Post by Wicks99 in News about the game's style comments

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Cool, personally I prefer 3D anyway. What was used to render them? Doesn't look Daz, is it VAM or Blender?

Personally I feel the current style is a tad too close to the generic Daz assets in the market (very mature & rough looking) and doesn't really stand out... If you could just fine tune it to slant the general feel towards a sweeter tone it would be good.

Something closer to Desirum or Haunted University captures the qualities of both Daz and HS2 will stand out greatly in the field of competition.

Profundum Studio4 days ago

This is why we wanted to ask you. For the reason of what would the community like? I used VaM to render these pics out. The mature look was needed in my head, because we want to publish on steam, and steam only bans a few things, but if your characters looking a bit to young. Here comes the BAN hammer. Will try to make models that are interesting, in this engine too, but have to remake all the Characters, if the community have a positive response to it! Will take some time and effort, but we want to listen to you guys, who plays our game.

Will check out the games you recommended, thank you, and have a nice day!

D6rk

Wicks994 days ago(+1)

Hey D6rk, thanks for the explanation. Personally I think the trick is to make the LIs especially their facial features softer and sweeter, NOT younger like underaged lolis. It's hard to describe in words, hence I can only use two recent games Haunted University and Desirium as examples.

None of the characters in these two look underaged and can definitely pass off as adults, but they manage to avoid this very rugged and coarse look that plagues most Daz models. Let me try to illustrate the point as best I can using Haunted as an example.

This is a typical character that looks anywhere 18 - 22, she has facial features that look "normal" and somewhat sweet.

A blond character that has a more outgoing and confident feel.

This one looks older and perhaps closer to the "Daz feel".

This is obviously going for the kawaii fans, but most importantly doesn't look loli.

Just using these characters as an example to illustrate what I'm trying to say, naturally all rights belong to Axolotl Games here and screenshots were contributed by players in another forum.

Naturally you shouldn't follow them exactly as I'm sure you will have your own artistic style, I'm just saying your current screenshot is showing something too close to what most other games using Daz are doing. This means the art won't stick out, so you will need to lean on some other thing like a strong story, sex scenes, game mechanics etc to rise above the competition.

Hope this helps. I can't speak for the "community" so just my personal 2C here.

Profundum Studio4 days ago (1 edit)

Ohh waoo, thank you for this expanded explanation!

Will look into more morphs later, as to make a bit more natural look to the characters! Now working on an animation so you guys can see some action! Reflecting on the story, mechanic side. I try to implement small mechanics to the game, but nothing fancy for the first game. Story wise, we are planning some emotionally deep story. Me and Jay (Our Writer) want to write a story that is a bit more than just ohh hey there is a girl and sex. I really want to build up the characters, and try to better my self in writing so, in the future we can bring you better games!

Thank you again for the long review and have a nice day!

D6rk

Wicks994 days ago(+1)

Same to you as well. Cheers and best of luck in your animations =)

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