A Very Small Business version 0.0.2






ADULT CONTENT WARNING

This game contains explicit adult content including, but not limited to, partial and total nudity, static and animated depictions of sexual acts, ranging from traditional to anal, fingering cunnilingus and more, presented from a distance or in closeup, with or without display of body fluids!

You must be at legal age to play this game!



Overview


I’m currently developing A Very Small Business, where you play as a young man who is managing a very small business from home, trying to make enough money to move his business to a new level.

As you were too focused on developing your business, you overlooked your relationship with your girlfriend, Laura. You've just realized that and you want to take urgent measures to restore it. She is still living with you, but she is so close to leave.

Find the right work-life balance!
Do that and save $50,000 to win the game!

Game info

Version: 0.0.2
Date: August 21st, 2017
Language: English
Platform: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 SP 1, Windows Vista SP 2
Game type: Life Simulation, Business Simulation, 2D Game, 3D Computer Graphics, Adult Game
License: Feedback-ware. You are free to play this game as much as you want, but you are invited to send me some feedback.

Installation

From installer:
  1. Download avsb-setup-0.0.2.exe
  2. Double click on avsb-setup-0.0.2.exe to start installation
  3. Double click on AVSB icon created by installer, to play the game.

From portable zip:
  1. Download avsb-0.0.2-win.zip
  2. Unpack avsb-0.0.2-win.zip to a convenient location
  3. (optional*) Double click on dotnet452websetup.exe inside Components folder, to install .Net 4.5.2
  4. (optional*) Double click on dxwebsetup.exe inside Components folder, to install required DirectX components
  5. Double click AVSB/GBGameWinDX.exe inside , to play the game
* You do not need the optional steps if you have the required components already installed.

For Linux:
It requires a graphic card that supports  OpenGL 3.0 and you have to have mono installed.
  1. Download and unpack tar.gz archive
  2. Install mono if you don't already have it installed
    sudo apt-get install mono-complete
  3. Run the game launching AVSB/GBGameDeskGL.exe with mono
    mono AVSB/GBGameDeskGL.exe 






Screenshots



Have a talk in the morning

Your inventory

Current achievements

Morning coffee

Watch her dance
Dancing
Nipple tease


Furnish your extra room

Visit the Yoga Studio





How to play


Relationship with Laura


You can improve your relationship with Laura by talking to her, paying attention to her or doing things together. As your relationship improves, more intimate interactions become available.

Besides further improving the relationship, most interactions with Laura also improve your mood. Although some may consume your energy :).

As your relationship with her restores, it won't hurt to find yourself at your best physical condition so you can score some achievements.

Until you reach that point, there are a few things you need to remember:
  • always take the trash out! Every day! 
    Otherwise she would be pretty mad you ignored such a trivial chore.
  • do not try to talk to her after you just worked-out or took the trash out.
    She will refuse to talk to you until you shower!


Running your business


You are controlling your business right from your living-room. As part of your agreement with Laura,  you cannot have any inventory at home, so you opened a website selling products you buy from drop-shippers.
Calling them to negotiating contracts may lead to interesting offers. Based on your contract negotiating skills, they will offer you good discount if you buy large amounts of goods.

Feel free to refuse any offer where discounts seam too low!

Once you accept an offer, the goods become immediately available on your site. You may want to set the prices according to your own price policy.
Prices below market average will yield more sales, but you will gain less per sale, while prices above market average will yield less sales but at higher gain per sale.

Note: You will have to research the market from time to time, as average market prices fluctuate each week.

Once you set your prices according to your strategy, the only thing remaining to do is to manage your subscribers.

As for many websites, your subscribers are your main way to reach more people, have more sales and, possibly, reach people with higher budgets. Anyway, without them, your website will be forgotten.

There are two ways of managing subscribers:

  • one is marketing, which will increase the number of subscribers according to your Marketing Skill;
  • the other one is customer service, which will improve subscribers retention, according to your Customer Service Skill.

You can check the efficiency of each approach looking at customers status report.

Sales are computed every night and you get your money directly in your bank account.

Side note: If things go south with your business, you can make some money, maybe even enough to pay the rent, by looking for small project on your old area of expertise (your job before you started your business).


Actions, Time, Energy and Mood


Each day you wake up at 7:00 and can stay up until at 23:00. So each day you have 16 hours to act.

Most actions take 1 hour, few take 2 or 3 hours and some other few take no time at all. These ones are marked by a blue button, while the rest of the actions (those who take time) are marked with red buttons.

Besides requiring time, some actions also affect your energy level or your mood. Actions like eating, drinking coffee, sleeping or napping restore your energy, while working out, working and learning consume your energy.

