Hurt Me Plenty

a short game about spanking the heck out of some dude
by Robert Yang
www.debacle.us
UPDATE: a new and improved version of this game is bundled in
Radiator 2
. Please play that version instead of the standalone versions here. Thanks.
PRICE: Pay What You Wish, $0 USD minimum.
If you like it, please consider buying me a beer, thanks.
PLATFORMS:
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
a DX9-compatible computer manufactured within last few years
CONTROLS:
mouse / trackpad, or a Leap Motion (optional)
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
"notes on sex, consent, and intimacy in games"
SISTER GAMES:
Succulent
,
Stick Shift
,
Cobra Club
,
Rinse and Repeat
This a short game where you spank the heck out of a dude and learn about how BDSM communities attempt to formalize consent / caring. I was really interested in how we can make games about intimacy without a "kindness coins = sex cutscene" trope, and how we can use expressive gestures to roleplay / think about pain and intimacy.
(For the record, I don't think my game gets it right, and it has a lot of flaws... this stuff is hard to design!)
Also, um, this kind of went viral
on Vine (1,600,000+ loops!)
and
on Tumblr (26,000+ notes!)
so I guess the internet is pretty thirsty.
PRESS:
Kotaku
,
Rock Paper Shotgun
,
Killscreen
,
Mic.com
,
Butt Magazine
,
Queerty
,
ねとらぼ
,
Pewdiepie
,
Superlevel.de
,
Boing Boing (Offworld)
,
Fast Company
,
Wired
If you are interested in work like this, also try playing:
Consensual Torture Simulator
, by Merritt Kopas
Realistic Kissing Simulator
, by Jimmy Andrews and Loren Schmidt
Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree
, by Anna Anthropy
.error404
, by Lana Polansky
IS THIS "SAFE FOR WORK"?!
I genuinely do not think of this game as pornography (there's too much distance / formality to it), though I suppose I can't stop anyone from getting off to it...
but seriously -- the most nudity in this game is some hairy beefcake chests and (maybe, if you negotiate it) some naked jiggling butts... technically, this is nothing worse than a US PG-13 movie kind of thing. I imagine the light BDSM context might make it NSFW in some workplaces; hopefully you don't work in those places.
MAIN CREDITS
Code, design, most art assets by Robert Yang
Music by Liz Ryerson (
@ellaguro
) and Eddie Cameron (
@eddiecameron
)
Character model and texture base by Kris Hammes (
@Kris_Hammes
)
Character shader work by James O'Hare (
@farfarer
)
Special thanks to Eddie Cameron and Bennett Foddy
TECHNICAL SUPPORT: see
http://debacle.us/support/