So if you had the Mike x Stella scene you have done everything possible on the Stella-route for now. She should come to the gym on her own once these two events are completed:
You must have learned the second special move from Jade (Ginpsey Roll) requiring Skill Lvl 4
You must have seen the second training event between Aline and Jade (Train together with Aline, do "exploration" in town until the event happens)
From there the story contiues with her and Jade more or less on it's own. Watch a few scenes with Stella happening and then the final "training together" event of the update becomes available.
After the dream with the amazons Gina can choose her main personality. Check the quest menu top right (!/? Icon) for hints on how to complete the quests. (? are clickable for hints)
Nope, wasn't possible with the variables. We sadly needed to expand some arrays. Chapter-Select will bring you to the point where the last update ended though.
Also sad at all the Patreon users hating on the Greg route you posted. However, I would also vote for Aline and Jade though and I was the one who originally suggested you make Gina Bisexual so let's just say I'm extremely liberal with regards to possible romance routes. However I can clearly tell that your other Patreon supporters don't play a lot of Japanese Visual Novels as Brother-Sister Shenanigans are SUPER common in that genre. It's even a tag on VNDB (visual novel database).
Regardless, as the prime votes are for female on female action, I'm not that picky and am excited to see Gina x Aline or Gina x Jade. Gina x Stella I'm not as into now as I'm still pouting like a petty child over Stella taking shortcuts with her growth.
Well, a few of my favorite FMG-stories had sibling-relationships too 😅That's why I was open to the idea and put him up to the vote. Even dropped a few hints already. But for now we focus on the girls I think and let's see what the future brings.
I just saw your post on the new assistants working with you on the XiXi and Jade storyline. I know you must be super annoyed at me by this point but once again, please make sure to work well with your new assistants and get Jade's muscular form right. Kind of a lean, shredded upper body with a lot less mass and bulk than Stella or Gina, but with a good focus on strong muscular legs and calves, with a more pro-fighter/MMA look. Jade's goal in life is to get strong enough to land the ultimate kick that could bring even a powered up Gina to her knees if it landed with perfect technique. I even think aspiring to get strong enough to land the ultimate kick should be Jade's theme from now on.
I think Aline should have a build that is in between Jade and Stella. So less massive than Stella, but slightly bulkier upper body than Jade. Very well rounded like a crossfit athlete. The most well rounded and balanced of them all. Strong solid core, and moderately sized arms, and relatively thick legs.
Like I keep saying, with regards to each girl's muscle growth, make their body type diverse. So it's cool that for Stella you're going for the bulky wide powerlifter build. Jade should probably be the more leaner shredded build for MMA and speed, like a sleeper build and Aline should ideally be somewhere in the middle of those two like a crossfit build. I think googling various female body musculature as it pertains to different sports: MMA, crossfit, bodybuilding, kickboxing, powerlifting, weightlifting can help you get an idea of the diverse body types you should go for with each girl. I still very much want this to be a thing so I keep reminding you of it.
Here is a great frame of reference. It's a korean webtoon comic called Muscle Gurl's Colleseum. It is still in korean, but every girl you see is super muscular but very different body types: https://novelpia.com/comic_episode/905
I think with Jade you should either go for the Chinese Girl in Chapter 2 or the Dark haired girl in chapter 1. The Lean MMA body type.
Hi, sry for the late reply. Talk to Mike, exhaust all dialogue, visit the brothel a few times and exhaust all of Stella's dialogue. She should join your fighter-team soon after.
You need to have Stella join the gym (by defeating the first boss at the Streets of Rage), then do Stella's first training session together with Gina. After that Greg should have a new dialogue-option about sharing those shakes.
Its not everyday you find an AVN tailored to a more... unique... fetish (fmg in this case) AND is overall pretty good. Usually people tend to focus more on the unique part and less on the actual game. But this one didn't seem to do that. It instead made each part pretty great.
Short Version: It has a pretty good story that reminds me of a Yakuza game for some reason. (But with a female protagonist) Pretty good characters so far with each one being completely different to the others and having completely different personalities. It also has that touch of mystery I seem to enjoy so much. It even has combat which was the best I've seen in a Ren'Py game so far. I'm honestly impressed the dev managed that as most struggle to bend Ren'Py to their will. Oh, it also uses AI images and they're not too bad, little bit funny here and there, but nothing too major (plus there's a re-design coming up so whatever)
Longer Version:
The story is basically the plot of a Yakuza game, at least I think it is. Woman who was living a simple life gets asked for help by her brother to help save the family gym from being shut down. In the process she (basically) becomes insane and creates 2 imaginary friends who help her along the way (A shoulder angel and shoulder demon), meets a pretty varied cast of characters with quite a few of them being total goofballs, and ends up getting involved with the Mafia. There's also a lot of comedic moments thrown throughout which only fuels my "this is similar to a Yakuza game" mindset. And I like it!
