Tease Me: The Challenge

[janmb]

By the way: "Meet Chayse Evans" shows some possibilities for Video and TeaseMe.

I know - and it fully demonstrates not only the capability, but also the effect it has

File sizes shouldn't be a concern imo, we do share multi-GB videos here already And as far as copyright goes, that should also be no more a topic for videos than it is for images - the same principle applies equally to both. Also keep in mind that most of the pictures people use in teases are stills from video shoots anyway.

Adding videos on my own would obviously work, then again it would take away a bit of the principle of others telling me what to do and how to do it. Choosing the videos myself and including them in a fashion I decide myself isn't nearly as stimulating as not knowing what comes next

[Humblest]

I've played a part of the challenge and so far I'm impressed. Good job on this one!

[Nezhul]

Hmm... I must be the unlucky one, because after one page of stroking and one page of waiting it just froze on a page with no text and no picture at all. What may be the problem?

[d3vi0n]

Can you tell me, which page it was? Just after you started level 1? Level 1 Intro has a stroke and a stop page. Then the random part starts. There should be no problem with it... nothing unusual there. Did you get an error message? Did you use the actual TeaseMe-Version v0.1.2 (it uses features from v0.1.2)? Did you gave it a new try and occured the same error?

[Nezhul]

the error didnt occur any more, just the first time. And yes, it must have been after the 1st pages of level 1

[supermokkori]

This was a solid, solid tease.

Two things I wished you would've done:

- add a bit more variety to the images (some of the images would cycle again later in the tease). I think it would've been cooler to have different girls/images "unlocked" after each "boss" encounter.

- I would've like to see different bosses, rather than having the main girl in every boss encounter.

Otherwise, liked it quite bit, especially how random elements throughout the tease.

On a note about videos: I'd also like to experiment using videos (as a video tease creator, I think it has a lot potential), but I do want to do it judiciously - one of the things that makes FlashTease and TeaseMe teases enjoyable is the creative writing and thought that goes into creating teases. While I love watching lovely girls in motion, I'd also caution that too much reliance on video may lead to less creative writing in these teases.

Hey d3vi0n, anyway you can write-up a quick TeaseMe tease featuring a couple of videos? I'd like to see how it looks, works and perhaps in the future incorporate videos in upcoming Teaseme teases.

[janmb]

mokk, regarding video examples in teaseme, have a look at the "meet chayse evans" tease (found on the first post of the teaseme thread)

[d3vi0n]

thx for the feedback. :) Did you like the length and the increasing difficulty? Was it to easy or to hard? Did you miss something (e.g. CBT)?

add a bit more variety to the images (some of the images would cycle again later in the tease). I think it would've been cooler to have different girls/images "unlocked" after each "boss" encounter.

This is the BETA ;) The pictures are only there to illustrate the idea. And my basic idea for the random parts were: everybody adds his own favorite pictures. All you have to do is placing the pictures into the "/_Challenge/girls/" subfolder (naming conventions are "EncounterGirlSolo[number].jpg" and "EncounterGirlLesbian[number].jpg" for the different encounters). I'm considering to change that a bit for relase and create three different subfolders for each level (e.g. "/_Challenge/level1/") and remove any naming convention.

I would've like to see different bosses, rather than having the main girl in every boss encounter.

Me too :) I already prepared the script for adding more possible boss encounters. Again, this is BETA. And my english and my time is very limited. It took me ages to just write these 3 bossfights and the finish. Thats why i asked for help in my initial post. If you have a nice idea: Send me a "screenplay" as plain text (just the dialog and the instructions, you don't need to write it in "TeaseMe-XML-Language") and i'll try to add that into the release. If you have pictures to illustrate your boss encounter: Send them too...

Hey d3vi0n, anyway you can write-up a quick TeaseMe tease featuring a couple of videos?

I already did that ;) Just like janmb said: look at the "meet chayse evans" tease (found on the first post of the teaseme thread)

[supermokkori]

mokk, regarding video examples in teaseme, have a look at the "meet chayse evans" tease (found on the first post of the teaseme thread)

Cool, thanks for the heads-up.

thx for the feedback. :) Did you like the length and the increasing difficulty? Was it to easy or to hard? Did you miss something (e.g. CBT)?

I did like the lengths and increasing difficulty. Epic was fairly hard, especially if you're "unlucky" with different choices (i.e. blue or gold door). I'm not a big fan of CBT, tho I don't mind if there's light CBT elements. I think the only thing that may have been cool was Metronome stroking while trying to achieve an Edge and maybe some game-type stroking elements.

This is the BETA ;) The pictures are only there to illustrate the idea. And my basic idea for the random parts were: everybody adds his own favorite pictures. All you have to do is placing the pictures into the "/_Challenge/girls/" subfolder (naming conventions are "EncounterGirlSolo[number].jpg" and "EncounterGirlLesbian[number].jpg" for the different encounters). I'm considering to change that a bit for relase and create three different subfolders for each level (e.g. "/_Challenge/level1/") and remove any naming convention.

Oh hell! I just might try that right now!

Me too :) I already prepared the script for adding more possible boss encounters. Again, this is BETA. And my english and my time is very limited. It took me ages to just write these 3 bossfights and the finish. Thats why i asked for help in my initial post. If you have a nice idea: Send me a "screenplay" as plain text (just the dialog and the instructions, you don't need to write it in "TeaseMe-XML-Language") and i'll try to add that into the release. If you have pictures to illustrate your boss encounter: Send them too...

Quite cool - rather than sending you a script, I'm nearly done with my upcoming mammoth Flashtease, which will also have an HQ TeaseMe version. You can check out how I did "encounters with mini-bosses" (i didn't call them mini-bosses, but... well, you'll see).

