Ren'Py Life as an Innocent Waitress [v0.1.0] [Frisson Studios]

[YuriNator239]

This game is great, are there other games like this?

 

[NotAUsefulUser]

This game is great, are there other games like this?

https://thef95zone.info/threads/karryns-prison-v1-3-0-85-full-dlcs-remtairy.33777/

https://thef95zone.info/threads/light-space-love-v0-48-halftilt.127735/

 

[Frisson_Studios]

This is the PizzaHot we never got. More content in the initial release too.

Feedback:

--- Being able to just skip scenes that might be tiring to see over and over/get in the way of hunting for a specific scene, such as being able to just throw more money to avoid the train and lock doors/skip shower, is great and shows that the devs understand the difference between grind and senseless grind. Hopefully the same consideration will be extended to all future scenes henceforth.

---- Certain avenues of corruption need more ways to progress them, such as male touching, male pleasing and voicing Angelica's feelings. I understand that this is just an initial release and it would make sense to add more progression for these later down the line, and just want to point out that as it stands the progression is heavily scewered towards exhibitionism and groping, as random gropes/undresses are happening all the time during regular bar gameplay. You thus quickly end up with Angelica that is perfectly willing to let anyone touch her anywhere and is fine walking (in this update still only almost) naked, but somehow struggles to put a hand on customer's lap or even lie that being touched feels okay at best without being wasted/horny out of her mind when she actually can't get enough of it.

---- Contrary to what another person commented on this page, I'd prefer the family member events aside from maybe the landlord to take the backmost priority until, at least, the bar and train content are feature complete, if no for other reason than content bloat like that significantly slowing down the development of what I would consider core gameplay.
The game isn't called "Life of an innocent tenant in an apartment full of horndogs", it's called "Life as an innocent waitress stuck in a city full of pervs yada yada", and so I don't come here for the story of titilating relationships between Angelica and whatever her connection is with the people in her apartment. I come here to see innocent girl degrade into the town bike, and enjoy being made to do so too.
Once core gameplay is feature complete the expansion of her relationships and how her corruption at each stage of it affects those can be a nice cherry on top, but only then.

---- While the full range of reaction selections from "Expell" to "Encourage more" when hit with random harrassment in bar minigame is convenient for seeing all content in the initial release, maintaining it in the current form for the future releases doesn't make much sense to me. To begin with, fully innocent Angelica encouraging more from the very first moment she is harrassed by customers is extremely out of character, especially when it is something like her getting undressed, encouraging to get undressed more, and then running away to the bar counter screaming that she must fix her clothes posthaste.

-- To folow up, effectively none of the choices have any tangible feedback to them besides bar/reputation/arousal/exhibitionism stat changes. If you choose soft complain, Angelica doesn't complain. If you choose encourage, she doesn't encourage. If you choose expell, the customer just leaves the table on tick, again, with no actual reaction from anyone. Even just a single text line (ideally changing with respect to Angelica's corruption), coupled with maybe a different standing right hand paper doll pose (but I imagine how much of a pain in the ass that would be with all possible clothing/clothing state/facial state variations to render) for each choice would significantly improve the feedback.

- The choices themselves should probably be tied to Angelica's stats and corruption stage. Innocent Angelica having her most degraded option as "Soft complain" and the further ones down require either more corruption, her being horny, or her being drunk. Simply having them all available from the get go doesn't fit with the way the rest of the game flows.

---- Certain interactions should be better highlighted. I am not asking for massive yellow paint with arrows saying "CLICK ME YOU BRAINLESS BUFFOON", but I only learned that you can interact with the table in Angelica's room when I went to look how many renders overall the game has in the RPA archive.

---- Comments the molester make on Angelica's underwear not suiting their image of her as a slut make me hope for options to change and/or wear no underwear whatsoever in the future. If no such thing is planned, while sad, it might be appropriate to change these text lines to not give the player false expectations. This goes for other scenes as well, such as the drinking scene noting how the customers' actions escalate with each time Angelica drinks, only to go "actually they don't escalate anymore, teehee pero" immediately after.

Overall a first release that already outperforms a number of sad projects on this site that had been in development for years now. While this is commendable, you should keep in mind that people are also gonna expect much more from each future release accordingly, and if you don't think you can keep up with the expectations, now would be the time to start tempering them.

Hi! Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. We understand some of the points you mentioned and will take care of them, thanks for this valuable feedback!

i would love an option to make the MC have more Aqua or Darkness type of body not wiz like (konosuba characters)
I like it when MC is THICCCC but i love it when shes more realistic like

Even though we’d love to add things like that, including different hair colors, it’s not something we can do right now. It takes a ton of work just to add one new set of clothes to the bar. Adding a single hair color variant would take around 40 hours of work (just for the available content), and the workload increases as more content is added. So, sadly, that’s beyond our current capabilities.

