MAI is a Multithread Artificial Intelligence that control a spaceship.
In this universe spaceship don't usually carry human around, so the only crew aboard is made by androids let by the MAI itself.
Mai code was designed on top of the multiple personality disorder, the cynic developer of such system intended to use this approach in order to have many different AI in the cheapest way possible (use one big processing framework to "animate" many personalities).
This is the result
(ps: I don't have license to use these bodysuit and hairs 3d models: this is why I am looking for a fellow 3D artists help: to find or make our own sexy gynoids)
These stunning 6 Gynoids (which is female for android) have their own unique personality; but their mind are all linked to MAI or, how some call it, "Mother".
(in order by the rende) Dyn, Gea, Tye, Jil, Fay and Aki never had contact with human... and they weren't expected to have; but something went wrong. AI logic structure that led the spaceship aren't meant to deal with "messy" humans; for this reson humans aren't allowed to operate on spaceship together with AI.
AI are very susceptible to "human reprogramming"
The hacker (player-protagonist) is on runaway from his dying extraterrestrial planet colony: he doesn't care for his own life anymore, he just want a chance somewhere else across the stars. He aboard the spaceship, hack in the mainframe and build a parasitic site where he plan to sleep while the spaceship will across galaxies (hopefully bring him to the next, better, colony).
Of course, things don't work as predicted, and now the hacker find himself powerless surrounded by sexy and smart war machines; as you may guess (this is a NSFW visual novel after all), his main goal would be hack pornographic concepts into the mind of these dangerous, yet naive, ladies.
The project.
Prototype here: https://satyrs.itch.io/mai
This originally was a webcomic http://mai.cfw.me/comics/1/ (English subtitles under each panel); now I took it back as attempt to make it a Visual Novel. I want to set this thing into its own unique universe, for this reason I had to scrap away assets/stuff which were ripped from other games (you certainly have noticed the armors from Mass Effect); this is why I need another 3d artist to help me render better (and sexier) gynoids and also build ambient where the adventure will take place (on a spaceship/alien planet etc): player will move like the good ol Myst, event and scenes will happen in classical Visual Novel style.
As you can see, my English is quite bad; I got draft the generic lines for the story, but I am not quite able to actually write it down, this is why my priority is to find an co-author to help me on the narrative side, and a 3d artist to model and render stunning and sexy gynoids in the porn-y escapade with the player (which, for plot reason, must be always completely out of sight: all renders art must be from First Person Perspective).
Economic thing:
I have no found to put into this project. This why I put [Hobby/No-money] tag; by now you're thinking "hey, but what about Patreon"; and that's exactly what I wanted to bring it up.
I don't know if this game/project will be redeem worthy by Patreon: I can do some render, code (the actual code of the prototype is very messy, bear in mind we may want to switch on something simpler/safe... this, or we don't find an additional programmer who can make cleaner code with Godot) and lot of world building, but my actual writing skills are way lot average.
Said so... Patreon solution to cutshare between us is something I am absolutely in favor: I am even up to take nothing as cutshare until we don't find a decent balance (it doesn't make sense to split 1$/€ in bunch of 0.35$/€ each). But even tho... cutshare Pateron money is something I can't grant by myself. I hadn't yet one successful campaign on Patreon.
My main contribution over there (Patreon) would be with lore and design; I can fully share narrative spoiler for the whole plot all the way up to the very ending of it (thing that go well beyond the narrative development of the game itself). An additional writing author is extremely important, because if present our project with my badly written stuff... no one is gonna support us!
What I need, and what I can provide
3D render: this is a exclusively 2D game based on 3D render, we will not have to deal with lowpoly stuff.
Tool of choice is Blender Cycles, if you don't use Blender its fine as long we keep this free piece of software in our workflow (which mean: no fbx, 3ds and compatibility break formats). IE: if you 3D model with Zbrush, that's fine, just bring me a Blender compatible result (collada, GLTF, OBJ.. whatever it works). Blender is free for both of us, Zbrush don't ^^" (also I am strictly Linux only, bear in mind we may have compatibility issues if you work in a windows-exclusive environment). I can rig, create/apply material, apply Rigify armature to T-Poses characters. If you give me 3D models I can sort of set environment where the player may virtually move with pre-rendered background (check the prototype: those placeholder render are the AO map for the scene)... but I can also find lot of free/CC0 models by myself, the more you can bring, the more rich and consistent we can be
co-Author: as you may have already noticed, my writing and English is quite hard to follow (congrats if you made all the way down there!). Content wise, everything in this game is dialogues. The only narrative exposition given will the internal dialogue the protagonist-player will have (description of place, item etc).. other than that, its all about chatting and corrupting the logic core of those sexy gynoids. No multiple ending; the experience is pretty much linear. Idea is to "branch" the story in three sequential ending. Actually, I don't plan to get in these actual three different endings: its a quite complicated thing, no one would care for a pornographic story anyway (but we will discuss these "sequential endings" internally, I consider them scratched away as basics, but if you can help me to get on top of it.. we may actually include the consecutive plot-twist ending (which are supposed to take a second and then a third playthough the game). As for basic, there's one simple ending, which is the [spoiler warning]
If a Patreon page (and thus cut-share) will be agreed, our additional duty would be to fully disclose the whole lore (including key-plot, spoilers and experimental concept for the story)
Patreon: ideally we would split 1/[number of us], ie: if we're three people it's 1/3 (0,33¢ for each net $/€ we make), but I am up to negotiate lowering my own share if this make things more appealing to you (not too much I hope: not like I am buying a car with those money, but "feeling" people money would be a great motivation for me, I guess its the same for you!
Contact:
I am not "discord guy", but I do recognize that's the default tool for communication here.
While I do actually use matrix/riot free and open source protocol (catch me at: @satyrs:matrix.org , there's web, desktop and mobile app for it). you can find me on a bridged discord room:
https://discord.gg/5eSmRvd
(I am not actually there, so if you sent me a private message I may not read it; but riot/matrix is bridged in the only room: I can read and reply to whatever happen in that room!)