Thank you very much. I've tried to keep the original story as much as possible. Feel free to drop some feedback! :) If enough people enjoy this version, I can justify to put in some extra hours to not just blur out stuff but exchange it for a more fluent flow.
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After playing it and then replaying the first chapter of the original, I think you'd need to spend a *lot* of effort to SFW the full story to make it work. Many of the decisions fall into the 'should I be bad' kind, and without the cheeky humour (i.e. boob jokes, etc) a lot of the umpf disappears. Things like Simon's night out and the Sexbot adventure also don't really translate.
The primary underlying story would work just fine, but the flavour and spice would need to be recreated from scratch, which sounds like more a higher cost than the benefit.
Its not a quick trim to make an action movie fit for television. "Porky's" simply *can't* work on network TV.
The story is the same, just without the NSFW bits and a little less of the relationship quirks in the end. You're totally right that it misses some of the adult jokes and such, but for some people it's not really about that, but just the story behind it. It would definitely be some additional cost involved to make it shiny more but that's not the goal of this version, it's just here to provide the story to another audience. :)
Oh, I absolutely understand that! It was feedback about what made your storytelling unique and what seems to have been missing from the SFW version.
I guess it was a feeling that the 'proper' change to go from your original work to this SFW version isn't a simple cosmetic touch up, but full-on open heart surgery. If you can't have the adult jokes and situations, then different jokes and different situations would need to be created to provide the multi-layered storytelling that provides character insight and context present in the original. This means different branching/choices and dialogue and different artwork and situations.
I guess I am trying to say that the core mysteries within the game are foundational and solid, and would not have to change at all (from what I've seen to date). This is good! But the layers that provide the character dynamics and world building might need significant changes, and this would represent a fair chunk of additional effort on your part.
If you are willing and able to put this additional effort into your work, then end result will be just as compelling as your original.
Thank you for the detailed review and the nice words! I'll try to keep the foundation going for now, the character dynamics definitely would need some change, but not sure how I want to address that, yet. But future will show how this continues! Going to focus on new content for now and when I have time and the audience wants more, I'll add more content to this version. :)