Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Murder Sex!


The Sims is a game where you play god for a small family.  You tell your Sims where to sleep, where to pee, what to pee on, et cetera.  Everyone who has ever played the Sims eventually focuses on either getting the Sims to have sex, or murdering them depending on whether you’re sexually frustrated or just frustrated.   This allows players to feel a connection to their own god, who seems pretty obsessed with sex and murder himself.
Basically any simulation game will come down to sex and murder.   Many games are designed by Puritans, so they allow for murder, but not sex.  Players are not easily deterred though. They create large penis shaped structures in their zoos and theme parks.  They glitch NPC’s to hump statues.  Where there is a will, there is a way. 
The ideal simulation game would be strictly sex and murder.   Combat simulations come close.  You can murder someone and teabag their corpse fairly efficiently.   But in order for the game to sell really well, you need to give your players options.  To really cash in, try to create a game where people just run around killing and/or having sex with everyone they see, but make sure to make it different enough from Grand Theft Auto that you don’t get sued.

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