Bad Fox - Alpha Preview
Bad Fox
Something is wrong, and you don't know what it is.
Lead a nameless fox over the course of the longest night. Hook up with strangers for sex. Make choices. Make mistakes. Make connections.
Figure out what follows.
Can what's wrong be made right? Can anything?
A queer adult interactive narrative
Bad Fox is an adult, queer furry interactive narrative. It's a visual novel, but perhaps unlike other visual novels you may have played.
- Read through a dark and twisting playable story, enhanced by visuals and sound design.
- Make choices about what the fox does. Guide them, help them find comfort, release, whatever. Make your own way.
- Build a personality using Personas: archetypal personalities and behaviors. There is a mask for every occasion.
- Collect thoughts, ideas, concepts. Follow parallel threads of thinking. Some ideas lead to unexpected places.
- Explore a labyrinth of choice and consequence. There are no correct decisions - only the path you take, and what you find.
Alpha Preview / Early Access
This is an alpha preview, and does not reflect the full scope and size of the game. It is being distributed for free, and feedback from the community will help shape and improve it. This build will continue to be updated periodically as more updates, features, and content are added.
Donations will go exclusively toward development of the title, potentially to commissioning work from artists, writers and musicians to flesh out the game, where necessary. Donators will be granted a discount on the final version of the game, and will receive a special thanks in the credits.
This preview is intended to only cover up to Act 1 (currently in the plan, Prologue + Chapter 1). The full release of the game is planned to be 2 (or 3) acts. Saves from the Alpha Preview should hopefully carry over to the final game.
Estimated release date: it is exceedingly difficult to predict for solo development on side projects. Act 1 was planned to be done in Summer of 2024 but delays and a change in scope have pushed it further. However, content for Early Access is expected to come at a slow trickle, opening up branches and introducing a full cast of characters.
Community
Join the community discussion and provide feedback on the game on Discord: https://discord.gg/d4j8PgRsEF
Or follow us on social media:
Twitter: http://x.com/arsenokoites
Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/arsenokoites.com
Content Warnings
This game contains explicit content, including strong language, drug use, sexual themes and descriptions, and touches on sensitive subjects such as mental health issues, violence and poverty. Overt sexual content can be skipped, but frank discussions about sex will be unavoidable Please play responsibly and disclose these content warnings when recommending the game.
Who is Arsenokoites
Bad Fox is the latest passion project from VahnFox, an experienced furry artist and game developer with over ten years in the industry and multiple shipped titles.
This game is a labor of love; I am dedicated to developing this story in my free time and look forward to revealing more and more of this deeply personal project.
See more of VahnFox's work at https://www.furaffinity.net/user/vahnfox
Credits
Writing, artwork and programming by Arsenokoites
heaps.io game engine https://heaps.io/
Yarn by Secret Lab https://yarnspinner.dev/
hxyarn by cxsquared https://github.com/cxsquared/hxyarn
Royalty Free sounds from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/
Development log
- Thank you!Dec 09, 2023
Comments
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Is this game dead?
It is not! There haven’t been many updates this year due to some pretty heavy work at my day job, where I lead a game programming team. However, I’ve still been working in the background to get the next interaction working, and have gotten native Win/Mac versions of the game running, as well as one or two features that I think are going to be cool.
I reeeeally enjoyed what is here so far. I like seeing in-depth feelings in a visual novel, even though I occasionally like it when it gets down and dirty quick..lol. That weasel is feckin hot - I didn't entirely expect the end, but I was very pleased because of it.
I'm very much looking forward to what is in store going forward. Thank you for your work!
Thank you very much for playing, and your kind words. I’ll keep working hard to hit those same highs throughout the experience!
This has a lot of potential, I really like it! The writing and illustrations are very nicely done, the formatting and sounds are neat, and I like the characters that we meet in the prologue.
When it comes to the sex scenes, on one hand I wanted to see something more explicit, but on the other hand I would prefer what is currently in place over seeing human genitals on anthro characters.
I saw that you wanted to keep the scenes tasteful, and I can understand that, it's just slightly disappointing when the only time you see the genitals is after the sex is over. It feels a bit like a half measure.
In any case, the prologue was very enjoyable and I hope to see more of this game!
Thank you for the kind words!
I’ll keep this feedback in mind. It’s a careful balance to strike. Perhaps I should consider more explicit artwork/text as an option in the game.
I’ll keep at it. Thank you for playing!
Oh yeah. I'm gonna be excited to see where this story goes.
I’m excited for people to see it! Thank you for playing!
I liked. Although I wanted the scenes to be more explicit
Thanks for the feedback! That’s something I’ll take into consideration.
For the first pass I was trying to hit a middle ground that was sexy but tried to stay tasteful. From the notes people have given me it sounds like that’s exactly where I landed.
Good writing and storytelling style, even though English is not my native language. Conveys the cold, hostile atmosphere of the outside world, as well as hints at the gloomy inner feelings of the main protagonist. Thanks, I haven't read this kind of novel for a long time, I will wait for the continuation of the story.
Btw, why didn't you choose the Ren'Py engine to create the game? Just wondering, for myself.
Thank you for the kind comments! I’m very happy the mood is coming through; English is not my native language, either!
I didn’t use Ren’Py because it’s an engine for making visual novels, and I’m interested in going beyond what a visual novel typically does - both in Bad Fox and in future games. I’m building tools that’ll help me do really interesting things with the narrative and gameplay, and get future games developed more quickly.
Oh, I see, thanks for the reply and good luck with the development)
Not bad, I'll be waiting for the full version.
Thank you so much for playing!
Oohh, not bad for alpha build! I'm certainly gonna follow this for more updates and I love this art style, it fits so well with the game's mood.
Thank you very much!! I’m hard at work on the next update, and more content and art is definitely a big chunk!