Wild Life wants to vibrate your joystick
Wild Life wants to vibrate your joystick
Supporting more human interface devices in Naughty List News #51
Wild Life is an adult open-world RPG game that features stunning environments and a lot of sexual interactions with a diverse set of characters. Besides embedding sex into the gameplay, the game also plans to add crafting, combat, and survival mechanics.
Their Patreon has been extremely successful, raking in over $110,000 dollars a month from 11k+ patrons. Wild Life recently announced a collaboration with Lovense, which makes internet-connected adult toys.
This collaboration will allow the sex animations in the game to control vibrations in the toys. I think this is definitely an interesting way for adult games to become more immersive for players. Not even VR headsets can deliver that kind of physical presence!
Implementation details
Of course, I nerded out about this. From looking over the documentation for the Lovense Connect Standard API, it seems the game would be able to control the action of any connected vibrators:
The API allows an application to set the intensity of a Lovense vibrator and whether it should Vibrate, Rotate, Pump, or Stop. That’s really quite impressive! By comparison, Microsoft’s XInput SDK only allows you to set the vibration intensity of the two motors embedded in an Xbox controller. (In case you can’t tell, I’ve done a lot of input handling work in my day job as a programmer for AAA games.)
Although connecting a vibrator’s motion to a sex animation might seem a bit limited, I’m positive this technology will only get better over time. Once integration packages become available for the popular game engines (Unity, Unreal, etc.) it should allow for some interesting applications already.
Human Interface Device
What I think would be even more interesting is if the integration were the other way around. If you could use the toy as an input device that controls the action on-screen. After all, what’s penetration depth if not a normalized analog input between 0 and 1?
And game designers love using an esoteric input device, it really gets their creative juices flowing. For example, there was a game jam project that was built around the idea of whistling into a microphone to control a bat on the screen. Imagine a Jerk-Off Instruction (JOI) game that actually checks if you’re following the instructions!
Unfortunately, the Lovense API currently does not support using their toys as input devices and I don’t think it’s hard to see why. It would be quite the engineering challenge to somehow read penetration depth in a reliable way, for example.
Luckily I work with software, not hardware, so I’ll let the good folks at Lovense ponder that one.
Audience participation
Do you have any teledildonics at home? Would you be interested in using them when playing adult games? Let me know in the comments!
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-Mr. Hands