320 - Birthdays And Gumroad.
Hello there, bros. How is everyone doing? Ready for another Monday post? Here it comes! As usual perfectly on schedule! (Unlike my game projects XD).
GUMROAD is dead. Or is it? I have no idea to be honest. I did some research and Google says that GUMROAD is not banning NSFW art entirely but rather limits the way people can pay for the purchases now: to credit card only. That being said, quite a few artists are having a "Good bye GUMROAD" sale right now, basically saying that the jig is up. So I don't know what to make of it.
So what? The reason I even talk about GUMROAD is because it was on my bucket list to create an account there one day. I thought that maybe after I release Queen Trainer I could compile an artbook or something and maybe put it on there for a little extra income. Well, looks like that ship has sailed now.
That being said. There are alternatives to GUMROAD that I could explore if I ever decide to actually do this. So it's not the end of the world for me. Although I did hear that Patreon is making curtain updates to their policy as well now. We will see how it goes. I have no illusions, I know that all good things come to an end eventually, but we will cross that bridge when we get there. For now I will just continue to concentrate on my work.
Living the life. During last week I did an unthinkable thing, something I did not do for many years now: I took my PSP for a walk with me and played some good old GBA games on it while being OUTDOORS. It was a lot of fun :)
Also after sharing that GIF from the Daxter game last week, I decided to play that game again. What an absolutely gorgeous looking game it is. It even has a first person view option that let's you really experience the masterfully crafted environment. Wasn't able to spend too much time with it, but what amount of time I had I spent mostly running around and gawking at the environment XD
The work. Time for the weekly progress report. I am finally done with testing all the major scenes and mechanics. Testing the endings took more effort than I anticipated. More than that, the entire testing process took about a month longer than I thought it would. I have been creating these games for 10+ years now, and I still continue to make miscalculations when it comes to timeframes of things. You know what that means? It means that you should never trust anybody who ever gives you any release dates. Unless the project is already finished those release date numbers will always be complete fiction. (You can always count on me though: I'll never give you any release dates :).
Now what? Now I will be working on another side-content part of the game: girl's birthdays. The original idea was this: you can wish Happy Birthday to certain characters if you talk to them on the day of their birthday. And if you happen to purchase a "Fuck-cake", you can actually throw a little private party for them. The machinic was already in the game, and even had proper art assets for everyone but Jasmine. But I want to redo it now because it does not fit the game the way I thought it would.
More text. QT allows for a lot of freedom for the player, so technically it is possible to save up enough money, buy the cake and "congratulate" a character that you just only met. It makes no sense and ruins the emersion. I will be changing it so that you can wish Happy Birthday to the characters, but only can give "fuck-cakes" to your wives.
So? I need to change a lot of code now and rewrite a lot of scenes because I want to integrate other wives into the celebrations. For example if you are married to 3 girls and one of them is having a birthday party with you, I want for the other two wives to be present also and give comments on what is happening. Hopefully I will be able to pull this off.
Jasmine? Also I need to create proper art assets for Jasmine's birthday party, because originally I had no plans for her to be able to be a "fuck-cake" recipient. Anyway, don't be frightened by the wall of text. It's a bit easier than I made it sound here. And as you can see I am feeling much more energetic, because I am done with a huge chunk of the work and feel much more hopeful about the inevitable release :)
Anyway, that is all I have to say for now. Thank you for your support and I will see you all next week.
-Aka-
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itch.io/profile/akabur
www.bitchute.com/akabur
https://akabur.creator-spring.com
https://spacehey.com/notomorrow
Comments (23)
hmm just saw this after I got a notification from a gumroad artist. Hmm starting to get a bit worried by various platforms and payment providers paypal puttingy ideology in the way of doing business. Saw a crowdfunding for a business owner who had a female only establishment that threw out a guy (who claimed to be a woman), and they were raising money for the court case. Paypal of course won't let them collect money on their platform as it doesn't fit their ideology. If I ruled the world paypal if it wants to do business, does business with everyone. Starting to think I should look for paypal alternatives, I don't like the idea of giving business to that kind of a business.
