Hello guys!
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This is the final day of the year and it's time to recollect what was achieved over Bruni Multimedia's project in this year, and have a first look of what's coming up next year as well!

• Random Examinations were released on March, making a first step to an almost countless replayability once they end their development in a few weeks with 0.0.22 update. Random examinations' development was made possible by Patrons pledgers who supported the game and made this goal achievable.
• We celebrated our first anniversary of development on General Practitioner on May. A special edition of the game was released for Patrons only which contained a sexual examination of pregnant Elisa and Erika. Some of the assets for that exam, which was dropped in August update, were re-used for the real Elisa examination
• Game's development became hindered in June, since I had become badly ill and couldn't work for the whole month. This meant the update scheduling suffered a change while it also gained an increase of the overall content.
• We officially launched the Early Access on Steam on October. This helped us to dramatically increase the player base of the game and its community. That allowed us to better understand game's mechanics, sort out bugs faster and re-draw those parts of the game which were not working at all.
• We are making the game moddable by the Steam Workshop on December, adding more layers of customization to players who might like to play the examination they always wished to play since they first tried the game.

Those achievements have been made possible by us (developers) working together with you  (the community), because your show of love and support is what makes this worthwhile and will allow us to continue with this and other projects as well.

Since game's development is now proceeding steadily, we also had the chance and opportunity to work with many talented artists, and we also had an increase in the size of our team recently.
In 2019 we're going to launch TWO more different projects thanks to this, as we can have separate teams working on separate projects and this allows us to deliver quality games without altering the schedule of General Practitioner.

With this I'd like to introduce you Bruni Multimedia's team members.
- JD Glass - Lead Writer of the upcoming Visual Novel (details next week!)
- Avery Flannigan - Writer and Japanese Adaptator
- Laura "sasquatchii" Henderson - Graphic Designer and Lead Artist
- Ann Sharova - Lead Composer for General Practitioner
We're also hiring a new developer, who is still uncredited for now, to allow us to release many exciting games in the future!

Work on General Practitioner is proceeding as scheduled.

Visual Novel Project #1 will be made available for free to every 20$+ patron in addition to other rewards related to General Practitioner. Details will follow next week!

Visual Novel Project #2 will be posted on Kickstarter as well, since it is a very ambitious project. I'm sure you will like it! Of course you can choose to stick to Patreon support as well, or to wait for the Steam Release to support its development... Details will follow on late February.

All Bruni Multimedia's Visual Novels feature a deep and engaging narration, adult game elements and gameplay features which make them easily recognizable. If you enjoyed playing GP, just wait to see what's in store for you!

Hi guys!

No, I'm not gone, on the contrary I'm deep in developing some nice additions you'll experience starting from this week's $5+ Patreon pre-release and in the weeks ahead.

First of all thanks to a new computer I'm now able to process many more images, this also gave me the chance to actually do some consistent progress with releasing both Adult Random Exams and Steam's Workshop Integration as well!

In a few days you'll be given video instructions on how to develop your own medical exam and make other people play it, as well as downloadable files pre-set for accomplishing that!

I also underwent some serious re-development on Random Examinations. I corrected the coding of the exams which was a mess. Since I keep learning about Ren'Py programming and tricks every day I often retrace my steps and improve the coding. That's also helping A LOT in releasing faster content in the future, since I have less code to rewrite all the time (I'll   soon release a DEVLOG which will explain my programming techniques for those of you who are interested in this kind of things).

New random exams are less likely to crash, have questions which remain unanswered during the interviews, have less chance to mismatch the pronouns' gender and also had their point-award-system reviewed, so you won't get points from doing/not doing a certain exam (it's very difficult on random ones since you might honestly don't know which problem is from the very beginning). You will be rewarded or penalized based on your anamnesis, prescription and discharge order instead.

This will also be the method to grant points for the "Workshop Exams" for two main reasons:

1- It's not easy for a non-doctor to actually decide if a certain exam is needed or not and in which grade (1 to 5) it is either.
2- This way a modded exam is less likely to penalize players too much, even though very high points awarded are somewhat cheating in some way.
"Scripted exams" will stay the way they are, since players' feedback is supporting them this way even though some complain about exams being too difficult. While some are indeed difficult that's intended as no one ever said a doctor's job ought to be easy.

Finally you'll start to see some "Animated Sex Scenes" in the game, starting with Erika sex scenes and progressing to other characters as well. The plan here is to animate every sex scene in the game with 5-6 animations each and then to add animations to other situations as well. Do not expect a full animated game as this is still a Visual Novel of course, but I'm confident you'll like what's in store for you with animations and the like of them.

Developing all these features is very hard and it's taking me a very long time, that's why 0.0.21 release hasn't been announced yet, but expect it to be ready in January for all Patrons. Trying very hard to release a polished version and this requires A LOT of testing and even then I can't really be sure about the results, since the different choices/consequences in the game are so many, but I'll do my best as I always do. 

