Ren'Py Revenge On Your Bully [Development Thread]

EDITED 18/03/25 24/03/25

Here's the link for the tech demo:
[LINK REMOVED BY MYSELF]
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Hey there,

I wanted to share this adult game I’ve been working on this game for the last couple of months. It’s my first game and I have zero experience with programming, writing, and creating renders

Engine: renpy
Images/animations: Honey Select 2




During high school, you were a shy, out-of-shape kid. And you had a bully that made your life hell: Wilfred.

On the last day of school, Wilfred chased you through the whole city. You hid in an abandoned gym and lost him. There you found the spirit of GigaChad.

GigaChad guided you in the ways of the grindset. And now, several years later, you realized that something was missing from your life — no matter how much money you made or girls you dated.

After a heart-to-heart conversation with GigaChad, you decided that what you’re missing is to leave your past trauma behind. And you decided that the best way to achieve that is to bang every girl who has any relationship with your former bully.

April (your bully's childhood friend):


Grace (your bully's adoptive mom):



Lily: (your bully's sister)


Stacy: (your bully's girlfriend)



Regular Interactions
These are interactions that you can trigger at any point. For example, saying hi to a girl.
When you are in a location, you’ll be able to click a girl. A menu will open and you’ll be able to pick an interaction.
Each interaction awards you experience points that you can use to level up a girl.


(I know the UI looks bad, I'm not a graphic designer )

Level Up System
When you get enough experience points, you can level up your relationship with a girl.
In order to do that, you’ll just need to open the “relationships menu” and press a button. A cutscene will get triggered.



Level Up Cutscenes
These will be short cutscenes in which the relationship with a girl grows.
In the beginning, there won’t be much sex happening because you’re still getting to know the girls.
But as their level gets higher, the cutscenes unlocked will be sexier.
I don’t want to make this game a visual novel.
However, I had to add cutscenes that explain why their relationship grew.
Otherwise, you go from saying hi to a girl to kissing her without an explanation of why you can do it now.

I did it this way to avoid the annoying “be in this place at this time to level up the character” that many sandbox games have.
Instead of that, you will just press a button, get the cutscene, and that’s it.

Outfits
Every girl has about 4-5 outfits.
The girls have different outfits for different location.
For example, if a girl is at the gym, she’ll have a workout outfit.
But if she’s at college, she will have another.

There are 5 levels for each outfit, each one being more sexier.





Gameplay loop
This will be a sandbox. The gameplay loop will look like this:

1. You free roam and interact with the girls
2. Every time you interact with a girl you get experience points
3. When you get enough experience points, you can level up your relationship with a girl
4. A cutscene that explains how and why your relationship grew is triggered
5. The higher the relationship level, the more free-roam interactions get unlocked

I know that a lot of people find sandboxes annoying

I believe it’s mostly because:
- they require you to be in a specific place at a specific time to trigger scenes
- you will spend a lot of time visiting empty places without knowing what to do

In this game, I’m trying to avoid the pointless roaming by blocking all the locations in which there’s no one at that time of the day.
For example, if it’s Monday morning, you’ll be able to visit the college because you’ll find people to interact with there.
But if it’s Monday evening, there’ll be no one there so it’ll be locked.
All the regular interactions will be available in all the places, so you’ll be able to trigger them in any location.
There won’t be “get money” minigames or stuff like that.
The actions that spend time are your interactions with the girls.
Although at the beginning they’ll be limited, they’ll be unlocked as you progress in the game.

And there won't be "be in this place at this time to level up the relationship" thing because all the relationships will be progressed from the same screen, at any time you want.

Current State
Right now, most of the technical foundation for the game is built.
What’s missing is the content.
That is the regular interactions, level-up cutscenes, dialogues, sprites, and animations.
That’s what I’m working on right now.
I’m doing this as a side project in my free time, so I’m going as fast as I can.


















Planned Content
- Sex animations for every girl, in every place, with any outfit
- Sex animations for cutscenes
- Every girl will have a Submission and Affection level when the “seduction phase” is over – each will unlock different interactions
- I want to include location-specific events, like watching a movie or working out with a girl (with sexy results)
- Level up cutscenes and interactions for Wilfred – not the sexy type (at least not for him)

And I think that’s all.
I will complete this thread with more images and stuff during the following days.
I want to have a tech demo available in a few weeks to see what the feedback is.

Updates!

• Added character cards for Lily and Stacy
• Added one example for the Grace outfits
• I hadn't thought of this, but I guess I should add character cards for the MC and the Willfred (former bully)

What I'm working on now:

There's one remaining technical aspect I want to take care of before starting fully dedicate to creating the content:
The navigation system.

This is a sandbox and I'm trying to make it the least annoying as I can.

Right now, the navigation system is:
You click this button at the top left of the screen...



The navigation screen opens and you click were you want to go.
(black and white places are locked because no one is there)


But I though that two clicks to go to one place could be a bit annoying.
So, I'm trying to put this navigation screen in the hud, present at all times.


This should make the gameplay smoother.
The idea still is that you cannot enter empty places.
Also, a lot of the locations will be locked at the beginning, and wil be unlocked and free to visit as the story progreses.

Anyway, that should be all when it comes to updates.

melwen said:

I wish you good luck on your project!

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Thanks mate! Wish you the best with your game too!

