmon, the freakin pond/river/whatever.. it has never been touched after implementation.. why can't there be more areas around the pond that trigger events? Go LEFT or RIGHT or STRAIGH INTO the pond).


      --- That's it. At this point, just working on new locations will refresh and improve the game considerably. But if you want more after this..


      Focus on:

      2) SLAVE MAKER: Why is that no matter how many slaves you train, EVERYONE still treats you like shit, like a nobody? If I am a trainer with 5 courtesan/furry slaves running out there, I deserver respect. I want people to recognise me, I want people to speak properly and no just ignore me (unless that person is REALLY important and still above my league). Also, what's the point of selecting the body build of the slave maker when there is not even a reference to it anywhere in the game? (forget using it to advantage in sex or dialogues)


      3) HOUSE: So how long has 'BUY A HOUSE' been part of character creation? And how long has it been as pointless as ever? Why can't we explore a mansion we live in? Why aren't there more events? What about dungeons the descriptions talk of? Or the hauntings? Why do we still have to select a starting location when it's basically pointless thing with few references here and there?



      --- There, two more points to focus on.


      Instead of working on more slaves and more new events. Update what you already have. It'll be faster and you won't break the game in 2000 places every update.

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    5. Most of the slaves being added are being done by people other than cmac. Cmac only handles a couple of slaves, mostly to help with his own development. Everyone else is done by other developers.

      Cmac primarily focuses on the core gameplay, and he does it by himself. I dunno if you've ever tried developing a game of your own, but it's not as simple as snapping your fingers and making it happen, like magic. It takes time and effort and he does it for free, as a hobby. Be thankful for what you get.

      Now if you don't like the game, don't play it. It's not like you payed money for it. Hell, I have even better advice for you: go play Monster Rancher. It's a non-sexual game franchise developed by Tecmo and it's a lot like this, only that it's more of a between this and Pokemon, with more of a focus on breeding pets and raising their stats for the various things you can do in the game.

      -Fenril

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    6. Fenril, honestly? This guy just gave a LOT of constructive criticism and you are just shooting him down. We all appreciate Cmac´s game and effort put into it, but comments like this reflect a lot of what lurkers think. Me, honestly, would rather see a new stable version FIRST than one updated with NEW stuff.

      Comments like this are helpful, because it shows the frustration of some players and actually give tips on how to make the game better.

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    7. Because no one wants to take advice from someone who's more prone to bitching and not capable of providing tactful constructive criticism.

      -Fenril

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    8. Constructive criticism when tactfully framed and phrased is always welcomed. Bored did both.

      Which is why a few posts below, the invitation was extended to join us at the Palace where one can *connect* themselves with the suggestion and development threads to not only *see* the work in progress, but offer suggestions and thoughts *before* releases are made. One will *also* get a feel for exactly who is doing what. Again, Cmac workd the Core Game with occasional breaks to work on his half-dozen slaves as a change of pace.

      *I* started here on this very blog a couple years back, offering thoughts and ideas. *I* joined the Palace, where I've been making myself heard on nearly every aspect of development as well as pitching in on projects which help the Lore of the World of Talyän (named the world too).

      So I speak from experience both as a Player, and as part of the Development Community.

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  3. Bored,

    Have you even looked at slaves such as Menace? There was a HUGE amount of effort poured into her. And when Holo 2.0 is finished, I'll point out that I put in the time and effort to add to her, create things for her, and do what I could to keep her from being a redundant cipher. I posted v1.5 so that people could at least play her while I was working on 2.0. And I owe CMac big time for his help.

    If the game bothers you so much, why do you keep playing? Do you have anything to add in the way of suggestions, and how they might be put into play? Criticism is useful only if you have something to offer in the way of fixing what you think is wrong. If you think the slaves are boring, create one of your own the way you think it should be. One of My biggest bugaboos is the text in a lot of the 3rd-party materiel. Some of it is really pretty bad. But as I said, do something about it, which I am. I'm already helping out one of the developers with some of his creations.

    Anon, one of the biggest problems with 3rd-party add-ons is that many of the creators of slaves/other content have gone away for one reason or another, and CMac doesn't like messing with other people's creations without their say-so. Which is as it should be. One example being the Red Lily. It functions as-is, with the bar and blackjack table, but Rowadon never finished adding the rest. And even if CMac went through everything and started pulling things, that would probably just break something else.

    And as I just mentioned to Bored, make suggestions. Or of you have the ability, take the thing that you feel is broken, fix your copy, then send the fix to CMac after you know that it works. Example: The current text for Narry's morning masturbation event is My work. The previous version was a bit muddled, so I went in, straightened out the syntax, polished it up and sent it to CMac to look over. He liked it. He replaced the old version. It wasn't a big thing, but I think that you see My point.

