Posted August 25, 2023 by 13 Games
So, it's been several days since news broke about an Australian AVN developer's arrest. I've had some time to think about how I should react to this and I've come to a short-term decision. I am going to put Our Island on an indefinite hold. I'm not deleting anything. I'm not going to pull what's already out there (as if I really could). I'm just putting it on the back burner for now.
What that means is, I'll be working 100% on Back 2 School. B2S is still planned to be ~5 releases. That might change now. I had been thinking about extending the game into the weekend (each release is a single day), and maybe this is a good reason to do that. I actually went back to work on B2S today and made several images before stopping to proofread/playtest the new release of Young Again (it's really good!). The issue with B2S is, it isn't written with Alpha releases in mind, because I was never intending to release Alphas. I'll take a look at it and see how best to break it up so Blackest Black and Lucky 13 can get that early content.
After B2S is finished, I'll revisit Our Island. I'll see how I feel about returning to the island. I had contemplated trying to "fix" the game, so it's a little safer. Aging the models younger than Kavya, removing content, etc., but none of that seemed like the right thing to do for the game.
Hopefully I'll feel better about working with those non-human, digital, ageless actors, but you never know when some politician or religious group is going to decide to make AVNs their next big thing. Even though none of this is currently illegal where I live, that can always change. The Supreme Court is a lot different today than the one which struck down the computer-generated image provision of the CPPA in 2002.
Anyway... I'm back to work.