The state of breeding games are hopeless for now:
Kinda left field question here, anyone know where we can follow and discuss breeding games, like a discord/forum? Out of all H game genres, this is my
shit man. Like BotN is great don't get me wrong, you may have seen some of my presets in there at one point, but I like many others have their gripes.
I want to stay in the know, and perhaps a long shot with this one but perhaps
influence the development of these games - like a private funding group to push the breeding game genre forward. If there were 30 of us funding a game at just $100 a month (3k a month to the dev) to mimic say Breeding Season as closely as possible, I'm sure we could find a developer/indie dev team that would be willing to pump some time into this Breeding Season spiritual successor.
So we as a team shop for a developer, or a lower level indie dev team off Steam, and ask if they'd be interested in producing this game for us. At which point, we donate our $100 a month to the individual/team for the sum of $3,000 a month and watch as they churn out a breeding game.
We could even simply do this off of Patreon. The developer/dev team would get their page, we'd pump in our funding, and likely through the Patreon they will acquire additional patrons. If they begin to veer from producing quality content, we withdraw our funding and begin to search for a new developer/dev team once again. Worst case scenario, the dev/dev team takes our money and runs. We each take a $100 hit and receive no content. Or, since it takes time to produce playable content, we lose <$600 if they bail before some sort of 6 month playable milestone. Example, we want a very barebones demo at 6 months or we withdraw funding. They ghost us at 5 months. We lose $500.
I don't know, late night ramblings of someone who realizes this genre may have to have some grassroots funding/focus to have us get the products we want. Clearly, despite BotN's/Breeding Seasons financial success, the barrier to entry for creating these games is both very high and very awkward. I think Breeding season took a dump almost half-a-decade ago. Nearly 5 years, and yet I believe that's what we're waiting on, the next Breeding Season. Cloud Meadow isn't it. BotN isn't it. Whatever else is out there, just isn't it.
I don't believe that we have the talent nor time to produce this level of content on our own. I do know that it is possible to focus funding that will allow us to essentially contract out a developer or a development team to produce a worthy success to what Breeding Season could have been.
Maybe we could pool together cash under a known entity like F95, and have developers/dev teams
compete with a demo to have access to that cash. We pool $50,000 under F95, developers/dev teams produce a demo within a given time frame, and the winner will have that money partitioned out to them over a set period of time. If the team or individual that won the competition fails to deliver updates that are equivalent to their contest entry in a similar time frame, funding will be post-poned if not revoked.
I know there are a truly infinite amount of holes within my logic here, I just wish there was a better way to get the content we want. We can badger DH all we want about how we think BotN should be, be mad at S-Purple/HBomb for the end of BSeason, but ultimately coordinated action is something I believe necessary to invoke quality H content at this point.
If there's a developer that read this, or a business savvy individual, project manager or even another hopeful fool such as myself, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what can be done to entice developers to make games like BotN/Breeding Season and whether or not we are truly just playing a waiting game at this point.
Edit: We put Grimhelm on payroll to make a Breeding Season side scroller. ez. fuckin'. win.
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