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Well, here's sort of the messed up part.... They are going to be spending far more money now Optimizing these games.

One of this industries biggest engines to build games on, Unreal Engine, doesn't have the option or options to 'optimize' the projects built upon it as that thing was made to run on the TV of some Rich Prince from Saudi Arabia. Before Unreal took over, companies had to come up with their own rendering software, game engines and optimize it as best they could to run on almost all computer architecture or the most popular machine to date; As there is no other computer program LIKE a video game where instead of processing data sheet, data tables and trading that info with another computer; it has to do that with triangles, square's and bitmaps...

But with a massive chunk of the industry running Unreal Engine, a platform with more bugs and security issues than the next Windows 11 update; they now have 4 roads, all of those roads are going to BURN more money. From the worst option to the best one...

Road #1; Build/Derive a new game engine with all of the optimization built in, This kind of work can take months to a few short years as a lot of the college grads being pumped out don't even know how to do basic geometry; just click the button in Unreal Engine and it makes the balls bounce. They will be wasting time developing that engine and moving all of the game elements & resources over while bug fixing that mess and all of the problems that come with it. The upside to this though is they will have an engine they own, proper documentation for it and can build upon it or improve it and even license it out to colleges to train the next generation of develoeprs.

Road #2; Finish their projects, put them out to pasture; let the chips land where they fall and start making hard decisions of who to cut.

Road #3; Debug the mess, scale back to current project, get it out the door. Then proceed to perform Road #1 by any means necessary; fire the bloat, keep the eggheads who know the difference between machine code and data pointers, get them to build a new engine by any means necessary.... And it will be balls hard, but with the industry as it is as it changes, they don't have much of an option....

Road #4; Try to optimize Unreal Engine... Which I laugh at... Unreal Engine is a nightmare to optimize.

Then I recommend having a plan B prepared for folks who paid for it like your's truly. XD
Maybe look into a Web 3 Domain.

I accept the situation and would rather push the situation off of a cliff. XD

Real talk: I would rather have this situation happen than never happen at all. The only folks who would suffer from the RAM shortages are the folks who NEED to have 4K resolution, that high rez refresh rate and a cutting edge that would make the closest goth reconsider their life-style and turn to either religion or music.

The other half that it could be good for us besides shitting bricks at the Ram prices we need to pay to build new rigs (PEOPLE ARE ASSEMBLING THEIR OWN RAM FROM SCRATCH NOW!! THE CHIPS THEMSELVES ARE MORE INEXPENSIVE THAN THE RAM ITSELF!!! GOOGLE IT!!!), It brings a new problem to developers and the big AAA developers need to swallow their pride on this one too; NOONE will be able to run whatever resource chugging game they publish this year. If noone can run their game, then their sales suffer and the company suffers... and they want to KEEP THEIR JOBS, they need to do what programmers have been doing since the 1940's; work within the limitations of their mediums and stretch it as far and thin as possible. (1940's, WW2, first complex computer used to decipher the Enigma coded messages from Germany. The first computer had to decode those messages and they had to work within the limitations to get shit decoded.)

That's what programmers had to do with the Atari, the NES, the SNES, they did even HARDER WORK WITH THE SEGA GENESIS, The PS1 and the N64... To this day, Resident Evil 2 for the N64 is a FU***NG MASTERPIECE OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING!!! No cut levels, were able to cram ALL OF THE CUTSCENES without losing any quality or shrinking the video and they were able to cram all of this onto a 64MB OF SPACE ON A CARTRIDGE FROM A GAME CD THAT TAKES U P 700MB!!

The big complaint here, is that the modern developers don't try to optimize their titles anymore, they don't bother bug fixing often or try to plug memory leaks. They expect us to have the appropriate hardware to RUN the game and the expectations are tone deaf to all of us...

The TL:DR of my whole post: I'm somewhat glad it's happening as it is leading to something that has been needed for a long time. Problem Solving, Engineering and working for solutions.

Unless you are the next Hollow Night or Silksong(Popularity Wise), yeah... If you worked to get enough cash to support you a few years to develop the games you want while providing for your physical needs like house bills, food, water like Team Cherry did; then no.

Beyond that, I'll give your game a shot.

I understand the madness and would rather embrace it... Though I been embracing more Sega Genesis mind you, more for half of the things they had done for that to push it to the extreme degree of squeezing 3D, pixelated wonders and the form of art and internet communication out of it via the Sega Channel.

Still; for what this era, I would rather it bring new life and tear open a new one again or at least, get some of these kids to turn their heads and funny enough, the old world of gaming already does. The AAA slop is being ignored for the indies, the passion projects and this retro world. Even CRT TV's have gone UP THERE in price for crying out loud. O_O

If only Watermelon games didn't have that fallout or if we had better access to some tool to manufacture our own chips and boards, we could skip the hacks and start making games for the old console's again.