The characters are pretty good too. Gina is the protag who is pretty intelligent, most of the time. Most of her personality is up to the player to decide, but I believe her default is "Kind, caring, composed, sometimes a little bit rude." I don't want to say too much more about the characters since most of it's actually revealed through your interactions with them, but I can give a small description. Mike - Small rude gym guy, Enzi - Medium gym guy wearing a loincloth, Jonathan - Big gym guy who's weirdly polite, Greg - MASSIVE gym guy who's also your brother and Xici - some white haired girl. Each one drastically different than the other and having their own unique motivators for what they do.
Can't talk about the touch of mystery as that'd kinda ruin it.
The combat arrives about 60% to 75% of the way through the game's current content (V 0.2) But it's surprisingly well made for a Ren'Py game! It's kind of styled like an older JRPG, like the original FF7 for instance. 3 party members, items, abilities, and ally commands. Little confusing at first, but I instantly figured it out in my first fight. It also requires a bit of strategy too, so I'd say the current fights are quite balanced.
My only problem with the game would have to be the silence. No music, no sounds. So I'd recommend letting your own music run in the background or ignoring the silence until some gets made/put in. Other than that, even if you aren't into fmg (the unique fetish in question) I bet you'd still enjoy the game. I'm interested to see where this goes, so it's got my approval!
But the current playtest-version on the update 3 got handed out yesterday and will hopefully be released in a few days (unless major bugs will be found)
Hi, there are a few tricks to speed it up, but it's ultimately not necessary.. after current story ends you can still free-roam and see all the available content. Only hard-cap is reaching Strength-Level 4 currently.
w o w. You know recently a lot of games went out like this one thanks to AI generation and to be honest, i'm not into AI generated image. Mostly because this is a cheap way to rush a game and deliver something that is either mediocre or left to die.
But here... yeah I got things to say about this game. (Warning, long comment).
About the story
We play as Ginna, a girl who happens to be the child of the world's strongest man (along with Greg her brother).
The dad used to own a gym before his death and Greg took up the buisness while Gina left to live her own life, out of anything concerning working-out and bodybuilding, until her brother ask for help since he's struggling with the managment of the gym. And oh boy what a mess.
A good introduction. An initial situation, an event that disturbs the situation and the begin of the story. Now this sounds usual when you start a story but most of the game I've played recently did not followed this scheme and went directly into the game while giving either too few elements to comprehend the story, or make us read a full novel.
Defenitely a plus on the story side.
About the background, arts and music
I get that you may not have the time to draw all the characters and background, thus why you are using AI generation. I won't talk about the usual vagueness of the character's shape (fingers, eyes, ...). However I'll say that all of the characters have a design unique enough to know which character it is and to like them.
Only black note I would add about characters. You're swapping from real life-ish character design (Gina, Greg, Mike, ...) and goofy characters (The witch, the references in the dojo) and while the goody characters are mostly used to make the player smile, there is one character that looks really out of background and its Xici bodyguard. He looks like a jrpg character, next to "regular" ones and it is kind of out of place.
And about the music, I know its difficult to manage (in the scripts and the game files) but maybe having some musics could be appreciated, or at least sound effects (a crowd walking, some metal noises, things like that). Combine it with a randomizer and it should make the game more immersive.
Overall, its good. But it is even better with...
About the writing
Holy christ this is fantastic.
The way the characters talks is formidable, to the point where I made distinct voices in my head for each characters. Plus the self-mockery of the angel and demon characters and the fact that they often break the 4th wall really made me laugh. And the other media references are really well made. Playing this visual novel really made me forgetting I was playing a fetish game at some points.
This is honestly the strongest point in this game, seriously its really good.
Game mechanics (yeah it's still a game after all)
From what I saw, you got 3 main game mechanics : Point and Click adventure, managment, fights.
The Point and Click is pretty fun. You can do a lot of things to achieve the main goal which is getting b i g. Some exploring features that makes you willing to see more, the storyline in which you got to pay attention to the date. The options are very simple and is limited to click on dialogue when necessary. This may not be the main aspect of the game so it is nota big deal to not improve it further.
Managment is... weird. When I say managment, it is all about the gym. It is kinda sad that you have to wait so long to actually start managing the patrons, gain money from the gym, etc. Would be nice to introduce the gain sooner and then introduce more mechanics later. Right now it is alright, but it can be better.
Fights. It's confusing at first because of the engine limitation but the job is well done. Fights are fun and I'm curious about how you are planning on implementing other party members, abilities and new ennemies. It looks like a recent thing and from what I've played, there is not a lot of things to discuss right now.
