- Jul 4, 2018
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1) Teasing, corruption, incest and bestiality. Lots of games with the former 3 and not so much of the latter. Even less games with 2D art which to me is the big draw.
2) Aint no one going to court to protect their bestiality IP. Worst case the fanboys would be weaponized against you and you get doxxed.
3) The cartoony style is half the appeal, the writing and a result the characterization are okay. He has taken regular tropes about girls you find in these kinds of games and distilled them down to 4 not so unique characters. Innocent, quirky, younger sister, older bitchy sister, doting and guilty mom, curious and ignorant sister, MC with doubts, a willingness to corrupt and a giant dick... The thing about tropes is that they are tropes for a reason: they work. They play off information we already know and can fill in the gaps when the character isn't completely fleshed out.
4) This will never happen, its not what he wants. Why would he give up control? Allow some random internetian into his project? What would they do? The art and animating is the majority of the work. RPGM is a pretty basic program and the majority of the coding is already done.
Despite what most people say I think RPGM is a draw. It plays off a big nostalgia feeling from snes games of our (my) past. It allows exploration of an environment that can be done in a non linear fashion. It allows for cute pixel art in addition to the art style used in game. It gives slightly more agency to the user compared to renpy because the PC runs around at your command, you can always see your character, you can examine your environment without text prompts telling you where you can and cant look. This last point is rectified in the good renpy games by making object maps on the screen but its not used often enough (summertime saga does this well). Unity is also a good solution (5 of a kind does this very well) but also not used enough in sex games imo. Plus RPGM is much more accessible for "programmers" who don't know code but are good artists.
Bones has done great things with a limited engine: animation, day night cycles. Some nice tension building and a unique story despite the tropes. Hes also a great (imo) 2d artist, the babes are hot as hell. Its a functional enough game that it can attract new users/patreons/fans without having to add new content. Hell even grinding offers a sense of "accomplishment" and delayed gratification. Probably why so many successful games (porn and not) include it in some fashion.
You want to make a game like this? You need a writer, coder and artist. Ideally they are all one person (you) because the project can get bottlenecked by anyone of these people due to real life or differing opinions etc. You can see how many abandoned projects there are on this site alone and imagine there are plenty more that dont even make it to the stage of being posted here.
I started writing a renpy game that is a combination summertime saga /the manor type game. Just the script is an overwhelming task, learning coding on top of it is even more intense. Only with a prototype would I consider approaching an artist with a request to work on it with me. Writing a game solo is a difficult experience especially when you have no idea if its possible to profit off of, especially with such risqué topics like incest and bestiality.
And yes bro (me) really out here writing essays on porn games.
