Hello everyone. How are you? Hope you're doing good.
It is very likely I will not be using Newgrounds going forward. I have tried to publish Sleeping Sister there twice, and both times it has been unpublished by a moderator without any reason given, and I have not been able to get a response as to why. This doesn't make sense to me because there are incest, non-con and text-games already on Newgrounds, so I really don't know what's going on. There seems to be really lackluster communication and support there, so I'm really soured on Newgrounds at the moment.
Things might change, but for the time being here's what's going to happen going forward:
I will likely be publishing a version of my games here on Itch that follow all the content guidelines(i.e. no incest, nothing non-consensual). I hate to self censor, but it's really my only option at the moment if I want people to actually see my games. Then of course the "full"(馃槈) version of the game with be available on my SubscribeStar.
I am considering re-publishing Sleeping Sister here on Itch while adhering to the content guidelines. Likely renaming it to something corny like "Sleeping Roommate", establishing a very apparent consensual agreement between the player and "Roomate" during the intro, and changing the game text to remove any mention of familial relations and non-consent.
Not sure it's worth the effort, but let me know what you think. Again, the current version of the game is available for the Free tier of my SubscribeStar: https://subscribestar.adult/sykol
Now, onto where I've been and what I've been doing for the last month-ish:
I lost my job at the end of July as the company I worked for is going out of business, and the location I worked at closed for good. I am currently getting by on unemployment, but I have been sliding back into old-habits of being a depressed shut-in doing nothing but playing Old School Runescape for 16 hours a day. Okay, maybe not 16 hours a day every day. I am trying to do better, trying to be productive, but discipline and self-motivation is haarrrdd 馃様
That said, my next project "Shut-In Sister" erm, I mean, "Shut-In Mom's Friend's Daughter"(still working on the title) is still in the works, and I'm really going to try and knuckle-down start to get some solid progress done on it going forward.
Hugs and kisses and all that, thank you for your support over the years. I hope the future of adult game dev stops being so fucking grim.
Yours truly, Sykol
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I just wanted to hop in and say I hope you're doing good, honestly when I saw "Sleeping Sister" one I was so hyped up cause it was my secret little kinks all wrapped up into one and I remember playing it really often but was too embarrassed to comment or do anything aside from having fun with it. But now I just wanted to hop off anonymity and hope that things have gotten better for you (even though it's just been a day). Take care of yourself and take as much time as you need to recover the loss of your job! But also I hope you're doing something fun and motivating (it doesn't have to be productive but just something to boost your energy and happiness up!) I'm sincerely looking forward to your next game whatever premise it may be, and it really sucks that the current game climate is really taking a toll on other creators and succeeding in censoring them but I have hope that things will change soon!
Again, take care of yourself and take all the time you need to recover!
This is the sweetest dang comment I've ever received 馃槶馃槶馃槶
Thank you so much for your kind words 馃槉