Overall this game surprised me and it was a really enjoyable experience (beside all the obvious fetish things). Keep up the good work!
Don't mind lengthy comments at all. I'm a beginner at art- and game design, so feedback really helps me revaluate my choices there. So thanks for both the kind words and the honest critique.
Big thing coming in the next update is (apart from lots of new story-events) the art-redesign. I think I've gotten quite a bit better by now, so let's hope we can get those concerns out of the way at least ;D
Hello, you can speed up the work on the project, I will give you advice, make more content and faster then people will be able to stay in your game, it’s just that after you do so little, people get tired of it and eventually abandon it, so please do it I ask for more and faster, the game is simply wonderful and the capabilities need to be increased in this game, and yes, I once asked a question about the Russian language, so please make it Russian.It’s just that in this, more or less, the Russians will play the game and support you, the point is to support someone who didn’t even bother to make another language (that’s what they told me before), because I ask that in case of itch. io after people who speak English, 2 Places go to people who speak Russian.
P.S. My job is to criticize or offer something to people, something that other people like, my specialty is psychology
While I appreciate the interest and know well that more frequent updates would be sensible, sadly I won't be able to make them any faster. This is a hobby done after my regular job and studies, with me already working on it almost every day.
As for the russian language, there are translation option in Renpy, which I haven't looked into, but this is even something the end-user could do. But I might check it out after I have the most pressing chores on the next update done.
Gina mentions another FMG game (one made with Twine) at some point. Are you referencing a real game there or is it just a joke (obviously just asking out of curiosity)?
Let me satisfy your curiosity. Whole game is riddled with bad references 😅 Both the "Summer Growth Game" and "FMG Life Simulator" for example have been referenced. And I'm REALLY looking forward to do a cross-over with KBro from Bayshore Academy in the future 😁
Sorry man, my old saves are just as broken as yours 😅 This variable handling is a nightmare. I mostly skip through the old known dialogue to reach the old point in the game.
the problem is that they can't complete, for example, I can't convince the blonde woman, or the guy from the rich street, and I can't talk to some people that I need to complete the qvest, and I also can't go to the street where the crimes are
Ok, then this is more complex 😅Most people who asked this just didn't read the quest-log and kept wondering. Ok, if you're interested I will gladly try to fix this.
First, did you start your run on a new safe? I stated that the old saves will cause variable-conflicts and should be avoided. This is another common error people had been facing.
If that's also not the case, can you describe which quest-goals are currently not complete-able?
1 recruit Jade from the gym I can't convince him there and I can't talk to anyone 2 i can't get to the street and beat the boss 3 talk Greg into accepting the woman at the gym
Greetings, for the dojo you need Strength-Level 3 and then you pester Enzi at the gym long enough to tell you its location.
Streets should be accessible once you have Strength-Level 3 and went there twice to craft the disguise. You also need to find your first target by checking the ledgers in the bureau.
I'm generally not a fan of FMG, but I'm really enjoying this game. The characters and scenarios you've written are entertaining on their own. The gameplay elements and decision trees are well done, really one of the best in the VN genre. I'm looking forward to what you have planned for the next update!
Sadly for you, a lot of FMG. It's time for the other girls to start catching up to Gina 😅
But probably a free-exploration of the Streets with endless waves, new events at the dojo and park, few new side characters, main story progression, etc..
I have always a lot planned and then see what's feasible in the end.
One last thing. I actually like how difficult the Streets of rage battle system was. The custom artwork animations too for the boss's skill casting is AMAZING. You really gave it your all. Took me a while to beat the boss but I think I was under-leveled in Dojo Skill. For the future, adding exclusive combo attacks depending on who Gina is with sounds like a really fun idea. For example a move that basically combines Stella's double whip with Gina's Gale Force attack. Some kind of whip tornado that has almost 100% stamina cost but does huge damage.
Fantastic job as always. Outside of Bayshore academy this game is miles ahead of other FMG games on this platform. And it's even better than Bayshore honestly because you wayyy more interesting world building. I came for the FMG but stayed for the world building. It's awesome.
I thought of a feature for your game that I think would be a great add for fmg fans.
A continuously updating size chart. That you can view from the start of the game to the end. Show the relative sizes of the characters compared to one another. Much like the UI artwork that you update whenever Gina goes to train, this is a great thing to add so we can keep track of the scale of everything. For example I can never tell how big Gina is depending on who she is next to. Akari looks absolutely massive next to her, but I don't think the difference is as big
I put a link to an example of an Imgur height chart. Artwork is by Robolord who primarily does FMG but occasionally also does some male muscle growth.
Honestly I worked around proper charts to avoid having to deal with realistic numbers, but you are not the first person wishing for something like this. So lets see..
