Presentation is good, art and cgs are really detailed. I'm not sure what was happening with the launcher but after getting it to work properly, I asked how much of a difference it actually made. 

The plot is basic, the theme (the folklore) is skimmed over... it left me wanting. Though you played to you strengths, I felt you could've had three or even two of the wolves instead - just focus on them a little more.

Overall, good. Just good. I missed the music dearly.

I don’t really have too much to say about this one, honestly - the art is fantastic (every time an entry has detailed, hand-drawn backgrounds, an angel gets its wings), the plot is very basic, and the custom engine is kind of irritating to play with given just how much quality of life Renpy has built in which this one lacks (the thing that personally hurt me most to lose was the lack of text speed controls, or the ability to speed past the text animations by pressing space / clicking).

I’d have liked to maybe see more art in the sex scene given that there’s quite a bit of asset reuse there, but given the sheer amount of assets elsewhere it is understandable - it just winds up feeling a bit odd though, because the sex scene seems to be the bit of the story with the most focus. I still liked it a lot though, so it did its job well.

There's a note towards the end of the VN that suggests the writing was rushed in favor of the presentation, and, well, yeah, I can see it. The previous 20 comments have said most of what I want to say, but my general takeaway here is that if you look at the thumbnail and really want to get banged by all those wolves and don't really care how you get there, this might be the one for you. 

Implementation of Theme:

There's at least a nod to it, but not much more than that. The "folklore" ask is theoretically met by the howling stones, which are purported to "bring people together," but this is barely brought up maybe twice over the course of the VN and feels tacked on just to meet the requirement. Like, you could have cut the stones entirely and nothing would have really changed. I liked the artwork for them though. Anyway, box checked, but barely.

Presentation: 

A lot of the visuals here were really good, especially the backgrounds and UI, and considering this seems to have been the focus of the project, I think you can be proud of that. The wolves were effectively palette swaps though (this is especially apparent in their images alongside the dialogue box where it really does look like the same face is just changing colors) and they could have used a bit more differentiation (even their dicks were pretty clearly copy-pasted). I really liked some of the little effects like the fur blowing in the wind though - that's impressive to have on such a short development timeline.

The sound effects worked pretty well throughout the VN, though there were moments when I feel like BGM could have been deployed to set the tone more than just the distant crashing waves and crackling of the campfire, like during the sex scene. The subtle sounds definitely ended up being a plus considering there was no setting to adjust the sound in-game though. 

As others have pointed out, I'm not sure what the rationale for using this engine was, but there are a lot of quality of life features common to Renpy that are missing here - audio preferences, saving, rollback, history, being able to exit at any time, etc. Unless there was something really driving your decision to go with something different, for accessibility, while Renpy is limited and not always the best, if it ain't broke don't fix it. 

Story/Writing:

I don't have a whole lot to say about the story here since there really wasn't much of one. Besides Bruno being slightly more wacky and chaotic than the others and Milo being slightly more levelheaded than the others, the wolves are mostly indistinguishable in personality as well as appearance and I think the only reason there's four of them is just so Pepper can have a train run on him. Pepper's personality is pretty much nonexistent too, so outside of some fairly generic banter and buildup there's not much to dig into other than the sex scene (which, as others have mentioned, ends up being effectively the same thing four times in a row, but getting marginally shorter each time). 

This isn't necessarily helped by how stilted the language is - I'm not sure if the script was translated from another language, but while it was mostly well proofread outside of a few noticeable errors, the dialogue consistently falls just short of feeling like it's flowing naturally. 

If I was to propose revisions here, if you wanted to focus a bit more on the participants, I think you could cover a lot more ground in terms of character if you reduced the wolves from four to two and fleshed out those characters more since they'd all be sharing the screen less. If you're really committed to the five wolf orgy, I have to agree with City of Sneps. If you're gonna go for it, go all out! You have a four-in-one sex scene - throw out a few more positions, have more than two participants going at the same time, end it in a bukkake, get weird with it!

