Public Poll - Which New Game Should I Make?

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Boringish thing first, feel free to skip!

First, a tiny-quick note about the art in the image. The Mira character concept sketch in the center is entirely mine, the two colored outfits were created for me by a friend interested in The Sexy Cosplay Café idea. All of the art is completely original, but I did want to explain why there were two different styles on display! All of it is purely early concept art, for a game that may not even be chosen, but I thought including it would add a bit of flavor! (As well as providing some proof that these games are all more thoroughly considered than just the short descriptive blurbs shown -_-). Keep in mind that all of it is concept art, mostly for my own notes, so expect the end-product art to be considerably better!

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Now! On to the main event! 

As many of you should be aware (on account of previous announcements or today’s posts on various forums), Eros Academy is being downgraded to a side-project. Starting AFTER the upcoming 2.0 release, Eros Academy will be reduced to 1-2 new scenes per month, with patrons getting them monthly and everyone else 2-3 times a year. If you want details on why that is, read the relevant portions of This Post and also This Post. I won’t belabor the point here. That’s the bad news.

The GOOD news is that I am going to be starting a NEW game as the major focus of this Patreon, right after the Eros Academy 2.0 release (which is currently scheduled for sometime in early to mid March). In the name of a desire to work on a game that will actually interest people (which Eros Academy utterly failed to do), I have come up with a number of game concepts to put before the people of the adult games community. 

Originally, there were 7 concepts. Voting by my current Patrons has reduced that number to the five following games that are up for discussion! If you have a favorite, or even multiple favorites, please comment (or PM me if you don’t want to comment publicly)! I’m looking to get as many possible opinions about which game to focus on as possible!

An Important Final Note before you read the Concepts:

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I don't do dark content. Any of these games is going to be made with a mind toward healthy sexuality. Yes, there will be plenty of BDSM and other such fetishes. But rape content and torture aren't things I will ever put in my games. Period. If you're looking for that, go find another creator. I don't and won’t judge you for it, but I won't put it in my games either, there's already plenty of that stuff elsewhere.  

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The Games

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-----------The New Elven Maid -----------
Intro: 

You're the youngest noble of your small house in the Kingdom of Libratia. One day, just after you turn of age and are encouraged to move out on your own, you stumble upon a sight that tugs at your heart strings, in more ways than one. An elven maiden, beautiful despite the sorry state of her clothing and dirt in her hair, is sitting huddled against the meager protection of an alley entranceway, looking miserable as the evening begins to cool.

Your feet move without thought, and you cross to the silver-haired beauty. She seems to sense you coming and looks up, face a mixture of fear, defiance, and hoplessness....

What this game is:

At the beginning of the game you take in a naive elf maiden who has fallen on hard times. While you'd like to think you'd have done it anyway, you admit that you have an ulterior motive to offering her a position as a maid for your newly established household. She's utterly gorgeous, even for an elf, and you badly want her in your bed. Perhaps as merely a mistress...or maybe something more.

The goal of this game is to slowly seduce the naive young elf, turning her into the perfect, obedient, maid/lover for your tastes. Perhaps she'll become nothing more than your plaything, servicing your every need...or perhaps she'll become your wife, who satisfies your whims behind closed doors, while helping you rise to power in public.

Some examples of possible early game events are:

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Increase her Lewdness by stealing her underwear on laundry day, forcing her to spend the day trying to hide that she isn’t wearing any. Something you don’t make easy…

Increase her Desire for you by spending time teaching her to read and write common…with increasingly dirty but famous literature as examples for her to read from.

Increase her Submission to you by punishing her for errors in her duty. Would she prefer to work a day without the skirt she ruined? Or perhaps just take a spanking instead…
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Obviously, these events would escalate, with later game events being more and more X-rated. Working naked, serving as your escort to a sexy masquerade, spending a day under your desk servicing you…etc. 

What this game would use:

Renpy as an engine, with hand drawn digital artwork in a Visual Novel style.

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----------- Pony Girl Trainer -----------
Intro:

A new fad for the liberal sex city state of Libratania is to have trained ponygirls fill several different rolls in well-to-do households. The trend started with the Ponygirl races, extended to having them pull carts through town, and has even developed a niche market for ponygirls in domestic positions. As the 3rd son/daughter of a well-known merchant cartel, looking to prove yourself to your family by striking out into the world with your first independent business, you decide to get ahead of this fad and become a professional ponygirl trainer. You recruit, sell and rent ponygirls for both domestic and business use. Maybe you'll specialize in girls your clients can rent to pull their carts through town, or perhaps you'll focus on training racing ponygirls and strike it big at the ponygirl races. Maybe you'll even specialize in training obedient domestic pony girls to fill household roles for nobility! The options are plentiful, and it's up to you to choose...

