Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 47 points 8 months 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 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Agreed on all points.

Out of curiosity, why did you capitalize random nouns in your comment, and leave the proper noun in lower case?

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 19 points 8 months ago

German autocorrect on a Smartphone is my Nemesis. I hope the incorrect spelling is Not too distracting

[-] ono@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thanks for explaining. I'm convinced that autocorrect and touch screen keyboards are behind a great deal of the bad grammar and weird sentences that we see online.

[-] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 7 points 8 months ago

Germans capitalize their nouns. As for the lower case proper noun, probably just a mistake.

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago

Spot on. Its mainly for words for which have similar spellings in both languages and my autocorrect is used to german and wants to spell Things capitalized as often as it can

[-] ono@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

That's interesting, but I don't think it's because of a German commenter in this case, since only some some of the nouns are capitalized.

[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Lol yeah I made that mistake the first playthrough.

[-] magikarpet@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Oh shit, what was my safe word again? LET ME OUT!

[-] pendulum_@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

SAMURAI SAMURAI SAMURAI

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

They fixed that, by the way. There's a new UI that shows their faces.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months 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 6 points 8 months 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 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the warning. I haven't played it yet, and it's on my list.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

It’s well worth the play, and most (possibly all) can be avoided with the correct choices. But there’s some character work related to it that does enhance the story

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks again. One of my friends keeps encouraging me to play it.

[-] Harpsist@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months 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 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

After the sex scene, the partner becomes another NPC, sitting there doing nothing, having completed their purpose. So inspiring.