Creativity:

I definitely can't fault the creativity in terms of the formatting and visuals, but as far as the novel part of this visual novel goes, it wasn't anything too out there. This could have left more of an impression if it got me more interested in the characters or went really wild with the sex, but right now it's totally fine for what it is. 

Full respect for opening your VN with a toilet flush though. Didn't expect to see (er, hear rather) that.

Final score of 15 shots of uncomfortably warm cheap vodka out of 4 visually identical lupine penises. 

This was a cute short story that I think could've been expanded.

The visuals and the UI are definitely the biggest highlights. The main menu's buttons flickering alive was a really cool visual, and the lil stamp backgrounds for character busts was really cute. Almost everything is animated and colorful, so it was an extremely enjoyable experience all-around.

I enjoyed the story for what it was- a short romp on a deserted island, after being accidentally abandoned by your tour guide, with four sexy wolves who're all gay and want to fuck you. The main issues just come from the four wolves looking too similar visually. Despite each of them getting their own unique, intricate outfits with small details that you only appreciate when you focus on each of them individually, they're then all just posted up in the same exact pose with the same faces and neck fluff. This then extends to the sex scene, where each of them fuck you the exact same way- which isn't bad on it's own, I honestly think that'd be fine if we didn't also use the exact same animation of Pepper's ass getting railed. I assume this might've been an issue with the Jam time limit, because I can tell that a lot went into the games' visuals otherwise.

The characters' personalities were also something I think need to be expanded on. I can see the framework of each of them being a bit different from one another, but because they all talk similarly and are conjoined at the hip, we never get a chance to explore any of them deeper than the surface level. The Truth or Dare sequence was a great idea to get them to open up more, but it could've gone further before we started humping, I feel.

Aside from that, the game needs to have a save-load function asap, alongside a settings menu to change volume and a history menu in case anyone skips past dialogue. These are basic mechanics that should be in every visual novel, no matter what.

I enjoyed the game for what it was, and I'm going to be eyeing future projects, but it definitely need a bit more polish.

Liked it a lot!

I went in this game with some apprehension, but ended up liking it more than I expected. It also ended up having some issues I worried about, but not quite in a way I anticipated and I left kinda frustrated cause by the end I got to expect more than what the game gave us.

I see a lot of people complain this VN is "just porn", but I have a different issue. It wasn't good sex, or at least I wanted better sex from it! Commit to being a true cumbrain, a true maker! But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

While I do have my issues with both the story, writing and art, I also enjoyed a lot of things about them. The art style is quite pretty and it reminds me of older flash games, the wolves are easy on the eyes and have some pretty cute design details, and the story was pretty chill and fun if you're in the right mindset for it. The crumb of folklore we got was also kinda interesting, but it was doing less than the bare minimum lip service to the jam theme.

The game had some really neat tricks, like the little animated cutscenes and main menu, the pretty effect when clicking the start button, the constant animated fluff, the pretty (but strangely solemn) portraits... I also enjoyed the build up to the uhh grand climax, the truth of dare scene being my favourite part of the game.

Now, for the issues...

I'll start with the first obvious thing, the four wolves (and kinda Pepper). While I do like how it looks, all four characters look like they're made in a Picrew template. They are all handsome and I love how ridiculously fluffy they are, but they're just four times the same dude with the same body type and features. I spent way too much trying to latch onto SOMETHING, and I do appreciate that despite them looking like a lazy palette swap, they do have a bunch of different little details. They all have unique tails, accessories, eyebrows, nips etc etc. It makes me thing where we got the worst of both worlds, where some genuine effort went into making them all look unique, but in the end it still looks lazy. What we got makes me think of the infamous production of the Ctrl+alt+delete webcomic (there's a dated reference for you all) where the author would churn out strips by mixing and matching premade face elements. One neat detail that was missed was that initially I thought all wolves would have the same matching ring, one on each different finger, with Milo's not being visible on the little finger all the way in the back. I was hoping we would go somewhere with those, hoping maybe Pepper would get a fifth ring as well but... nothing comes of that neat little visual detail.

