Kinky Island is most definitely not a game about alien invasions and will not replace Mass Effect 3. It is, or more accurately will be, an indie point-and-click adventure with a sexy twist. Actually, it will be a game about sex. Just like the original Larry. Or, well, obviously inspired by the Land of the Lounge Lizards but set on the aptly named Kinky Island.
Basically, Kinky Island will be a game created with the ever-handy and very freeware AGS development tool. It will most obviously be a pretty naughty offering too (rumours speak of -wait for it- full frontal nudity), sporting quite a bit of humour, lovely pixel-art graphics, traditional gameplay, over 30 locations, 20 fully animated characters and some hopefully interesting puzzles.
Problem is the game was supposed to happen ages ago. Its intriguing, not particularly safe for work and most playable demo has been around since 2006 and can still be downloaded from the AGS forums. But, after that cheeky peek at a smart and properly sexy game and for almost five years nothing much seemed to happen; until, that is, the original team decided to revive, expand, improve, polish and eventually publish the project.
What's more and as this new attempt at Kinky Island will be a vastly more ambitious take on the naughty, humorous point-and-click sub-genre, the game will apparently be commercially available. Provided, that is, you too dear reader help it out via its IndieGoGo campaign. You will find there a ton of exciting goodies and all the relevant info you might ever need.
Related @ Gnome's Lair:
Gnome, you were the one who did a very interesting and provocative piece on gaming porn a while back, right? That was great stuff and stuck with me. I would love to see some good, well-made, and adult (in the non porn sense of the word) erotic games out there.
ReplyDeleteIt's unbelievable to me that we continue to keep the erotic so segragated from the rest of our media (I'm American, not sure if the situation is better in Europe.) There is a huge and thriving porn industry, but personally I find it mostly puerile and low quality. If we ever allowed the erotic to cross over meaningfully into the rest of our culture, I think we could see some really wonderful work. Hopefully this is a small step forward, I'll check out their page. Keep us updated, and thanks for your blog!
Indeed dear Jumbles, and here's that porn-centered article of mine:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gnomeslair.com/2011/01/oh-video-game-pornography-where-art.html
Glad you enjoyed it!
And, yes, I too would like to see erotic elements enter gaming. They are after all so very prevalent in everyday life, it simply doesn't make sense censoring them.
Sadly, Europe has mostly been following the US path towards restricting freedoms and going all puritanical, but -at least- it hasn't yet reached them american standards. Not yet at least...
And thanks for the kind words :)