Best way of designing intimacy in games?
Give both intimacy options names like Angel and Skye. Give the player no indication which one is male or female.
Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper
Submitted 2 years ago by Goronmon@kbin.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/ways-to-design-intimacy-in-games
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alienanimals@lemmy.world 2 years ago
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Lol yeah I made that mistake the first playthrough.
magikarpet@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Oh shit, what was my safe word again? LET ME OUT!
Chozo@kbin.social 2 years ago
They fixed that, by the way. There's a new UI that shows their faces.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I honestly don’t care if they do or don’t add this stuff, but please make it skippable. The last thing I want is some boring corporate-approved formulaic bland sex scene that I have to suffer through in the middle of an interactive game. At least movies and shows let me 30-second skip past that stuff. All of them are exactly the same sequence. It’s tedious.
As for flirtation being more important to in-game social interactions and dialog trees that could be fun. It could also set young people up for trouble. They’d be practicing the “wrong habits” that will get charges filed against them IRL.
The reason game designers are afraid of sex is because most of Western society is. Can games help turn that around? I don’t know, but probably not. The USA is super puritanical about all things sex (but blood, gore, and violence are generally OK).
BURN@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Same
I don’t want or care about sex scenes in anything. Cyberpunk 2077 definitely has this problem, and once I get to any stage where intimacy happens I just get up and let it play out so I don’t have to watch.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Thanks for the warning. I haven’t played it yet, and it’s on my list.
Harpsist@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Take gf to burger place.
Take gf home.
Bang. Restore all health and status ailments.
Except crabs. Your character has crabs now.
How much more intimate do you need?
Aielman15@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’ve never found sex scenes in games appealing. First of all, there’s rarely any build up to them. If there is, it’s just sitting there, listening to an NPC talking about themseves for 10 minutes and selecting the “good” answer to gain “affinity points” and proceed with the dialogue.
Then you get to the sex scene, and it’s either fade to black immediately (hopefully), or two uncanny valley dolls touching each other for a few seconds.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Most games unless it is a sex game shouldn’t have sex in it. My kids play lot of the same games I do and I don’t want them having access to sex in a game.
Most times it adds nothing to a story and is there just a preversion thing.
Djennik@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You allow them to murder hundreds of virtual people or creatures, but sex is a bridge too far?
1bluepixel@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“How dare they show a titty in my murder simulator.”
Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Bet they are from the US?
cricket97@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Unironically yes. Pornography appeals to our monkey brain in a way that violence doesn’t. Violence in media is just an expression of conflict.
echo64@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Your kids shouldn’t impact what artists choose to create, and parental controls and ratings systems exist for you to engage with (you probably should if you are scared of them seeing intimacy between grown adults)
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It’s sad that people think like this
cricket97@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Why is it sad? Some people want sex to be a private thing that individuals do outside of the public eye. Not everyone is a coomer who wants to revolve their life around sexuality. Just because people have different values than you doesn’t make it sad.
Neato@kbin.social 2 years ago
Sex is required for every human to exist. I'm sorry it scares you but you're kids are going to be fucking fine.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 years ago
Akchually in-vitro fecundation is a thing.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Gamers say they want parents to actually get involved and monitor the content kids interact with in games. A parent actually does monitor what their kids play, and suddenly gamers lose their minds.
cricket97@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Do you recognize that some people may have different values than your own and it’s ok for them to strive towards upholding them? You are not losing anything in life by not having pornographic scenes in video games.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 2 years ago
Kids that aren’t ready to see sex in games aren’t grown up enough to play those games to begin with. I don’t know any non-porn game with sec in it that isn’t a violent murder simulator.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
It is quite obvious this was posted by an American. They are such prudes when it comes to sex and nudity, but think violence is just swell.
FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Don’t get into this if you don’t want to get dogpiled by prudes. Lemmy is weirdly anti sex scenes.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 2 years ago
IMO One of the hardest parts about Emotions in games is the narrow edge between developing a loving relarionship and a caring One as a close friend. I loved the Characters and interactions in BG3 but Part of me wished there were also “comraderie Events” similar to stardew valley were there are Events for getting to know poeple closer without the intent to develop a sexual relarionship to the Character
ono@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Agreed on all points.
Out of curiosity, why did you capitalize random nouns in your comment?
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 2 years ago
German autocorrect on a Smartphone is my Nemesis. I hope the incorrect spelling is Not too distracting
kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Germans capitalize their nouns. As for the lower case proper noun, probably just a mistake.