    SR

    Tabrit and Birgit Ilsen,
    Ilsen Badehus,
    5 King's Road,
    Mardukane, Mioya

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    1. Might wanna read my posts instead of defending your work. Fact remains that all slaves are poorly done, even the vanilla ones. They all need more work, the third party ones should be completely removed until he actually improves default slaves for starters.

      And NO, I didn't look at your slave cause I don't care about them. I play official slaves only, and you have no idea how many people actually bother playing third party slaves which, BTW, get broken the moment a new update is out why the slave maker disappears cause his "HDD was formatted, derp".

      Yeah no. Please stop ruining this game by throwing in pointless slaves most people don't care about. People play this game for core content, not for crappy unfinished third party content that breaks the game further.

      /personal view

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    2. Also..
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      "Anon, one of the biggest problems with 3rd-party add-ons is that many of the creators of slaves/other content have gone away for one reason or another, and CMac doesn't like messing with other people's creations without their say-so. Which is as it should be. One example being the Red Lily. It functions as-is, with the bar and blackjack table, but Rowadon never finished adding the rest. And even if CMac went through everything and started pulling things, that would probably just break something else. "
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      SO BASICALLY, you just gave a really good reason yourself why this game should not bother with third party content. Developers focus on creating core content first, it happens with every game. Broken, unfinished content from random people who have no idea about game development, isn't how you design a game.

      The Red Lily even is a perfect example. Why include it AT ALL when it's unfinished and doesn't do anything at all but breaks the game (by giving you shitload of money for sucking dick.. ffs, I am rolling in gold by the end of 3 such events).

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    3. Also, you DO realise I am complaining to the author of the game right? If he actually wants to make his game interesting, he will know what to do.

      Depending on people like you to break his own hard work over and over, if that's what he wants just cause he can't be arsed to listen to other people other than your types, then good for him. I haven't touched the game in ages, so you telling me to 'stop playing' is kinda hilarious.

      I would play it if it was actually fun now. It stopped being fun long time ago. Now it's just a chore, even for the developer.

      I am just here to tell him to stop wasting time adding pointless content and focus on fixing what he has already added. That's game development 101.

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    4. Again, Cmac doesn't really develop the slaves apart from a couple that he owns for his own development purposes. Other people make new slaves because they LIKE this game, and he's actually taken some time out of developing the core game to allow for its increased popularity.

      Now you said it yourself in one of your posts that you also do development. Make your own goddamn slave and show how to do it "properly."

      I like the game and how it is. I'd also like to see things expanded upon, but I like what's already there, and appreciate Cmac for all his hard work.

      Also, FYI, Cmac wasn't the person who started this whole thing, so not only is he trying to develop the core game, but he's also trying to work with someone else's old code, fix bugs, and add new features, BY HIMSELF. That's a lot of weight on his shoulders and he makes the game because he likes it, as a hobby. It's called a love labor, and he likes making this game even if he doesn't get anything out of it beyond appreciation.

      -Fenril

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    5. bored
      please see the discussons in the Futanari Palace forum. In partiau8larly the thread where I invited discussion on what people wanted me to focus on for the next version/development.

      Everything you discussed here has was discussed there and elsewhere in the thread and elsewhere there.

      As other stated in replying to you here, I am not actually releasing any slaves myself, I am only working on the game itself and as I noted improving Ranma similar.

      So all the complaints about too many slaves, quality over quantity are pointless to address to me! I am not doing these releases, I just sharing content others are kindly developing.

      Your opinions for things to develop for the game are often suggested. Personally I am more interested in the slave, not the slave maker, and most content I am interested in is about the slave.

      Still a lot of people want slave maker content and again is you see the threa I mentioned you will see the general trend of the discussion.

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  4. Any chance of restoring attractive to tentacles quest. I simply loved it and all it required were endings.

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    1. I believe that quest was a bugged 3rd-party chain of events, so unless their creators work on it again, the chances of it getting back into the game are slim.

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    2. The event was incomplete and badly broken at one point. The event has been removed from the game pending another developer continuing the work

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    3. Un i will begin my new slave, and i will amplify this event and others also. I have no time to start, because i find bugs related to the time. its complicated =\. but I'll let the forum

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  5. Is there a list of all 90 slaves anywhere? I want to try developing one but I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

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    1. List for the slaves, assistants, and minor slaves:
      http://otakubell.com/smw/index.php/V3:List
      http://otakubell.com/smw/index.php/V3:List/Assistants
      http://otakubell.com/smw/index.php/V3:List/Minor_slaves

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    2. Please also see the file
      Slave List.html
      included in the game installation

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  6. @Bored.

