Fleshcraft

[computergeek]

Fleshcaster: Prologue
https://milovana.com/webteases/showtease.php?id=26623

Fleshcraft 2.01 for GuideMe (Last updated 7/24/2020)
https://mega.nz/file/BUMi0Ibb#NwNR7ePtj ... 33NicR2aPg

The zip file is password protected
Password: Milovana

I'm back! Well kind of anyways, I'm moving a lot slower these days but wanted to put an update out here. Some good news, and some bad news. This still remains a work in progress that I doubt will ever be considered complete. What you are going to find in this version is basically the beginning of a visual novel with some JOI and RPG aspects. For now my main focus has been on the story line which is coming along quite nicely. The character personalities seems to magically write itself, so hopefully that in of itself is entertaining. What you are not going to find, at least so far is anything really challenging as far as making it a difficult JOI, and the RPG elements are horribly lacking. So for the moment, just consider this a sexy story more than a JOI or RPG game.

Changes 2.01:

- Further depth to existing story lines.
- A few new characters.

Changes 2.00:

- Complete Code Rewrite
All the code was cleaned up and updated to work with Guideme 0.3.4

- Story Changes
Starting up this old project back up, I had lost just about everything other than the Milovana tease "Fleshcaster: Prologue" but the story has always been burning in the back of my mind. Special thanks to Trusfrated who managed to send me an old copy, but by that time I was already deep in the rewrite. Some of the new stuff just seemed better than the old, so some of the story has changed since the original.

- Combat System
The basic skeletal work is in place for generic NPC monsters but the user interface is only about half done. This is a different system than I started out with, so again a few minor changes to the old story line.

- Generic Monster NPC's
As the current combat system is very much still a work in progress, there is only one single instance of a monster NPC that can be found in the forest. As the combat system is not completed, there is no active defense against the monsters available, all you can do is wait for the encounter to complete. However, once more progress is made on the combat system, the NPC's are basic templates that can be copied and modified by monster type, so it will make populating them later a more simplistic task.

[computergeek]

Quick fix for Minami bug, to be fixed in next update:

\Fleshcraft 2.00\Flashcraft\inc\Location_Campus_Solar_Dorm.xml

Line 18 should be:

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overRide.setDelay( "Story_Minami_Kojima_002-001", "0", "0", "hidden",  "", "", "");
				

instead of:

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overRide.setDelay( "Story_Minami_Kojima_001-002", "0", "0", "hidden",  "", "", "");
				

[malaru]

I just finished my first day (if there is something like days. I just did the introduction and E1 class) and I have to say I really love the concept about fleshcasting and the way you are treated by all the girls. Really a fresh breeze compared to the usual mistresses in teases.
Also I really love writing, especially during the E1 class. You managed to hide some soft instructions like when to speed up and when to slow down without interrupting the flow and it really felt like all participants are getting sucked into a frenzy.

I'm really looking forward to continuing.

PS: one minor issue I have found is that my dormitory didn't show any advancement in Class E (0.0) even though I did finish E1. I don't know if that could have any side effects or even if it is correct.

Edit:

Quick fix for Minami bug, to be fixed in next update:

\Fleshcraft 2.00\Flashcraft\inc\Location_Campus_Solar_Dorm.xml

Line 18 should be:

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overRide.setDelay( "Story_Minami_Kojima_002-001", "0", "0", "hidden",  "", "", "");
				

instead of:

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overRide.setDelay( "Story_Minami_Kojima_001-002", "0", "0", "hidden",  "", "", "");
				

This line doesn't exist for me, nor does "Story_Minami_Kojima_002" either as a Label in the _001 File nor as a separate file.
Is the uploaded version maybe out of date?

malaru

[computergeek]

I just finished my first day (if there is something like days. I just did the introduction and E1 class) and I have to say I really love the concept about fleshcasting and the way you are treated by all the girls. Really a fresh breeze compared to the usual mistresses in teases.
Also I really love writing, especially during the E1 class. You managed to hide some soft instructions like when to speed up and when to slow down without interrupting the flow and it really felt like all participants are getting sucked into a frenzy.

I'm really looking forward to continuing.

PS: one minor issue I have found is that my dormitory didn't show any advancement in Class E (0.0) even though I did finish E1. I don't know if that could have any side effects or even if it is correct.

