Inner Self aims to be a semi-open world sim-like game, where you are a freshman at university, having to share an apartment with your friend who will also start studying at the same campus, in which you are surprised with a new interpersonal development program.
This is a pre-alpha version, in the current situation the game is playable but with little content.
If you are having trouble not knowing what to do in the conditioning minigame, sorry for not putting a hint or guide, to complete the task you need to pop the resistance bubbles with the left mouse button, you must click on them until the resistance reaches zero.
Version pre-alpha 0.8.2
Alex and Jessica Scene:
Artwork:
Pose of Alex sitting on the bed
Two variations of the eyes.
Two mouth variations.
Seventeen variations of body hair across five body regions.
Pose of Jessica kneeling on the bed.
Two variations of eyes.
Two mouth variations.
A necklace.
Background with the unmade bed in Alex's room.
Animation/Coding:
Integrated the artwork into the dialog animations script, selecting expressions for each line for both characters, choosing the appropriate body hair, and camera animation.
Version pre-alpha 0.8.1
Reduced the quality and length of hypnosis clips and laptop video tab clips.
Unzipped size decreased from 4.07 GB to 3.10 GB, and zipped size from 1.53 GB to 803 MB.
Fixed Alex’s uniform display issue when entering the gym.
Addressed instances where Alex appeared without clothes during Nathan’s first meeting in the university lobby.
Resolved the repeated triggering of the restroom scene between Alex and Nathan.
Jessica’s Redesign:
Artwork:
Poses: Arms behind her, arms in front with hands together, arms crossed, and running hands through her hair.
Eyes: Neutral, surprised, and closed.
Eyebrows: Neutral, slightly raised, ashamed, and inquisitive.
Mouths: Closed neutral, closed serious, open neutral, open serious, open happy, and open smiling.
Hair: Chin-length, dark blonde, and straight.
Clothes: Simple cream-white stitched dress with four variations for each pose.
Accessories: Gold necklace with a cross pendant.
Animation: Integrated the artwork into the dialog animations script, selecting expressions for each line featuring Jessica.
Smartphone: Updated Jessica’s profile picture for the chat app.
Version pre-alpha 0.8.0
New Scene: Karina's Office
Artwork Created for this Scene:
Alex’s Gesture: I made a new gesture for Alex in which he is trying to hide his private parts.
Karina’s Gesture: A new gesture in which Karina is holding a chastity cage.
Chastity Cage: I drew a chastity cage and several variations of it to appear throughout the game (dialogs, visualization ui, closet).
Clothing: A variation on the pink panties that make up the uniform required by Karina, so that it shows the bulge of the chastity cage when Alex is wearing it.
Bathroom Mirror: All the artwork on the mirror in which Alex's penis appears will show the chastity cage when he is using it.
New Icon: A new icon for the cage has also been added to the closet.
Alex’s Submission: Alex will be able to choose between two paths, one in which he agrees to submit to Karina, and one in which he refuses and suffers the consequences of his choice, enabling NTR content. (The second option is not yet available, as I intend to rework Jessica's artwork first.).
Version pre-alpha 0.7.9
Karina's Beta-Sis Classes:
Karina Animations: By taking the classes, Karina will be presenting the slides in all the available classes.
New Gestures: I drew new gestures and facial expressions for Karina in order to properly showcase the slides.
New Scene: Karina's Office
New Scenario Artwork: I created Karina's office, where various scenes will take place, firstly scenes with Alex, then scenes with other characters, to give context.
Alex’s New Scene: I've started a new scene with Alex involving Karina in his office, in this scene I intend to progress with the sissification of Alex, later the player will be able to choose an alternative option in the story, enabling NTR content.
Bugs Fixes:
Karina's Profile Picture: Updated Karina's profile picture on the smartphone.
Ray Casting Issue: In the dialog with Nathan, the options were being blocked by certain gestures from Alex.
Conditioning 05 Mission: In certain situations the mission to do conditioning 5 was not getting completed.
Version pre-alpha 0.7.8
Karina Redesign:
Karina’s New Artwork: The old artwork of the character Karina has been replaced with a new one, making it more harmonious with the others.
Character Poses: Karina now has three different poses to compose the dialog animations. I plan to increase this number in future patches.
Character Expressions: I’ve drawn a total of 14 expressions to make the dialog more dynamic, including variations in mouths, eyes, eyebrows, and textures.
Karina’s Encounter: I’ve reworked Alex’s encounter with Karina at the university, written new dialogues, designed an exclusive outfit variation for the scene, and created two different backgrounds.
