Benefitship Game

Living Room: It's All In The Colours

I've previously shown the various sketches that went into designing the living room in Benefitship. Even upon finalizing the layout, however, I found that the living room was not quite what I wante...

Amy's Sprite: A Strand Of Hair Makes All The Difference

This now incredibly cursed illustration is the initial version of Amy's sprite. Her hair was much lighter, and Sulcate had highlighted a strand of hair directly over her face. I saw potential in th...

Amy's Sprite: An Absolute Cutie

This is one of the earliest - if not the earliest - sketches for Benefitship.
As you can tell, it's Amy!

She's looking adorable as ever with her lightly freckled face and...

Fun Facts: Names

Fun fact! For a long time during the development of Benefitship, neither myself nor Sulcate had any idea what the characters' names were. Internally, we referred to Amy and Chloe as "Roomie" and "F...

SFX: Shower

Benefitship doesn't really have sound effects. This is mainly because I thought that sudden footsteps and slamming doors would be pretty unnerving for people while playing a porn game.

That s...

Problem Solving: Text Boxes

Before arriving at the anime subtitle look in Benefitship, we made several attempts at coming up with a nice textbox for the game. We took inspiration from several other visual novels, such as Doki...

Problem Solving: Lighting

Benefitship contains several different backgrounds, each with variations for day, night, and night with lights off. The thing is, the character sprites were designed for day, and are illustrated in...

Problem Solving: Who's Talking??

While developing the Benefitship demo, the only thing distinguishing who was talking was the name above their dialogue. I sometimes found that I had trouble telling who was talking, but it was pret...

Layout: "Toy"

This is one of the earliest layout sketches for a cutscene. It shows... well, you can tell what it shows.

This layout went unused, however, as I directed Sulcate toward a breeding mount toy i...

Layout: Living Room

While most of the backgrounds Benefitship were illustrated without any layouts, the living room is an exception. As the first room to be illustrated, Sulcate drew an entire top-down blueprint layou...

Fun Facts: Music

Fun fact! All the music in Benefitship was composed by yours truly! The music in the demo is as follows:

- Summertime Sunset (Main theme)

- Shower Thoughts (Bathroom theme)

- Very...

Amy's Yoga Sprite: The Longest Journey

Out of all the sprites in Benefitship, Amy's yoga sprite is the one that went through the most revisions. It went from "incredibly sexy" to "realistic," and eventually transitioned into what we hav...