First Important Poll
Hey guys and girls, as you know Erotica has only a couple of Episodes to go, maybe 3 at most. And I have been floating this idea both here and on the discord about starting a poll to decide the next project. First of all I want to assure you that I find all these ideas great and I would love to work on them, but I'm a bit undecided about which way to go, so, I'll include you guys in this decision. I want to provide you with maybe 3 demos to try out and then decide in a final vote. However, I have 4 ideas and I can't go forward with all of them as it's a lot of work to do. (characters, locations, story, in-game features, etc)
This first poll is aimed at removing one of them off the list, if not two. In this poll I will present what the games are about, what features to expect and so on. So I need for you to vote for the one that you think you will enjoy the most, the 3 with most votes will receive a demo in the coming month for you to try out. (or 2 if 2 of them get really low votes)
Option 1.
Story :
You are a young man that lives with his girlfriend, you are in love and have a good life. However you are also in love with her best friend and she is in love with you too. To make things even more complicated, her girlfriend is also in love with her. The main purpose of the game is to work on a way to be with both girls at the same time, all you have to do is convince your girlfriend. The story really kicks off when the mother of your mistress invites all three of you to live at her mansion while she lives her last days and weeks on this earth. You are soon faced with a number of hot MILFS parading around, while also having to hide your secret relationship from your girlfriend.
Features : Threesome, Sneaking, Timed choices with bad endings, these lead to unlockable achievements which in turn lead to unlockable extra scenes.
Option 2.
Story :
You are a young man living on a campus, as soon as the school year is over you and a bunch of friends stay there for the summer in order to complete a "dare notebook" passed on by previous university students. Each day you and your friends take on dares, some silly and funny while others lewd and kinky. You have the ability to change dares with your girl partner of the day, creating some really interesting situations. The game is focused on lewd content.
Features : Threesome, possible NTR, secrets, optional side stories, map screen with various other activities.
Option 3 :
Story :
Stranded with Benefits 2, you are a man stranded on an island all alone for over a year. That soon changes when a group of girls on a life raft stumble upon your island. From here it's all about island drama, girl conflicts and surviving the harsh conditions as a group. Things become more interesting when they all start wanting you one by one, being the only male on that island is a blessing. This game is all about sexual content, pretty much a sex sandbox game.
Features : Group sex, one on one, threesome, girl on girl, optional AI improved visuals, full control over the sex scenes (you can pick who takes part, one, two, three of the girls) which is also influenced by the main story (how the girls react to one another). Foreplay system where you can play your fantasies with them.
Option 4.
Story : You are a Marshall in a dying town, while on your last patrol of the day, you inspect a call about strange things happening at a local abandoned church. It is there where you find a naked and hurt girl, surrounded by candles in what seems to be some sort of occult setting. You rescue her and bring her over to the police station, where your pregnant girlfriend is the local nurse. The rescued girl doesn't remember much about what happened and soon strange things start taking place. The mystery deepens the more you try to uncover the truth and soon leads to difficult and hard choices.
Features : Threesome is the main theme, reactive "enemy" that responds in different ways depending on your choices. Mystery driven story, voiced narrator in mood setting places to increase immersion. Hard choices, multiple story branches, choices that can lead to "game over".
These are the short descriptions, expect more in game, but the main idea is there for you to see. Once the voting is done and an idea is formed I'll start working on the demos and then we can have the final vote. So, let me know what you think, cast a vote for the one that you think you would enjoy the most. The demos for the remaining 3 or 2 will be available in roughly a month.
If you have any questions please ask me here in a reply or in the discord server.
Have a great weekend!
Comments (9)
4 is the best choice. The main reason to play games like this is for a good story along with flushed out relationships. 1 might be able to be turned into a good story but the premise is weak. 2 sounds like it has no stakes and is just kids being kids and 3 just sounds like straight porn.
3,2,4 #1 story over plaid plus with just two Li's will die down too quickly interest wise, 馃え馃馃槙 Milf thing is used quite a lot gets old馃ケ馃槾 #4 could be a spinoff of Rosewater Manor or Dusklight Manor which were both good.馃え
My order: 3,4,2,1 but except for option #1.. it's a close call.
I think 4 would give you the most flexibility for storytelling. Three would be ok but, it seems the setting would restrict interesting plot twists. One seems to be overdone (similar to too many other games). Two could be interesting. I'd most like to see a female protagonist on a corruption path since not many games have them and it's interesting to play from a different perspective.
Whilst I agree with RPGguy1979 that Option 4 may well tap into a lot of your strengths, in my opinion, the territory you outline conjures up a picture, to me at least, a little too close to previous titles (I'm thinking of; "Dusklight Manor", "Pine Falls" and "Rosewater Manor") for you to be able to inject something distinctively fresh and new into the subject-matter. I'll admit I favor (and make a pitch here for) Option 3 the most. It is set in, for you, a disticntly fresh, new and I am hoping more outdoor, less "confining" environment in which you can more freely apply your already proven prodigious visual and narrative talents. Your storytelling is second to none, your characters and characterizations, are always both visually and narratively gorgeous and, as women, extremely attractive and exciting. If you harness those gifts to your outstanding ability to create a storyline which is at all times malleable enough to be able to credibly conjure up, execute and immaculately dovetail into that story your equally brilliant propensity for intimate and, of course, sensual all the way from romantic "make-outs" up to "no holes barred" (so to speak ;) visceral sexual encounters, I feel sure you'll have a fresh new blockbuster of a novel on your hands. I also personally, although I appreciate the sample images above cannot possibly, in themselves, be anywhere near representative of the extent and richness of their ultimate respective story lines, nevertheless, from what I am seeing, I absolutely love the implied spread of age between the (at least) four female protagonists and the exciting prospect of getting to know and interact with them, be it intimately or otherwise, as the story unfolds out in the fresh air and sun (or better still even, secluded moonlight!!). The great thing is that by now those of us who have been devotees for a while now, all know that whichever story you end up developing, your, I am sure ever growing, audience is going to be in for yet another mouthwatering treat, which will be, in the truest spirit of the term, fully "adult", amazingly "visual" and (especially if Option 3 is ultimately selected at least) refreshingly "novel". So vote vote vote!!! (for No.3, that is!!!)
I was eager for this fourth option, it suits your style well.
Do number 4 one of your greatest strenghts IS your storytelling. I Love how all your earlier works interact and how you create mystery AS Well AS rounded Characters. Heck, i would Play Most of your Games even without adult content
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If we wanted option 2 we have hundreds of sorry excuses for sex scenes sold as games on Patreon. Don鈥檛 waste your storytelling talent on something so trite. All other options would use this unique talent of yours much better. What makes your stories unique and sets you apart is how well you define the characters so that they are not unidimensional stereotypes.