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It was looking much better before the payment processing drama...

I got some, check it out!

What do you mean about being unfairly banned?

Small or big, you are competing for peoples time and that resource is not unlimited.

It is harsh to say but even small creators are competing against everyone else even the big fish.

I would compare it to learning a new language. I would count strong fundamentals as knowing data types, loops and objects. I learned a lot from professors but the same info that is in classrooms is online. I think you have to be a bit obsessed with tech to grasp it quickly. Just start from the very beginning with a "hello world" program and move on from there.

Its always smart to start with a color palette you want to use throughout the game. One of my favorite go tos is the site https://coolors.co/

Check out CageyGames! I've been developing small scoped weird games. You can also check out my Patreon if you really want to support this pirate ship. Its rough getting off the ground after the payment processing drama.

If you can use AI to code, you can also use AI to help you understand the code. 

I love working with Clade for my programming needs, but having programming fundamentals makes development smoother. 

Great twist on the battleship gameplay!

After briefly following the Unity drama with the game Rust I'm not sure if I want to ever use Unity. So many good alternatives out right now like Godot and Gdevelop. Unreal is not as scary as it seems, you can get a lot done with templates and blueprints. 

I made sure to play every level of my physics peggle like game called Smuto. Some of the levels had me retrying a bunch, but after a few rounds of cursing it is beatable.

The anti AI people seem to be shouting into the void against the growth of these new tools. 

I'm not sure if these people are genuinely against this new tech or just told to be against it.

Its hard for me to take the opinion of someone who anointed themselves the gate keeper of art. 

Its all good to have strong feelings pro and con new tech, but I don't think the AI witch hunters is a good look.

Use AI if you like it. Don't use it if you don't. Just like make a game.

Looks cool, I totally need to check out this method to add some voices to my projects. 

Art is allowed to explore topics you don't find comfortable. Censorship is worse than any fantasy game I can think of. 

Some people are scared of new tech or simply were told to hate it. Don't let others gate keep what kind of art you are allowed to look at or create. 

I had a few that was getting some traction and sales before this whole payment processor mess. 

Some of my NSFW games are:

JOI Church

Cherry's JOI

Master of Throwing Ropes

Smuto

Bunny Girl Match

Smut Summoner

I'm in the process of moving some of my games and new releases to Steam because of the low viability with these new policies.

Heck yeah, even smaller games and prototypes can show growth as a developer.

Neat, so will I. I followed you here and on Instagram.

I tend to start with a very detailed game design word document. I like to add all the info I can about the characters to help flush out the world. Even if it is useless info like birthdays and favorite color. 

If people want to pirate your games, you must be doing something right. I recently saw a post of a person asking for a torrent for one of my games and I just simply messaged him a download key.

My favorites are Unreal and GDevelop. GDevelop is wonderful because it has a lot of prebuilt features you can quickly use. Also GDevelop is super easy when developing for mobile.

You got +1 follower from me. It seems like the twitter algorithm is hard to break into. I'm pretty sure if you are not a paid member you are pushed down in the algo. You can always check out Bluesky, I've noticed it has a pretty good gamer community. cageygames.bsky.social

Yes, I enjoyed working in Godot. Currently I've been using GDevelop because it is easy to prototype ideas and it exports to mobile easily. 

Welp, I was gona follow :\

Is anyone making any sales after this collective shout nonsense? I know adult games are deindexed but it seems people are not wanting to buy games from Itch after this current mess.

Keep up the good fight, it seems like these censorship freaks won't stop until the world bends to their will.

Nice! Totally going to have to try this out in my future project!

I agree it is pretty sad to be thrown under the bus just because a small group of Karens want to censor what adults look at.

It was nice before Collective Shout decided that adults are not allowed to buy/sell certain games.

Use new tools and have fun with them. Don't let gatekeepers stop you from your own artistic expression.

Nutaku is an option but you have to apply and get accepted first. If you find an alternative be sure to let us all know.

I do admire your optimism but its hard to rally when the big banks are not budging. Censorship groups have high budgets and can just wait out this current storm of complain calls, while developers are left in the dust with lower and lower sales. It would be cool to see alternate payment processors emerge but I don't think a duopoly is going to crumble very fast.

Ever since the payment processor censorship things have been much worse.

I fear that these Karens are winning with censorship, we might not see games get reindexed :(

I like it, it seems like a decent place to promote my games. If you search me out and give me a follow I'll follow back <3

Collective Shout deserves to be booed and mocked

Seems like my games are unlisted, it makes me sad because I'm just a solo developer being kicked around by forces I can't control.

AI is a fun tool. The hysteria backlash around using it makes people sound like the Amish.

Sex sales, some have called it an unfapped market ;)