Thanks for your truth and honesty.
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Thank you. I actually started working on the next update a while ago, but I kinda stopped doing that and decided to try working on a comic instead. It's a whole thing, but the gist is that my plan was to post The Week She Tried To Live, then work on the next update for this, then the next update for that, and so on. But, that visual novel didn't do well, I got into an argument with someone in the devlog for it and, well, I just thought I needed to do something other than visual novels for a bit, hence the comic idea. But, at the moment, I have 2-3 scenes done for the next update for this thing. Without spoiling too much, Arceus makes an appearance,
Yeah, I do tend to refresh my page a lot because I like seeing my analytics and my numbers go up. Usually my notifications here are just for new followers, not comments, I guess because this site doesn't really encourage people to be very social. I don't really feel very appreciated on this site, honestly, and this game is a sore spot for me because the site itself, not the trolls or the haters, this site f*cked this game's performance for months, made me look stupid, and I never even got an apology for it. Maybe if I got a bunch of positive comments or felt like there was an actual supportive community on here I'd feel better about it, but now it's like "This site treats me like sh*t, and the community feels pretty much non-existent. Why the f*ck am I even here?"
But, those are my issues, not yours. You seem like a cool dude and I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. Hope you have a good day/night, and I'm going to bed.
It's fine. I hope things get better for me in the future, but I kinda feel like the things that I want might have been reasonable in the past but aren't reasonable now. Like, what I'd like is for, say, a blog that talks about weird things online to discover one of my projects and write an article about it, then it would spread online like in the late 2000s/early-2010s. That's the culture I grew up in with stuff like Kanye Quest 3030. But, nowadays that culture is kinda dead.
I feel like the problem is that a lot of content creators are just lazy mainly because the culture on most websites encourages laziness, like Youtube rewarding creators for producing very similar content on a daily schedule and Twitch rewarding streamers for doing very little. I'm not expecting content creators to search for my games specifically to make videos about them necessarily, but I feel like in the past content creators used to search for Pokemon fan games to play for a quick video because they could say "This fan game has a PREGNANT PIKACHU," and that doesn't happen much anymore. I think there are a lot of reasons for it, but one that stuck out to me is a content creator saying: "Fan games don't matter, they're not official games," and that feels unintentionally revealing on a lot of levels, such as an admittance that apparently it's fine to make videos trashing Game Freak and the official Pokemon games because they're official, but it's not okay to do the same to a game like this because it's not official. I find it more offensive that my games aren't worth any time spent discussing outside of my own comment section than anything negative that someone might say about them in a video. Like "The story is crap, the art is garbage, and the creator is a loser," is far less offensive than "This game isn't even worth mentioning, and neither is the creator."
Anyways, thanks for your comments. Watch the space for my comic, which is nearly completed. I think it turned out pretty well, art-wise. The text is a bit rough, but I'll try to fix it.