What this game is:

This game focuses on a model much like the Brothel Sim style games (Example) or Slave Maker. Rather than a fantastic amount of interaction with a single character, there will be a broad number of characters you can recruit, then train using various action types. Having said that, each girl I add to the game would have multiple unique events (I know some brothel games are bad about everything feeling generic after the first few girls), and a few might be recruitable as trainers for other girls. Additionally, there would be an element of empire building as you become more powerful in the city, eventually even having the chance to become a noble yourself through your renown and connections.

What this game would use:

Engine - Either Renpy or the SugarCube build of the Twine HTML engine.
Art  - Do to wanting a wide range of girls for this game, this is the game most likely for me to use mixed art with. That is, taking existing high-quality art from the web and adding to it with my own art or commissioned art. Though a few repeat trainers and major characters would be entirely new material.

----------- The Perversions of Thieves ----------- 

In the city of Libratania, the thief’s guild hasn’t been doing well at all. The current guildmaster is a pervert of the highest order, whose been hosing away the hard work of decades to feed his perversions. Finally, in an act of desperation, you and several of your allies manage to assassinate the idiot destroying the guild, though most of your allies die in the process. He wasn’t the guildmaster for no reason and many fell to his blades and those of his brainwashed toys.

The loss of most of your allies, as well as the old bastard’s decades worth of connections, really stings, and many of the guild’s members scatter and factionalize without his authority. Despite being wounded yourself, you managed to hold onto the previous guildmaster’s personal safehouse through the infighting and a small core of members has pledged to you as the last surviving senior plotter that rid them of the pervert. The trouble with that, of course, is that the old bastard was a pervert of the highest order, and his safehouse has a lot of…questionable equipment. Still…you’re resourceful and certain you can make use of the many things in this place to help your faction rise to glory.

What this game is:

You start the game with a small stable of thieves and a very limited amount of control over them or trust from them, limiting how much you can get them to do and how successful their jobs will be. Being a resourceful soul, however, you decide to take advantage of the various ideas and objects the old guild leader left behind. Starting with basic punishments like a spanking for spectacular enough failure, or access to fine wines for brilliant successes, you ever so slowly sexualize rewards for success and punishments for failure. You can end up with a loyal harem of female thieves, a jolly crew of male followers enjoying a den of debauchery you’ve created...or stabbed in your sleep if you aren't careful and go too far too fast!

Gameplay wise, there will be two major focuses. The first focus will be on your general stable of thieves. Who you want to recruit, what sorts of jobs you want them to focus on (standard theft, blackmarket, honeytraps, prostitution, protection rackets, etc.) You’ll be able to offer these general recruits various rewards, or punish them for failures, getting a wide variety of short events with generic thief characters. Managing this part of the game will provide you with money and influence, as well as helping you set the tone for what sort of operation you run, which will be important to the other focus…

The second focus is on expanding your operations by either taking over the other factions that came out of the infighting, or by building new chapters and finding someone to run them. You can spend money and influence on several tactics to do either of these things, from outright taking over by force of arms, paying off the right people, or seducing a recruit/seducing the leader of the other faction. The other faction leaders, and the those you can recruit for new chapterhouses, will each be unique NPCs without their own full storylines. You’ll have to find a way to bring them onboard. What kind of operation you are running will help determine your options. Here is a short example to show you what I mean.

Example: Anna the Pickpocket Queen

When the infighting happened, one of the guild’s most gifted pickpocket’s formed her own group and they’ve been working the streets of the merchant district. This time, you decided on a capture approach (this it a decision the player would make, the capture approach was just chosen for this example) and your people managed to grab Anna when she was running from the merchant’s guards. When they bring her before you, she refuses to work for you, leaving you with an issue. You could break her, but that’s what the old guildmaster would have done, and it wouldn’t go down well with your people. Instead, you decide to be subtle, assigning her a job in one of your brothels as a maid until she decides to help you. Claiming it’s to reassure her that you won’t force anything on her, you have the madam lock her in a chastity belt for safety, and personally keep the key. Then you arrange for the girls at the brothel to slowly drive her to a frenzy, making her come to you so she can get some relief. From there, you slowly convince her that she wants to submit to you and be your loyal lieutenant.

End Example

Each girl or guy you can recruit will have their own story, and multiple ways by which you can ‘convince’ them. Some you might simply seduce, others you might do something like the example above. All of them, once they become your lieutenants, will have additional interactions both with you specifically and you your stable of thieves. Obviously, recruiting them will also give you access to their people, expanding your control of the city. Eventually, you may be able to influence even the lewdness of the city itself….

