Virtual worlds where magic and science fiction exist
might soon be at your finger tips. With the use of TADS, a text adventure
development system, and an author tool currently under construction, games
featuring luscious environments, and complex twists and puzzles which could lead
to various transformations might soon be relatively easy to create.
TG-TADS (Transgender Text Adventure Development System) is a work in
progress where the player, as well as any other character in the game, can have
their body altered in many different ways. By giving them physical
characteristics, you can...
prevent the player from
reaching objects because they are only a few feet tall
cause them to attract cat calls
if they are attractive females
cause others around them to
baby them because they look like a toddler
As you see, the entire
world can respond differently depending on what who the player is, and there is
the ability to change those attributes during game play (either with the players
approval, or without their consent!)
Many of the ideas mentioned above would require a lot of work for the
designer, but when these tools are finished, authors will be able to implement
many of them with only a little bit of extra work.
Some of the areas that are currently under development
include:
Primary and Secondary Sexual
Characteristics
Height and Build (from 1'' tall
to 10x original height)
Age Progression and Regression
Race and Species Changes
(including mythological and non human forms in the future)
Advanced Clothing Control,
allowing the player to be aware of their physical attributes during the
application of clothing items (this also has a fairly decent detection process
that prevents someone from putting their undershirt on over their over coat!
The player's appearance depends on the garments they wear and the body in
which they inhabit.)
Areas that are too be worked on soon include:
More descriptive comments
during the changes themselves
Changing the way the world
looks according to intellect (allowing descriptions to be really dim if the
players IQ is too low.
For instance, if there were a hammer in the room the description might read
"There is one of those funny things that you beat stuff with sitting all the
way up on the shelf thing." for the really dimwitted and "You see a marvelous
handcrafted hammer from the 1930's sitting on the workbench."
There can be a place for an
identification number so the player can actually assume an identity, which
could be used to allow or prevent access to certain areas in the game. That
same id might also be used to alter NPC's reaction. There might be a familiar
tone when chatting with a certain player in one body, and then you might get a
very unfriendly reaction later as someone else.
Because there is a lot of
Transgenderish potential here, I plan on implementing make-up, hair-dos as
well as other things that might be considered natural in a woman's day to day
existence. This also might include familiarity with certain clothes, changing
the description depending on how experienced you are with such things.
I am presently working on a way
to include size restrictions on clothing so that if you are too big, or too
small, the clothes won't fit properly. This will force you to wear the clothes
that will fit reasonably well. Such things might lead to adults wearing kids
clothing or even clothes from a doll.
Because of the extremely large amounts of writing that must be done to make
this work well, and the fact that I am a terrible writer, I am asking for
anyone's help that might be interested.
Help could come in the fashion of describing the various body types that are
possible, as well as the various clothing items and objects that might be needed
to complete the basic modules. You need not have programming experience, but
those who can write TADS code would also be welcome!
For more information about helping out, click here , or contact me at tgtads@excite.com and I'll let you know what is needed.
Please note that much of the work will have some affiliation with transsexual and transvestite themes. This is not intended to become an adult gaming system, but the themes involved may not be suitable to everyone.
