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http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyan...a1d73f-c78e-4869-963b-24dc3b06772b&k=63631?31

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.''


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.''

 

[olimario]

TTIUWScreenshots

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

DS Killer App!

 

[capslock]

Waggle Wand....

 

[Eggo]

From the designer of Splinter Cell... a videogame about fellating a virtual bunny?

 

[Orin GA]

The Words....There are none.

 

[radioheadrule83]

I saw this story on s p o n .g believe it or not. Pics and all.

 

[Dalamar86]

DS is teh kiddy.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

So DS owners can use the touch screen to learn how to produce an orgasm, but unless the game comes with a partner, the player will probably never know if his mad skills actually work. Well, at least a signficant portion of GAF. :lol

 

[golduck342]

follow the link in the article for a demo (the demo makes no sense)

 

[masud]

follow the link in the article for a demo (the demo makes no sense)

Some day it will.

 

[Ferrio]

Some day it will.

HAHAAHA

 

[yggdrasil]

Demo seems to take me to a screen full of flowers just by holding down LMB over the bunny's nose; not sure if flowers is the final object (wasn't it flight?); it seems to be loading, but it gets pretty dull just sitting there with your finger on the button; if you move it off the bunny seems to come down. God I wish it were this easy in real life.

 

[..pakbeka..]

this could be larger than brain training back in weirdoland

Spoiler

(japan)

 

[DIrtyWeasel]

 

[HeadsUpSevenUp]

Good call, I was going to e-mail that lady and point out Tickle Girl and ask for the NDS file of her game so we could try it out on Hardware.

 

[BlueTsunami]

I think I unlocked her vag....

wait what?

 

[Borys]

Some day it will.

:lol

So cruel :lol

 

[littlewig]

Wait, Ubisoft actually beat Japan to this kind of software?

 

[PhoenixDark]

This game is tu mature for Drinky.

 

[emomoonbase]

This will translate well to real life me thinks:

Hot girl @ party: Oh baby, make me wet!

Guy: K, let me get my stylus.

 

[polg]

Many of the visuals of the game levels were taken from interviews with actual women about their surprising fantasies and thoughts during arousal and orgasm

WTF?

Has anybody downlaoded the demo before it was removed from the server?