Porn game mechanic paradigns?

[dryingpole]

Okay, I was just thinking that there are a few main paradigns for H-games that are out there, and that they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Just wanted to get a little discussion going on the various types and how they work.

And this is in NO particular order, btw:

1: Porn animation/fill the bar game: This seems to be the most common type of game, so I'll mention these first. Generally they're just an animation where various other animations become available when certain thresholds are passed. The most well known I guess would be "Zone" games as well as the "Meet N' Fuck" games.
Advantages: Not much player interaction needed, so fappage is easy.
Disadvantages: Usually VERY linear, and if you've played one, you've played em all. (Just different pictures.)

2. Adventure game: LOK falls into this category, as well as most Date sims. In general, the sex scenes are not required to be fulfilled in a certain order, although sometimes the games require various actions to be performed before sex happens.
Advantages: More interactive than animations, and still allows plenty of fappage, usually due to sex scenes being similar to porn animations.
Disadvantages: Once again, there's a degree of restricted action, although much less than an animation.

3. RPG: The more sophisticated date games fall into this category, with other actions than sex being necessary for sex scenes. There are usually quite a few sex scenes, which often play out as a mini-game of some sort.
Advantage: More immersive than the other two, with more challenge. In addition theses usually tell a better "Story" than many others. (Excluding LOK, of course)
Disadvantage: Usually a long time between fappable material. In addition, in the most complicated games, it requires much of the player's attention to complete the game... meaning other activities at the same time are... difficult.

4. Run or Rape: I use that title for the vast majority of platformer/fighting games: In these, it's usually very easy to have sex. Just sit there and the enemies will have sex with you. In a very real sense, the pornographic content is the "Negative' portion of the game, requiring multiple playthroughs to see all of the sex scenes.
Advantage: Hey, I like a platformer same as anybody... And the games are more energetic than other games.
Disadvantage: Wait... sex is bad? In a porn game? Uhm... I must be doing something wrong here.

Anybody got any others that they've seen or want to comment on game from a general design perspective? (I personally think that there are other possibilities, but I'll stop there.)

[Renara]

Thought I should comment on this, also wanted to apologise to anyone who posted to this topic earlier, as somehow it got bugged and the other posts weren't showing so I split it to try and see if that would reset the topic.

Anyway, this is certainly a big challenge for us! We're sort of aiming for a mix of adventure & RPG, similar to the way it is already but with some additions to make it a bit more involving. The main challenge is that unlike other games that are focused on combat, which usually functions to some degree in real-time, we have a completely different core mechanic, which is sex-scenes. Now, with this in mind there's one major issue; do you make the sex-scenes real-time (player has to respond as things happen) or static (purely click-based).

The first of course is more involving and more of a game, but it makes scenes difficult to enjoy as you can't just sit back and watch. The other ends up making scenes a slideshow, at which point any other game-mechanics are really just to get you from slideshow to slideshow. I can safely reveal that our game mechanic thread is pretty huge, as a lot of ideas have been bounced around and even though we've settled on a couple of ideas we still don't have a final system in mind. This isn't a problem though, as it's entirely likely that the gameplay will change all the way up until v1.0 anyway!

What we're aiming for though is some kind of balance; we don't want anything to be too real-time based except mini-games and other supplemental content. Standard scenes however will try to mix pace with player interaction, so you're not doing nothing, but at the same time you aren't spending all your time clicking and never getting a chance to enjoy the scenes either. With a bit of luck we can achieve this balance!


So ehm, I know that probably doesn't give a massive amount of detail as-such, suffice to say; adventure RPG, and hopefully plenty of fun while staying sexy

[dryingpole]

Sounds good, and I'm glad that you're trying to break the "Paradign" a little. (Have you got any Mini-games planned yet? Just wondering)

May I make a minor suggestion? I know this sound trite, but for fappability... I notice most guys are right handed... How bout changing the control set-up so that the Right Arrow/Left Arrow can be done with a quick keyboard shortcut... (Preferably, the WASD setup...)

Sorry if that's too gross...

[Renara]

We currently intend to support both sets of controls, you should all learn to use both hands anyway though

[DexterdMMX]

Maybe...only a idea.
Economy Sim´s, Sim Brothel or Whore Master.
Let the girls work for ya to earn Money and buy stuff to get better lokations or more customers.
Slave Maker is a kind of RPG I think with economy charakter. You need Money to train the girl so you will get more when you sell her. After you sell her you get Skill point´s so you can grade up your char.
Round based, so you have enugh Time to Plan.
But when you get 20 or more girls to much pic´s to click away every round.

[UserN4meTak3n]

"sorry if that's too gross" WoW I LoLed at that... Obviously hasn't seen some of the other threads on this forum.

Anyways, I would love to see a Run or Rape scenario mini-game with the T-Rex, especially with a power up that makes Krystal grow a bit in size, which would eventually make her big enough to be able to get fucked by the T-Rex at the end of the mini-game.

[Haldor]

*Paradigm

[dryingpole]

Dammit you're right! Serves me right for using a word that I only HEAR instead of read... (Sounded like an N on the end of that...)

[Haldor]

Haha, I only know from playing too much FFXIII! =P