Aah hehe. Just generally it has been such a positive experience, great community, easy to use, free, fair rules. Of course something like this has to happen. Shame, I really like my more extreme stuff, would hate to water stuff down but I do wanna keep making games. I just hope at least the new rules would be crystal clear and comprehensive. But tbh drawing just vanilla boning gets a bit boring, well at least they aren’t banning TF and furry yet.
If you want to check out an alternative, I did see this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/lewdgames/comments/1m9a3ga/the_itchio_situation_is_a_wa...
I haven't looked into it at all to see if it's actually a good platform, but it does seem promising, and a good backup plan in case Itch does toss you off, since it's a closer analogue to Itch than Newgrounds (There's no payment option or ability to have downloadable versions on NG)
Ooh thanks, but apparently the post has been removed. What I gather from the comments it was crypto platform. Haven’t been that into crypto, but it does start to sound more and more attractive with this kind of shit happening. Newgrounds is cool but seems to has it’s own vibe and community, and I’m not sure if I exactly fit in. I mostly make html games and have no plans to start taking donations or making a commercial game yet, so the no downloads or payment options is ok with me. And I think saw a demo game on NG and they offered a link to the full game on their profile, so I guess it can be danced around if I want to offer downloads too. Though I have toyed around with unreal too, prototyping a bigger 3d project, so no idea where I’d post that in the future since it can’t have a html demo.
Been searching for an alternative too, seems like it’s slim pickings for the nsfw crowd though. I will probably keep using itch if I’m not banned, don’t think they had a choice here with even steam having to give in. If I get banned, I might give NG a shot. A new platform would be cool but it takes time for it to grow, and it probably needs to be crypto or something, but that will really hurt the growth. Reverting this can happen too I guess, but will probably take many years. Western adult game scene has come so far in a pretty short time, I guess it was bound to get some resistance.
Thanks a lot for letting me now, means a lot! I’d love to know if something else pops up while we’re waiting for the judgement.
EDIT: Apparently the stricter rules are for paid stuff, so I should be in the clear.
