Risk and consequences in American Sunset
June 14, 2024RISK AND CONSEQUENCES
Some of you mentioned that Justin could cheat with Lisa whenever he wants, and it’s not natural that Tracy isn’t noticing that. That indeed seems not too okay when you bang your nanny in the living room, and your wife can’t see you through the window from the garden. We don’t want to break your game and display the game-ending screen only because you let the temptation take control. That would be realistic, but it’s only a game, and in that case, realism always doesn’t mean fun.
The original game has such mechanics implemented—when you take a stupid and risky action, Tracy could show up, and the game ends. It’s not fair to end your six hours of gameplay like this.
So, after reading all your comments we’ve decided to respond to that and we’ve come up with an exciting idea that would add some risk and danger to the game without disrupting the gameplay.
BUSTED!
When you do something stupid and risky, for instance, bang Lisa in the bathroom when Tracy is just next door, we’ll play a short scene where Tracy surprises you with Justin’s cock in Lisa’s pussy. Tracy will get mad, and the atmosphere will get very dense – in the end, Tracy will say that she wants a divorce, and it’s over. 3 pictures per situation, depending on when and where Tracy caught you.
In the original game, we developed years ago, in that situation, we would display a GAME OVER screen and then play one of the bad endings. With American Sunset, we’ll let you continue the game. We will send you back in time to the moment when you still can change your decision, leading to the BUSTED! sequence and avoid being caught. So, would that mean you’ll avoid all consequences? No, that would be too easy and too meaningless.
LEVEL OF SUSPICION
Every time you get BUSTED! sequence, we’ll let you play that scene again and won’t end your gameplay, but… we’ll add 1 point to Tracy’s suspicion. Yes, we’re manipulating time and space, so technically, Tracy shouldn’t be aware of the fact that Justin cheated on her, but… she is a woman who has a 6th sense, and she notices that there is something wrong going on with her relationship.
We’re still exploring the potential of that change. In the incoming preview, we’ll present a system in which we plan to display a new plot line of Tracy becoming increasingly insecure with Justin. In the future, we plan to expand this idea even further, maybe even basing some new quest lines on a high suspicion level.
This sounds like a fantastic idea. Also having scenes be available with low suspicion (like a 0 for the real good husband’s) level would be good. You can save anytime when playing, so it would game the game a bit more.
I want to suggest you a storyline option with a divorce with Tracy and a subsequent continuation of the game. Why not? It would be interesting to look at Justin’s relationship with Lisa (Sandy, Coco, Hannah, library girls etc.) after that. Will Justin move on to other girls (including orgies) or will he prefer to do everything possible to get Tracy back? It would be interesting to see 3-4 additional storylines here about it with alternative endings
I like your idea, the problem is that would mean creating full new scenarios like Justin’s new place and new story lines. I’m ok with that but would take ages to get updates of the game if they have to make this game so huge.
I don’t see any problem with creating new scenarios for Justin after his divorce. Besides, the game already has several additions that we all know about. There are many other girls in the game that can be worthy of Justin’s and players’ interests after Tracy;)
don’t forget the existence of LWT 2 Foreing affairs / Revelations … I Must imagine how complex that would make writing and coding all that
This is a horrible idea. So disappointing.
What about Tracy cheating? I’m not talking about sharing or cuckold (I have zero interest in that).
Or she’ll never cheat because of Justin’s pov?
I’ve suggested that as well, I’m hoping that we get to see that once the final version is complete. That Justin is the one walking in on Tracy with someone else. You have to decide does Justin confront, or does he watch.
I’m very interested in picture 2, is Tracy pregnant from some random at the sex club, or was she seeing someone without Justin knowing.
It looks like she watching her phone.
I guess, I thought it was a pregnancy test, and considering all of the stuff about the sex club was that the GUYS got a vasectomy kind of suggests that Tracy isn’t on any birth control. I believe there is an ending in LWT1 where Tracy is pregnant with another, so I’d have to replay and read a little more aggressively.
I like this idea. I was thinking in the fact that if Justin had sex with Lisa or other girl at home like the sofa, the kitchen or the bed could be stains of their fun so if Justin has fun but doesn’t clean the house before Tracy is back, she can get suspicious that something is going on.
One of those risky situation could be at night Justin getting up from bed and going to visit Lisa at her bedroom to have fun while Tracy is sleeping. Another one could be Tracy using the vacuum cleaner so Justin and Lisa can use the noise to hide their moans and have sex on another room.
Something I’d like to see one day in the game:
-When Derek comes for dinner could be a situation where they get drunk (specially Tracy) and they decide to swap partners, having an orgy or after Derek leaves they have a threesome or Lisa and Justin having sex in front of Tracy who passed out due to alcohol. Important to say that Tracy would be so drunk that she wouldn’t remember anything the day after.
-Lisa going to the cabin with Justin because Tracy has an important conference on weekend so she can’t go.
-Keiko and Lisa fighting but eventually accepting to each other and joining to a threesome.
In the last updates you haven’t mentioned Keiko and don’t know if we should be worried about that.
I’m pretty sure I suggested that after Tracy and Justin start swinging that they swap with Derek/Lisa and that I had written stuff in there about how both Justin and Lisa are hiding their previous relationship.
Like Tracy says something of how does Lisa like Justin’s cock, and Lisa says like “Yeah, this IS the first time I’ve put him in my mouth, and it’s great this FIRST time.”
