I've thought about this too. Flash is a very viable option, as chances are you'll be focusing a lot less on gameplay and more on... uh... well eve/ let's just say very little programming would be needed and more emphasis on graphics/text/etc, all of which easily put into flash

Yes! And instead of having a linear game progression you could just have areas to explore, each area having a few landmarks that each have a monster, so you can face them and get.. taken :3 the trick is I want a couple 'bad end' possibilities, like if you stay too long in the creatures hold or if you fall prey to their hypnosis and don't look away quick enough, so it would have to be able to know how many turns you lingered

choose your own adventure where you get tranced by snakes. :3c

thats one area ;) might even get someone to help me in flash to do real swirling eyes, I know acouple people I could beg

MGQ is a neat game btw l3

all 3 parts are out now, I HAVE, i'll email you

good to see you tryed out monster girl quest after i mentioned it to you ages back :D

Now i'm stuck :3

some rather interesting stuff lucus goes through xD

Coukd only imagine what you and your bog leach would do in that kind of setting >;3

that the plan :3

Flash is good only if you want the game to be available online without downloading and stuff like that. Otherwise I wouldn't recommend it :P I could suggest few things but first I'd have to ask about your programming skills :3

The only other programs I'm aware of are GameMaker and Unity, though there's probably lots more if you look.
I've been dabbling a bit with animating in Flash, though I've not touched the programming side of anything.

I would love to see a game from you though. Preferably one where you actually get to nom things >=3
Seems too many games go the other way

I dunno what game the one youre talking about is, but I'll give ya some incite into game design from a game designer :3

The first thing you should do is write down a quick "Idea List" of what you want to see in the game. Don't worry about how it'll work, just worry about what you want. Be sure to note what genre it'll be, whether it'll be 2D or 3D, and how the game will progress. Once you have that you can decide on an engine. Here's my faves:

Unity3D: Its free, it does great 3D games, and it has a lot of support and tutorials to get you started. The drawback is that you need to know C# or JavaScript to write you scripts, otherwise it has a simple drag-n-drop object insertion. http://www.unity3d.com

Torque: Torque has grown a lot since I first started using it. It offers two flavors: Torque 3D and Torque GameBuilder. Torque 3D is of course a 3D engine and quite a powerful one at that. It does have a high learning curve for its proprietary TorqueScript language. Torque GameBuilder is the 2D variant of the Torque engine. These arent free however, and I havent honestly used these in several years because of that high learning curve of earlier versions. http://www.garagegames.com/

GameMaker: GameMaker is one of my personal favorites for making 2D games. It's very simple to use and understand. Again though, there is a learning curve for using the scripts. There is an alternative to the scripts as the objects allow drag-n-drop event management. There are several versions of this, one of which is free that you can fiddle around with, but I would recommend after playing with it to buy one of the extended versions. https://www.yoyogames.com/

Personally, those are the three best engines right now. You could also opt for the Steam Source Engine, or Unreal Development Kit as well. Both are free but are full studio development engines, meaning theyre super powerful, but not simple to just jump into and get something going right away.

Thanks so much for the ideas! I was thinking of using RPG maker VX Ace, i'm wanting a simple battle system 2d game that I can change poses with monsters when they grapple or reach a certain amount of HP, I think Game Maker might be something to look into, it's a simple concept I'm after :3

This isn't just bias speaking but DO NOT use RPG Maker. You'll only be able to do stereotypical RPG turn-based mechanics. No vore. There's no way to change the preset attributes like strength etc. personally I have a distaste for the software after banging my head on the wall trying to get it to do what I wanted to find out its impossible to do without the engine source.

game studio it is then:) thanks for the direction:D

It'd be handy if you could mention how much experience you have had previously with developing games, or with coding. Chances are if you know a programming language there is an associated book that'll explain how to make a game using it. But really, check out Conneich's links in the above comment. Unity is fantastic, and other options include UDK, Valve Source. Also just to throw this out there, if you ever wanted to make a 3D game, you can use Blender and/or Sculptris (for free) to make models.

Newgrounds has a lot of tutorials on making flash games, and adobe released CS2 for free. If you go with your idea, there's also this: http://www.ludumdare.com/ a fun challenge to make a game in 3 days.

I use RPG Maker myself. It's pretty easy to use and learn, but the newer versions can be a bit pricey, and while possible, it can be tough to do much else other than turn-based RPGs with them.

If you want to use Flash, there is flixel, a framework that helps makes scripting easier.

I also recommend these:
Game Maker Studio
Construct2
Unity3D
Monogame

The first two don't require programming knowledge and are very easy to you. Unity are more advanced, since they require programming but can create 3D games, and Unity even has a web player.

thanks so much!

Depends on what kind of gameplay you want. If you want like a side-scroller or a fighting game, Flash would be your best bet

Ahaaa, been thinking of similar with Falgrove a while. Lemme know how it goes <3

First of all what framework to use is most important for you!

Cause if you want to add something specific that the framework isn't capable of, you might run into... difficulties... that could have been avoided. Monster Girl Quest itself looked a lot like it might have been made with some kind of RPG Maker (I know it was not) so that might be a good framework to tinker around with. It's not perfect for it, but it comes with a lot of possibilities in its own little borders. Also the game itself will grow in size due to pictures you add.

Flash has a tendency to crash... and people need plugins to run on certain systems. Though you have a more broad variety on OS you can reach with it.

Than there are "Game Maker" as a product itself, I did't worked with it myself yet, but it seems to be pretty solid and strong as in capabilities. Yet it drains resources on the comp that executes it a lot. I tried a sprite based game and it doesn't run as well in sense of performance as you would suspect.

C# or C ++ is of course the heaven of god you want to use, cause the possibilities are limitless (nearly). But you need to learn the programming language which will be time consuming (again) a lot...

So to sum things up:

RPG Maker: Limited Framework but easy to learn/user if you got a teacher and loads of tutorials on the net
Game Maker: A pretty solid framework from what I saw in games made with it. But somewhat hungry on resources for some reason.

C in general: A perfect choice if you like to build up your own framework from ground to work with, but you need to dumb a lot of time to learn it. Yet the results will be open ended.

Enter your choice here:

As you see it is empty as only you can take your choice, I had been going with RPG maker and I don't regret it.

I wish I could offer some advice, but I'm fairly illiterate when it comes to programing and such. I'm totally open for playtesting, though. ;D

I know a little about programming, but I can't think of anything helpful since I'm still learning myself. Good Luck, it sounds like it could be an interesting game when finished.

I remember talking to you about it and flash would probably be the most flexible route to go. I gotta freshen up on my AS coding though cause I got ideas to play with too. >.<

ive got an idea :3