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Stories / Ricardo's Journal

« on: July 10, 2011, 11:14:01 AM »

The first half of a two-part series - still working on the second half, but I thought I'd let you guys have this one now it's done!

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Stories / Something a bit different

« on: January 15, 2011, 02:47:43 PM »

Hey everyone!

Here's something I made using Sex Sim, but it's not a mod or a skin or a new outfit!
I'd include it as one file but it's a bit huge, so I've split it up into episodes for better tension, and to fit it all on.

Enjoy, and let me know if you want more!

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Suggestions / General impressions/requests

« on: November 20, 2010, 10:13:35 AM »

Hi Jak!

Just thought I'd give my impressions on the sim so far, and suggest some things I'd like to see in future!

First off, what got me to try it in the first place was the Farmville-esque 'play free, buy content' model - it might not work for a lot of games out there, but I think you've paced it just right, especially as you keep adding fun things.

Also, I'm quite impressed with the art quality - it's realistic without quite hitting that 'uncanny valley' creepiness, but not going too far the other way to be cartoony, with a nice variety of characters. Also I like the direction you've gone with the sound, keeping it non-verbal and realistic so it's not too repetitive.

The customisability, being able to edit the XML and texture files as you want, is a great feature too, although while it's nicely modular in that respect, there's a lot of fields that just don't do anything yet, which it would be nice to see working as more addons come out!

Now the critical part - here's a couple of things that could be changed in the current content, or are just plain bugs:

Excitement meters:
At present, the timing of the excitement meters is a bit odd - in general it's good, although a bit illogical sometimes...
In particular, while performing blowjobs or handjobs, it's impossible for girls to get past the 50% mark, which makes sense. However, in positions where the guy has no stimulation, such as in Twist-her: Spider or some of the alternate positions for 69, he'll still keep going up and eventually cum. Also, there's very few positions which make the girl get excited faster than the guy. Variety-pack 'touching herself' positions should really increase the girl's excitement increase and make it easier to simulate their efforts to climax simultaneously (or get ahead of each other!)
Also, in a similar issue, changing the XML file values for excitement meter gain don't seem to have any effect (which could also help with testing 'cumshot' effects, making certain positions make the meter shoot up for an 'instant cum' effect without it being an in-game button!)
So, generally, it needs a little balancing to make breast-touching and fingering have a bit more effect on excitement.

Exclusive positions: I know they'd require extra animations, but is there any reason guys can't do the sitting/standing eating out/fingering positions the girls can do, or that girl/girl doesn't include a 69 position?

Bugs:
At present the cumshot boob-splatter effects on the 'big' girls (Shauna and Tiffany) don't work, and with a bit of camera work, the alphas seem to be appearing in the inside of their skin.
And a minor minor inconsistancy: fingering/eating out position names are uncapitalised, where everything else is.

Requests!
First up, what I feel is the one thing most lacking from this sex sim that slightly detracts from it being a 'sim' is no foreplay set! There's loads of awesome dress-up outfits, but while hasty, pants-pulled-aside sex can be fun, it's also a bit uncomfortable, so generally you're going to want to get naked first. However, with the current animation sets there's no middle ground between 'posing/giving a blowjob in sexy outfit' to 'full penetrative sex' - so request 1 would be some foreplay setups where it would be natural to get undressed.

Following on from that: if there's foreplay, it would look a bit unnatural for the guy to be completely starkers the whole time. Therefore: outfits for guys! Nothing particularly fancy, just something to take off, although how to work whether he's erect or not when he's wearing pants is up to you. As a part of that though, it could also be nice to include in male dressing options a 'protection on/off' button.

And as a followup to that: the oral/handjob cumshot effects are pretty nice, it would be nice for there to be a 'creampie' effect too, which could go hand in hand with a 'protection' option for the guy, and even a 'pull out' sub animation and linked cum splatters for some positions.

Finally: more sounds! The current sounds are excellent, but there's 10 official characters and only the one voice per gender. It'd be great to have a specific sound set for each girl/guy, or even just a couple more and randomise them. I know this would require having to get more couples to have sex and record them, but it would add a lot of depth to the game!
Also, while having the characters nonverbal does work quite well and prevents obvious repetition, if you've got the resources to record a big enough dictionary of things to say, it could add some atmosphere having some phrases to add for use in certain positions, or at certain times, or most likely when the user tells them to, so we have a 'say phrase' menu to control what they say and when they say it.

Those are the simplest things to add that I think would make the game better as it is - I look forward to other things you have planned that require lots more work - Threesomes (and the various gender-mixes you can have there), new locations, new characters, new positions, and whatever else you have planned!

Thanks for all your hard work so far!