No.17389
I'm staring development on a cuckquean themed harem building strategy game. For initial discussion as to how this project has come about refer to the cuckquean eroge thread >>15040
A brief summary of the game's setting goes as follows:
>Since ancient times, use of digital technology has been mandated only by birthright.
>Past wars have wiped out all full-access users, with the last known descendant having died 84 years ago.
>Mech pilots are the highest access users remaining and constitute the new ruling class.
>The protagonist of our story is a low-access user incapable of operating a mech, who has proven herself as a brilliant tactician.
>Victories against neighboring tribes have won her a high standing within her clan and even caught the romantic attention of an accomplished mech pilot.
>Everything changes however, when the protagonist's new boyfriend discovers his true lineage by accidentally activating a factory.
>By his touch, miracles of wireless communications, automated farms and street lights that have not been powered for a century become real once more.
>Yet all those marvels may someday be gone again, unless a dynasty is established to immortalize this new power.
>It is known that by rules of inheritance a full-access admin is born only from marriage to another admin or a mech pilot.
>The king's harem, filled with cute pilots is instituted as a means to preserve his incredible talent.
>The protagonist cuckquean, now general of the empire, must do her part to protect humanity's future.
The gameplay will be split in 4 phases, three of which are illustrated in the attached concept art.
1 The map phase:
One turn is equal to a month in the game's calendar. A turn is planned by dragging mech pilots to map locations and assigning them tasks. The tasks will vary based on the region and story progression, sometimes allowing the player to search for items, recruit new troops, or modify a mech. This is simultaneously done by the enemy factions in secret. At the end of the turn, if two or more pilots from opposing factions have been assigned to the same region, a battle takes place.
2 The battle phase:
Battles take place in real time. Mechs have a variety of special abilities on individual cooldown timers, so mobile hit and retreat tactics are the intended style of gameplay. Battles have a relatively short duration timer that varies based on the region they're taking place in. The timer in conjunction with high mech durability is intended as a way to prevent fast capture, turning the war into a succession of skirmishes rather than all-or-nothing showdowns.
3 The story phase:
Story segments will be shown in-between game turns based on events that are taking place. Most commonly this phase happens after all battles have finished but before the harem phase starts. Narration and dialogue will be presented in a fairly typical VN layout.
4 The harem phase:
Female pilots will eventually be rewarded for their service to the crown. The harem phase takes place at the end of a turn. Any pilots assigned to the harem will be shown serving the king. I intend to make harem scenes sprite based rather than event CG based, dynamically arranging them every time they're viewed. Pilots can become pregnant and will give birth in 9 game turns.
The state of all of this is still very much a work in progress. If you have any ideas in terms of characters you'd like to see, scenarios, gameplay mechanics, story concepts, related artwork or anything else, I'm open to any and all suggestions. Let's work together to make a game that /cuckquean/ will enjoy.
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No.17394
I am a nobody but may I suggest to change the premise of the storyline somehow?
The reason being a boy suddenly activating a mech related miracle and suddenly being surrounded by girls has been used and is the Primary Theme.of Infinite Stratos. I mean, you can still use the story if you want but for those who knows and like Infinite Stratos like me would think this is a parody game 😂.
If you do consider changin it, I suggest making the boyfriend gains that ability after a system malfunction when he pilot his mech which moderately change his body too. And I like psychological, so why not make the boyfriend feels conflicted by his desire to just give in to lust and fuck all the girls and his strong loyalty to his girlfriend. Never aware that the strong girlfriend starting to develop a fetish of seeing her boyfriend having animalistic sex with other girls without thinking about her.
But as I said am nobody, and this is your game. I just hope you consider my suggestion 😂
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No.17396
>>17394
>😂
Is… is this your first time on an imageboard? If so, please lurk more. If not, please leave.
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No.17400
>>17396
In the map phase, will there be elements of upgrading regions like in other strategy games? You know, kinda like in Civilization or Endless Legend or even like HoMM, or will we just be focusing mostly on combat? I think it would be really fun if you could do that, because then the game would truly be strategic in the sense that even if you have been winning 90% of all your battles in the battle phase, you could still eventually lose the war because you were short-sighted and neglected other things.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding and that's what's already planned, but if not then I think that would be a good feature to add to prevent the game from becoming a monotonous grindfest. For example, you could use the technologies you discovered to build mech factories and other military buildings in highly militarized regions, vulnerable automated farms and population centres in safe regions far away from borders, fortifications in border regions, etc… you get the idea.
