Is anybody working on something multiplayer?

[RedStingOfDiscipline]

Just curious. Like spanking MMO RPG

[sora666]

not an mmo RPG but its a wrestling/fighting game but
Sam3DX has a game called Naked fighter, and it has multiplayer aspects to it.

[HolyMolyManiac]

The only thing that comes to mind is "Spanky" from Happyhead Games, you can find it on steam, but it's not released, yet.

I can't imagine something like an spanking MMO RPG will ever come to be because MMO Rpgs are incredibly expensive to develop and maintain.
"Standard" MMORPGs have it hard enough to make it on the market, so I don't think something as niche as a Spanking themed one will ever be a thing lol

[RedStingOfDiscipline]

Originally Posted by sora666

Sam3DX has a game called Naked fighter, and it has multiplayer aspects to it.

Hmm, it's interesting, thank you.
but it's in progress and what they have ready is chocking and other wrestling stuff.

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Originally Posted by HolyMolyManiac

The only thing that comes to mind is "Spanky" from Happyhead Games, you can find it on steam, but it's not released, yet.

I can't imagine something like an spanking MMO RPG will ever come to be because MMO Rpgs are incredibly expensive to develop and maintain.
"Standard" MMORPGs have it hard enough to make it on the market, so I don't think something as niche as a Spanking themed one will ever be a thing lol

Yes, MMO RPG was mentioned just for lulz. But multiplayer game could be thing, maybe.

[sora666]

Originally Posted by RedStingOfDiscipline

Hmm, it's interesting, thank you.
but it's in progress and what they have ready is chocking and other wrestling stuff.[color="red"]

He does have 2 spanking wrestling moves. An OTK position is one of them

[SpecificInter3sts Edit P]

Unrelated, but I had a dream years ago that Android 18 in Xenoverse had an unlockable move where she spanked her foe, draining the player's stamina.
Everyone rushed her skills trying to get it and maxed out their stamina as soon as possible.
It was a good dream.

[mgrant24601]

i mean spanking is a pretty popular kink, as kinks go, but people's pornographic interests tend to demand variety, so most pornography is relatively cheaply made in video or written formats and there's tons of it... and while there's tons of pornography devoted to spanking in both video and story formats, spanking is still niche within pornography.

so when there are occasionally vidya games with spanking they use tools like rpgmaker and renpy and twine which simplify the game design process so that a single individual can create the entire thing with little or no assistance from anyone else... and it's generally done without any real expectation of financial reward. Even when creators use patreon, I'm not actually aware of any developers who were able to quit their jobs because of spanking revenue. (thegary with his cure my addiction game is probably the closest it's ever come and while I didn't pay too close attention to his subscriber counts I don't think he was ever making job quitting money, just closer than anyone else I'm aware of.)

now, to be fair, if the quality of games increased there *would* be increased demand, and if somone with a bunch of money decided to just start making spanking video games, they might turn a profit? I don't know, I'm pretty doubtful. But a multiplayer game? The idea with multiplayer (usually, especially these days) is some sort of continuous monetization for a single product. this can be subscription model or in game purchases or ad revenue or a few other things... but the problem goes back to what I originally said... variety.

People always want something new. And with vidya games churning out high enough quality content that would engage a large profitable group of people would be challenging enough, but to have it contained in a single product that just gets extended with new content seems um... very challenging.

there are also some other game design problems with this... namely.... spanking isn't actually a game. it's pornography, and that means storytelling mainly not actual gameplay. and multiplayer games can (and for a high quality product MUST) include storytelling elements, storytelling is still ultimately secondary to gameplay in terms of continuing to engage users. That's deeply conflicted with something that is based on storytelling. The game I mentioned earlier (CMA) is probably the most gamey sandboxy spanking game I've ever played, but ultimately it's still much, much more about story than it is about gameplay.

Finally, and to emphasize this last point... Can you think of ANY spanking game you've ever played that you would just play it as a game, and not because of the kink aspect? I can think of a few that were genuinely FUN (and I'm not going to name names here because there are lots of content creators who post or have posted on this forum over the years and I don't want to insult any of them by not including them on the list), but I can't think of a single game that, if you removed the spanking content and replaced it with something non-kink, I would have actually played through. That's NOT an insult to the great content that's been created, it's just a reality that follows from the concept of combining kink and gaming.

AI generated virtual reality worlds with AI logic and design and characters are what will bridge this gap, but while we're getting closer to that where we can start visualizing what it will look like, some components are still science fiction and require advances that we don't really know when they'll come.

[Shirabaru]

Sounds fun. Should I make one after Justicar?

[sora666]

Originally Posted by mgrant24601

so when there are occasionally vidya games with spanking they use tools like rpgmaker and renpy and twine which simplify the game design process so that a single individual can create the entire thing with little or no assistance from anyone else... and it's generally done without any real expectation of financial reward. Even when creators use patreon, I'm not actually aware of any developers who were able to quit their jobs because of spanking revenue. (thegary with his cure my addiction game is probably the closest it's ever come and while I didn't pay too close attention to his subscriber counts I don't think he was ever making job quitting money, just closer than anyone else I'm aware of.)

I know Hachi (creator of Hail Dicktator) and Altos and Herdone (The Headmaster) makes pretty damn good money from patreon on their games.
Now if they have a team they have to pay and what not, thats where it gets tricky and could possibly not be enough to live off of.

[RedStingOfDiscipline]

Originally Posted by sora666

I know Hachi (creator of Hail Dicktator) and Altos and Herdone (The Headmaster) makes pretty damn good money from patreon on their games.
Now if they have a team they have to pay and what not, thats where it gets tricky and could possibly not be enough to live off of.

Yeah, The Headmaster was real masterpiece!


I'm asking because in Second Life maybe decade ago there were several sims "English school RP with spanking". Hundreds of players, etc. SL could count as "spanking MMO RPG" by looks but it is simply pathetic if you consider gameplay. People struggled with maintaining their avatars, but still wanted it. For all these coming years I see tons of single-player spanking games and no multiplayer aside from SL. Other kinks are different: kinky wrestling was thing in SL, now it has much better specialized multiplayer games. Is spanking special? If spanking is just tiny niche, why single-player is alive and kicking (butt)?