And thanks for the review on combat. Was the first time I wrote something in python, so I'm pretty happy with how it turned out in the end. Code is still the worst horrible mess imagineable though
1) Whether it's Stella, Aline, or Jade, If you plan on making the heroines more muscular by the end, I strongly recommend you make them all look distinctly unique in terms of body type. Not just all of them having the same amazon frame as Gina. For me that would be boring.
For example I would expect Stella to be thicker and more muscular with a wide curvy frame like a powerlifter whereas Jade being a martial artist, I would expect to have a more shredded muscular frame but also with a less heavy build more suited for not just strength but better agility compared to Gina.
I think having all the girls look distinct and unique in terms of "final" body type is much better than having them all look the same in the end.
2) Can you change or alter Gina's core personality at any other points in the route or does it lock permanently towards one personality starting with the dream?
3) I got the event where I picked up the clown's assistant in the park to join the gym. I know this is ultimately an FMG only game, but any chance you could slightly subvert that genre and grow one of the weak looking guys, bigger and more muscular by attending Gina's gym? I liked his character model, and some of the cool male characters have grown on me. This is my favorite FMG game because the men aren't puny. A stronger women dominating already strong men is much hotter to me than strong women dominating toothpick men.
Great update thanks. There is a bug in the tutorial section of the streets of rage where it crashes during one of the rule explanations.
Hi, nice to hear from you again and thanks for the nice words. I highly value your feedback, helping me to further improve.
So regarding your questions:
1)I want them to have a slightly different look and with my new SD-Setup, Model-Merge and new skills I'm fairly confident I can achieve this now. Stella going for bulk and curves and Jade staying more shredded would indeed fit the characters.
2)You can. Second dream with the nuns gives you the option to change once more. I'll see what the future brings since I'm not sure if update 3 needs another dream (since we get some steamy scene in "reality" now).
3)That random citizen model I used think twice already ?😅 But yeah, dominating a strong guy is cool, especially if Gina worked so hard to achieve the strength to do so. I don't want my guys to be all wusses, just waiting to be overpowered, but have a personality too that isn't reduced to their size and dick. Growing a guy is however very low on my priority-list for now, since we have guys in all sizes around.. Although, one guy more or less incorporating a "player" among the fans of Ginas stream.. eh, I'll think on that, but workload for update 3 is already huge, so definitely not for now.. 🤨
Can you tell me which error was displayed on the tutorial? Want to fix this of course!
Great, professional looking and ultimately sexy update. I especially like all the new expressions you added and the background image of Gina and friends while training. The combat system is a little confusing with the numbers sometimes reversing but the boss design was super cool. Love all of the aesthetics you added to the menus and the dream artwork with Xici was cool. I want her on steroids to be the final boss now. The new characters are fantastic and having Philip as a Tuxedo mask parody is funny but I would like to see him have his moments to look cool as a "support" haha. I also noticed you re-wrote a lot of the dialogue to flesh out the story far more. Lots more juicy world building.
I am going to make another comment now on what I would love to see added in the next update if possible.
Hi, little button top-right with the !/? is your quest-log. Check there if all requirements are met. The green "?" are clickable to give hints on how to complete those quests.
If all requirements are checked growth should happen over the next night. If not, pls write me again and I`ll look into it.
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Is Stella stuck in the brothel after her scene with Mike? I can't seem to do anything to get her back to fight with the boss.
So if you had the Mike x Stella scene you have done everything possible on the Stella-route for now. She should come to the gym on her own once these two events are completed:
From there the story contiues with her and Jade more or less on it's own. Watch a few scenes with Stella happening and then the final "training together" event of the update becomes available.
Thanks!
How do I get Gina's main personality?
After the dream with the amazons Gina can choose her main personality. Check the quest menu top right (!/? Icon) for hints on how to complete the quests. (? are clickable for hints)
How do I get Stella to come to the gym?
Take down the first boss at the Streets of Rage. She will join the gym afterwards.
Nope, wasn't possible with the variables. We sadly needed to expand some arrays. Chapter-Select will bring you to the point where the last update ended though.
Also sad at all the Patreon users hating on the Greg route you posted. However, I would also vote for Aline and Jade though and I was the one who originally suggested you make Gina Bisexual so let's just say I'm extremely liberal with regards to possible romance routes. However I can clearly tell that your other Patreon supporters don't play a lot of Japanese Visual Novels as Brother-Sister Shenanigans are SUPER common in that genre. It's even a tag on VNDB (visual novel database).
Regardless, as the prime votes are for female on female action, I'm not that picky and am excited to see Gina x Aline or Gina x Jade. Gina x Stella I'm not as into now as I'm still pouting like a petty child over Stella taking shortcuts with her growth.