Version pre-alpha 0.7.7
Alex Redesign:
Alex's New Artwork: Changed the old artwork of the protagonist Alex for the new one, with the new artwork I've tried to bring Nathan's style to the character without losing Alex's essence, other characters will also have their redesigns and the new ones will be created in this style.
Animation System: Modified the system to control Alex’s animations in the dialogs.
Clothing System: Modified the system to control Alex's change of clothes in the dialogs.
Body Hair System: Created a system to control Alex's body hair in the dialogs.
Expressions and Gestures: Created and implemented expressions and gestures for each of Alex's dialogs.
Gym Clothes in Dialogs: Added gym clothes to the dialogs.
Wardrobe Images: Updated some of Alex's wardrobe artwork.
Wardrobe Icons: Updated some of the icons in the wardrobe.
Shaving Interface: Updated the artwork of Alex's body hair in the interface.
SportCenter: Updated Alex's artwork in the SportCenter interface.
Side Viewer: Updated Alex's artwork in the side viewer and made it bigger.
Bathroom Mirror: Updated the artwork of Alex's face in the bathroom mirror.
Zattini Store: Updated Alex's artwork in the Zattini store.
Smartphone Chat: Updated Alex's artwork in the smartphone chat.
Dialog Improvements:
Nathan's Dialogs: Rewrote Nathan's dialogs in the university encounters.
Alex's Dialogs: Rewrote Alex's dialog in the encounters and phone messages.
Karina's Dialogs: Rewrote Karina's dialog in the encounter with Alex and in the phone messages.
Jessica's Dialogs: Wrote new texts for the dialog scenes with Jessica, changing Jessica's personality.
Bug Fixes:
Leg Raise Exercise: The daily experience limit is now resetting when the day passes.
SportCenter: Fixed the issue where the character's body hair in the SportCenter was locked in one length.
Conditioning 5 Mission: The Conditioning 5 mission now completes correctly.
Cell Phone Messages: Fixed the bug where "Alex typing" appeared more than once when clicking on "Message" on your phone.
Jessica's Message: The mission to talk to Jessica on the phone now completes only after finishing chatting.
Nathan’s Dialogue: Fixed the issue where Alex could re-enter the University after completing the day's tasks and trigger the next day's Nathan dialog.
Known Bugs:
When changing clothes in the sportcenter from Karina's uniform to the gym clothes, the uniform is showing through.
QoL Modifications:
Conditioning Minigame Skip: Implemented a button to skip the conditioning minigame.
Shaving Requirement: Removed the requirement for Alex to shave his legs in order to do conditioning 3.
Questionnaire: Increased the speed of the automatic mode and removed the option to take it manually.
SportCenter Experience Message: Increased the speed at which the SportCenter daily experience limit message appears.
Jessica's Scene: Reduced the time it takes to finish the oral sex scene with Jessica.
New Features:
Mission Rewards: Added rewards for completing certain missions.
Version pre-alpha 0.7.6
Version pre-alpha 0.7.5
Version pre-alpha 0.7.4
Version pre-alpha 0.7.3
Version pre-alpha 0.7.2
Version pre-alpha 0.7.1
New features:
Modified features:
Version pre-alpha 0.7
Content Update:
In this patch I finished Nathan's animation at the end of the game, and also started to implement Karina's classes, I've made a total of 4 classes for now, but soon this number will go up, now the conditioning is available in automatic mode, improving accessibility. This patch is the first step in a sequence of patches for the university, I hope you enjoy it!
Version pre-alpha 0.6
Content Update:
In this patch I reworked the entire smartphone system to greatly reduce the bugs that have been occurring, I also worked on the save system so you can leave the game and come back without worrying about bugs appearing. I am bringing a new character, this time a friend on equal ground with Alex to make the story more dynamic and so that he can have a more open dialogue about more intimate subjects. I hope you like it.
Version pre-alpha 0.5a
Content Update:
I have created a system for the progression of the character's transformation in which there will be four distinct paths: Male+Dom, Male+Sub, Female+Dom and Female+Sub. The paths with dominance will be later in the game development, I will primarily focus on the path of feminization and submission (Fem+Sub), for this I developed a skill tree, where the player can spend the exp points in nodes they think are worth. In this patch only the shaving and trimming features are available. There are now six types of body hair that grow independently of each other: face, chest, armpits, forearms, crotch and legs. You can access the shaving and trimming interface in the bathroom, but first you need to unlock the functionality in the skill tree by spending experience points of the right type. The bathroom mirror is now with all the artwork done, I hope you like it.
Version pre-alpha 0.4a
Content Update:
New audio control option, now the player can set the overall volume, tracks, and SFX.
