Dev Slow-down


Hey Handers,

So, since the article here: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content - and Steam announcing similar 'precautions', it seems like the international community is being pulled into America's political stuff. People don't like to mix their smut and politics, so I'll keep it short, but "sexual deviancy" and enforcing rules like "sex should be for procreation" etc has always been about bigger agendas - oppressing queer people. Distracting people with 'shocking' and 'salacious'  news and events means they miss the picture they should be looking at. This is a corporate symptom on some much scarier stuff happening - so to my players and purchasers in the USA - please keep yourself safe!

But more personally, this action means I've gone from small purchases here and there (once a week maybe) resulting from around 20 browser plays a day, down to around 2 browser plays a day... so the maths looks pretty dire. This project has always been about highlighting some more vanilla story telling, western style artwork and bringing some variety to the nsfw gay narrative space - the purchases here an there have been a nice way to motivate me to keep more content and improvements coming.

So coming off a major code heavy update and getting hit with de-indexing is disheartening - it means I might recharge around some other projects and experiments - please be patient, while we all await where (or maybe whether) 'corporate' decides NFSW artist content should live.

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but 'America's political stuff' ? what happened had nothing to do with it...


What did hit both steam and itch was a extreme feminist australian group (named Collective Shout, like the itchio note talks about it) that were bombarding visa/mastercard payment processors.
They, the group, have existed since forever even trying to take down games like GTA and Detroit Become Human.

Extremist groups are emboldened and listened to because of political climates - but you make your own connections - if you want to see the world as tiny unrelated instances that's your choice.
I stand by my support, and to keep safe, to those suffering.

Well, then on expanding one's vision = Mastercard and  Visa are mostly democrat supporters (all its previous and today CE0s are always in dinners and reunions with democrats), so.... 
BUT ANYWAY, Still it has nothing to do with that, they got a torrent of thousands emails and messages talking/threatening their image for allowing X and Y content. Thats what lead to what happened to both Steam and itchio.
Too much conspiracy does not make good for anyone's health