Darkness Inside (Unity Game, Dark Fantasy, Netori, Avoidable Netorare)

[deltaswat]

What is Darkness Inside?

A game where you get to be reincarnated as a Hero… NOT! You, are a Demon Lord! Brought back from the depth of hell to destroy the wor- Actually no, that’s too stereotype. We want to create something more.

A mixed of western dungeon building and management game with Japanese visual novel art style and dating simulation. A fantastical story of conquest, romance and revenge.

Welcome to Darkness Inside, the beginning of a fantasy gone wrong.

Our core gameplay will feature a real time dungeon building mixed with simulation theme (Fallout Shelter, The Sims…) by Unity Engine.

Your role as a rebirthed Demon King:

• Regain lost power as you play.
• Expand and upgrade your dungeon.
• Gather new companions, train and interact with them.
• Protect your dungeon from attackers.

Features available at the moment:

• Build rooms and chambers.
• Manage resources
• Recruit companions(mostly female) through event quests.
• Form relationship and assign special task to companions individually.
• Summon minions and elite monsters to do your bidding (gather resource, guard, scouting…)
• Process through story by completing Main Quest, Side Quest.

Choices Matter! The decision is your to make:

• Be ruthless and slay your enemies, leave no survival! Or be a wicked ruler, enslave your enemies and make them your toys.
• Treat your followers with kindness and equality! Or rule over them with an ironfist and cruelty!

Adult Content Specify:

• Every characters will have unique personality and appearance.
• Romance progress represent through a Relationship bar. Side-quests, story event and sex scenes will be unlocked at each reward thresholds.
• Game has a Dark Fantasy and Corruption theme, expecting many fetishes from softcore to hardcore.
• The outcome is drafted by how you play. Example: Letting other male character further their relationship with your female companion will result in cuckolding. Successfully seducing a Queen/Princess/General will resulting in giving you an insider within the enemy’s rank.

P/s: Since Posting image in forum is really suck ATM. I will prefer everyone with our Patreon Link.

I'm a fan of NTR and a longtime member in this forum, so I will try to gather your guys 's idea in this thread as much as I can.

Please help us to spread the words!

 

[Almakh]

I did a quick look before but now I saw something interesting
"Treat your followers with kindness and equality!"
So I can be a non asshole guy?

 

[deltaswat]

I did a quick look before but now I saw something interesting
"Treat your followers with kindness and equality!"
So I can be a non asshole guy?

MC in the beginning is a good and kind guy, but for his family and followers only. And the game will put you in many situations that make you really want to be a bad guy, especially to enemy.

Deep inside his mind is the darkness growing, it 's from the tragedy in the past of the Demon Lord. And you will choose between corruption or not. Don't worry, everything will be optional. We will try our best to not force user to do what they don't like.

 

[frustratedbuffalo]

How close are you to a release?

 

[deltaswat]

How close are you to a release?

- We will release pre - alpha version in early of May (including Story Mode only, prologue and first H-s).
- Then the main build is alpha version plan to be released around August and September (including Basic Gameplay mode like building, gathering, character status like relationship bar... and 3 more characters, 1 minion).

 

[Almakh]

Giving a up on the thread. Any news on development?

 

[deltaswat]

We're closing to complete the pre-alpha version. All the assets are ready, and now we are putting everything together. Man... we're using 2 differrent event CGs, 2 original Background Images and 1 H-s with 8 variations (for me, it's really costly for a beginning PJ like this). Hope it's worth for everyone to enjoy the demo with highest quality.

At the same time, put pre-alpha version aside. We have a complete World Setting for the story. And we are designing a special story system call "Story Book". This system will help players avoid the most annoying thing in the game with many choices: save load and replay a long long process. Every story scene in the game will have a type that you can choose to unlock and choose to play everytime you want. You can be a good guy for the whole game, but if you want, you can take a look that what will happen IF you are a bad guy and it won't affect the main story you play (but before that, you must've completed some quests first).

Ah well, bonus H-s image so you guys can bybass NSFW Patreon rule :)
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[frustratedbuffalo]

We're closing to complete the pre-alpha version. All the assets are ready, and now we are putting everything together. Man... we're using 2 differrent event CGs, 2 original Background Images and 1 H-s with 8 variations (for me, it's really costly for a beginning PJ like this). Hope it's worth for everyone to enjoy the demo with highest quality.

At the same time, put pre-alpha version aside. We have a complete World Setting for the story. And we are designing a special story system call "Story Book". This system will help players avoid the most annoying thing in the game with many choices: save load and replay a long long process. Every story scene in the game will have a type that you can choose to unlock and choose to play everytime you want. You can be a good guy for the whole game, but if you want, you can take a look that what will happen IF you are a bad guy and it won't affect the main story you play (but before that, you must've completed some quests first).

Ah well, bonus H-s image so you guys can bybass NSFW Patreon rule :)
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Attachments are fucked up on this forum, can't see pic.

