Might wanna reduce the vegetation on the first planet a bit, ran fine on ultra until i got to the planet where my fps absolutely tanked. If i look up where there is little to no plants it goes pretty much back to normal.
You have three dots on the right side on the screen to click, it can be confused with the background. It’s a known error, I’ll fix it on the next update. Sorry :)
I have done some testing with your free public build 0.1.5 you shared on your patreon site three days ago. I have found some issues and will give an overall feedback at the end
1. UI:
Gamesettings from the starting screen and access late in the game. There are only two settings yet, both related to graphics. I didn't change any. What kind of graphicssettings should be expected is to some degree disputable , but audiosettings in my opinion are mandatory and the absence of any way to fine tune the audio output should be provided as soon as possible. The absence of sound setttings got especially annoying right from the start of the game because default settings are rather loud and i had to turn the volume on my device down to not beeing yelled at by this stupid alarm...
Access ingame to settings and to actually quit the game are currently combined with the inventory screen. But the inventory screen is locked to a certain point in the tutorial. So you either have to hardcrash teh game or progress the game at least to the middle of the basic tutorial. Both, settings and quit game, should be made available anytime, right from the beginning via a seperate screen, preferably opened by hitting escape. Ideally hitting ESC should also pause the game in the future?
Character creation for the current scope of the game is fine. Options are limited for now but thats stuff, one may expand in the future. For now it works and i haven't noticed any issues.
There is only one save currently, and your progress is saved automatically typically right from the start of a new scene. But the savegame worked even after hardcrashing the game via OS and reloading it.
2. Graphics/Animations (free public build, so SFW-Stuff only):
I like the scifi setting of the ark and the choosen assets. Character models are okay, not ugly, not exceptionally beautiful. Lots of generic stuff in level design. Overall graphics is good considering it's an indie-solodev project. Personal taste: i liked the old uniforms more mostly because i love skirts on girls :)
Some Animations are really odd. Tested female PC only. Her running animation seriously should be worked on. The hip movement seems to be the main issue with the hip rotating waaay to much like a pendulum from left to right. Therefore legs move in a really weird and unnatural way. Also arms movement feels a little bit off. For me it looks like you tried to make the run animation look very girly or sexy/bouncy and went totally overboard with the physics. I highly recommend looking into the anatomy of female running, take some videos and reduce speed, observe how diffent body parts move and do some refinement on your animation.
Idle Animation looks too nervous for me. I recommend to add some waiting/slowing down and let transition animations play longer. Have you ever talked to a person constantly wiggling from left to right in front of you? And if, how did you feel in these conversations?
Jump while running always results in a stop-landing on a knee type of animation. This feels terrible to me. The landing would be totally fine, if one would jump down from a first floor balcony or a logistic container. But you should use a different animation for how your character lands after a jump while running, because usually your body keeps its forward momentum like athletes do hurdling or someone jumping over a puddle to not get wet feed. Especially if the player wants to move forward after the jump anyway.
Walk and crouchwalk during the stealth tutorial was fine by me. Same with moving with a gun in the combat tutorial or the freezing-move-slowly from the very beginning
3. Dialogues (technical only):
The way how you present dialogue options to the player is a little bit too subtile. Especially from the start, meeting your first crewmate and the only option is three white dots on the right border of the screen on a light greyish background. This is so easy to miss, it took me some while to find them and realize the game expects me to answer.
Then there is a minor bug with the introductional dialogue with Zeno in the parcouring tutorial. After some questions, when Zeno explains stuff with some rather long text, there is a followup line "any questions". This followup question in some cases is shown too fast so the player has not enough time to read the whole text. Give it some time, probably let the player decide when he finished reading?
4. Additional Bugs:
The camera in the crossroad section of the ark (where you honor your supporters) behaves a little bit weird with stuttering around while moving around or rotate point of view.
There was another camera bug in the final room, where you meet Aline. If you position left of her next to the holotable she leans over and then rotate your view along the opposite site of the table there are some angles, where the whole scene disappears except for the background. If you move the mouse further everything reappears.
There are at least two windows in the glassfront of the bridge, where the player gets stuck in an infinite falling animation if one moves too close to the window.
5. Overall Feedback:
To be honest, it would be unfair to rate the game based on the tested version because it is way to early. Contentwise there isn't much to rate. Short introduction, some basic tutorials and when you reach the point one would expect the actual game to start,... its already over.
The tutoials where okay, promising some gameplay to come (in addition to the patreon restricted adult stuff). The game (0.1.5) has issues but nothing that can't be solved. I will keep an eye on this one, but it promises more then i have actually seen and the history so far keeps me more on the fence for now.
