[VX Ace] Demon Greed (early development)

[xxNir]

Hello everyone,

I have been visiting this forum for a few years now but have not thought about creating an account until about 4 months ago. I was inspired by Nergal and Urban X Life to start making games and art again after a long time. I am currently working on a project slowly getting used to RPG Maker VX Ace but I have never learned Ruby so I struggle with scripts. After about 2 weeks of pure struggle of getting used to VX Ace I have finally arrived at a point where I need to script and one of my very close friends said that it would be helpful for me to open a forum thread asking for help. Instead of going to a random RPG Maker forum and asking for help with a porn game I thought it would be better here.

About the project.

This game would heavily focus on corruption, domination, incest and a lot of other fetishes. The main character is a male college student nicknamed Gene (because he is so generic(i will allow players to rename him as I cant think of an actual name)) with no life goals or purpose who lives with his mother, younger sister and an older sister who has recently moved back into the family house after finishing her university course. One day after college Gene witnesses a fight between two demons and dies as a result. He finds himself in limbo where he encounters one of the demons he saw fighting. The demon introduces himself as Greed and explains to Gene that they are both dead, but since most of Genes soul is intact Greed can save him by fusing with him. They strike a deal, if Greed saves Gene from death he will in term help Greed with his plan for revenge. After waking up in a hospital room, Gene finds that a lot of his memory is either jumbled or missing, but he also finds that he now has a goal, a purpose. He decides that he shall test his new demonic powers on his annoying older sister.

Mechanics and features

I am currently thinking of not using the default battle system or any battle system at all. I am hoping to replace the battle system with a mini game, but struggle with the concept. There will however be skills outside of battle that can be used to influence certain events and people. The skills would also use mini games to activate. For now I thought out 4 skills, I will list them here and describe what the skill s do and how they are going to be activated.

Influence

This skill can be used on certain characters to influence them to do something they might have considered doing but would normally not do. So if a character is interested in, lets say exhibition but is not brave enough to do it, you can use this skill to give them a little push to do it.

The mini game would be a simple tic tac toe (knots and crosses for those who don't know). I am thinking of making some changes to the rules but find that a simple game of tic tact toe would work the best. The reason behind this mini game is that it take two people to play and you as the main character are trying to influence someone else to do something and naturally they should be able to resist you.

Shadow

This skill is simply a sneak ability that allows you to witness events, go to places that are normally inaccessible or do things you would normally not be able to do.

I don't think there would be a mini game for this skill as it seems like something you should be able to do without the option to fail. Th real reason is that I can not think of a reason for the skill to fail or a way to punish that failure.

Mind Reading

This skill would allow you to read minds of certain characters (duh!) which would allow you to gain certain information about the character like fetishes and requirements for plot advancements.

Since I think it would take a lot of focus to read what someone thinks the mini game would be focus based. I think something like hitting a button at a correct time multiple times, a bit similar to the mini game in Urban x Life but not quite the same.

Intimidation

This skill will allow you to force people to do things they would never do. I am thinking of punishing the player for using this ability too much by subtracting from relationship stats but I am not sure about it.

The mini game for this would be ro sham bo (rock paper scissors for those who don't know). Feel like this is appropriate as its a kind of a bluff game and if you try and intimidate someone they should be able to call your bluff.

And thats about it for skills and stuff I could think of. I am still new to this forum stuff so I will not be concerned about prettying up this post. I am hoping to release a working demo within 3 to 4 weeks but no promises. I will post some art to show of the game when I am happy with the images. I will be asking for some help with scripts and stuff, as well as for peoples opinions. I would appreciate constructive criticism that could help me improve the design of the game as i am not totally sold on everything.

But for now this is it.
Hopefully I will have an update in near future.
Until then, bye!

[Dead2112man]

Will be interresting to see how you create this game with those mechanics