What's going on here?

Hey there!

This is my first post on Steemit and I'd like to tell you a little bit about what you can expect from me in the future, should everything work out planned.

I am the creator of the "Trapped in Rubber" mod for Skyrim. I plan on shamelessly using this platform to promote my mod, and enrich myself in the process. I already ordered the Ferrari, now I just need a couple of upvotes to pay for it. That's how this works, right?

Seriously though, my plan is to post status updates, maybe a few anecdotes from development, thoughts behind certain design decisions, that sort of thing. I may also occasionally post about other stuff, probably related to the general theme of the mod. Not sure yet, we'll see how it goes.

What the mod is and is not

Trapped in Rubber (or TIR, in short) is an adult-themed mod with a story centered around fetish content such as latex, gasmasks, bondage, femdom, ponyplay, and a couple of other stuff. It uses freely available content from other modders (such as the latex catsuits), includes a framework that will make it difficult to escape the suit once it is on and provides a gameplay experience around that (hence, the mod's name). It also has a line of quests which tell a story. I have been told that the story actually quite good, but maybe people were just being nice. I do, however, try to keep an eye on things like character motivation, believability, and stuff like that.

Whether or not I succeeded is up to the player, but my goal was to make a story-driven fetish mod with at least some level of sophistication. Not a cheap porn video which starts with the plumber driving up to the house and 2 minutes later, he's banging the MILF and her daughter
in the kitchen. I avoided having contrived sex orgies thrown at you all the time, as that eventually dulls out everything. Where's the fun in that?

With this mod, I focus on the fetish element, not sex or nudity. People in the mod do have sexual encounters. But it's not some dumb fucking or groin thrusting at every turn. It happens when it makes sense to happen and fits the larger goal. The mod is about life in rubber. The story is not there as a cheap excuse to have sex. The story is there as a cheap excuse to live out your latex fetish.

There is also little to no erotic content with males. Since the catsuits are only available for females, and I am unable to change that, I had to adjust the writing so that it's mainly about women in rubber.

The general theme is mostly light-hearted, with some darker parts added for contrast. That being said, there is no gore (beyond what vanilla Skyrim includes), no sex with animals or minors, or stuff like that. If I had to slap an age rating on the mod, I guess it would be 16. But keep in mind that I'm one of those more or less secular Europeans, so maybe I'm just way too liberal for wherever you live.

What's the status of the mod?

The mod already exists, and it can be downloaded from Loverslab. Feel free to check it out! However, that version is almost 2.5 years old. In the time since its release, I have been working in my spare time on a new and -hopefully- better version of it. It should have less bugs, more features, and expand the story a little.

What will it cost me?

Well, obviously you need to own Skyrim. But the mod itself is free for all and always will be. And everyone gets the same version. There's no better, or special, or more recent version just for Patreon contributors or anything like that. You don't have to pay for the mod or access to updates. And you never will, as long as I have anything to say about it.

However, I do have a Patreon and a Paypal ([email protected]) account to which you can donate. And now I'm trying Steemit as well. But I consider this all more of a tip jar. I'm not really raking it in, and I'm ok with that.

This may be a good opportunity to point out that I'm not a professional developer and this is not my day job. It's a hobby project I work in my spare time. It would just be cool if I could buy myself something nice every once in a while with what I earn from all those platforms.

And if I get enough money together, I might also use it to commission new content for the mod that I cannot create myself (usually anything visual, like 3D meshes and animations).

Where can I learn more?

I'm glad you asked! You can come over to Loverslab and participate in the discussion there. Obviously, I plan on hanging around Steemit as well. But I still have to get used to it and see if it actually works out for me.

Can I make suggestions?

Sure! If you can live with the fact that the ultimate decision is mine, feel free to drop me ideas. However, my main focus at the moment is to finish the new version of the mod with the content that I have already planned. I don't want to spread myself so thin with too many elements at once. You can still submit ideas, but I will probably only pick up on them after the current development version has been released.

So did you make this all by yourself?

Well, not really. I do work in the mod alone. But as I said above, I rely on assets created by other modders. That's how modding generally works. The full breakdown of what stuff I used from whom can be found in the mod's documentation. In short, the story, dialogues and scripting (code) as it relates to TIR are mine. Visuals and code not directly related to TIR (like Devious Devices) are not mine. Everything is used with permission, however.

If I can shoot farther than others, it's because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants while I'm fapping.