Only one of the top five projects on crowdfunding website Patreon isn't a podcast. A videogame called Summertime Saga is currently ranked number three by number of patrons it has 29, , sitting below True Crime Obsessed and Chapo Trap House.
The surprising thing is that its creator, who goes by the pseudonym DarkCookie DC for short , didn't have any experience with adult games before he started making one. What began as a much more innocent game, admittedly with some "sexy but comical dialogue," was steered in a more and more NSFW direction based entirely on suggestions from its early players.
Now DC spends his days fielding requests for extremely specific fetishes from his many and vocal fans. DC is a father of three in his 30s who doesn't watch hentai, and yet making an adult videogame has become his main source of income. He can even afford to pay six other people to help. It started back in , when he was working as a freelance concept artist, making character designs for animated movies and games.
He dreamed of creating his own videogame, but had enough experience in the industry to know not to set his goals too high right out of the gate. He'd make his dream game some day, but first he'd try something small. He downloaded Ren'Py, a popular engine for making visual novels , and set to work.
As part of that learning process, he signed up for a forum where people making visual novels gave each other advice, and joined some of them in a Skype group.
