Post Bara Jam thoughts

I put my post jam thoughts in game but I might as well do so here too.

Basically, I did have a lot of fun working on the game jam but working in RPGM was a nightmare I spent most of my time searching for plugins and doing art. But the engine itself was not as customizable as I initially thought.

A HUGE chunk of what I thought was in RPGMaker was all attributed to yanfly plugins which were a BIG help in the development process. Especially since I don’t know any javascript

One of the bigger issues, I had was just time management similar to the last bara jam… Most of my days were spent working, then decompressing after work. (It didn’t help that several games came out as well between October and November)

I didn’t like how some CGs turned out after finally having to implementing them. The face down one was only shown for like a split second so if you were skipping it I’m sorry if you missed it…

I didn’t like how little gameplay there was even if its a prototype. 90% of the prototype is just cutscenes sadly.

One glaring issue I REALLY need to fix is. I did not compress the images. There are 4k sized images in the project and some are UNUSED placeholders that I will definitely remove soon. During the exporting, I thought clicking the unused option would get rid of them which it did. But it also got rid of images like the spell casting one that WERE being used.

(Always check your game builds OUTSIDE of the editor. I trusted that checkbox a little TOO well)

Also, I am sorry if you played the game and read any dialogue during the sex scenes. I am not a writer and I wrote these at afterdark so a lot of things were me projecting late night horniness into the game. Needless to say I had a LOT of fun typing some scenes out.

If I ever continue working on this project I have a lot of kinky ideas I would like to put in the game. But obviously I will have to learn how to manipulate RPGMaker better.

Finally, I just want to say that I don’t think I will participate in next year’s Bara Jam since my increased schedule made me miss out on Orctober drawings this year. (That’s why the last NPC was an Orc)

Edit: Forgot to mention but sorry if you don’t like the ending. I did not make any CG relating to the last npc just in case someone wasn’t into that. If I continue with this project, I’ll make a content warning sheet of specific fetishes you might see and flag certain npcs, if possible, in game.