Hi. A few of you may faintly remember a little project started up as a vore interactive fiction attempt, quite a while ago. Due to my own lack of interest, that project crashed and burned quite rapidly. But from the smoldering wreckage of that comes something new, something better thought out, something that is actually designed well enough that it doesn't cause permanent brain damage when you try to edit something!
Yes, like a phoenix from the ashes, thus returns THE VORE TEXT ADVENTURE!
...Too dramatic?
Eh. Alright, here's the base facts:
It's currently "functional": That is, you can eat things and things can eat other things.
It's almost empty. Nothing can eat you yet and there's only one real vorish scene so far.
It's designed so that new content can fairly easily be added without rewriting half the game.
It still needs work before it's actually going to be worth more than two minutes of playtime.
I'm officially referring to this as the proof-of-concept version
So, you presumably ask me, "For what reason should I actually play this thing? Also, can I eat you?" To answer your question, yes, you can. Everyone knows that writers are delicious. To answer your OTHER, more relevant question, here's a couple decent reasons:
It's a tiny file, and only requires a small software download to actually play it.
Playing it and reporting bugs, typos, or just plain bad writing helps a ton! Feel free to be as picky as you like: If you report something wrong, I'll probably fix it.
Finally, and most importantly, this game is going to prominently feature USER SUGGESTIONS. "What does that mean?", you probably aren't asking. But in case you do, here's the gist of it: You want something? You get it. Want some unbirth, or BV, or maybe even CV? You got it, if enough people want it you'll probably see it in the next version. Nagas, furries, giants, whatever? Pred or prey? Whatever you like! I'm going to rely on you folks as my wellspring of ideas. Are you a writer or an artist? You could even suggest that your own character gets a cameo appearance!
So, relying on my psychic abilities of precognition, I once again see you asking me a question: "So what's in the current version, and what's coming soon?" Allow me to answer both of those with another brief list, this one encapsulated in spoiler tags for those explorers among us who want to find things out for themselves:
Right now, there's some food you can eat and digest and a certain someone who you can feed to a certain someone else.
There's a small puzzle or two. It's still an IF game after all.
It's pretty obvious when you've reached the end. All told, there's probably only about ten minutes worth of gameplay here.
Most of the interesting content is in the kitchen south of the main area. Try eating everything in there, and experiment!
Not much so far. But what comes next?
Next, first of all, is finding a way to deal with the odd indigestible item or unusually resiliant that your character is sure to accidently nom down. I'm hesitant to include the obvious full-tour solution as the default (Although I'm sure it will interest some people, myself included), but I suppose that I can find a way to do it that avoids bothering those who aren't interested in the other end of the digestive process, so to speak.
After I figure out a way to solve that, the digestion mechanics need rewriting, slightly. Mostly just to keep the player from being spammed with messages every turn as they are now.
After that is three major things that need added: CONTENT, CONTENT, AND MORE CONTENT.
The set of portals in the main area will each lead to different areas populated with fun places and people to explore. Thus, new areas can be easily added without rethinking half the game!
Finally, an optional sequence might be added to the start of the game so you can pick your character's gender and possibly other options, such as the inevitable scat or no scat decision. The former will be important for any BV, UB, or CV that's added, and the latter for people who get grossed out by poo. Of course, it's likely that this might be skipped over until later.
There are a few things that WON'T be possible:
The way that I've made this, it won't be easy to simply mix and match predators and prey. Only preds that are specifically designated to eat a prey will do so: Otherwise, it gets a whole lot more complicated. This means that if you catch a mouse, you'll only be able to feed it to people or animals that are specifically programmed to do so. This means that interactions between preds and preys will be somewhat more limited, but it also means that I can easily add well made descriptive text to each and every possible encounter.
Of course, there's a silver lining to that: Since the game is so easy to modify, if you think it's odd that the bullfrog can swallow the pet rat but not the hamster, as a completely hypothetical example, just ask and you might find it possible in the next version.
As an addition to above, taking people through portals will probably be prohibited due to the likely possibility of nonsensical gaps in pred-prey relations. So yes, you'll have to find a way to get rid of your "passengers" before heading back to the main hub. Yes, that's kind of arbitrary, but you'd get a headache too if you had to consider what happens should the player smuggle a robot-naga from the future into the Ancient Den of the Tentacle Monsters. Trust me, it'll be easier for both of us if we avoid that sort of scenario.
A final predicted query, and perhaps the most important: "SO HOW DO I PLAY THIS, MR WORDS MC-TALKYMAN?" Easy. Download the attached file, and run it in an interpreter. What's an interpreter?
This is.You want the download labeled wingit-128.zip. NOTE: I just updated this link: The original probably won't work. Redownload that if you're confused.
So download it, extract it, and have fun. Oh, that link might not work for non-windows systems. If anyone needs it, I'll take a peek around and see if I can find something else for Mac and Linux users, although I assume that if you're a linux user you're nerdy enough to find your own software.
So have fun, and leave your comments, questions, and suggestions here. Happy voring!
is that our slogan?DOWNLOAD LINK:https://rapidshare.com/files/657568770/IFV_Test.gblorbEDIT 1: Whoops. Pressed submit instead of preview. Have patience for a second while I wrap this up and add the download link.
EDIT 2: Fixed that. Enjoy. Also, the above note now makes no sense whatsoever! Something is probably still screwy here so expect more of these little notes.
EDIT 3: Man, am I psychic or what? The link to the interpreter was wrong, fixed it. Download from the new link if you're having trouble.
