That was very well written and very useful for all developers. The thing with most of the developers is that either they are coders or they can draw nice renders or both, but they are not good with erotica. Which is the most essential part. Some others will put in just quests for the user to do (in the name of the story). Which is exactly what I felt like when I played "Farmer's Dream". He had a nice story to work on and could have made it great but it took hours to complete the quests which gave nothing in return.
I think in these games, the images of them having sex is not important (I'd just watch porn for that). But the buildup, the sexual tension and the tease is what does it for me. I have not played many games (only 15 to 20 so far, so there may be many good games out there that I don't know about), but I liked "Finding Miranda" by Mortzeart best yet.
Well you could easily say many porn producers are not that good with erotica either! LOL
But Erotica has been with us since the days of the stone age. So many sources they could draw from. They could easily go to a place like Literotica or even Reddit, read a few stories and cobble together a good narrative out of the tropes used in those stories. I mean just about every scenario you could imagine has been done to death.
As for Quests well they are essential otherwise it's just a click through read fest with pictures which I find quite boring myself. The issue is some Devs make it too grindy and usually the payoff isn't interesting or too short to make up for that.
Incest Genre is the most popular game subject because the Kink fits so well with the gaming and quest motif. Half the battle in an Incest relationship is the gaming back and forth in trying to a turn a non-sexual relationship into a sexual one with someone you should not be having sexual relations with.
- The games of exploring and feeding your interest
- The game of giving subtle hints to gauge the targets mutual interest and to put the idea in their head
- The game of creating a situation where something could happen
- The game of actual seduction of the target
- The game of overcoming those inhibitions and stigma attached
- The game of hiding the relations from others
- The game of sharing that relationship with others and bringing them into the party
- The game of taking risks that could expose the relationship such as pregnancy and public activity.
Incest is a genre just so well suited to the Gaming engines which explains why just about every game listed in the popular section is an Incest themed game or features incest as a tag.
The pictures and anims ARE important however as they serve as the payoff to all those quests I bulleted above.
Games that feature anims usually also feature less content per release due to the fact it take so much longer to render one anim than it does a few simple images. But animations do give a much better payoff.
But the eroticism is't in the anim and pictures it is in the events LEADING to seeing them.
Just as having sex with a person is great the first time you do it and less so as you do it more often.
That is because the first time had a massive build up with the outcome unknown and an anticipatory wait that built up the sexual tension that makes that first time always great while the sex where you go honey I'm home and have sex is not quite as exciting.
So in that regard I agree the pictures are not important to building up the sexual tension but they are the payoff where that tension gets released. The quests are there to help build and set up that tension so the payoff is even better than just a simple collection of clips and movies.
