Pitches are now being accepted for essays to be included in the fourth issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, the web’s premiere destination for high-quality long-form writing about porn games and porn game culture. If you would like to jump right to pitching, you can do so via this form. If you would like to learn more about the anthology and the pitch process, read on!

Firstly, if you are not familiar with AAA or need a refresher, here’s one from our page about the project:

However, the fact remains that more people than ever are making porn games, and more people than ever are playing them. How are new porn games meant to find their audience? Where are major releases from popular porn game developers supposed to go? What kinds of experiences have players had with porn games over the years? What are the emerging trends within the subgenre? Who can track the lineage of design decisions between different releases? Who are the innovators? Who are the bad actors? What is worth playing? What is worth celebrating?

There exist a handful of enthusiast blogging sites and a loose ecosystem of video creators who provide a smattering of adult game industry coverage, but as far as I could tell nobody was attempting to put out thoughtful long-form writing on the games and culture therein. This is what the Adult Analysis Anthology seeks to address. AAA, first organized in 2023 with two issues published in 2024, features multiple paid essays from a wide spectrum of adult game players, developers, commentators, and others. The subjects cover range from 101-level primers on the ins and outs of adult game development for the uninitiated, reviews of adult games and major franchises, anecdotes from longtime subgenre commentators on their experiences, and tender accounts of players’ personal relationships with porn games, to name just a few.

Pitching:

• Please keep pitches SHORT. Try to keep it to 2-3 sentences per pitch!
• Multiple pitches are welcome, but only one pitch per person will be accepted.
• Pitches from previous contributors are welcome. Also, if you submitted a pitch to a previous issue and it wasn’t accepted, feel free to pitch it again!
• You may submit essays you have written in the past if you feel they would fit in the anthology. However, don’t go writing a completely new essay in full on the assumption it will be accepted, because it might not be.
• No previous writing experience or published works required!
• Writing under a pseudonym is completely fine.

Regarding Payment:

• Once the selected pitches have been finalized, an Itch preorder sale will be launched, with the goal set such that each contributor will be paid at least $75 USD should it meet the goal.
• So, for example: if 10 pitches are accepted, the goal would be set at $750 USD plus tax, platform fee, payment processor fees, and an additional $75 USD for my own work compiling & editing the anthology.
• If the sale exceeds its goal, the excess will be evenly divided among all contributors.
• On the other hand, if the sale does not meet its goal, whatever it does take in will be split evenly between all contributors. Contributors will be given the option of backing out of the anthology should the campaign not meet its goal.
• Payments will be delivered via Paypal.

Guidance On Pitches:

• First off, I recommend at least skimming the contents of the first, second, and third issues to make sure your idea isn’t too similar to something that’s already been covered. You can also read all previous essays in full on the BP Games official blog. Pitches that are informed by and/or in direct conversation with previous essays ARE welcome!
• For this issue, pitches related to porn game censorship – whether that’s something about work of yours being directly affected, some kind of historical parallel to our present moment, a bird’s-eye-view summary of various censorship efforts as they pertain to porn games, or something else altogether – would feel particularly timely!
• Similarly timely would be commentary or analysis focused on generative AI usage in porn games!
• Reviews of individual porn games, or series of porn games!
• Personal accounts of experiences playing porn games, or your own relationship to porn games
• If you’re a porn game developer, accounts of your experience are welcome!
• Similarly, if you’re interested in interviewing someone related to porn games, I’d love to hear your idea!
• Observations of trends in the development, evolution, or business of porn games!
• Everything is on the table, so long as it pertains to porn games! Surprise me!

If all of that makes sense to you and you feel like you have a good idea for an essay, here’s the submission form link again! Pitch submissions will remain open until Sunday, January 18th! Hope to see you there!