I know you updated the ark game so I need to ask you some questions,
It might not happen, but have you made a cheat console for patreons only in the current or next version
Have you included the "x-ray" nudity glasses mode, where during the gameplay everyone is naked at least for patreons
Have you thought of making the character naked during character creation without underwear
and lastly it also might not happen but what if in the next update the character after waking up at the cyro chamber at the start of the game will be naked and no underwear but will get some clothes after the tutorial and first task that is the awakening part 1
If they are in this current version i will try them perhaps when i join patreon some other time but if they are not in the current version and are in the next update or future update, i will continue to wait.
Hi just a huge suggestion I'd greatly appreciate and happily give you my whole credit card if you implemented: Controller compatibility, where we can shoot and move and advance text using an Xbox/PS4 controller hooked to the PC, regardless, great game!
1. When in the training sim, I can't move and jump at the same time. For example, when moving forward (W), I get a selection of accented W's at the top of the screen. I believe this is keeping the spacebar from registering for a running (or sprinting) jump.
2. I expected underwear to be an equipable inventory item. When the engineer said to take off my clothes to go into the ducts, I was expecting to have to unequip them before going in and equip them after exiting rather than the system automatically doing it. It would have been interesting if the character could talk to the engineer while naked and get some reactions about it, especially after going into the ducts.
I prefer my character to sleep naked for more fun sleep interruption events if they become available. A preference check mark can work for such things in the meantime to work with the story-driven underwear equip system.
1. Mmmm, that's weird, I have never received that error from anyone else. I'll check the inputs and try to reproduce the error.
2. The clothing items will be equippable from the inventory soon, I haven't done it yet because I have given priority to other things. The player will decide when to wear clothes or not.
my character wont show up in character customization and when i start the game the loading screen keeps bouncing between 51% and 52% but i hear te explosion and voice. maybe its because i have a shitty laptop but i am just asking to be sure.
mmm, you are the only one who has described an error like that to me. You should try to delete the content of the folder located at C/YourUser/AppData(its hidden by default)/LocalLow/TheArkcompany and try again.
1. For the paid version that is €12 in patreon , will I get a cheat mode to be invincible and a nude skin where you make a character naked in the character creation without underwear and get naked when they wake up in the cyro chamber?
2. what if everyone will be naked in the ark without clothing unless you include a nudity mode in the game ?
Wow I love this game!! Did you make Continuation again? I'm curious about the storyline in the red room and what were the seats for in the previous versions? What are our characters for dbsm or something like that? Tid
There are many glitches (as sometimes the walls seem to disappear before reappearing).
The settings are not saved nor applied.
When crunched in the conduits, the controls are a bit less easy and the visibility is not good either, especially when trying to return from the other side of the conduit.
As for the dialogs, making each text paused until a player’s click would be cool for those who can’t read if wholly during the currently allowed display time (especially when english is not their native language).
There is also a bug when choosing an answer, the previous text will be re-shown before continuing and it also seem to have a glitch between each text (hard to say here since there is no pause between text and that the fact that the previous text are re-showned makes it confusing).
The current rgb color picker made it hard to find a proper realist color, maybe use an hsl color picker instead and/or add sliders.
When the Definition setting of the Body configuration section is at max and we have choose the male version, there is a malformation towards the testicles’s area.
The shower scene never stop, the only way I find to end it was by ending the game itself.
The paid version gives you access to "PlayRoom" another game mode where you can more comfortably test the new mechanics related to sex. In the free version you will have some functions blocked in the sex scenes.
If you are thinking of buying the paid version I recommend you do it through patreon, it is cheaper and you can unsubscribe at the moment.
Hey folks, just a heads up here, this game is not for low-end laptops. You gotta have a decent computer for this one. I almost blew the soul right outa my little craptop. It's a very resouce heavy Unity game, so if you can't run Metro or Modded Skyrim on Medium settings (water/shadow/particle/etc), yer gonna have a rough time.
I am focused on other things now but I plan to modify the camera in the sex scenes, I want it to be more customizable and also to be able to change to first person.
I will probably add a free camera option that acts like a drone, it will be able to move and rotate freely.
sweet! it will make the sex scenes alot more enjoyable, but if i were you i would put some form of invisable box so people cant just fly away and get lost
Is there a discord community for this yet?, also love the character creator, having the option to Customize some of the crew members would be nice, I also couldn't find how to change the eye color, and during the sex scenes is there a way to move the camera side to side/zoom in / out?, in the future are there any plans for a sex positioner? 3somes four some's etc. would also be nice! 8/10 game all in all if you add those changes it would be 11/10
At this moment the only way to access Discord is through Patreon, but maybe if there is enough interest I could make a channel on Discord for non-patreons.
