/htg/ - Harlot Trainer General

You're better off just copying his style for the backgrounds.

Use one tool to do the outlines, fill the, with colours then use lighten and burn tools for shading and lighting.

It's easier than you think.

Don't forget to also make 15000$/month on patreon: late releases, and barely any content. You don't even need art skills. Placeholder everything! To be done never ever.

>>12323

I know you are being ironic, but this behavior we see in most developers deeply disgust me. I would never make money stealing another's art and stories. This game I'm planning is more like a fan fiction: a tribute to a game I loved playing.

>>12291

>>12332

It would be better you start with a little mod, by creating a new girl with extra story and adding her to existing mods. Bonus points if she can be played with in 'Silver', and / or 'Sad Crab' and 'Feodosiy' versions. You can introduce a 'non-cute' non-chibi background char of course, like the Sad Crabs do with their 'Innocent Witches' game. Would look strange at first but me prefers 'non-cute' definitely.

Don't know how serious you are about it, but perhaps I got an idea for you - if you really are eager to get your hands dirty on something…

There is another demo derived from WT called 'Life with Hermione'. Running with Ren'Py like original WT, no background chibis - maybe you would like to mod that one more? You have to learn basic Python anyway, and it sounds you might want to create something similar after all?

Check the 'Akabur Games' thread over at ULMF where it's mentioned. Some member(s) translated most of it to english (mega link on following page, be sure to get the latest):

>www.ulmf.org/bbs/showpost.php?p=777331&postcount=1864 ff.

A dev called Vassago was doing this, I really liked the concept of the demo tbh. Although Genie is included, mc is another guy sent back to Hermione to help out. So that char is just there in the beginning, to connect story to the original game, but that's all. Seems development sadly died a while ago. If you know some russian, here's the blog - it isn't updated for forever now:

>lifewithhermione.blogspot.com

Maybe this seems what you were looking forward to create? Could be easier to adapt such an existing demo first. You might ask this Vassago dev for allowance, on the blog or head to the pornolab forum and ask there (all russian, need to register):

>pornolab.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2110709

LwH is short but had potential imo, I think it's worth improving it if you want. Composition is pretty similar to Waterdrop's 'Zero no Academy' which I liked too:

>www.patreon.com/waterdrop

Godspeed, and keep us updated anon!

>>12349

Thank you Anon for your great response! I really liked the Life With Hermione, even if it was very short and very… hum, Russian. Most of it wasn't translated, and it seems abandoned, but it's very similar to my idea.

I forgot to mention it, but I have good experience with Ren'py and Python. I've written games using the Ren'py, non-porn, of course.

I intent to start from "scratch" (using some of Akabur's art and the great Hermione Generator). My first goal is to lay a very solid foundation to the game, optimizing the myriad of image files and writing more concise code for the whoring/events system. I intent to use a simpler day/night cycle, with more elements taken from the books, dropping the grind report system and the chibis (making the chibis walk comprises a lot of Akabur's code).

In a few days I'll post a link to a Github repository for you guys to get some updates. I think I'll be able to layout the system in the next few months.

Thank you once again!

>>12382

Oh, you're very welcome. So you did know 'LwH' demo already? I'd wish some day someone would try and continue from where dev left… Could become a nice little game. Perhaps you draw some inspiration from it.

>have good experience with Ren'py and Python

Well, then it's smooth game for you. Don't need to learn first, that is a plus. Still not sure if you need that chibi background stuff at all tbh. Because of this I told you to start with modding a girl into existing mods. You might get a clue if this is what you want, for all chars with a new game. Not really a fan of it.

More important, it would be nice to have plenty of locations, or rooms to visit at the least. Other locations worked well with PT, don't know why Akabur decided to only use one room with WT. And for your new game you don't need same style backgrounds, too. Could use some real images instead, change them lateron for drwaings if you like. Other locations is a big advantage of LwH over the original already.

>intent to start from "scratch"

Okay, so is it a 'refresh' of the original game or a complete new game with independent story arc? You wrote you wanted no Genie. Just wondering how much it will differ. Awaiting updates, anon.

>>12394

It will be a full rewrite, differing a great deal. Akabur's Witch Trainer is an excellent game in my opinion, not for the game system, but instead because Akabur has a good feel for mixing naughty and humor in very exact doses. WT story is very silly, making the game shine with its puns, clever jokes, inside jokes and whammy-ness.

My intention is to preserve this aspect, but with a new story. I already have a very, very rough draft: the player assumes the role of an unnamed headmaster, who becomes headmaster after Dumbledore's death in sixth year. The Voldemort plot line is absent from the game, let us imagine he was destroyed by Harry at the end of Prince too. The player wants free reign over the school, but the Witches Rights Movement keeps blocking his plans, so he (with some help from other (male) professors) start on a plan to corrupt the leaders of WRM.

I already have the basics for three trainable witches: there is Hermione, of course, as the head of WRM, Ginny Weasley as her right-hand woman, and Angelina Johnson as her secretary. Each girl will have different events, different routes and scenes, so the player can get more game hours.

Something I always found missing in original WT is the lack of consequences during Hermione's training. In this new WT of mine, the characters will interact more, and their sluttiness levels will affect the outcome of many scenes and decisions.

Also, the first great decision the player will take as acting headmaster is choosing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher: there will be four candidates and while they will not show up at first (lack of art and code, for now), this decision will greatly influence the training, as the girls will interact with the professor.

