Gobbo After Dark

POLL - Next content drop?

Hey there, fellow Hobs & Gobz! Now, here's a very simple question for you guys!

Which girl should feature in the third content drop?

I've already done a drop about Elena, but she is the game's main girl, and she could use a canon set.

Laura just got a drop, but if she's well received, I'm not against representing her more.

I haven't done Elise yet, so it would seem like the logical choice...

BUT there are more girls to be added to the game. You'll remember me...

WEEKLY POST - April 27th 2025 - Bonus Drop: Laura's Growth

Hey Everybody! This week has been a bit hectic, to the point where I'm here starting to write this post 5 minutes before my usual post-time. Normally, it would've been written hours in advance, but I've been terribly busy this week!

Although I want to deliver lots of new stuff, I don't have a lot to visuals to share aside from the new BioNovalis logo you can see on the picture above.

I'll get right back on schedule next week with the usual Weekly Post video and Laura's finished de...

POLL - Serum name

Hey there, Hobz & Gobz!

This week, I'd like to pick your brain with the name of the serum. I don't wanna have to call it "the serum" or "the formula" constantly, it needs a name!

So let's get right down to it, here are the option and why I picked them:

SERUM HIPPOLYTA:
From Greek mythology, Hippolyta is the daughter of Ares. If you know Wonder Woman from DC, Hippolyta is her mother. Her status as Queen of the Amazons makes her name a solid choice. Bef...

WEEKLY POST - April 20th 2025 - Background week!

Hey everybody!

This week, I'm happy to report that I've been able to make some nice things which I can easily show you guys! Let's begin!

Introduction cutscene:

In the above video, you'll see an animation which will be the first thing that is displayed in-game after the Gobbo Games splash-screen, featuring a close-up of Johan and the mixing of the canister of serum.

You'll ...

BONUS CONTENT - Elena's romantic date in the woods

Hey there, fellow Hobz & Gobz!

Here is the very first drop of Bonus Content!

For this one, I wanted to go with a seasonal spring theme. Roses are blooming, and Elena wanted to wear her nicest dress in the woods. Because why not, right?
In the woods, (almost) nobody can hear you grow.

I hope you'll enjoy the corny dialogue, too!

Full-disclosure, it took me far more tim...

POLL - Laura Martin

Surprise new character:

Hey guys!
So, for a long while, I wanted the lab to have a female security person, I might've mentioned that in one of my earliest weekly post.
For her, I've settled on the name Laura Martin.

The plan was for that character to not be in the Prologue. Then, last week, I started to think "I could just release some stills of her as photos Johan would show to Alex".

Now, however, I'm starting to think that I have to include a segment in the prolog...

WEEKLY POST - April 13th 2025 - First Bonus Drop!

Hey guys!

So, as I say in the above video, not a lot to show about the game right now, but I'm working on stuff!
That being said, there are two notable things for this week:

1 - New character design poll!

Over the past few weeks, I've decided to add a side-character to the prologue that I initially thought I would keep for Chapter 2. It makes sense for her to be in here from the start, and I'd prefer to have her now rather than later and thinking "Why wasn't she there b...

Poll - Bonus content?

Hey guys!

So here's the thing, I'm gonna be real with you and acknowledge that I'm clearly not providing enough value for everybody. In the past 30 days, it took the form of roughly 30% sub cancellations.

I want to fix that and make sure that you guys get bonus content from me, in the form of FMG pictures, both SFW and NSFW. If you've been following me for a while, you know I don't wanna send you slop, I want to make sure I send you stuff I'm satisfied with.

I also have to w...

WEEKLY POST - April 6th 2025 - Elise Dubois animated!

It's been arduous, but I now have the animated sprites for Elena, Johan and Elise.

Much like the other two, this one has a bunch of facial expressions I can switch around indenpendently from her left arm to make neat combinations.

For Elise, I've also experimented a bit to have several blushing effects on her face, and I've given her little lines between her eyebrows to sell better her angry expression.

What's next?

To put it simply, a lot of writing and a lot of sma...

WEEKLY POST - March 30th 2025 - The Cutting of Elise Dubois

Hello everybody!

New Tier!

So, if you haven't seen it yet, I'm gonna reiterate it here, but I've added a new cheaper Tier to my Patreon which only gives access to the Weekly Posts like this one, for those who don't wanna spend too much on my work but still want to support the development of the game. I think it's a solid option that doesn't compromise the other tiers.

