inbtwn

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hi there. i'm inbtwn. nice to meet ya!

i sometimes post about Things, mostly niche internet things like youtube videos, webcomics, etc. but i also reblog (rebug) a LOT of cool things so uhhh be warned



lexyeevee
@lexyeevee

great news i am running STRAWBERRY JAM again this year for the SEVENTH (!!!) time in a row

it's my february-long game jam about making horny games

and since this is cohost i can now type like fifty paragraphs about that. it's about sexuality but it's not, like, graphic. i do say the word "vagina"


sunsetMoth
@sunsetMoth

Ayyyy, it's happening! It's happening!

If anyone needs someone to help with a Godot-based project for SBJ7, hit me up! SBJ6's fixed deadline was the only thing that's managed to get me to finish a large hobby project on time, and this year, I won't have college in the way. I'm not a total expert, but I've been coding as a hobby for as long as I can remember.


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YES. YES. YES. I am so tired of "hahah funnee boobiee" games when smutty fuckenings can pack so much more of a punch! I'm joining!!!

..okay, hype out of the way, I immediately harken to a certain indie text based adventure game that absolutely slaps in the porn sense... but... after you're "done" you're not "done playing" because the plot is so intriguing and the gameplay so fun, that you keep working on your game file.

I want to make something like THAT. There needs to be more ENGAGING and GOOD porn games, not just "woohoo booba get the dollars"

Thank you so much for speaking my language. The hype can be palped.

this sounds so fun! i've never made a game before (but I'm a web dev/programming instructor so I have some CS background at least lol) but ive always been curious about making a little horny game and this is good motivation to actually give it a shot 😄

Won't have time this year, probably, because a writing project of mine is kind of approaching a deadline and keeps feeling like the scope of it is expanding but I absolutely get what you mean about the difference between furry and mainstream porn, I think it took until my mid-20s to realize that a lot of people aren't looking for the 'imagine yourself in the scene' that I'm looking for with erotic material of any flavour hence why so much porn aimed at straight guys don't involve anyone with a cock and as such lacks anyone for the cishet straight audience for that stuff to imagine themselves as. Which might have been what attracted me to furry stuff in the first place. Like, some people draw pinups, but there's usually enough of a scenario implied to the sexy scene to imagine yourself in it, and what might have lead up to it, and what happens next, and each of those three things are an option for you to involve yourself in the work.

I actually find erotic and porn writing outside of the furry space, including stuff clearly written by cishet folk for cishet men, tends to be a bit better than non-visual non-furry porn for that, honestly. I think there's only so far you can get with writing before you at least craft something where someone could imagine themselves in the scenario, and if there's no actual sex involved then you widen the appeal to since it's easier to abstract if the parts don't match since the parts aren't coming up. Or as up if it involves nudity but not sex. What the hell would a text equivalent of a pinup even be?

Will definitely keep it in mind for future years, and it wouldn't be the first time I'd made something horny that isn't explicitly sexual (The bit of erotica I last wrote and gotten into a 'I need to do a final editing pass'... Lacks any sex or nudity? Or even explicit sexual themes? Would definitely qualify as stealth by your terms. What'll make it explicitly sexual is the meta context of where I'm likely to put it up). Or event he first time I've finished making something that I think would qualify as a game for that (The last erotic game I made would have been a Zebra puzzle with the goal of figuring out which scenario happens to which person, though I forget if it cast the player as one of them or not, and has been lost to Yahoo shutting down Groups the same way they did GeoCities).

(And the amusing thing about most erotic twine/inky games, at least in the genres I tend to read, is that the 'win condition' tends to be less sexy than the loss conditions. Which, honestly, probably just incentivizes seeing all the paths even more than most hypertext games and VNs, because let's be honest, the bad endings are why you're reading a game about being stranded in a forest with hungry plants, or whatever, whether you're someone who reads erotica to imagine it happening to you or to watch it happening to someone else in your mind's eye.)

I'm hoping I can actually get my act together well enough to do something this year. I always have so many ideas for how to turn my weird-ass kinks into "stealthy horny" games, and it's always kind of funny to see how people interpret e.g. Colorful Critter through the lens of trying to figure out what makes it horny without understanding that I am literally turned on by color changes and patterns.

(I'd consider doing Colorful Critter 2 but it'd probably end up just being a mediocre clone of Substance Painter.)

Anyway I have a few ideas for this year's and I've already rambled about some of them on your Discord.

I feel like this is true of... a lot of modern games, also. Not wanting to be the thing, but just watch it, and so it's monotonous combat with rewards at the end of each sequence. I wonder if this says something profound about mindfulness vs dissociation, but I don't have the heart to think in that direction or what it means if it's reflective of societal stuff.

mindless completionist achievement hunting for things that are eastereggs map designers put in while waiting on other teams, collect-a-thons like Banjo Kazooie, DK64, Mario64, Gex3 being named collect-a-thons instead of isikai games, etc. And I get that 'games to fill the time' is an important role, but dopaminergic life support doesn't mean they have to be... bad. I used to spend every hour of my life way dissociated, as if observing things through a pane of glass.

These days I only feel that when playing mainstream video games. I don't know what flipped. I'd joke and say legal weed, but I don't think that's it, even if that probably increased the number of people content to scour for achievements over more complex stuff, I've been there some nights.

fffuck. aaa i want to join in so bad but i do Not feel comfortable getting horny and kinky on my main itch page (...yet? no, probably never)
five days away...... i might take the plunge and make another itch account for this.........

hhhhhmmmmmmmMMMMMmmmmm i have an idea and i am Wanting

Honestly peeked at the jam page and automatically equated "horny" with like.... y'know.... sex!!! That was kind of a misconception, though, it would appear. Describing it as, specifically, being appealed to through.... people, not even necessarily in a "get your rocks off" way is, freaking cool as hell. Genuinely really happy reading through all of this. Hopefully this year's submissions are plentiful and freaking amazing!!!