Resident Evil: Code Erotica Summary

Today I wanna go in depth into Resident Evil: Code Erotica, a game I'm working on with 8Fold/BeefBuffet.

For a while I've been working on slower paced games, point and clicks and text adventures. Those are fun but I want to make something people can enjoy without needing to read large amounts of text. There is text of course, but the game is very animation and action focused.

RE:CE plays similarly to a classic Resident Evil game. You run around a building and solve puzzles while avoiding being grappled by monsters. Some scientists have gone off the rails with some wacky experiment and the company who makes the gummy vitamins is responsible. 

This time the bad guy is the virility and immortality obsessed scientist Edwin D. Huntsman. Fired from his position as a professor of chemistry for slipping experimental libido raising compounds into other professors drinks to turn the middle aged men into daddy himbos, he felt right at home at Umbrella Labs where he has infinite money to research immortality in his...unique way, and an infinite supply of handsome middle aged men to work with.

Adapting old school Resident Evil gameplay to a porn game isn't super difficult, but two big concessions have to be made: Difficulty and scares.

While it is possible to make a hard porn game, it's extremely counter-intuitive. So, we have some deviations from the original design.

1. No tank controls. The controls are 8 button absolute controls. You press up, you will go up. Press right you go right etc.

2. No camera trickery. Old RE games like to hide enemies where you can't see them so they can get a free hit. None of that here.

3. No limited resources. RE:CE has a shop where you can buy extra supplies. You can sell duplicates of any files you find to the shopkeeper, so as long as you're willing to explore you have money. No running out of bullets and having to slowly plink away with a knife here. You also don't need ink ribbons to save.

Scares and gore can be a huge turn off for most people, so some changes were made there as well.

1. No blood, gore, or extreme violence. Instead of bullets, your gun is a tranquilizer that shoots sleeping pellets. Enemies who grapple you try to grope you or make out with you. Instead of health you have willpower, and a game over screen says YOU CAME rather than YOU DIED.

2. Enemy designs are a bit more controlled. While certain enemies like Mr. X, Ganados, and to a certain extent Hunters are included (Huge buff lizard men have their fans after all.), other enemies like Zombies, G Mutants, and Lickers won't be seen. Giant blobs of eyes and meat aren't usually a turn on for most folks

3. No jump scares. This one's simple. Nothing's gonna pop out at you and ruin your one handed game session. ;P

Characters who will for sure appear and be in sex scenes are Chris Redfield, Barry Burton, Carlos Oliveira, and Nikolai Zinoviev, as well as a LOT of masked umbrella goons. There could be more characters, but these are the ones we for sure wanna use. All enemies will have sex scenes as well, so don't you worry Mr. X fans.

I'll go more into detail as development gets further along! I hope you all have an excellent week! :D

EDIT: I wanna clarify, the sex scenes definitely aren't only with monster encounters. A lot of the files you find will be pictures and tapes of Dr. Huntsman's experiments, and there's other sexy scenes as well!