Edit:

Quick fix for Minami bug, to be fixed in next update:

\Fleshcraft 2.00\Flashcraft\inc\Location_Campus_Solar_Dorm.xml

Line 18 should be:

Code: Select all

overRide.setDelay( "Story_Minami_Kojima_002-001", "0", "0", "hidden",  "", "", "");
				

instead of:

Code: Select all

overRide.setDelay( "Story_Minami_Kojima_001-002", "0", "0", "hidden",  "", "", "");
				

This line doesn't exist for me, nor does "Story_Minami_Kojima_002" either as a Label in the _001 File nor as a separate file.
Is the uploaded version maybe out of date?

malaru

Taking a short break on the project but I plan on releasing an update within the month. Being in the middle of modding it further I might have confused myself to the last release and the ongoing coding. So maybe I did not put the one out with the bug in it? Sorry, I'm a bit of a scatterbrain at times on complex projects. But yes, thanks for the compliments on this project. When I very first started this project I was in the middle of making a maze type of tease when I stumbled upon Many Eyed Hydra's Succubus Summoning 101. That had a heavy influence on writing this game. Hopefully I did not plagiarize it too much. It was meant to be more of a compliment to the author. If you have not read any of his works, look him up! He has his own blog site as well as many stories on Literotica. Highly recommended reading!

I would not put too much stock in the data output from the dormitory. It is not really meant to be part of the game, more just to help me debug issues when they crop up. As such I do not keep the code up to date in that section unless I am trying to fix a specific bug.

If I were to try to place the school some where in the cosmos, it would be on the very edge of the land of Nod as described in Neil Gaiman's Sandman where it borders on the Astral. That and of course an eventual teleport connection to the part of Hell where succubus spawn. That statement will make more sense one you play that far in the game, I don't want to give away too much.

The different girls in the game are meant to have different personalities. I don't know why, they just seemed to come out that way from looking at the different facial expressions from the models. Next thing I know the project started having a mind of its own compared to what I originally planned to do with it. It seemed to work so I kind of gave up on my own ideas and let it just draw out the way it seemed to want to go. Hence I call it more of a visual novel than a tease. My own girl not only approves of me working on this, she is actually my editor and sometimes helps me when I get writers block. So slowly it has become a team effort. Having a female mind working on it helped to bring the personalities out that much more.

[computergeek]

Brand new 3 month old computer is now a brick. All data is on an SSD local to the motherboard. I give up.

[malaru]

That's sad to hear.

What exactly do you mean by "ssd local to the motherboard"? Like integrated and not removable?
I didn't know something like this existed tbh.

[computergeek]

Finally got stuff sorted out with the manufacturer via warranty, and by sheer luck they did not have to wipe the integrated SSD. It is not as completed as it was intended to be before the next release but wanted to get it out before anything else bad happens to this project.

[computergeek]

Been away a while and not yet had a chance to clean up the mess since the last massive dump. However the project seems to have stalled. The story wants to continue but the format of a web tease is forcing it into repetition that is going against the need of the story. Currently brain dumping into World Anvil to sort out the holes in the back story and looking to porting over to general short story format rather than full on visual novel and tease. The nest step seems to be to start writing prequel stories to get the characters fleshed out. As well, dropping the names of the porn stars that inspired the characters and moving to new names.

[computergeek]

The Care and Feeding of Your Master - A Succubi's Guide to Becoming an Obedient Familiar - Extended Edition
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=23478

[computergeek]

Origins Volume I
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=23479

[computergeek]

Order of the Eldritch Arts
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/order-of-t ... mputergeek

[d3vi0n]

Great work! Added it to the Guide Me Content Page with the following entry (Hope that's ok!):

FLESHCRAFT

FLESHCRAFT by computergeek

Fleshcraft is an autoerotic visual novel with RPG elements in which you play the part of a fleshcaster. If you are already familiar with JOI Tease style games, this one is a little bit different. You may want to review the How To Play section before starting. This visual novel was written with intent for a broader audience beyond simply being used by submisives. As such, some aspects of this game is a little different from other tease software programs. Similar to other RPGs, there will be attributes with variables assigned to them. However unlike most RPGs, your orgasm is your health points! When you cum, the game ends! Not to worry too much, your character most likely wont die! When you feel refreshed enough to continue, you can return to the game where you last left off. I do not want to spoil the story too much, but there is logical reasoning behind this approach of tracking health points. The only requirement is that you be honest with yourself and not cheat in the game. You will enjoy it much more this way, I promise!

[computergeek]

Love the artwork! Many thanks!

[Electro]

If I try to use the "how to play" or the "start new game" button, I seem to get text, but there isn't a button to go the next page. I'm using GuideMe 0.3.8 and debug is off. I tried to turn it on to see if I got a delay button, but nothing was there either. Other GuideMe teases seem to be working fine. Any thoughts?

EDIT: Nevermind, I tried it in GuideMe 0.3.4 and it's working fine.

[FattsDynamo]

computergeek, I so rarely post, but, I HAD to log on and congratulate you on this masterpiece you have created.

I've been a long time lurker on Milovana for years. I enjoy many of the webteases. Porn is like pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. I've played countless "Tease of the Month" teases and other great gems on this site. I've done snakes and ladders. I haven't posted, but I've created a set of rules and played along with some of the sets made on Helequin's "Help Me Cum" thread. But in my experience, the GuideMe teases are on another level.

