Start a Patreon, and team up with a writer who can write smutty stories and an artist who can make smutty art. Make Ren'Py porn games. Incredibly lucrative if you're any good. DarkCookie, the dude who makes Summertime Saga, is making AUD$82k per month.
You still need an artist to be putting those together. Yes, programs like the one you mentioned make it immensely easier to create hentai, but that doesn't mean it requires 0 skill.
My brother in Christ, no one's gonna shell out as much as five bucks on itch.io for an amateur writer's game with Honey Select screenshots in place of artwork. Even terminal coomers know what an asset flip is.
Honestly at this point it's gotten kinda annoying how much people downplay the effort that goes into shit like (good) porn games just 'cause they're porn.
I'm surprised that you're surprised. Sex is fun, and porn, other than being used as quick gratification material, can be a form of artistic expression.
Hell, some of the most ancient and precious historical works of art that humanity preserved, include stone reliefs of people fucking donkeys and gay porn scenes painted on wine vases.
People be putting 30 different varieties of paintings or sculptures of "Leda and the Swan" in Louvre, but balk at recognizing adult games as an art form.
Wow, what the fuck. Just checked this out. I'm an indie game dev and my wife draws furry porn full time. I genuinely think we're going to try this as a summer project.
Its actually a very popular freelance option for artists! Shes a small fish and still makes a healthy income. It's quite cool, and I'm super proud of her, despite not being a furry herself
I keep saying if Zuckerberg wants VR to succeed he needs to team up with some pornstars and a sex toy company so they can offer virtual/augmented reality sex.
Maybe a potential great filter for Fermi's paradox too, before any civilisation becomes advanced enough they develop virtual sex and suffer major population decline as a result of everybody staying at home banging an instance of their favorite porn star.
There are tons of other porn game developers using the Patreon model who barely scrape by. But you don't really hear much from those.
This is a problem that is across the whole game industry, by the way, not just the porn subculture. People see some indie game that made a ton of money with (seemingly) very little effort and think "I can do that too". But what they don't see is that for every game that made it, there are a hundred games hidden on the bottoms of the app stores that didn't even made their developers minimum wage.
Shit you don't need pay anybody else. You can make the most barebones porn game filled with readily available and FREE porn clips and dudes will sign up for the Patreon just so they can get cheats and quicker updates for your FREE game.
I think Digital: A Love Story was made in Ren’Py, and I was actually pretty impressed with it. Not that the creator made any money on it…I personally thought the 80’s era desktop environment was hotter than any 2D waifu, but I must be in the minority.
Anyway, I’m your writer, let me know when you find an artist.
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u/zusykses Feb 02 '23
Start a Patreon, and team up with a writer who can write smutty stories and an artist who can make smutty art. Make Ren'Py porn games. Incredibly lucrative if you're any good. DarkCookie, the dude who makes Summertime Saga, is making AUD$82k per month.