 

[theraphosa]

This game is great, are there other games like this?

https://thef95zone.info/threads/reya-the-elf-v0-6-5-se-yooshi.102176/
For me this is the best thing at the moment in this direction.
The grind is okay and absolutely worthwhile. Corruption and exhibitionism are well-executed and (relatively) believable.
The story is well written and (relatively) believable.
There's already a lot of content.

And with Annabell, this game has the hottest Honey Select character of all time,visually and character-wise.

In my opinion, this is the game that Life as an Innocent Waitress has to compete with. Both RenPy, both Honey Select, and (more or less) the same kinks.

Let's hope for a good and very, very long fight. Both opponents are in top form.

 

[someguy42]

For v0.1.0 of a game (especially on this site) there is a really impressive amount of content.
I've put at least 5 hours into this and just reached Day 8 (and the first time she was expected to pay rent on Night 7) which seems like it might even be a total game changer.

It starts slow and a bit grindy early on, but once you get into it there's quite a lot there.
I've mentioned my issue with the cleaning minigame, but once I started skipping that it went a lot smoother. I wonder what the point of cleaning is. Like, is there any reason to delay her becoming a complete and total slut as quickly as possible? Similarly, a lot of the gameplay mechanics (whether you're riding the metro, or getting groped at work) seem to be based on a false conflict - it would make sense for the character to try to balance things carefully and avoid being too slutty, but from the player's perspective there doesn't seem to be any advantage to making her reluctant rather than enthusiastic about getting turned into a cumhungry slut.
Based on the early game explanation, I'm not sure why some choices are greyed out even when Stress is 0 and the character hasn't been able to choose anything OTHER THAN that choice before. (Maybe it had to do with arousal or alcohol.) Not complaining, I was going to take one of the dirtier options anyway, but...

aside: There was something really interesting that my favorite (abandoned) game ("Project Sage" & "Project Sage: Act I") did when it came to player choices. Early on it tried to teach players how to play by having characters ask questions and the female protagonist had to choose between being fun-oriented (and kinda ditzy) or business-oriented (and rather clever.) It was less a choice of content, and more of character. Some of the player choices did include/exclude certain fetishes, but mostly it was things like when she was getting spied on in a changing room she could choose to be oblivious, aware but ignore it, or aware and put on a show. There was always sexy content, but the player got to tailor the sexy content to their preference.

In this game it seems more like a choice between speeding up or slowing down her corruption. But what is the advantage of slowing it down?

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Sis? So, why does she pay rent then?

 

[Gari Fuze]

This looks promising, put on the watch list.

 

[Gari Fuze]

This looks promising, put on the watch list.

Current game loop is bad though, the game ends after 2 weeks, you will be unable to pay rent, autowork is bugged.
Work seems to be bugged too, as some days you can get 40-50$ on tips but others like 14$ doing the same thing. Some tip scaling is off, like what is 0.24$ tip? Tips should start from 1$

There is too much grind with cleaning, that could be/should be cut in half or more. Cleaning every day 5 different rooms, for 6 clicks each is nuts. There are not even any interactions there like in shower or train.

same with the bar work after a while, interruptions when the heroine undresses in particular are annoying.

 

[Frisson_Studios]

Current game loop is bad though, the game ends after 2 weeks, you will be unable to pay rent, autowork is bugged.
Work seems to be bugged too, as some days you can get 40-50$ on tips but others like 14$ doing the same thing. Some tip scaling is off, like what is 0.24$ tip? Tips should start from 1$

There is too much grind with cleaning, that could be/should be cut in half or more. Cleaning every day 5 different rooms, for 6 clicks each is nuts. There are not even any interactions there like in shower or train.

same with the bar work after a while, interruptions when the heroine undresses in particular are annoying.

The cleaning can be reduced to just 2 stains to clean, which are bigger and thicker, requiring only 6 clicks (6 skill points).

 

[Frank Chateau]

Behold: another opinion post

I liked it. There is a lot of content for a first release, like a lot. I take that a sign the devs are serious about finishing the game, and adding content. The framework is impressive, and I am curious what the develop cycle will be and how much content per update.
Bar game is nothing new, but its easy enough. I look forward to future events/content there. I think a similar style could be added to the Subway, with the MC getting passed around/harassed by various riders.
The home content seems weakest to me, but it is early days. I would rather see more public oriented content than the entirely corrupt roommates. One pervy roommate is fine, but if they're all pervy its no fun. Having the MC be instigator for at least one roommate would be more interesting imo.

Frisson has been crazy responsive on here, which is cool. I dont use patreon, but if you end up with a subscribe star sometime Id support the game.