In order to have more energy, you will need to have a good physical condition. So you may want to workout as much as possible in the early game, especially as energy restores each morning at a level dictated by your physical condition.

Note: Physical condition is a hidden statistic. You cannot see your current level, but you get notifications when it improves a level.

Like energy, mood is consumed for most work/learn activities, but unlike energy, it doesn't restore over night. Also, there is no way to increase your maximum mood level.
Anyway, most interactions with Laura improve your mood, while some actions like playing games or dancing convert energy into mood.




Changes

Highlights:
  • Two new difficulty levels: Easy and Very Easy, both having some limitations regarding sex scenes compared to Normal level.
  • More interactions with Laura, including a new Talk section with two subsections: Small Talk and Talk About.
    • Talk About is for topic you discover by talking to her and isn't available at the beginning.
    • Small Talk is just chatting to her. It may reveal her dreams, ideas and work-life stories. 
    • Small Talk is the way to learn about her interactions with Joleen.
  • Small Talk may reveal the topic of Guests Room. You can then discuss about that in Talk About and guests room location will be unlocked.
    • Guests Room can be improved by: painting the walls, buying carpet, buying furniture.
  • Small Talk may bring up the topic of Yoga Studio. This will unlock the location and it will become visitable.
    • Going to yoga studio you briefly interact with the coach.
  • Laura can now be admired in the Kitchen during both mornings and evenings. 
  • Laura can now be admired in the Living-room, this time for an animated scene.
  • Bathroom masturbation and risky masturbation, including achievement for risky masturbation. She gets really mad if she catches you. But you get +3 energy from adrenaline rush, if she doesn't.
  • Not taking trash out accounts for less relationship points as the relationship gets better.
  • Daydreaming. Just a sample daydream.
  • Startup scene with invitation to help me pick the graphics for the next version of Laura.
  • Numerous tunes and fixes.


All
:
  • FIXED Bug which prevented some players using non-English regional settings (date and number format) from playing the game.
  • Added difficulty levels.
    • The easier the level, the quicker relationship improves.
    • No titjobs on Easy mode. Achievement also disabled.
    • No titjobs nor Anal on Very Easy. Achievements also disabled.
    • In Easy mode Main Character (MC) learns 50% faster (~ x1.5). Also customer service and marketing are 50% more efficient (~x1.5).
    • In Very Easy mode MC learns 100% faster (~ x2). Also customer service and marketing are 100% more efficient (~x2).
  • Different starting stats depending on difficulty. Also, at lower difficulties, rewards are greater.
  • Toolbar icons:
    • Energy now displays maximum energy points for your current physical conditions. Also, it informs when you reached maximum physical condition.
    • Mood now displays maximum mood points.
    • All business-management icons now inform player if the maximum level was reached.
    • Girlfriend's location is displayed (unless is in the same room as MC). It is also shown if she will talk to MC or she will ask him to shower first.
  • Sound
    • Default sounds and music volumes are lower (game still doesn't have music).
    • Chimney sound is not so loud anymore.
    • If many stats increase at the same time, chimney sound does not amplify. Player will hear distinct sound for instance for each notification.
  • Business management
    • Prices are now rounded to 2 decimal places.
    • FIXED Bug regarding the supplier's name incorrectly displayed when the offer is shown.
    • Supplier's offer now states that he/she is making you one offer only (per turn).
    • Supplier's offer now contains a picture of the product being offered.
    • Doing a Work activity returns you to Work screen instead of room's screen.
    • Doing a Study activity returns you to Study screen instead of room's screen.
    • Customers status report now has a summary section, so you don't have to scroll to read the highlights.
    • While setting the product prices, you can see the current market price and the expected sales.
    • While setting the product prices, you can see the product image.
    • While setting the product prices, you can click the product image to zoom.
    • Updated product images to higher resolution to look ok when zoomed.
    • While setting product prices, products list remembers its scrolling position, until closed.
    • In the morning, you get a notification if a product gets out of stock.
  • Not taking trash out count less after MC unlocks bedroom touches. It accounts for less and less until the cost becomes 0 (when kitchen sex is unlocked).
  • "Talk" is now "Talk about us" in order to make the "Talk" button available for dialogs (dialogs aren't yet implemented).
  • Clouds (in animations transitions) are now skipable with a click.
  • "Sleep until next morning" cinematic is skipable with a click.
  • MC can now masturbate in the bathroom, gaining +2 mood.
    • If Laura is home, MC has a chance of being caught masturbating and lose a large amount of relationship points.
    • Still, if not caught, he gains +3 energy from adrenaline rush.
    • MC can masturbate only once a day (only successful attempts count).
    • Laura will always catch him if she walks in (to shower or to brush her teeth)
  • Admire
    • in the morning MC can admire Laura in the kitchen (breast area).
    • in the evening MC can admire Laura in the kitchen (crotch area).
    • Added two new admire option in the living-room. One of these is animated.
  • Limited market fluctuations to x3 - /3.
  • Updated note on running the business and added a TL;DR section.
  • Updated note on living with Laura and added a TL;DR section.
  • Added a new note on skills and stats, including a TL;DR section.
  • FIXED Bug with 1 energy point lost in the morning if energy was already at maximum level.
  • Changed maximum limit for Old Profession, Contract Negotiation, Marketing and Customer Service to 25.
  • Day dreaming in living. Improves MC's fantasy. In the next version it will be needed to unlock some actions and to read some books.
  • MC's avatar matches MC clothing (naked) :)
  • relationship with Laura limited to 99,999 points.
  • game settings (sounds/music volume/mute and fullscreen mode) are now saved.
  • larger starting inventory on easy.
  • yoga studio can be visited now.
  • guests room and furnishing quest.
    • Player can paint the wall of Guests Room. It takes some effort. He must do it several times.
    • Once the walls are painted, MC can buy a carpet and then furniture.
    • After buying furniture, the room is ready, but Laura's friend is not implemented yet.
  • Talk
    • rephrased some "Talk about us" dialogs.
    • Added Talk option. Available after work.
    • Added Small Talk suboption to talk. And a few topics, including Yoga.
    • Added Joleen story, available in Small Talk.
    • Small talk can unlock the topic of Guests Room.
    • Small talk can unlock visit to Yoga Studio.
    • While small talking, she may tell you about her interactions with Joleen (Joleen story).
    • Talk About option added as suboption for Talk. There you can pick topics to talk about.
    • Once talked about Guests Room, the player gets a key and the room becomes available. Still, it needs furnishing.
  • Added a startup introduction inviting all players to contribute and pick the next graphics for Laura.
  • screenshots are now named correctly.
  • fixed bug where level III achievements are granted when only level II is justified.
  • smell check before dance and watch tv together.
  • love scenes closes automatically when an action completes and there is no next level action unlocked.