Well, a few of my favorite FMG-stories had sibling-relationships too 😅That's why I was open to the idea and put him up to the vote. Even dropped a few hints already. But for now we focus on the girls I think and let's see what the future brings.
I just saw your post on the new assistants working with you on the XiXi and Jade storyline. I know you must be super annoyed at me by this point but once again, please make sure to work well with your new assistants and get Jade's muscular form right. Kind of a lean, shredded upper body with a lot less mass and bulk than Stella or Gina, but with a good focus on strong muscular legs and calves, with a more pro-fighter/MMA look. Jade's goal in life is to get strong enough to land the ultimate kick that could bring even a powered up Gina to her knees if it landed with perfect technique. I even think aspiring to get strong enough to land the ultimate kick should be Jade's theme from now on.
I think Aline should have a build that is in between Jade and Stella. So less massive than Stella, but slightly bulkier upper body than Jade. Very well rounded like a crossfit athlete. The most well rounded and balanced of them all. Strong solid core, and moderately sized arms, and relatively thick legs.
I'm not annoyed 😅 Can't say this often enough. Let's see what we can get done on that, cause I like your concept there.
when is the next update for free ver?
Start of January, probably on the 2.
Well, today is 2 January...
And it still is around here 😁 Compiling just now
Like I keep saying, with regards to each girl's muscle growth, make their body type diverse. So it's cool that for Stella you're going for the bulky wide powerlifter build. Jade should probably be the more leaner shredded build for MMA and speed, like a sleeper build and Aline should ideally be somewhere in the middle of those two like a crossfit build. I think googling various female body musculature as it pertains to different sports: MMA, crossfit, bodybuilding, kickboxing, powerlifting, weightlifting can help you get an idea of the diverse body types you should go for with each girl. I still very much want this to be a thing so I keep reminding you of it.
Worry not, I shall not forget your sage advice. Let me surprise you again, as next update will see the start of Jade and Aline's growth.
Here is a great frame of reference. It's a korean webtoon comic called Muscle Gurl's Colleseum. It is still in korean, but every girl you see is super muscular but very different body types: https://novelpia.com/comic_episode/905
I think with Jade you should either go for the Chinese Girl in Chapter 2 or the Dark haired girl in chapter 1. The Lean MMA body type.
How do i recruit Stella as a fighter?
Hi, sry for the late reply. Talk to Mike, exhaust all dialogue, visit the brothel a few times and exhaust all of Stella's dialogue. She should join your fighter-team soon after.
Thanks, what about the quest: Talk to Greg about sharing his recipes to the girls?
You need to have Stella join the gym (by defeating the first boss at the Streets of Rage), then do Stella's first training session together with Gina. After that Greg should have a new dialogue-option about sharing those shakes.
Its not everyday you find an AVN tailored to a more... unique... fetish (fmg in this case) AND is overall pretty good. Usually people tend to focus more on the unique part and less on the actual game. But this one didn't seem to do that. It instead made each part pretty great.
Short Version: It has a pretty good story that reminds me of a Yakuza game for some reason. (But with a female protagonist) Pretty good characters so far with each one being completely different to the others and having completely different personalities. It also has that touch of mystery I seem to enjoy so much. It even has combat which was the best I've seen in a Ren'Py game so far. I'm honestly impressed the dev managed that as most struggle to bend Ren'Py to their will. Oh, it also uses AI images and they're not too bad, little bit funny here and there, but nothing too major (plus there's a re-design coming up so whatever)
Longer Version:
The story is basically the plot of a Yakuza game, at least I think it is. Woman who was living a simple life gets asked for help by her brother to help save the family gym from being shut down. In the process she (basically) becomes insane and creates 2 imaginary friends who help her along the way (A shoulder angel and shoulder demon), meets a pretty varied cast of characters with quite a few of them being total goofballs, and ends up getting involved with the Mafia. There's also a lot of comedic moments thrown throughout which only fuels my "this is similar to a Yakuza game" mindset. And I like it!
The characters are pretty good too. Gina is the protag who is pretty intelligent, most of the time. Most of her personality is up to the player to decide, but I believe her default is "Kind, caring, composed, sometimes a little bit rude." I don't want to say too much more about the characters since most of it's actually revealed through your interactions with them, but I can give a small description. Mike - Small rude gym guy, Enzi - Medium gym guy wearing a loincloth, Jonathan - Big gym guy who's weirdly polite, Greg - MASSIVE gym guy who's also your brother and Xici - some white haired girl. Each one drastically different than the other and having their own unique motivators for what they do.
Can't talk about the touch of mystery as that'd kinda ruin it.