What this game would use:

I could pull this off with Renpy. After looking into it, I’m sure it’s quite possible. However, there are one or two other engines I’m also considering, as they might handle the ‘city’ elements better than Renpy would. Art-wise, this one would be digital art created or commissioned by me, at least for the recruitable characters. Some or all of the generic thieves might use high-quality existing hentai assets to speed up the making of the game. It would depend on the level of support the game gets.

----------- Passion of the Force ----------- 

You’re a young Jedi, one who has only recently begun accepting solo missions. On your way back from one such mission, you feel something calling to you through the force. Dropping out of hyperspace in a system that doesn’t even have the dignity of a name on the star charts of the galactic republic, you follow the odd feeling to a small moon orbiting a gas giant in the system. As you breach the atmosphere, a shiver runs down your spine. Not a warning of danger, but something else. Something you’ve never felt before, though at first you can’t put your finger on it just what it remind you of. Then, as you zone in on the location the feeling is coming from, you find a word for what you’re feeling.

The Force is singing.

It’s preposterous, of course. But no matter how much you tell yourself otherwise, you can almost hear the music, and the sensation only grows stronger as you finally spot a sprawling stone temple, half-reclaimed by the vibrant plants that cover everything from horizon to horizon. For a few minutes, you’re uncertain you’ll be able to find a place to set down your ship, something telling you it would be a crime to burn back the underbrush with your ship’s cannon. Then you spot a circle of stone above the main temple that was clearly intended as a landing zone. You nearly missed it, covered as it now is in greenery, but the stone has kept the plants from growing overmuch and you managed to set your ship down with only a little bit of struggle.

The temple calls you onward the moment you leave your ship, the music hitting a joyful, playful crescendo as you step foot inside. Then it falls to a mere gentle, welcoming, thrum inside the back of your mind. The Force seems happy you’re here. Which should be impossible. The Force shouldn’t have emotions, after all. Yet, as you pan a glowrod’s beam around the interior you can’t shake the feeling and you find yourself humming, your feet carrying you inward unconsciously. Your shock only grows as the scenes of nature that were rendered in relief on the walls of the entrance hall change to images of people. People who appear to be Jedi, or at least Force Wielders of some ilk. Of course, you expected that much, from the feel of this place, but the nature of the scenes catches you off guard. The scenes are not of battle, but of peace. Families, couples, children playing. You’re mesmerized, enthralled by the beauty of each scene, your feet carry you onward, through a dozen rooms you barely register the purpose of. Then you freeze. For as you passed into a new section, the paintings changed again. Now, instead of families, the walls show lovers…lovers in the throes of passion. You gulp. What sort of place is this? Is it a refugee of the Sith?

“Yo!”

You cry out and whirl, lightsaber swinging through the space behind you…and right through the shimmering blue form of a smiling force ghost.

“Hey now! That was kinda rude you know.”

You stare, uncomprehending for long moments. The ghost is a playfully scowling young human woman in scant attire, and that only makes the image harder to process.

“It’s also rude to stare, even if I’m a bit dead.”

You lick your lips. “W-who are you? What is this place?”

The woman grins widely and spreads her arms. “I’m Nala. Nala Sunrider. And this is, or at least was, the Sunrider clan temple!”

What this game is:

The basic gameplay ideas behind this game are a variant of the ‘trainer’ type games that people like Akabur make, but I’ve never completely liked most of the iterations of such, and this is a more…lightheated?...I suppose that’s a good word. It’s a more lighthearted take on the idea. 

Instead of the darkish twist most such games have, the MC of this game is a Jedi who discovers that not all is quite right with the Jedi Order. When you stumble across the Sunrider Clan temple, it is revealed to you that the current Jedi order aren’t really users of the light side of the force, so much as they are neutral users. That, by cutting themselves off from emotions, they’ve cut out BOTH sides of the Force…and the Force itself has begun to suffer from there being too users of either side of the Force. The Force chose you to attempt to convert as many Jedi, Sith, and others as you could back to using the full spectrum of Force energy. When asked how, it’s revealed to you that the secret behind the Sunrider clan’s immense power was Passion. Not the passion that the Sith harp about, but rather zest for life. You need to make Jedi feel again. And the most life affirming and strongest feelings out there? Sex of course!

You suspect that the female Force Ghost instructing you has been alone too long when she suggests that (-_-), but she eventually convinces you to give it a go. You set out to create a new set of force adherents, recruiting from all sides. For the Jedi, you appeal to their repressed sexual natures (Come to my side! We have both sex AND cookies!), showing them a way to have their cake(sex!) and eat it too (not falling to the dark side). In, of course, the most nymphomaniac and kinky way possible. For the Sith, you help them get rid of all that pesky rage by getting them laid (-_-. Seriously, those guys and gals clearly need it).

