Experimental Games Category and Project Explanation
Hello guys.
Today I'm here to tell you about a new category I made for Male Doll's Itch.io's home page: the Experimental Games one. As you can check on our home page, it's now categorized by our main games, then Walkthrough and Art Packs, then Free Games, and last but not least Experimental Games.
Their names are self-explaining but I want you to understand Experimental Games as a way for my team and I to test our ideas. It can be a prototype to test a specific theme/fetish, or an NSFW mechanic, for example. However, the two essential things about this category are:
- The 'Experimental Games' won't probably have a final version of it. Our goal is to test and practice our game development skills. If we made something fun and you believe we should make an entire game based on it, please leave a comment and rate it. It's the way we expect to move forward!
- The 'Experimental Games' won't be produced according to a schedule. However, in our Discord we discuss some ideas for improving our current games and it can motivate us to make something new based on your feedback. For example, we've been discussing how we can improve Pact of the Ancients, especially its NSFW content, and we're already working on some players' feedback.
Last but not least, I left 'My nephew's husband and his friends' page visible again. It was a weekend project I made to check if you guys like cuckold fetish but at that time (months ago) I left it visible only for a few days. From now on, it will be accessible for you all as an Experimental Game.
Thank you all for supporting us and we hope you enjoy our upcoming experimental projects!
Victoria Invicta/Male Doll Team
Comments
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Ah. The Nephew Husband game looked hot. Oh well.
I hope you enjoy it! It's a very specific fantasy but I would like to know how people react to it.
I figured it wouldn't have anything added to it, so didn't try it. Feels a bit weird playing a game that isn't going to get touched again.
I understand your point but the decision of developing a whole game is now more up to the community than ourselves. Male Doll will complete 5 years in January and my team and I still want to make more projects based on gameplay that aren't visual novels - like Pact of the Ancients, Boyfriend's Rescue, and our old JRPGs. This category will allow us to test our new ideas without having to commit to delivering something that may not have huge community support. And if people like our prototypes, send us feedback, comments, etc., we'll have an answer if we can move forward with them or not. Unfortunately making a game is expensive and we need money to survive, so I need to find a way to reduce the risks of making projects that we deeply want to make.
Sorry. I didn't mean to imply I was annoyed or anything. It was just slight disappointment. I know, personally, how hard game dev is. And finishing projects. :P
No worries! I just took the opportunity of your comment to explain to everyone who might have the same thought as yours. We really want to make unique games for the community and we are trying different approaches to be able to make a unique game that also pays its development. <3
I'm aware that 'My nephew's husband and his friends' is a novel (and we want to make other types of game) but I made it visible again to announce the category and prepare people for what is coming.