Hurt Me Plenty

a short game about spanking the heck out of some dude

by Robert Yang ( @radiatoryang) www.debacle.us

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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.

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• 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

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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.

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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

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