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I think Erica does have enough of a personality. She is halfway between a "voiced protagonist" and a "blank slate", meaning that she does have a few fixed personality traits, while the rest is up to the players.

That's for sure. I am just not a fan of walkthroughs personally, but I understand how useful they can be.

I do have a ton of ideas for future games, so I wonder what I'll end up doing. Well, at least short term it's just Caliross and TOTDC 2.

Well, everything can have a final repeatable scene, of course. I just planned for the fairy queen to be a one shot, but I'll think a bit more about it, in case I change my mind. I think it also makes sense for the carillon content to end there, but as I said I'll think about it.

I mean, overall we have a few dates and 4-5 scenes with Tania. She isn't at the level of the more fleshed out characters, but I think it's good enough for her arc.

Once you reach a critical mass of mind-controllers, I feel it's better to leave some of them without any "grand schemes" of sorts. I am going to double-check Lady Rosa's content before the final release, but there is a good chance I won't do anything major with her.

Infinite60 days ago

what is TOTDC 2?

i see

well thats a bit disappointing

well yeah but i feel like if you end up getting manipulated you cannot find out her truth so she could range from romantic interest to just a person running a place either way having some additional content might flash her out a little even without a major scheme or effect on story

btw there is a scene a i feel should be repeatable that goblin girl scene it has perfect repeatability and that inn in zarnark that needs tweaking for better repeatability

yk this is a bit of a tangent but you could also write a lore book or an in game lore stuff in advanced libraries about species and characters up to you

mdqp58 days ago

I can't make any promises about Tania. As I said, I think she does have her arc, which meets the "minimum requirements" to be in the final version.

I'll also check the goblin girl and the Zanark inn scenes.

There are some lore books already, although they are usually accessible as individual books on shelves (like in the mages guild). Some topics in particular you'd like me to expand on?

Infinite56 days ago

you didn't answer my first question

well like stuff about the spider lady about santhora more stuff about their pantheon about indivduals (in our journal i guess?) like that

could you add some QoL improvements like if you use ctrl to hide text the scene doesn't move forward or an option like that and a scene repeater and as for the cheats see if you can add stuff or fix bugs (could be useful in exploring paths or just having fun)

mdqp54 days ago

Ooops! I don't know how I missed it.

TOTDC stands for Tales of the Drunken Cowboy. It's the game I made before Caliross. It used an engine for text adventures (RAGS), but it's not that far from Caliross conceptually. It's kind of an adventure/RPG hybrid, you have turn based combats, all sorts of puzzles, some traits that affect your choices (although in TOTDC I didn't really have "sexy" traits, and you picked 3 out of 5 at the start of the game) and so on. It's a sci-fi game (The Drunken Cowboy is the name of the spaceship) and you go around with an all-female crew, with mind-control as the main fetish.

New lore about the spider lady is hard to include in the libraries, since you already have to research her species and they are a bit of a mystery in the world of Caliross. I could certainly add more about the pantheon. As for individuals, do you just mean Erica should write something in her journal after meeting important figures, or is it for love interests?

I'll look into blocking the scenes from advancing if the text is hidden. The scene repeater is sadly too much of a pain to add, given that I didn't originally plan for it, and now the scenes are spread around hundreds of events in dozens of maps, and I'd have to manually find each one, strip the code out of the scenes and then figure out how to track which ones are unlocked... It's not impossible, but it would take a few months of doing just that, which isn't ideal.

Infinite54 days ago

no problem

well where is TOTDC hosted?

well i would say both it would be nice to see new entries depending on how much we progressed with someone (traits should also have an effect) and officials would be entries about people (we can/do get political so bios for big shots are important)

well adding that is upto you

damn i think thats all the things i needed to say for now but holy this is the longest comment chain i have seen its a whole thread now sorry for taking your time

take care

mdqp51 days ago

The first TOTDC was made using pictures from the internet, so it remains a bit of a "clandestine" game. You can find links to it in my blog:

https://mdqpgames.blogspot.com/

There are also links to my older games. Note that there are HTML conversions of the games, so if you don't have or can't run RAGS, you can still play the games with a browser (just remember to use right-click when interacting with something to see the available actions).

I see what you mean. No promises about journal entries (there are a lot of important NPCs at this point), but I'll think about it.

Ha-ha-ha, it was pretty long for sure. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and have fun with the game!

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