[HTML5]LEWD (Alpha1 release up!)

[Sadako]

Thanks! You don't actually have to register to play at the moment. (The game still doesn't save your progress. That'll come later.)
Registering an account just shows your interest/support~

I forgot to also mention that if someone has a game they want to remake/port, or they've been working a game but the engine/tools they've been using is too limited for what they want to do, they can get in touch with me. I'll want to have a few experienced devs to alpha-test the tools and engine before I have it opened up for everyone.

[Nice and Blue]

Just registered myself. I am a big fan of text based games, and if they come with images, well, they just make my day. You seem excited about it, so I hope you get to where you want to. You have my support.

[Sadako]

Thanks! Oh yeah, there's another really exciting thing.

Epic Games just announced the public licensing terms for Unreal Engine 4 yesterday, and they're really amazing.
Just last month I was sort of mulling over options. Usually to get an engines source code, which you need to modify it to work for an MMO, it's hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wasn't sure how negotiations for a license for a porny game would go, too.

With this, instead of spending ~2 years making my own engine which frankly would lack some of the graphical features and just not be as good as UE4(Not really any shame in admitting that), I can just spend <1year modifying the UE4 to integrate it with my MMO server and some other things.

I wrote in more detail here: http://www.playlewd.com/blog/?p=205
So that second game, the 3D Hentai MMORPG could come a lot sooner. Within just months I can have some in-engine things to show off.

[Sadako]

I have an update about the dev tool.

I want to make something with millions of words of content, and to hand add that content like most people do would just be crazy amount of work. It'd be a lot of wasted time that I could spend making the game parts better. I've said this bit before, yeah.
So I have this tool I've been working on to create and add content easy, which I ended up realizing could be really useful for people to make entirely different games of their own with.

I made a new post detailing it as it's been in a constant flux of being updated, along with some plans and such related to it.

http://www.playlewd.com/blog/?p=210
There's also been a few little updates since I last posted.

OH, and I've been talking with some really nice artists, and I'll hopefully have an update about that and some art for the game to show soon. :3

[rebelseal]

it looks Similar to Trials in Tainted space (same maker as Corruptions of Champions) may help to see a polished game of a very similar style

[Sadako]

Well, it was around like 9 months before TiTS, and they've had a lot of money to make it.
But yes, CoC was a bit of an inspiration. I had wished there was a CoC like game with a better interface, engine, and controls, that could be played online.

There's some art in game for many of the characters now.
I consider it mostly placeholder art. I'm sure I'll have opportunities to work with different artists later on.

There's also some art I had done, but I don't have content in the game to use it yet. I uploaded those to an imgur album so you all can see it in the mean time.

http://imgur.com/a/OCdut

[Zeus Kabob]

Glad to see you're still working on this!

[Sadako]

Oh oi, I just realized I had a more recent thread I made before at viewtopic.php?f=35&t=3954. I wanted to have that new thread since my original post and stuff I was responding to was really outdated, and I was changing direction a bit to focus more on the engine and tools, and I messed up bumping this one. Oops.

Thanks though.

I was pretty worn. The rewrite to the engine and tools before had me working 100 hours a week for a few weeks, and I just got burned out on it. Took a 7 or 8 week break from it.
There's a lot of other stuff I was doing like security things, payment processing, account and transaction features, (which is all "hidden" right now) but nothing has really been added to the game besides bug fixes and the images, so it doesn't seem like much.

[BinaryHedgehog]

I'm enjoying this game! Can't wait to see what you have pla-- please don't put in premium content... I hate that crap.

[Sadako]

Creightr - Make and play games easily

I decided to changed directions a bit and focus on the engine, and getting that available to anyone to use for free to make games with.

I was making these tools so I can have people who are just writers, with no programming experience, who could add rich and dynamic content. I made it really open ended, so anything can be done with it.

Before I planned on making LEWD and improving the engine along side and giving it back to the community. I think the better thing is to put the engine and tools at the forefront.

I think it's just the more interesting thing, for people to easily be able to make their own games easily, and for them to be easily available to everyone on the web, with their own writing, artwork, or SFM gifs/webms, and so on. It'll also help me to get the engine even more matured and capable for LEWD earlier on.
Part of this change is, yes, because it was hard to find people to help with the content.

There's way more information on the engine, tools, and how it's going to work on that site above.

I want to launch a Kickstarter, so I can purchase more servers needed so people can make their own games for free. I also still have a few last things to do to make that happen, such as the programming and server infrastructure that'll allow these game servers to be instantly instantiated when someone requests one.
I want to do that this month. I'm working on a video that'll explain what it is, and what you can do with it, more easily. Assuming there is enough hype and interest, I guess. @@
Otherwise, I may end up waiting until after the holidays, and making a card game and an RPG example with it in the mean while to show more of what it can do, as well as getting a draft of a proper client API done.

I'm enjoying this game! Can't wait to see what you have pla-- please don't put in premium content... I hate that crap.

