Autobiographical doujin?

papillon · March 5, 2009, 3:11pm

So, I heard that the GDC is doing a game design challenge about losing one’s virginity.

The design challenge: ‘My First Time’. Our three contestants will be pitching a concept that brings together two unexplored themes for games: sex and autobiography.

And I’m thinking, unexplored? Good grief. Okay, the bulk of sex games may not be in English, but…

I am not deeply versed in small doujin games because I can’t read Japanese, so I don’t bother with trying to find the artsy, deeply-moving titles which will make no sense automangledly translated. I am hoping that someone knows of a title or two that is specifically about the author losing his/her own virginity so that I can send them in with pointedly-worded notes about doing the research.

Nargrakhan · March 5, 2009, 3:37pm

Hmmm… an interesting hunt… though this isn’t my area of expertise, Narg is interested and will join in the fun!

EDIT
Does the main character have to be male? Could the player controlled protagonist be female?

One of the great things about Japanese, is they’re very specific when it comes to virginity: they’ve got different characters and terminology to denote the exact connotation.

Male

Female

Thus using these kanji to search on DLsite, Getchu, etc… we should be able to narrow our search to the specific subject matter. Unless of course someone already knows of such titles already.

I’m gonna go start looking around and see what I can turn up.

papillon · March 5, 2009, 8:06pm

Why would you assume the protagonist should be male, girls write games too!

I know there’s a lot of doujinsoft that never makes it to DLsite and I’d expect a personal story to probably fall into the freeware category. Don’t know where those congregate.

Nargrakhan · March 27, 2009, 11:42am

Ah… CNN has listed what you were talking about:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/27/vide … index.html

You know… I think we were too focused on finding something that was autobiographical. No doujin scenario I could find, admitted to being based on a real life experience. However reading the article, what they describe as the winning idea, is nothing more than an eroge (and a shitty sounding one at that). It’s not autobiographical at all… except for being in first person. Hell… their idea is really just a variation of Brooktown High School. Who the hell can call this original. :roll:

The two women came up with a concept for “Our first times,” and presented it as a two-level game, one level for Kelley’s experience and the other for Robinson’s. They imagined a series of mini games that could be played on Nintendo’s Wii, or possibly on Apple’s iPhone.

Kelley began by explaining that her game would commence with the player having to pick an outfit for a date that was intended to conclude with their deflowering. It would have to be the least complicated outfit possible, she said, nothing with zippers that get stuck, or too many buttons or ties.

Then, there would be a mini game in which players would have to shave their legs, making especially sure not to miss the all-important spot “by the knees.” Next up, dinner, and making sure to remove all the garlic from the meals, something the main character–clearly a female, since the game was presented from a woman’s perspective–would have to do because of the general cluelessness of the boyfriend in question.

The next mini game would revolve around choosing the proper mood music from a selection of LPs–yes, records, since the game would be set in the timeframe of Kelley’s first time. And clearly, she said, Miles Davis would have to be the choice.

The penultimate mini game would task the player with “not falling off the top bunk” in a college dorm room," while the final task would involve flicking off the smirking roommate.

The Robinson level also involved a series of mini games that commenced with “driving home from ultimate-Frisbee practice” and setting the radio station in a car–perhaps using the Wiimote dial, she said–to anything except country music. Next would be a stop at a drug store to buy a brand of condoms that doesn’t terrify you, and then going “back to his place,” and grappling with adjusting the tracking on his “antiquated” VCR.

Being a game concept presented from the woman’s perspective, the next mini game would revolve around “making the first move. Poor guy.”

And then, afterward, calling the best friend to tell the tale.

“But you have to be careful,” Robinson said, “because she’s next to mom and grandma on the speed dial.”

olf_le_fol · March 27, 2009, 12:35pm

But it’s, you know, made by American, aimed at the global audience so obviously it’s “a winning idea”. OTOH, erogames are made by Japanese, aimed at otakus so obviously it’s freaky and disgusting~

Nargrakhan · March 27, 2009, 1:28pm

I weep for our eroge future.