 

[walter2k]

In fact, it is difficult to stand out from most games with the same content as the fixed NPC corruption. I suggest putting this part of the content in the middle and late stages of game development.
At present, the most attractive part of this game is the part-time job and the content related to the heroine's personal concept change by improving the value. It is recommended to focus on the bar content and develop more different part-time jobs in the mid-term if possible.
(Similar to Kallen's Prison, the pity of that game is that the part-time job in the later stage is too disappointing).

 

[Frisson_Studios]

In fact, it is difficult to stand out from most games with the same content as the fixed NPC corruption. I suggest putting this part of the content in the middle and late stages of game development.
At present, the most attractive part of this game is the part-time job and the content related to the heroine's personal concept change by improving the value. It is recommended to focus on the bar content and develop more different part-time jobs in the mid-term if possible.
(Similar to Kallen's Prison, the pity of that game is that the part-time job in the later stage is too disappointing).

Personally, I loved the receptionist part-time job in Karryn's Prison; it was some of the best content in that game. Sadly, it felt more like filler when I played it. Also, Karryn's proportions are a bit outside my preferences, but even so, it was a great game.

I'd totally make an entire game about only that receptionist minigame.

 

[JamTart]

Behold: another opinion post

I liked it. There is a lot of content for a first release, like a lot. I take that a sign the devs are serious about finishing the game, and adding content. The framework is impressive, and I am curious what the develop cycle will be and how much content per update.
Bar game is nothing new, but its easy enough. I look forward to future events/content there. I think a similar style could be added to the Subway, with the MC getting passed around/harassed by various riders.
The home content seems weakest to me, but it is early days. I would rather see more public oriented content than the entirely corrupt roommates. One pervy roommate is fine, but if they're all pervy its no fun. Having the MC be instigator for at least one roommate would be more interesting imo.

Frisson has been crazy responsive on here, which is cool. I dont use patreon, but if you end up with a subscribe star sometime Id support the game.

I'm going to agree with most of this post. The exception being the multiple pervy roommates. I've never seen that before and I'm looking forward to seeing what each one does with our sweet innocent heroine. I've seen male MC with harem many many times, but never this.

I also don't use patreon, as I don't like there restrictions on my favourite fetish. I'm not saying I will support this if the Dev makes a subscribestar, as I would like to see a few more updates before making that commitment. If things get much more steamy in the next few updates, then I could see myself supporting it. Timely updates being another factor I look at before making any commitment to support a game.

 

[Tanzie]

I think there are some issues with the code. Reputation never goes below 39 and -unless on the train- Arousal never goes above 80. Judging by the animations, their value should change, but the change value, for whatever reason, is zero.

 

[piercedbae]

I think there are some issues with the code. Reputation never goes below 39 and -unless on the train- Arousal never goes above 80. Judging by the animations, their value should change, but the change value, for whatever reason, is zero.

I think this is to do with certain things not being implemented, rather than code issues. Arousal doesn't go beyond 80 outside of the train because there's no situation (at the moment) where your coochie's getting touched, aside from the train scene.

 

[Tanzie]

Arousal doesn't go beyond 80 outside of the train because there's no situation (at the moment) where your coochie's getting touched, aside from the train scene.

Yes there is, the nightly molestation while the MC is sleeping. Her arousal value is 80 during sleep, yet all arousal changes during the scene is applied as zero. Meaning that she cannot have an orgasm during the scene, game artificially prevents her.

Not to mention that reputation gets lowered while working in the bar all the way down to 39 but then refuses to go beyond that, normally the amount of change is -1 and yet it becomes 0 at some point, which makes no sense.

 

[piercedbae]

Yes there is, the nightly molestation while the MC is sleeping.

Not to mention that reputation gets lowered while working in the bar all the way down to 39 but then refuses to go beyond that, normally the amount of change is -1 and yet it becomes 0 at some point, which makes no sense.

Still pretty sure this is to do with content not being implemented rather than code issues.

 

[Tanzie]

Still pretty sure this is to do with content not being implemented rather than code issues.

No, it's clearly an issue with the code because the "zero value" changes keep occurring during scenes that require no additional content.

 

[Frisson_Studios]

No, it's clearly an issue with the code because the "zero value" changes keep occurring during scenes that require no additional content.

It's intentional, as mentioned before. There’s no content for her to orgasm or anything, which is why it's blocked at the maximum.

 

[piercedbae]

No, it's clearly an issue with the code because the "zero value" changes keep occurring during scenes that require no additional content.

It's like... Pretty common for UI things like this to appear once you've hit a limit. It serves to show you that yes, this thing would normally increase/decrease a value, but it won't increase/decrease the value beyond this number.

 

[piercedbae]

Btw Frisson, loving the game so far & eagerly awaiting updates. ♥