Corruption or not ?

As I browse the comments about Deviant Discoveries, I sometime come across one that like or dislike how one girl get corrupted.

And more often than not, I disagree.

… Not about their opinion about said “corruption” but as you may have guessed by the title and the quotes, about the fact they are corrupted at all.

Chrystal

Let’s start by the first.

Chrystal for me is the truly corrupted of the bunch.

She was probably going to be a reasonably successful and balanced person. Maybe heading toward some relationship issues, her naive side would clearly have lead her to suffer from assholes playing her.

Enters the MC. He manipulated her into doing things she would have never do by herself. Nurturing a side of her (exhibitionism) that would have never took off without his guidance.

But that is it, he only started it, and enjoyed the process she was undergoing.

I guess he also supported her when she was in doubt.
I think the most flagrant thing about her relationship with the MC is that she seem to be loyal without being tied to him or incomplete without his input.

And I think that being a depraved yet balanced (mentally so) person is the best example of corruption.

Kara

At the time she crossed the path the the MC Kara was already well settled in her life. Well she had some mishap with her ex-husband. But she certainly was an independent woman.

Some would without a doubt say she was a stuck-up bitch, well, it’s hard to deny it. But that is for a perfectly good reason. She had to play the hard-ass for her to be considered seriously. With her being a woman and having such a voluptuous body, it must have been extra hard for her to climb her way to her current position.

Even after being injected with some pink, she tried to control herself.

She arguably fell inside the MC’s hands, but she doesn’t depends on him. She certainly love their relationship. But unless her sex urges are too strong, she will stand her ground.

Yuki

Yuki situation is different, I won’t talk much about her background that will come in its own time.

But contrary to the previous two, Yuki didn’t started balanced. She had self-esteem and confidence issues. And on top of that she also was recently dumped by her boyfriend that exacerbate those issues.

She was doubly vulnerable.

Thanks to that the MC had no trouble coercing her as she offered no resistance when he tried to blackmailed her.

Once he forced her to be his “assistant”, he worked her weak side turning them into submission while showing her that he cared about her. That is a, if not the, substantial part of her transformation.

She let herself being crafted by the MC. Since he made her to his liking her confidence issues vanished : she couldn’t not suit him. He also gave her a persona to play so that she didn’t need to guess too much about how he wanted her to act.

But doing so he also made her totally dependent of himself. It’s hard to imagine at this state how she couldn’t end up damaged, or even dead, if he decided to reject her.

But one would be hard pressed to not see in her in her latest form someone truly happy.

In that sense I think you cannot talk about corruption, it’s a metamorphosis for sure, but there is no sense of waste in it. She just got fixed in a really naughty way.

Harley

Now the rising star of the bunch.

I may as the tradition ask write quite a bit more about her than about the others. So let’s get started.

Harley start as the most provocative of the girls, well the only one to be fair. I won’t serve you the classic “she hides behind her provocative attitude”, I do think it’s pretty much bullshit.

No really, Harley is just a misguided ready-to-be dropout. She doesn’t do well in the courses she attend, because she is simply not interested in those.

She is bored, and what better to pass time that to pick a fight with someone. Maybe create something, you know write shorts or things like that … 😀

But let’s get back to the theme of that post.

I’ll state it bluntly : Harley couldn’t be farther from corrupted.

From the start she was interested into S&M, and she already knew it. She was only shy about it as anyone would be if they were interested into something considered abnormal. And so even if the status of S&M is undeniably changing in the public opinion.

She even displayed her interest, in a camouflaged manner.

As far as their relationship is concerned, they are just enjoying each other’s company. I would even say, that Harley was aware of where they were heading exactly since their first encounter. If she certainly had her doubts at first, she certainly hoped for it.

And maybe because of that the MC injected her without her knowledge.

So let’s talk about her physical changes.

She doesn’t know why she underwent those, but she is liking them. The only impact they have on her is that she is now extra distracted.

So as I said I would ever qualify her as corrupted. I would qualified her as blossomed.

Conclusion

In the end, I would say, very little corruption going on.

There is certainly some moral issues raised, but it’s not like the MC care about them.

So what do you think about my take ? Have I made you change your mind ?

…And I’m back.

Hey guys!

Here’s to hoping it’s been a good week for you all.

Me, I just arrived back home this week and kind of had to settle back into the flow of things. Mostly concerning work and things around the house.

That didn’t stop me from using my spare time in the evening to continue working on the next update, which is coming along quite good I might add.