Other than that, I think this would be a really cool game, I also like the story and setting. What engine is it all going to be based on?
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No.17401
>>17400
wtf, that was meant for OP lol.
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No.17402
>>17396
Nah Its not.my first time, I do love that emoticon.
And why should I leave over that lol 😂😂😂
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No.17404
What platforms/language/engine?
>>17402
😂 🔫😠💢
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No.17408
>>17394
I don't love the idea of cheating based on induced hypnosis or brainwashing. But you do bring up a good point in regards to the boyfriend's personality. I want to open up the topic of what we want our male lead to be. Should he actually be a sex fiend, or someone more reserved? Perhaps his attitude towards his position changes over the course of the game.
>>17400
Yea that's definitely something I'm planning to implement. The king will be one of the characters you can assign each phase to activate regional machinery. In addition there may be jobs for the pilots to strengthen aspects of their assigned area. There should be plenty to do beside invading, but I don't think there will be any sort of a tech tree you can climb.
>>17404
Unity.
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No.17409
>>17389
>A brief summary of the game's setting goes as follows:
The setting is shit, just saying. It's like cheap copy of BLAME! Also, you might as well make the protagonist the guy if you want any hope of reaching a wider audience.
Why not just take a page out of Break Blade? Keep the setting technologically low key, with mechs that can only be driven with people with high levels of mana. The protagonist is a young prince that ascended the throne after the previous emperor was assassinated under mysterious circumstances and the whole realm split into warring factions while other nations are also muscling in on the territory. Your duty is to regain lost land, conquer the shit out of enemies and take all the waifus for yourself.
>Battles take place in real time. Mechs have a variety of special abilities on individual cooldown timers
It's like you were raised by niggers. Out of all possible ways to handle this you had to choose the most cancerous implementation imaginable. There's already plenty of examples of how to handle mecha battles, refer to zhe SRW or Front Mission franchises.
>Battles take place in real time. Mechs have a variety of special abilities on individual cooldown timers
Now this is pretty neat, though it would mean that you'd need to make separate animation for each sprite, as well as the various group combinations, though I imagine you already have some idea on how to streamline the workload.
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No.17411
>>17408
>The king will be one of the characters you can assign each phase to activate regional machinery
Why not give the player the option to choose whom they want to play as? It really shouldn't change all that much from a narrative perspective.
>In addition there may be jobs for the pilots to strengthen aspects of their assigned area
Why not have schemes like in Sengoku Rance and off screen assignments like intelligence gathering or spending time training (herself or the troops) ala Final Fantasy Tactics?
>but I don't think there will be any sort of a tech tree you can climb
That's gay. Half the fun of the mecha genre is the ability to upgrade and customize your mechs. Also, you might eschew the standard mech designs altogether and rip off Big Object to justify why young girls are put on the battlefield. I mean, if you have a machine that can rival a Bolo in sheer firepower and size it shouldn't matter who is in control of it.
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No.17412
>>17409
You haven't read Blame, have you? If anything, it's more of a copy of Fallout than Blame.
>It's like you were raised by niggers.
>Now this is pretty neat,
Huh? Am I reading this wrong or were you the one raised by niggers?
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No.17413
>>17411
>Half the fun of the mecha genre is the ability to upgrade and customize your mechs.
This. Especially if the mechs are really fucking big mechs like in Evangelion or Pacific Rim.
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No.17415
>>17411
>Why not give the player the option to choose whom they want to play as?
Don't forget that cuckqueaning is the focus of the game, it's barely there if we get rid of the female lead. At that point it's just Rance.
>Why not have schemes like in Sengoku Rance and off screen assignments like intelligence gathering or spending time training (herself or the troops) ala Final Fantasy Tactics?
Not sure if I understand you, but I think that's exactly what I'm planning on having. The pilots are assigned to a region and given a job which can be any number of things. Sometimes the job improves something about them, sometimes it's to improve the empire.
>That's gay. Half the fun of the mecha genre is the ability to upgrade and customize your mechs.
You'll be able to upgrade and customize them, just not through a tech tree. Technology is scavenged in this world.
>Also, you might eschew the standard mech designs altogether and rip off Big Object to justify why young girls are put on the battlefield.
Girls are in the battlefield because they can pilot mechs. It doesn't matter much what sort of body you have if you're piloting one.
>>17409
Never played Blame and won't bother looking it up. Don't be rude if you want a proper reply.
