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Just to clarify - does ‘content designed for sexual gratification’ only include works made to arouse the player, or could it also include horror games with brief nudity, or mature games with strong themes but no explicit sex?

Many of us tag our work NSFW out of caution, even if there’s no sexual content - sometimes just for violence or dark storylines. There’s a lot of confusion about where the line is between ‘adult content,’ PEGI 18 or M-rated, and outright sexual content.

Could you please clarify how these distinctions are handled? It would help us all avoid unnecessary tagging and keep our work visible without violating policy.

I believe devs would be much more understanding if they could still monetize their work, by letting them pick the CORRECT tag, and only presenting the available payment processors according to what declared.

Sticking to globally agreed definitions would make it all easier IMO.

By the way, I initially missed the point of this post.
Personally I don't believe boycotting would work - I'm quite confident NSFW content provided the platform plenty of visibility and profit.
I'd rather chase them up to check what's cooking (if something is cooking at all) to restore the platform to a decent state.
And, VISA and Mastercard should publicly state WHAT is considered legit and what does not incur into "pressure". 
I doubt they're going to take any action at all as they have little to gain and all to lose - so I believe the petition is our best bet so far.
(unless it gets shot in the foot like the Stop Killing Games one, by personally attacking Ross >_<)
Listing Itch.io alternatives, if allowed by Itch.io TOS, could be a good starting point tho.

The point is - in my opinion - What else can be done?

• We have NO official proof of what Visa/Mastercard have really said, apart from what Itch.io and VALVE revealed.
• It could be worse/better(unlikely) than this. If a communication scared Gabe - we're done for.
• It's disheartening to see a platform like Itch.io and Steam crumble overnight like this, overnight.

I'm honestly worried, on a personal level.
I may not be a "famous" influential person but, I'm questioning what I poured the efforts of a lifetime on, if events like this could just invalidate any sort of expression.

OK, I get it that "theoretically" this is not entirely over yet. Stress on YET.

YET - it does set a precedent. When you frame this event in the worldwide scenario, it is grim - to my eyes.

Sure, we could still "go NINTENDO" and family friendly but - at what cost?

It took relatively little pressure for such a worldwide limitation to settle in.

I'm scared. Those activists are not going to stop.

And the worst part is - what could VISA/Mastercard possibly say at this point? They're in Public Relation checkmate. Silence is their best option.

This does not hit only the gaming industry - books, any sort of content is now regulated. It happened. Some devs are suddenly seeing their incomes die overnight.

This is scary.

The consequences of this are WILD. Have people alredy silently agreed to this? I refuse to believe it. What can we do after signing and sharing? I hope people realise how intrusive this decision from VISA&co. is. Is there an active topic about this?

I love the idea - thanks for sharing!

Is it... intended that the current downloadable zip contains a single HTML file (I assume it's all self contained?)  - and that the wizard's tower ends abruptly as soon as you leave the initial screen? ^^

Aw, missed the extra key for a few hours, I was thinking about it :P
The pack looks lovely - and had a peek at what's coming. May I suggest adding multi-stage switches or rotation-based ones?
Or, if you're looking for ideas, in-out ones combined with a rotation (think of it as a handle with a central beam that you can press and then lock by rotating it). I'm just brainstorming, no pressure!

Keep up with the great work! (lo-poly ones would be great as well)

I was honestly terrorized when I saw the notification pop up. I was kinda hoping no one noticed this wreckage I submitted T_T
Well, I probably spent too much time on setting the mood and aesthetics and not enough to flesh everything else, but thanks ^^

I was kind of trying not to look at other fellow jammers' work to not get depressed even more, but sure, I'm going to have a peek :)

I absolutely LOVED it. I discovered it on AlphaBetaGamer's channel and I kept questioning myself over actually playing it or just watching it and... love the writing, the art, the direction. Maybe I was sleepy, but hadn't fully realized it wasn't a game from the 80's. Sure, the soundtrack was...too good, but the vibes, everything else felt perfect retro to me. Thanks for creating this gem, it's amazing it's the work of just 2 weeks, and a single person.

Hi, any chance to get a steam key as part of the itch.io purchase as soon as it's published on Steam? :P

Hi there! I believe you already considered the idea since - from what I see - the game seems very furry oriented. Is there any chance to have homosexual intercourse or are you focusing on male-female interactions only?

