Calamity John update

I have been working on Calamity John in my spare time. If you're curious about the premise, look here. This is what I have completed so far:

• A large amount of behind-the-scenes design and planning has been done. I now know what specific NPCs and plot points the game will contain and how they balance.
• Starting (female) clothing has been created.
• A few introductory NPCs are built: Clay Hancock, the telegraph operator; Gideon P Lemley, the snake oil salesman who gives you the transforming potion; and a scrawny cowpoke that dispenses some essential exposition before he skedaddles off.
• The FTM transformation potion has been created, and the transformation routine has been tested.
• A few other basic objects have been made and introduced, but they mostly serve to act as placeholders for if-then statements. For instance, if you have a gun, you can demand Doc Lemley give you his pocketwatch. The gun and the watch exist; but at the moment, they do nothing much.

Birthday Boy

This is the beginning of a longer FTM transformation game whose working title is Birthday Boy.

As always, if you wish to sample it, you will need an Inform interpreter such as Glulxe or Gargoyle.

This game interacts with Preferences in a number of ways to allow you to adjust the game's settings. Among the changes that Birthday Boy recognizes:

• sexual orientations (likes girls only; always bisexual; likes boys at first, but switches to liking girls). 
• whether MTF transformations are allowed (required in order to invite your boyfriend along)
• whether FTM transformations are allowed (required, along with MTF transformations, to wish for other couples to change sex)
• profanity filter
• the name of the main character

During the game itself, you will be able to choose the following things:

• whether you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend (requires appropriate sexual orientation)
• your boyfriend's or girlfriend's profession/body type
• girlfriend may be bisexual or lesbian
• boyfriend may be straight or TF-curious
• which of your friends, including BF/GF, goes with you on your birthday vacation

This game is in its initial stages of construction. The only thing you can do at this time is choose the above settings. I have a more advanced build that I am working on containing the scene of FTM transformation, but it is not ready for release at this time.

Birthday Boy (incomplete) va1

Anything You Can Do: update

A new version is available. Check here for the updated link and latest inclusions.

Preferences Update to release #4

Preferences is now updated to release 4. It includes

• Preferred name
• Added "willing" as new setting for reaction to transformation
• Added retroactive revision of history/reality as a new category

Anything You Can Do

This is it: the reincarnation of my battle-of-the-sexes game Anything You Can Do in the Inform engine. Here's what you should know:

• It is not complete. After you speak to Bryan, there is no more content. This should be obvious because the game comes to a hard stop at that point.
• Condo 202-N, where the girls are staying, is available during this phase. This is for ensuring the NPC AI is doing what it should behind closed doors. Ordinarily, this room is off-limits until the player reaches a certain stage of the game.
• You will need an Inform interpreter like Glulxe or Gargoyle.
• You may wish to check out the Preferences app if you wish to set things like your character's name, sexual orientation and how he reacts to being transformed.
• The game is not complete. See point 1.
• Also, see point 1.

Anything You Can Do, release 1 (incomplete, no version number).
Anything You Can Do, release 2, incomplete, version 0.20.
Anything You Can Do, release 3, incomplete, version 0.21.

Preferences Update

I have completed the next version of Preferences, which is a little smarter than the original version.

It is here on the Preferences page.

Preferences 1.2

Immediately after designing Preferences I began to incorporate it into a game, because a) that's what it's for and b) that's the best way to test it.

I am therefore making some changes to Preferences based on what I am discovering. The specificity of starting sex, orientation, and sex partners leaves a lot to be desired. It's not specific enough. A player should be able to define his sexuality conditionally upon the sex of the character — to say, "I don't want to be attracted to men if I'm a man, but it's okay if I'm a woman." Also, a player should be able to define her preferred sex partners conditionally, as in, "I want my orientation to start liking boys, then switch to liking girls; but I only want to see female-female sex scenes."

I am therefore making suitable modifications to the Preferences files, both to the app and to the extension, which I will post by and by.