Thinking about a Torment inspired game...

[Wee]

Hey!

So, one of my fave games from back in the day is Planescape: Torment. I'm thinking that an erotic treatment of the material might be fun... That game has some pretty sexy characters to boot.

Obviously, a lot of the storyline, background, and such would need to be sufficiently modified so that it would be an 'inspired by' type of game that invokes the orginal, without actually duplicating the original. So the City of Doors would have to be named something else, and maybe work just a bit differently, you get the idea here.

One of the fun places in the City is the Brothel of Sating Intellectual Lusts. In that other game, the gals engage you in conversation rather than sexually, but obviously in this version you'd probably flip that around a bit, i.e. they do more sex, but maybe still have some fun quirks that invoke some of the other characters from that other game...

I have Daz, and am already pretty comfortable with it, but creating some of the characters I would need to create are are kind of beyond the 'free' version. Plus I suck at Blender and my laptop has no 10key anyways, so I can't really use Blender effectively to begin with.

Characters that would be needed would include a readheaded 'Irish' female fighter with a tail, a Succubi, a floating skull, and an old looking kind of demonish elf-like character that's a badass fighter (I think I can already do him in Daz, except for his badass kerach blade). Character 6 in the 'source' material is either a flaming dude (on fire, not gay, although that could be a fun plot twist) or a walking set of armor. I'm thinking that neither would really add to an 'inspired by' game that involves sex, so this could open the door for another character in the #6 slot instead. It's been a while since I played that game, but there may be a fun NPC somewhere that could join the party, so to speak. Ohhh, maybe your old girlfriend could be in your party, she's as ghost in that other game though, but that could be fun!

I'm thinking RenPy as the base, as I'm already quite comfortable with RenPy coding. You could also do this in the RPGMaker format, but that has some overhead, and I think that everything that would need to be done can easily be done in RenPy (jumping between sections of the city, etc.). This game would focus more on the sex anyways, although a lot of battling went on in that other game. That would add a lot of 'unnecessary' models for what I think you'd want, which would be a 'chapter' out of the original story rather than trying to loosely follow the entire story. I'm sure other 'chapters' could be an excuse for followup games if there was sufficient interest.

If you wanted to, I suppose you could use NWN 1 or 2 to build the game, but that seems like a lot of work for just a sexual romp...

So yeah, I'm thinking that the Intellectual Brothel would be the 'anchor' for said chapter, as that is where most of the sexy fun happens anyways.

My time is somewhat limited, but I can code in RenPy rather well already, including some basic motion based animations to simulate various sexy activities. I can also set up Daz-ready characters for poses and such, I'm pretty comfortable moving around individual finger joints and stuff in that program, and doing some 'basic' morphs and such, and can do an OK job with lighting (there are a lot of free presets for that to be explored as well). Ideally, though, it'd be good to have a small but dedicated team to do this. I'm thinking a free game, since it's loosely inspired by, but that's open to discussion. Might be a good way for someone to get their feet wet in game design, although I'm not sure if you'd want an erotic game on your resume...

Anyways, that's a quick rundown of my idea. Is anyone here a fan of that game? Would anyone here be interested in helping to make a 'loosely inspired by' game loosely based on some of the characters in that other game?

[kvier]

Annah and Fall-From-Grace are already full of fanservice ... e.g., Annah's St Patrick's Day alternate costume.

As much as I've enjoyed the NWN porn I've played, it makes it a lot easier to see up-front just how ludicrously much work it takes to make something. It seems to me like a lot of other engines, by providing less to start, let you get further before you realize just how much more you have to go.

(For what it's worth, the first half of Planescape: Torment is set in Sigil; this setting has a lot of backstory available. There is already a NWN module where its creator lovingly created architecture from the setting (the Shadowlords / Dreamcatcher / Demon series;

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

the last module is set in a town at the foot of the spire above which Sigil hovers

and there's also lots of other resources on the Neverwinter Vault.)


As far as helping? I can't promise any of my time, but I'd certainly enjoy other things in the same setting. (Even when without the porn...)

[Wee]

Unfortunately, I don't think that there are any decent Fall From Grace or Annah 3d models out there. Sprites, yes. Plus, we'd want to have more recent models anyways, so that we could enjoy the 'inspired by' characters in their 'full glory'.

I found some 'free' demon wings for Daz today, and there are Succubi available, but I'm not all that inclined to shell out cash for them... especially if another interested modeler might already have the Succubi model(s) in question.

A quick idea I had today was that, well, our protagonist does has amnesia, so in this version he doesn't remember how to have sex. Enter the brothel.. he may need to 'relearn' his sexual skills, as he needs to please someone sexually as an endgame goal (along the lines of the Lady of Pain?). So you'd visit the various prostitutes to (re)learn things, and they'd send you off on errands for them, which may involve even more sexual favors...

Again, I think that 'loosely inspired by' is a safer way to go. That way people wouldn't necessarily need to knock themselves out trying to get everything 'perfect'.

As I said, I'm thinking more along the lines of a sexual romp, as opposed to a spiritual successor. Plus, we'd want to keep this simple as it would be a volunteer effort, unless some really dedicated people appear out of the woodwork.