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.