What H-Game would you like to see?

[Hizor]

I've been considering for a time to make a H-game myself, using a budget for art assets so that its quality and not images pulled from the internet. It's a co-project, but right now we are working on deciding what would be a good start for the game? And I think this is a good spot to put this question. What 2-D image, Text based game would you like to see, what parts of it do you wish to see most? Awesome Art, Great Story, Superb Soundtrack? Yes, all three would be nice, but with the budget we can only focus our attention on one of the three at the time.

I want to get an idea of what we should work towards that people like.

Also, one more thing do you prefer a Male MC or perhaps Female MC?

 

[Kesil]

"Great writing". I prefer playing with a male (or a female herm) because I need a degree of self-inserting when it comes to smut games.

P.S. Can you add a poll option?

 

[Hizor]

"Great writing".

P.S. Can you add a poll option?

Done.

 

[Nephilim_Anunnaki]

I am ok with any mc gender, but curious the only options are male or female, would be ok were more games with other options (ie herms, genderless, etc)
And with female MC, not be the niche girl who every single npc wants to abuse her... and she being unaware of...
And the male not be the typical jerk.

 

[Tinman]

Writing is everything. Art, no matter how great, gets boring without a good story and cannot save a bad story.

The gender of the main character isn't too important to me (although I would love to see more H-games with a futa/herm as the MC) but expect to get a lot of complaints no matter which you choose. MC gender is one of those things you just can't please everyone with. If you go male people will be upset they can't play as female and that there's not enough gay sex. If you go female people will want male/futa options and complain there isn't enough lesbian sex. If you give players the option production will slow down and they'll complain about the slow release schedule. You're just going to get whiners regardless of what you do.

 

[Musicfruit]

Why is the soundtrack even an option? Is there really someone who would consider an soundtrack more important in an smut game then good writing or high quality artwork? I mute every smut game instantly.

Tinmans answer to the MC gender hits the spot pretty good. If you choose to work with one gender, use the one with which you can work better. (Is this sentence right? It sounds so weird to me..)


Good writing saves an game, with average or not so good artwork more often then an great pictures can save an game with shitty writing and/or gameplay. I have seen way too many games with good artwork, that didn't had any real gameplay or just such an terrible writing, that I couldn't stand it. Like a lot games made with the RPG Maker: huge huge maps and the only gameplay you had is to walk to the right spot to trigger the next scene. An VN would be way better suited for such an "game".

 

[TheDarkMaster]

For the main poll question, it depends entirely on the game. A story can be completely unnecessary for some adult games like city or slave management games, especially if you only play for short sessions at a time. If the gameplay is really interesting or uses a fetish in a way that I really like, I'm perfectly happy with not even being able to read what's going on. Art can be forgone if you have vivid well written descriptions of the characters and what's going on. In some cases, having no art can actually be an upside, since your image for a character can easily be more appealing to you than what the author may have envisioned. It all comes down to the kinks involved and what the game is looking to accomplish. Obviously romance isn't going to be any good without good writing.

Soundtrack, I'm surprised this is even on the list. I can't think of any indie porn games that had noteworthy music.

PC sex, this one is entirely down to who I am specifically. I prefer to play male (assuming he's not an asshole), because that's what I most easily identify with. I'm tolerant with other options, as long as the PC has a dick and I can focus exclusively on sex acts that avoid catching vaginal or my PC's breasts. This is because I will virtually always empathize with the PC while playing the game and having a disagreement in my mind between what I am physically and what I'm imagining myself to be kills the mood for me. Even a non-sexed entity is actually better than a female one, since I'm less likely to have that disconnect happen.

 

[Hizor]

Honestly soundtrack is just there to see if anyone would put a vote into it.

 

[Hizor]

We've decided on our work and direction we need to take with it.
After chatting for a while we decided to call it "Project AppleSauce". We talked a while on what is should be about and we went with something we've rarely ever seen for H-Games. After a while we put together the first few lines of the intro. Here they are so that you may get an idea on what it will be about.
"Amaria, a world influenced by deities of all creeds; only sustained by the praise and worship of its followers. Such deities include the God of Purity, God of Greed, even God of Balistae and untied shoes...
But you? You're a God of Desire one that is barely sustained by the worship of a small family in a place of seclusion. You've gathered your strength for many years, and now you have just enough power to take a vessel so that you may once again walk in this world."

 

[Tinman]

Honestly soundtrack is just there to see if anyone would put a vote into it.

I want to change my vote now.