About customizing the crew, I'm sure that i'll add it in the future, but I haven't planned to do it short term.
In the character creator you have a section to change the eyes, but currently you can't customize the color, I will change it in the next updates.
The Sex Manager will be expanded a lot, I really want to adapt it to everyone's tastes, so yes, in the future will be threesomes and more, but first I have to perfect the system.
(At this moment you can zoom with mouse wheel but you can't move the camera to the sides, I plan to add it in the next update.
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Might wanna reduce the vegetation on the first planet a bit, ran fine on ultra until i got to the planet where my fps absolutely tanked. If i look up where there is little to no plants it goes pretty much back to normal.
how do i get the curcer to show in the menu? it shows when running around sometimes and not when in menus sometimes
nvm i alt f4 the game and loaded save lol so theres no sexual content.... will track the development cant wait to see whats coming
Currently the sex content is deactivated due to the remake of some important parts of the game. In the next update I will bring it back again.
About the cursor, is probably a bug, I'll have to check it.
Thanks for the comment :)
How to Continue dialog? After i get out of the chamber the dude starts talking to me but it dosnt proceed :(
You have three dots on the right side on the screen to click, it can be confused with the background. It’s a known error, I’ll fix it on the next update. Sorry :)
I have done some testing with your free public build 0.1.5 you shared on your patreon site three days ago. I have found some issues and will give an overall feedback at the end
1. UI:
Gamesettings from the starting screen and access late in the game. There are only two settings yet, both related to graphics. I didn't change any. What kind of graphicssettings should be expected is to some degree disputable , but audiosettings in my opinion are mandatory and the absence of any way to fine tune the audio output should be provided as soon as possible. The absence of sound setttings got especially annoying right from the start of the game because default settings are rather loud and i had to turn the volume on my device down to not beeing yelled at by this stupid alarm...
Access ingame to settings and to actually quit the game are currently combined with the inventory screen. But the inventory screen is locked to a certain point in the tutorial. So you either have to hardcrash teh game or progress the game at least to the middle of the basic tutorial. Both, settings and quit game, should be made available anytime, right from the beginning via a seperate screen, preferably opened by hitting escape. Ideally hitting ESC should also pause the game in the future?
Character creation for the current scope of the game is fine. Options are limited for now but thats stuff, one may expand in the future. For now it works and i haven't noticed any issues.
There is only one save currently, and your progress is saved automatically typically right from the start of a new scene. But the savegame worked even after hardcrashing the game via OS and reloading it.
2. Graphics/Animations (free public build, so SFW-Stuff only):
I like the scifi setting of the ark and the choosen assets. Character models are okay, not ugly, not exceptionally beautiful. Lots of generic stuff in level design. Overall graphics is good considering it's an indie-solodev project. Personal taste: i liked the old uniforms more mostly because i love skirts on girls :)
Some Animations are really odd. Tested female PC only. Her running animation seriously should be worked on. The hip movement seems to be the main issue with the hip rotating waaay to much like a pendulum from left to right. Therefore legs move in a really weird and unnatural way. Also arms movement feels a little bit off. For me it looks like you tried to make the run animation look very girly or sexy/bouncy and went totally overboard with the physics. I highly recommend looking into the anatomy of female running, take some videos and reduce speed, observe how diffent body parts move and do some refinement on your animation.
Idle Animation looks too nervous for me. I recommend to add some waiting/slowing down and let transition animations play longer. Have you ever talked to a person constantly wiggling from left to right in front of you? And if, how did you feel in these conversations?
Jump while running always results in a stop-landing on a knee type of animation. This feels terrible to me. The landing would be totally fine, if one would jump down from a first floor balcony or a logistic container. But you should use a different animation for how your character lands after a jump while running, because usually your body keeps its forward momentum like athletes do hurdling or someone jumping over a puddle to not get wet feed. Especially if the player wants to move forward after the jump anyway.
Walk and crouchwalk during the stealth tutorial was fine by me. Same with moving with a gun in the combat tutorial or the freezing-move-slowly from the very beginning
3. Dialogues (technical only):
The way how you present dialogue options to the player is a little bit too subtile. Especially from the start, meeting your first crewmate and the only option is three white dots on the right border of the screen on a light greyish background. This is so easy to miss, it took me some while to find them and realize the game expects me to answer.