    You expressed your opinion, and did so in a moderately tactful manner. Thank you for both.

    As pointed out, though, your comments are misinformed, misdirected, and behind the curve.

    First, NOT all content, e.g., the majority of the slaves, are developed by Cmac. He simply bundles most of what is released independently, only not including ones with certain content. Except for coding issues which he upgrades when *he* makes a base-change in the *core game*, he does not edit the content of 3rd Party Developers. Modules which can EASILY be edited out of usage if you so desire.

    Which means IF YOU were to develop any type of module, be it Event, Slave, Assistant, or Minor Slave, except for certain content, he would bundle YOUR WORK with the game and then post an announcement in this blog about it.

    AS MENTIONED, he would then leave any further work on *CONTENT* UP TO YOU to advance, correct, fix, upgrade. You would receive the same courtesy as any other 3rd Party Developer.

    However, if all you'd like to do is offer constructive criticism, and properly couched is always acceptable, THEN PERHAPS you would like to join us at the Palace where you can be a part of the development of varied aspects and modules BEFORE they get released, instead of AFTER. Same lines time after time after time? Write some new lines. Same encounters? Write some new scenes. Offer them at the Palace.

    Put your time on the line with the rest of us. Skimp on time with your family, friends, personal entertainment, and sleep. With the rest of us.

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    1. Yeah I don't think asking a player to make a game is the right way to go for any game out there. Just because YOU have time to make game content for another game, doesn't mean everyone else does.

      I am a player, I play the game he created. I lurk around reading his blog because I am a fan of the game. But I haven't played the game for so long for the reasons which I finally posted.

      If you read my comments, you will realise that I am telling the author to focus on core content. Improving it. It has nothing to do with people creating the content for his game (which breaks the game..).

      The only people most likely interested in this game right now are the REALLY hardcore followers (like the 3rd party content makers). We won't know that for sure but as a game developer myself (another reason why I gave him ideas and am not going to stop my game to work on his..) I am just giving him tips on how to get more audience interested.

      Lemme put it this way:

      MUCH BETTER CORE CONTENT FROM AUTHOR = MORE PLAYERS

      MORE PLAYERS = MORE PEOPLE MAKING 3RD PARTY CONTENT



      Like I said, game development 101.

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    2. If you would kindly read my post above, I am primarily working on core content, on adding new features and extending and completing existing content. If you check the thread I referrd to you will see the sort of content I will be working on for the next release(s)

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    3. "If you would kindly read my post above"
      I meant my reply to your last comment above

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    4. You are right for tha suppose bored. But if i implant minor-events for slave maker or slaves in general may occur several bugs, example, an event occur the 6 or 7 am, with bugs "Contest" some events assistant and will know what else would have to revise almost all slaves, and delicate. But if you are deploying the event a particular slave, let's say, and more accepted in the game.

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  7. seriosly 90!! i count mine around 65... hmm i must have miss some.. 25 to be exact... maaan.. i need to update and check more often.. haha ^_^

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  8. Anon,

    Yeeeaaahhh..., I definately think that you might have missed a few. ;-) The links to the updates are posted, so have at. :-) Don't forget to drop by FP and check the threads there as well. There are oftentimes things posted there that aren't posted here.

    SR

    Tabrit and Birgit Ilsen,
    Ilsen Badehus,
    5 King's Road,
    Mardukane, Mioya

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  9. I really want to play this game but it gave me a virus which gave me constant ads in my browser corners and stuff. I just wish there was a way to play this without a virus >.<

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    1. Anon,

      First question: Where did you download it from? I'm pretty sure that the developers check for viruses before posting anything. I know that I've never seen one in any of My copies.
      Second question: Do you have any antivirus software installed? What's ailing your browser might not even have anything to do with the game download at all.

      SR

      Tabrit and Birgit Ilsen,
      Ilsen Badehus,
      5 King's Road,
      Mardukane, Mioya

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  10. I have a problem with "Ino". At night when I select blowjob action, there is no image displayed, just blank space (in short, blowjob images are not loading).
    I have the latest update of the game.

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  11. Is it possible to have the game on my phone?

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  12. ...You know, I hate to be that awkward guy standing around and watching everything go past in order to make a little nitpick when the dust settles, but I haven't heard of 'Mia Fey Ace Attorney' as an actual game. On the other hand, she is the title character's mentor in a game called 'Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney', and does provide a supporting role throughout the three Ace Attorney which have Phoenix as the title character.

    Yes, I know, nitpicking, and it's an old post. Just... wanted to clarify that note before anyone else notices.

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