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That is literally my core design Philosophy put into words and even then id Toned down My Designs to try to make it "Acceptable" for Console release/the "general public",  because the impact I want my games to have was meant to be a look at where we are right now and to Stop ignoring the literal daily tragedies that are Happening and being ignored, and yet in the time its taken to get even chapter 1 of 36 developed (Im stuck in prototyping hell trying to get all the mechanical systems together) its gotten to the point that I'd Straight up rather live in what was meant to a Dystopian Parallel to the present/Recent past then reality because at least theirs actually Hope in my setting unlike reality, 

Several threats in my narrative are meant to straight up reflect real world issues, for example the Ice Demons from the North (Artic) of act 2 and 3 are meant to be a Representation of those who've allowed their Will and Compassion/Emotions to Be Completely subsumed by another becoming a near Mindless army for one of the Cults of personality (theirs also the multiple actual cults to really hit home the Cult of personality thing since everyone in these circles can only view things as on their side or against them) who's sole Drive is To Absorb the Heat energy of Others (to try and replace the heart/soul they've lost though only recognise its absence unconsciously) converting them into ice demons as WW3 simultaneously is starting the ice Demons quickly becoming the Threat to the world targets with the nukes Only For the Nuclear Fire To literally end up doing nothing as the ice demons just absorb all the heat energy contained their in, and that first nukes firing happens on Christmas Eve to show that No Day or Night is sacred anymore. 

And that's on the More grand end of the design on the lower end we have the abuse that's happening every day in plain sight or just out of sight even at the familial level that's being ignored (not so fun fact the global average for child abuse rates(just Reported cases not the even larger number that goes unreported) is around 1 in 4 (25%), yeah almost a quarter of all kids are Abused in some form, My art I Want to resonate with them to help them find hope and believe help exists, Because art is Supposed to Disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

Sorry for the long rant whenever I begin talking about my big project I kinda just lose the ability to stop myself from talking about it till i reach an end of topic.

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What's your thoughts in general on this? Planning to stick around on Itch?

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To be honest my thoughts are currently uncertain but considering the subject matter my games cover even just from a More "Veiled" perspective I'm currently considering abandoning any pretense of censoring my work Beyond the absolute Darkest of the content in my earlier drafts and since itch clearly isn't a safe space anymore at least , I honestly don't know how I will actually spread word about my game , it honestly feels like almost 5 years of life life have just been executed like a sick puppy behind a barn, I just have to hope the fact that my game isn't all darkness and is more dichotomous allows me to use its light side to gain some level of traction, and worst case scenario I can just Censor the old fashioned way with black Cubes like I'm already doing for some of the Gore scenes (which is also simultaneously because of physical material in the characters eyes limiting their vision preventing them from seeing just how Gorey the scene before them is ( chapter 15 Lucius (one of the 4 protagonists) gets kidnapped(Drugged at an Event tied to the cult which he'd  Managed to secure an invitation To and was their to gather evidence of the cults activities and more Specifically Trying to Find someone Who went missing after being invited to one of the cults parties) by a cult that aims to Sacrifice his Organs to cleanse Him of his "Sins" Using the Rich Magic and Altered Laws of reality within phantasia Zones to Substitute the organs functions with the final step being the Cleansing of the brain(Brainwashing through torture symbolism) of course he's able to escape and with his magical talent reconstruct his Removed organs but that doesn't mean he wasn't the only one chained up having their organs removed in that Building (and it also doesn't make the experience any less traumatic))