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eventually there's gonna be enough pokemon that they can start releasing full games with just fire-types or just fossils etc. they might already be there with water pokemon. maybe that's what Pokemon Waves will turn out to be. oops all wets
been thinking about porn game mechanics lately. specifically how the physical sex of a protagonist greatly impacts what you're able to do and the sort of story you can tell. obviously you can do whatever you want forever, when i say "can" i mean "while keeping it to my tastes and/or attracting a wider audience" and the "you" in the sentence is really "me". ok? i'm putting this under a cut because it's long stream of conscious rambling. thinking out loud.
it's the basic sex game conundrum of punishment/reward. say we're playing a theoretical sex castlevania. you've got enemies on the map, and you've got bosses. where do you put the sex?
the natural answer is "when you lose/get too damaged" because everyone loves a sexy game over. and maybe when you beat a boss you get rewarded with a sexy cutscene. there ought to be sex as a reward, you don't want to Only reward playing the game poorly.
so what does that mean if your protagonist is a cis man with a cock? or a cis woman with a pussy? how does the story and monster design change if you're expecting a dude to get beaten and fucked vs a lady? do you make it a gay sex game, with the guy getting it up the ass? or do lady enemies all ride him when they catch him? i hear you reaching to type "both" but then what is your story saying about sex, domination, and humiliation? one of those sex acts is more "humiliating" than the other, more understood to be a punishment.
which is part of the challenge with the other side, what if your protagonist has a pussy? how do you differentiate between the sex as punishment and the sex as reward/triumph when penetration is your main option? what sort of story can you tell? what kind of message may you end up sending? "taylor you can just do other sex acts" does an image of fingering or cunnilingus feel like more of a Video Game Reward than an image of PIV? be honest. "give them a strap on/magic cock" we're back to Saying Things about penetration and dominance and humiliation and that needs to be given consideration. and also come on that's lame.
if a pussy protagonist is getting fucked five times by enemies on the way to the boss, once they've defeated him, what is the game Saying if your reward is to put his cock inside you? what does it mean for your protagonist and their story goals and motivations? how does one inform the other and the narrative choices you can make?
as with any narrative you've always got to be asking yourself why you're making certain choices. what point are you trying to make, why are you telling this story via sex game? in this subgenre of sex game? why is it a metroidvania, a roguelike, a dungeon crawler? how do the game mechanics and larger narrative support and justify each other?
it's much to think about. i imagine it's why so many sex games with pussy protagonists are about succubi, it's an easy justification for why sex as punishment and sex as reward look the same. but it's also the only way a lot of game devs can imagine a female protagonist wanting to go on a sex adventure where she has any agency--it's a biological imperative. they can't imagine sex being a reward for a woman in any other way. sad.
it's relevant to regular writing too, tbh. like cadogan. if he defeated romick in a fight, riding his cock isn't very different from if he lost. sure, romick could be tied up and not in control, and that's kinda humiliating, but he's still putting his cock and cum inside cadogan, the thing he'd have wanted to do anyway. at the end of the day it's not much of a punishment. (and i am talking purely in the pornographic, narrative sense, yes i know "you got to have sex, what are you upset about" is a real problem with SA). this is why cadogan is functionally ace as a character--this is how he would think of it. i beat this man, why would i reward him with my pussy? madog, you fuck him.
i wasn't really building to any particular point so much as just thinking out loud. how do you make sex a reward and a punishment in a video game or story, while keeping it interesting, sexy, and thematically cohesive. our greatest scientists are working on it
(reblogging this like i'd do a quote repost on other social media to muse about my own thoughts rather than directly responding to the OP) if you've followed me for a while you might know about the sandbox furry porn game i've been on and off making since. god fuck 2018. and by far the most paralyzing design hurdle is, as OP says, where does the sex happen?
it's a visual novel-y rpg so there's plain polite sex with NPCs that happens through dialogue options of course but it'd feel stupid to have a porn game with a combat system without involving sex in the combat system. so then you need combat sex. unfortunately this means you now run the risk of outright noncon, which results in a very specific type of porn game that neither you nor your players may be signing up for. how do you make this work? is every combat encounter more of a bdsm kinky dominance thing? that doesn't work if the enemy is actually trying to kill you, which you still kind of want if you're making a story with any sort of stakes. do you have two combat systems, one sex-based and one more traditional? are some encounters locked to one or the other depending on enemy intent? does it start out as a standard rpg battle but you get to hit the optional "i consent to sex with this opponent" button and it switches you to happy funtime sexy play-fighting? how do you even write adversarial sex? are you just trying to make each other cum, or to make yourself cum first, or to lower some kind of "lust resistance" stat until your enemy is left dummy cumbrained and at your mercy? i find myself hitting my own kink limits here, and i worry i simply may not have enough interest in dom/sub dynamics to write those sorts of things compellingly. at the same time i'd really like to make the kind of adult game that my vanilla unleathered ass could get into. in the end i feel i might have to overcome my squeamishness and accept that i have to get a little silly with it and stop worrying so much about the noncon implications of sex combat in a sex game. a lot of this was already solved long ago with the advent of penis fencing in flatworms
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being a bandwidth-conscious web game dev means i basically restrict myself to pre-CD-ROM standards in terms of asset sizes. the other day i had to justify to myself a background image weighing in at a hefty 40kb
"if there's base-building games there should be acid-building games" yes it's called fl studio
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i'm currently fixing some longstanding bugs in Cookie Clicker and some of the design choices in the codebase are hurting my brain. i think i must've programmed this with my feet 12 years ago
i've been working on something fairly involved this year (audio processing! i hope i get to show you soon) and even if i'm playing it fast and loose for the sake of prototyping, my general process is a lot more scrupulous than it was back then. i plan for the future and for modularity a lot more, i design everything with the ghost of technical debt in mind. a lot of people warn against "premature optimization" but i enjoy building the foundation as solid as i can make it. still, i was probably getting a lot more done at the time when i wasn't being so responsible. i just had to make it work! is someone gonna have to deal with this mess later? haha maybe! but not me. not yet
Kusaka and Yamamoto are done with all the autograph signings! Four hundred and twelve people over three days, dang, Yamamoto needs a break!
Here's the settei for Penny's disguise! 😁
Here they are at Milan Games Week! Ha, Kusaka still has his Victini hat.
And here they are signing autographs!
holy shit Kusaka's posting on Twitter for the first time in eight years
Looks like both him and Yamamoto are on their way to the airport now; they're both excited how this is their first trip to Italy and their first trip overseas in a long time.
New Animated Pokemon Picture Book/the Animated Pokedex videos from China!
Mega Malamar full trailer and some accompanying gifs. I like how it appears in the rear windshield of the taxi before brainwashing the cabbie, some good classic horror vibes there 😂
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media where the main character wakes up to find that the world they lived in has changed beyond recognition while they were asleep (ie. 28 days later, idiocracy, futurama, the walking dead) should count as isekai