Dear lord, this comment was ooooooooooooold;

The Community General Discussion has a topic to post a link to your game to indirectly link it to a forum index.

https://itch.io/t/5121437/list-of-shadowbanned-nsfw-games

The other site, I can't find anymore; bit a forum post might be the only space to re-index your title... unless you get in on a NSFW bundle somewhere... Unless you wanna dig back into 5 month old Forum posts for that website.

Maybe not; he may have left the community to figure it out which in turn has gotten more people to start talking about the game.

I get it; that's fine.

I was hoping as I'm leaving windows for Linux come October as I don't want to deal with Win11 as they are cutting off Win10 Support and it's been rumored the version after Win 11 will just be an AI in a box; no windows or menus or anything else beyond it...

I digress; ignore me on my fears. GOMI works on Linux under Wine; I was hoping for a Native Linux Build was all. Thanks for answering.

Will there be a Linux build release? Seeing as it's built in Unity, there should be an option or ability to compile it for Debian, Fedora or Arch based systems since Unity was design the be able to publish on almost everything. @_@

If not, that's fine too. Was hoping for one.

Game does not continue or work as an Idle when focus is away from the game window.

Recommend for later version's, clicking pictures to do something whether a short animation or improve hearts but at the cost of patience or not gaining any patience.

Recommend the game continue after it loses focus if part of the idea is to make this an idle game.

I tried myself; you are indeed correct.

It might be Paypal being crooked. There are common reports where Paypal has just been stealing money from it's customers whether they are paying or using paypal in the business operations.

We won't know what's going on for a while.

While we should hold them accountable; we also need to understand that itch is a small team. They don;t have the power, money or resources to keep up with us or billions of people posting their games and gadgets to itch.

They might be waiting for Trump to make good on his EO threat as he's been making good on a lot of his threats; but I do agree either we or they need to do SOMETHING.
At this point, I'd even accept Itch GIFT CARDS, as it's money they'll get and can probably redistribute if they had the ability to do it.

They aren't.

From my view of it, the Karen's are looking for control. They are winning the battle with business and I do believe folks need to keep flooding MC and VISA with new phone calls to break their dialogue trees and keep their lines gummed up; but they are losing the battle with the people: Daily.

If it's not madam savvy they are attacking, it's going after Rumble, X and Elon, Trump, everyone who refuses to them and men though to be frank, they have a heavier beef with men than they do with everything else though I think guys are just a blip on their radar for whatever control they are seeking.

They aren't winning the battle with the people as everyone is calling them out and is still calling them out. Quite frankly, they have nowhere to run and the moment we have a method to break this new attack vector of their; they hold no more power. You want a better example of their losses, they have been trying to stage attack posts against themselves across different forms of social media and blaming everyone else hoping we'll reach emotions and read headlines before we reach for logic. A lot of us have picked up on that and it's not working anymore, for most of us that is, I can't speak for everyone; but  attacking yourself and blaming others for the harm you inflicted to yourself is just sad.

Supposedly, to re-index everything. But folks are throwing shade over all of this and all I wanted to do was give some information what was going on.

Long story short, Master Card, Visa and Paypal are holding vendors funds hostage in an attempt to de-bank them for reasons whether it's for power or they are being poked by someone. Basically for religious or politcal reasons, you could not debank people. If you are debanking someone selling smut claiming it's not right for religious reasons, that goes against the order and they need to knock it off. If they are debanking a political opponent of any kind for any reason (Such as a Democrat wanting to debank a Republican or independant party in ANY election of ANY TYPE) they have to knock that off too or get in trouble. If the smut can't be sold because of the children, that's more of a parental issue dealing with their children, not the government's job.

The EO was to state to knock what they were doing OFF. Considering the OTHER adult games have yet to be re-indexed, they are still working on it. Hopefully with Discover or SOMEONE or SOMETHING else as the one payment processor that gives these reasons the finger could overtake both MC and Visa and they would not be able to stop it.

.... BUT, even if it's hopium, I'd rather cling to good news of any kind than to mentally snap and break society apart. XD

Reading the update from itch.io, the games were de-indexed like this one; they have not been deleted. If we still have a bookmark, the page link get's posted to the community board, find out how to get on the loop-dev-site to re-index this title; it'll pick back up.

They kinda can't ban porn. There was an attempt to ban it age's ago in the USA: Though it failed because of the same problem than ran into with Prohibition with Crime Lords and other vendors taking control and corrupting the cities of Washington DC, New York, etc.

Legalizing it, on the other hand: They were able to make laws on what kind of booze could be sold, control alcoholic content, still get their tax money and people were more inclined to follow the law than to oppose something that denied the right of it.

A lot of gun owners in the USA that purchase their weapons lawfully go through the channels to own their weapons and even go through the background checks as a means of self protection or hunting or anything else. When it came down to the smut that could be sold, legalizing it to what was ok, what wasn't and so on was far better protection than what any politician in a diaper could bitch about in open forum as there are folks who follow the laws in what smut is ok, what isn't and they still get their tax dollar off of it.

