Rules day 01

Hey guys!  I had a very productive day working on the Sex Engine rules.  I can tell this was the right move because I felt so excited and productive.

The rules are all inter-related*, so I was working mostly on mapping out the relationships between them today.  

Quick example: going down on someone you find attractive is a totally different experience from going down on someone you find repulsive.  So the Mutual Attraction rules need to affect the Oral Sex rules.

Speaking of Mutual Attraction...
Something that many fans have pointed out is missing from the rules so far is a "corruption" meter like you see in some other games like this.  I've shied away from implementing one so far, for a couple of reasons:

• I'm not a fan of grinding a meter to unlock content, and
• I don't like the implication that sex is an inevitable path to ruin

That said, we need some kind of mechanic to reflect the heroine's increasing sexualisation.  In the story so far she's already gone from participating in drone strikes to participating in a wet t-shirt contest, and it's only going to get more complex from here.

I attacked this today because it underlies a lot of the other things.  Yeah, going down on some gross sweaty sex tourist should be a challenge for an agent who's gone from national security briefings to learning the ropes in a Bangkok brothel.  But further on in the story?  It's a normal Wednesday night at work.

We don't have to creäte that content yet, but a Sex Engine that properly supports Bangkok has to be structured in a way that lets us recognise some kind of sexualisation/jadedness/progress later, when the story needs it.  Today I put together some mechanics for this which are simple and straightforward, but are a little more sophisticated than a simple Corruption meter.  I'm excited about it and will share it with you soon.  :-)

Okay, enough from me.  Moar work on this tomorrow!  See you then.

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* I tried to put a diaeresis over the second R, but OS X wouldn't let me.