Lapis the cartoon bunny teaches how to reach orgasm by simulating the affect of pleasurable sensation. Posted on 12/07/2005 9:19:58 AM PST by cloud8
He may look like an innocent cartoon bunny, but the star of a new award-winning video game by a Montreal-based designer has sultry intentions in mind.
Lapis, the blue-hued main character of a prototype video game by Heather Kelley, a designer with Ubisoft, wants to help women take a "magical pet adventure'' to their "happy place."
Lapis the cartoon bunny teaches how to reach orgasm by simulating the affect of pleasurable sensation.
The prototype teaches how to reach orgasm by simulating the affect of pleasurable sensation on the cartoon. Players tickle, touch, tap, and stroke Lapis using the touch screen of the Nintendo DS, a hand-held video game device. They can also talk, sing and blow on the bunny's fur using the device's built-in microphone.
The more they stimulate the bunny, the happier he becomes until eventually he begins flying through the air. But Lapis is also an unpredictable creature who needs a variety of sensations. Sometimes, no amount of stimulation is going to work.
"Sex is a perfectly natural part of the human experience and there has to be a way to handle it meaningfully and tastefully in games," said Kelley, who took first prize for the prototype at the Montreal International Games Summit last month.
Kelley, 36, has helped design blockbuster titles ranging from Splinter Cell to Thief, and serves as chair of the "Women in game development'' committee of the International Game Developers Association.
Her game, downloadable for free at http://www.moboid.com/lapis/index.htm, offers "a stealthy primer" on female sexuality, and is meant primarily as a conversation piece to stimulate debate around the prevalence of sex in video games today, she said.
"It's not like (sex is) going away, either in the virtual or the real world."
With record numbers of women and older men becoming avid video gamers, and developers who make the games themselves maturing, sexuality in video games is slowly evolving from the days when the industry catered to an audience overwhelmingly made up of teenage boys.
While impossibly busty heroines wearing slinky outfits a la Lara Croft continue to dominate, the industry is showing signs of incorporating sexual depictions that are more complex and nuanced, and reflect "the full range of the human condition," said Jason Della Rocca, a Montreal games designer and the executive director of the International Game Developers Association.
"To date, we've explored more the violence, fear, conflict aspects, and we've not really engaged on stuff like social relationships, sex or love (in video games)," said Della Rocca. "What we're seeing now is a maturing of the industry."
The sex-themed game development competition that Kelley won was inspired by public outcry over the so-called "Hot Coffee Mod," a downloadable patch created by hackers and released online this summer that unlocked pornographic scenes hidden in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
The scenes were supposedly "extras" that were never meant to be revealed. But the ensuing controversy caused the game to be re-rated "adult only," prompting an expensive recall by the manufacturer.
The International Game Developers Association this fall created a committee on sex in gaming. And in future, the public should expect to see games that depict the full range from raunchiness to romance, Della Rocca said.
"Games are really a medium of artistic expression (that should be treated) like other forms of entertainment, literature, film or art."
LOL Pat the Bunny ;-)
LOL
playtime FYI.....
LOL!!!
That works for me!
Why are they treating us like idiots?
Sheesh...who'da thought? :-) I'll stick to Enemy Territory and paintball. :-)
Dash...I'd stay away from a woman who wanted to play a game like this.....it sounds pretty weired! ;-)
At the VERY minimum it would be INTERESTING! :-)
I know quite a few adult women that do play games, mostly MMORPG's but then, most of them have gamer husbands that gave them the bug..
Players are supposed to give the rabbit a hand job?
That's just wrong.
Gross, I'll bet it tastes nasty. The real thing is so much better.
That's a strange last name, but a pretty first name.
what can I say... I can build a skyscraper, but can't spel fur shit...
Nice work on your home page! Imisspell crap all the time. I do like the name Analise, seriously, but I already have 3 daughters with names that start with A.
Homepage is work in progress. Lately, the time I have had is prefered hangin around here. I'll get it done soon enough(....maybe 6 months!). Workshop is forum code I wrote years ago, works pretty good if I do say so... Thanks for the bump, and go ahead...have another kid. ya only live once...
Cant, saw the russian doc - Dr. Kutcherballzoff.
Yeah, that, and I'm on the fast path to divorce.
Sorry to hear that...for both posts! I feel for both parties, or anyone who splits up after a long time...no matter who's at fault, both suffer. If you can, try to fix what's broke man... It's a mess "out there"...
Dasher = Woman
Dasher prefers to shoot things or to race them.
;-)
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