This is effectively my first real creative writing project in any medium, and has been in the works for way too long for something this small.

Even judging its merits is hard for me at this point, so I decided to push it out despite still having some reservations. The main things on my mind are whether the style of gameplay works out and, kind of relatedly, the writing of the sex scene.

Coming across Inform (the programming language the game is written in, specializing in classic interactive fiction) is what inspired me to make this thing in the first place, but the actual story ended up very wordy and linear, making it a questionable fit for the medium. The hope is that using text input for commands still buys enough immersion that it doesn't feel pointless or like it gets in the way.

As for the sex scene, the idea was to try and capitalize on that unique strength of the medium by making the sex 'free-form', but that made it incredibly challenging to write, especially as a beginner.

Firstly just trying to meet player expectations of what kinds of things should be possible has its demands, but then those things might also be happening in any order, and the very literal player-given commands draw awkward attention to the basic physical mechanics. Having to split the writing into these non-linear yet concrete 'actions' makes it difficult to achieve a natural flow and even just to keep track of everything in terms of editing. It might have been more trouble than it was worth and definitely is the main reason the project took so long.

Also, using 'polite' language (with the 'manhoods' and 'sexes' and whatnot) while still going into explicit detail felt contradictory and a bit silly, but I decided to stick to it. The intent is to try and maintain the mood and tone of a cautious and analytical point-of-view character who is trying to hold on to his faculties, with the major slips in his vocabulary happening in the bad endings.

Hopefully it all works at least on some level. The worry is letting people down when they hit the story's 'payload', which will realistically have been the only reason they bothered checking the thing out at all.

Zooming out, another sticking point might be how slowly things get going (probably a bit too wordy overall, even if I consider it leans more towards a 'story' than a pure 'game'), and how after all the setup for the possibility of more 'non-standard' clients, the actual client ends up being very vanilla as far as monsterfuckery goes. However, with the way that the 'good' ending lines things up, this could be a kind of prologue to potential future stories that do get spicier on that front. When (or whether) those will happen and what form they'll take all depends on this thing's reception. I currently have no real plans, and my next project at least will almost certainly be completely unrelated.

Thanks for your time! -Sad Blaggard