Curious about what people think of female authors?

[trektant]

All of those are very different and I don't think there's such a thing as a 'female writing'.

Nah, a distinctly shared aspect is they generally focus on characterization. Personalities. Artsy over sexy. Not great at raunchiness even when they try. Tendencies towards certain types of characters and styles too. 'course they have their own individual tastes, strengths, yadayada, but to say they're not distinct from men in general? lol.
I'd like better written female characters, which women are naturally better at, but the overall design matters more.

So as has been oft stated, is it good? In a sea of trash, I haven't seen women making a difference. Smut is nothing new.

 

[HarveyD]

they seem to do a better job in general and abandon projects far less. but that may just be my subjective bias from assuming every D.O.A. "fuck ur mom in google translate" game is made by a guy.

I feel like it's pretty safe to assume that they are.

 

[Deleted member 5460870]

Is it uncommon I made an eroge because I'm female?

 

[Gabaw]

Couldn't care less except to occasionally think about what their ladyparts look like. I'm far more occupied with the game if I like it, or some other game if I don't. I see a lot more female authors in the hentai/doujin circles, and some of the stuff they produce is 11/10 (think Methonium, for example). But most of them are dudes and most of my favorites are from dudes.

"If it pleases my dick, download I will click." - Some Tzu, 226 AD (after dick)

 

[whizwart]

Offers a nice change of perspective, along with some ideas/jokes/scenarios a male author might not think of.

 

[russianbot]

Is it uncommon I made an eroge because I'm female?

Yes, it is very strange. Most people make eroge because they are poor or horny.

 

[gunderson]

Taking my average experience of obviously female authors (as compared to my average experience of male authors), rather than focusing on best-in-class, I tend to find I slightly prefer my average experience of male authors. Female authors, for my taste, either overly emphasize male anatomy while under-emphasizing female anatomy in heterosexual works; ignore male enjoyment completely in lesbian or femdom works; or generally worry far too fucking much about how much a lady consents to sex, to the point where the action of a story isn't even so much seduction as waiting for a monologue to finish before sex can happen.

The average male author, by comparison, tends to write women as sex dolls; but at least they can be sexy sex dolls where the sexual act foregrounds male pleasure, which I simply care more about in exactly the specific context of fantasy sex than female pleasure. A female orgasm is a nice bonus albeit unnecessary (or at least doesn't need to be described in detail), but if there's no jizz I probably won't enjoy the sex described.

 

[Eagle1900]

No.

We want more good competent writers sure but gender isnt a factor in that.

I totally agree with you! it makes no sense who writes, whether male or female, the only sense we are all looking for is who writes well and who does not ... I think it is wrong just as an initial concept.

 

[haksaw]

Men and women think differently, but also different people in general think drastically different. Not all men are sex crazy beasts and not all women care about muh feelings. So if some thing is written in one particullar way it can be because author is man\woman, but it also can be just because he\she is that kind of person and have such a life experience. Gender is only one of many modifiers of out identity, determining its weight in each particullar case of human behaviuor may be impossibe.

So sorting creators by one particular part of their identity is strange, being a woman will affect their work just as being from a particular country, having a particular family situation and so on. How that mix of circumstanses will shape their behaviour and thought process is unique. And art is something that relies on uniqueness of its creator.

 

[Deleted member 3327602]

Although I cannot personally tell if a dude or dudette is the one with the pen, I'd assume the best one to write about boning is the one being boned.

 

[Tlaero]

Although I cannot personally tell if a dude or dudette is the one with the pen, I'd assume the best one to write about boning is the one being boned.

I suspect that's incorrect. If you're looking for what a woman wants in sex, sure, a woman is in a good position to know. But if you're looking for descriptions that are enticing for a man you'd expect that men would have an advantage there.

Of course, both men and women who communicate with their partners can learn what each other wants and successfully write about it.

