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An Interview with Peachaboo, Creators of Sexy Exile
By Kasaix • 5 years ago

 

Kasaix: Hello, friends of Doujins! I’m here with Peachaboo, the team behind the cute and sexy game Sexy Exile. The creators, Zanzo and Cucu, have been making something really great, and after following them for a while, I reached out to them, eager to find out more.


That all said, how are you guys doing?


Peachaboo:

(Cucu) Hi Kasaix, we’re pretty excited, it’s our first real interview! Please be gentle. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)



Kasaix: Now, Zanzo, you handle the programming, animation, and game design, and Cucu, you handle the art and UI (user interface), of your project, right? How did you get your start in these fields, and did you get professional education?


 

Peachaboo:
(Zanzo) Yes, that’s correct, although we work very closely together on all of those things, so we almost always make bigger decisions together. We also did most of the writing more or less together so far, with Cucu taking the lead lately, but we’re planning on expanding the team a bit in the future.
I personally started to do amateur graphic and web design as well as some coding (first RPG Maker, then web stuff and so on) when I was maybe 15, mostly for my own little projects. After school, I studied media design and even made a little browser based space shooter as my bachelor thesis.

 

(Cucu)

I’m your typical “I started drawing as soon as I could hold a pen” artist. After finishing my Master of Arts I combined my main interests and became a concept artist and illustrator for games. Since then I’ve been employed in various companies, working on AAA titles as well as small indie projects. The latter is when I had the most fun - working in a small team forces you to broaden your skill set and to get used to learning new things every day. After freelancing in the h-game sector and for platforms like Nutaku for a while, I felt ready to stem my own little lewd project.



Kasaix: How did you two first meet and team up, and how long ago was it?


 

Peachaboo:

(Zanzo) We actually met when we started studying back in 2011. It was the same course of studies, albeit with different focal points. We actually already worked on a few university projects together during this time, which worked out pretty well. So we knew we make a good team since then.



Let's take a look at their eroge Sexy Exile!





 

 

Kasaix: Where did the idea to start up Sexy Exile come from?

 

 

Peachaboo:

(Zanzo) In 2017, we happened to both be freelancing and were a bit annoyed by the lack of interesting job opportunities. We both wanted to create something of our own and developing an h-game promised to unify most of our interests and skills.

So we took the risk and only accepted as few commissions as possible to make time for development. After about 10 months of hard work, we were finally ready to release the first playable bit.



Kasaix: What was the inspiration behind the story and characters? Can you explain the backstory and world of Sexy Exile?

 

 

Peachaboo:

(Cucu) As you might have seen from what we’ve shown from our girls so far, we love playing with archetypes. Our story starts out in some sort of heavenly realm, where our protagonist lives a glorious, carefree life. But after seducing the bosses favorite angel, you end up being exiled to earth - a place you only observed from afar until now. His new job is to “purify” demonic seductresses who seek to corrupt mankind. Yes, that means sex ;) But before facing this dangerous task, maybe our protagonist should practise a little...

We wanted the game to start out pretty typical, giving the player a certain at-home feeling before taking the characters and their stories in other or maybe sometimes even unexpected directions. There may be more to the “innocent schoolgirl” than you would expect…

We find inspiration everywhere and want to add a multitude of girls of all kinds. We got a unicorn lady and a circus artist in the pipeline and maybe there could be an astronaut, an alien, a ghost, a superheroine or whatever we can think of in the future.

 

 

Kasaix: What are the basic mechanics of the game?

 

 

Peachaboo:

(Zanzo) We’ve got two core modes, Date Mode and X-Mode. In the former, you meet the girls for a Date in a mixture of card and board game elements and Visual Novel. Each date has multiple choices like where to go next and little stories to explore as well as sexy collectibles to find while you get to know each other.

If you are successful on the date, you can advance to X-Mode where things heat up in an arcade-style mini game over the course of multiple stages, or respectively, positions. You need to collect hearts in order to get her to orgasm while avoiding obstacles and picking up ice cubes to not get there first.

The demo we released at the end of last year contains the beginning of our story and gives a first impression of X-Mode, which we’ll expanded with more features and power-ups step by step, while Date Mode is currently in development.



Kasaix: What do you hope players will first notice about the game, and be immediately drawn in by it?

 


Peachaboo:

(Cucu) Hopefully, my art! Jokes aside, we place great value on giving the player a well-rounded experience. We don’t want him to be drawn in by the art just to then get unpolished gameplay, shallow characters or a confusing UI. We hope players will immediately see that we’ve put in all our gathered experience and passion and that we try to bring some fresh gameplay ideas to the genre.

Well, and of course our girls will hopefully be convincing, too!



Kasaix: How has development been progressing? Have you hit any bumps during production?

Peachaboo:

(Zanzo) I’d say we are making good progress, considering we can’t completely live off Sexy Exile for now and still need to do other work. We would love to invest all of our time into the project and are extremely grateful that the massive support we’re getting already brings us significantly closer to that point.

Aside from that, it’s mostly the usual small ups and downs, some things take longer than you would expect, while there are also pleasant surprises every now and then. There haven’t been any major pumps yet and we hope it stays that way ;)



Kasaix: As the game develops, are you proud of where it is now?

 

Peachaboo:

(Zanzo) Of course, we are very proud of what the two of us already accomplished and it’s a big motivation for us as we push forward. But there’s still so much to do, so we need to keep summoning that “German Efficiency” everyone talks about.


Kasaix: Do you have a set update schedule?

 

Peachaboo:

(Cucu) Not really, no, but we want to release our second demo which will be Date Mode in the second half of the year. After that, we will bring the parts together and build around that while creating more content.
We do however post monthly updates on our progress publicly and also all kinds of stuff in our patron-only feed all the time.



Kasaix: Beyond this project, what project do you feel you must absolutely work on? Do you have plans for other great games?

 

Peachaboo:

(Cucu) At the moment, all our creative energy is focused on Sexy Exile. We still have a long way to go, so we don’t want to make plans beyond that, especially since we plan on adding more and more girls when the game itself is finished.

But we made sure to keep the story and concept of Sexy Exile as open as possible for any upcoming crazy ideas we might get. And there’s already a lot of those!



Kasaix: Let’s wrap this up here. Are there any words you’d like to share with your fans?

 

Peachaboo:

(Zanzo) We want to thank everyone who follows us or even supported us so far! We will continue to do our best to make Sexy Exile as good or even better than the vision we share. Also, a big thanks to you, Kasaix for having us and giving us the opportunity to ramble about our project! :)





A huge thanks goes out to the team behind Peachaboo. You can check out their great game Sexy Exile here on their Patreon. Links to their other sites can be found there.



Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sexyexile
X-Mode Demo: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/703610
Sexy Exile Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQsgtmDal-E
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CucuPeachaboo