Post by Ponydragon in Exoterra comments

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So what is this? Genre mash up between racing and adult vn? Bold move. I wish you luck, you bascially have to make two games that work.

If you pull off a good racing game you will have wider audience by not being nsfw. And adult audience will not care for good racing game, they see it as a mini game; they want story and or the adult content.

But even with mediocre racing game, it might stand out among the plethora of adult kinetic novels, so it might work. I had a look. This is about the third actual racing game with adult content on itch. The first if you do not count bicycles and karts. And I do not count those five minute games at all, that are tagged adult and racing.

(Oh, and good, that you tagged indie, might not have noticed ;-) Seriously, there are 10k games on itch tagged as indie. What is up with that. )

ZombieBunnyGames1 year ago (1 edit)

Thanks for your awesome feedback! I actually want it to be just a bit more than a racing game with adult content. The base of the story is mostly done but I still need to convert it to actual dialogue, lore etc., and I will try to add the beginning of the plot to the game as soon as possible, right now I'm working on a new race type. The reason I chose a mash-up like this is because when I was browsing I could barely find any adult games with actual gameplay, so why not racing, love and sci-fi? My initial plan was to make the game open world with some other features, but I had to scale back because it was way too overwhelming for me. (About the indie tag ... I have no clue, I'm fairly new to itch.io and Patreon so I just typed what seemed relevant)

Ponydragon1 year ago

I could barely find any adult games with actual gameplay

Hah. I would click follow for that, but that would make me unfollow ;-)

There are some. You need browse among the right tags to find them among all those kinetic vn. But depends on the game play one is looking for. Make sure you adjust the tags accordingly when your game play and story crystalizes, so people can find you. And do not rely on promotion by existing on itch alone. I found you by accident and not by looking for your tags.

And yeah it occured to me after posting, that you do have 3d models in 3d enginex , you could do lewd sandbox exploring and story telling.

ZombieBunnyGames1 year ago

I will definitely work on my promotional skills, search for new places/sites to promote and look into tags. Thank you for all the advice.