Hey there Hongfire. I’m Bothworlds. I’m a Creative Writing Student with experience in Game Design and Game Writing. Most of the design has been in the non-sexual world, and I’m loathe to point to anything that could have me identified. However, I have tried my hand at making my own erotic RPG (limited do to my weak knowledge of programing) and have done some writing for the game Slavemaker in the past. More importantly I’ve reviewed critically a variety of entertainment products including video games, and have studied Game Design well enough to be a resource to friends of my in Game Design College. I’m also a fan of good erotica. I’ve done some writing and plenty (way too much) of thinking on what merits quality in Erotica.

So what I want to do is I want this post to be a resource to fans of H-games so you can better recognize quality, and to people making h-games to help you guys with the difficult process of making it fun and enticing. My email adress is black_hand4566@yahoo.com send me any question you want answered, or what topics you’d like to hear me talk about.

So for the first topic I want to start with the most basic topic you will ever find in writing. What Is It About? I’m not talking about the topic or medium you choose to make your game in. I don’t think there is a single bad medium per se, though you gotta understand the area you’re working in. I’m talking about the skeleton of your game experience. In terms of gameplay, writing, and sex.

Games as a whole tend to have one core mechanic at the center of their playing experience. It’s the idea that every other idea in the gameplay (And if the world were a place filled with smarter people, then the writing too) is there to try to reinforce. The Core Mechanic of Skyrim is the ability to explore the world. All of the RPG elements are designed to help you try new things, the way you move around is encouraged to make you go off on your own path. In Halo the core mechanic is versatility. All of the weapons function very differently, the game rarely requires you to use certain vehicles or abilities, and it sets all of the encounters in areas that allow you to play the game differently each time. In Call of Duty it’s cinematic. All of the firefights are paced perfectly to make it feel intense, and the set piece moments are all scripted events. In Pokemon it’s about customization, customizing, levels, movesets, even lineups.

What about Hentai Games? Well as a whole they tend to go for less brain based and less adrenaline based methods and tend to go right for the cock (or pussy, I know there are women who enjoy this stuff too). Rapelay’s core mechanic is making you feel in control. It’s why you get so much information and ability to choose environments. And not to mention the control elements of rape. Lightning Warrior Raidy is built with it’s core game mechanics more similar to a regular game. It’s core mechanic is exploration. Only rather than improving the game play experience through game play, it does so through adding on sexual content. Similar can be said about any Sim Brothel or Slave Maker style game. Their core mechanic is the relatively benign resource management style mechanics that you can find in EVE online or sim tycoon.

When you make an H-Game you need to keep in mind the core mechanic of your game and build from there. I’ve seen excellent H-games built around character growth, I’ve seen ones built around narrative, and a million other things. You don’t need to stick to your core mechanic like it’s some bible, you can include segments that go against it for variety or just good ideas that are somewhat unrelated. Most good games escape their core mechanic at least a bit. Still, if I ask you what the point of the gameplay is, you should be able to point to it in a heartbeat.

Likewise, the porn content in an H-Game should have a theme of some kind. Make it loose (heh) so you can include plenty of variety in your sexual content, but make sure you can describe what kind of content you are including. Make it extreme, Make it graphic, Make it warm and fuzzy, make it animalistic, make it controlling. You can sort it by baseline emotions or by aesthetics, or by the specific kinks and acts involved. And, you probably also want to do things besides stick to the core theme all of the time here too. Throw in something different so it doesn’t get stale. but just like you can describe within a sentence what kind of gameplay I’m expected, also be able to describe within a sentence what kind of sex I’m getting.

In writing there is something called a logline. It is the most basic form of a summary of a story you can find. It’s one sentence. The Matrix is: a guy finds out that the world is actually a computer simulation made to control humanity. Lord of the Rings is: A fantastical woodland creature discovers his ring is the power a demon would go to great lengths to attain. Star Wars is: A guy discovers that he is the descendent of an extinct line of magical warriors. Not everything in the story is built into the logline, but the length of the story mostly fits. The beginning, middle, and end of a story all fit within it’s contents. It’s the same thing as a game’s core mechanic. This is the story that you need to set up, play out, and resolve in your work. Everything else is optional. Everything else you can leave unresolved if you think it’s a good idea (probably isn’t).

For all three of them I’d some it up the same way. Be able to say in one sentence what it’s about. One sentence. that bit is important, because the more complex you make it, the harder it is to pin down what the point is. If you can’t tell me a story idea in under a paragraph, then you need to think over the work you’ve made, and decide what bits are more important then the others. Include as much as you like into it, but tell me what the game I’m playing is about, tell me what the sex I want to imagine is about, tell me what the story I want to hear is about. That is the skeleton of your work.

So as I said. email me with questions, comments, and ideas for future segments. I want to pour my brains out for you guys.