I hope this works out, because I wanna keep working on the game! Right now, however, the whole Patreon thi...

WEEKLY POST - March 23rd 2025 - Lab Background

Hey guys! This week, I've just finished the lab background for the prologue.

Nothing insane to show, but I wanted a background which could display some lab-devices like a centrifuge, a bunsen burner, an incubator, some computers, vials...

I also wanted a board in the back on which I could write things. I haven't used it yet, but I'll be able to re-used the papers from the initial AI-generation, and I'll draw some schematics in various colors and such. It's gonna be neat.

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Poll - Design for Elise Dubois

Hey there fellow Hobz & Gobz!

I will keep this short and sweet before I go drug myself to sleep!

Below, we have several designs for the character of Elise Dubois:

First-off, yeah, they all look a bit frustrated. That's because they don't like what Alex and Johan are doing.
Elise will play a pretty important role in the story, and if you've been following story-posts, you sho...

WEEKLY POST - March 16th 2025 - Baked Gobbo

Hey everybody!

I would preface this weekly post by explaining that I've had a bit of a rough week as I'm now pretty sure I'm going through a burn out, because of just how much work I've been doing on my computer for the past decade, and how much work I've been putting into my game since June of last year.

So this week, on Wednesday, out of the blue, my body went "nope" and I suddenly became unable to sleep. Yeah, you'd think it would've translated into something like "I can't look...

WEEKLY POST - March 9th 2025 - Johan and future plans

Hey there, fellow Gremz, Hobz & Gobz!

Very short post this week!

As you're watching the video / reading this post (whichever you do first, I'm not your gob-mom), I should be rigging Johan's sprite in Live2D.

Full disclosure, these weeks are getting a bit hectic, since I have to look for alternate sources of income on top of dealing with administrative and family stuff. Thankfully, it's under control for now, but I definitely can't work on the game full-time, so my output...

WEEKLY POST - March 2nd 2025 - Elena's new animated sprite

Hey everybody! I feel like this Weekly post deserves to be seen by everybody in case you're a silent follower who hasn't joined the gremz, hobz or gobz, wondering "is this guy actually working on his fucking game or is he just jerking off?!"

The official answer is : "I can do both, it's called multi-tasking."

In any case, this week in the above video, I'm showcasing to everybody the (pretty much) finished animated sprite for Chapter 1 Elena clothed.

2025-03-02 14:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Poll - Elena's haircolor

Hey guys!

So here's a bit of a quickly, just to see what you think.

Basically, ever since v1.0 of the game came out, I keep looking at Elena's Turquoise hair and thinking "this looks so weird and unnatural". I'm exploring some alternate directions.

One such direction would imply the new Elena to be more of a brunette with greener eyes and turquoise highlights dyed in her hair.

WEEKLY POST - February 23rd 2025 - Animating Elena

Hey guys!

Been feeling a bit under the weather this past few days (I tried not to sniffle too much while recording the video, but it's clear that I caught something).
So, full disclosure, and contrary to prior expectations, I'm not quite finished with animating Elena's sprite.

I thought I'd show you in the video 'how the sausage is made', as I put it.

Basically the above picture...

Heavy voice acting decision

Hey there!

I thought I should make a special post about Voice acting sooner or later, so here it is, separately from the Weekly Post I sent to the Gremz, Hobz and Gobz.
Basically, with the Prologue update, I will need to make take some heavy decisions regarding Voice acting.

Tabula Rasa:

The changes mentioned in the Story Round-up post I wrote for my fellow Hobz & Gobz will require me to delete Alexia Renaldis' voice acting for Elena. I'm going to make too many...

Poll - Story round-up

Alright, fellow Hobz & Gobz, today I'm gonna share with you a round-up of what I've come up with regarding the story so far, based on polls.

• Elena Fontaine:

As you might've seen in v1.0, I mentioned Elena's mom was Sayomi, who married a French traveller. Her maiden name would be Hoshino.
Going from there, I've settled on Elena's surname being Elena Fontaine.

Elena grew up travelling a lot with her parents, and all three like visiting places.
Now, Elena prefe...

WEEKLY POST - February 16th 2025 - Slow week

Why slow?

Hey there, fellow Gremz, Hobs and Gobz!
So yeah, this week was an annoying one. I had to waste a lot of my time dealing with administrative tedium, going back and forth to places for meetings I can sum-up with "this could've been done via e-mails or phone calls".

