Gaming Preference Question...

[Gojira01]

Hello, I am a long time member/lurker of this board. I am currently working on an RPG Maker MV game called "Tales of the Patrol". My question is: is gender choice for your character in the game that important to you? I started out this game inspired by the great work done by Bagool, Godspeak, and others on this site. I therefore made gender choice a part of the game. However the fact that this means I have double the typing for each scene did not occur to me at the start. I know I can cut and paste the dialog and change the his/her boy/girl, as well as the face pictures that accompany each dialog, but I still have to add decision trees to know which dialog gender to use.
So the question boils down to what do you, the prospective players of this game prefer: Gender choice, or the female protagonist that I am currently using as I develop this game.

[milf]

I prefer female, but that is personal choice lol.. F/f f/f f/F etc is my cup of tea. Others here are F/m M/f etc.... Having multiple options means more folks play it, and having both spanker and spankee options same thing. The easiest way is to make it one sex, one choice of spanker or spankee, but that cuts down on number of folks that will truly enjoy the game. Then again, it is your game, so you have to take it where YOU want it to go.

For example, if I EVER get time to work on my game again, it will be an F/f, f/f game exclusively, with rather severe spankings. Yes I know it will cut a LOT of players out, but that's what I focus on.

[Sevina]

Personally it is not a big deal for me. I like playing different roles, keeps things exciting and new.

[32167]

My choice F/F and M/F situation. Any ages

[Kittymonster]

I prefer F/M Situations but do whatever.

[mastervegeta]

It depends:

Will you let the player choose the character's name?If so,a gender choice is interesting to make some people immerse more in the story. Some people like naming the characters after themselves and imagine they are inside the story,lol.

Do you intend the character to already had the name set, the main character has a definite official name in your mind?If that's your choice,then using a single gender may be better for whatever story you had in mind for the game, no need to complicate things by adding a choice if you already made a character and has some story built around that character.

At any rate,it's your choice as the creator,a matter of taste.But you could make a poll if you still are in doubt after my anwser. ^_^

....sorry for the long anwser btw,lol.

[SariaSong]

I always play as the female protagonist, so gender choice isn't a huge issue for me.

[aka]

A gender choice isn't that important to me (I always play a female). However, I would argue that we're not the ones you should be asking. You should be asking yourself the following question:

Is adding gender worth the extra work to me?

Every minute you spend supporting two genders is a minute you *can't* spend coming up with additional spanking scenes, or making the scenes interactive or developing your characters in interesting ways, or just spending time *not* working on the game and enjoying other aspects of your life.

If it's important to *you* that you support multiple genders, then go right ahead and support them. If you'd rather spend the time doing other things, then don't support them.

Obviously, if you don't support genders, people who prefer games with the gender you don't support will be disappointed. But *everyone* will be disappointed if you start the game, and then abandon it because it's taking up too much of your precious time, or you find yourself spending too much time doing tedious things like supporting multiple genders instead of fun things like coming up with fun spanking situations.

[Psyclone]

If you aren't against using some plug-ins, take a look at Yanfly's Message Core. It allows you to set the actor's image as a variable, and you just tell it which actor to use. You can couple that with Change Actor Images command.

For example, when the player chooses their gender, you set a variable. Then you use the Change Actor Images for Actor 0001 (Player 1) to set the image based on gender. Using the Message Core plug-in, you begin the player character's text box with \af[1], which automatically sets the image without you having to select it. This lets you skip the multiple text boxes based on gender.

The downside to this is that it can get more and more cumbersome depending on how many "faces" you need to use. So if you had happy, sad, blush, cry, laugh, angry, etc. you'd need to use the Change Actor Images command to set the image. If you're using 16 faces for each character, then this may not be the best route. I just wanted to let you know of an option.

[giant432]

I like playing as both, but I tend to prefer female PCs so I do as you like