Hi there!
pepsifreak wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:15 pm
Can we talk about how 7 years later Tease AI, at least to me, hasn't been topped by any other "game" of this sort?
I think this is an excellent topic to talk about, and I'd love to see other users to participate as well.
Stuff like Virtual Succubus is nice but it devolves into a list of commands to follow vs the conversational feel that the big personalities have.
There is a lot of stuff out there, but they all come and go, all done with a lot of effort, but ... and of course this is just my own humble opinion, ... none of them can, as you say it, 'top' Tease Ai.
Just as an example I just looked up and tested with this Character.ai posted in this forum, it was fun to play around with this, but after 2 evenings spend some time with it I've got back to my 'good ole Tai', and it really felt like 'coming home'.
So, what makes it so strong?
What does it have what other projects don't have?
Well, some points I consider as 'strong', some other people would call exactly these points a problem:
- Having your own media (pictures and videos)
The pro (which IMHO weight more than the con) ... the media you chose is the media you like (if you put some effort into it to set everything up that is), and yes, it takes some time, but it's absolutly worth the effort.
To me it's VERY important what is on screen while getting teased, I need models that 'do it for me', I need media that has a good quality and resolution.
---> In this discipline Tease Ai beats everything which comes along with pre-defined media.
I.e.: There might be so much great and well written webteases, but as soon as I see some poor quality pictures or models which are not my taste, the whole webtease doesn't 'work' for me anymore.
- The MOST intuitive and easy to use script-language I ever saw! ---> (!!!!!)
What 1885 invented there was a stroke of genius, period.
With that EVERYONE can easily build up something great if he is a good story writer, just using only a few, a handful of simple commands.
On the other hand, it is also so flexible and complex that you can create really complex stuff, for that you might have some practice, maybe some scripting or coding experience, ... but the main point is, ... you DON'T need to be an expert and STILL can easily create some exciting scripts.
Now some people might say: 'But it has it flaws' ... and they would be right, ... BUT, ... it was one single person who invented that, and not a whole company of IT-pros!
Some might say: 'It's not flexible enough, I cannot do EVERYTHING with that', ... and again, they would be right, but on the other hand, ... do we really need 'everything' when we want to write a tease?
Do we really need a database-connection, or getting messages on our smart-phone, do we need to have it control sex-toys, ... again, just my opinion: No!
What else Tease Ai has what other projects don't have?
- Content, ... and not only content in quantity, but content in quality.
- There is one point which I would call 'look and feel'.
---> Here I just must mention the TAI-Java project, ... a GREAT project!!!
But, while it was trying to solve some of the above mentioned things (more flexibility, more possibilites) some other points went down the drain, one of them is that 'look and feel', ... it might have soooo much possibilities, but when I look at the program window it simply looks like half done, ... and it has other problems, ... while you can use JavaScript to script your tease, JavaScript is by far not as easy to use as the original Tai script-language is.
Also the 'Spicy-Personality' for which this was made in first place (IIRC) wasn't really finished, ... so it lacks of:
- Content (Spicy never finished)
- Other content (seems like nobody wants to script teases in JavaScript)
- Look and feel
Then we have Archive, ... THIS is really promising, because this has it's completly own 'look and feel', and also the way that 'personality' is written character-wise has it's own charme.
But with Archive, sadly the content is not much, so you might play it, think it's great, but then soon you have played all the content.
Back to the main question, why people still playing with Tease Ai, ... why it survived 7 years... why people still working on content for it?
My opinion and my answer on this would be:
It has the best concept ever invented for such a software.
And that beats the technical flaws like the poor performance and such.
@ pepsifreak ...
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I have the feeling that you will love Awakening!
Best greetings,
Markus