If you run into issues, have ideas, just want a chat - please find me on discord, I don't visit the websites where I upload the game regularly. Not that I'm not thankful, I just can't get it into my system, so. Discord. Have fun!
Welcome to The Contest. The Contest is a Visual Novel in which you play as a male undergoing changes to become more like a woman. The game is overtly sexualized and involves images and videos of all kinds of beautiful people showing and using all kinds of very human bodyparts. If you're not into that, you probably won't enjoy this game.
The Contest is created by me - Hopjesvlamonster - for fun. My goal is to create a game with a fun story, humor, meaningful choices and a lot of kinky stuff. There is no grind or randomness involved. If you want to support me, you can subscribe to my Patreon, where you will have access to updates two weeks in advance, as well as and insights into the story and process and additional cosmetic options. If you don't care about all that but would like to show your support regardless, you can BuyMeACoffee. Either way, I greatly appreciate the support! Links can be found in the game.
It goes without saying that if you haven't played before, I'd recommend playing through the prologue.
This update includes the prologue, a first event (weekend) and the first week. Have fun!
Ever since you were teenagers, your best friend and you have competed in a heads up competition to determine which one of you is the absolute greatest. The Contest, as it’s known, began as a simple little sports tournament, but grew into an event of ridiculous proportions. Nowadays, The Contest revolves around a special theme and this year’s theme will challenge the two of you like never before.
As the game is in an early stage and it's a visual novel, I don't see a need to give a rundown of all the characters. If it is required or at some point down the line makes more sense, I will add them.
The game is purely a Visual Novel. There are no secrets, no special tricks or buttons to push to get different endings. Which means a walkthrough boils down to: make a decision every time a choice pops up and have fun!
2023-11-02 - C1W1 - Chapter 1 Week 1
2023-11-23 - C1W1.5 - Chapter 1 Week 1.5 (event)
Weekend/Event 2 added. The event automatically plays after week 1.
Wardrobe function added. The function is unlocked after playing through the second event. Currently features a small selection of clothing, not all fitting as maybe they should, this will be tweaked and added to throughout updates.
‘Personality’ function added. The function is unlocked after playing through the Week 1 life activity (Lunzani). You can change your name, ‘voice’ and name body parts there, the button is added to the right UI bar.
Moved Sports week 1 to be the final activity of the week so you talk to Lisa about an open relationship before considering doing so in certain Sports storylines.
Moved the decision of how to reward/thank Cody for his help to Week 2.
2023-12-14 - C1W1.5 - Chapter 1 Week 2
Week 2 added: sports, life and work.
Small visual tweaks throughout the game.
Small tweaks in conversations throughout the game for balance.
New version: C1W2.5
Changelog:
At a technical level, this game is very good. The creator deserves all the praise received for this. Even though it's not going to occupy much space here, I would like to emphasize that the game is excellent in this regard.
At the same time, I find the story completely unreadable. This is not because the writing is technically "bad." In fact, it's much better than the average game here. Rather, it's because of the same positivity that others praise in this game and games like it. For me, the effect of this positivity is uncanny, closer to a smiling plastic double with empty eye sockets. It doesn't seem earned; it's just already "out there." While this wouldn't be a bad thing in reality, I just don't find anything to invest in.
The problem, I think, fundamentally results from the voluntary nature of the transformation. When writing a voluntary transformation plot, the author has to find some "good pretext" for any perceived contradiction to be felt by the protagonist (and reader) between means and ends, both to motivate the character to act and to create conflict. If the pretext is too much a pretext and the obstacles too meager (judgments always dependent on the reader to an extent), the story comes across as a paltry excuse for wish fulfillment. This is in part what the "involuntary" aspect of many transformation games is intended to resolve.
While there are elements of wish fulfillment in the vast majority of games here, straightforward wish fulfillment is not interesting to read, in the same way that each happy family is alike and "heaven is a place where nothing really happens." Some readers will be less sensitive to this issue, and they should still be able to enjoy the game. For those like myself who are sensitive to this issue and who find the wish fulfillment element too thinly disguised, you may equally find the story impossible to read.
Normally, I would just skip a game like this and move on, but I get the impression reading through reviews of this game and others like it that the positivity is costless, with little or no effect on reader reception, when this very much isn't the case.
This is one of the best games on the site already, it nails what makes the genre so good in general, and doesnt take itself too seriously.
Fantastic start for the game! Potential is great, in pretty much short amount of time.
This is my kind of game! The positivity and non-judgmental attitude of the supporting characters is really comforting (especially the girlfriend) and the narration and dialog are lots of fun. The crisp design and user-friendly UI are icing on the cake. It's clear a lot of effort has gone into this and, as a game dev, I am honestly envious. Thanks for the enjoyable experience. I look forward to more!
Really promising start, wonderful artwork!
One issue I encountered is that the case of the images and folders used is not consistent. This works on Windows but does not work on *nix based OS's. Please make sure to use the same case everywhere.
