Heart's Club - Current Build v0.9.6

[Ambossli]

Did i understand it right, i only have to copy this, change the attributes and add the folders. then i get a new host?

Also what happens if i change two of the likes to true or all to false
And how big is the influence of the opinion of the player


Name: "Tori Black",
Hair: "Brown",
Body: "34B-27-38",
Desc: "Example",
Energy: 0,
EnergyToday: 0,
SessionsWithPlayer: 0,
OpinionAboutPlayer: "neutral",
LikesPunishment: "false",
LikesDenial: "false",
LikesRuin: "true",
LikesOrgasm: "false",
PictureSets: []

[d3vi0n]

Unfortunately I can't get this to work (...) Could someone post a step by step guide to get from having say no guideme at all installed to a working Heart's club?

uhm...

(1) Download and unzip GuideMe into a folder
(2) Download and unzip Hearts Club into the /GuideMe/Guides folder
(3) Use "start.bat" to run GuideMe
(4) In GuideMe go to File > Load and load the HeartsClub.xml to run the tease

I guess that didn't work? What didn't work exactly? GuideMe didn't run? Hearts Club didn't play correctly? Was there some error message?

Try installing the older GuideMe v0.1.0 version and the v0.1.1 update first, then replace just the GuideMe.jar with the one from v0.1.2. All links in the first posts of the GuideMe and HeartsClub Threads (see my signature). You need the correct GuideMe v0.1.0 version depending on your windows version (32bit or 64bit). GuideMe is a java program and uses vlc-mediaplayer for videos, but the zip contains everything including the correct java version and vlc libraries. So you don't need a preinstalled java or vlc. It should work just with the zip file.

Did i understand it right, i only have to copy this, change the attributes and add the folders. then i get a new host? Also what happens if i change two of the likes to true or all to false
And how big is the influence of the opinion of the player

Likes don't have any effect at the moment. OpinionAboutPlayer has some influence on different chances. But leave this at "neutral" for a new host. It will change when you play, depending on your progression.

Adding new host:

(1) open HeartsClub-v0.9.2.xml and search for "function fInitiateHostessArray()"
(2) copy a host including opening and closing brackets { Name: ... },
(3) change Name, Hair, Body, Desc as you like - but leave the rest unchanged!
(4) create a new sucbfolder called identical to the Name of your host under HeartsClub/hosts/
(5) add gameover.jpg, profile.jpg, punishment.jpg (could be also just one file called: "gameover-profile-punishment.jpg" or more than one file (for example: "punishment-1.jpg" and "punishment-2.jpg")
(6) add at least one complete pictureset for your host as new subfolder

Regarding picture sets for host:

Spoiler: show

The script parses the filenames in a pictureset for specific phrases or tags as part of the filename and uses this to identifiy where to use the picture. A complete picture set needs all of the the following tags:

welcome
options
ready
stop
rest
pain
stroke
chance
hold
cum
ruin
resultorgasm
resultdenial
resultruined
resultgiveup

You can combine tags in one picture. A picture called stop-hold-cum.jpg would be used for three different tags. In theory one picture with all the tags would be a complete but kinda boring pictureset. different pictures can use the same tags. The game will randomly choose one to show. More pictures means more replay value.

and here a complete host entry for the xml (replace this with whatever values you like):

Spoiler: show

{
Name: "Nicole",
Hair: "Blonde",
Body: "32D-24-34",
Desc: "Hot beach babe",
Energy: 0,
EnergyToday: 0,
SessionsWithPlayer: 0,
OpinionAboutPlayer: "neutral",
LikesPunishment: "true",
LikesDenial: "false",
LikesRuin: "false",
LikesOrgasm: "false",
PictureSets: []
},

[arthurb]

Excellent!

I think I had a hotch potch of GuideMe and Hearts clubs versions.

Did a clean install of GuideMe 0.1.0 (64 bit, I'm on Windows 7), added the 0.1.2 GuideMe.jar, unzipped the Heart's club files through to 0.9.2 and it seems to be working OK now, thanks!

[richman2]

GREAT WORK!!!

Just one question: For testing purpose it would be great to play more than once a day. I do not have any programming skills - how can I reset the "last visit"? I opened the .state file and changed the day there (one or two days back) but when I run GuideMe again and start heartsclub I still cant go on and the variable in the -state file is changed back to current date as last visit.
As I said I do not have a clue of programming, nonetheless in other GuideMe scripts it worked fine to change something in state files (as it did for earlier HC versions). Can you give me a hint?

edit: Another Question: Should there be audio sound (from files) for stroking?

[BoundSquirrel]

I'll second the turning off the "once a day" request. Actually if that could be added as an option when one starts the game, it would be appreciated. I get the 'realism' of it and it's a great idea, but some of us just don't like to wait.

