E3 Survey Review Part 14 - Mini Games

Next two questions are about mini games. First question is about mini games in general - in any AVN not just Elmwood.

• Less than 10% of you love mini games

• 40% of you like them if they're done well (making 49% with the blue/love category)

• 40% of you don't mind them if they can be skipped

So overall there's not a huge enthusiasm for mini games but there's definitely interest if they're engineered well. If we look back at the E1 Survey it's quite pleasing to see that more than 60% of you like HaremWars - although the E1 survey only had 79 responses here so much less data.

But this question was never about HaremWars - it was to gauge interest in adding additional mini games. Such as something similar to the image at the top of this post. Here's what you said to that:

Admittedly - I was expecting more enthusiasm for this so I'm very glad I asked this question. Only 10% of you were keen on it (which we note is a very similar percentage to those who said they love mini games in the previous question) and the majority of you said maybe with quite a high number (1 in 3 of you) saying that it would suck.

Ok - message received - I'm not going to be adding this.

I'll admit - I was a little excited for it. I was going to call it SLUT SMACKDOWN and the idea was that different girls would have different moves - one of the cheerleaders might throw pom poms for instance. But yeah - it would have been pretty difficult to execute well in the renpy engine. And by the way - one of those Other answers is "Possibly, but I think the development time would be better spent elsewhere..." I agree with this completely and that's why if I did introduce a complicated mini game like this I would hire a coder who's much more skilled than I am so that not only is the mini game better but also it wouldn't slow down production. HaremWars was coded by a very talented person who goes by Mr Thicker, not myself.

But yeah - Slut SmackDown won't be added to Elmwood. I don't think Elmwood necessarily needs more mini games but if there's something really fun that you'll enjoy - I do want to add it. So if I think of any other mini games that I'm seriously considering I'll probably gauge interest in a future survey in the exact same way I did here.

And I've said this before but just to reiterate - HaremWars is 100% optional and victories/losses have no influence on the story. That will be the same for any other mini game if another is added.