The features I just described will be released with 0.0.20, except maybe for the Random Exams, which as a matter of fact have been included in 0.0.21 in the recent Road Map I posted.

And thank you, thank you very much for taking your time to read through this wall of text.

tl;dr Animations and Steam Workshop are going to be released in a few days!

Be safe and healthy!

Hi guys!

A couple days ago Sinical Anime Network interviewed me about General Practitioner's launch on online Retail Stores and about the overall backstory of the game.

During our talk we discussed several topics about the game's development, from the very first idea of the project to how Patreon is currently managing the Adult Videogame Development's community.

If you are a bit curious about it check the link above, and let me know your thoughts about this. :)

Thank you for supporting the game!

Be safe and healthy,

Hi guys!
First of all thank you for trying out the game! Since General Practitioner landed on Steam and other retail sites the player's community has nearly doubled its original size and that's helping me A LOT to find out what's working with the game and what isn't.


I'm receving a lot of feedback about the game and rest assured that I'm reading all of it, even improving the game as you are reading this announcement. However in a game as big as GP major updates are scheduled each month, even though as you might have noticed I'm also delivering smaller albeit very useful updates to fix the most important anomalies in the game, so you're getting a very dedicated support right now.


Let's talk about the game's difficulty: well, let's clear something first: some scenarios are in fact "Kobayashi Maru" like ones. The tutorial says at some point that sometimes you cannot do a perfect exam AND have a patient completely satisfied for many reasons. You could also have an angry patient (i.e. someone who fears needles and you HAD to take a blood sample) while achieving a perfect score.


That's perfectly working as intended and, as frustrating as it might be, it's a doctor's life.


However some medical exams ARE having some issues and as you saw in the news I'm actually in the process of checking them ALL (50), even to balance things up. Older exams (the one released more than a year ago on crowdfunding sites) were the most inaccurate of course, but I hope this overhaul will adjust them.


Also, the game is engineered to work as a trial and error one. You shouldn't worry too much about getting low averages and points. You (the player), like the MC (the Doctor) are learning together what it means and needs to be done as a GP and errors are normal, especially since most players don't have a MD. The game could tell you you performed bad but it will still continue and you will have learned something nonetheless.


There are no achievements for having a "Perfect Score" on each exam and I'm not planning to introduce them for this very reason. You can perform the exam, save and load and try to make it 100%, but it's for your own pleasure as it was never meant to be the purpose of the game.


Still, update 0.0.19 will have new Codex entries as to perform exams as well as new ways to get reviews from the Medical Board for each of them as you perform each exam. I hope this will clear things up.


Please also remember that the game's Early Access also means that game mechanics NEED to be tested and the more players are out there trying the game the easier is for me to understand what is working and what isn't. And for that I'm very grateful to you. :)
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I hope you'll keep enjoying the game and telling me what needs to be improved. You can clearly see the potential of the game, so help me reach that potential!

As release 0.0.19 is being developed, today I wanted to share the news about two new recurring patients, or patients who will return to the clinic after the first time you examine them.The first one which you discover in the game is Monique, as she needs to return to the clinic since her eye problem worsened overnight.
Another patient you should expect to see again is Katia, with her depression problems and two more will be added in 0.0.19: Kenny and Maryanne.
Kenny is a police officer who's concerned about having Varicocele, a fairly common condition amongside law enforcement personnel. If untreated, varicocele could cause fertility issues. Depending on how you play his exam will determine if he will come back to the clinic, this time bringing her (hopefully) beautiful wife with him to be checked out.

The other patient is Maryanne, a 13-years-old girl who's basically asking for help with the situation in her family. This exam will make you face the often underestimated problem of child abandonment and its consequences.
Your choice, and yours only, will determine the outcome of this situation and its consequences that will be brought over the next time you'll meet Maryanne and her family.

General Practitioner is like a doctor's job. It's made up of examinations, it's about meeting new people, it's about getting some knowledge about medicine and health-related topics... but it's also made of choices, and each choice will reflect on the game at some point.
I hope you'll keep enjoying the game.
Be safe and healthy,

Hi guys.Today I'll tell you about the new Medical Exams interface and overhauled "Exam Help" setting.
Whenever you choose a medical exam, being it from the brand new waiting room or by choosing a patient from the "Exam Mode" screen, the game will pop up an ID card for that patient, explaining the main characteristics of him/her such as ID (I'll come back to this right away), Difficulty, Type of Exam (Scripted/Random), Age and Ailment.
The Difficulty is tightly related to the "Medical Aid" setting of the game.

With this setting enabled the game will help you diagnose a patient and choose the correct prescription for him/her, provided your character's Knowledge Level is at least as high as the number shown in parenthesis (in the above image 45).
Difficulties for exams are:

• Very easy 5-20
• Easy 25-35
• Normal 40-60
• Hard 65-80
• Very Hard 85-95

This will help each player to understand the knowledge and difficulties of the exam and help him choose to be helped or not by the game.
Enabling the Medical Aid shows two new icons next to the answers for both anamnesis and prescription. Icons represent the two most likely correct answers and make easier for the player to choose one of them as the correct one.