We all know how great and outstanding Brooktown High turned out. I mean the multimillon dollar sequel has everyone on pins and needles. :roll:

God it’s so sad… the Japanese b-game community first laughed at our pitiful attempt, then took pity. They even tried to figure out how we could have done it right. American game makers not only got the faces wrong, they got the bodies wrong too.

Seppo Helava one of the game devs for Brooktown, gave this comment on GameFAQ’s, because people were hammering how much it sucked:

Brooktown’s not the greatest game. I’ll freely admit that. There were problems with its development that made the process hell on Earth. There were a lot of people working really late nights because certain things just didn’t work out the way they’d hoped. I spent a couple months of my life writing three characters for this game (Jody, Beeman and Brent) and trying to get some of the others up to snuff because the original script was so piss-poor that it was completely unusable in its original state.

The game didn’t turn out the way I would have hoped, but that’s because game development’s a tricky, collaborative process, and if you knew the history of Brooktown’s development, you might understand why. Doesn’t justify things, and to those that hoped it would be better than it is, my sincerest apologies - I did everything I could. You wanna ask me about it, send me a PM.

I still don’t forgive you Seppo… you killed our last hope for Konami to take us seriously.

Kimuzukashii_MEIJI · March 27, 2009, 9:30pm

Ugh, I’d never heard of that game before, and after watching that trailer on youtube, I’m wishing I had continued not hearing about it. Watching that made me want to hurl…

umarekawari · April 7, 2009, 11:37pm

Nargrakhan:

Ah… CNN has listed what you were talking about:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/27/vide … index.html

You know… I think we were too focused on finding something that was autobiographical. No doujin scenario I could find, admitted to being based on a real life experience. However reading the article, what they describe as the winning idea, is nothing more than an eroge (and a shitty sounding one at that). It’s not autobiographical at all… except for being in first person. Hell… their idea is really just a variation of Brooktown High School. Who the hell can call this original. :roll:

The two women came up with a concept for “Our first times,” and presented it as a two-level game, one level for Kelley’s experience and the other for Robinson’s. They imagined a series of mini games that could be played on Nintendo’s Wii, or possibly on Apple’s iPhone.

Kelley began by explaining that her game would commence with the player having to pick an outfit for a date that was intended to conclude with their deflowering. It would have to be the least complicated outfit possible, she said, nothing with zippers that get stuck, or too many buttons or ties.

Then, there would be a mini game in which players would have to shave their legs, making especially sure not to miss the all-important spot “by the knees.” Next up, dinner, and making sure to remove all the garlic from the meals, something the main character–clearly a female, since the game was presented from a woman’s perspective–would have to do because of the general cluelessness of the boyfriend in question.

The next mini game would revolve around choosing the proper mood music from a selection of LPs–yes, records, since the game would be set in the timeframe of Kelley’s first time. And clearly, she said, Miles Davis would have to be the choice.

The penultimate mini game would task the player with “not falling off the top bunk” in a college dorm room," while the final task would involve flicking off the smirking roommate.

The Robinson level also involved a series of mini games that commenced with “driving home from ultimate-Frisbee practice” and setting the radio station in a car–perhaps using the Wiimote dial, she said–to anything except country music. Next would be a stop at a drug store to buy a brand of condoms that doesn’t terrify you, and then going “back to his place,” and grappling with adjusting the tracking on his “antiquated” VCR.

Being a game concept presented from the woman’s perspective, the next mini game would revolve around “making the first move. Poor guy.”

And then, afterward, calling the best friend to tell the tale.

“But you have to be careful,” Robinson said, “because she’s next to mom and grandma on the speed dial.”

Could be interesting, actually. Some of the mini-games sound good for a cheap laugh. Not top quality, mind you, but meh…

jastman · July 21, 2022, 7:34am