I already did that ;) Just like janmb said: look at the "meet chayse evans" tease (found on the first post of the teaseme thread)

Yeah, sorry - should've been paying attention. Now I feel like a jerk.

Good stuff all around, d3vi0n. I'm going to play around with adding different images in this tease.

[Venus]

A really good Tease! Well done.

I have some suggestions.

Level 1 is starting very slowly, thats okay. It's a warm up, but still, I think there are too many STOP-screens.
It's a little too predictive that it's stroke-stop-stroke-stop until the first boss fight. Level 2 is there much better

In level 3 it happened to me that there were only 2 or 3 sets of stroking and then the 3rd boss fight came already. I expected level 3 to be more challenging than level 2

In another test run level 2 lasted forever. I let it run in background for over one hour until I ended the test run.

Maybe you could put in a min and max value for each level.

[d3vi0n]

thx for the feedback. It's random what happens in levels. The different levels only increase or decrease the chance for different events (e.g. free stroking, metronome, edging, specials...). On level 1 there is a high chance for free stroking but there are also chances for other events. So it was bad luck. Same with your short level 3. What i'm trying is to balance the levels better. So every feedback here helps. Your idea with the min max is interesting but difficult to realize within TeaseMe. And what should be the max / min? Isn't it part of the fun, not knowing how long the teasing will go with a chance that the next event will be the last?

[spawni]

I never post but i just had to in this case. This is probably the best tease challenge i've played so far. Really well made and i like how it's so random between the boss fights. Would love to see more variety maybe different bosses and more levels. Maybe have it so that the bosses have different abilities. Some may be more focused on oral or edging for example, while others are more extreme on beat stroking.

Maybe on the higher difficulty levels you would have a chance of getting "cursed" for a specific amount of time. And while cursed you'd have a higher chance of encountering more edging scenes for example than you normally would. I'm not sure how you'd implement that into the program though.

I went through it on epic and it was quite challenging. Is it possible to configure this? I mean for example if i wanted to add more Beat and Edging scenes. Or make them generally longer.

Great work with the challenge, looking forward to v1.0

[d3vi0n]

Thx for your feedback. Great that you liked it

Would love to see more variety maybe different bosses and more levels. Maybe have it so that the bosses have different abilities. Some may be more focused on oral or edging for example, while others are more extreme on beat stroking.

Me too But my writing AND my english skills aren't that good. It costs me huge amounts of time to get a halfway decent (=immersive) result for a boss encounter. If anyone of the talented tease creators at Milovana would write a script for an boss encounter and send it to me (plain text is enough), i would be glad to translate it into TeaseMe-xml and add it as encounter into the challenge.

Maybe on the higher difficulty levels you would have a chance of getting "cursed" for a specific amount of time. And while cursed you'd have a higher chance of encountering more edging scenes for example than you normally would. I'm not sure how you'd implement that into the program though.

I like that "cursed" idea very much. It's not difficult to realize within TeaseMe. Maybe i will add this idea to one of my future teases or even the challenge.

I went through it on epic and it was quite challenging. Is it possible to configure this? I mean for example if i wanted to add more Beat and Edging scenes. Or make them generally longer.

It's possible, but you have to edit the XML-Script to do that. You should understand what all the different xml-tags mean and how the script of The Challenge works. Best way to learn writing TeaseMe is to play the tutorial and try to understand the tutorial.xml.

Great work with the challenge, looking forward to v1.0

Sadly there is not much hope for a v1.0 at the moment. There seems to be not much love for "The Challenge" on Milovana. It has at the moment a very mediocre 3.4 rating. Maybe its the fact you have to download TeaseMe before you can play, maybe its the whole concept of the game, maybe its the balancing or the game mechanics. I don't know. The few feedback posts in this thread seemed to be in general very positive. But if i'm not certain, that a v1.0 is wanted by more then a few users, i won't put any more work in this tease.

[supermokkori]

But my writing AND my english skills aren't that good. It costs me huge amounts of time to get a halfway decent (=immersive) result for a boss encounter. If anyone of the talented tease creators at Milovana would write a script for an boss encounter and send it to me (plain text is enough), i would be glad to translate it into TeaseMe-xml and add it as encounter into the challenge.

While I wouldn't call myself a "talented tease creator", I certainly could help out writing some boss encounters and include a panel of images to include in 'The Challenge'. I'll see about doing that this weekend for ya, d3vi0n.

Sadly there is not much hope for a v1.0 at the moment. There seems to be not much love for "The Challenge" on Milovana. It has at the moment a very mediocre 3.4 rating. Maybe its the fact you have to download TeaseMe before you can play, maybe its the whole concept of the game, maybe its the balancing or the game mechanics. I don't know. The few feedback posts in this thread seemed to be in general very positive. But if i'm not certain, that a v1.0 is wanted by more then a few users, i won't put any more work in this tease.

d3vi0n, don't take the ratings too hard - the quality of 'The Challenge' is very good and i'm positive that the 3.4 rating is based solely on the fact you need to download the 'TeaseMe' program and also download the 'The Challenge' itself. The vast majority of people trying teases here at Milovana are unregistered members who want their experience here "as easy and convenient as possible." That they would need to download a program and a program tease component that *might* take 20 minutes, those users are always going to downgrade your tease purely based on "convenience".

The most important thing for you is (A) do you enjoy the teases you make and (B) are you getting good feedback from those who actually tried TeaseMe and the teases made for the program? And I think that's a big time yes on both those points.

[Kurdt57]

Agreed! The Challenge is just the best tease and it would be pitty if it ends just because of the rating thing... Please reconsider!! :) Thanks.