TFGames.Site

TFGames.site (TFGS) is an online gaming community specializing in transformation scenarios. Owned and operated by administrator Lashek, it is a major hub for TF media, hosting 2840 individual games and sustaining a reported 800,000 unique visits per month. Comprising several forums and an Interactive Game Data Base (IGDB), TFGS features a searchable games archive employing tags, reviews and ratings for user convenience. In tandem with sister site Hypnotics Collective, TFGS primarily hosts transformative content, including a variety of subgenres such as body swap, mind control, spell-casting etc.

Community
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With the community dedicated primarily to gaming, each project is allocated a forum thread managed by the game maker. This allows greater interaction with established (and upcoming) designers, but tends to fragment the user-base with players congregating around specific games. Site-wide Game-making contests are held on occasion, though such events are short-lived due to the workload involved in such enterprises.

TFGS also provides more traditional spaces for Role Playing (chat, pm, forums) though activity is dwindling as players migrate to discord. In addition, there is a 'PointShop' system, weekly lottery and avatar design functions.

The majority of games housed on TFGS are experimental projects focused explicitly on Transformation. This is changing slightly as crowd funding becomes more prevalent and hobbyists go professional. Some of the more ambitious game builders have their own sites (Fenoxo's games for example) or run their communities via discord.

It is also worth noting that a large percentage of content on the IGDB is incomplete due to the time consuming nature of game development.

Site policies allow for generally unrestricted development, though illegal content and abusive reviews are banned on forums and database alike.

Game Engines
R.A.G.s:

Rapid Adventure Game System is a (now outdated) graphical interface for puzzle games. While not particularly stable at the time of release, it was used to produce the site's most influential Transformation game, Cursed! (AnonymousMan, 2011).

Twine:

Twine allows for a much lower bar of entry for novice game makers, while providing a higher production ceiling for experienced coders. Combining the functionality of RAGS with the simplicity of prose editing, Twine has become the community's most popular engine due of its ease of use.

RPG Maker:

The RPG Maker engine is versatile and so there are a good number of transformation games using the engine. These are often RPGs, and so being transformed changes your stats and reactions from other characters. The two most famous ones are Magical Camp and Monline.

Ren'Py:

Ren'py's visual novel formula is well suited to the TF genre, allowing users to observe their characters change using "liberated" art, a prime example being Skeigh's Press Switch.

Current Projects
See Also: Notable Games on TFGS.

Girl Life: A deep-dive life simulator set in Russia. Built in the Quest Soft Player (QPS) engine.

Trap Quest: A feminization adventure set in a Virtual World. Built with the Inform 7 engine.

Press-Switch: A male high school student in an unhappy home situation finds a reality-bending remote and has misadventures with it.

Student Transfer: Community-sourced successor to Press-Switch. The protagonist discovers another reality bending remote (or book of magic) and goes on misadventures.