When you are utilizing porn, what are you doing with your hands? Moving a mouse? Pressing buttons on a game controller? Rolling a trackball?
I’m guessing the answers to the above are all “no”. Yet how do you navigate a first-person, er, “shooter” type of game without using some form of manually-operated controller? Add this to the fact that most people aren’t ambidextrous enough to properly, ehm, multitask sufficiently for a successful game of this genre, and you can see the user-interface problems any serious porno game creator must overcome.
I submit that if somebody comes up with a safe, effective, affordable, discretely-obtainable, USB2-compatible Spanksock™, you’re gonna see a veritable pr0n renaissance.
It’ll be the first step in a long string of innovations leading up to the RoboCourtesan.
Thanks.
I worked with Robyn and Rand Miller on Myst, then freelanced on a bunch of really crappy games (relatively speaking) and then ended up working with Westwood until their flameout a couple of years back. Now I’m doing “boring” stuff for targeted Web applications. sigh One day though, I’ll pack up and move back to the coast.
Hence my reference to AIF above. In a text-based game, the player is free to alternate between brief bursts of typing and longer stretches of dedicated wanking when particularly appropriate prose is onscreen.
The main problem with porn video games is that, even if well-made, they are designed so that the player can use at least one of his hands for a ahem different purpose. Let’s just say that it porn doesn’t lend itself to a Final Fantasy-like control system.
As I stated before, I’m talking about the kind of game where you can stage and direct and edit porno scenes with animated characters…NOT some kind of “shooter” game where you “push X to do this, push Y to do this, push left thumbstick to ejaculate, etc etc.” That would be stupid, and people’s hands wouldn’t be free to masturbate. And that’s a critical problem.
I want a game where, say, I could set up a sene with, for example, Brandon Iron and Kobe Tai , edit their movemets, positions and whatnot with a track-style command type system, then once I’m satisfied, push “Play” and watch the action without having to lift a finger to influence the movements of any of the stars.
Such a thing is possible. It has to be. There are a myriad of wrestling games featuring hulking, sweaty men in complicated positions rolling all over the mat; why the hell can they make these games but not a game with extremely hot women in the place of Goldberg and Steve Austin?
Already the main use for Poser seems to be to create scenes involving Japanese schoolgirls and tentacles. “Regular people” can now produce some pretty-good artwork to illustrate their fantasies. I presume this trend will continue.
At some point a Poser-like movie-making application will become available. Then it is only a short step to an open-source ‘so you want to be a game designer’ software moves into the home market.
With easy-to-use software, it is unimaginable that many acre-feet of porn movies and video games would not be developed.
I think porn video games are just an industry waiting for their killer app. I suspect it’ll be MMORGS which feature icons along the lines of the best Poser graphics, that can interreact sexually. As has been pointed out already, Poser has gone a long way toward developing a community that can manage that, but I think you have to be at least half-artist to make it work. It’ll have to be easy and require no artistic talent – just tell the icon what you want it to do.
I’d say we’re 5-10 years out, at least, but not much further than that.
