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So you would become someone's bitch sooner or later? Or you can get a somewhat equal relationship? I dont mind having specific routes per se, but player needs clear understanding of what they are and how to get them.
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Personally I think announcing every outcome beforehand would ruin some of the fun. This game is about pretty harsh femdom, not the harahest there is, but still. There is one route that is closer to romance, as long as the MC accepts total female supremacy. There is an in-game scene guide you can use if you want to see what exists and how to get it.
Some devs make it possible to avoid submission by adding extra bland "normal" routes with next to no sexual content. This may seem pointless but it doesn't require a lot of effort from the dev, and I think knowing that there was a real alternative and our character is responsible for ending up where he did can make the player experience feel better. This approach has downsides too, as sometimes you can make the "right" choices as a player, lock yourself out of an interesting route because of this, and then you have to go back and force yourself to purposely make bad decisions just to be able to continue. This feels bad.
There are also devs who promise to add alpha male route some day but those tend to never finish their games, including the started sub routes. Promises like that are a big red flag to me.
What I think works best is having two or three main routes and making the player follow one of them if they fail to get on one on their own. I mean something like this: you can make choices that will put you on Charlotte, Sophie or Mrs Meyer route and if you don't get on any of them on your own something outside of your control will happen and you'll be put on Mrs Meyer's route. "Something outside of your control" can be just bad luck or a result of someone's intrigue e.g. Mrs Meyer's car gets destroyed and we're forced to accept enslavement because we can't afford to pay for the repair. This method guarantees the player will get their femdom content in their femdom game regardless of their chosen path without making the whole thing feel like a linear clickfest.
There are also devs who promise to add alpha male route some day but those tend to never finish their games, including the started sub routes. Promises like that are a big red flag to me.
What I think works best is having two or three main routes and making the player follow one of them if they fail to get on one on their own. I mean something like this: you can make choices that will put you on Charlotte, Sophie or Mrs Meyer route and if you don't get on any of them on your own something outside of your control will happen and you'll be put on Mrs Meyer's route. "Something outside of your control" can be just bad luck or a result of someone's intrigue e.g. Mrs Meyer's car gets destroyed and we're forced to accept enslavement because we can't afford to pay for the repair. This method guarantees the player will get their femdom content in their femdom game regardless of their chosen path without making the whole thing feel like a linear clickfest.
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That's certainly one way to go about it, but it's not as easy as it sounds. At least not if you want to make all the different NPCs motivations and actions also make sense. I know I would struggle at least. When setting out making this game I wanted to create a scenario with characters in it that naturally allowed for femdom action to occur without it feeling too contrived. And also allow the MC to be subjected to it without necessarily choosing it. I feel I've mostly succeeded quite well in this so far. Could it be done better? Probably. I'll probably do something quite dofferent next time.
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It's fixed in 0.8.1. Download it on itch, there's a link in my signature and inside the game as well.
I didn't mean to say I want this game rewritten to fit my idea or anthing like that, just wanted to share what I think works best in general and explain why some things may feel frustrating to certain players. I think what you have in your game is fine and good enough to build more on top of it. Some devs get stuck at rewriting the first part of their projects over and over to try to make it perfect and I wouldn't want that to happen to your game.
I liked the paddling scene with Mrs Meyer btw. It fits the setting without feeling too extreme as a first "disciplinary measure".