Eclectic Self Portrait [DEMO]
A game written to help me explore feelings around genderfluidity and pansexuality through the lens of lucid dreaming, with custom game mechanics of consent, safewords, modifiable pronouns/names, and hot swappable body parts.
Take the perspective of a prospective lucid dreamer in love with a reflection, and find that the mirror is much more malleable in a dream. This is the second major build posted to itch, including set up/tutorial/character creation, and the beginnings of foreplay (and parallel alternatives). In the next couple months I plan to update it with art and further story, and later add additional episodes using the same UI.
NOTE: I realize the options available aren't necessarily fully inclusive to what everyone might be looking for. It's meant as a "self portrait" in the sense that these are options currently important to me, so things important to others may be missing. Eventually I intend to release the game's infrastructure as open source so that others may create worlds with the options that they want to see.
Development log
- New features, formatting, and story.1 day ago
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I loved the concept, but, at least for me, it needs some attencion in:
1º At least for me, the font is too distracting. Maybe a way to change it would be good. Some "common" font (Like this one, with less space between the letters and words, and not too round) would help a lot.
2º Some more clear way to show that its a dialogue, it took me a good while to understand that they were talking with eachother. Maybe with -, like "-I'm talking now" or
Thanks for your input! I took your suggestions into consideration for the most recent build. Unfortunately I'm set on a mono-space font for flavor reasons (it is meant to be formatted like a screenplay, which traditionally use Courier) but am trying out Lucida since it has less serifs than Courier.
Other than that I've formatted the dialogue more in line with screenplays, and swapped the text colour for the name/pronouns/speech of the reflection. I hope it all helps with legibility.