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No.17416
>OP has been discussing and developing his ideas and setting for months
>mostly silent or civilised discussion
>starts a new thread
>sudden influx of tumblr-tier cancerposting
OP, you have probably noticed that some of the suggestions abruptly lobbed at you are scope creepers that increase work but give very little benefit to you or to the player. I think you should focus on making a tight game that hews to your original vision, with particular emphasis on getting character chemistry and gameplay loops working well. Ignore the fuckwits who’ve clearly never done anything except be Idea Guys. In particular, take care to preserve a proper cooperative cuckquean feeling.
Also, take care with this thread. A temptation will exist to crowdsource your game’s design which will take away from time spent actually developing it. Why don’t you identify the smallest gameplay loop you can (e.g. combat) and build a disposable prototype of it? That will help you develop your ideas far better than a thousand posts in this thread.
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No.17423
>>17416
This.
Don't get caught up in these threads, it's better to work hard until you at least have an alpha version set up so that you could at least get some critique and others can get to see something substantial. Most of these projects never leave the planning phase and it's rare to ever see someone actually finish the game they talked about making.
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No.17424
>>17423
Sorry about that, I know it's hard to believe in something that just has words and sketches to back it up so far. This is something I was hoping to work with the community to make. It' not a matter of not having ideas, it's a matter of under-representation. This isn't a fetish that we have many other games for that I can draw upon for inspiration. I want to know what it is that /cuckquean/ wants from a game. I've posted in >>15040 first to test the waters, and it's worked well, I've got a lot of good feedback and ideas. Your input means a lot to me, I don't want to just make a game, I want to make a game that represents this board in the best way possible.
>>17416
Thanks for the encouragement. I was hoping to start development in pretty much the way you've described, I've already got a basic working prototype of the combat system. I'm reluctant to post it because it's not the direction I want to steer the conversation in this thread. Instead I was hoping to hear more about what you would like to see in the game's sexual content. Are there any character types you'd like to see? Scenarios that they get involved in? What should the cuckquean be like? What should her boyfriend be like? From the last thread I've already gathered that monster girls are a popular trope here, so I've started writing a monster girl tribe into the game. That's just the sort of information I'm trying to gather.
I know that both of you feel like this is taking away time that could be spent making artwork or coding, but I think that it's important for me to establish a solid foundation so that I'm not just making a game for myself. If I was working on this in secret it would have ended up like one of my initial ideas, posted here >>17161 which turned out to be something that no one in that thread wanted.
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No.17426
>>17408
>>17424
You misunderstand something about the boyfriend part. I don't mean he is conflicted because of the system malfunction but rather due to him having sex with a lot of girls and he starts to be temped by his lust.
For me personally, I like the idea of giving the players the luxury of choosing how the boyfriend will be. However this may be harder for you as it means you SHOULD make a multiple ending and choice system. For example; in 1 ending he stays loyal and reserve, in another ending he choose his harem over his GF now wife and she is happy for that, and in another ending he becomes apathethic person who view sex only as a job and no longer feel anything for the girls. Thats just a suggestion for idea, you can develop more if you want but as I said it may be harder for you…
Also I do agree that you shouldn't overthink what the posters here said, this is your game, you have the right to make it however you want. But I do still think you need to change the premise of the story. A guy suddenly get a miraclous power with convinient excuse in mech world is too cliche XD
Also don't think too much about customization. Making this a VN with a gameplay should be fine. You don't need to burden yourself with costumization unless you want to
Oh and as for the cuckquean herself, I'd like to give a suggestion. Have you ever read Kangoku Senkan? The heroines there are mostly female generals with high status and are super confident. Why not make the cuckquean be an arrogant woman who have a lot of pride in herself and her body as well as super dedicated to her work. So she will be conflicted by the need to choose between her pride as a woman to keep her boyfriend to herseof or her dedication to her job, which is strengthening her allies with his help…by sex with other women while gradually accepting the situation and even enjoy it, although she will resist admitting it.
I am absolutely willing to help you with the story if you allow me to. Though I am sorry I can't help much with the system DX
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No.17430
>>17416
>his
There are no men on the internet.
>>17415
>Never played Blame
Blame! is really cool, the manga though, not the movie that just came out.
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No.17436
>>17426
I find these suggestions a turn-off.
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No.17440
>>17413
>no one made a proper Evangelion game and the Pacific Rim one is for mobiles
It still hurts.
>>17412
>You haven't read Blame, have you?
I did, that shit sounds exactly like the Net Terminal Gene required to gain access to the network and tell the Builders and Safeguard to stand the fuck down.