Unlike most of the ‘trainer’ games, this one would be focused on an actual plot beyond ‘sex up all the things, even the things that ought not be sexed up.’ Indeed, there will even be characters that you don’t need to sex up(gasp!)! The end goal will be to actually build your own star empire, edging out the Republic and CIS by building up your own faction. Yes, part of the gameplay would be to find, seduce, and train more force users, but there would also (eventually) be swaying whole planets and their populations to your cause, issuing decrees for those populations (sexy decrees, like a nudity required law or mandatory hands-on sex education) and building up both the political and military following to take over the galaxy. All the while, of course, building your own personal harem. For their own good and the good of the galaxy, of course! It’s your not-so-evil-plot to save the galaxy! 

What this game would use:

It can be done with Renpy. However, it’s possible that one of the other VN or HTML engines I’m currently playing with may handle the empire building bits better, in which case I might use one of them. Art will be made by me or commissioned.

----------- The Sexy Cosplay Café! ----------- 

So this idea is my current favorite, I’m not going to lie. It’s also the game that the concept art attached to the post is for.

Intro:

It’s the summer before you start college, and you’re moving to the city months a few months early in order to get away from your family. Well, most of your family. You love them, but most of them are a bit too…normal, for you. Thankfully, your older step-sister is an exception, and she’d promised she’s got a job for you in the city. You may have a scholarship waiting for you and a promise of being able to crash at your step-sis’s place, but you’re still going to need money for necessities and supplies. Plus, knowing Alice, whatever job she has for you won’t be boring.

When you arrive in the city, that confidence is proven completely correct. Alice has recently become the manager of a The Sexy Cosplay Café, and she’s badly in need of an assistant, a role she herself was filling until just a few months ago. The quirky owner is giving her headaches, several of the girls working at the café are seriously high-maintenance, and the Café’s business is starting to stagnate. Alice starts you off by setting you the task of getting the current staff under control…by any means necessary. And given that she hands you a guide from her own time as an assistant that indicates she was playing dominant owner for a puppy-girl, lesbian lover for an elven cosplayer, and ‘stress relief’ for the previous manager, you’re pretty sure she really really means that any means necessary comment. You also wander if, just maybe, you can offer her a little ‘stress relief’ of her own. You’ve had a crush on your sexy older step-sis her for the better part of a decade, after all.

What this Game is:

Pretty much what it says on the tin, or in this case, in the intro. This is a VN style game that starts out with an MC (of hopefully selectable gender), who is thrust into the role of assistant manager for the Sexy Cosplay Café. Your first task will be to get control of the current small staff, bringing the chaos level of the Café down to something that isn’t hurting the business. Each girl working there has at least one issue for you to work with her on, and you’ll be able to get them in line by providing incentives and punishments appropriate to their behavior.

At first those punishments and rewards will be fairly routine, but as you get to know them through interactions and events both in and outside the café, you’ll be able to provide increasingly risqué options to get the best possible work out of them. Punishments may be as simple as a spanking, or more complex options like costumes with locks on them, use of remote toys, making them advertise the café in sexy ways, or forcing them to act as the café’s pet catgirl for a day. Rewards can range from a fun date paid for by the café, you entertaining their various fetishes both in and outside of work, or daily break times for sex instead of cigarettes. I’ve got a fairly long list of both rewards and punishments, those are merely a few examples!

But wait! There’s more! Getting the café staff under control is only the first portion of the game! From there the game will just keep expanding. If you succeed in getting the girls under control with the time limit, the owner will come to you with an atta boy/girl…plus a new problem. It seems the café has been losing money, and she needs ideas to help turn things around. From there you’ll have the chance to convince her, and the rest of the staff, to go along with new and increasingly risqué ideas to improve customer turnout. Advertise at the local college with the girls in skimpy outfits, convince the staff to convert their outfits to body paint, or even convince the owner to install ‘private booths’ that offer more service than just a decent lunch…. It will be up to you to make the Café profitable, and to get the staff to go along with your increasingly erotic ideas! 

In addition to everything else, there will be events to seduce your step-sister, become a waiter/waitress yourself to fill in for people, recruit new employees from your college, and have a relationship with one or more of the girls.

What this game would use:

Renpy with self-created and/or commissioned art.

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And there you have it. If you’ve managed to read this long without me losing you, let me know what you think of the games! Keep in mind, while I fully intend to take what all of you think into consideration, and ALL of these games are ones I’ve done my research on to make sure they are possible, the final decision will/must be mine. If one game comes out as the clearly preferred option, so much the better. If there are multiple games that the community likes, however, I will make my own choice between them. I am, after all, the person that has to put the hundreds of hours of work in to make it all happen! 

That being said, comment (or PM me) with your favorite game or games from the list, ask whatever questions you might have, and feel free to tell me what sort of things (Kinks/Fetishes, Specific Events, Character Archetypes, Etc.) you’d love to see in any or all of the games!