The combat arrives about 60% to 75% of the way through the game's current content (V 0.2) But it's surprisingly well made for a Ren'Py game! It's kind of styled like an older JRPG, like the original FF7 for instance. 3 party members, items, abilities, and ally commands. Little confusing at first, but I instantly figured it out in my first fight. It also requires a bit of strategy too, so I'd say the current fights are quite balanced.
My only problem with the game would have to be the silence. No music, no sounds. So I'd recommend letting your own music run in the background or ignoring the silence until some gets made/put in. Other than that, even if you aren't into fmg (the unique fetish in question) I bet you'd still enjoy the game. I'm interested to see where this goes, so it's got my approval!
what was added in the v.3
Gonna write post in the Dev-Log with the changes later
And what was added in the update 23 days ago?
Nothing added on that one. Only bug-fixes.
But the current playtest-version on the update 3 got handed out yesterday and will hopefully be released in a few days (unless major bugs will be found)
You can see the hard work the devs put in!
The game came along Beautiful. Definitely reccomend it to everyone who is looking into an fmg game!
Cheers
Hello, do this game have valid discord link?, and can i talk with the team that made this game?
Hi, updated the link on the page. And sure you can talk, I'm all ears..
Hello, the link is still expired on this page
Then I'm really confused >_<
Ok, just generated this one:
https://discord.gg/FaJuCJuExS
Ah, it's now can click it, thank you
I always end the story part before having enough stats, is that intended? Do you need to take a very specific path to do it?
Hi, there are a few tricks to speed it up, but it's ultimately not necessary.. after current story ends you can still free-roam and see all the available content. Only hard-cap is reaching Strength-Level 4 currently.
anytime i try to download it says archive is currupted
Weird.. I'll try to reupload them. Tell if it fixes the problem.
yep, now it's fixed, ty.
Hope to see small girls becoming titans!
does anyone know how to progress to the new updates of the game? right now i'm stumped
are we talking about events or strength lvs? For both look at the discord.
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w o w. You know recently a lot of games went out like this one thanks to AI generation and to be honest, i'm not into AI generated image. Mostly because this is a cheap way to rush a game and deliver something that is either mediocre or left to die.
But here... yeah I got things to say about this game. (Warning, long comment).
About the story
We play as Ginna, a girl who happens to be the child of the world's strongest man (along with Greg her brother).
The dad used to own a gym before his death and Greg took up the buisness while Gina left to live her own life, out of anything concerning working-out and bodybuilding, until her brother ask for help since he's struggling with the managment of the gym. And oh boy what a mess.
A good introduction. An initial situation, an event that disturbs the situation and the begin of the story. Now this sounds usual when you start a story but most of the game I've played recently did not followed this scheme and went directly into the game while giving either too few elements to comprehend the story, or make us read a full novel.
Defenitely a plus on the story side.
About the background, arts and music
I get that you may not have the time to draw all the characters and background, thus why you are using AI generation. I won't talk about the usual vagueness of the character's shape (fingers, eyes, ...). However I'll say that all of the characters have a design unique enough to know which character it is and to like them.
Only black note I would add about characters. You're swapping from real life-ish character design (Gina, Greg, Mike, ...) and goofy characters (The witch, the references in the dojo) and while the goody characters are mostly used to make the player smile, there is one character that looks really out of background and its Xici bodyguard. He looks like a jrpg character, next to "regular" ones and it is kind of out of place.
And about the music, I know its difficult to manage (in the scripts and the game files) but maybe having some musics could be appreciated, or at least sound effects (a crowd walking, some metal noises, things like that). Combine it with a randomizer and it should make the game more immersive.
Overall, its good. But it is even better with...
About the writing
Holy christ this is fantastic.
The way the characters talks is formidable, to the point where I made distinct voices in my head for each characters. Plus the self-mockery of the angel and demon characters and the fact that they often break the 4th wall really made me laugh. And the other media references are really well made. Playing this visual novel really made me forgetting I was playing a fetish game at some points.
This is honestly the strongest point in this game, seriously its really good.
Game mechanics (yeah it's still a game after all)
From what I saw, you got 3 main game mechanics : Point and Click adventure, managment, fights.
The Point and Click is pretty fun. You can do a lot of things to achieve the main goal which is getting b i g. Some exploring features that makes you willing to see more, the storyline in which you got to pay attention to the date. The options are very simple and is limited to click on dialogue when necessary. This may not be the main aspect of the game so it is nota big deal to not improve it further.
Managment is... weird. When I say managment, it is all about the gym. It is kinda sad that you have to wait so long to actually start managing the patrons, gain money from the gym, etc. Would be nice to introduce the gain sooner and then introduce more mechanics later. Right now it is alright, but it can be better.
Fights. It's confusing at first because of the engine limitation but the job is well done. Fights are fun and I'm curious about how you are planning on implementing other party members, abilities and new ennemies. It looks like a recent thing and from what I've played, there is not a lot of things to discuss right now.