Tlaero

 

[anne O'nymous]

Is it uncommon I made an eroge because I'm female?

To do it, I'm pretty sure that it's far to be uncommon. But to admit it, it's something else.

I'm sure that there's a lot of creators we believe as being a guy, but who are in fact girls that fear to receive dick pics, while they want to be sure that people like their game for what it is, and not because they fap trying to picture what the girl who make it can looks like.
Take Good Girl Gone Bad by example. I'm sure a part of the players play it with in mind the fantazy that the MC is EvaKiss.

 

[baneini]

Women can write from the perspective of whats arousing or objectionable for them personally which then translates to a scenarios men would not write. Men are written to act as if they care about the self-insert woman over their own goals. Exploring relationships between men are to be avoided since what do women know about that. Women are written with more depth and variety. Rape and consent are treated differently.

While theres plenty of female erotic fanfic writers I don't think theres a lot of female solo porn game devs who then stick in the industry long term. In Japan they can at least be in a team of devs funded by a publisher so you get games like Rance.

 

[chainedpanda]

Truthfully, I'm sure I've played games made by female devs, but I have no clue who, or what games. Gender is completely irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. While I will admit that there are likely some differences between female and male games, but It's not a universal thing. There are plenty of male developers who likely go for "substance" and female devs actively creating "smut".

Gender isn't even on the top 200 most important variables. If more females want to make good games, then great! If they don't, why should I care?

 

[lemonfreak]

Different perspectives result in greater variety and that can only be a good thing

 

[Jaike]

Besides Jaike's list, and just from the top of my head, you can also add Long Live the Princess by Belle, Heavy Five by Nottravis, and all the Elsaverse (and Keeleyverse) and Toro 7 by Tlaero, and of course our dear pioneer ArianeB (and I'm sure I'm still missing a few). All of those are very different and I don't think there's such a thing as a 'female writing'. Of course, some of them offer a 'more feminine' view in some aspects of plots and scenes, but all in all they are just good writers and/or game devs who just happen to be female.

Wrote the little list in a rush, but forgot two games that deserve to be mentioned:

Ladykiller in a Bind and other games by Christine Love
In her own Hands

 

[Deleted member 3327602]

Different perspectives result in greater variety and that can only be a good thing

I agree with everything but lemonfreak's avatar. Good godsquad, that is scary.

 

[JustXThings]

I feel that the female authors I have played create better set-ups but generally worse climax. And that is kind of more noticeable the more the story progresses, since the climax starts being more important the deeper into the story, while the set-up losses its tracking. But I don't really pay attention to who wrote the story so my perception is just anecdotal.

(e: by climax and set-up I mean sex, arousal, etc. not story wise)

 

[Icarus Media]

Different perspectives result in greater variety and that can only be a good thing

Or a bad thing, because of lack of focus and direction. He who casts light through a prism can behold the different colours in all their glory shining on the wall, one can focus on one colour, another can focus on a different colour, one can talk to each other and say "My perspective is Green!" and the other reply "My perspective is Blue!", this is the cause of division and social issues, the putting upon a pedestal and creating import to the different colours on the wall, and forgeting the pure light from whence all they originated.

 

[lemonfreak]

Or a bad thing, because of lack of focus and direction. He who casts light through a prism can behold the different colours in all their glory shining on the wall, one can focus on one colour, another can focus on a different colour, one can talk to each other and say "My perspective is Green!" and the other reply "My perspective is Blue!", this is the cause of division and social issues, the putting upon a pedestal and creating import to the different colours on the wall, and forgeting the pure light from whence all they originated.

Whoosh, point flew right over your head there didn't it? Let's try again. If Brett Ratner (X-Men The Last Stand, Red Dragon) or Etan Cohen (Get Hard, Holmes and Watson) then the result will be more of the same. Let someone like Greta Gerwig or Olivia Wilde make a movie and you get Lady Bird and Booksmart which were both great. Different perspectives = different results.