/hgg/ - Hentai Games General

>>220
http://www.dlsite.com/maniax/announce/=/product_id/RJ139061

It's supposed to be an October release but there isn't any specified day I believe.

hnnnngg, i can't wait. thanks for updating me on this.

any updates?

any updates?

>>282
>>283

what the fuck did i just do

>>282
Nothing so far.

I thought it was coming out this week?

>>370
Delayed apparently.

>>459
Creator didn't expect a huge fanbase from foreigners. Considering the show wasn't all too popular in Japan. It's probably got a lot to do with that old ZONE flash making her well known over here.

I translated the demo a few weeks back.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/n37p9rxw6wtd2ej/
extract into trial directory and start from liru.swf.

>>956
>We truly are on the cusp of the great hentai age.
But it all depends on sales by the first few groups who dare to make the leap.

The prevailing attitude among the people who make chinese cartoon porn, both doujin groups and professionals, is simply that all non-japanese, english, chinese, koreans etc are leeches who it's a complete waste of time to worry about.

And I don't blame them.
English patch for monster girl quest had over 500k downloads from the translators blog alone, not counting the hundreds of other places it was available.
Some youtube celebrity made a video about it that has over 1.4 million views, old /v/ sperged about it for months proclaiming it GOTY, better than AAA, what have you. old /vg/ STILL has generals about it.

And how much did all that benefit the creator?
About 3500 sold combined for the trilogy on english dlsite.
Gee, why aren't Japanese creators falling over each other trying to get a piece of that action..

>>958
MGQ was an official translation? I thought it was fan made. I don't think I've ever seen a fully translated game on the english DLsite. Maybe what would be considered AAA porn, but that's it.

I don't blame them for hating us though. I've been pirating these games for years. My reasoning: why pay for something I can't understand? It's not fair, but that's pirating. I fully intend to buy Dungeons and Prisoners when it releases right after HL3. If they go the extra mile for english fans, they deserve our money. If games I want get translated, I'll buy them.

Is there a section on the site for this translation program? Any other games involved besides Liru?

>>958
Maybe they should have actually bothered to advertise that they are selling it on the english dlsite
Because I was really into the series for years and I haven't even heard about this

>>966
So what they linked to wasn't the english translated one, but the original jap one, right?
No wonder only 3500 bought it then

>>968
I managed to find it, and was looking through the list of games. Not a lot of VNs or RPGs. They seem to be easy to translate games that you'll beat in an hour or 2. Some of them are just glorified animation galleries. I'm not surprised that most have less than 300 downloads.

I'm not sure how they should handle their advertising. What ILL and the Parasite in City creator have done is very smart. A direct communication with their fans. Not every creator is willing or able to do that, but it does seem affective.

I think another problem is this perception among many that internet porn is worthless.
That you should never pay for it.

This explains why people are more willing to donate towards something that might get made in the future (so they can torrent it for "free") rather than actually pay for a finished product.
Akabur gets $7000 per month, Breeding Season gets $24000 per month and neither has shown capacity to deliver a finished product.
And why would they? They don't get paid based on products they finish, they get paid based on hype towards what they're making next.
I would not be at all surprised if Hermonie trainer, when/if it finally finishes, has one scene glaring with it's absence (similar to Lola in princess trainer) with the promise that it will be finished "later" as long as you keep donating.

Meanwhile Japan has a healthy industry with multiple competing outlets both digital and physical that sell products of multiple competing creators who get's paid if they deliver a good product.
It's not like the Japanese don't pirate stuff, check any torrent on nyaa and you'll see plenty of Japanese IPs, the difference is that they ALSO buy stuff.

>>220
If there isn't a puppy form lewd scene then I'll be rather disappointed.

>>939
The only real way to make money on porn games is to release a full game, then jew for more content with patreon donations.

>>939
These people barely make anything off these games; an organized buycott could be tremendously effective.

>>1783
Goddamn it Anon, you replied to a post that's literally months old.

>>1790
It is a very slow board though.

>>1790
Still relevant

>>1243
>The only real way to make money on porn games is to release a full game, then jew for more content with patreon donations.
In the west maybe, but Japan has a fully functioning porn game industry valued at around $200 million a year.
Top games on DLsite(the japanese part) can easily make $100k or more in a year. And DLsite deals 90% in indie games, the games made by full time professionals, like artificial academy, make millions.

The issue is that western people who are interested in porn games in english has to become mature enough to stop paying into sketchy patreons and instead pay into a real market system.

>>1823
I'm not sure that will ever happen. The whole christian thing already makes the rl porn kind of a mess.

People are less likely to spend money on porn games for a huge amount of reasons. Hell, some people think that any kind of drawn art is pedophile in nature.

Not to mention, most of the best porn games out there happen to be free or are big enough to be able to work through donations alone… It's hard to compete with that.


The patreon artists who make the most money are furry-related, though, aren't they? Furries seem to have a shitton of money and don't really care where they'd drop it, plus they have a lot less options.

>>1853
english dlsite already has steady growth year over year.
neko para has sold over 3000 from dlsite, if translated games could regularly fetch that kind of numbers then that would easily make it worth it to translate all but the most word intensive games.
i'm hoping that the liru animation (if translated) is able to bring in similar numbers as neko para, that would really get the ball rolling with two big english language successes just after each other.
I'm lurking various developer blogs and trust me, they're noticing, several are playing with the idea of paying for a translation.
all english speakers got to do is put down $10 on a game in english from there every now and then to show that there is interest and that it is worth it, it's not complicated.

people just have to understand that WE are the english speaking market for porn games, there won't suddenly be a huge influx of mainstream buyers funding all your lewd translations so you can pirate them for free.
The people lurking these type of forums are the people who have to put down $10 every now and then to fund the games.

also what free games/donation based games are you talking about?
princess trainer? violated heroine? jack o nine tails? yeah they each got a thread on here but like 90% of threads are about commercial games.

>>1935
Seismic has historically been really good about clothing scenes, usually only alt character model but it's something.

>selling hentai
>when hentai sites and boards exist

it's a lost cause, just do it for free

>>221
from this dlsite page i can't see what's so good about this game.

>>1974
>just do it for free
It's already a $200 million business in Japan
95% of what's discussed on this board was not made for free, including Liru, Seismic previous two releases has made about $200,000
What it comes down to is if english speakers are happy with machine translations and the occasional fan translation or not.
Because the moment there is good money to be made in translating hentai games then someone will do it.

>>2226
The japanese are pretty private about how much they make so getting hard numbers on what doujinshi authors make is difficult.
But here is a case from 2007, a popular doujinshi artist charged with tax evasion.
japanese
http://slashdot.jp/story/07/02/21/2251255/
english
http://comipress.com/news/2007/02/21/1535
She made 200 million yen over 3 years or about $1.6 million.
(Even japanese commenters on slashdot were surprised by this number)

It's not a matter of them being able to afford to translate their works to english, it's a matter of whether it's profitable or not, they're not running a charity, they're not doing it for free.

They make plenty of money, they don't need western customers to live.
But western customers needs to prove that they are a viable market IF they want doujinshi authors to invest in translations.
If an official translation of Liru sells a bunch then Seismic can easily justify investing more money in getting his older and future works translated.