The wolves being way too similar isn't just an art issue either. They all have very little character or anything that makes them interesting. Bruno is definitely the winner when it comes to personality, but even with him it's very slim pickings. He's funny with his idiocy, and is the one who pushes the "plot" forward by being a cumbrained instigator of chaos. Other than that I really struggle to say anything about the rest. Rex is the basic bitch one, Milo is the... small careful one? He's at least often the most considerate to Pepper I guess. And Damien is the... smart one? He seems to be the only one listening to tour guides.

The real shame is not only that the boys have very slim personality, but them not having dynamics, a history or relationships does make me question why there's four of them. There are glimpses of that, especially during the truth or dare game. I like how Bruno is needy and gets uppity in order to be included, or that everyone seems to ship Rex and Milo (those two have the most similar faces and are often placed next to each other, leading to my reading group often saying "never talk to me or my son ever again"). More of such neat little moments, and more of their history together! I did like how it was very obvious that yeah, these guys all fuckin, but I was hoping for a bit more of a concrete reveal. I was just waiting for the reveal that they're all a polycule with matching rings, but nah, they're just a group of friends who travel together and breed together. And you know what, fair. It makes for a fun dynamic with poor timid closeted Pepper.

Lastly when it comes to the tragic lack of variety and flavour when it comes to the four wolves... the sex scenes at the end. We get some oral and escalate to them all breeding Pepper one by one in orderly fashion. After he gets fucked first, Pepper presents himself to Damien and goes "wanna have a taste, big boy?". Imagine my disappointment when he didn't mean literally, and we don't get a rimming scene but a repeat of the same missionary with lights off like with Rex. We have five bodies, all possible combinations of them intermingling, but they all do the same thing 4 times in a row. They could have had any combination of partners, to flip flop with Pepper topping, or at least breed him in different positions. I am probably too greedy, but this with visuals of the bodies visible instead of the internal shots would have made this way more interesting. What we got was four basically identical anal scenes with an internal shot. I can't believe someone managed to make getting bred by four hot guys feel boring and like going through the motions.

The truth or dare scene, and the skinny dipping scene were much better. I think the teasing and slow build up of expectations was done much better than the payoff in the end.

My last barrage of complaints is the UI, or the lack there of. This engine made me realise that we should never take Ren'Py for granted, even with all of its flaws. A lot of basic features like saving, loading, going a line back or reading the text history, adjusting the text speed or music volume, saving or loading your game, BEING ABLE TO QUIT THE GAME OUTISDE OF THE MAIN MENU are things I sorely miss. I have some understanding for a small game made in a month for a game jam. I've seen such cases in fully priced furry Vns sold on Steam, or even in official remakes of the same game.

All in all, all the other reviewers are all wrong, screw the haters! The problem isn't that it's "just porn", the problem is that the porn felt like the dev was giving us an apathetic handjob. Put your entire pussy into it! Give us four hot lads that are memorable and interesting! Make five guys having horny adventures on an island be a spectacle worth remembering! And god make those fat wolf knots be worth it and not feel like a chore!

I really genuinely hope you keep at it; there's a lot here that's good and worth doing, despite rough edges. It's clear where your skills are, and it's a shame the other areas don't hold up to where things like the animation and such are. But these things are simply the result of practice; take your time, keep learning and growing, and make something great. I know you have it in you!

Also Milo was very cute, best boy

This VN sure gives a good first impression, but it unfortunately goes downhill. A beautiful title screen, little animations on the art, nice little CGs, great backgrounds and sprites. The UI is very nice too. But then we meet all the wolves and they all have the same pose and faces. They’re still recognizable thanks to different color, clothes and sizes, but it makes them blend together. Other illustrations are also repeated for different wolves for the sex scenes near the end. Reusing assets is a valid technique, but the prioritization was all out of wack here.