This prevented me from doing the main thing I wanted to tackle this week: Elena's new animated sprite. Fret not, as you're reading this, I should be working on it.

So... nothing to show?

No no...

Poll - Deeper into narrative choices

Ok so at this point, I'm fairly confident that it's highly unlikely for the results of last week's polls to change drastically.

• Alex created the serum.
• The serum is DNA-based (animal?)
• The story would involve exploring the notion of a Rival, and the enhanced girls would contemplate ways to change their lives (for better or worse), on top of dealing a little with side-effects.
• FMG has a spectacular peak growth and gradually shrinks back to an enhanced toned/fit f...

Poll - Serum color

Alright, so I'm curious to know how you guys feel about this one.

As you can see, in V1.0 of the game, the serum has this green tint. I went with it because it seemed natural to me, but maybe it shouldn't?

Assuming I follow last week's poll (and I intend to), Alex is the one making the serum and it's DNA-based, as it made from animal DNA, for example. Maybe other things, I'll iron ...

WEEKLY POST - February 9th 2025 - Travel Map and a style change!

Hey there, my fellow Grems, Hobz and Gobz.

What's up this week?

• I've added a neat little "Gobbo Games" splash screen animation. It's a little dumb, I know, nothing crazy or super fancy, but I like it.
• I did some optimizing in my code to account for the scope expansion beyond Chapter 1.
• I squashed a bug related to the Inspection gameplay, and another related to the Gallery. Those will be deployed when I'm ready to deploy the Prologue.
• I did a couple of sm...

Poll - Serum's origins

Where does the serum comes from? Who made it? What is it made of?
This poll is multiple-choice, divided in 2 main parts :
- How did Alex get the serum
- What is the serum made out of?

Something I'd like to add eitherway to the game's prologue would be a male-performance-enhancing pill that Alex would take sometime before the FMG scene, which would explain the ungodly schlong he has in the Chapter 1 sex scene.

PART 1: How did Alex get the serum?

A...

2025-02-02 14:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Poll - What side-effects could the serum have?

The focus of the story could be to explore the serum's side-effects, and overcoming them.
Although, I believe it's fair to think of them separately from the other story idea as some of the most minor ones could be explored if Option 2 won.

For example, the strength gained from the serum could cause mood swings, loss of inhibitions, violent tendencies? Maybe the serum's user develops a split-...

Poll - FMG duration

I think that this is the right time to ask what sort of duration the muscle growth has in 'Dating Elena'. I have 3 options in mind:

A) Permanent, additive, gradual:

The serum would have a smaller impact, but the growth would be permanent, and each serum dose would add-up to the user's muscle mass.
Pro:
Fun progression throughout the game
Con:
If Option 2, it would be a nightmare and require a disproportionate amount of work if you ca...

Poll - Over-arching Story

So, if you've read the latest Weekly Post, you should be up to speed. This is the first Creative Poll, only available to Hobz & Gobz.

Following the polls of last week, there are 2 major choices:
Option 1 - I commit to add an over-arching story to Dating Elena.
Option 2 - For the sake of being realistic, I won't add a story to the game (which will be renamed). The game will be shorter than with Option 1, but will involve multiple girlfriend options, yadi-yada, I went over this ...

WEEKLY POST - February 2nd 2025 - Executive Decision?

Recap:

Quick recap, at the start of the week, I added a new Tier (which I later renamed to) "Gremlin". Gremlins will be allowed to vote on Critical polls/decisions, while I will limit Creative polls/decisions to Hobz & Gobz.

This week, however, I'm gonna share not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR of these Creative polls with the Hobs & Gobz! This time, they will be focused on story development.

Now, ontop the big question of this week!

Dilemma:

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Progress Report - Prologue Backgrounds

So if you've been following the Weekly Posts, I've been working on the game's Prologue, and so far, I've made these backgrounds relating to Alex's apartment, and the building where he lives. I'm not aiming for perfection, so I think it's 'good enough'.

New Patreon Tier

Hey there people!

I've just added a new Tier on Patreon which makes access to the game and supporting the project that much more convenient for those of you who were still on the fence!

Big choice!

Indeed, I thought $5 was a fair price, but in light of nobody commenting on either Patreon and Discord, and the drop yesterday of a big Patreon poll that will decide the fate of my game, I added a cheaper $3 option which also gives you access to the game ...