Sexforge started. Current progress :

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If you missed the beginning : I’m trying to create a rpg (with potential multiplayer), using my previous and current solid experiences, as well as some help, from my sponsor (for hosting), and for players (through suggestions, and donations to finance the project !).
It should be both a flash game and a php/sql game. Meaning great looks and animations, and deep persisting world datas behind it, with lots of RPG, management or multiplayer interactions and tremendous game possibilities for the long run.
A few posts already been made to explain my intentions, and a few answers has been made to get the think-tank started, so we could came up with what players seemed to like the most.
So, this page try to summarize all this to get everyone to page.
As it is, it’s mainly “guide” concepts to just give you some ideas of what the game could look like, everything is moving, changing, improving and detailling as I (and will) develop it.
(Note : I made players comments mine, just for clarity purpose, but it’s a team reflexion for sure, don’t get me wrong!)

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About the development and release :
- I plan to go like KoPC, for this game : starting very very small and unimpressive (but releasing it right away, you won’t have to wait months or years to see it !), but building it up with regular updates, until it becomes a monster beyond measures and for all pleasure!
If you don’t trust this process, just read all this blog : it’s a more-than-a-year long testimony and proof how reliable I am and constantly improving on those kind of “evolutive development”. I’m no quiter.
- For finance, it’s a project all up to players : I have too many projects, too few ressources. If I can get my money behind it, I will, as usual, but it’s mainly up to you to support it and fuel up updates. Especially so because we’re hiring “real pros”, for this game : artists and writers and so on, to jump up the quality !
Also, I don’t eat air nor live in a box on the street with 48h of free time per day, for those wondering where this money goes. Anyway you’re not forced to anything : the game updates can be slow, if support is scarce, it’s not the end of the world. And if support is tremendous, full speed and full power on it, of course!!

About technical problems : server, traffic, cheaters, scripts or global balance issues.
-> Don’t worry, I got some experience in making amateur mmo in solo, it was my previous job.
Game should be hosted on MSG server, big and secure enough for millions of views, we’re good.
Cheating and scripts are about exploiting unadressed flaws in the game. Often, making sure your game is well-though in advance prevent LOOOOTS of problems, and making constant updates and keeping communication with the players take care of the rest.
For global balance, I’m a noob-lover and a versatile creator if there’s any, I take care of everyone, and so, don’t tend to create one-sided systems or to keep issues in the game “because you’re too dumb, just play better”.
That said, nobody’s perfect, me even less than other. You’ll have to deal with the fun of glitches and bugs. (because yeah, can be fun ^^)
And if really all hells get loose, well… at least we would have tried, and we have tons of other projects, minigames or not, to fall back on !

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About gender/general approach : straight, gay, futas, etc… ?
-> Game should address those stuff, asked time and time again : sex for everyone, choose your preference anytime.
Easy peasy : at character creation, you’ll have to define 4 traits :
– general gender : male or female
– sex gender : penis or pussy. (dickgirls are classic, but pussyboy less common)
– preference : male, female, both (will decide what you encounter in the game)
– position : fucker or fuckee.

4 traits to please them (almost) all, without changing the game : everything will be dynamically adapted to those traits : the people you encounters, and how poses you have work with them.
Trust me, not that hard, just need works.
Next paragraphes are in a “fucker male with penis liking females” perspective, but keep in mind it can translate to every other combination in a single click (even along the game), if you feel left out.

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About the gameplay :

Card game : card visual presentation is fun, nice, simple, very open and powerful tool.
The game will probably use that somehow, as well as collectible aspect. (NOT influencing pure power of players and create balance issue)

Ressource gathering through sex : the game will be some kind of “build up your ressources” thing.
Instead of having peons harvesting them with pickaxes and hatchets, it will be about having sex with people/at specific locations.
Example : go to forest and have sex with elves to gather wood. (increase your level in forest skills or affinity with elves to gather more and more quickly)
With time, you could recruit people at your base, and develop automatic in-walls sex to gather stuff.
Problem was raised that linking races or fetishes to specific ressources could alienate players that don’t like those races/fetishes in particular, and handicap them in the game mechanics as a result. Don’t worry : they will not be directly linked. You will be able to have any fetish on any race with any ressources. (it will be 3 paths/”branching trees” in themselves, but separate)

Clicker mechanics : lots of deep clicker games proved it can be a very versatile and rich way to go. Even aside allowing touchscreen users and easy-to-get gameplay, playing on various color matching, RPG combat stuff like attack/defense/HP/dodge/critical/special skills, and active/passive clicking offers loads of possibilities for everyone.