I’m not entirely sure if I had already mentioned that I reworked all of Lola’s content up to and including re-rendering all of her scenes, so playing through those should be a bit more rewarding and hopefully more thought out.

So then it’s on to finishing modelling the last of her new scenes before starting the rendering work.

I’ve still got some work to do before I’m thoroughly satisfied with the content so I’ll be sure to let you guys know. (Maybe I’ll even be posting a teaser if there’s interest in that.)

But really that’s all from me this time.

Thanks for being accepting of my week+ off work and your continued support.

Cheers
Jan.

Slow week

Hey, Vaasref here.

I just wanted to tell you that, like you, I’m waiting for Jan the Spider to return so that we can get back to work.

I have also finished to build my keyboard (and will need to write the post about it). It’s not perfect, it’s my first PCB design and my first keyboard build, so there is some issues here and there. But anyway I’m restored in my capacity to program.

I’m quite looking forward to start working again. I have planned some big gameplay changes. They are not for the next release though. As we learned from the SMS update, such addition in a Ren’Py game is quite work intensive.

Even if the game engine is starting to run cleaner and cleaner any substantial change means fighting again Ren’Py to make anything happen. That means bugs, the nasty kind, the kind that is unpredictable and hard to spot. So it’s stressful to release such update in a 1 month time period when a bug can suddenly appear and murder you with a rusty knife.

I’ll probably need to fully utilise git’s capabilities to work in parallel if one new features takes too much time. It’s nothing fancy but it’s a workflow I need to get used to.

With that, I’ll go back to my cave, bye.

(End of) Summer vacation

Hey guys!

I know I don’t talk a lot about my personal affairs here, but I thought it fair to let you wonderful people know that I’ll soon be going on a week+ long vacation, meaning there won’t be that much activity on the patreon page.

Don’t worry too much though, since progress for the next update is coming along nicely and my absence shouldn’t really be a problem for the development.

I have been super focused on this project lately and at times feeling a bit stressed about some aspects of it. 

So I guess what I’ve been needing is a change of pace and scenery. 

So even though this vacation is supposed to be all about rest and recuperation I have a feeling that once I get used used to not working my brain will fire up with all sorts of deviant ideas for the next installment.

But that’s pretty much all I have to say for now.

Until next time.
Jan.

Week 28-29 Report

Jan the Spider

So, I spent the last few days feeling pretty much under the weather, but I did manage to render the last batch of images for the upcoming update.

That’s 56 new images which will focus on Harley’s 3rd Tier.

This picture will be included in the update, so it’s kind of a foreshadowing as to what is going to happen…

Feel free to ponder it over, because I don’t want to spoil too much.

Now I’m just looking over the pics, fixing just the tiniest of flaws where I spot them and making sure everything looks right.

Then I’ll start writing down the dialogue, which to tell you the truth I usually just dread, before finally sitting down and banging most of it down in a few days.

I don’t want to set a date in stone just yet, I’ll tell you why:

It’s mainly because I hate to get you people excited and then having to postpone, but I promise you I have been working my ass off to be able to bring you the same kind of content that you’ve come to expect.

Hopefully I won’t have to make another post before you guys have the update.

Vaasref

As for myself I worked on setting up this devblog, installing what was obviously needed, tweaking the style to something I was satisfied with, it turned out quite better than anticipated really.

Anyway, I’m sure I’m not even started to tweak it as I’m sure that with time we will find that we lack a good deal of features. For example I might add a bbPress or something alike, I would like to have a better place for you to post bug reports and questions. There also might be some bugtracker plugin out there, I don’t know, didn’t checked yet, not really needed as there is no new gameplay feature plan short term, not until I have a decent keyboard to program on anyway, the handicap not having a good keyboard is the reason I started a series of posts about my process of making it (c.f. Project : Shining Armor).

Speaking of which I also continued working on it, I calculated as best as could the specs I needed for everything to work, finished the circuit schematics and started started the layout of the PCB. It’s coming along nicely but my computer was in a little bit of a blue error spree this week and the mobile phone network is quite spotty, so I was slowed down way too much for my liking.

Also being in holidays doesn’t help me to keep any sleep habit, so I’m only able to keep track of what I did more that 5h back. But I’m still able to know what part of the week it is.

It’s funny, I would say I have a almost decent absolute time frame while having a completely destroyed relative one.

But enough rambling for a single report, it’s kinda off topic really and I don’t want to belittle the work of Jan by telling too much of those poignant stories.