Love by the Water [v0.4 RE]

– The AVN is a story-focused harem romance with urban fantasy elements. Equal parts sex-comedy and supernatural drama, the game is heavily inspired by the mystery and horror genres, as well anime and great Western novels.

– While majorly focused on school and romance, main plot points see the protagonist grappling with his supernatural heritage (and both the abilities and crutches this gives him), as well as aggressive offers to buy his family home from a newly arrived industrialist kingpin.

– There are currently over 15 planned romanceable characters of varying depth, including fellow students, teachers, villains, and random encounter characters. Additional characters include villains in the form of a sketchy industrialist and his employees, bullies, and friends you meet throughout the game.

– Every love interest and h-scene involving the MC is optional and fully avoidable.

FAQ:

• Every love interest and h-scene involving the MC is optional and fully avoidable.
• There is no NTR.
• The futa/trans tag refers to Frankie, a trans-girl, who is an optional love interest and friend to the MC.
• The ‘rape’ tag refers to avoidable sleep sex had with the MC and references to rape that occurred in the past. I did not add this tag myself, but I assume those are the reasons. The MC does not do these things.
• If you have any questions, it’s likely it has already been answered in the thread, but feel free to ask me here or join my Discord for faster responses. I’m happy to answer any questions asked in good faith and talk about the game!

If you do me the honor of giving my game a chance, it would mean so much if you let me know your thoughts, whether positive or negative. I have no intentions of slowing down and any feedback would really help me going forward. I’ve dedicated all of my time over the last few months to this, and I really hope you guys like it. Thanks for all of the support. It’s meant the world to me. :’)

v0.4 Relaunch
– 1,500 new renders: While many of these are strictly visual upgrades for old content, many of these images make up entirely new scenes and interactions that take place early on in the game. I sought to fix early pacing issues, as well as better execute certain characterizations and themes I think I did an amateur job of establishing.

– 50 animations: I spent a lot of the time over the last past few months improving in every facet of development, and I think that’s going to be most clear in my animations. These animations are the best I’ve ever made and showcase the quality I intend to commit to going forward. Those who have played the original chapter know that the two earliest H-scenes don’t features animations at all (they are, instead, just cycling images); these scenes have, of course, been fully redone and extended, as have the rest of the early game H-content. I’ve also begun implementing choreographed timeline animation for non-sexual content that I think (or hope) people will enjoy.

– Updated pacing and changes: I’ve never shied away from the fact that this is a porn game. This is not something I’m ashamed of, and I have no intention of ever being any kind of slowburn. That being said, I do think I treated some characters unfairly in my initial writing, and I wanted to give them a second chance. This means that certain early game H-content that I deem rushed, forced, or exceedingly unromantic has been removed from the game. This primarily affects Nora and her two scenes, both of which have been removed from the story (though the scenes are still playable in the game’s gallery). This is the right choice for her. She deserves romance, wining and dining, etc.

v0.4

• 1,600 renders
• 55 animations
• 6,500 lines of code
• Overhauled UI
• Replay gallery!
• 15 new music tracks
• 50 new sfx
• 20 voice lines
• The game has now officially reached 75,000 words of dialogue!

v0.3

• 5,000+ new lines of code
• 1,600+ new images
• 25 new animations
• 125+ voiced lines
• 100+ new sound effects
• 10 new music tracks
• Minor QoL changes (name and delete saves, credits page, minor UI updates, began updating early game renders)

v0.2
– 8,000 lines of code
– 2,250 images
– 110 animations
– 25 new music tracks
– 80 new sounds
– Minor QoL changes (opacity slider, 0.1 typos and visual errors, extended some 0.1 scenes with additional dialogue and renders, added game dev splash screen, and new game menu screens)

v0.1
– 7,000 lines of code
– 2,250 renders
– 40 animations
– 30 unique music tracks
– 155 unique sound effects

Demo hot-fix
– Complete code re-write to fix some lag and crash issues

Pre-release demo (0.001)
– New story
– 1,100 new images
– 3,700+ new lines of code