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This! Plus, nobody want to be known for making eroge/henati games... It is very bad rep. I guess that is why japanese vn creators goes by a different name than there on

I'm planning a hentai game just so I can say I did it. <--- This off-topic.

Didn't an eroge artist design the new vocaloid? If so, I guess skill is skill. Regardless of rep

Would you be interested in localizing H-games?


I would not, because if Carpe Fulgur localizes an erotic-content game, we'll only ever be *able* to do erotic content in the future.

This phenomenon isn't unique to just us, or even to the video game industry. Anyone in entertainment who works with "porn" essentially becomes a literal out-caste, an untouchable who cannot find work anywhere else but with more porn. Just look up stories of porn actors some time - a lot of them would like to get into more "legitimate" pursuits, but they can't because 90% or more of society treats people who work on or with erotic material like lepers and don't want to employ them for any reason. There've been a few actors who eventually "broke out", but they are vanishingly rare.

The only way we would ever be able to work on some of the otherwise-neat games in Japan that have erotic content in them would be to not only take chainsaws to that content, but even to "salt the earth"; that is, modify the game's directory structure and whatnot so as to make it especially difficult for fans to attempt "back-porting" the erotic content back into the game. The "Hot Coffee" debacle around GTA San Andreas back in 2005 (and that didn't even involve actual nudity!) tells us everything we need to know about how the public, rating agencies, distributors and even Congress would react to the revelation that "official" erotic content exists for a game widely released in the U.S. We also know how long-term fans of a given game would react to such an idea, which is why we've never seriously considered working on a game with erotic content in it.

For the record, I am aware of JAST USA's "clean" release of Aselia the Eternal, and of their statements that they want to try and release it as far and wide as possible... but I think the fact that you still can't find it on Steam or other "respectable" digidistro sites speaks volumes about the reception I suspect they're getting to the idea. This isn't a knock against JAST, mind you - it's simply reality. They've released porn before and are Marked, and I would highly suspect no "large" distributor will treat with them at all.

And if we worked on a game with erotic content in it, we'd get the same treatment - up to and including, I suspect, Recettear and our other games being pulled from the services they are currently on.

We're never going to work on an "h-game" simply because doing so would cripple our futures. There are some pretty amazing games in Japan that coincidentally feature erotic content that we can't work on as a result, but the reality of the market simply dictates that we not work on such games.

I haven't read anything yet so I might be repeating some of the things people have already said...generally >_> sex scenes are difficult to draw especially erotic ones....like full blown sex scenes. ._. ...I mean no one is gunna get H---- off stick figures are deformed breasts and p----es. I mean like fanservice is okay...but there are some parts that people might not be comfortable drawing.

Besides, not every one wants sex and stuff in there visual novels. It's time consuming to think of an erotic scenario and describing it... so it doesn't turn out like "he put me on a bed of roses." "he striped me." "he put that stick in me. it was warm." OTL. that would be the worst eroge ever... You need a really good writer with a vast knowledge of vocabulary to make it sound erotic and alluring. ALSO. YOU NEED AN AWESOME STORY. .-. i think the ero stuff should JUST be an add on. :/ Sex stories...are well...sex stories.
Anyways, D:we probably do have eroge lovers amongst the lemmasoft forums.....but...people who are pro enough to make it...ehhh a few.
Also, I'm sure that their aren't alot of free spirtes with positions and what not..so It wouldn't work out too well. You have to hire an artist to draw, or draw those scenes yourself.
Programming and Music..Eh...Not really a problem...but if the UI is set just right, it will add to the scenes....and all of those other aspects of a visual novel.

Well this is just my input on it. /poofs

But in the case of this community why do you think that is? Why are eroge style games less popular here?

Don't know about the creation side, but for viewing, I find that too many eroge works make their characters far too young.
Regardless of popularity, I find it creepy.

As for eroge making their characters "too young", I can't say anything for OELVN works. But for translated ones? You have to remember that they were made in Japan. The age of consent there ranges between 14-18 in many places (maybe 16-18, I cannot remember) in Japan and the target market for many eroge is high school boys/young adult males. The characters in those are, naturally, going to seem unusually young to a Western audience.