So, today I'm rambling about a topic I had intended to avoid, but it seems kind of important. As a general rule I've tried to avoid putting any of my personal experiences up on this blog. You're all here my charming personality, and sometimes the lesbians, not for my personal sex life and I do try to keep that in mind. However, I feel like this is an issue that relates to a lot of porn games, and is something porn games could benefit from keeping in mind. So, I'll be touching on a few personal experiences today. You have been warned. So with that out of the way, faproulettes!
So for those not in the know, a faproulette is an imageboard thing that has since grown beyond imageboards. They're an image that contains some porn in the background, and text instructions placed over the top telling you what to do. When it started the game originally was 3 columns, with 10 numbered tasks, you post in the thread, compare your post number to the columns as told and see what you were expected to do. They started off simple, look at X type of porn and masturbate in Y way with Z to spice it up or something, but have since gotten very elaborate.
They've also since more or less stopped being functional. Instructions on faproulettes are, overall, rather unrealistic, or at least clearly designed for people who have done way too much masturbating. Physical expectations on what you can take for the anal stuff has risen, your stamina and sex drive is sometimes assumed to be insane, and the amount of sex toys you're expected to have for some is absurd. This isn't to say they're bad, or they're impossible to everyone, but if you've never done one before, good fucking luck.
So how do these relate to porn games? Well, as a personal point, they're how I first got into the idea of them. While I never really used faproulettes.(Lack of privacy + content is generally not my thing) I was fascinated by them, to the point of building a collection. Obviously, upon discovering porn games this fascination by the idea found a new host, and I've played just about every porn game that's crossed my attention in some way or another. But as a second point, I think they offer something to porn games, not necessarily something for porn games to include themselves, but an idea for porn games to design around.
There's a tumblr that collects faproulettes called rollnfap. It updates sporadically these days, but new ones come up from time to time. At the time of writing this, there's a sort-of faproulette that I find the idea of simply fascinating, and without a doubt inspiring for a later game. It's a healslut game for Overwatch. Instead of rolling, you play Overwatch as Mercy, and you follow sex instructions based on the current situation in the game. It's not the only one, there was some for League of Legends way back, there's a Dota one, and a Saint's Row 3 one too. It's an interesting idea, and, straying into personal experiences here, one that I've found works quite well. While I haven't played much of these games, I often find myself doing similar things in my Sexlab Skyrim games, setting arbitrary rules for things I have to do in cases that occur in the game.
Straying away from personal experiences again, for those avoiding reading them. The problem with this is a simple one. Games don't design themselves with this in mind. And this is true of Shield High too, there's not really anything I can do with the format to make it any better I don't think, it's just too slow of a game, and too linear of a game. But most games don't have events that you can base it around. For instance, I did a dry run of the Saint's Row game I mentioned, and it's possible to complete it without getting into any trouble whatsoever. It's based on running into gang members on the streets. How you define running into them is not specified, however if you just...look away and look back, they despawn. So if you're making it a distance-based thing, avoiding trouble completely by accident just by looking for a place to run to is entirely possible.
So what's my point in sharing this? Well, I guess I'd just like to see this be a consideration in future porn games. Shield High can't really do it that well, in it's current form, maybe in the future it'll work out, however I'd like to see other games which have a bit more freedom in them, be them porn games, or just porn mods for other games, consider this idea of player interaction, and perhaps come up with a solution to the problem. I know whatever game I work on next, so long as it's not linear, will probably have this in mind.
Pudding Earl
EDIT: An afterthought, porn movies with this idea in mind would be interesting too. Have a number of girls, some have good ends, some have bad ends, pick one and follow her fate. Actually, that might work as a game. I should seriously consider that for another time.
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