 

[deltaswat]

Changed to direct link: https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/3/eyJ4Ijo0NzkzMDE0fQ%3D%3D/patreon-posts/c7PzcGHZ8L9sXR3ZT9ztdyCRZWVQP6wumXtjuvB00EMVclS86dfOczauKYRadqUf.jpg?token-time=1527638400&token-hash=MJUNfYY1h0LGCPNub-aLsceLQU68z7RJ3ZtuDm7oVdc%3D

 

[greenlittleman]

It seems to be another overambitious game with a lot of different things in it gameplaywise. But gameplay isn't most important part of porn game, on contrary it could be ignored. And yet this is one of the hardest parts of the game development as well. I personally think it is better to use limited resources to create better story, h-scenes and CGs instead of using them on development of complex gameplay mechanics. Though I know that gameplay can make game more popular, but still it should be just a bonus.

Also one of my biggest complains about western h-games is sound aspect in them. Usually there is no bgv, or sounds of copulation. Even though finding the actress for some moans isn't hard and there is specific site for similar services - it would take about 10-15$ to get legal unique bgv and yet game creators mostly ignore bgs completely even though for a lot of people this is important.

 

[deltaswat]

To clarify, we are not making a Nukige or Eroge per see.
We want to make a game that is interesting by itself. The Mature content is there because we like it.
There are tons of games with interesting gameplay.
There are many eroges and visual novels with loads of Mature content.
But hard to find a game with interesting gameplay + good Mature content (specialy with combo Eng + Jap art style).
You might see it as being overambitious but that ambition is what help our team stick together.

Let's not forget that this is an original English project. Which means others can communicate with us during the developing phase. You got a bug? New ideas? A fetish you want to see in the game? A type of heroine you want?
We listen and answer without delay. No need to use gg trans on us.

Plus, about bgv. Yes, I like them too. But you know, not only western h-game, even almost games on DMM 18+ doesn't have bgv or bgse and I'm sure they have their reasons.

In discord group of ICSTOR (the one make Milf Mansion, Incest Story), I see that some people really hate voice acting in h-s, they said that those voice are unreal no matter what, waste of resource... and many thing else so they dont want dev put their effort on those things in early stage of PJ.

An original English game has no place in Japanese market, that's a fact. So instead of wasting time and resources, we will focus on those who we can communicate with. Making sure that the game retains its anime feeling while pleasing the English speaking fan at the same time.

 

[greenlittleman]

Thanks for the answer, deltaswat. The problem with overambitious creators is usual lack of resources and very long development plan. I see your point, but most likely it would take at least 3 years (most likely 5 or more) to make complete game if your team wouldn't give up halfway (in case of lack of funds). Though from what I see your project probably will be successful with time, I predict about 2k$ per month on patreon in about 1-2 years.

As about bgv/bgs - from what I see more than half games on DMM 18+ have at least sounds of copulation in it which is bare minimum for someone who care about sound aspect. And yes, english voice acting is a bad idea, but background moans always plus and even if someone dislike it he can just turn them off.

Also I want to make another point - good developer should know more about what his targeted auditory wants than the group itself. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” (c) Henry Ford. If you could just asking people to make great game then top scenario writers and gameplay designers wouldn't be paid millions of $ for each contract they get for AAA level projects.

 

[Animefan_09]

So how is the game coming along?

 

[Animefan_09]

To clarify, we are not making a Nukige or Eroge per see.
We want to make a game that is interesting by itself. The Mature content is there because we like it.
There are tons of games with interesting gameplay.
There are many eroges and visual novels with loads of Mature content.
But hard to find a game with interesting gameplay + good Mature content (specialy with combo Eng + Jap art style).
You might see it as being overambitious but that ambition is what help our team stick together.

Let's not forget that this is an original English project. Which means others can communicate with us during the developing phase. You got a bug? New ideas? A fetish you want to see in the game? A type of heroine you want?
We listen and answer without delay. No need to use gg trans on us.

Plus, about bgv. Yes, I like them too. But you know, not only western h-game, even almost games on DMM 18+ doesn't have bgv or bgse and I'm sure they have their reasons.

In discord group of ICSTOR (the one make Milf Mansion, Incest Story), I see that some people really hate voice acting in h-s, they said that those voice are unreal no matter what, waste of resource... and many thing else so they dont want dev put their effort on those things in early stage of PJ.

An original English game has no place in Japanese market, that's a fact. So instead of wasting time and resources, we will focus on those who we can communicate with. Making sure that the game retains its anime feeling while pleasing the English speaking fan at the same time.

I agree with most of that, i remember games like Demoniom and others fromt he same company and thinking "this looks nice, sad that i can't understand the mechanics/tutorial" and about the voice acting.....yeah japan has light years of advantage plus more talented people inclined to work on that i think.

 

[deltaswat]

About Pre-alpha: All the asset are ready, we are puting everything together (scripting, bgm, se...). It will take abit longer because we want to put some special effect here (combat, cumming effect...) for story scene.

About Alpha built:
- Resource management are completed: we have food, wood, stone, mana can increase and consumable. Energy will cost like a cap in some building game.
- We can build and add room (clone), but need to do more about collision and restriction rule.
- We already have world setting for the game (or series maybe). 3-4 characters are put in a queue for development.

You guy can see the cover image in our Patreon page, each time new characters appear in the game, we will update them to the image. Let see how far we can go :)

Back to the bgv and bgse. Good thing is there are 2 members in our team are working in japanese game company (they have a voice recording studio as well). So we will try to implement them when the PJ is stable. But for now, there are really many things we must take care about.