Tuesday Showcase #47: Tendencies

Hello everyone, and welcome to another Tuesday Showcase!

I'm hard at work on Chapter 55, making sure to give Oliver a tone that will be satisfying for his return. I'll talk about it next week, once I'm sure his new version works correctly.

In the meantime, here's a smaller change that will come with version 0.29: improvements of the tendency system.

Over the last few months, I think I've done a better work with the tendencies, and making them different enough to each other. And I'd like to have this tone be applies to all the game.

So, over time, I'll go back to earlier chapters, and improve the tendency-related dialogues. This is something small I'll do on top of the usual content, so don't worry, you won't get less new chapters.

That being said, you will lose one tendency. Specifically, the Balanced one. I've felt for some time now that it was just another "Stag" tendency, and that, in consequence, the Stag tendency was the exact same. So, the game will now have only 4 Tendencies. They'll all be more defined, with a more specific personality. No more "two tendencies, and two harder versions of those".

So, the final tendencies will be:

Stag: you're confident in your ability to please Laura, but you would enjoy her getting even more pleasure, and seeing her fool around with other men would turn you on. You know she'll always come back to you though.

Confident Stag: Laura is yours to do as you please, and what pleases you is to share her with other men. You get off on seeing your girlfriend pleasing other people, and reminding her that she's yours. While you're kinda Dominant, Laura is still her own person though, and will take decisions by herself. You won't control her.

Cuck: you think Laura deserves more than you can offer her, even though she's satisfied with you. You would enjoy her doing positive reinforcement, telling you how much of a good boy you are, while she goes to other men to get even more pleasure. More of a Gentledom tone than before.

Submissive Cuck: you know Laura deserves more than you can offer her, and you'd enjoy her reminding you of that. You'll patiently wait for her to get back home from being fucked by other men, and enjoy having her tell you how pathetic you are for that. Even though it's nothing more than a roleplay, and you actually satisfy her.

Instead of these Tendencies developing over time, Laura will ask about them as soon as Chapter 3. Your tendency will be determined there, and stay the same for the whole game. Laura will be a bit more explicit when asking you about it though, to make sure you choose correctly.

Here's an example, with the Submissive Cuck dialogues:

Of course, that means that, for some time, the game might be in an awkward place Tendency-wise. Starting with Chapter 55, if you were in a Balanced relationship, you'll be assigned to Stag. And, even though you can become Submissive Cuck as soon as Chapter 3, you won't get dialogues for that in Chapter 4 (Laura will need time to adjust anyway, so you won't get much of that in early chapters).

But these changes will allow me to make 4 more defined paths, for a story that should align more closely to what different people are looking for.

See you next week for a preview of Chapter 55!