The speech balloons can be zoomed in with a mouse hover and can be hidden from the screen.
The smartphone now automatically zooms in for better viewing of messages.
Conditioning update, new trigger feature added, score rework and remake of conditioning 4.
Faster navigation between rooms and less fade to black.
New character, Alex now has a girlfriend which brings more depth into the protagonist's life and opens up new options for different types of content in the game.
A new "minigame" that involves Alex's girlfriend.
Version pre-alpha 0.3c
Content Update:
In this version the mall is available with several items to be purchased, below is everything that was included in this version.
Currently the game has:
267 drawings and variations (82 new)
606 Monoscripts in C#. (196 new)
15 Scenes. (4 new)
301 Pictures.
35 Soundtracks and sound effects. (4 new)
17 Videos. (4 new)
775 Animations and UI animations. (178 new)
6589 Words. (1460 new)
Hotfix Update:
- Alpha version 0.2a, the game has been updated to fix some bugs that were found.
Version 0.2
Content Update:
Currently the game has:
185 drawings and adaptations of the drawings.
410 Monoscripts in C#.
11 Scenes.
301 Pictures.
31 Soundtracks and sound effects.
13 Videos.
597 Animations (including UI animations).
5129 Words.
- Alpha version 0.3(Content Update) is available for Patrons.
Version 0.1c
System Update:
- Several changes in the game systems to make it more smooth, especially the interface animations. In this version, the save system and the clothing presets are available.
- Alpha version 0.2(Content Update) is available for Patrons.
Version 0.1b
Conditioning Maintenance:
- For accessibility reasons the conditioning minigame was made easier, bubble resistance has a max of 03 clicks and the exitation bar increment was decreased with each beat.
Version 0.1a
Some system updates:
- The game is now in windowed mode.
- Menu option is available to change the resolution.
- Missing translation of the character view interface.
- Halved the time to advance the dialogue.
- Player can now advance dialog with the space key.
- MAC version available for download.
I love this game, even though (as with many games on this site) it's more of a railroaded story. I do wish there was more progression in the storyline instead of continual UI improvements, especially since you need to start over with each new version. I see some people complaining about not being able to figure out how to read and respond to text messages, and I have to assume that they're platform specific bugs. I'm playing on Windows/PC and have had no issues.
honestly im here just because im baffled by the review below me, and yes i downloaded the 0.7.9 version again to do this
the reviewer said and i quote :
"it's impossible to complete the first objective, You are asked to TEXT someone but it's impossible to see the text and it's even MORE impossible to figure out HOW to text."
there's literally a phone icon on your bottom right of the screen and when you open it, theres only ONE thing that you can see THE MESSAGE and when you open the message itself, there's literally BLINKING WHITE AND BLUE word that said "message" and that's it, press that and just choose one of the option that are available to respond the message with. personally you cannot make it any more obvious than that i think.
it's okay if you don't like the game but please give constructive criticism, at this point that's just harrasment, please do better and be better.
DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME.
This game is broken and has been broken for a long time now. The UI looks nice but it's impossible to complete the first objective. You are asked to TEXT someone but it's impossible to see the text and it's even MORE impossible to figure out HOW to text. This problem has existed for a long time and the Developer has ignored the problem.
Nothing is explained in the game also. There are no tutorials to help you figure out how to do anything in game either.
The drawn graphics are good. I'd say as good as the get. The music is also good.
And that's the only good things that can be said about this game.
The UI is, well, not good, to put it euphemistic.
The game-play sucks because of that.
The game reminds me of the negative aspects of OSX.
Also the game is gay. As in male on male. Not my thing. And not even well made (compare hen party).
The game is fucked up. If you don't get it right, because of the UI, the game sticks there and is stuck there forever.
Maybe if you spent 48 h a week in administrating Windows you are able to fix it.
And the game, well, is not good. You and a pal go to university. You fill out a test. And no matter what you write in the test, you are labeled beta, your pal alpha.
So the professor tells you to suck his cock. And that’s it. Then I can’t progress - so nope.
Or a negative endorsement. Because of the UI, and the technical bugs. (versions 0.4-0.7)
If you load a previous (version) save, the game crashes.
Yet another author that doesn't understand what involuntary means.
Like user210 said this stuff is consensual - MC gets a questionnaire at the start and while it's auto-filled, not giving the player even a good change to look it over, yet the contents and MC's "angle" are both clear enough.
On top of unfitting tag we get all the issues other reviewers have already discussed at length. I'll just second-hand 'em:
Still overall this is probably worth a look if it ticks your boxes. Just don't expect it to tick the "invol" one, that it does NOT despite claiming otherwise.