In game play, dancer's movements are controlled by the player, who earns tips based on how good the dancing is. Tip money can be spent for lighting, dance moves and more exotic costumes.
"We found more and more people wanted more options," Ensign Games Vice President of Development David Potter told XBIZ. "We came up with a professional version that allows you to change hair color. Now we have four different dancers: we added a Hispanic, an African-American and an Asian dancer."
"Early on we wanted to keep it R-rated, but people wanted more detail in the torso area, so we put a lot of effort in making it anatomically correct. Our old dancer was retrofitted, and the three new dancers got the correct parts. We also got a professional voice actress to do voice clips. When she puts on the devil outfit, she says 'I'm such a little devil.' It added good voice to the graphics." To create the dancers, motion capture technology captured the moves of live dancers. Models were created by Hollywood-based graphic artists, and were rendered in 3-D by a professional development team. The Shadow View Graphics Engine, originally developed by Ensign for computer gaming, lets users set the POV from across the room to a few inches away.
"We wanted to do a Dungeons & Dragons multiplayer game, and we developed this very sophisticated 3D engine with shadows and lighting, but we couldn't find the investment to do that game," Potter said. "Dream Stripper came out of that game engine. It allows you to do high polygon count models and shadows." The next game planned is Dream Stripper Blackjack.
For more information, visit DreamStripper.com and EnsignGames.com.