I'm always so happy to see your attention to detail and to have "believable" situations in a fictional universe... 🤩 It's going to take some effort to earn these events... and all the better for it! And I'm so glad to see that Jasmine is going to get her birthday cake too 🎂, and I can't wait to see her aserbic comments about the other girls... 😇 In a platinum or diamond edition of the game, I'd love to see the return of the magic shop. It would be the ideal place to buy or make potions to test on your wives. 🙏🏻Thanks for the update PSP Sensei!
Ha-ha-ha! Thank you for your support, dude T_T ^_^
PSP had some amazing games, it makes me want to pull out mine and play some good games. I have Daxter, but never got around to playing it. I guess it is a high time to do so, but I should finish my dissertation first. I love the idea of making the cakes for wives only, immersion is really important so this is great. Take care, and thanks for making the game so polished. Also, I finally got my friend to play PT, so far he says it's brilliant. Take care Aka, and have a great week! P.S. I would also like to ask, would you have anything against me publishing a survey on your discord? It's perfectly fine if not, but I'm looking for places I could get some responses.
Dude, you should absolutely play Daxter. It has awesome gameplay, fantastic environment and a new sexy girl. That being said you may want to use PPSSPP. I play it on PSP only for the nostalgia factor. It looks and play much better on an emulator :) Big thanks in converting more people into our cult by making them play PT. I appreciate it. Why would I be against a survey? Just do it in an appropriate channel :)
I personally would love to buy an artbook. Though it is a question of where I'd put it but who knows it could end up a pretty interesting coffee table book.
If I has nothing better to do I would be happy to dedicate some time on putting one together. Unfortunately I can afford such frivolity. The most realistic route to take would be to hire somebody to do that for me. Maybe one day :)
Gumroad has not been communicating well. When they first announced the policy change -- driven by 🅿🅰Y🅿🅰L's growing Puritanism -- it was announced as all-out, and with only 2 DAYS WARNING to all Gumroad merchants. IF as you say, NSFW can still be paid by direct check, that means they've heard the strength of the backlash and are trying to win back the huge amount of customer goodwill they lost. That's good. I'm still preparing to delete my 🅿🅰Y🅿🅰L, as the true author of these problems.
PayPal froze y account and stole about 500 of my money several years ago, so I don't use it anymore. As for Gumroad, we will see how it develops I guess -_-
Thanks for the update and the continued hard work! I hope to be able to follow you to wherever you end up when Patreon inevitably bites the bullet, no matter where you go.
Thanks Marshall. I appreciate you saying that more than you know :)
Bro every post about give more life to the game it make me proud and some time cry of joy, bro you do what game developers don't do in this days (Making a great game without think about money or microtransaccions) bro thanks for have this path in your life, MIEL GRACIAS CAMPEON! 💪🥲
Soon* XD
I was about to suggest that you get a Subscribestar account as a back-up, but I see you already have done so.
Yeah, I began mirroring all my posts there a couple of years ago. It's a bit annoying to having to do it there every Monday, but better safe than sorry.
>running around and gawking at the environment Hard to believe, but this is one of the main reasons I play Dark Souls games 🙃
XD
Eh, Gumroad will find, along with many, that pandering to the prudes will hurt their business. If they want to do that, then have at it I suppose. As for the work, this sounds good! Progress is clearly happening, and don't worry, everyone knows release dates are just guesses. Every project has problems!
Yes, progress is happening and can be stopped. All the matters is progress. Progress is fucking everywhere I look these days. Oh well, nothing I can do but continue along my outdated trajectory :) As usual, thank you for the support, Trevor.
A shame about gumroad, but as you say lives go on, but I wonder who this attitude benefit, I have hard time companies now do things for anything but making money. Happy to read the roadmap, the game will be awesome
The longer I live the more I see stupid decisions being by people in charge of creating entertainment. I don't know what to say, it's just stupid decisions. -_-
17 days more
17 days more until what? Why does this comment has 3 likes? What am I missing here?