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State of things 2024-06-04

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VN progress

I'm still working on the vore visual novel, although progress is slow. The current code name for the project is "Pizza Time", and I'm leaning towards something like "Date Night Delivered" or "Delivery Dinner Date" for the actual title. Or maybe I could go for a silly light-novel-style title like "Is it okay to eat the pizza delivery girl?".

I wound up changing the structure so that there are eight endings now, depending on which branch you take at three key decision points. These decisions are:

  1. While masturbating in the shower, do you rub one out quickly or take your time and savor it? If you go slow, Gina will arrive before you finish, and you'll wind up answering the door with an erection.
  2. While choosing a movie to watch, do you choose something scary or something fun? If you choose something scary, you'll be able to comfort Gina when it gets to be too much for her. Also, if she's already horny when watching the movie, she'll be turned on by the scene of the monster eating someone.
  3. While watching the movie, do you eat pizza or do you cuddle with Gina? If you cuddle, she'll be turned on. Also, you'll be hungry when the movie ends, and Gina will feel bad about eating all the pizza herself.

Each combination of these choices results in a different ending. None of them are "bad" although one of them results with you being just friends. There are ways to get an immediate bad ending right at the start (being boring or being creepy, basically), but once you've convinced Gina to join you for the movie, you're safe.

I removed the forced-feeding ending, because it really just wasn't very interesting to me. Currently these fetishes are represented in various combinations:

  • Vore with consensual digestion
  • Vore with regurgitation, i.e. "endo"
  • Harem building
  • Cumflation, one-man bukkake, and insatiable libido
  • Impregnation

The digestive process is not graphically depicted in any of the digestion endings. You swallow them, go to bed, and your belly is all squishy the next morning. Every ending except the "just friends" ending and the "digest Gina" ending result in pregnancy.

The first draft for all 8 endings is done. There's a lot of shared text between the routes, as there's only so many ways to write "you have sex on the couch after the movie". In total my word count script tells me I've got 8455 words, assuming I've done a good job de-duplicating text into shared files.

I'm still working on doing all the placeholder art. It's taking a while, and some of these poses are tough. I'm torn on whether I want to stick to a first person perspective for the entire story, or whether I want to be more free with the camera angles. I think a first-person view makes it easier for the audience to self-insert as the main character.

Art and stuff

I feel like I've stalled out again on my art practice progress. The "ability to see" vs "actual technical skill" disparity is a very real phenomenon, and I'm in one of the "periods of frustration" right now. Haven't drawn much at all in the last few weeks, although I've done a few pieces.