All in all, each girl can be trained to be Your Slut, or Everybody's Slut, so you can have different endings as you train them to your likeness.

In more technical aspects, my intention is to use some of the resources laid out by Hermione Generator to greatly reduce the amount of graphical resources, making the download file a lot more manageable as I add more content. The girls will share basic resources, like the body, head and clothes, and Ren'py will compose their faces and unique characters in-game. There is more or less about 35 different expressions for each girl, some outfits (both proper and nasty) and many poses. After releasing a few versions of the game my intention is to attract the attention of an artist who could expand the game with new characters, outfits and poses.

For now, I'm shamelessly stealing art from various mods and resources packs I'm stumbling upon in the internet. Silver Trainer and Sad Crab offer most resources, but I need to painstakingly Photoshop them to fit the base models. So, baby steps for now.

Thanks for the interest, I'll make sure to keep you updated! :D

>>12608

>Mac

I mean… if you're working at school or a business they might use a Mac because they get them at a discount but hey, if you're comfortable using that.

As for it being a copy of witch trainer, I don't mind. You're already developing faster than that crab guy, so keep it up.

>>12608

This sounds promising.

>>12614

I'm from South America, so I had to pay a pretty penny for this machine, but I'm a journalist/photographer, so it's basically the "industry standard". But hey, at least it has some Linux commands to settle my poor heart.

Oh, I was following the work of Sad Crab, and some resources used in my version were lifted from their Innocent Witches, but I hated their fucking game to hell and back, so much text for nothing. In the future, I will ditch their text frame (theirs is horribly cropped) and make one of my own, but for now this one works.

I'm terrible slow in Photoshop, so I'm editing some of the resources. The test to generate Hermione ran ok, so I currently have two characters. Good enough for 5 days of lackluster coding.

>>12617

The Mac system is based off of Linux if I remember correctly. And being from a dirt country like SA I'm surprised you can get a computer at all. But hey, at least you're making progress.

>>12638

South America also isn't a country, but part of the American Continent… Mac is constructed upon a hybrid kernel called Darwin, which itself is based on NextSTEP OS, BSD, Mach and a pletora of other software. Darwin is mostly POSIX-compliant, so it shares a lot of similarities to Linux, but it was never certified as a POSIX kernel. It's also Unix-compliant, furthering the similarities to Linux. All in all, MacOS is a great system with low overhead, good graphics support, more user control over the system and it runs free software as a dream. Took me literally less than a minute to put Ren'Py to run, as python libraries come out of box with Mac.

>>12646

he probably wanted to say Unix, no need to be all angry now

>>12669

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#macOS

You're wrong. They changed it back.

>>12668

I thank you again for your continuous interest in my little project. And I really appreciate your concern about going-too-big-burning-out-too-soon, but I do have experience with Ren'py games, just I never wrote a porn one. I've working on making playable visual novels for some small portuguese speaking authors, partnering with different artists and writing very unique short games, so I have some confidence with the system and the language.

Thus, I find it *harder* to mod Akabur's original code or Silver Trainer code, as they can be quite confusing, mainly because Ren'py doesn't explicitly imports or declares thing, it just works, so it makes harder to debug.

My current problem is just the lack of graphics, as I'm no artist and the ones I know refuse to "do this porno shit". Their loss, I guess. I'm more interested in the technical, logical and fictional aspects of the game, so I'm quite content with just stapling some 'shooped graphics in place and hope for the best. In the future, when the core game runs smoothly, I'll contact some artists so we can improve the graphics aspect and move away from reusing broken Akabur's art.

For now, I'm involved with the dynamic creation of character's clothes and expressions. The code works for simple tests, but it still is very messy. After some polishing, I'll post some tests. Thank you once again for your interest!

>>12705

>the faggots, again, changed its name to plain 'macOS', for whatever reason

Moron.

>>12828

Keep it up… Anão.

>>12828

Godspeed, anão.

HUE HUE HUE BR BR BR

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

>>12828

Good work. Looking forward to seeing the results.

>>13155

It was part of the body I'm using, but I already photoshopped it out, as with Hermione, there is three "main" bodies: smooth, stubble, bushy. After finishing the first part of the training, you can decide how they'll keep their bush.

>>12291

Buy a secondhand wacom tablet and git gud.

>>12349

If somebody makes a mod, make it so you can opt to fuck the bird in bird form, for sweet, sweet revenge, and so that it decides to play nice in human form in exchange for you stopping the bestiality.

>>12617

Bootcamp, amigo. Puedes tener varios sistemas instalados.

>>13292

While I would love to put the bird in this game, unfortunately there are almost no sprites for it to work. Unless an artist suddenly lends me a hand, there will be no birdfucking for now.

The development is only covered here ?

Not the best way as to tracking progress, out of fav then regular check, hm.

Looking promising in any case.

>>12828

Oh! Now it's Lola with red hairs, not Hermione. Didn't dev write it should be Ginny? I'd rather use her >>12668 At least then we would have one Ginny, not many more.

>>13500

OP here. The problem with those Ginny graphics are: there are almost none, they are hard to find, they are completely different from Akabur's style, and there are no clothes for her. I know Lola with red hair sucks, but as I've been preaching since the first post, I have no art skills and I have no one to help me with them. So, let's all get aboard the Lola train so the game can go on.

>>13489

Thanks you! There isn't enough material for a proper post, yet, but if you could kindly suggest me some forums/boards I can post, very soon there will be a proper post for tracking development.

>>12291

Just learn to draw.