Story wise, we have a pretty classic “main character meets a friend group and shenanigans ensue”. The story beats are fine but there’s nothing that really hook the reader. A folklore tale of howling stones is mentioned, and then nothing is done with them (we don’t even hear them howl). This all leads up to the characters having sex and then the VN ends. I don’t want to call this porn though, because it takes a while to get there, and there are some amusing situations.

The writing leaves a bit to be desired. There aren’t many errors at all. The problem lies more with the characters: having the same face probably exacerbates it, but still, the wolves talk very similarly and it’s hard to get attached to any one of them. Rex and Damien in particular I could not tell any difference between them. This all lead to the conclusion that this VN would be quite better if one or two of those wolves were cut from the script.

I don’t know what engine this VN was created in, but it’s very barebones. Quite annoying not to be able to go back, or at least have a history. No saves either. The VN doesn’t do anything special to justify using such an engine. Unless it’s a custom engine in early development, I guess?

Overall, this VN is beautiful and has some neat things, but the flaws are quite obvious. I’m sorry if I come off as overly negative.^^ Keep at it!

This is a visual novel that's okay for what it is, but there's a lot of room for improvement. The art is really good, there's several animations, and even some UI animations, which are cute. Unfortunately they aren't used very efficiently. One of the CGs is reused for different wolves and another animation is reused four times. This isn't inherently bad, but the problem is that they are the only visuals for the sex scene, making it kinda boring. The wolves themselves are also basically the same sprite but with different colors and sizes, which, combined with the lack of personalities of them, make them pretty forgettable. This leads me to a big problem with the VN, which is that the prose and the dialogue are very stilted. I don't mind beige prose, I use beige prose a lot on my writing, but the writing here just doesn't have a lot of personality or creativity to it. After being spoiled by the prose quality of other VNs, it can be hard to read this. The plot's also kinda stupid and contrived. You get invited by a bunch of wolves to a tourist island and then after you arrive, one of the wolves gets the idea to go on the cliff side, and then you guys get lost somehow before you find out you got abandoned by the rest of the tourist group. So the part before the horny parts isn't good, but the horny parts are also only kinda entertaining at best and boring for the most part. There's also the lack of features, but that was already mentioned by other comments, so I won't harp on it. Overall, this VN is mostly harmless. I'm not really attracted by top wolf hunks, so the sex didn't do anything to me. This VN isn't for me in the first place, but even then, I feel like there are a lot of things that could be improved so that someone who is of the target audience could enjoy it better. I may not have particularly liked it, but it's not offensively bad like some other pieces of fiction. It's unfortunate because the artist clearly has a lot of talent, but the sum of its parts doesn't add up to much. If you like the art style and find the wolves hot, consider giving it a go, but temper your expectations. I don't like giving negative reviews because I know there's a human who's creating all of this, but I do want creators to make better pieces of fiction and I hope my feedback contributes in that.

'Seaside Camping' is just full on fun-light-hearted slice-of-life smut, and I love it for that. It's not trying to do anything fancy, it's giving exactly what's on the packaging, four wolves, a fun island seaside adventure, some cute banter, and straight up all the gay wolf sex.

The story itself is something very simple, main guy Pepper is going on a solo-vacation because he wants to get out of the house more, and there's a little bit of wanting to come out of his shell and some self-insecurities. He literally bumps into the four wolves, a group of friends who come in four slightly different flavors of fit wolf man: hunky and friendly, big and serious, small and timid, and fluffy and goofy. They go on a tour of the island, decide to do a detour, end up stranded on the island until the next day because they missed the boat back to the main land, now they get the island to themselves to camp out on. They do such fun activities like, swimming in the ocean naked, playing truth or dare, and having an orgy. It's smut in like the best way possible, since it gives you enough of a set up to feel some kind of connection to the characters, but also, if you're only here for the smut, it gets to the point rather easily and without much difficulty. The foreplay is cute with everyone slowly warming up towards doing sexy things, and then just diving head first into the sex.

