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I realize this is a week before but wow, that's incredible progress! There's an insane amount of stuff here to look forward to. Not only the dresses for multiple women and the pre-prom, but the post-prom with Lois here sounds so exciting! This should be the first true sexual encounter with her so that's pretty big.

Actually on Lois' sex scenes in the game, I recall on F95 something about her choices either being Peter or Stu. I'm curious if this will remain true, or if the possibility of her being more sexually active will ever be on the table. For example in-series at times she's often seen flirting and sometimes even hinted at being intimate with other men like an episode from a more recent episode from Season 17:

Personally I do think stuff like this would be fun to explore with her because I don't think the series ever gets too in depth with how far she goes even though it gets hinted at though I realize your reluctance towards ever hitting into such areas if your audience might not dig it.

Also yes indeed, I do remember pLace! Well, no, that isn't accurate. I only remembered after seeing that preview image and it immediately came back to me. This is the kind of series lore detail I enjoy.

Oh yeah so on the voice acting; I definitely think this actress has the voice down right, but I do feel like the way her dialect is feels more like a New York-Jewish wife (Not from the US so I don't know if that's okay to say) than the rich girl sort of voice that Alex Borstein does. I think that's my only real complaint with it. The actress herself sounds amazing, and her "Petah" is definitely on point otherwise.

Dogathan Productions130 days ago

Thanks man! Although I feel like I might be leading you astray with the updates. Just to clarify, the prom event (with all the dresses for all the different women) will happen in v0.05, with all this stuff (clubbing, texting, etc.) happening in v0.04 (Pretty much the set up to the prom event). So hopefully I hope I didn't mislead you as part of what this update would include haha...

I have thought about that a lot, since there are a choice few scenes with her and other people throughout the series. But I think I ran into two problems with that, one is the whole NTR/NTS issue that I think would turn off a huge player base, but also a challenge for me when it came to the writing. I know Lois is fed up with Peter and there are a ton of jokes about her cheating on him or moving on, so I wanted to approach it from a bit of a different angle. What if instead she falls in love with someone other than Peter, and was able to give all of herself to that person? Like what she had for Peter in the very beginning. I wanted to go that angle where she cheats on Peter, but starts a relationship with them (where she can grow as a character) and explore her kinks with that one person. Bit of a narrow box, but given the way the show has been written, I can see the angle with her developing that way. And also because I am stickler for emotional investment into a story LOL. This doesn't stop us from exploring exhibitionism though in the near future, but at least until I finish all the paths for this game, I would rather avoid straying into the sharing/cheating themes.

And yes pLace! Glad you remember it, just wish all of Frank Sinatra's music wasn't copyrighted haha...

Yeah I agree with you on the voice actress. Although to be fair, I think it would be hard to find anyone capable of doing a 1-to-1 copy of Alex Borstein's voice. I feel like this VA comes really damn close and, based on the other voice lines, really nails the tone of the lines as a part of it. But once the next version comes out, I'll let you be the judge of that, along with all the other players. That way I can see if it's worth pursuing all the way through, or if it might be worth focusing more on the music than the voice acting. Ideally, I want to at least have voice acting for all the ladies, but damn it has been insanely hard to find anyone who will do VA for Meg, Connie, etc. I would love to stay the hell away from AI Voices if I can, but I feel like I might not have any other options...

SyliaStingray129 days ago

v0.05: Nah I understand you. I'm just excited what's mentioned will become a reality and happen sooner or later. The wait will definitely be worth it. I mean hell your updates are actually very meaty. I've seen games that could take several months with a sliver of content and here you are doing quality color CGs with multiple story routes plus you've got a plan set out and everything. Your ethic and approach to development is something I highly admire.

Yeah with multiple partners something like that would definitely upset some folks and I have no doubt about that. I actually did want to ask this question since the start on the forums because the in-series character doesn't necessarily strike me as somebody would be against it but had that gut feeling it would also come off the wrong way. I should say for the record though that whatever direction you go with her I'm all in.

Dogathan Productions129 days ago

I appreciate it man! I'm glad the updates seems more meaningful, especially since I know what you are talking about. I don't think a lot of people like to wait months on end just to get five minutes of gameplay...

I agree with you completely. Lois generally seems to be ripe for that type of material, since it goes hand in hand with her character development within the show. I guess this puts my limitations more into light, as I want to keep the story as focused as possible. I know going down the route where she is promiscuous would make it hard for me to stick the landing for the story. Maybe that's where the sandbox style of gameplay would make a better set up? I know the other dev making Lucky Guy could definitely go down that route if they wanted to, haha...

SyliaStingray128 days ago

There are some benefits to doing a sandbox style game and having the characters go down different paths on the side is definitely one of them. I admit it's a lot of fun to say have one lady go completely naked by player choice and then appear naked in other story routes and so forth.

That said, I also feel it causes laziness with devs if you can develop one popular thing and then leave other aspects and elements untouched. You could introduce one character and tease them for several updates and if somebody else is more popular with the players that character will feel so uneven development wise.

And the other thing with a sandbox is how grindy it can be. A lot of them feature day-night cycles, some events only happening during the day and on a certain day of the week, so you might just tab through every day trying to unlock those scenes, plus it's easy to overlook things this way.

I love the semi-linear approach with routes. At least this way every character can develop on pace with the story so it doesn't feel incoherent. I think if it ever came down to it you can always do secret paths and things like that.

Also tbh I mentioned this before but it's just so nice when you can enjoy story porn without running through hurdles haha. I still remember v0.02, I was enjoying drunk Peter shenanigans and when Lois calls you up, and the shock you get when Lois is riding her fat meat dildo. I basically pretty much knew to expect something really raunchy but that reveal blew my mind, and when you have an entire game where you can expect stuff like this just from natural progression it's just far more enjoyable.

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