Then there is a minor bug with the introductional dialogue with Zeno in the parcouring tutorial. After some questions, when Zeno explains stuff with some rather long text, there is a followup line "any questions". This followup question in some cases is shown too fast so the player has not enough time to read the whole text. Give it some time, probably let the player decide when he finished reading?
4. Additional Bugs:
The camera in the crossroad section of the ark (where you honor your supporters) behaves a little bit weird with stuttering around while moving around or rotate point of view.
There was another camera bug in the final room, where you meet Aline. If you position left of her next to the holotable she leans over and then rotate your view along the opposite site of the table there are some angles, where the whole scene disappears except for the background. If you move the mouse further everything reappears.
There are at least two windows in the glassfront of the bridge, where the player gets stuck in an infinite falling animation if one moves too close to the window.
5. Overall Feedback:
To be honest, it would be unfair to rate the game based on the tested version because it is way to early. Contentwise there isn't much to rate. Short introduction, some basic tutorials and when you reach the point one would expect the actual game to start,... its already over.
The tutoials where okay, promising some gameplay to come (in addition to the patreon restricted adult stuff). The game (0.1.5) has issues but nothing that can't be solved. I will keep an eye on this one, but it promises more then i have actually seen and the history so far keeps me more on the fence for now.
Great feedback, thank you for taking your time writing this. I’ll note it and I solve all that in the next update :)
Hey
I know you updated the ark game so I need to ask you some questions,
If they are in this current version i will try them perhaps when i join patreon some other time but if they are not in the current version and are in the next update or future update, i will continue to wait.
Hi just a huge suggestion I'd greatly appreciate and happily give you my whole credit card if you implemented: Controller compatibility, where we can shoot and move and advance text using an Xbox/PS4 controller hooked to the PC, regardless, great game!
Thank you!
I'm updating the base of the game to facilitate further development, I'll try to add controller support if it doesn't slow me down too much.
when will there be futa
There are esential parts of the game to develop before adding futa. I can only say that the game will have it on the future.
Two issues:
1. When in the training sim, I can't move and jump at the same time. For example, when moving forward (W), I get a selection of accented W's at the top of the screen. I believe this is keeping the spacebar from registering for a running (or sprinting) jump.
2. I expected underwear to be an equipable inventory item. When the engineer said to take off my clothes to go into the ducts, I was expecting to have to unequip them before going in and equip them after exiting rather than the system automatically doing it. It would have been interesting if the character could talk to the engineer while naked and get some reactions about it, especially after going into the ducts.
I prefer my character to sleep naked for more fun sleep interruption events if they become available. A preference check mark can work for such things in the meantime to work with the story-driven underwear equip system.
1. Mmmm, that's weird, I have never received that error from anyone else. I'll check the inputs and try to reproduce the error.
2. The clothing items will be equippable from the inventory soon, I haven't done it yet because I have given priority to other things. The player will decide when to wear clothes or not.
Thanks for the feedback <3
my character wont show up in character customization and when i start the game the loading screen keeps bouncing between 51% and 52% but i hear te explosion and voice. maybe its because i have a shitty laptop but i am just asking to be sure.
mmm, you are the only one who has described an error like that to me. You should try to delete the content of the folder located at C/YourUser/AppData(its hidden by default)/LocalLow/TheArkcompany and try again.
What's gay in it?
Play as a male character and go to the PlayRoom to have sex with other males.
You can also see some nude scenes in the story if you play as a male.
Hey aesthetik
I have two questions to ask you,
1. For the paid version that is €12 in patreon , will I get a cheat mode to be invincible and a nude skin where you make a character naked in the character creation without underwear and get naked when they wake up in the cyro chamber?
2. what if everyone will be naked in the ark without clothing unless you include a nudity mode in the game ?
Answered on other site :)
hi Glad to have found this game The Ark: Sci-Fi Adult Game . I don't know why I didn't even think to look here! Can't wait to see what else you bring to this game 🙂 The stories are really awesome and I absolutely love the work that went into the animations. I can't wait to read, play and experience more! Great work! Honestly, this is one of the best games I have found on this site! I enjoyed the content of and I'm looking forward to how the story around
<><><> sorry if my english is not good 🙁
Ahoj
I only have 6questions does anyone know
1>) Can you add more girls etc to this game?
2.) so i was wondering will pregnancy and gives birth be added within the next update?
I>) Pill Pregnant 100%. 💊
II>) 0% with the Birth Control Pill. 💊
The mechanism is based on the percentage of fertility, which will change every day.
It will be possible to increase fertility with special pills or reduce it to 0% with the Birth Control Pill.
3.)Another thing you can add is condoms as an item that it's consumabile.
