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Porting implies access to original code, so you're effectively looking for someone who would code Brothel City pretty much from scratch, which will be very time consuming and very tedious if you want the end result to be as close as possible to the original. Unless you have every Brothel City design meticulously documented, and original programmer stuck to it to the letter, end result may be way off from the original without a lot of extra time.

Steam doesn't require dedicated version of the game and what you have already could be released there without a problem, but... last I checked and IIRC, Brothel City was not only unfinished, but also pretty buggy at later stages of the game... don't remember the details now, but I think some of them were pretty serious and/or game-breaking. You'd have to be very careful what and how you do if you'd release current version on Steam, especially considering you want to code it from scratch.

Also, don't think releasing the game on Steam will magically solve all your problems... yes, it has a massive reach and potential gains, but competition is also massive, and you won't be competing with only other NSFW games, so it won't be easy to get noticed.

And last but not least, to afford potential programmer you'd probably need to convince people to crowdfund a reboot of a game which wasn't finished in the first place, which I think will be very hard.

I sympathize with your situation, liked Brothel City despite its shortcomings, and I wish you all the best, but I think someone should give you a reality check.

Just my 2 cents.

Hi, dear! Thank you so much for the detailed feedback, and yes, you are right - it would be more correct to say I am searching for someone to write the game from scratch. It is not like I hope this will happen - unless some of our fans would consider this fun for them to do.

But anyway, I just wanna try especially because have some new ideas to check within this industry.

I am sorry about the war in Ukraine. I am glad you and your family are in a safer place now.

I do wish you the best of luck. I never played Brothel City. And I only came across this page recently, and I am not going to pay for an incomplete game that will never be finished. But looking at the pictures, and reading about it, the game could have been interesting. City building and adult only games are not two genres I would think to be mixed together, if successful it definitely would have stood out I think. And I probably would have given it a try.

I do think AltairPL makes all valid points. Given the lack of activity here, you probably would need a large amount of luck for a someone with game developing skills to randomly come across this post. However I do not want to discourage you from trying. Take in account all the feedback AltairPL already stated, realize you will have to put in some work to find and recruited some programmers/developers and other things. You said you have been working with a game developer company these past few years, so that probably has given some more insight, knowledge. skills, and/or connections you did not originally have when you tried making this game. You probably would still need other people's help to make the make game, but those added experience might help you during this second attempt.

In your original post you mentioned something troubles with marketing. I am not expert in marketing, but I think I understand lacking a gaming news site or magazine dedicated to adult only game it probably is an uphill battle to market such games. I did come across something that might help. "Might" being the keyword, as I am not an expert and do not how these things work. There are few YouTube accounts that review adult games. They cannot show the sex or nudity parts of the game, but they will show clips of parts of the game, and talk about game. Currently I have two that personally think is good, maybe found one think is better. But I will provide links to the ones I found so can at least see what I am talking about.

Sex Positive Gaming.
https://www.youtube.com/@SexPositiveGaming/videos

Adult Game Reviews
https://www.youtube.com/@adultgamereviews/videos

When you reach the point of having a product, maybe you can reach out them (or someone else you like better) and see if they will review your game. Maybe they will say yes. Maybe they will say no. Maybe they personally have a policy to not review games from companies/developers that reach out to them. I have no idea how these kinds of things work, it would be something you have to research and figure out yourself. But I wanted to share the knowledge that these kinds of YouTube accounts exist. Research and use that information as you see fit.

Whatever you decided to do, regardless if decided to make another attempt at this game or not, I wish you the best of luck.