Re: Eroico -Develouped by kyrieru-
Isn't that a bit of a mixed philosohpy you got there, you want him to stay where he is, i.e, to not branch out from hentai and then advice people to branch out and explore new territory and new stuff they might enjoy... what if by branching out from hentai he finds out he likes making non-hentai games more? I know they are different subjects, game making and likings, but still... mixed signals.
There's a difference between liking two things, and convincing someone to stop doing one of those things and go do something else. You can walk or you can fly, but you can't do both at the same time. I just think it's rather amusing and horrifying that people want good games with good ero content, but the moment someone shows up with talent, ambition, and experience to make those games, we tell them to bugger off and do something better with their lives, as if making money is the penultimate goal and what we enjoy is a horrible use of their time.
I have met very few communities as self-hating as the ones that embrace erotic content and ideas. It's like there's a palpable fear that, if we get good things, we'll never be able to go back. If we stop being afraid of our fetishes, and just embrace them, something bad is going to happen. We want more games like Kyrieru's, with quality, but we'll whine about the details or shoot ourselves in the feet by being concerned with the far, far future. If you want Kyrieru to be successful, and you want your porn, then have your cake and eat it, too: reward him richly, so he doesn't HAVE to run off and appeal to a glutted, non-porn game market.
The fact that there's an on/off selector doesn't really take out the prejudice of the "normal" game community... I think.
I like my regular games AND my porn games. Why do I care what people who can't handle one or the other think? You end up living a life of fear when you make "normal" your god. As long as enough people like me buy Kyrieru's games, it'll probably work out. If he ends up making non-porn games exclusively, then that's too bad. If he goes half-and-half, then I hope he can keep up the quality. I don't think it's up to us to tell him what to do, but I'll be damned if I don't say how much I like the types of games he's already made, and how much I'd like to see more of them. Unashamed, forever!