Another important info is the patient ID Number. This is an unique 10-digit number that identifies each patient within the game.
You can use this ID to play (or re-play) each examination in the game, both in Story mode and in Exam mode. The game will prompt you to choose if you want to visit the exam room or use your computer to access a specific patient ID.

You have to put only numbers in the field, ignoring every other character (such as the "P" for Patient you can sometimes see in the game).
If you input an invalid ID the game will inform you and prompt again to the screen. 

This has been included in the game for several reasons:

• It allows replayability of a specific exam to score it 100% without having to reload every time
• It allows to boost one's money or relationships without the need for cheating
• It allows players to replay their favourite exams
• It allows players to play a specific exam they are curious about
• When releasing an update it allows players to play specific exams while still in story mode
• It paves the way for modding, as Workshop content's patients will have their own unique ID every creator will give them thus ensuring uniqueness for each one and compatibility between custom contents, it also allows to play custom content at will, both in Exam Mode and in Story Mode.

So that's it for today's Devlog, stay tuned for further infos! Thank you for following this project!
Be safe and healthy,
Release schedule for 0.0.19 update which includes the features above:
October 26 for 20$+ Patrons
November 2 for 10$+ Patrons
November 10 for 5$+ Patrons
November 17 for 3$+ Patrons
November 20 on the market (Steam, itch.io, Gamejolt, DLSite etc.) 

Development of the game is getting more and more ambitious as the game's almost turning 18 months old, halfway through final release.

You can expect more and more events and updates to be released in the next few months as the schedule is tight and there are many many things to do yet!

The newest update to the game, nicknamed "What happens in St. Mary's..." (even though the clinic is not Vegas at all :D) is going to please many of you, I'm certain of it.

These are the main features of the game's update and the release schedule. Many things will be added regardless of this list and will be explained in the Devlogs that are going to be published in the next few days.

Enjoy, and keep supporting the game if you like this project!

• Continue Rita's story as she deepens her knowledge of her own dark, sensual side with or without your help (NTR content if you want to pursue that kind of situation)
• Play the new after-exam sexual events: Paul's Mom and Anne
• Play three brand new medical exams with new engaging background stories
• Introducing moddability to have players write their own exams
• Steam's Workshop compatibility
• Fan-favourite Relative returns to The Doctor's house to check on him being concerned about Rita's recent behavior. What would she think about NTR herself?
• ... and more!

Release schedule:
October 26 for 20$+ Patrons
November 2 for 10$+ Patrons
November 10 for 5$+ Patrons
November 17 for 3$+ Patrons
November 20 on the market (Steam, itch.io, Gamejolt, DLSite etc.)

Hi guys! First of all forgive the pronunciation in the video :(

The video above explains the brand new features that are going to be introduced with 0.0.19, the upcoming release of the game that will be announced next Friday!

You will be now able to choose a patient from the Waiting Room (a resume of each patient will be added soon!) and not only meet them once they arrive one at a time to the clinic. This is made to improve the likelihood of working at the clinic.

Also, the video hints at the new Steam Workshop feature (and not only there) which will make you mod the game introducing your own Medical Exams! The tool will be made so that you won't need to be a programmer to mod the game!

These feature is very uncommon (if they even exist) on Visual Novels and I can't wait to see all your creations coming to the game!

What do you think about these new improvements?

No pun intended in the title. :)General Practitioner is not a porn game, rather it being a life simulator where choices really matter in the daily events that occur.


Still, it does have an adult content in it (unless you disabled it in the Settings menu of course), and that needs to have its own script like every other gameplay element.


Creating a realistic sex scene is very difficult, even more than creatic a very dramatic or fiction scene, because each one of us has different experiences with sex and that causes to have different expectations as well.


When writing a sex scene you always risk to make it feel too cliché, like a bad porn movie, or to make it feel too polite as the very opposite of that. Sex if fun, sex is weird, sex is messy. Mixing those elements in the game isn't a small feat and tapping into one own's experiences doesn't always help.


So what I try each time I write something sex-related is to try and figure out what would mean to have sex with people so different from one another. Erika, Elisa, Rita, Christina, Aaron each have very different characters, they are more or less experienced, they had many different partners or not, so their own expectations will likely be different so are their reaction to your own doing.


That's why you'll find harsh language in sex scenes with someone and maybe nothing of the kind with another one. One could shily ask you to join her in your room while another one could tear your clothes apart right where you stand. 


There is also the problem of writing dozens of sex scenes with the same person and that's time consuming and might cause unnecessary repetitions which could bore the player. But that's a discussion for our next devlog.
Thanks for your support to this project.


Be safe and healthy,