We've decided on our work and direction we need to take with it.
After chatting for a while we decided to call it "Project AppleSauce". We talked a while on what is should be about and we went with something we've rarely ever seen for H-Games. After a while we put together the first few lines of the intro. Here they are so that you may get an idea on what it will be about.
"Amaria, a world influenced by deities of all creeds; only sustained by the praise and worship of its followers. Such deities include the God of Purity, God of Greed, even God of Balistae and untied shoes...
But you? You're a God of Desire one that is barely sustained by the worship of a small family in a place of seclusion. You've gathered your strength for many years, and now you have just enough power to take a vessel so that you may once again walk in this world."

So... Noragami with a lust god instead of a war god? I'd play that. Will Project Porkchops be your next game?

 

[Hizor]

I want to change my vote now.



So... Noragami with a lust god instead of a war god?

Yeah that's actually were I got the idea of gods staying alive depending on worshipers. (Season 3 needs to hurry UP!)
AppleSauce is just a placeholder name for now, though PorkChops doesn't sound bad for next release.
Currently everything has to be apple related products for this project.
AppleFritter
ApplePie
etc...

Don't even use version numbers. Just apple based stuff.
Second game starts with version T-Bone Steak.

I could use some idea bouncers and writers now that I'm going to be invested in storyworks more.

 

[Nephilim_Anunnaki]

Why is the soundtrack even an option? Is there really someone who would consider an soundtrack more important in an smut game then good writing or high quality artwork? I mute every smut game instantly.

Tinmans answer to the MC gender hits the spot pretty good. If you choose to work with one gender, use the one with which you can work better. (Is this sentence right? It sounds so weird to me..)


Good writing saves an game, with average or not so good artwork more often then an great pictures can save an game with shitty writing and/or gameplay. I have seen way too many games with good artwork, that didn't had any real gameplay or just such an terrible writing, that I couldn't stand it. Like a lot games made with the RPG Maker: huge huge maps and the only gameplay you had is to walk to the right spot to trigger the next scene. An VN would be way better suited for such an "game".

I play without sound, so soundtrack is nothing to me (but is ok if there is)
Curious enough I figure why I prefear VN over RPGMaker games: I prefear on rail games over open, when all the "open" is limited to walk from A to B, with a couple of chooses which only differ if you unlock a scene or not, and being lost roaming between room to get something who is purely based on a random scenes or timed events...

 

[cool.alexia]

This goes for anything you do: Know your strengths and weaknesses.

TiTS isn't a game about pictures, (although there is some great work done by the artists), it's a game about text, because that's what FenFen's strength is. Somebody that loves to draw would produce another game. Play to your strengths and gracefully handle your weaknesses.

If you are good at writing, then that's what I want to see.

Also what. I often see is people struggling with the 'game' part of smutty games. What is it that needs the game part? Why not write a story or draw a comic?

 

[Noob Salad]

Accidentally voted for art, but meant to pick writing.

 

[JDeko]

Gats' art was what got me to switch from CoC and accept the new TiTS master race. I still miss it sorely and tend to like characters with the Tower Girls-style art more than newer ones that don't but I push on.

Without good writing you can't really enjoy a smut game.

 

[Magic Ted]

You're on a forum about a textsmut game, this is going to be skewed.

Do what you think is best, don't chase the pateron stick hard. You'll barely make minimum wage with it.

 

[Hizor]

Alright, I'll focus on writing and do art later on. Thanks for the help guys, this will help budgeting priorities.
I already have the MC vessel character being drawn in concept, and I think that's as far as I'll go with art until I have a form of release ready for it. (It'll be just to show what kind of art that will be planned for it.) We've formulated many ideas for the game, and your comments have really helped so far, thank you all.
I am looking for a few writers to help with it, so if you think you want to help out shoot me a PM.

 

[Musicfruit]

Alright, I'll focus on writing and do art later on. Thanks for the help guys, this will help budgeting priorities.
I already have the MC vessel character being drawn in concept, and I think that's as far as I'll go with art until I have a form of release ready for it. (It'll be just to show what kind of art that will be planned for it.) We've formulated many ideas for the game, and your comments have really helped so far, thank you all.
I am looking for a few writers to help with it, so if you think you want to help out shoot me a PM.

Well before you ask for writer, you should explain a bit more about the game. We have no idea for what you are looking for! Also it can be problematic to have too many writer, especially pretty independent ones. Sadly you can't trust every one to do there job and to show up on the appointed date and even when, can the coder hold up? Not that it's too much for him, that frustrates!