Hi there! ^^
I'm getting back to you 7 months later - maye you missed the message ^^

Is there any chance to get all of your itch.io packs (even free ones) in a sale bundle, to both support and have access to your work, horror ad not? :)

Hi there!
Maybe the preview on itch.io is not correct: Are these effects monochrome instead of being in greyscale?

Is there any chance you could create a single (paid) bundle with all your works? :)

I see, thanks for your reply. I was probably asking for something out of scope for a PSX-like engine - per-texel lighting is far from common!
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/125437/per-texel-lighting-not-per-ve...
I'd have another question but I'm going to make it on the correct page (the PS1 engine: are the material graphs available for us to be customized? I'm assuming you're using a master material?).

When I watched the demo I couldn't but notice the Red Cross usage: maybe not you, but someone using that model could get into a few issues - I speak for personal experience :P
Geneva Conventions

It's an easy oversight but the red cross is veeery easy to trigger (Even Quake had to replace that symbol). 

I was in the process of creating my own "retro" system with 5.3 but if I can save time and have a tested solution, I'm definitely taking a little shortcut :)
Just for clarity's sake: this is not intended to be used as "game engine" right? It's most for displaying single meshes (so, not a world) if I got it right.
How does this compare to your PSX engine?
I wouldn't mind a middle-ground solution able to merge retro aesthetics with modern features (volumetric shadows, GI via lumen).
Have you considered implementing per-texel lighting and multiple light support? 

It's that "should" that's been my wrongest assumption when importing FBX sets in Unreal 5.3 😂 (and that's after working in Unity/gamedev for a decade).
I'll give it a go ^^

Hi there! Have you tested the pack in Unreal? When I switched from Unity I assumed importing packages wouldn't have been an issue but Unreal is pretty picky with naming, pivots, and sometimes face continuity :/
Wouldn't mind paying extra if it imported with less effort

Looks great but I had to switch to Unreal - any chance you could have a look at it and simplify the import? I wouldn't mind paying extra to save some time T_T

Hi, most of the "license" pages you linked to are unavailable or non-existing.

Is it ok to use these assets (and textures) in a commercial product?

Hi there! I'm a bit confused about what each pack contains -  I also see there's an "Essential" package, but  at the same price - which is a bit confusing.
Is this the bundle that contains all your works here on itch.io?
Is there such a thing as a paid package?
Would be interesting to have some sort of "subscription" pack that contains all your works so far and that gets regularly updated. I'd be interested in it :)

Oh my, this has so much potential! Can't wait to play it and see how you're going to extend it after the Jam!

Some second by second feedback:
-  Fullscreen: I'd love to get to fullscreen immediately when playing a windows game Alt+Enter and F4  don't work. What is the shortcut?

- Options: I started the game hoping to set it in the options menu but there's no options menu?

- The main menu - feels more like a media page - add Options, New Game/Continue/Quit instead.

- The media icons are way too small to be immediately recognizable

- The 3 hi-res coins feel out of place:  have some chonky gold coins instead

- I'm still struggling to get it in fullscreen. Argh! 😅

- As a player I'm getting thrown straight in the game with no menu. The keybndings are shown behind the coins.

- I'm playing the game aimlessly: "is there going to be an exit?"

- Ok, exiting from any exit and trying to get to the previous room just generates a  new random room. This makes having 4 exits pointless. Maybe  just teleport the player to the next arena, or have some stairs appear somewhere?

- Have a counter of fights to beat before meeting the boss

- A few enemies spread projectiles in a way that is unfair to the player - they're too close to each other and the player's pretty big.

- I like how shooting enemies telegraph their ranged attack

- I leveled up while shooting and my shotgun flew away from the screen O_O

- I'm losing track of where I'm pointing. I'm in  4K so maybe add a fading out pixelated white line pointing towards the mouse?

- Wait, there's a base? I wished I had known about it before - Maybe start the game from there?

- Pressing E on "Inf." and "Week" does nothing?

- Definitely - start the game on the base 😅 It gives the player a bit more context

- With so little health, why are you using a health bar instead of individual hits icons?

- I died while fighting a boss and instead of having the chance to get back to the base a 3 second countdown happened, making my whole run useless: did the "Retry" button appear while I was shooting and it automatically got my mousedown event as a click? Please wait for a mouseup to  happen at least once before accepting any clicks on the UI ;)

- Please fully cover the door entrances when the doors are locked: those crevices are little traps. This also means teleporting the player further inside the room when switching room.

- Please add 1/1.5 seconds of delay to the player before letting enemies attack. Sometimes their positioning is a bit unfair.

