After basicly playing every single M/S focused adult game there is i want to create my own project. Im creating this thread because i want and need you help. Of course i do have a general idea but i want your Input as well on gameplay features/ storyline archs/ other things that Are missing for you in adult games.
my project is ambitious but i think there is Slot missing in the adult Games world.
A couple of important things for me:
-Gameplay should be fun
-Sex should be a part of gameplay
-Open World
-No linear or locked storylines
-changable outfits
-No VN
-Believable MC
- Creative Story
- No Step- bullshit
Please be as honest as you can!
I would love to hear from you what is missing in adult Games for you!
Best of luck -- but YOU are the person that YOU are making this game for. Anyone else is secondary. YOU are making this game because it does not already exist for YOU to enjoy. If it already did, you wouldn't be motivated to make it. While I understand you want to get ideas for what others may want to see - know that everyone has their own ideas and many conflict with each other, as well as your own. It's best to put YOUR desire, YOUR needs, YOUR wants first into YOUR game ... otherwise it's not really yours, is it?
We've answered this so many times in so many ways in this forum, that I now have a post bookmarked (with a song included).
Answer to Question 1:
The game should specifically be for you. You should be making a game that you don't already see being made. You should make the game that is everything you want to see in a game but don't see others making. If you were granted a single wish by a Djinn for the perfect adult game that you could play for the rest of your life - that is the game you should invest your time in developing. If you are new to game design - you could take a piece of that perfect game so as to learn the basics and then later build out a full game once you feel more accomplished.
You should be completely invested in the storyline, the characters, the plot, the scenarios, the conflict, the resolution. Everything. If you are creating this to please others, you will find that you can't make everyone happy... or even a plain majority. You will find that you will make your life miserable in attempting to make a game that "players like." The only game you should design is one you like with the genres you like and know about.
I know I sound like I'm harping on this - but far too many eager amateur developers attempt to gather input from players, thinking it will make their game more successful. What it normally does is burns out the developer and either nothing gets made or it is soon abandoned because the developer become unmotivated since it's not theirs, anymore.
Answer to Question 2:
If you want to list your game on Patreon, Subscribestar, Itch, Steam, etc --- FOLLOW THEIR RULES. Period. Do not put rape, beast, incest, etc in it. Look at the sites you're interested in using as a funding platform and make sure you stay within their rules. If you have doubts --- ASK THEM ASAP and SAVE THEIR ANSWERS. Document. Save. Document. Save. Do not assume. Do not try to pull a fast one. Do not be a dick. Games and developers are being pulled from all those sites when they are discovered as breaking rules. You might get away with it for a day. a month. a year. a decade. But eventually, you will get caught. Ask Dark Cookie about getting caught (and then making sure to follow the directions to the letter and holding his #1 adult game dev spot on Patreon for 8+ years). Ask Uberpie about getting caught (and then still trying to get away with shit for years, only to be banned from Patreon after 6 years and getting banned from Steam before even listing the game for sale and now trying to pull a fast one on Itch). Ask a couple of hundred developers who just had their games pulled from Steam and Itch.
Finally, if you're doing this to make bank... don't. Get a traditional job working for someone else that pays regularly and has benefits. Do this on the side or as a hobby. The mean monthly earnings for an adult game developer on Patreon is about $100 USD per month, even after 4 years of development. The mean monthly earnings from an adult game on Steam is about $190 USD per month during the life of the game.
Best of luck -- but YOU are the person that YOU are making this game for. Anyone else is secondary. YOU are making this game because it does not already exist for YOU to enjoy. If it already did, you wouldn't be motivated to make it. While I understand you want to get ideas for what others may want to see - know that everyone has their own ideas and many conflict with each other, as well as your own. It's best to put YOUR desire, YOUR needs, YOUR wants first into YOUR game ... otherwise it's not really yours, is it?
We've answered this so many times in so many ways in this forum, that I now have a post bookmarked (with a song included).