Of course you'll have to give the players the options to choose were
But think it clearly that if you have this system in the game
4.)run on Intel Core i3? , AMD Ryzen 3
5.) Just wondering where save files for games are generally stored. OS:Windows
6>) Do you still have DC? <- discord
1. Girls cannot be added at this moment. You can generate a random male/female and the protagonists on the PlayRoom mode.
2. Pregnancy will be part of the game, but it's not on my plans to add it in short term.
3. If a pregnancy system its included it's a good idea.
4. The game is not really demanding on system requeriments, I develop it on a old PC and I get 60 fps with max graphics. I sugest you to try it.
5. C:\Users\[YourUser]\AppData\LocalLow\TheArkCompany\The Ark.
6. There is a Discord but only avaliable to patreons.
ok
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mam laptop Lenovo IdeaPad 3-14 Ryzen 3/8GB/256/Win10 ,
mam laptop ASUS X515EA-BQ1445 i3-1135G7/24GB/960 Win7
Wow I love this game!! Did you make Continuation again? I'm curious about the storyline in the red room and what were the seats for in the previous versions? What are our characters for dbsm or something like that? Tid
Thank you!
The new version it's avaliable. I have made some changes on the red room (Training Room). Play and your questions will be answered :)
takes too long to get to the sex
You can try the sex on the full version or in previous versions
Some feedback:
Definitionsetting of theBody configurationsection is at max and we have choose the male version, there is a malformation towards the testicles’s area.Noted, thank you.
What's the difference between the free and the paid version?
The paid version gives you access to "PlayRoom" another game mode where you can more comfortably test the new mechanics related to sex. In the free version you will have some functions blocked in the sex scenes.
If you are thinking of buying the paid version I recommend you do it through patreon, it is cheaper and you can unsubscribe at the moment.
one doubt is the Cryo Room finished yet?
Not yet sorry, I have prioritized other things, also for that I need a 3d artist to do it and I can't afford that work right now.
I think I'll redo the cryo room area because I'm not too happy with it.
I see when the cryo room is made in future versions ( at least in the patreon) I would try it out (when I rejoin your patreon only for this month)
Can't wait for there to be a story, and more things to do. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for that, I'll work on the story and the characters soon
You're welcome.
Hey folks, just a heads up here, this game is not for low-end laptops. You gotta have a decent computer for this one. I almost blew the soul right outa my little craptop. It's a very resouce heavy Unity game, so if you can't run Metro or Modded Skyrim on Medium settings (water/shadow/particle/etc), yer gonna have a rough time.
https://www.7-zip.org/ to unpack these files, just sayin
trans or femboy content?
Not yet sorry, but there will be soon
yo, is there any where to see all the controls
I'll post it when the update is ready :)
it would be nice to have an in-game hotkey to the control list (especially if you are gonna have hot keyed gun swaping shooting and sex scenes)
are there any plans for a "drone like" camra for during sex scenes?
I am focused on other things now but I plan to modify the camera in the sex scenes, I want it to be more customizable and also to be able to change to first person.
I will probably add a free camera option that acts like a drone, it will be able to move and rotate freely.
Thanks for the idea 😁
sweet! it will make the sex scenes alot more enjoyable, but if i were you i would put some form of invisable box so people cant just fly away and get lost
Of course! Thank you for the feedback 👌
no problem! love the game so far keep it up!
would also add "character customization" to tags
Thank you, already updated.
Is there a discord community for this yet?, also love the character creator, having the option to Customize some of the crew members would be nice, I also couldn't find how to change the eye color, and during the sex scenes is there a way to move the camera side to side/zoom in / out?, in the future are there any plans for a sex positioner? 3somes four some's etc. would also be nice! 8/10 game all in all if you add those changes it would be 11/10
At this moment the only way to access Discord is through Patreon, but maybe if there is enough interest I could make a channel on Discord for non-patreons.
(At this moment you can zoom with mouse wheel but you can't move the camera to the sides, I plan to add it in the next update.
Thank you so much for your comment!
about your game,i was thinking it needs few changes ,what if the characters remain naked without any clothing
there should also be lesbian,gay and bisexual sex
Includes shower as well
Character turnaround during character creation
thats all
Thank you for your feedback!
Lesbian and gay sex is going to be avaliable on the next update, probably in a few weeks.
Currently the ship is a placeholder, but definitively in the future will have showers, bathrooms and other juicy things 😏
With right click on mouse you should be able to rotate the character, sorry if I didn’t specify it.
It's okay also what do you think if the characters in the ship will remain naked without any clothing ,so that they will always be naked in space.