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Performers working in the games industry have spoken of their distress at being asked to work on explicit content without notice, including a scene featuring a sexual assault.

Sex scenes are common in modern games - and are often made by filming human actors who are then digitised into game characters.

But performers have told the BBC a culture of secrecy around projects - where scripts are often not shared until the last moment - means they frequently do not know in advance that scenes may involve intimate acts.

They describe feeling "shaken" and "upset" after acting them out.

Performing arts union Equity is demanding action from the industry - it has published guides on minimum pay, and working conditions in games, including on intimate or explicit scenes.

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Sec scenes are common in modern games?

Y'all I've been big into Armored Core 6, Stardew Valley and Factorio lately what have you been up to?

Edit: I'm being flippant, the idea that an actor could have such a thing sprung on them is awful and I hope they get the protections they deserve.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (4 children)

😏 haven't unlocked the sex scene in Factorio yet I see.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

New NSFW game pitch:

Fucktorio

The bellies must grow

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I rail trains every time I play.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Usually the trains are the ones doing the railing at least for me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Biters want one thing and it's disgusting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wanna git gud enough at Armored Core to see the robots fuck.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know you're being flippant and it definitely is a real issue, but my first reaction was the same. I've played plenty of games with some sexual content in them, but never one with sexual violence other than implied, and usually even the consensual scenes were fade to black, or close to fading to black. I was a little surprised to hear that this is going on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I've played GTA: San Andreas, and I don't think there's anything overtly sexually explicit in that one (besides the Hot Coffee thing, which still isn't that bad? It's simulated sex acts while the characters still wear their clothes). Even Cyberpunk has like two sex scenes (I never went to the joyous besides for that one mission) that you only really see tits from a first-person pov.

Though I realize that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Baldur's Gate 3 immediately comes to mind. You can fuck bears and mindflayers in that game.

EDIT: Oh hey, they're in the article in a good way!

Baldur's Gate 3 addressed this by employing intimacy co-ordinators - dedicated members of staff tasked with ensuring the well-being of performers in explicit scenes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not to be that guy, but Stardew and Factorio both came out in 2016 (early access for Factorio). They're nearly a decade old, so I'm not sure they qualify as modern.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Edit: I put that Saving Private Ryan meme here, but it ended up rendering really huge, so I'm gonna remove it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You haven't lived if you haven't watched all four sex scenes in Splatoon

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If you don't have mods giving you graphical sex scenes os Stardew Valley, what have you been up to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Playing path of exile, I'm horrified at the idea of a sex scene

(maven feet though...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Piety was a prostitute in Oriath. Clarissa tells you about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ooooh, that bitch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

For real, this. I'm playing everything from nice fluffy casual games to M rated horrorshows and I don't remember the last game I played that had a voiced sex scene. A few horror titles or indie games have certainly included sex or even sexual assault, but not voiced.

BG3 is fine and good as noted by another commenter (haven't actually played it myself), so what games are you guys playing?