You’ll Never Be Treated Like a Peasant Here

Here at Juicy Genie Games, I will always give you guys my best honest estimate for when an update is coming.

Will I always hit that estimate perfectly? Probably not. Game development is unpredictable, and sometimes things take longer than expected. But I will never treat you like you're entitled or annoying simply because you asked.

Especially when you're supporting the development of these games with your own money.

You deserve communication. You deserve honesty. And you deserve to be treated with respect.

I recently watched another community get frustrated after going seven months without an update. People were afraid to even ask the developer when the next update might be because they expected to get their heads bitten off for it.

So I asked.

The response was essentially:

"When I'm done, I'll let you know."

And that genuinely stuck with me. I didn't even care when the dudes game comes out. I was just trying to put out the fires in his Discord.

And I realized right then that I never want Juicy Genie Games to become that.

I don't ever want to reach a point where supporting my work somehow makes you beneath me. I don't want a community where people feel like they have to walk on eggshells just to ask a perfectly reasonable question.

You guys aren't peasants standing outside the castle gates waiting for the king to graciously announce when he's finished.

You're the reason the castle is being built in the first place.

I'll defend other creators when I think they're being treated unfairly. Game development is hard, delays happen, real life happens, and sometimes things simply go wrong behind the scenes.

But supporting creators doesn't mean pretending creators can do no wrong.

If somebody is treating the people supporting them like shit, I'm not going to defend that behavior just because they're another developer.

And while I'm running Juicy Genie Games, there are two promises I intend to keep:

I'll communicate with you.

And you will never be treated like an inconvenience for caring about the game you're helping me build.

That's the kind of developer I want to be, and that's the kind of studio I want Juicy Genie Games to remain.