discussion Absolute game drought ?

[whisperpuppy]

Yeah it's a shame but after all the crackdowns and switching laws depending on were you live it's understandable why.

The only viable way will be to make any game+ as a hobby and not advertise anywhere. Then share it anonymously on forums like ours.

Shared with secret handshakes.

 

[kullthebarb]

I wouldn't say the worst, but we are definitely in a huge sink, new games nowdays almost always play safe or take forever to make, there is still a few good ones that come out from time to time, but are scarce

 

[Penitus]

Some people need to get together and figure out a good alternative system to pay/fund the stuff we like without big brother payment processor watching.

 

[blublubloblo]

Very sad to see how freedom of artistic expression is regressing. With AI to express itself in your place and to bring the uninformed attention of the masses to the "abuse" of fictional characters, with filthy tourists infiltrating every niche online space and trying to bend the rules of those spaces to accommodate them, with the unwritten rules of the market nudging creators towards imitation, with credit card companies up to antics similarly evil to those of the Combine, with DLSITE blocking western ip addresses from accessing "problematic" media, with kemono dying... Many circumstances conspire against lovers of erotic art. Strange how killing is more accepted than fucking. So strange.
Considering the poll results, you're not alone in holding the sentiment that this subculture is going through a dry season.
These are dark days. Not just for erotic gaming, but for gaming as a whole. Though regular violence-oriented gaming does have a few lights shining through the darkness, as far as I'm aware, the situation for love-oriented gaming is pure grimdark. I fear darker days await still.
What do you say? Do you believe that brighter days are ahead of us?
As much as I despise nostalgia, I want to reminisce about my days of stumbling upon erotic games, earlier on itch.io's free section, then discovering superdeepthroat and later on finding the goldmine that is fff as a dumb horny teenager and having my mind (and loads) absolutely blown by that new world. Before that, I'd been jerking to hot characters from ps2/ps3 games for years but when I found out that you could play games that were all about sex... What a sense of discovery, of wonder, of euphoria was found there in that new world. I was in love. I was especially enamoured with interactive sex simulators from the start but that subgenre, which has always been somewhat of an underdog (by my perception), has gotten so dry in recent times. Or maybe it hasn't, maybe it still is seeing consistent releases but those are being drowned out by the torrent of shit. Or maybe I'm too specific with my tastes nowadays, once past the initial exploration stage, knowing what to look for closes many doors.

 

[Dingelbarry]

There are some good projects but alot of crap projects out there.

Im not sure if i would call it a drought

 

[mistereme]

Wouldnt say there is a drought, there is, however, a whole lot more very low effort games tho (mainly with ai pics/animations).

 

[hugh mungus]

So much is just AI generated photos and stories. They're just lazy and bad.

 

[Abere Lucifer]

Thanks for the insight - hard agree.

I would basically summarize it as overinflation of adult games market (thanks to the COVID) and conversion to a business focused endeavor. I very much so viewed the devs as hobbyists from 2017-2020 which does explain the broader variety of past games, unique ideas and fetishes instead of catering to a "modern audience" (for a lack of a better term). That also explains the decimation of fetishes. incest and also loli games.

Meaning business = money, money = payment processors, payment processors = surveillance and censorship.

To be honest, I wasn't expecting adult games to be affected by this so quickly. It does seem that COVID very much hastened the progression to the business side of things which ultimately ruined majority of the adult games for me.

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Very true. In my view the population of this site is rapidly growing as does the interest for these games, but ironically as the interest grows - these games cease to exist.

More interest and fundamentally no new games or updates to the existing ones.

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Furthermore, as a person who has previously tried tinkering with DAZ3D in the past years - the barrier of entry into the creation aspect is absolutely huge. I would say this is absolutely the biggest factor that most people don't think about, as none of them have used DAZ3D before.

I do find that it takes extreme amount of time to put out one rendered image and after 6 or so finished renders I gave up on creating any games myself. Don't even get me started on animations... one second of animation took like 30 minutes which is absolutely crazy to me.

So imagine, as a dev - you have to:

1. Finance the needed hardware
2. Learn all the required skills
3. Have the patience to wait for these renders which also means you can't use the computer during this time
4. Takes a toll on your hardware = shorter lifespan = more investments

And as reward your product is extremely hard to monetize and has to be vanilla themed to succeed and be allowed on most sites.

If you put all these things together, the current state of adult games is not that shocking anymore.

Oh, the "Modern Audience." Don't get me started on them. They're not really fans of mine. I like taking their "Sacred Cows" and make BBQ with them. Apparently they don't like it when ya do that. It's mighty tasty though. LOL!

 

[SammyJ27]

The patreon scare combined with the AI NTR meta has really destroyed the market. more games than ever are being made just so many are cash grabs or AI slop. Its easy to make slop and to make money with slop. If patreon or the morality police come for your slop its ok because you put minimal effort into it and you can just make more.