I will not be pay-walling any content.
I may have a test server where writers can experiment with the content, and have work-in-progress content on that test server before it is finished and pushed to the live one, and only allow paid accounts on the test server, but that'd be the extent of that.

[Sadako]

I updated the original post. Looking for writers that want to help continue with this.

[Sadako]

There was a bug that made the tryout tool crash, but that's fixed and it should be stable now.

[Sadako]

The parser works a lot differently, and a lot easier than it does in anything else that I know of. More powerful, too.
http://www.playlewd.com/blog/?p=352 I made a post about how the writing parser for LEWD works, since there was some confusion based on a lot of old content that's in the game.

[7aman]

God damn dude at first I was like 'eh text games are boring no visuals' but your game just revolutionized my view of games like this! I'm seriously gonna at least try to see if I can write anything worthwhile to help in development, I do quite enjoy sci-fi settings like this and I really hope your progressing well as I can't get enough of a game like this.

[flashpgames]

Looks great, love some HTML5 work

[Sadako]

I also went ahead and set up a Patron.

I'm not sure what to expect, since most Patreons are supporting artists, and not programmers. There isn't really anything there to get in return for your reward right now, and won't be for like 6 or 7 weeks from now when I get the game ported over onto the new engine, some new things in, and some new content written.

Still, I'm hoping people might just support me out of their own kindness for now, until there's more of a game to support. To give to a programmer that doesn't shy away from adult games, and that can give so much more back - hopefully - to the adult game's community that's been given before. A lot of people did keep telling me to set one up, but I wanted to wait until I knew I could put all of my effort into these things, which is now.

Further down the line, I've been wanting to make a 3D Adult MMORPG. Something that's just as high quality and polished as any mainstream game. This always seems to excite people more than just a text adventure game, but that's a small step. I'll never get to that really expensive MMORPG without the support here and now. I easily have the capability of making that, as I've shown, but I need people's support leading up to it.

God damn dude at first I was like 'eh text games are boring no visuals' but your game just revolutionized my view of games like this! I'm seriously gonna at least try to see if I can write anything worthwhile to help in development, I do quite enjoy sci-fi settings like this and I really hope your progressing well as I can't get enough of a game like this.

Thanks! And oops I forgot to have email notifications on here.
That is a lot of what I was going for. I know a lot of people love these obscure MUD sort of games. Tons plan them. I think there's many others that would like them too, if only they worked a lot smoother and were presented the right away.

Things should progress extremely fast once they get rolling, especially with the right writers and support. I made it so much easier to get content in a game and test it compared to anything else.

[MOD EDIT] Removed Patreon link

[Sadako]

I'm not sure how interested people will be in this, because it's so technical, but I made a blog post about a new addition to the tools that brings together a core part of the engine:

http://www.playlewd.com/blog/?p=365

This is one of the big reasons why I had to make my own engine. I needed this feature, because it would make actually developing the game itself so much faster once it's in place. None of those MUD, MOO, or even expensive MMORPG servers had it.

[Sadako]

I've made a blog post about some of the work on going from that current prototype, toward the upcoming alpha release of LEWD. http://www.playlewd.com/blog/?p=373
The prototype is still mostly the same, except I fixed a few things with some of that content.

I also updated the site a bit, including a new "info" page that's hopefully a lot less crap than it was before.

[Sadako]

Go to say, the topic length limit here is REALLY short. o_o

I made a new blog post to detail a new feature that's coming, that'll enable supporters to easily give feedback about content.


http://www.playlewd.com/blog/?p=384

I need some feedback on something important that I'm going to be working on:
In LEWD, you have those sliders for your descriptions. They tend to go smaller->larger, or feminine->masculine.
The sort of problem is: people can just write in any description they want there, making it say it's huge even though the slider is down small.
Also, for the role playing and player interaction side of things for multiplayer, I figured people should be basically able to change their descriptions at any time, or at least easily. But obviously this could really conflict with transformation that the game itself might do on the player. Does it matter that something made your dick huge if you can change it to something else? And maybe you don't like those huge dick descriptions, and want to change them.

So I'm not completely sure what would be the best way to handle that. To make sense of the variation between the hard set data that can't be changed, and descriptions that can.
A "Small Dicked Wonder" and "Not Compensating" trait that can get forced on someone might be better than really using the sliders for anything.
But... there's still the thing where the content might often want to change people around when I want people to really play their character that they want, that I'm not sure how exactly to work around. Those things really conflict with one another. I need to figure out some things to balance between the whole players playing the character they want, but also the game being able to change them.

[Plykiya]

I haven't really played the game enough to go in depth with my commentary, I like the overall concept though. My quick two cents would probably be about the "normal" description on clothing. I feel like repeating the quality of something that's normal is kind of redundant, or that it doesn't really need to be pointed out at all. It gets kind of weird when the monster-girl is gliding her hands down my normal panties or feeling my normal shirt, stuff like that. :>