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I hear you. Is it a lost cause? I have hope, don't get jaded. We can do our best to influence change, if we care enough. I know, it's a fast paced, expensive, stressful world out here. Maybe we will just sink in the noise, or maybe we can shine a light on the path forward. We can rebuild.

Hi everyone! I'm Jay,

I cut my teeth on an Atari 2600 (yep, I'm old), and as a kid I'd collect as much pocket money as I could to play the Ninja Turtles arcade machine at the local convenience store. Soon enough my friends had C64s and Amiga's, at one point I had a TRS80, then came Nintendo, Sega, Playstation and eventually PC. That's where gaming started for me, and it's stuck with me ever since. Somewhere along the way I became a software developer too, which probably wasn't a coincidence.

These days AAA feels like it's lost its appeal quite a bit for me, maybe it's a dopamine problem, lol. Same formulas, same monetisation tricks, same games over and over, worst of all, none of the community feel that made this hobby special in the first place. That's part of why I'm here. I'm hopeful that indie is where the actual ideas live, and where people still make games because they want to, not because (insert AAA publisher here) told them to.

I've always wanted to make my own games, just never got around to it. Finding itch.io was the push I needed. So now I'm finally doing it, building the games I always wanted to make and play.