I do like that idea about Lisa going to the cabin. Wonder if it could almost be a sneak off to cabin scenario. Like Tracy leaves them at home for the conference on Thursday. Friday comes and LIsa says Tracy won’t be back for days, and Lisa’s never been to the cabin. I could see it either way, that Tracy knows Lisa is going to the cabin with Justin because she just isn’t going to be there, but also since Justin and Lisa are sneaking around that the just go to the cabin while Tracy’s away.
In regards to the Keiko/Lisa thing I suggested that too. They’re competitive in the club and Sandy tells them to WIN justiin with like a striptease.
Now that you mentioned I remember one comment about them swapping partners.
I guess if Lisa goes to the cabin with Justin would be also necessary to include the possibility of getting caught.
About Keiko I hope they expand her presence in the game and since they already put a conflict between those two girls for Justin attention I think they should continue with that. Perhaps not becoming friends but being extremely competitive to each other and sometimes accepting sharing Justin just to prove who is a better lover, like doing together to drink, dance or a party at Justin’s house while Tracy is at the cabin.
I like your idea of a striptease challenge.
I like this idea but would suggest it get expanded a bit. I think Suspicion should be a metric that is tracked by more than just number of times caught in the act. For example having getting caught count for 40 points of suspicion, staying home on weekends be worth 10, getting caught in compromising non-sex acts be worth 10-20, and conversation choices (such as when making dinner for Tracy and Lisa picking to talk to Lisa) be worth 1-5 points. There would then also be ways to remove points of suspicion, though they would be less frequent. Going to the cabin with Tracy removes 10, doing a certain number of chores a week removes 5, conversations remove 1-5 points, giving gifts removes up to 10…
The other part would be adding little story elements that trigger at different suspicion levels such as 50, 100, and 200. This could include a clearly spelled out and forewarned game over at say level 250.
Basically, expand it to make it a story element, that is fairly easy to manage and affects game choices without being too grindy or intrusive.
I love your idea, I hope they use it.
I like this idea a lot!
I’m sure people just want to bone bone bone all the time but this change A) helps keep the immersion, and B) provides at least some challenge to the game to avoid if the player wants to.
If I could make just one suggestion, it’s to include a similar mechanic on Lisa, where instead of gaining a ‘Level of Suspicion’ it could be called ‘Level of Temptation’ to mark the number of times Justin just couldn’t resist her and would act in a similar manner of unlocking a different path of content. I’ve definitely put out suggestions for variations of this, and it could be leveled up in a different way, but as someone who plays the game pretty much exclusively for Lisa content, I’m not particularly excited for more Tracy stuff. There’s plenty of fun to go around, but if the mechanic is going to be introduced to one girl I don’t see why it couldn’t be both, especially since it seems like it’s still in the development stages about what kind of content and scenarios the levels could create.
Excited for consequences to be back on the table though, and looking forward to future updates!
I’m probably the only guy to want this but I think it would be hot if Tracy’s suspicion gets high then she forces you into the cuck role and then you play through all of her torturous exploits she makes you do. It would be similar to the ending in the original game, but expanded where we really feel the experiences she puts us through.
Well, I was thinking that instead of having us time travel, you could have us be “almost” caught a few times, and when the busted meter fills, we would get caught “for real”. I guess that would require at least 1 more render per potential situation though and that would mean more work so I can see why you would not do it that way.
What i would like to see is Tracy encounter a dominatrix type lesbian. You skirted the issue with Coco. I liked the lesbian scenes with her, but was wondering why a person that sold sex toys, didn’t use any with Tracy.
I’m not a huge fan of the SUSPICION mechanic.
Mainly, because it hinders when and where players would want an event can take place just like before this game was remade. More so because the added scenes and characters means even more characters we can cheat with that have no or little consequences or Suspicion.
Basically. It feels like the players get punished for getting on with Lisa if the suspicion mechanic is only applied to her. That or by the SUSPICION mechanic logic, players not having sex with her at the house and only get the Gym/Mall/Club/Park would never gain much or any suspicion.
It’d make more sense for us to have some weekly relationship points we’d have to juggle the more partners intend to add into the mix per run. So just cheating with Lisa isn’t too hard. But adding more and more girls into the week means really juggling the time between all of them to avoid being caught. Then having the BUSTED mechanic would make sense.
Well, speaking of consequences for our actions, can we get new endings where Justine knocks up all the different women? For instance I know we can get Lisa pregnant in LWT2, but now that American sunset is gearing up to possibly be one of your biggest games yet, it would be cool to get a pregnancy ending in this one as well. It can be along the same lines as LWT2 for Lisa where you go into her room when she’s not there and you can swap the pills. Hannah can also get one as she can see this as a good opportunity to get you all to herself. Sandy comments on how she’s not on birth control during her scenes, so if you give her a few creampies you can get a pregnancy ending with her. You could tell Tracy you want to try for another kid. Just some suggestions cause impregnation/pregnancy is is the definition of consequences for your actions lol
At any point is there actual interaction with Lisa’s bf or does he just watch? Is there any group action after the pool party or is it just exhibitionism?
I kinda don’t feel it to be necessary to the gameplay… Part of the fantasy in that game is that you can do whatever you want without ever getting caught…
I get the idea, but I thing this could be a turnoff.
Maybe having the option at the begining of the game to play with or without this proposed game mechanic?
Albeit, I would be more eager to use it if, depending on Tracy’s relationship-(s) she’d agree to join in when “busted”