Shockproof Jamo wrote:How much thought and care went into designing the sex scenes? Was it obvious from the start that you would have the characters use protection? And most importantly, was it an "exciting" process? :p
A hell of a lot of time and discussion went into how the H-scenes ended up being, from pretty much every developer. It was decided fairly early on to go for fairly soft H-scenes, and not a lot of them, but beyond that a lot of stuff was discussed as the game went on. Everyone knew how important it was to nail how they were written, as there were plenty of examples of how poorly written H-scenes can be, and none of us had any experience in writing erotic material.
The first real H-scene to get written ended up being the Lilly Hokkaido scene, so it ended up being a bit of a step into the unknown. While it wasn't perfect and had a lot of edits, I think it ended up okay. They weren't just a lot of work for the writers either, as getting the anatomy, pose work, and other stuff right meant that they were very demanding for the artists as well.
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Yeah. There were many more sketches that lead up to the final version of that CG, not to mention the many iterations once it was finally drawn.
In the end, I think what we ended up with turned out okay. Every character has a distinct attitude towards sex that's shown in their H-scenes, with some being romantic, others daring, and some regrettable. Every H-scene in the game was subject to a lot of scrutiny from everyone else, so what ended up in the game was pretty meticulously planned. As one might expect after all this, the process wasn't really "exciting" in the way I think you mean; both with regards to writing and drawing, sex in fiction is a challenging thing to get right, and the thought process in its creation (from drawing anatomy correctly, to writing the right atmosphere, to character interaction, etc) is very different to reading/viewing it.
That said, protection was kind of haphazard. Some developers ignored ithe whole deal as they considered it to get in the way of good narrative (such as Shizune's scenes), while others preferred to depict its usage (like Lilly and Hanako's scenes). I don't know if I'd say either approach is inherently right or wrong, but we didn't really see a problem in different scenes approaching the topic differently.