Penumbral Evanescence said:

cute_frog

Promising so far my friend, keep up the great work

Loving the female models and renders. I personally love honey select games and would be interested to see how the MC corrupts and/or worms his way into his bully's family/friends



Maybe once you've maxed out your relationship with all the girls, you can plan a final sexy fun time getaway event I.e., all the girls go with the MC on a vacation and they end up having group sex with each other while on their planned trip. All behind the bully's back

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Yes, I want to add group events like that reaching the endgame. But I think the story must go over some phases first; first seducing the girls individually, then making them comfortable with each other, etc. So, there will pass some time before I can add that content. But I do want to add it.

Thanks for the kind words!

osanaiko said:

Looking very good! The screenshots show that you've made it a long way with your project, well done!

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Thanks mate!

Good news: the hud navigation is functional.

Bad news:
I realized there's no way of closing the interactions menu once it's open

You can see in the video how I'm always clicking the hud to close the menu.
It's because I didn't create a way of closing it.
So, I'm gonna focus on that plus other minor things, and I hope to start creating the content next week.

habemus close button!

Also:

• added outfit images for Lily and Stacy

Hello everyone,
I wanted to give an uptade on how development is going.

Unfortunately, there' were a few things slowing it down.

First, I've simply been busy with real life stuff and my day job.

Second...

I hit a hard roadblock with exporting animations from HS2 and putting them in Renpy.

So, my goal with this game is to have mainly animations with transparent backgrounds that you can trigger anywhere.

And I thought it would be as simply as exporting them from HS2 and importing them into the game.

But first, HS2 was giving me some wonky animations that looked like when Windows XP had that weird visual error:



(to clarify, this is a screenshot but it's how the video looked)

When I was able to fix that and render proper videos, I realized that you can't just use transparent videos in Renpy, you have to create an alpha mask (and I couldn't with the way I was exporting videos at the time).

So, after some research and several trials, I found a way to add animations with transparent backgrounds to renpy:


(This walking animation comes with HS2, I didn't created it. I don't think it's gonna be used at all in the game, I just needed something to test.)

These transparent animations sometimes look weird, so I'll have to research if there's a way to optimize that:


Anyway, now that I know how to import transparent animation to renpy...

I've been learning how to create my own animations (I'm not very fond of the HS2 ones...)

This a sample of what I've been working on:

(there was a video here but it was uploaded to Google Drive and I realized that might not be the best idea and probably get my account banned or something. But I don't know what video allows porn and also can be showed here)

This is not the final animation, and I don't even know if it's going to be used in the game.

I'm just testing stuff and trying to make them as natural and appealing as possible.

This one took me around 3-4 hours so far, but I also have zero knowledge of animation.

I've been watching videos on animation in general, and I expect that as I get better at them, it won't take me as long.

Anyway, I hope to have a rough test demo soon...

But I don't want to put a deadline because I don't really know how busy I'll be.

Have a good one!

no time to post updates.

very close to a v0.00000001 tech demo

FINALLY

After many hours of work, I have a demo ready!

Keep in mind, this is just a tech demo to get some feedback.

The goal is to see if the gameplay is clear and engaging enough. And also, to see if there's any performance issues.

So, if you'd like to give this game a test drive, I would greatly apreciatte your feedback, comments, and suggestions.

This is a work in progress and there are no sex scenes yet.

Here's the download link.
[LINK REMOVED BY MYSELF]

If you're open to test this game, I'd apreciatte your feedback on the following things.

PERFORMANCE

For this game, I'm trying to use animated sprites for mostly everything.

But renpy has some limitations, and long story short, to achieve this is necessary to play two videos at the same time.

This can cause some issues in some computers. For example, in my desktop pc the game runs fine, but on my laptop the backgrounds start "flickering" often.

If there's performance issues with a majority of players, I'll probably just use still images instead of idle animations. I wouldn't like to make that decision, but I guess I'll have to compromise.

SIZE

Due the same reason as before, the size of the game ended up being way bigger than I anticipated. It's currently sitting at 1,3 GB.

This because each sprite is an idle animation. Which means: a video. But because of how renpy works, that video needs ANOTHER video to use as mask.

The single fact of using videos as idle animations already increases the size of everything, and that size is duplicated by the mask videos required to make them work correctly.

So, if players in general find that the size of the game is to big, the answer is the same as the last one...

Use still images instead of animations.

GAMEPLAY LOOP, SANDBOX, CLARITY

The next one is just your general opinion on the game.

Is it clear enough?

Is it engaging?

Is it boring?

Do you understand how the gameplay loop works?

Is it to grindy? Is it too easy?

You know, just your general take on the game.


OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

This demo is quite short, but there's actually a lot more content hidden that will be used in the future. That's the reason behind such a size.

The current build only lets you level up the first 3 levels for April.

You can't talk with other characters yet, but they will be available in the future.

Also, I forgot to unlock the console and deactivate the anti-save-editing thing, but basically, most of the sandbox locations are already finished.

Anyway, if you played this game, I'd love your feedback.

For the next update (which will be a proper demo with at least 1 sex scene + prologue), I'll work on upgrading the current backgrounds and adding new content.

April's getting a massage.

How do you think this ends?

just an update that I opened a Patreon page:


Plus, Lily says hi: