The game is about a a young guy who makes a deal to achieve his dreams of being a musician, but gets a lot more than he bargained for. You'll manage your daily life as you struggle to make it as a musician in the big city. But be careful as various elements attempt to steer you off the path of your dreams
This game is still very early in development so there are a good bit of placeholder elements, bugs, typos, and incomplete features. This is a rather ambitious project I'm undertaking so I ask that you be patient as develoment happens.
.36
Hotfix for the alarm clock sleep bug.
.35 Changelog
***OLD SAVES WILL NOT WORK AND WILL LIKELY BREAK YOUR GAME***
This update mostly focuses a lot on cleaning up annoyances and making the world feel a tad more "alive." I would have liked to expand the main story but I just haven't had time lately.
This release has some very incomplete features. Especially the random dating system and barista jobs. Much is placeholder outside the coffee shop date. These will be a lot more feleshed out in the weeks to come.
-Alarm Clock Function added along with the boatload of changes to support it.
-You can now nap in your bedroom. (novel concept...right?)
-New stores added to the mall. New stuff too.
-Initial release of NPC dating system added. This is somewhat unfinished.
- Gender transformation now based off of power rather than corruption.
-Adjustments and new events have been added to existing jobs to give more chances to use your influence power and further your transformation...if you chose to.
-Keeping your apartment clean got a whole lot easier.
-Pay for working should finally be more normalized so that you make money at a decent rate regardless of RNG elements.
-Early and unfinsihed phone system added. You'll find all the old settings and stuff inside. It's pretty rough right now but I'll get around to making it prettier later on. For now it's perfectly functional. The left menu bar will auto update itself.
-Cleaned up and made inventory window a lot better and prettier. You can hover over the boxes to find out what each item does. (Let me know if this isn't working in your browser, only tested on chromium.
-Thereapist is now open in Manhattan offering services that will allow players to lower corruption and increase happiness. And maybe increaase your power?
-If your lust starts getting too high, you may start masturbating in your apartment. And it's possible your roomates could catch you in the act.
-Improvements to apartment bathroom that should help reduce a lot of clicking.
-Framework for Barista job added.
-Some placeholder-ish random pickup dating system added with events. (Not finished)
-Lots of other undocumented stuff...lost track of some changes when I took a long needed break from game dev.
Not so much a walkthrough but some tips.
If you're having trouble keeping your happiness up, try relaxing in the park, exercising, visiting the Live House, or smoking. Also working a high stress job like the waitress one too often every day is a sure way to make Claire sad very quickly. (Alcohol will also increase happiness next version)
If you like to explore try to avoid doing it at night, and you should keep a can of pepper spray handy. It is the big city after all.
If you find it tedious combing your hair and doing your makeup every morning, feel free to auto-apply it from the settings menu.
Leaving the Live House totally wasted can have the unfortunate side effect of attracting unwanted attention.
.36
Hotfix for sleep bug where the alarm clock being enabled would sometimes cause the days not to move to the next.
.35 Changelog
***OLD SAVES WILL NOT WORK AND WILL LIKELY BREAK YOUR GAME***
-Alarm Clock Function added along with the boatload of changes to support it.
-You can now nap in your bedroom. (novel concept...right?)
-New stores added to the mall. New stuff too.
-Initial release of NPC dating system added. This is somewhat unfinished.
- Gender transformation now based off of power rather than corruption.
-Adjustments and new events have been added to existing jobs to give more chances to use your influence power and further your transformation...if you chose to.
-Keeping your apartment clean got a whole lot easier.
-Pay for working should finally be more normalized so that you make money at a decent rate regardless of RNG elements.
-Early and unfinsihed phone system added. You'll find all the old settings and stuff inside. It's pretty rough right now but I'll get around to making it prettier later on. For now it's perfectly functional. The left menu bar will auto update itself.
-Cleaned up and made inventory window a lot better and prettier. You can hover over the boxes to find out what each item does. (Let me know if this isn't working in your browser, only tested on chromium.
-Thereapist is now open in Manhattan offering services that will allow players to lower corruption and increase happiness. And maybe increaase your power?
-If your lust starts getting too high, you may start masturbating in your apartment. And it's possible your roomates could catch you in the act.
-Improvements to apartment bathroom that should help reduce a lot of clicking.
-Framework for Barista job added.
-Some placeholder-ish random pickup dating system added with events. (Not finished)
-Lots of other undocumented stuff...lost track of some changes when I took a long needed break from game dev.
Changelog v0.2.1
Changelog v0.2
Fixes/Changes
As usual with games this early in development your old saves won't work correctly.
It's a good game. Very interesting concept, the pact with the devil, sorry "Evol records". The game mechanics are good, it's a shame there is no ending yet.
It has lot's of possibilities to develop: MC can have second thoughts, disbelieve, trouble hiding her manly bits(maybe punished by Evol records), more girly thoughts (being unhappy with messy hair, unclean appartment, loving boys), more girly problems (hit on by boys(while having a penis), periods, pregnancy).
I'm very curious about next versions.
This has the makings of a great game. Please keep the updates coming. It could use more sex scenes to break up the grindiness, and the energy mechanic really slows the game down at points (maybe cut the energy costs down to 1-3 points increments instead of 5-10), but those are my only complaints. Great game, please keep working on it.
A very slow MtF transformation game with a dark theme. You struggle your life as a band hoping for an audition and life hit on to you, hard. Money is an issue. You band relationship is an issue. Your parent company, your landlord... If you don't do it right, you suicide.
Some of the bugs I mentioned in my first review were fixed right away. It means that the author is active on the project, which is a thumb up. Shampoo and soap correctly used, along with a few other minor glitches. BTW, Bath Happiness +2 is not working and clothing display is still at fault when you try to wear the clothes you bought from the mall.
I tried working in the music store and it was hell comparing to the waitress job. The music store job is 8 hours per day comparing to the 6 hrs shift as a waitress. The pay is $25 ~ $40 per 8/hrs comparing to $70~/6hrs from waitress, making the that $2000 monthly rent seems to be some very heavy burden... It also makes me run out of time everyday: sleeping takes 8 hours, work 8 hours, guitar 2 hours, house cleaning 3 hours, exercise 3 hours, showering 15mins, makeup, brushing hair... add that all up and that is more than 24 hours a day... and you have to explore the area, talk to your bands, go to the live house, masturbate and do other things.
I tried on the second run as a waitress and life is a lot easier. There was even a random event. I guess the waitress job is the default job in this game.
I hit the current end of development after the first audition. There are also a few placeholders around the game. I am looking forward to see this game turning into something bigger.
I pretty strongly disagree with the people who are complaining about the suicide game over condition. If they are going to be upset by something like that, then frankly, perhaps the game is not for them. I have my own game that many people have had both praise for and some harsh criticism like "I just can't play this because of X'. Well, that's fine, go play something else. My point is - hold on to your vision of however you want the game to be. Art isn't a comitee process.
That being said, I'm going to agree with some other comments
I like this game conceptually. In fact, it really stuck with me even though I played it months ago, so I think you're heading in the right direction. Just keep working on it.
The biggest issue with the game I have is that it includes a mental stability value that, if it get's to a low enough number, will cause the player character to commit suicide.
I mean...I get including the mental stability trigger and having a game over, but to have your player character kill themselves is rather harsh and just cruel. There are plenty of more creative and erotic ways to write a game over with mental stability.
Otherwise? The game is rather simple but does have interesting ways to do time, jobs and travelling. It is currently bare bones but seems promising and worth a look for anyone interested in twine.
