I was looking at the games listed on F95ZONE and noticed the number of abandoned games...
1022 Abandoned games, a lot of them are from 2018-2019 release...
I was remembering how I got into adult visual novels:
I was in LoversLab forum looking for lewd mods for Skyrim and I noticed this other section called "Adult Gaming", went to check it out and there is that I saw those curious games.
I was like... ok, is a story that you read while looking at slides on the screen, a novel that relies on images to make it more interesting and entertaining... visual novels or VNs.
At that time I wasn't familiar with the fetishes portrayed in the VNs, I played games like "Man of the house", "The psychologist", and many more that had incest as the main kink.
In my experience, incest was something people refer to make up jokes or to look down on others.
But I was taken by those games, by the taboo, some of those games had features that you find in other kind of games, like navigation systems, inventories, combat systems, maps, and more.
So I thought:
How hard can this be? It looks so simple! Those are just images and some text! Is not like they're making a full 3D environment. I can do it myself!
Seems like that is a common reaction to lewd games...
Then I learned about what I needed to make the renders, the coding, and the writing... It wasn't that simple anymore.
Almost everyday I see someone new saying that he/she wants to make a lewd game.
A few of them actually start to make their own game, but they get frustrated after a few months.
I can understand the feeling, making decent looking renders takes time and skills. Sometimes I spend almost the whole day, and part of the night, making scenes and renders in Daz Studio.
Long hours that translates in a few renders, and then you have people telling you how much they suck... even if they don't.
People telling you the content is rushed.
People telling you there is no content, that they want to see more lewd stuff.
People complaining about the story, because if it's not "dark" then is not interesting... according to them.
People complaining about the kinks you're not including.
Oh, and then the writing... a big one for ESL people like myself.
Can be very frustrating; sometimes I'm very inspired and very happy with the resulting renders, with the story, with the progression, but is not good enough for some people only looking for a quick fap. They come up with any and all the problems they can to try to make you do the kind of game they want... in most cases they're not even supporters.
The point is that you're going to get frustrated, people is going to be mean like emo teenagers, and they're going to dismiss your hard-work like is nothing.
Expect negative reviews, negative comments, and discouraging replies. Expect a long period of high difficulty.
Sometimes other developers, and their team, will jump in your game's thread to make it look bad. There is a lot of negative comments and reviews made with alternate accounts.
Another thing is the fights you can get in if you join a development team, that is another nightmare by itself...
So if you're new to lewd games and you think is easy and simple to make your own game; think again, don't just jump into trying to make your own game.
Don't add up to the abandoned games list.
1022 Abandoned games, a lot of them are from 2018-2019 release...
I was remembering how I got into adult visual novels:
I was in LoversLab forum looking for lewd mods for Skyrim and I noticed this other section called "Adult Gaming", went to check it out and there is that I saw those curious games.
I was like... ok, is a story that you read while looking at slides on the screen, a novel that relies on images to make it more interesting and entertaining... visual novels or VNs.
At that time I wasn't familiar with the fetishes portrayed in the VNs, I played games like "Man of the house", "The psychologist", and many more that had incest as the main kink.
In my experience, incest was something people refer to make up jokes or to look down on others.
But I was taken by those games, by the taboo, some of those games had features that you find in other kind of games, like navigation systems, inventories, combat systems, maps, and more.
So I thought:
How hard can this be? It looks so simple! Those are just images and some text! Is not like they're making a full 3D environment. I can do it myself!
Seems like that is a common reaction to lewd games...
Then I learned about what I needed to make the renders, the coding, and the writing... It wasn't that simple anymore.
Almost everyday I see someone new saying that he/she wants to make a lewd game.
A few of them actually start to make their own game, but they get frustrated after a few months.
I can understand the feeling, making decent looking renders takes time and skills. Sometimes I spend almost the whole day, and part of the night, making scenes and renders in Daz Studio.
Long hours that translates in a few renders, and then you have people telling you how much they suck... even if they don't.
People telling you the content is rushed.
People telling you there is no content, that they want to see more lewd stuff.
People complaining about the story, because if it's not "dark" then is not interesting... according to them.
People complaining about the kinks you're not including.
Oh, and then the writing... a big one for ESL people like myself.
Can be very frustrating; sometimes I'm very inspired and very happy with the resulting renders, with the story, with the progression, but is not good enough for some people only looking for a quick fap. They come up with any and all the problems they can to try to make you do the kind of game they want... in most cases they're not even supporters.
The point is that you're going to get frustrated, people is going to be mean like emo teenagers, and they're going to dismiss your hard-work like is nothing.
Expect negative reviews, negative comments, and discouraging replies. Expect a long period of high difficulty.
Sometimes other developers, and their team, will jump in your game's thread to make it look bad. There is a lot of negative comments and reviews made with alternate accounts.
Another thing is the fights you can get in if you join a development team, that is another nightmare by itself...
So if you're new to lewd games and you think is easy and simple to make your own game; think again, don't just jump into trying to make your own game.
Don't add up to the abandoned games list.
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