Overall this game surprised me and it was a really enjoyable experience (beside all the obvious fetish things). Keep up the good work!
Don't mind lengthy comments at all. I'm a beginner at art- and game design, so feedback really helps me revaluate my choices there. So thanks for both the kind words and the honest critique.
Big thing coming in the next update is (apart from lots of new story-events) the art-redesign. I think I've gotten quite a bit better by now, so let's hope we can get those concerns out of the way at least ;D
i've finished the current version and it was very good! really looking forward to new updates.
noticed that in the james interaction where you are supposed to get composure your composure actually gets reset back to 1.
also had a crash when viewing the combat tutorial.
Thanks, I'll look into the bugs you mentioned.
If you ignore those people who want to support you either financially and morally, then you can put an end to your project, honestly
Hello, you can speed up the work on the project, I will give you advice, make more content and faster then people will be able to stay in your game, it’s just that after you do so little, people get tired of it and eventually abandon it, so please do it I ask for more and faster, the game is simply wonderful and the capabilities need to be increased in this game, and yes, I once asked a question about the Russian language, so please make it Russian.It’s just that in this, more or less, the Russians will play the game and support you, the point is to support someone who didn’t even bother to make another language (that’s what they told me before), because I ask that in case of itch. io after people who speak English, 2 Places go to people who speak Russian.
P.S. My job is to criticize or offer something to people, something that other people like, my specialty is psychology
While I appreciate the interest and know well that more frequent updates would be sensible, sadly I won't be able to make them any faster. This is a hobby done after my regular job and studies, with me already working on it almost every day.
As for the russian language, there are translation option in Renpy, which I haven't looked into, but this is even something the end-user could do. But I might check it out after I have the most pressing chores on the next update done.
Thank you, I understand bro, I will find a way to help you with money, it's just that transferring money from Russia to foreign sites is problematic
Gina mentions another FMG game (one made with Twine) at some point. Are you referencing a real game there or is it just a joke (obviously just asking out of curiosity)?
Let me satisfy your curiosity. Whole game is riddled with bad references 😅 Both the "Summer Growth Game" and "FMG Life Simulator" for example have been referenced. And I'm REALLY looking forward to do a cross-over with KBro from Bayshore Academy in the future 😁
Yo is it possible to have a save for the 2nd uptade ? since i mine dosn't work :(
Sorry man, my old saves are just as broken as yours 😅 This variable handling is a nightmare. I mostly skip through the old known dialogue to reach the old point in the game.
Greetings, hope it's just the same problem many people faced. The problem of me not properly describing the game functions 😅
So, little icons top right are the menus. One of them is the quest-menu, telling you which goals you need to achieve.
Ok, then this is more complex 😅Most people who asked this just didn't read the quest-log and kept wondering. Ok, if you're interested I will gladly try to fix this.
First, did you start your run on a new safe? I stated that the old saves will cause variable-conflicts and should be avoided. This is another common error people had been facing.
If that's also not the case, can you describe which quest-goals are currently not complete-able?
Ok i know why, you need to go to the bureau and check the ledgers all the time. This will work for sure cause i was stock at ur same problem.
soo... i am kind of confused what do you do to get access to streets of rage and dojo...
Greetings, for the dojo you need Strength-Level 3 and then you pester Enzi at the gym long enough to tell you its location.
Streets should be accessible once you have Strength-Level 3 and went there twice to craft the disguise. You also need to find your first target by checking the ledgers in the bureau.
I'm generally not a fan of FMG, but I'm really enjoying this game. The characters and scenarios you've written are entertaining on their own. The gameplay elements and decision trees are well done, really one of the best in the VN genre. I'm looking forward to what you have planned for the next update!
Sadly for you, a lot of FMG. It's time for the other girls to start catching up to Gina 😅
But probably a free-exploration of the Streets with endless waves, new events at the dojo and park, few new side characters, main story progression, etc..
I have always a lot planned and then see what's feasible in the end.
That's fine by me. I'm excited to see the other girls grow!
The streets of rage has the most potential for me. With some tuning and incentives to grind, I could have a lot of fun with that.
One last thing. I actually like how difficult the Streets of rage battle system was. The custom artwork animations too for the boss's skill casting is AMAZING. You really gave it your all. Took me a while to beat the boss but I think I was under-leveled in Dojo Skill. For the future, adding exclusive combo attacks depending on who Gina is with sounds like a really fun idea. For example a move that basically combines Stella's double whip with Gina's Gale Force attack. Some kind of whip tornado that has almost 100% stamina cost but does huge damage.
Fantastic job as always. Outside of Bayshore academy this game is miles ahead of other FMG games on this platform. And it's even better than Bayshore honestly because you wayyy more interesting world building. I came for the FMG but stayed for the world building. It's awesome.
