"We thought we could go out to (game-review and news sites like) Blues News or Shack News, and say, 'Hey, we've got this new game out, give us a news item," Potter said.
Now reality has come back and people are saying, 'No, keep them realistic.'"īut Ensign's troubles getting media coverage for "Dream Stripper" when it was released may help explain why so many people were surprised by the "Hot Coffee" situation. "Thousands of people were coming and voting and saying they want superlarge (breasts).
"One of our pushes early on was to ask, 'What breast size do you want to see for a model?'" Potter said. He explained that the game's forums have ended up being a place where "Dream Stripper" users have said very clearly what they want. Some estimate the worldwide game market is about $20 billion, which would mean that as much as $2.4 million worth of adults-only games are sold each year.ĭave Potter is a principal at Ensign Games, which publishes "Dream Stripper," a 3D stripping title in which players are tasked with coaxing a stripper to remove her clothes. Games rated by the ESRB, with adults-only games making up only 0.1 percent of that total. Though no specific sales figures exist for mature and adult-oriented games, Brathwaite estimates that they account for 12 percent of all There's also porn star Jenna Jameson's "Virtually Jenna," numerous strip poker games, sex-charged versions of "Tetris" and "Wheel of Fortune" and many others. Of course, Brathwaite's game and "Leisure Suit Larry" are far from the only adult titles available. When not running the group, she's the lead designer on "Playboy: The Mansion," which stars a sort of "Sim Hugh Hefner"-players take on the persona of the Playboy magazine founder and live out his everyday, sex-soaked life in and around his famous Los Angeles mansion. But we didn't plan that."īrathwaite was a natural choice to run the Sex SIG. "The plans were under way, but it was announced shortly after the 'Hot Coffee' scandal broke," Brathwaite said, "so it was very timely. And though it officially launched in August, it had been in the works for months.
Partly because of that dynamic-as well as to help developers of adult-oriented games coordinate efforts and find a community of like-minded people-the IGDA's Brathwaite created the Sex SIG. "I think most of the time that's based out of (people) just not being familiar with the facts and not being gamers themselves." "I think there are different standards that are applied to our industry, particularly by nongamers," Patricia Vance, president of the ratings board, told CNET in August. And while some people-particularly politicians-may find the existence of adult video games a worthy target for criticism, others feel that when properly labeled as "mature" or "adults-only" by the ratings board, such games shouldn't be treated any different than other forms of media, such as movies, magazines and the like.
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