- I'm not entirely convinced by the dash. Without it, the game's a bit too hard. But, you can keep it pressed and you're basically a ninjia swooping from one side of the room to another. Maybe  have a longer cooldown and require the dash button to be released for the cooldown to start. Maybe reduce the distance it covers? (it doesn't pair too well with spikes) Add more "stacks" of dash to be used?

The game's promising but needs some work to smooth the player loop. Maybe a story, even if a simple one? A clearer endgame condition? So far it's a bit too open ended and it really feels like random rooms chained for no particular reason.

I fear this asset has been abandoned, which is a shame :(

I really wanted it to work on HDRP.

I think I discovered it was a shader "baked" with the use of "Better Shaders" by Jason Booth from the Asset Store, but since we don't have the source files for it, there's no way to export it for different pipelines...

Hey hey!  I finally found this page again - I forgot the name of the game, apologies! 

May I suggest adding a link to wishlist the game on Steam? I don't want to miss the launch, I have high expectations from this game!

Woa woa woa you got featured by Retromation!
Looking forward to new updates!

Hi there!
I love the stylised look you could get by using MRMOTEXT by Mrmo (https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmotext) and Playscii - I was wondering if there was any chance of porting the image-to-tile conversion to Unity, maybe as a postFX - as a paid asset?

I've barely scratched the surface of the program and I understand you may not have time for this - if so, could you please point me in the right direction to where in the source code you're doing the conversion? Thanks :)

hi! Thanks for the link but maybe my request wasn't clear enough.

That is a collection of 10 characters.

Many creators here create special "Bundles", group of assets, containing several packs, that can be bought in bulk by paying them once. Typically there's a little discount since you're buying the licenses for all of your assets.

That's something Itch.io lets you create. For instance, you could decide a price for everything on this page (https://bdragon1727.itch.io/) and let people purchase every asset in that page by paying once a price of your choice. 

Hi there!

Is there any chance you could create a paid bundle containing all your assets? :)

Nope :/

aw :(

I'd gladly pay to not have any headaches while using the set - it looked so cute!

...I wished to use it in procedural generation - it's ok for prototyping but having to patch it up excludes other kind of usages :(

Hi Kay!

I'm  not  a fan of "leeching" from patreons (that is, subscribing once just to get the assets) - is there another way to get the full mystery characters (including the Orc Warband mini-pack)?

Would you be  comfortable adding for Patreons the  mystery pack here on itch.io along with the Orc Warband mini-pack?

Or, are you ok with the "leeching" behaviour (some patreons are)?

Are the mistery characters available as a single download on Patreon?

As long as I was employed (game  dev) I had no issues  with supporting as many creators I could.

Now with the recent  mass layoffs... it's getting  complicated :/

What about making  those downloads available on itch.io to those who donate here 5(or a value of your choice) dollars  or more? (it should be almost equivalent, fees and taxation included)

Hi there!

Just wondering - is this issue still present in the pack?

Hi there! Since it's been made with Better Shaders, is there any chance you could export it for HDRP?

Hi there! I was wondering - do you have any plans to port it to Shadergraph, so that it can be also URP/HDRP compatible?

I'd be suppa-ok with a paid version (even on the UAStore if not here)

Hi there!

Is there any chance to have a paid version of the asset that is not CCAttribution?

I have no problem crediting you, but in some cases it may not be possible (by customer request mainly).

A Unity Asset Store (paid) version (with Unity's standard licensing) would be very welcome as well!

Hi there! Is there any chance you're going to convert this to Shadergraph (thus covering both URP and HDRP - I heard even the base built-in rendering pipeline supports that now)?

something like a node to be used in shadergraph would be also nice.

Personally I managed to get everything but the affine texture mapping done.

I'm talking about a paid package of course! :)

I understand you may be busy on other projects to release a new pack - any help to port it to URP/HDRP is still appreciated as believe we got almost past the point where there's no more reason to use the legacy pipeline - assets excluded ;)

Hi!

Maybe I missed the part where you state that but: is the "Key" a redeemable Unity Asset Store key?

Is there any chance you could please share the page on the UAS as well?

Love the pics! Any chance to have a (paid, maybe) URP version of the shader? (or even HDRP if you're going to use Shadergraph).

Are your assets on the Asset Store as well? I'd rather get them from there, even if you have to add 30% to the base cost because of Unity's share :)

+1 for a Unity Asset Store release ;)