As an added twist to going more than one round with the succubi, I'd like to recommend another alternate ending; the one you're with turns you over to one of her friends, forcing you to do another round with one of the others. After all, once the succubi start getting a taste of one of their victims, why not share with her friends?

Thanks for all of the great work and quick turnaround on suggestions on this!

[d3vi0n]

edit: Another Question: Should there be audio sound (from files) for stroking?

you mean something like a metronome? nope... no audio during stroking. audio is used to notifiy about "special" events like bonus chances, holding a edge, stop stroking...

Just one question: For testing purpose it would be great to play more than once a day.

I'll second the turning off the "once a day" request. Actually if that could be added as an option when one starts the game, it would be appreciated. I get the 'realism' of it and it's a great idea, but some of us just don't like to wait.

it's a tease and denial game. If you really can't wait or don't want a denial, there are already enough legal ways...

(1) accept your defeat and start a new game ... you can play again without waiting...
(2) buy love potions and use them to ignore denials and get another session without waiting...
(3) choose "only orgasm" as option if you wanna make sure that you won't get a denial today...

in future versions option (3) may get changed into a special reward for character progression (option only available if a succubus really likes you) but for now this is available every time you start a session.

Yes in theory you could also easily cheat and edit the xml script to eliminate any chastity period, but that would ruin the experience and any sense of achievement in my opinion. So I won't help with that and I don't plan to add an option for this. If you insist i could write you a pm what to change in the xml to eliminate chastity, but i really don't recommend cheating this way.

[10qp10qp]

WOW, that's the first thing that came to my mind when I played my first round against Tori.

The former versions of this tease always lacked something to stay interesting, but I think you really found a way to keep it exciting for a longer period of time. The idea of scoring points is very challenging and really worked as a motivation for me to keep going during my first session.

One of the things I found very hot is the soft breathing you hear while holding the edge. While wearing headphones, this gets so close to the ear and really turns me on. Therefore, my advice to every other player is to use headphones instead of speakers, it makes this tease a lot more intimate.


Now of course this tease has just been released, so there are still a few things lacking. I'm sure you're still working very hard on it, so therefore I'd like to gives you a couple of my personal opinions on what could still improve:

1. I'm not completely sure if there are more things in the tease that I haven't seen yet, so correct me if I'm wrong on this one. I had the feeling that this tease was mainly about stroking, which is the main reason for people to play this tease. However, I think it would be a nice addition if there would be some more options on how you want to be teased. I'm thinking of things like exploring more of the body, such as the nipples or the anus. This can be just that one step further to give people the most sexual pleasure out of their masturbation session and afterall, isn't that what the succubi want?

2. I think most players would say this, with only 4 hosts there isn't that much variety. I'm somewhat assuming you're working on making more, and I'm aware of the options to implement some of your own. What I'd want to suggest is to find a way for people to share their hosts, or maybe make some sort of downloadable folder where you can select the hosts from that you want. Personally, I'm not sure what would be the best method to do something like this. I think there are far more experienced people on Milovana who might have ideas about this.

3. The idea of only being allowed to enter the club once a day is something that wouldn't personally suit me. Sometimes I feel like I don't want to do it for a couple of this, and sometimes I have days on which I feel like once just really wouldn't be enough. Therefore I'm thinking of an option to enter the club a second time in trade for some points, or that you maybe have to perform certain tasks in order to get in a second time. I'm thinking of having to submit to some mild pain, or maybe having to repeatedly cum to please your succubus. This last option would be great for just 'one of those horny days' and I think would fit the story line quite well.


At last I want to say that I'm very grateful for you spending so much time on a project like this. It's been a pleasure to play it so far and I hope my feedback is useful to you.

[mr-max]

I really like the concept.

I second the option to add hosts by the community. They could even be specially toned (aka more interested in certain topics).

For me the one time a day version is OK, but I guess a option when starting a game could suite the needs of the people who would like to return more frequent. Interesting would be to implement also a punishment if you do NOT return in a certain periode ;)

Great project with so much possibilities to come (regarding different mini games, twists, gameplay etc.)

Thanks ;)

[d3vi0n]

again thx for the feedback

Just some quick first responses to your ideas:

I had the feeling that this tease was mainly about stroking, which is the main reason for people to play this tease. However, I think it would be a nice addition if there would be some more options on how you want to be teased. I'm thinking of things like exploring more of the body, such as the nipples or the anus.

That might be totally true. But see... i'm really not into all of the more "heavy" fetish oriented stuff on milovana. Even metronomes are usual a turn off for me. I have nothing against adding such options, as long as i still can use my "freestylemode". But in result i would be the wrong guy to add or write these options. But i don't claim ownership or control over the HeartsClub script. So everybody can jump in and try to add features and options. I'm happy to help as best as i can.

