Yay, go test lizard!

This is great, this little animation video clearly shows how you have been working it all out and been really trying to make it happen, impressed and happy to see the idea of vore games still passionately pursued. ^^ The only thing I can suggest if you go and check out barbftr if you haven't already, that's made in flash im pretty sure, and even better try to talk to some of the best guys that have made predators in that game! It's very advanced and complicated for flash and is pretty much the best content rich vore RPG out there now.

Hope you keep at this and work out how you can make a vore animation look great in flash in your own way. ^^

Thanks for the kind response! Really appreciate it.

Anyway, yes, I have seen Barbftr before. I imagine ALL of the vore community on FA has heard of it at some point; it's that popular (and for good reason; it's quite excellent!).
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However, the way a vorish monster should act differs very greatly depending on whether it's an enemy character, or a player character. When an enemy monster devours the player, it makes the most sense from both an aesthetic and a gameplay design standpoint to have it remain in place as it does whatever to the player.

For aesthetic purposes, having the monster not perform any other actions aside from belly squirms and digestion means that the player can focus and engage solely on that. In addition, since the monster doesn't need to perform any external actions, it means that its belly doesn't need any special programming to animate. It can all just be made with pre-set animations, and that gives the animator much more liberty to make things look perfect.

And for gameplay purposes, you don't want the monster wandering around with you in there because it would be obnoxious if it dropped you off at an undesirable point after successfully struggling to freedom.
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The rules that need to govern when a PLAYER devours something have to be different, however. A game where the pred stays in place works very well when that pred is an enemy, for the reasons stated above. But this doesn't work as well when the player is the one doing it. For this purpose, some of the aesthetic appeal has to be traded off for gameplay functionality.

The gameplay purposes are very clear in this case; we can't have the player be forced to stay in place each time they fill up their belly. It would completely break the flow of the game, after all. The player needs to be able to keep their ability to play at all times of the game, no matter what. Of course, one could impose balancing mechanics on such play, by, for example, reducing the speed stat of the player if their belly is very full. That's all up to the developer, but it's important to make sure the player is still able to play the game.

For these purposes, the aesthetics of the belly are going to take a hit. We want the player to act even when their belly is full, but all the while the belly needs to slosh around and digest things as the game carries on. As such, the belly needs to be a separate object attached to the rest of the player, controlled purely through coding and simple shapes and animations. As such, finding the perfect belly shape to help provide the most satisfying experience becomes very important (and is the primary focus of this submission).

Finding other ways to add aesthetic appeal also becomes important. For example, giving the player the ability to stop and tease their prey (basically give them a way to manually turn into a stationary, Barbftr style monster) would be a perfect addition.

Utilizing tropes from other classic fetishes as part of the gameplay could be used to spice things up, too. Here are some examples from this submission:
- Weight Gain: Test Lizard's Speed drops and Defense increases with a full belly.
- Growth: Test Lizard is meant to grow (slowly) as he digests prey.
- Absorption: Test Lizard's stats increase as he digests prey.
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Well, that was a lot of text. I'm probably going to be releasing a follow-up to this submission, showing how I would want to see a game like this play out, through animation. I guess look forward to that!

TestLizard is a cutie \-w-/
Those are some cool ideas, if one wanted to go a step further, you'd go slightly slower the fuller you are and if you eat too many peeps at once you flop on the tum but can still grab anyone near you (like them panicking and coming too close) /-w-/
Also I do animations like how you showed it there with the outline and fill-colour on different layers but I didn't consider having an object between then to give an extra bulge shape... that's very interesting and I must keep it mind when I do an animation where that's applicable so thanks for that! owo/

The best application I could imagine for the type of Flash submissions you make is to add an extra 'layer' of 'struggling' (that's hard to describe, but I mean when the prey is punching and kicking and causing all kinds of extraneous bulges) to a full belly. For example, objects placed below the belly layers would look low, objects placed above them would look high, and these which are in-between layers would look like they're right in the middle. I'm sure it could be used to create a greater illusion of depth.

On that note, I'll also mention that your submissions are quite good. I love how they're put together!

Oh and thanks for the feedback~

Thanks v much, I did one or two things for Barb ages ago too so I do understand what you were saying in the submission quite well -u-\

You can see it in that massive comment I left for sithious, but I would hold that those kinds of bulges aren't as useful for Barbftr monsters. When they devour something, they just sit there and start a belly-hold animation, and don't have to do anything else from there. This means the belly doesn't need any special sub-actions, meaning you're at a much greater liberty to make that belly look really good through freeform shapes and shape tweening, without the need for the layering technique and alien shapes.

It looks a lot better than scaling up and down a partially whole circle like I did, that's for sure. But it's a trade-off in aesthetic that's necessary for gameplay when the player is in control of these abilities.

I keep assaulting you with walls of text. Sorry lol~

I want to see a variation of the put-block-on-button puzzle where you have to eat large enough prey to weigh the button down, and it'd kinda be time based since they'd gurgle away if you're not quick enough >=3

Anyways, good luck with your concept if you decide to work on it. I know there are far too few vore games where you get to play as the pred |3
I sort of dabbled working on what was to be the successor to barbftr but it never really got anywhere. However I did do a couple animationy things for it. (Maybe I should upload those, hmmm)

If ya want a good starting point for getting used to flash and focusing on enemies and the like go see this guy http://www.furaffinity.net/user/imaginaryz He made the vore games Barbftr and Panftr and has kits and tutorials for making enemies in them as well as working through the steps for attacks, bulges, struggling etc. As well if ya serious about making ya own system he can give you some good pointers in the right direction for makign ya own games.