Brainstorming for Cow Girl Flash Game

[Lurking Guy]

Originally Posted by Kelberon

As for the possible unpleasant connotations, I would suggest running the farm like a small business. Every one of the cow girls starts off as a hired employee, regardless of their stats or position. You don't buy them, you hire them. More personal feelings can develop from there, either of friendship or romance, but each cowgirl has a regular salary you have to pay out on a monthly basis.

Oh my. If not handled properly, the connotations of that could be even worse.

The idea of the ranch being sort of like a boarding house/farm/factory hybrid would be dandy. The girls being characters rather than objects who are willingly employed due to personal/economic situations seems like it works well. I feel the best way to handle it would be for them to receive food and shelter along with an allowance as their form of payment, allowing them larger sums if they take on other responsibilities on the ranch (cooking, cleaning, repairs, plumbing, exercise coordinating, budget management, etc). It also allows for you to go into town to look for new recruits, and for people to have differing ideas on whether what you do is right or wrong.

Originally Posted by Kelberon

Along the same lines, you could have a system for how much you alter a given cowgirl, and their feelings on it. For example, a cowgirl that's just a milker might have no problem with being given repeated items that increase their breast size and how much they lactate, but a cowgirl that does other jobs as well, or doesn't get milked at all, will resent it if you try to give them too much of such items, or give it to them at all.

To be honest, I'm not keen on the idea of items affecting the bodily status of the girls. I think that their lifestyles (what they eat, how much, exercise, work hours, stress, milking, etc) should influence how they change. Some of this can manually be changed, but I think it would be nice for personal interaction to play a role on how the girl acts and how she changes. Especially for younger ones.

Originally Posted by Kelberon

Finally, has the gender of the protagonist been set? I know that I'd like to be able to play both a male and a female version-you could even start as a cowgirl yourself, for the "easy" version of the game, since you could try to support the farm on your own to start.

I like the idea of being able to choose between human and bovine.