Putting on a Show - Public sex in Lab Rats 2
Added 2018-10-12 07:40:06 +0000 UTCIn v0.9 of LR2 when you seduce a character nobody else in the area has any way to interact with you or the girl you're fooling around with. Over the last couple of days I've been working to improve that and make characters in general more dynamic in how they respond to having sex. The first change is that you now have the option to "find someplace quiet" or stay exactly where you are when you seduce someone with other people in the room. "Someplace quiet" right now is a guarantee that nobody will interact with you, but I'd like to add the chance of people walking in on you, as well as add more flavour to where this quiet place actually is.
If you have sex right where you are other people in the room will take turns, one per round, commenting on what you're doing. Their exact response will depend on their sluttiness and the position you are currently in. At very high sluttiness they will make remarks about how "she probably wants it harder" or "you're going to put her to sleep like that". At low sluttiness they express surprise or disgust. Depending on their exact sluttiness they will receive minor changes to their stats - a boost to sluttiness, drop in obedience, etc.
The person you're having sex with being watched will then also respond, with her response corresponding to her own sluttiness, the sluttiness of the person watching her, and the position you're in. Two girls who are just slutty enough to enjoy the position you're using but not too slutty to think it's boring will reassure each other and result in a larger boost in sluttiness overall.
Another task I've finally tackled is reworking the pop-up text that shows up when you make some sort of change to a girls stats. The current system is clunky, doesn't play well with Ren'py rollback, and is prone to errors when multiple calls to show something on the screen are made. The new system moves all of the messages to the bottom right in a pop-up window. When closed it shows the last two or three effects applied to the girl, but you can open it to see the last ten or so (depending on message length). Messages flash when they're added to make it clear that something new has been pushed onto the list. I'd like to expand this system into a more generic "phone" system that lets characters send you messages any time, without interrupting the actual flow of the game.
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I like the idea, and I could see it hooking in very nicely with the new "Opinions" system. Girls who like or love "being in control" will demand rather than ask for sex when they need it and aggressively try and convince you. Serum effects could bump opinion levels up or down for a temporary amount of time.
Vren
2018-10-16 03:10:31 +0000 UTCRight now it is just a pop-up in the bottom right that records the same stat changes that currently pop up and fade away when you're interacting with someone. I don't have any explicit plans to expand it's functionality yet, but I think it's a convenient spot to shove future functionality without adding to the screen clutter.
Vren
2018-10-16 03:09:09 +0000 UTCMechanically there's no reason you can't have sex on any object in the room. The only practical limitation is that I need to write more positions that make use of them, and create more objects with interesting tags. It's something I want to expand soon, because the current limited list of positions has been around almost unchanged for a long while. Secondly, rendering improvements are planned for the next update cycle. Again I've got (most) of the rendering stuff automated, but it still takes time to design faces/bodies/poses, get the final renders cropped to the correct size, and so on.
Vren
2018-10-16 03:06:33 +0000 UTCI think that's what part of what I want the arousal stat to do, girls can get "worked up" by events over the day which makes it easier to seduce them in the first place.
Vren
2018-10-16 03:04:33 +0000 UTCHey I've been poking around in the scripts for the game and had an idea for a new serum trait. I was thinking about adding some thing that basically means "sexually aggressive", then adding some events that can only proc on girls with this trait. For example, an alternative to the night time scene where the girl shows up drunk and frustrated or maybe a scene at the lab where she initiates by coming up to the MC and start doing a lap dance.
2018-10-15 14:56:32 +0000 UTCThis has definitely peeked my interest! I'll be very happy to play a new version of this as soon as it comes out :D
TheMGA
2018-10-12 21:39:31 +0000 UTCmy guess is that we are not talking about actual phone but a UI window that shows a log of stat progression on character. Or is it a system to show responses of characters that are currently in the background? (the onlookers) if actual phones or an actual phone system was added into the game, i am sure it would have a potential to expand the content and possibilities of the game, its just that i am not sure if it is worth to add an extensive phone communication system into the game, at least i myself imagine it as something that would need potentially too much work to be worth it, so i dont consider it a vital part of the game anyway if a phone system would be added, it could explain more information sharing in between the characters of the game, it would enable various characters to send reports and other messages to the player, it would give the player the ability to interact with characters that are not in the presence of the protagonist on the topic of 3rd characters responding to your actions with another characters, a phone message might be a way for them to respond without making a scene (when they dont wish to interrupt you or would not dare interupt you or when they are just shy, etc...) again i dont think it would be an absolutely bad idea to introduce actual phones, i am just not sure if its completely worth it
retchedegg
2018-10-12 20:05:00 +0000 UTCTwo things: First it seems like the only options you are offering are sex on the floor or sex on a bed if one is available (not sure if wall counts but meh lets add that in there too) So three total options. So why cant we have sex in a chair or on one of the research tables? Second: are there plans for more interesting art? I loved the art of LR1 and I'm hoping you can pull more interesting art for future updates as the characters all seem a bit generic in their looks.
Mizino
2018-10-12 15:02:26 +0000 UTCI cannot wait to play this.
2018-10-12 14:04:52 +0000 UTCI like the idea, but why not had a horny stat? If you have sex in public and the other girl are in heat they can join us. Or when we "walk" between different place, we can encounter two girl who have sex, with a high sluttiness we can join too.
2018-10-12 09:47:15 +0000 UTCphones are always a good thing in my book, they allow you to add all kinds of things to the game without making a cluttered UI or a million tab you have to open and close. using a phone system opens the possibilities to immersive ways of keeping tabs on a character such as stats and maybe even mood. A messaging app for sexting to increase sluttiness or even maybe asking them to meet you somewhere as well as you can add an "Options" app to hide a debug menu or cheats maybe even an ability to change the theme or color of the UI... TL;DR - Phones are a good idea. Especially if they send nudes!
Tuuku
2018-10-12 09:00:49 +0000 UTC