Even more v0.12 progress!

One thing to be wary with procedural generation is making each character feel unique enough. Eg hand crafted characters have their own personalities and don't share dialogue. Procedural generation tends to result in the opposite unless significant time and effort is devoted to building a large pool to select personalities from. It'd be akin to making something like Pokemon from scratch.

Mylen Ploa

Slightly related topic: might be nice to have the girls suggest trying something new on their own volition (in lab rats 2.0). Anyway there are many features to potentially work on so take your time. :)

Mylen Ploa

Lab Rats 2 will have procedurally generated girls, so there will be a (near) INFINITE number of possibilities. Hopefully that'll be enough!

Vren

Lab Rats 2 won't have a time limit, and will be a much more open sandbox/management style game. It's still in the prototyping phase with a lot of things being changed around, but you'll be hearing more about it over the next couple of weeks and months.

Vren

I agree, threesomes are one of the things that haven't been added in at the same rate as other content. I'll see what I can do about that over the next couple of updates!

Vren

I like the idea Richard, and I've been wanting to link the training and resistance systems together a little bit more. I'll put it on the list of things to think about for v0.13.

Vren

that makes sense, since after a certain amount of training, they'd mentally be used to it to where resistance would either stagnate or reduce.

jish55

Thanks :)

KDowg

You trigger the shower scenes by going to be early the night before, then hitting the shower first thing the next morning

On one playthrough, i got the code by asking stephanie what the code was, and she gave it to me, i cant recall what level i had her at, but she had been my primary focus on that run.

How do you trigger the shower scenes and the lily scenes?

KDowg

It is her desk, just keep trying if it's not there roll back and try another day. It's random and the RNG changes per day.

Mylen Ploa

Since you seem to know a lot about how to trigger events could you help me with getting the code for the lab in version 11.1. It used to be in stephanies desk but doesn't seem to be there any more. Is there also by any chance a walkthrough somewhere on how to trigger most scenes?

N

It's pretty easy to do, some other renpy games do this. I'm not so much of a fan of it though, I think it can be resolved in other ways.

Mylen Ploa

On the topic ofthe time limit I think it's less an issue of the limit itself and more of: 1) On first playthrough you may not know what you need to do (eg I was not aware of how to trigger the shower scene until my 3rd playthrough nor did I know how to get other Lily scenes so I thought the only one was the weekend movie one which made training her very hard) 2) Randomness for some characters. In 80 days I can easily (with lots of rollback/save scumming) get all the girls to 100+ influence (required for best ending found via looking in the code) having prior knowledge of what triggers events to happen. There has been a reduction in randomness in latest releases.

Mylen Ploa

I modded my copy of lab rats 1 to take current training into account when calculating how much resistance to add. Eg if they are already highly trained by you their resistance shouldn't go up so much since it would feel natural to them anyway.

Mylen Ploa

I'd like to see more girls in Lab Rats 2

That might work, if there was an option to end the game when you wanted to then it gave you the ending based on your stats/choices up to that point. Not sure how hard/easy that would be to do though as I know nothing about renpy or game design.

Dasati

ya i kept thinkin if i bring alex to the lab in the morning maybe steph will be there or might walk in......

For Lab Rats 2, I'd like to see more subtle and different possibilities. A longer time limit would be good too, I don't think many people play this sort of game for a challenge, so a more sandbox setting would certainly be preferable for me.

120 days :( , time limit is bad for many people is easy have a event that end the game and trigger him when we are done

Jerfesson Pedro

Just need a couple more threesome combinations and then even I can't think of much else to add on. Good job Vren, looking forward to your next game.

I love the game, and am glad with how much content you add in each update. I would say with Lab Rats 2, the only things I'd want is more time instead of just 120 days, an easier means to train them with a way to remove resistance, and add a few new girls into the game.

jish55