Following the success of our Indiegogo campaign, we're finally ready to share this all-new collection of essays with the world! Thank you for supporting serious writing that takes adult games seriously! You can purchase the second issue by itself here, or if this is your first time hearing about the anthology you can now get BOTH issues as a discounted bundle here!
Finally, all the essays in the anthology will be shared for free in the coming weeks to the BP Games Cohost account - we've already posted "Coming Out On Top: A Ten-Year Retrospective" by Davis G. See!
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Full list of anthology contents below the cut!
COMING OUT ON TOP: A TEN-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE - Davis G. See examines how seminal gay porn VN Coming Out On Top filled a huge gap in Western porn culture, and how it's shaped said culture well beyond its 2014 release.
DON'T PLAY COY: MARKETING ADVICE FOR ADULT GAME DEVS - A critique of the marketing copy for many adult games (which often neglect to discuss the kinks and fantasies the games appeal to), why it's a problem, and how to write copy that attracts the people who want to play your game, by RagingHadron.
FEMBOYS, FUTANARI, AND FINDING MYSELF IN THE SPACE BETWEEN THEIR BODIES - A scrutinization of the pornographic character archetypes of the "futanari", the "femboy", and the "sissy", how these archetypes are articulated, how they are played against each other, and where their boundaries break down, using Tales of Androgyny as a lens, from Lynn Robinson.
THE DYNAMICS OF SEX IN THE RANCE SERIES - An examination by Eithi of the Rance eroge series and its employment of nonconsensual sexual relationships, and how entries like Rance VI and Sengoku Rance subvert this pattern.
WHAT MAKES A GAME STOREFRONT NSFW-FRIENDLY? - A discussion of what makes platforms like Steam and Itch hostile to developers of NSFW games, what an NSFW-friendly platform might look like, and how such a platform could service NSFW game developers, publishers, and, most of all, players. Told from the perspective of the developer of the upcoming Benefitship game, MadCreativity.
CUMMING TOGETHER: LEWDTUBING, EROGE, AND COMMUNITY - LewdNeko's recounting of four years as a VTuber/lewdtuber, sharing experiences with building a community that is centred around sharing sex/kink positivity and embracing porn gaming as a hobby, rather than as a shameful pastime.
THIS ABUNDANCE OF SEX IS KINDA NICE, ACTUALLY - Cozy games are all the rage - but what makes a "cozy" porn game? Writer Blit employs Project Horseshoe's report "Coziness in Games: An Exploration of Safety, Softness, and Satisfied Needs" as a framework to analyze three such games.
THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY QUANDARY OF ADULT GAMES - An interrogation of the ways that inflated, unrealistic expectations for the amount of content that ought to be in an adult game are being addressed by art thieves and AI-generated slop, by Leo G.
"I'M GAME IF YOU ARE" - RECLAIMING CONSENT THROUGH PORN GAMES - An exploration by Laney Norman of how porn/romance games help those with complex relationships to sex get back in touch with their sexuality in a controlled environment, drawing on the author's own experiences.
WHAT IF IT HAD BEEN GOOD: THE SUBVERSE REVIEW - Adult Analysis Anthology editor Bigg fulfills his Indiegogo-campaign-dictated obligations with this dizzyingly thorough review of one of Western porn gaming's most ambitious titles.