What I'd want to suggest is to find a way for people to share their hosts, or maybe make some sort of downloadable folder where you can select the hosts from that you want.

I second the option to add hosts by the community. They could even be specially toned (aka more interested in certain topics).

I would love to see community created new hosts. Some posts above i explained what to do to add more hosts to the script. At the moment there a just 2 downsides. First, you have to edit the main xml to add a new host. So no "standalone" hostpacks which can work just bye copying some files. Second, we already talked about adding more features to hosts (like character traits, unique dialogue, story events...). In result the current data model for a host has to be expanded or changed for these features and every single host has to be changed accordingly. Thats the main reason i started with just 4 hosts. Its easier to update 4 hosts than lets say 20 or more.

The idea of only being allowed to enter the club once a day is something that wouldn't personally suit me. (...) Therefore I'm thinking of an option to enter the club a second time in trade for some points

Thats why i added Love Potions. These are just a fancy way to change clubpoints into more chances per day if you're having "one of these horny days". At least that was my thinking. Your other ideas would be fine too. I just think it would ruin every sense of achievement if this minimal chastity period is completely optional. The player has in some way to "earn" his right to try it more than once a day or the denial aspect would have no sense at all.

Sometimes I feel like I don't want to do it for a couple of (days)

if you don't want to visit the club, you don't have to.

Although Mr-Max already suggested a punishment "if you do NOT return in a certain periode".

But at the moment the once per day is just a maximum per day not a minimum per day.

Finally again: I will not have enough time and / or skills to add all these cool features we talk about here. I'm no programmer myself and hardly got this script working so far. So i can't promise anything. But i also don't claim ownership or control over Hearts Club. It's totally cool for me if the community takes over or adds to it. So feel free to experiment with the script or adding new hosts and share your results. And btw if you wanna start your own GuideMe project: The hearts club is a great source for code examples although my code might be very chaotic and a bit hard to read. I will help as best as i can and continue to work for myself with the script. If somebody knows how to create a better ai for the hosts with javascript, feel free to teach me :D

[Ambossli]

Ok i played a little with the script
and added a metronome

You can choose every time if the metronome is on or off (special option)
in the guide preference you can type in the min bpm and the max

so have fun

[mr-max]

nice!

[richman2]

@Ambossli
I have no idea how it works, but I like metronome. I tried my best to modify it a bit, but as I do not posess any knowledge of xml I gave up at the end. Maybe you can use the following idea:

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 function fG1metronome() {        var vG1OptionNometronome = scriptVars.get("vG1OptionNometronome");        if (vG1OptionNometronome == "true" && vdifficulty=="hard") {            vheat=scriptVars.get("vheat")                   //var speed = comonFunctions.getRandom(guideSettings.getPref("bpm"))+vheat;            var speed =  fRandomNumber(30,120);            var speed = (speed + vheat);                    jscriptLog("speed" + speed);                    overRide.setMetronome(speed, "4", "0", "");}}  

Like this, it will definitly not work, but I think you get the idea of what I tried. Regarding balancing, other conditions would be necessary. E.G. only if 50<vheat<100
In genereal it is questionable to make this dependent on vheat or rather on the energy of the succubus? Possible would also be to slow down if user didnt have an orgasm for couple of days.
The reason why I chose "randomnumber" here is not because it is necessay, but just because I did not find the preference option in GuideMe zu choose min max - where is this?
So maybe anyone can pick up the idea to make kind of a random but dependent metronome...

Last question: I do get the metronome sound, I still do not get any mp3 sounds of the script... Folder is audio in the HC folder.

[Ambossli]

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function fG1metronome() {        var vG1OptionNometronome = scriptVars.get("vG1OptionNometronome");        if (vG1OptionNometronome == "true" && vdifficulty=="hard") {            vheat=scriptVars.get("vheat")               var speed = comonFunctions.getRandom(guideSettings.getPref("bpm"));            var speed = (speed + vheat);                    jscriptLog("speed" + speed);                    overRide.setMetronome(speed, "4", "0", "");

i think so it must work

but it's a long time that i had to program and i never program in java
but maybe i modify more;)

the first time the guid prefence are not shown
i think had something to do with the stat file

[pekkasen]

Everytime I try to start a new game the whole program/game freezes on me. I tried all of the version of Hearts Club, but all of them freeze. I can browse the credits and the help pages without a problem, although help doesnt show anything on video page.

I tried another thingie made for GuideMe and it worked without any problems.

[jhorny10493]

Hello,

I placed 0.9 in the Guide folder of GuideMe, but where do I put 0.91 Hotfix and 0.92 Update? Please Help

GuideMe 0.1.2 won't work with any version of Heartclub, Java keeps crashing everytime I hit new game.. Please help