Honestly this might not be a real musing, but I feel it as an opportunity to ramble a bunch, so I'm going to label it as one and see where this goes. So, a big problem I have in porn games is a sort of...inconsistency with other characters. Or an over-consistency. If a character is flexible, serving both a porn and non-porn role, often they tend to flip personalities on a dime. They're friendly and nice to you, until suddenly a switch flicks in their brain and they turn rapey. Then once they're satisfied, it's back to being friendly like nothing happened.
Alternately, they're just static, either always friendly, or always sexual and there's no in-between. The only case where this isn't true is the games that are linear. But obviously in these cases, there's nothing fancy going on, it's just a straight plot resolving(or one of multiple lines of plot resolving, whatever). The point I'm getting to is that for the most part, in open games, characters aren't active.
So naturally, in my usual trend of jumping ahead of my plan, I've decided to change that in Shield High. This has proven to be a terrible mistake. I'm not going back on it but jesus christ this is going to be a lot of work to get it working correctly. By the end, the goal is to make it so that every NPC has an ongoing ambition, and a number of short term agendas they're trying to see through. They'll walk around, socialize, pick fights, fuck girls, whatever it takes to see their agendas advanced. It's something I've wanted in the game for a long time. It's just...going to be painful to complete it.
You might be wondering why I'm doing this now. There's only like, 25 characters in the game, that's honestly not enough for the AI to work properly. And it won't, most characters in the next few updates will remain lifeless until I start to fill in the school, and it'll very slowly come to life after that. But, with adding blackmail, it's kind of integral to that, I feel. Being blackmailed for sex is all well and good, but being blackmailed for sex, and then for pursuing the goals of someone else is even better. Also, the AI here provides the possibility of the blackmail being followed through with, or it being traded around to others.
The other benefit of this happening now is that honestly, once this storyline is done, I'm kind of done with all the static stuff for a while. So having the AI working at the end of it means that I can start filling out more and more characters to come and provide filler plots for you, and generally flesh out the meat of the game without having to worry too much about programming them all on when to come and do the thing. Their AI will pick and choose when to do that for them. Assuming it all works out, of course. I may well have to cut corners and gimp the AI to make it all work for me. Who knows.
Point is, ambition ahoy, fuck you, everyone else who does porn games, I need to continue trying to prove myself to be better. I'm probably not. I'm probably just re-treading trodden ground that was proven to not work and will soon end up falling in line. Oh well, worth trying at least. If nothing else I'll be able to say for certain why it fails.
Pudding Earl.
P.S. Yes, update is on the 7th again, along with final book for the time being. That is all.
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