Online Game Includes BDSM Roles
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Sociolotron is an online roleplaying game the allows characters to act as dominants and submissives.
The online RP community contains a great many people who are into BDSM play either as dominant or as submissive partner. We recognize this by offering certain features for people who want to engage in this kind of role-play. However the features offered here have no real significance for the success of the character. For example where a high sado urge may help a character torture another character for information and thus provide a valuable feature for a character, a high DOM skill has no other effect than to correspond with an equally high SUB skill in a certain way and thus enable the two players to engage in certain situations. DOM and SUB skills are voluntarily but you don’t have to have them in order to succeed.
BDSM features include ownership of a sub or submissive by the dom or master, the ability to sell the sub to another master, with or without his consent (depending on the level), support for auctions by giving an auctioneer the right to sell a sub temporarily and the possibility of branding a submissive’s body parts with a description.
Any of you ever play this game?


Comments
I have tried the game - the trouble with being in Australia when playing a game that doesn’t have a huge community is that nobody is online when I am.
So, I don’t think I’m a particularly good person to give reviews on this. The game seems to have potential, but I think it might still need some work - a lot of the mechanisms are very clunky.
Posted by: evie | November 18, 2005 4:06 AM
Can’t say that I have. I was into text-based role-playing games for quite a while, but have fallen out of the habit of logging into any of them. The only BDSM related MU* I knew of was Shangrila. http://www.shangrilamush.com
When I play graphic-based games, it’s usually along the lines of World of Warcraft or Neverwinter Nights. I’ve never really been able to get into avatar games. I’d like to see a game that caters to the BDSM crowd that has the graphics quality of something like WoW or Neverwinter Nights, though!
Posted by: Ti-Jae | November 19, 2005 6:56 PM
While I wouldn’t expect to see something of the high end commercial quality of PlayStation of Xbox games I’m a little surprised nobody has ever written some sort of D/s, S&M computer game.
I suspect even if it weren’t that great people would play it just because of the theme.
Posted by: Richard | November 19, 2005 7:18 PM
kisses from france!!!
Posted by: soomk | September 7, 2006 11:54 AM
It is just plain sad that people try to pretend that they didn’t like BDSM and try to put it out of their games at all but instead they just do the opposite and sneak a bits and pieces in like the leather outfits and other stuff such as dungeons. If someone make a high end detailed game that incorporated the BDSM roleplay in them such as the one that created say like WoW I am sure that they would earns lots of profits. Perhaps it is just laws and stuff that prevent that from happening. I think it is time that people just become familiar with BDSM as it is have been a part in the society for so long. True that there still to watch out for jerks but other then that I think more big gaming industries should take a big risk on developing BDSM content games especially for the online games type.
Posted by: Maria | May 15, 2007 5:47 AM
A game that has a bit of BDSM incorporated, is Furcadia (http://www.furcadia.com). But the game takes a bit of getting used to, and isn’t always easy to find your way around in as a newbie. Well if anyone decides to try, don’t hesitate to whisper me in game. Whispering = / , and i can mostly be found at the character Freyja. Give it a try :)
Posted by: suusida | August 7, 2007 9:53 AM
I’ve played Sociolotron for almost a year now. It’s full of BDSM, most players are into it in one form or another.
The game is graphically primitive, the text has an embarassing number of typos, and the web site has dead image links. Don’t go to Socio expecting technological sophistication. But I find I don’t mind the problems. I go there for the community and the often excellent roleplay, as well as a BDSM-friendly atmosphere.
If you’re curious, I’d suggest giving it a try. I’d like to see some more new folks around. Players are generally very helpful in getting folks started and teaching them what they need to know.
Posted by: SocioPlayer | November 13, 2007 10:35 PM