The presentation is extremely polished, crisp and clean. This seems to be a non Ren'Py program, so I feel like I'm missing a few features from that that would make experiencing the game a bit easier, like fast-forward element or hiding the text box to see the sprites fully. The GUI and the art style is all very cohesive, and gives off that sort of mobile idle game feel. There's lots of little animation movements throughout, which really sells the immersion, like the ruffling fur on the wolves or the campfire. The audio design was on point, very great with the ambient sound effect. The little CG screen moments like swimming in the ocean or the straight up sex scenes are a treat. The small detail of putting the head shots of the characters in a stamp is also really cute. I am the last person who should be commenting on the almost-palette swapping of the wolf-characters, but I'm sure even you know that these wolves are a little bit cut and paste. But I will say, even as palette-swaps, enough change is done when it comes to outfit choices, fur color, size and scale, and the way they act and talk, that I did also eventually fall into the getting immersed into it. I'm surprised that this game was as linear as it was since this feels like it might've had an intention of having some branching paths or a game element to it. I'm not mad at it, since Pepper technically gets to have a moment with each of them, but doing branching paths to influence affection with each wolf would give a lot of replay value to the game. The writing is serviceable, it's not doing anything to out there, and it's got plenty of hot descriptions to carry through the sex scenes. A lot of really good physical descriptions there. Plus, there were some funny moments with the characters talking to each other, I think Bruno is the one that gets to carry the story since he's the one that does the most out of pocket stuff and drives the plot.

The folklore element is technically present in the story, as that's the reason they came out to the island is to visit some ruins, very touristy. That being said, the actual plot doesn't really have must to do with it, and it fully embraces that it doesn't have any intention of doing more than just including it for the sake of the jam. As far as being creative, the presentation is the most creative aspect of this smut story. It plays it very safe. All the wolves are conventionally attractive, the main character is just enough of a blank slate to self-insert into it, the wolves personalities are just reasonable enough that they don't have particularly strong character choices, as well as aside from getting some one-off anecdotes of their past, we don't really dive deep into their backstories or why they're all friends to begin with. Not that it needs it, just an observation that this has the emotional equivalent of a free-to-watch porno-vid.

I feel one of the best things about smut is that you can really go absurd with the narrative and plot logic, and this one goes surprisingly safe and grounded in that regard. The one unhinged thing the group does is leave the tour group to go see a cliff, and that just ends up with them stranded on a deserted island for a night. I think there were a lot of opportunities you could've explored with that premise to really enhance the smuttiness rather than playing it relatively safe. We've seen the skinny dipping, we've seen the spin-the-bottle, what could be something that only in this premise could be done and have it be super arousing? What's the group dynamic that could add a bit of tension to this situation? There's a lot to explore in this setting. Overall, I think it's a solid and really technically well done game. It does everything that it said it was going to do. There's definitely lots of room to really push the premise and I feel that with your skill set, you could really swing bigger. It's good, but I definitely want more.

I was enamored by the rather simple thumbnail of three similar wolves and one large intimidating one... I quite enjoyed the rather benign romp that this VN provided, from the simple story to the predictable ending. It definitely didn't stick with the theme of the jam since the "folklore" was flat out ignored and promptly forgotten by our empty headed but adorable protagonist, who was far more interested in the quartet of hot wolves and their relationship with each other.

It started rather bland to me but the gorgeous backgrounds and the light characterization really drew me in as the story progressed. The sound design was also very immersive. The visuals - namely the background work and the animations - are probably the strongest part of this VN, and for that I applaud the dev.

OH, YEAH...... 10/10 all the way! LOVED THIS , big hunky, sexy, buff wolf men. I love wolves, what more can I say. PLEASE PLEASE consider making this a full routed dateable VN, I'd so gladly support it! THANK-YOU to those who worked to get this out. <3 

It's porn! I went on wolf island vacation and all I got was fucked in the ass by 4 wolves. There's not a lot to say really. It's missing... uh.. everything when it comes to the engine. There's click to go forward, and a main menu that's start and quit. I respect writing a porn scenario and then coming up with some loose plot to surround it with o7, but I wish I could change the settings, without a doubt, as others have said, that's the biggest thing missing. 