13 comments:

  1. With the new laura designs I think A looks best but would be better with nipples the size of the other examples. The pinker color is better though but I liked the larger size

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    1. Thank you very much for your comment. So you are voting for A +larger areolas.
      As I cannot edit the poll any longer, I'll track your vote an a separate sheet.

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  2. ... As for A B C: I like A the most (really beautiful eyes :) ).

    Only the size of the areolas should be like the girl in B, while colour of areolas is fine in A.

    Eye colour of B is not natural imo.

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    1. PS: I saw the late animations with a cheat save (100k love points, normally I do not cheat, this time just out of curiousity). Absolutely Great. The best I ever saw. Compliment !!!

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    2. Thank you for your wonderful words. I can’t describe the joy and excited I feel reading these lines!
      Thank you so much!

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  3. There seems to be a bug with the energy level when waking up. It's -1 from the max energy no matter what I do.

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    1. Thank you for reporting it. It is actually by design as otherwise will make morning coffee pointless and will make anal scenes too easy to reach.
      But you are right! I should mention it in the note about energy or somewhere.

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  4. I got a bug I don't ever get the option to admire her in the kitchen or the living room. I mean I can still raise her score but every morning I lose points because I can't admire her the day before so its turning into an up hill battle especially I messed up and got caught masturbating taking me ages just to get back to where I can fondle her in the bedroom again.

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    1. Yeah I hit 300 and I lose -25 a day and it just becomes impossible to go higher...

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    2. To admire her in the kitchen, click on her breasts in the morning, or on her crotch area in the evening. You can only admire her in the living room when she is talking with her mom. It is easy to find the hot spots: cursor goes green and a small, red, tooltip appears.
      Relationship level is irrelevant for Admire. You can do it regardless your level.

      About masturbation, if you do it when she is about to come to bathroom (to brush her teeth or to shower) she will, for sure, catch you. So don't do it at 7:00 or 21:00.
      If you are aiming for risk addict achievement, either try it when your relationship is already very low (early game) or when your relationship is already very high (late game). If she catches you, you will loose almost half of your relationship points, but no less than 25. So better do it when your relationship is between 30 and 60, or when your relationship is above 2-3000.

      If you are loosing relationship points, talk to her (pick "Talk about us") and see what is bothering her. She will tell you, starting with most important thing (the one that caused the highest penalty).

      Note: If you had a relationship drop, she will still want affection even she may not allow you to act. If that is the case, wait for relationship to drop even more and she will no longer dream about making out with you.

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    3. I did talk to her that is how I know I was losing points every day from not admiring her I just had no clue I was clicking her face and what not never crossed my mine to click her breasts or crotch.

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