Breeding, of course : you know me, impregnation is my big thing (since 2008 d-z ‘get laid with tsunade 2’ game, lol ^^), this will be big part of the game.
Main idea is : breeding is the only way to ‘level up’ on some basic characteristics, but would be a ‘control variable’, for example by erasing parents in the process, or as big quest reward.
This way, it would keep leveling on a leach, as well as expurging unecessary characters as it goes, and proving worthy of something.
Do you breed your warrior and magician to create a powerful dual combat-mage heir, or do you keep them a little more ?
Do the other player will accept to breed his powerful character with yours, so you both share the offsprings, or does he asks for a better ‘deal’ ?
Will that legendary queen accept to be impregnanted by your main character so you get a powerful score of Leadership skill out of her participation ?

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About multiplayer aspects :

General idea : the game will be “asynchronous”, meaning you’ll not directly live play with other players. (at least not that I know)
But like any facebook game, or web-based ones like ogame.com or lulaonline or sexgangsters, that doesn’t mean you can’t or shouldn’t interact at all !
The comparison stops here, I got my own ideas after that, do NOT worry about having nothing to play with nor being stolen while your away, the game ought to be fun !
So, probably coop questing, private battle between clans (with different but equivalent bonuses for everyone), ladders, special and limited fields/aspects for confrontation not impacting on main crucial ressources, etc… there’s plenty solutions, it will come in its time.

“Sports” competitions : leagues could be open to players, at random, requiring/comparing specific characteristics to sort the winners.
Free to enter, prize depending on number of inscriptions, even the last one could have a little something, so, always worth it !
Every competition would stay open a few days, and showing players already signed in, having the sex activity they choose (or imposed by the competition) with the character(s) they pick and lock for this.
Simple, “eye candy” for everyone, balanced : you don’t always have the perfect girl/guy available to sign in, or are not interested in the field displayed, but anyway you don’t lose anything, you just win, even a little ! ^^
As the game evolves, ’static inscription’ and ‘results based on specific characteristics’ could be agremented with competition consisting in real minigames scoring.
Sexual fights, speed massive impregnations, poker, race, strategic stuff, button masher, whatever !

(more kind of multiplayer content to come, of course)

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About the background : as someone mentionned, not an easy question.
I am pleased with fantasy setting, because it “talks” more, with a ressource-gathering system, questing, etc…
But it could incite people to compare my mmo with others. And there’s already tons of fantasy mmos with far more budget, resources and fame. Not good for us.
Same goes for equipment and rpg elements and matters : I CAN’T compete, not even a little, with all that is out there, and people that understand that will be sad anyway we can’t have everything they have, and other will force-compare. Better not go that way.
Could be superheroes, mafias, cartoonish, there’s really a lot of ways to go.
In the end, we went for a sci-fi context.
Because there can be all the rest in it : discovering a planet full of superheros, or working into medieval settings, mechas, space nurses, etc…
So, for now, we will go with the story of one distant populated colony, diving into a strange sex powers ascension, will lots of secrets around that and a big universe still to be discovered around.
It fits every imperatives and every objectives, without closing any door.
(but that said, there’s matter for dozens of MMO, anyways, don’t put their realisation on my sole shoulders, even if given the opportunity I would gladly do them too)

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Miscellaneous ideas :

Playing a “head” team instead of one character : you may play a “general”, but with other main officers, and also a “clan” of active followers, in addition of your harem. Pyramidal, opening to several possibilities of gameplay.
For example, harem people could be at risk of disappearing, being stolen/lost, but if you make some of them gain enough levels, those chosen ones become ‘followers’, up for simple tasks and not going away. ‘Officers’ will be the only ones to send for true game/quests, and ‘General’ only one with persistent glorious capacities. (like breeding without any death or malus, lol)

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But the plot ? The general idea ? The screenshots ?
All that can be found on the patreon page, or will be left to be discovered in the game, of course !
http://www.patreon.com/sexforge

Didn’t put everything here, it’s not the place, it’s just a “summary”.
Will edit it as we progress !