The GuideMe mazes are my favorites. Random Mazes by DesertFox is probably the best and all of the work of schefflera is amazing. Even going back to TeaseMe, I've played some very good, immersive teases. "A Very Good Day" by supermokkori comes to mind. "The Awesome Competition" is another one. Even among GuideMe teases that tend to be a cut above in terms of quality and length, it's not very often that a stroking porn tease has a story that pulls you in. "CumQuest" by Baron Hardpenis von Steele is a classic and probably one of the best fantasy teases ever written. Certainly the best for it's time. lmind's "Pledge to the Coven - Masculus Claustrum" was another one where the mechanics and the story seemed to merge into one to create a single immersive experience.

Suffice to say, I have played a LOT of teases on this site. I feel like I have seen them all. Even when a solid tease like Technical Forms comes out with great mechanics and an interesting story, it feels like a variation of things I have already done. "Friends with Benefits" by Sexytimes 5 was quite memorable and "Russian Invasion" by rayray77 was incredible (until it started going above my pain tolerance sometime around #4 or #5) but while those create more of an immersive story, it's much more difficult to create a game which is even more immersive than a great story with wanking. Shattered's "A Tease Through Dimensions" is still the most innovative, creative, immersive piece of erotic art (it transcends "story" and "game") that is on this site (that I have played), but what you've done with Fleshcraft, I think, is up there.

I love the maze teases. I love the challenge. I love the RPG teases. There have been a number of good web ones recently, but obviously the GuideMe ones are better because GuideMe can do more. Skirmish RPG was very good. (I actually modded my copy, remade all of the encounters and a bunch of custom ones with real life girls and tweaked the difficulty ... didn't finish the mod completely so I never uploaded it and ended up deleting it ...) "The Dreamscapes Tease RPG - A Study in Tease" was fantastic, head and shoulders above most of the RPG maker fair ... but, I was never pulled in. It was fun. It was a game. It had a good story, but I didn't feel fully immersed. So all of that to say, good sir, you outdid yourself.

I can be a bit of an edge slut. Sometimes I'll rip out 30 edges before I cum, but, I don't feel like doing that every night. When I read your Fleshcraft description, I thought, "Well, I don't know ... I've played all of the RPG teases ... this one is probably not going to be better than the others. And there won't be a bunch of mandatory edges? Idk ... it probably won't be that great ..." So I passed Fleshcraft up. HOW WRONG I WAS!!

So, tonight, I wasn't in the mood to edge myself silly. I wanted something more low key and less intense. So, I thought, "Alright, let's try this Fleshcraft." The tease has been up for over a year (I think) and it has not gotten very many posts, though I did notice that d3vion pinned it immediately. I thought, "Boy, I wonder why he did that ..." Then I played the first session and found out why.

My first session lasted about four hours. I was hooked. I have written teases, so, I know how long it takes to write quality stuff. Four hours of quality content, and I don't think I am even a QUARTER of the way through ... it's incredible ...

So, about your tease, specifically, I need to say A++ on the implementation. Most teases are not natural. Either it's just text and the mistress "tells" you what to do through text like "stroke 50 times" and then you are staring at a pic while you stroke 50 times ... you can't count to fifty and read text and have an immersive experience and follow commands at the same time. It generally just doesn't happen. Sometimes the story and writing can be so good to overcome it, but, usually, some part of that experience you realize you are just a dude stroking at your computer playing a game ... The alternative to that is using the metronome, which gives you that external stimulus and check. You don't have to think or count. If you've played teases for any length of time, you are conditioned to the metronome and do it without thinking. You can read and stroke to the beat. The metronome is usually better for immersion, but, so many games and teases seem to use only the metronome that it feels more like you are just playing a stroking game than having an immersive experience.

So that's why you get A++ for implementation. Your stroking instructions are basically "just do what feels natural" and it works. Your premise for the story is SO good ... it makes perfect sense. Being stuck in a maze ... those are usually pretty decent premises that don't seem too artificial if you suspend your disbelief ... same goes for a lot of the teases about succubi ... but, even a lot of the regular "story" teases ... it's just "would I actually be stroking if this was real life?" Sometimes that jars me and I momentarily cease suspending my disbelief. For Fleshcraft, the answer is "Yes." You nailed it. Excellent premise. Excellent mechanics. It was natural. You managed to thread that needle and weave game and story into one. SO HARD to do, and you did it. Well done.

One specific comment (that I will hide for people who have not played yet) ...

