Sex in games, especially in casual games has always been a sort of “taboo” topic. Which makes me laugh. Looking at the recent portals top10 you see, beside the usual cute-girly games, also some “CSI” themed games. Investigations, mysteries, secrets. Which is good of course. But with lots of blood, weapons, violence (even if clearly not splatter).
I personally have no problem with that. Even in my game Bionic Heart there are some disturbing scenes (human organs floating inside glass cylinders full of liquid for example). What makes me laugh is that while you can show that without problems to everyone (including teenagers), the parents gets insanely angry the instant you mention something even VAGUELY sexy.
I’m not talking about pornography of course! But if you have watched any tv-series in past 7 years, you’ll notice that beside violence, there are quite some sexual references. House M.D., just to make a well-known example, has PLENTY of those. But try mentioning in a game that the main character is a bisexual hot girl, and you’ll get instantly bashed as a satanic programmer 😀
Talking about romance instead, Flower Shop is full of it. I got some complaint for my previous games from some customers, saying that there wasn’t enough romance in them, and now reading the last lines of some characters I understood completely what they meant. Ayu is a great writer of course, and I’m glad she wrote this game since with my english I wouldn’t have been able to express such situations so well 🙂
The game is progressing well and soon we’ll start with the voices while we finish the farming sim and add the last pieces of art. Don’t have any official release date but I guess Q1 of 2010 could be a good estimate.
Since so many teenagers buy video games, people just assume that any attempt to put sex in games will “corrupt” the teens.
Sad, but true.
Where do you get your backgrounds? Do you draw them yourself?
no from artists of course
I guess it’s mostly America that’s so prude about sex. But I’ve always been wondering why iolence is tolerated so much when sex isn’t, as violence obviously corrupts children’s minds alot more. Imo.
I also wonder why it’s especially with games that ppl are so much against sex… I mean, books like Twilight rely heavily on the sexual attraction between the main characters, it’s even the books strongest point in my opinion, and nobody complained there.. or at least I didn’t notice it, haha…
Well, over here in Europe sex is not that much of a taboo, at least not more so than violence, that’s clearly the bigger taboo over here, which seems logical to me.
As for me: If it suits the story, I think a little erotic romance in a non pornographic way can make things interesting.
Yeah I agree completely on what you said.
I always try to find a compromise with my games, but if I even look at the most “erotic” I’ve made, Bionic Heart, I really think its “erotism” FITS the story perfectly, and that the game would be irrealistic/boring without it :>
I also think people believe games are only for kids, while it’s wrong, I think we need more games with adult themes (in which sexual attraction plays a good role like in Twilight indeed).