>Huh? Am I reading this wrong or were you the one raised by niggers?
The second part was about the sprite based sex scenes. You're still a nigger for wanting to use Unity and make the battles real time. That never works well when limited numbers of units that are not replaceable are on the field, and not unless you are as talented as the guys that made Freedom Force.
>>17415
>At that point it's just Rance.
And? Sengoku Rance is a masterpiece.
>Technology is scavenged in this world.
That's nigger tier Bethesda logic. Even factions in Fallout were busy doing research and improving upon pre-war technology.
>Never played Blame
Kill yourself. Blame! is a fucking manga you newfag.
>Don't be rude if you want a proper reply.
I don't know what hugbox you crawled out off but that's not how things work around here.
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No.17441
>>17440
>that's not how things work around here
Sure it is: You’re not prevented from being a colossal faggot and they’re also not compelled to respond the way you want just because you’ve decided to be a colossal faggot.
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No.17442
>>17436
We have a completely different taste then, I like psychological
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No.17443
>>17426
I don't mind the idea of the boyfriend's attitude changing, but I think the multiple personalities customization part would be too much. In the original version of the story there would have been a large cast of male characters and the player could pick who they wanted as their love interest. That version got no votes in the poll, so I'm guessing lover customization is not that popular of a request.
>Have you ever read Kangoku Senkan?
Haven't heard of it, but it seems kind of neat. It's Lillith Soft so I can kind of guess what it's like.
>Why not make the cuckquean be an arrogant woman who have a lot of pride in herself
The next poll will be for the male and female lead appearance and personality. Confident career woman will be one of the choices.
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No.17444
>>17440
What the fuck did a nigger like you forget on this board, if I may ask?
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No.17445
>>17443
Are you the OP? I'll just replay as if you are the OP 😂
You misunderstand again or I misunderstood your comment. I don't mean to give an option to change the personality of the boyfriend, that would be a pain to implement. What I mean is in the sense of VN where player got choice which will leads them to different route with different outcome.
What I meant was the player's choice affects the boyfriend mental state and his psychology and personality. This simple system is already adding extra working time for you, which is why I acknowledged that this will be hard for you
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No.17446
>>17445
I don't think that's something I can promise to implement. If I did it would be more of something I may work on towards the end of the project. It would probably be more subtle than a VN's choice system and be based more on who's in the harem, who the boyfriend's sleeping with and who has been impregnated first.
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No.17448
>>17446
Its fine. As I keep saying, I know its probably gonna be hard to you, I was just giving suggestion
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No.17506
I'm starting a new round of polling, this time to determine what sort of protagonist figure is preferred. Vote for the one you like the most even if it's not your ideal version of the character. Post about your ideal version in the thread and after polling is finished I will incorporate any advice into the final designs. Runner-ups in the poll may be recycled into mech pilots.
Poll for the MALE lead (the king) is here:
https://www.strawpoll.me/15349568
Poll for the FEMALE lead (the commander) is here:
https://www.strawpoll.me/15349566
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No.17519
>>17506
None of the female appeals to me, and for the male only D and E seems barely good.
Especially the female E, thats really out of character. No wah a general act like a 8 yrs old
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No.17523
>>17506
I picked the boy next door for the guy, although I hope he can be slightly less timid and nerdy without going full douchebro. And the supporting girl seems good, although I'd like if she grew into that role after being in denial about it at first.
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No.17524
>>17519
>>17523
The character traits have been dialed up for demo purposes. That's why I'm asking to vote for the one that fits the closest so I can fine-tune it afterwards.
>None of the female appeals to me
What sort of female lead would you have liked to see as a candidate? Sorry I should have included "other" as an option in the polls.
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No.17541
>>17524
Like I said, I believe a confident self-assured women like in kangoku senkan works well. The type of woman who thinks highly of herself and is having the time of her life. She looks like she have everything but at the cost of the obligation to share her most beloved person to another women
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No.17649
Thank you for voting. The poll for the game's protagonists is now closed. The female lead poll was dominantly in favor of option A. The male poll was a lot more split. The main design path for the male lead will follow D with some of C and E mixed in personality-wise. I am still open to suggestions to narrow down exactly we want the main characters to be.
As mentioned in the OP, I intend to make the game's scenes sprite based and animated. Attached are some of my first sprite drafts based on the poll's results. They feature the game's two main heroes and a couple of pilot vixens.
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No.17751
So is this like… Dropped or something?
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