Spoiler: show

As I said, my first session was four hours. I VERY MUCH wanted to do a "good job" because I'm so competitive, but, at the same time, it's an RPG, and I wanted to play a role. Well done on the player dialogue as well. There hasn't been any choices yet, but, you more or less responded in the ways I would have responded in those situations, so ... I was immersed the WHOLE TIME!

BUT ... the real reason for the spoiler ... when I got to the summoning lesson and heard the metronome, I KNEW INTUITIVELY that that was forced stroking. Obviously, that's how they do compelled stroking in all of the mazes, but, since you were slow playing everything and didn't just "jump into the game" I didn't know if it was going to be all "stroke at your pace, edge and cum when you do" of if there was going to be forced stroking at all ... So, when that redhead succubi started the metronome, I thought "Oh, boy ... This game has compelled stroking!" and I got really excited and hyped. Again, it goes to your superior implementation. I heard the metronome, and that was my cue to stroke, and it just fit SO WELL because it was something different from what had been happening, but there was a story reason to be doing something different, and the game was forcing me to do something in real life that just made the whole experience even more immersive ... that's just superior game design right there, when the player forgets they are playing a game, and the "controls" and "prompts" and "cues" are just so natural that the user just does them without thinking, like reaching out your hand to turn a door knob to open the door ... you just do it without thinking ...

The writing has been fantastic. There have been a few typos and grammar things here and there, but nothing major. I can tell that you have the potential to grow more as a writer, but your stuff is just SO GOOD ... In many other teases, the dialogue just feels unnatural or the characters in the story have no nuance or personality ... NOT SO HERE ... and all of the little twists and turns during the lessons ... VERY creative ... VERY original and unexpected.

Spoiler: show

Like when I found out Ron Jeremy was NOT the teacher of the lesson, lol.

Your picture choice has been excellent. Obviously, the poses need to match the writing ... but, even more than the pictures (because quality porn pics are not hard to find) the writing is what really makes a tease, and the story and writing has been phenomenal so far ...

I've play for four hours and still feel like I have SO much more to uncover, which is just amazing ...

Spoiler: show

So, after I realized from the redhead that there was compulsory stroking "during encounters" I decided I wanted to be "that hero" who rushed into danger before the training was over ... the stroking was really slow, so, I thought maybe I could get a "challenge." Well, I wandered in the forest, even before the Ria scence, and found some fairies. I panicked a bit, "uh oh ... how long is she going to keep me here? This is slow stroking, but ... what happens if I get too excited and can't control it?" Well, I ended up getting attacked by the same fairy twice. The third time, I was frustrated. I wanted to cum and end the session, but, I didn't want to give it up to a fairy either ... I decided to edge just to see if that would end the encounter. NOPE! The "fairy tax" is not paid that easily! At least for the lvl 1 fairy, the tax is 12 minutes or so of slow stroking! Such a rough tax! I think I edged about three times on that third fairy (mostly just to keep the excitement level up), but, I did enjoy the danger of not knowing exactly what the consequences would be ...

The last bit I will say is that I came to the second or third Minami encounter ... whichever one she asks you about edging. I did appreciate that you knew your audience and no one had to explain what an "edge" was. My character (through the dialogue) and me knew what an edge was. The only person who didn't know was Minami ... which kept me immersed! You are SO good at this ... anyway, I gave her an edge. And then she was like, "Now, there's something about standing on a mountain ..." and I was like, "oh, no ... she's about to ask me to ride the edge ..." Now, at that point, I REALLY wanted to cum ... I figured I would find the succubus (just finished first familiar training) and I would cumsplode into her. Well, I think Minami is SUPER cute. I agree 100% with my character there, and her dialogue makes me feel like she's real ... so, I decided, I WANTED to cum for Minami ... also I was super horny and NEEDED to cum and end the session ... and also, though I have been able to hold an edge for over five minutes (had to do it for Karissa's maze) I was too horny from the long session and NOT warmed up or in a place where I felt I could hold it for even those 20 seconds ... So, because your premise is SO good ... you just snap out of the astral projection state ... I decided it would be fine if went of the edge during Minami's edge hold ... and I shot a BIG load I was so worked up ... felt amazing ... and I knew she would be good with it ... and I know lessons get repeated if you fail ... would not mind seeing more of Minami, so ... if I "have" to see her again, that's a bonus

Anyway, that's my feedback. I've gushed enough. I probably won't write again, but, I'm sure the rest will be EVEN BETTER as I go along. Thanks for doing such a GREAT JOB on this mammoth undertaking. It is a masterpiece. I just hope that when I finally beat it, the ending will be somewhat open ended ... I would LOVE to mod it and add some of my own encounters in the "post game" story ... that wilderness the one prof mentioned where you get subjected to random encounters until you succumb ... she made it sound pretty awful, but it sounded PRETTY GOOD to me.

Best of luck. I hope this post helps to give this game some more of the attention that it deserves.