I thought of a feature for your game that I think would be a great add for fmg fans.
A continuously updating size chart. That you can view from the start of the game to the end. Show the relative sizes of the characters compared to one another. Much like the UI artwork that you update whenever Gina goes to train, this is a great thing to add so we can keep track of the scale of everything. For example I can never tell how big Gina is depending on who she is next to. Akari looks absolutely massive next to her, but I don't think the difference is as big
I put a link to an example of an Imgur height chart. Artwork is by Robolord who primarily does FMG but occasionally also does some male muscle growth.
https://imgur.com/a/eoLli4H
Your suggestions are good, but they are many 😅
Honestly I worked around proper charts to avoid having to deal with realistic numbers, but you are not the first person wishing for something like this. So lets see..
And thanks for the review on combat. Was the first time I wrote something in python, so I'm pretty happy with how it turned out in the end. Code is still the worst horrible mess imagineable though
Three things I would really love to see added:
1) Whether it's Stella, Aline, or Jade, If you plan on making the heroines more muscular by the end, I strongly recommend you make them all look distinctly unique in terms of body type. Not just all of them having the same amazon frame as Gina. For me that would be boring. For example I would expect Stella to be thicker and more muscular with a wide curvy frame like a powerlifter whereas Jade being a martial artist, I would expect to have a more shredded muscular frame but also with a less heavy build more suited for not just strength but better agility compared to Gina.
I think having all the girls look distinct and unique in terms of "final" body type is much better than having them all look the same in the end.
2) Can you change or alter Gina's core personality at any other points in the route or does it lock permanently towards one personality starting with the dream?
3) I got the event where I picked up the clown's assistant in the park to join the gym. I know this is ultimately an FMG only game, but any chance you could slightly subvert that genre and grow one of the weak looking guys, bigger and more muscular by attending Gina's gym? I liked his character model, and some of the cool male characters have grown on me. This is my favorite FMG game because the men aren't puny. A stronger women dominating already strong men is much hotter to me than strong women dominating toothpick men. Great update thanks. There is a bug in the tutorial section of the streets of rage where it crashes during one of the rule explanations.
Hi, nice to hear from you again and thanks for the nice words. I highly value your feedback, helping me to further improve.
So regarding your questions:
1)I want them to have a slightly different look and with my new SD-Setup, Model-Merge and new skills I'm fairly confident I can achieve this now. Stella going for bulk and curves and Jade staying more shredded would indeed fit the characters.
2)You can. Second dream with the nuns gives you the option to change once more. I'll see what the future brings since I'm not sure if update 3 needs another dream (since we get some steamy scene in "reality" now).
3)That random citizen model I used think twice already ?😅 But yeah, dominating a strong guy is cool, especially if Gina worked so hard to achieve the strength to do so. I don't want my guys to be all wusses, just waiting to be overpowered, but have a personality too that isn't reduced to their size and dick. Growing a guy is however very low on my priority-list for now, since we have guys in all sizes around.. Although, one guy more or less incorporating a "player" among the fans of Ginas stream.. eh, I'll think on that, but workload for update 3 is already huge, so definitely not for now.. 🤨
Can you tell me which error was displayed on the tutorial? Want to fix this of course!
Great, professional looking and ultimately sexy update. I especially like all the new expressions you added and the background image of Gina and friends while training. The combat system is a little confusing with the numbers sometimes reversing but the boss design was super cool. Love all of the aesthetics you added to the menus and the dream artwork with Xici was cool. I want her on steroids to be the final boss now. The new characters are fantastic and having Philip as a Tuxedo mask parody is funny but I would like to see him have his moments to look cool as a "support" haha. I also noticed you re-wrote a lot of the dialogue to flesh out the story far more. Lots more juicy world building.
I am going to make another comment now on what I would love to see added in the next update if possible.
I'm stuck at level 2, 30/24. Please help
Hi, little button top-right with the !/? is your quest-log. Check there if all requirements are met. The green "?" are clickable to give hints on how to complete those quests.
If all requirements are checked growth should happen over the next night. If not, pls write me again and I`ll look into it.
Just finished this recent patch and fantastic work again.
Thanks so much :D
Was a lot of work and hearing that is very rewarding
Where is the download link?
Just replaced the files, adding the new version. Should be all online again
It's here, have fun :D
The discord link js apparently expired could you give me a new one?
Hi, damn links are all limited to 30days.. I'll update it, but here's one for you already:
https://discord.gg/RXGmwXCeB
thx
Ayo put a new discord link
Aye, aye! Thanks for reminding me!
You sure its not a temporary membership link again?
No, no, no, no! I will not make that stupid mistake again 😅This one is good... I hope...