Hi all,
Here’s a quick update to celebrate the fact that I actually have some time to work on Night Games. This isn’t a big update overall, but I wanted to get the art commissions into the game sooner rather than later. I have a bunch of small writing tasks coming up, which I haven’t done in awhile, so we’ll see how long it takes me to get up to speed.
People have been asking me for the ability to put yourself into a submissive position for months now, and I finally decided to make a dedicated skill tree for it. My plan is to make it not completely useless, but still probably underpowered compared to the other skills. You can grab the first level in the XXX Store after level 5. I’ll put an actual NPC there soon.
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Changelog:
Fixed an issue where Reyka’s dominant portrait caused the game to crash
Fixed an issue where the potions menu wasn’t cleared, causing it to fill with duplicate buttons
Advanced training cost now increases by $500 per level instead of $1000
Fixed an issue where the Workshop wasn’t charging Mara the full price
Bolded a lot of encounter text to make it more noticeable
Cleared text when evaluating fight or flight to make it more readable
Added image for Blowjob, drawn by Phanaxial
Added image for Footjob, drawn by Sky Relyks
Added image for Dissolving Solution by Sky Relyks
Mood decay rate is now exponential outside of combat
Fixed an issue where the game would get stuck if they player had all available feats
Dissolving Solution’s status now lasts another turn
New Science skill: Fabricator
New Fetish skill: Bondage Straps
New Arcane skill: Mage Armor
New Feat: Fast Learner
New Advanced Attribute: Submissive
Placeholder for Submissive trainer in XXX Store after level 5
New Submissive skill: Dive
New Submissive skill: Cowardice
New Submissive skill: Stumble
Reduced NPC Attribute growth
If you start the match without boxers, the game will crash after the first fight of that match.
Other than that, I like the updates.
Looking great so far, man. This may have been in the last update and I just missed it, but it seems like the AI ‘s been improved, behaves more consistently and in accordance with their mood, instead of just throwing out moves at random. Also really like the expanded features and the portraits are a nice touch, though the combat images can be a little obtrusive, it’s jarring how they resize the text box.
A couple of minor issues that I noticed:
-turning off images also disables portraits even while portraits are still turned on.
-Escape seems incredibly weak now; several fights I got pinned or restrained and then it took around a dozen turns to break free, even with really high (like close to 40) Cunning, by which point the fight was almost lost. Either this doesn’t seem to apply to the AI or they all use Struggle, as they’re still able to escape from pins very easily.
-The way that the opponents move around the map seems odd sometimes. I’ve had a few matches where one or two opponents were nowhere to be found the entire match and they would end the night with few or 0 wins. Not sure whether it means they find a remote spot and then just camp out there for the entire match, or are just losing all of their fights.
Keep up the excellent work.
Awesome! I was hoping for an update.
I was going to ask about adding a version to the file names so an update will not necessarily overwrite the old version (just in case I need to go back to it, or to compare something with the new one), but now I see you use a three-letter code based on the post heading. Interesting idea.
Great to see a new update! Had a glitch where it shows Jewels face all the time.
Ran into the same issue myself.
Thanks for the updates, very impressed with the game.
I wonder if we will get some form of the body shop kinda like what the modded version has. It would be an interesting branch path to potentially upgrade your character and his stats. It could also trade off with vulnerabilities too. It doesn’t necessarily need to be as extensive or in any way identical to the mod though. I wouldn’t mind an option to boost muscles with the hard earned cash as a way to boost power for instance. Of course if you wanted to put feminizing bodymods into it that would be cool too.
Its just a thought though since it looks like the modded version is going on permanent hiatus.
What is the best way to report bugs and typos? Do you have a tracker (if not, I believe WordPress has bug tracker plugins), or should we just post it here?
You can just post them here. Even if I don’t reply, I’ll look into them.
By the way, I chipped in a few more bucks toward whatever you want to add it to.
Enjoying the game a lot, I have to say.
Bug I found: when I reloaded a game after having been paying for magic training, the next time I took the training it gave me the initial training scene with the fairy king again. (I had gotten up to the clothes blasting scene.)
Also, perhaps I just never had enough max mojo, but I never saw the clothes blasting spell show up as an option in combat even after I got the scene where I trained in it.
I found out the cause of a bug that’s been plaguing me for several versions. The game refuses to load a save with any character name that has any spaces in it. I can fix or break my main save and new test game saves just by replacing all instances of the name in notepad.
But it’s weird because I’ve had games that worked for a while despite names with spaces, and why is it only me and not tons and tons of people with this bug? Win7, Java 1.8.0.45
I’ve never tested a name with a space in it, but I’ll see if I can change how I’m reading in the name from the text file to account for it. Thanks for letting me know.
Are you still working on Night Games?
I’ve got a couple of other game prototypes that I’m currently focusing a lot of my attention on, so I’m not doing much with Night Games at the moment. Once I have those in reasonable shape, I’ll probably shift more of my time to working on Night Games.
That sounds cool. What’re those about, if you don’t mind me asking?
The game I’m coding right now is actually a non-porn strategy game in Unity about running a criminal organization. It’s based on a major trope in crime fiction that there’s no honor among thieves. While planning and conducting heists you have to keep your people loyal (or kill them) to make sure they don’t betray you and either steal your shit or rat you out.
