Summer plans 2023
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Where the hell have you been?
Whoops, I haven't posted anything in a while. I got really into large language models for a bit, wrote a blog post about them, realized LLMs are bad actually, deleted the post, and then tried 3 times to write a post about just how awful they were but never published any of them. I finally did republish the original post but I added a disclaimer at the top.
Anyway, that's not important. What is important is that I'm going to be doing a couple game jams over the summer!
Game jams? Please tell me more.
The first is Preggo Game Jam which started and ends . It's all about pregnancy.
The second is Summer of Smut, a jam about erotic games in general, which runs from through . That's right, a three month jam! I'm a little nervous about this one because that's a long time to stay motivated on a hobby project. I've only ever spent that much time on a game once before, and since it wasn't porn no one ever even looked at it.
Preggo Game Jam is already in progress? How is it going?
Preggo Game Jam is going kind of rough so far. I enjoy pregnancy as a fetish, but the kind of pregnancy smut I typically like involves a male protagonist impregnating a bunch of women and building a harem. And as much as I enjoy consuming that kind of stuff, it makes me feel shitty to make it myself. There's something degrading about it.
So instead I'm trying to do something outside my usual comfort zone: DRAGONS!. You play as a female dragon and fly around in rail shooter segments to hunt, seek treasure, and defend your territory. So far I have some pretty decent physics-based flight controls. You can roll and flap your wings, and there's a simple air drag simulation that accounts for the angle of your wings and how spread they are. This lets you bank left and right in a somewhat-realistic way. I'm still tweaking the constants so that it feels good to move around.
But where does the pregnancy part come in? Well, I'm still working on that. The idea rattling around my skull involves your dragon shapeshifting into a human and taking a human lover for a while. While living amongst humans, the dragon would get pregnant, and the pregnancy would advance for a while. But eventually she'd leave that life behind and go back to being a dragon. When that happens, the pregnancy would be converted into a dragon egg.
But that's just one idea for it, and I'm not super married to it. It feels like it's not as horny as I want it to be. Maybe instead there's midair fights for dominance and mating rights with other dragons or something. That might be too skeevy though.
Another idea I had in terms of a human lover is that an adventurer shows up in your lair and takes a liking to you.
Anyway this whole thing is still very early in the planning stages, and nothing is set in stone yet.
But what about Roll to Seduce?
I'm going to get back to it. I really don't want to abandon the project, but I feel like doing all the game jams I can is a higher priority right now. And anyway, it's going to require a complete rewrite for compatibility with Godot 4, and I might wait to do that until 4.1 is out at the very least.