To demand a little bit more, i wish the wolves looked different from each other, they're all rocking pretty much identical faces, body types, and personalities, with some minor details like eyebrows, colors, and heights being the only real difference between them. It's porn first and everything else second, and while the art and presentation do a great job, I think you can elevate it even more by fleshing out the rest (and letting people go back, control the text, the sound, whether or not it's in full screen, etc)

still, a lot of work for a solo dev, and it sounds like you had fun, and I respect any project that starts out with a goal in mind, and accomplishes it

It's basically porn. Haha.

Now look, I do enjoy an occasional porn with no plot. However, this feels more like smut with a haphazard plot. There's not really any tension and the characters are shallow. I'm basically echoing what Pink has said, so I won't lay on this too thick.

It's obvious that the most effort went into the presentation, and I commend that. The animations are simple but effective. That being said, the four wolves look and act very similar. There's not really much to distinguish them aside from fur color, size, and occasional personalized facial expressions. The sex is hot, though, and I love a good internal shot (even if the same one was just used four times).

My biggest issue, however, is the fact that this doesn't have any functionality of any other visual novel. There's no saving or skipping or even pausing. The game forced fullscreen for me too without any way to switch to my preferred window mode. The reader is essentially forced to read the whole thing in one sitting, and the only way to get out is to Alt-F4 the application. Now, I'm not going to sit here and dictate what engine people should use, but this major hurdle could easily be avoided if this was made in Ren'Py.  Thankfully it is a short game, but if it was longer? Oh boy.

I know the author was simply going for "hot men, hot sex", and that's exactly what we get. I did find it arousing, haha. But the barebones functionality really brings it down.

This game is... well, I get the sense the porn was written first and everything leading up to it was written to give some context for why it happens. As a porn game with the thinnest of plots, it's mostly working - however, the plot and characters are so barebones the lead up feels way too long for the content it contains. Whenever there's something that could have been considered a stake, it's immediately negated by things just working out without any effort. Even the "shit, we're stranded on this island..." lasts for one line when it's revealed there's a ship coming tomorrow so they go skinny dipping to celebrate.

The frailty of the game's narrative construction is reflected in the art as well. There's four wolves on the screen at all times, and they're all giving "Don't talk to my son, my son, or my short son ever again". The climax of the game, or the four climaxes, is an animated (!) internal shot of the protagonist getting mating pressed, but each time he gets railed it's the same one each time; the four wolves are interchangeable in both design and function. The actual quality of the art is good though, and despite the wolves being recycled, they are still given some unique expressions to (somewhat) characterise them. The fur blowing in the wind getting animated is also really neat. 

For some reason, the game is not created in Ren'py, so it's missing basic features like going back lines, history, and even saving? I don't see any reason for what's here that necessitates another engine at the cost of these things. 

I may have been pretty negative, but I can say I still enjoyed my time with the game playing it with a group of friends instead of making it a solo gooning session, and my thoughts on it may be skewed from not playing a lot of things where the main attraction is bouncing on four buff wolves. If you're a player that does, you will definitely love this one!

Just like the vodka, lukewarm story, writing and implementation of theme, but good art and general assets. I am not the target audience for this but I can't deny the effort put into it, so it still earns my respect.

I wish it was made in ren'py because of the lack of settings, backtracking, etc. And I also with it at least had at least some music in it.

Damn, it was hot!

I enjoyed this a lot, though I must admit the story indeed is rushed and has little to do with the Jam's theme.

BUT! BUT! The author compensates it with a lot of hot wolves and wild sex, which is, as far as I'm aware, half a reason why FVNs exist in general.

Visuals and animations are also awesome. I can see how much effort the creator has put into it.

Recommended to all horny bastards like me.

Omg they all have the Roblox man face. Love it.