Follow Up Game Concept: Drow Trainer Game

Alright, everyone, time to get started on the whirlwind of posts. All of you SHOULD be aware that The Dungeon of Lewdity is finally coming to a finish this month. Which means that it's time to pick the game that will follow it up. Now, a lot of you probably remember the poll last month, that served to start this process by narrowing down the direct follow-up option to a single game. That poll is now over, with the clear winner being The Dungeon of Lewdity: Dungeon Master Edition. Which means that game (which you can read about in the poll post I just linked) will be one of the options to appear in the Follow-up game poll. And, if we're being honest, probably the one with the edge to win it all, since many or most of you came here for The Dungeon of Lewdity in the first place.

Having said that,  DolL: Dungeon Master Edition will have competition in the form of 2 other game concepts. One, as I promised months ago, is the second-place finisher from the poll that saw Chastity Quest replacing The Sexy Cosplay Cafe in the development cycle. As such, the attached images and much of the description in this post might be familiar to those of you who have been around since then :-). However, I will note that the description has been tweaked and streamlined, so you might want to read it anyway. Now, without farther ado:

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The Drow Trainer Game:  

I'm guessing most of you here have played at least one 'Trainer' adult game. They are a staple of the Adult Game's community, with some of the most famous adult games creators (Like Akabur) specializing in their making. Now, I personally think that a lot of those trainer games are a bit...uninspired, shall we say? Sure, many are decently made...but they tend to be awfully vanilla. Sure, you're 'training a slave' so there's a little bit of kink there...but that's as far as most of them take it (not all, there are some good exceptions!). Where's the options for training your girl, whatever the setting, in logical extensions of the kink? Things like bondage play, public use, pet play, chastity belt training, and...well...pretty much all the other stuff you see in my games! Generally, at best, you see an option to whore the character out or something equally blah.

As such, my proposal for this is sort of an extension on The Drow Room of The Dungeon of Lewdity. As with ALL of my games, things will be done in as sex-positive a manner as possible (in other words, no rape, non-consensual mind control, torture, etc), which means that the background would be a bit different from your typical trainer game. Let's take a quick look at the general outline!

Background:

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You are the youngest daughter of the house of R'lunda, living in the city of Titian's Grace. You've recently struck out on your own, establishing your own shop to prove to your family you aren't just another spare heir. You've met with excellent success so far and for the first time have the chance to expand. And you know EXACTLY what you want to do.

You want an assistant. 

More exactly, you want one of your oldest friends as your assistant, so you can finally be in a position to make her yours. You chose to make your shop focus on lingerie and 'adult marital aids' for a reason, after all! You and she have been playing 'games' since your teen years and you long ago figured out that she's both into you...and at least a little submissive. No one is that willing to be tied up and 'molested' by the 'villains', normally. So you're going to make her your assistant. And from there...well, you've got quite a list of things you want to see her do...

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Gameplay:

THIS BIT HAS CHANGED! Originally, I planned to make a poll to cover what race the protagonist should be. However, now my intention is to make that poll cover gender instead,  with a very quick follow up poll (because I'll need to actually acquire the assets before I start making the game....) deciding if the shop-owning main character is Male or Female. I do not feel I can realistically do both, unfortunately.  Personally, I'd be interested in doing it with a Female or Futa protagonist, simply because I don't think I've seen it done before in any trainer game. Well, that, and is should be fairly obvious from my other games that female protagonists are a thing I do. Originally, I did it because they were rarer. However, I've also found that it's actually somewhat easier to make games 'sex positive' feeling with female characters in control of the action.

Next, while the background mentions a shop, I'm not going to make the mistake of making you run one in detail. The actual shop portion of the game would be kept extremely simple, mostly being there to provide you another way to 'use' the girl you're training. Possibly with a fun minigame or two thrown in. 

For the most part, the gameplay would be focused on taking in the 'friend' you'd be training...and training her. She'd start out just a touch reluctant but, via various means, you'll be able to raise a simple set of stats such as LUST and OBEDIENCE. This will, in turn, unlock more types of training or new options for new Kink types to train her in. Some things that would feature would be:

Bondage Clothing(Harnesses, Arm Binders, Chastity Belts, Etc.)

Bondage Devices(Stocks, Horse, Bondage Benches, Etc.)

Cosplay/Roleplay(Maid Outfits, Bunny Girl Clothes, Etc.)

Exhibitionism/Voyeurism(Working the shop nude, or displaying erotic shop wear on her body)

Pet-Play (Pony and Cat most likely)

Toys (Dildos, Remote Control Vibrators, Inflatable Sheep. Well, probably not the sheep...)

Sex, lots of sex (All the typical range in a variety of positions)

Assets/Game Engine/Art:

I want to get back to original art. I never really thought DoL would take off as it did...and I honestly feel a tiny bit bad about not using original art in it. Even if I'm crediting the artists as much as I can. 

As you can see from the renders I've included, the most likely thing for me to do art-wise would be a return to Daz3D render. I now have access to much better hardware than I did for Eros Academy...plus an actual budget to spend on assets. The renders I've included are TESTS only, simply me proving that I can make high-quality renders of a Drow character. If you look at the two renders, you can see that they were rendered to two differing styles. One is photo-realistic, while the other is more game-model like. Strangely enough, the photoreal version actually rendered faster -_-?

Both of them are rendered at 2K Resolution, a MAJOR upgrade from the barely-hd (720p) renders I used for Eros Academy. They're also using both Iray technology and Daz3d's new Genesis 8 body. That later fact is part of the reason these are only a test, not a finished character of any sort. I did not, at the time these were made, have the full morph package for things like facial expression and breast sizes. That has since changed, so I'll be able to keep my startup costs down to a dull roar...hopefully...

That means there would be some initial outlay of money on my part for the major assets...and a constant trickle after that for other new assets. I'm okay with that. In fact, it's part of the reason I'm willing to return to Daz3D. Before, when I was making Eros Academy, I just couldn't afford to buy any serious amount of assets. Now, with the additional support I have these days, I could buy a few new professional assets each month. This would/will allow me to make MUCH better-looking scenes, with much less aggravation on my part. 

THIS BIT HAS CHANGED As for the game engine...the renders will be time-consuming, so using anything other than TWINE is pretty much out of the question. Both Renpy and Visual Novel Maker, as well as other major VN engines, add too much programming time to my builds...and I can't handle that on two games a month. As such, this would an in-browser game like The Dungeon of Lewdity. After careful consideration, I believe I can do this game fairly decent justice this way. Scene would likely have somewhat fewer images than DoL rooms, but with the images being more perfectly on-point as compensation...