Q&A #1 (Patreon)

I took some time and went through all the questions I got, and here are most of them. There might be another Q&A later on to answer what was left.

Character Questions:

Q- From the main girls, who is your favourite?

E - That’s a hard question to answer as I try not to show too much favoritism for the characters, but since this is a Q&A, I think it’ll be fine to say. I went back and forth quite a few times over the years. But historically, my favorites have always been Maribel and Illyana.

Q - Who's your favorite character(s) ?

E - Like the last answer, I go back and forth a lot, but currently, the answer is Hapi. I really, really like dancers. I'd even go as far as to say that Hapi is my favorite design out of all the characters in the game.

Honorable mentions are Roxanne, Hellena, Sophie, Obscuria, and Peach.

Q - What inspired Peach and the rest of the sisters?

E- That’s a tough one to answer as I don’t think there is one single inspiration for them, but almost everything about the experiments was a fancy way for me to go around Zehmun’s distaste for futa characters and add a bunch of them. Their designs are all based around Lene’s initial design, though.

Game Questions:

Q - How technologically and medically advanced is the world ? There is a plumbing and sewer system but have they discovered electricity or do they use a substitute like magic stones for the lighting and as an energy source ?

E - Now, this is an awkward question. I really, REALLY like the idea of magical crystals as a power source, and it’s kinda implied it’s what happens in-game. I had a whole explanation in-game about energy but it got cut because it was confusing and didn’t have a place as our “simple porn game”. 

As medicine in-game is based on magic and magic herbs made into concoctions, you can see it as somewhat modern in terms of efficiency. 

Q- How come there are so many girls with animal traits? What are the different species?

E - I THINK IT’S CUTE! Really, that’s the answer. I think it makes for a cute design accessory, and it helps set the character’s personality if I put them with some animal characteristics. For example, Lamir and Clarine both take a lot of dog stuff on them, like being overly excited when given attention and being very loyal, Hapi being a skittish rabbit, or Nameless eating trash and grass in her spare time. Other characters, like Lilian and Roxanne, for example, have barely anything personality-wise going on with their respective animal traits.

As for what are the different species, it’s as many as are needed! I like animals, they cute.

Q - How does the social hierarchy works ? Is nobility tied to dragonkin or is it more widespread and supposedly attainable by everyone ?

E - Nobility is all on dragons. They are the rulers of the kingdom where the game takes place. There are exceptions for lesser nobility, like Roxanne, where someone got in good graces with the nobles and formed a bond where they were given the opportunity and a leadership position.

Those dragons tend to form strong bonds with people around them for life, like Roxanne’s relationship with Hellena, Yra and Nihil, and Illyana and the player.

Q - Demons can corrupt other people, turning them into monsters, does this apply to other creatures?

E - Yes, demonic corruption happens to creatures as well. Not going into details here, as I’m saving demonic corruption lore for the witch's basement.

Q - Why most characters are so old? I feel like everyone is older than my guy.

E - You think they are? I’m not too sure I agree. However, I tend to consider age and height a lot when designing a character. The biggest reason there are few younger characters is the aggravating situation of the lack of men. But the real reason is that I like older women, and I like making characters of different ages and backgrounds.

Of course, the player character isn’t especially old either, so most are older than him. The player character’s age is never said in-game to keep some self-insert fantasy alive, but he is the same age as Lamir and Kiria.

Q- Who is P-Kun?

E - It’s the name I use for the protagonist when I’m writing. It stands for Placeholder-Kun, as it was only a placeholder name until he got a real name. He never got a name, though, so he is stuck as P-Kun in my eyes.

Other Questions:

Q - Bad end quests? Smth like Eris/Nihil will capture the control over farm and blackmail city for food 😈.

E- No plans for any bad endings, but that doesn’t mean it might never happen. The only bad ending in-game is Peach’s quest “secret” ending. That’s a bad ending, but if you got it, it’s probably not a bad ending for you, right?

Q- Futa potion?

E - No. Kinda want it, but not really. That’s a Pandora’s box I’d rather keep closed for now. The only exception I made for giving someone a dick they shouldn’t have was for Hellena with an excuse that she has an extremely rare, one-of-a-kind toy that looks and feels like the real thing.

Q - Do you want to add futas content to other characters? When I saw the post about Nameless, I thought it was brilliant

E- Same answer as the above, but I want to add something for Nameless. She’s supposed to be the “customizable” character, so the player will have the option to get her a pp if they want. That’s a Nameless thing.

Q - Is there something you regret you made for the game?

I can think of so much stuff I regret. From the game’s insane scope creep, to giving the player the option to kill off Lamir’s mom, to using the witch’s tower too early and ruining Lene’s questline conclusion,  but my biggest regrets are caving into the pressure of trying to make Maribel more popular and rewriting her with the double personality as the most important trait, rather than the original idea of making her questline some romantic courtship and Clarine’s non-existent growth as a character during her questline.

Q - What fetishes are NG for you ?

E - I like to see myself as very open-minded, but I can’t do stuff that disgust me. Not really because of any innate hate, but because I don’t think I’d be able to do it without making it miserable for me. That I can think of the top of my head, that’s usually poop, piss, gore, vore. Maybe eyeball licking too? I’m not putting too much thought into what I don’t like.

Q- Why is there so much Futa/MC being dommed content recently? Is that something you like/want to do more off?

E- Polls. The answer is polls. They win, I do. It’s as simple as that. I mean, yeah, the reason there even is futa content on the game is because I really like it. HOWEVER, I do like doing more than just the protagonist getting butt shanked, so I’m balancing things out by making more non-futa stuff on my own and leaving most of the futa stuff to polls, as I know at this point the normal girls aren’t winning without a futaless poll.

Q - Do you dislike or like that the community enjoys the futa girls more than the regular girls on average?

E - Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions. I don’t mind it! It was my fault there even is a futa character in the game, and I kinda fanned the flame by adding more and more futa content.

Q - Do you plan to add old poll winners scene into the game ? (like MC + Lene + Nihil or Nihil + MC against the bar wall)

E - No plans at this point. I still have so much stuff to add to the game. It might happen if the pairing wins a scene poll rather than an artwork poll.

Q - Will you ever make a gallery? If so when? I find it very hard to experience scenes again, having to grind for the exact time. Maybe a gallery with just the art would be enough.

E -  The galley topic is always a strange one. Zehmun didn’t want one from the start, so the game wasn’t made with it in mind. Once or twice we played around with the idea of adding a gallery, but it never came out.

Right now, I’m considering a scene gallery, but it’ll be so much work to go and find all the scenes inside the code and put them aside for the gallery. (I didn’t count, but I think there are probably more than 50 scenes at this point.) So, I’m pushing it back until I can have an update only for the gallery stuff.

Q - Do you want to eventually finish this game so you can begin working on another project, or do you want to just continue expanding and refining this one for as long as interest persists?

E - I plan on wrapping up Sex Valley eventually. I feel somewhat limited by the game mechanics and worldbuilding and have been meaning to finish the game for quite some time now, but every time I get near the moment I would add an ending, I start adding more and more stuff, for example: “Huh, there are still generic NPCs in town, let me make them real character. Proceed to add Sophie and Eris’s entire questline” or “I need a character to make Eris feel even more evil, how about creating the customizable character, add her as a playable character and a massive quest to go along with her.”

 I really, really want to make a game with a modern setting, or a weird mix between modern and fantasy with a smaller and more intimate cast, as many of Sex Valley characters barely interact with each other.