If that goes ok, I may reuse a lot of the code for a sexy grand strategy game. Essentially it’s like Crusader Kings, but it’s in a fantasy world without war, where all international disputes are resolved with sex fighting contests. My concern is that, while the subject matter may be sexy, I don’t know that there’s enough room for much actual porn.
I’m also working on a Pokemon style game based on Japanese tsumogami spirits, where you collect articles of clothing possessed by female spirits. So your party of spirits is also an outfit. Each time a spirit is defeated, that article of clothing disappears. Also the combat is all sex fighting. As a trainer loses spirits they also lose clothing and are thus vulnerable to being targeted by sex attacks.
Finally, I’m working on a design doc for someone who has done some writing for me in the past. Since that isn’t my project, I’m not really at liberty to talk about that one.
Awesome!
I don’t know a thing about strategy games so I can’t comment much on the first two, but the third one sounds pretty kickass. Very creative, very sexy sounding, and you certainly have a strong formula if it’s going to be Pokémon-esque. I’m sure I’m not the only person who would love to keep an eye on that one if you feel like sharing its progress with us.
Regardless, thanks for the update. I hope your projects work out!
Thanks for making this. It was mentioned on one of the h-game generals on 4chan’s /vg/ and I liked it a lot. All the heroines are pretty great, my only complaint that it feels like past level 10 it gets a whole lot harder (especially if you go even on stats). I also discovered a bug where if you run into a girl at the same time it’s supposed to end for the night, that portrait of that girl gets permanently stuck there no matter which girl you encounter.
Hear, hear! Great game – the cast is especially lovable. It’s rare to find a game where basically every girl, while being different and unique, is so very fun/cute/sexy.
I hope you’ll get back to developing it. The only caveat I could think is the late game; with the magic and stuff. It’s fun in itself, but the simplicity of the early game with just wrestling moves and (relatively) “normal” human beings was absolutely charming. Making it a very, very late game, or even NG+ would keep the great “feel” of the early fights longer.
But I imagine that with more early content it wouldn’t be the case. Perhaps more graphic, semi-randomized actions in-fighting? For more… fap material.
Well, that was my five cents. Great writing, great execution. Cheers!
I like the magic and stuff in the later game, but we can always choose to not use it. It would be neat though to have an option later in the game where the PC can select options to disable certain things, such as toys, magic, etc, similar to what the Benefactor offers. (I like the option to start only in boxers, without having to go in and change my clothes.)
Additionally, if it was easy to implement, it would be cool to have one of the girls make a side bet, if the Benefactor does not want to give the PC a bonus. Maybe Jewel will go on a date if you have the most victories, or if you beat her number, or Angel will arrange an orgy with her and three friends. Again, not sure if it would be possible or reasonable, but it would be cool way to have extra post-game scenes, and extra incentives to win.
Coding the side bets would be pretty simple, probably. The most time consuming part, as with everything I do, would be writing the scenes. I’ll think about it some more.
Is there any way you could put together a list of where you get what skills from, and at what level? Like a very basic readme.txt or tab on the site
Its super annoying to trawl through two different websites with things like ‘ass fuck changed to seduction 9’, etc.
Other than that, great shot at a game.
Just wanted to stop and say great game. I just stumbled upon it and I love it. The combat style is intuitive and sexy. I played it all night. Adding a female pc would be awesome…or a shemale npc(since most of these girls are willing to peg you anyways). Awesome work and I really hope to see more!
I can’t get anyone to peg, no matter how much I try
You may want to indulge in some save editing – make sure they have the strapon, maybe strapon2 if you’re feeling mean.
Learn the submissive skill.
You need a certain amount of seduction to learn the ass fuck skill, as well as have lube in the mix (i think either you or the target works now). I forget what number its unlocked at, but it should be around Seduction 9 unless its changed since then.
one of the girls – i think its cassie? – never buys the strapon but has a scene, so you DO have to give the item to her if you want to see it. Or just never raises their cunning so they never have the skill.
Per the Sparring update, sparring gives you and your date a both a chance at +power, games is +cunning, and sex is + seduction – so have lots of sex between matches!
Put those all together and you’ll get it in no time.
also, they tend not to do it if you can outlast them. Sometimes its funny because you can get the girl to come first, even though she’s doing YOU though. Powerbottoming!
You say that the saves can and possibly need to be edited…but with what save editor?
Notepad++ works well
How do you give cassie a strapon? i edited save file to give it to mara and it worked fine ( had to edit seduction too), however when i try to give cassie a strapon save file doesnt work…
I have the game downloaded, and i have java, but the game won’t run. All it does is pull up a window with code on it then immediately close. Any ideas to fix it?
If you right-click the Night Games.jar file and select Open With, do you see Java as an option? If so, select it, and see if it opens. If it does, your computer was trying to open .JAR files with something else. If not, maybe your Java install failed, or you have multiple versions which is causing a conflict. Not sure if this is still an issue, but you used to have to figure out which version, 32-bit or 64-bit, you needed, or install both.
Also, you should really check out the newest version, instead of this one which is two years old. There are many additions and improvements.