You are speaking my language, My Man! Sound effects (imo) are such an easy and effective way to add erotic value to a scene and I have tried to emphasize that.
What I love about what you said is you gave me a specific example of something I can go and fix. Having slapping sounds in the Meredith Shower scene is a no-brainer and I will fix that TODAY.
I put WAY too much detail into that blowjob scene imo. Specifically, I'm thinking of the transition animations between sucking, licking, blowing. If I showed you the animation tree for that scene, you'd be like "WTF!!" While it functions nice, it's extraordinarily complex to the point of being a Jenga puzzle that I'm afraid to touch. Hopefully, I never need to modify that scene (much).
I'm increasingly coming to believe that POV scenes should almost be an exclusively Meredith thing. She's the main love interest. Everyone likes the POV scenes with her and it gives them a special level of intimacy that he doesn't get (currently) from any other character. I say this despite the fact that POV scenes aren't the easiest to animate.
Are there well-executed examples of this that other games have employed that I can study?
Pushing Tits or Asses against shower glass is fun stuff and territory I've explored before.
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I've thought about doing a mirrored animation before where we see an action being performed from two different angles in the same shot. There are some vintage pinups that stuck out in my mind where a a girl was standing in front of a mirror so you got all the major points of interest in one frame. Similarly, you could have a POV scene where MC is fucking a girl from behind, so we see her ass/pussy and in the mirror we see her face and jiggling tits. It's a bold idea and one I'd love to do, but for 2D it's a lot of design work. I wouldn't be able to make more than one or two of these without help.
Can you give me examples of other games that do this well?
I hear you and I'm always looking to improve older scenes. My priority right now is adding new content, so I have a budget in fixing older scenes. The Handjob scene is probably the most in need of improvement.
The shower scene is my best work, imo. It was at a time when I had learned how to swap different arm positions without disrupting the underlying animation, allowing MC to let his hands explore Meredith's body without interrupting his thrusts, so it's much more interactive than scenes that came before it. Since water is flowing across their naked bodies, I could conveniently go crazy with the dodge layers making both of them look extra shiny.
For me, what makes the scene special is the moment when Meredith can't take the "heat" anymore and shoves MC's shorts down to the floor. It reveals a level of uncontrollable lust on Meredith's part, but also trust. She allows herself to act like a "horny teenager" in that moment and puts the burden of "being a grown up" onto MC.
I like a lot of these ideas and love some of them. I just have to be efficient in how I spend my bandwidth.