In general, these mods remove clothes or change them for more revealing ones, but they can add sex toys and dialogue. Erotic game mods also exist as mostly free amateur production. Pornographic games, both hard- or softcore, have traditionally mostly existed outside of the traditional Western game publishing ecosystem (cf. Adult Games YouTube channel covering all kinds of adult games (including Patreon funded games) has 42.5 thousand subscribers. Even YouTube channels covering adult games on Patreon attract subscribers: Patreon Gaming (n.d.) channel has 27.7 thousand subscribers. Summertime Saga (DarkCookie n.d.) and Monster Girl Island (Redamz n.d.) are top-funded projects in terms of funding member numbers: Summertime Saga is third and Monster Girl Island is 22nd in the Patreon top list (Graphtreon 2019). Moreover, these pornographic games have more funding members than regular game projects, at least among the top 50 listed developers (cf. Surprisingly, Patreon also hosts many pornographic game projects. Patreon hosts many game development projects.
If not funded by deadline, backers receive their investments back.Īn alternative funding model has recently arrived where project members on the Patreon service fund projects by monthly payments or when work is published. Developers usually set a minimum funding goal needed for the project realisation, and a deadline. Kickstarter and Indiegogo are some of the prominent crowdfunding platforms for games.
According to Smith (2015), crowdfunding has become an important venue for funding game development projects. Notably, some low entry selling platforms, such as itch.io exists along with more established digital distribution platforms such as Steam. Several crowdfunding platforms have surfaced in recent years. Patreon, pornography, porgraphic games, crowdfunding, rewards IntroductionĬrowdfunding is a recent fundraising tool (see, Macht and Weatherston 2014). We propose that certain rewards are similar to backstage passes in the music business and suggest that Patron pornographic games funding deviates from the crowdfunding model is not following mainly product-oriented commodity logic but a more community-oriented concept. Regulating Content Access is used regularly but often the latest version of the game is made available to everybody, just later to the members funding the development. As a result, developers were not only selling the game, but rewards we much about Community, Influence, and Recognition. Especially we studied membership rewards. We looked at 42 developers and their Patreon pages in order to examine the effects of the Patreon crowdfunding model on videogame development. Patreon is a crowdfunding platform where pornographic games are funded even the most successful game developer in terms of the number of members is developing a pornographic game. The definitive version will be on DiGRA digital library.
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