And if it's being done because of 'OH, LACK OF BABIES MADE' or 'PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!' The former is an issue between Men, Women and our mass amount of issues between each other from the hell Social Media brought between Dating Apps and the controversies involving the 'Tea' App and the new 'TeaOnHer' App. The latter; people who engage with this shit going to far are being hunted down and are usually killed within the first few weeks of incarceration if they are discovered. Even then, everyone is pointing at the hypocrisy of Roblox now and the shit they are letting happen after they banned someone TRYING TO FIGHT THE PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE ON A WHOLE PLATFORM!!!

... Right now; everything feels like someone is running away and trying to get away with what they can because the law caught up with them and their Black Swan Event they tried to trigger, mis-fired and blew their hand off. Now they are trying to cover their asses and run for that private jet to escape the consequences before they get shot out of the sky.

Basically; The can't deny payment's for any reason involving religious beliefs or political beliefs and have 3 Month's to follow through and change the EULA or else.

Folks here are claiming he won't do shit because we still don't have the Epstein List or they just hate the guy. I would rather take a win where we can get it and I'm not so sure he'll sit back on this one and the carriers got hit with a stock-pirce drop because the phone lines were tied while other gamers are now turning their scripts on their heads when calling a call center... which reminds me, have you called MC or Visa today?

and all I've been seeing are folks taking a shit on this with the exception of those who upvoted the topic, which I do thank. All I wanted to do was draw attention what was happening and what might happen.

Fair rnough.

You updated the game 7 days after you published, shows in the info card.
But a post of changes would be nice is all I'd ask.

Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, I don't care and please do not give me any political redirect as I went digging for this and incase noone else knows yet; he signed an executive order that basically makes what Master Card and Visa performed with Steam and Itch and every other content-distributor; illegal... Well, not illegal-illegal, but if they do it again, USA citizens will have the right to 'cause' trouble for them.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/guaranteeing-fair-bankin...

Apparently, a few bankers and investment firms tried to De-Bank him during his 2024 run. He's on the war path and so far, this has been beneficial... Til then, I think Steam and Itch can breathe easy for a while; though there is still the threat of them coming back.
Edit: Something was too vague.

Update log what you do with each update?

If ya make the game free; they'll re-index it while they are sorting out how to do the payment thing. Alternatively, you could self publish on your own website or go to GoG and see if they'll accept the project as they are gaining traction in fighting the mess happening now.

Or you could go back in, cut the NSFW bits in the language for a sanitized version and call it such; then when this sorts out, make a free DLC Patch putting back in what was taken out.

...Til then, just fight Collective Shout, the UK, chunks of the EU and the woman trying to become the global version of Jack Thompson on steroids as she REALLY HATES video games.

Itch.io, Steam among other platforms didn't have any choice.

They had too in order to keep money flowing, that's how a business works; it's not all good times and sunshine here, what did you expect them TO DO IMMEDIATELY? Boycott the Payment Processors? They are the one's giving you your business making sure the money reaches your pocket's!

Make every title in the catalogue free? Dev's can't get paid and noone likes to do this.

Pissed off at the immediate response to BAN every NSFW title? Those game's have been De-Indexed, meaning you can't reach them normally, you just need to reach the webpage it's held which a LOT of people are re-indexing their games to a fourm post already to regain access back. If they wanted to ban those titles, it would been easier to delete them from the catalogue which they didn't! There might be some gone, but once the mess is cleared, you can head back and make one anew + Someone has taken the time to re-index the de-indexed games, or a least a lot of them.

https://loop-io.dev/

Instead of acting on rage, expecting the world to cow-tow to you for clout and throwing up information, which the article was a nifty read; thanks for that one, is it better to ask than to INSULT and PAUSE FOR ONCE?! Noone wants what's happening and everyone is TRYING to do something new by looking for new solutions? Even make better ones?

Dude... Just chill.

.... Dude, they got the seat kicked out from underneath them and the site doesn't work for free. None of the NSFW pages were deleted, just De-Indexed meaning you can still go to the page's and still grab the titles from them until they get their shit together.

You are, indeed, an asshole.

OP may wanna grab all the links that work and edit the first post to act as the temporary index until ITCH can reclaim it's independence.

I agree; but it's better than dealing with the shit show they are pushing on us.
Visa and MasterCard that is, not Itch.

Even then, I think Collective Farts(Shout) is going to become a fall guy as the bitch or bitches who need to be drawn and quartered may get in the Escape Pod as it goes down to continue to try their censorship work elsewhere like with the USA's 'KOSA' and 'Screen' bullshit laws.

Itch needs to reclaim it's independence, Newgrounds needs to push itself to join the fray and I need an artist willing to draw a meme of the KOSA where they replace the Kids and Safety of that act with: "Kill Online Speech Act" as that is what I'm calling it... And it needs to be adopted to make it stick as it's far more damning and TRUTHFUL what is REALLY is.

... Why not get in touch with Discover Card?

It's easy to get one, noone care's on their end what you buy with it and  there's also always crypto.

Might I make a small reccomendation; Have Pill combo's thrown into the mix cause different effect's As the rounds climb, I've noticed more and more pills are added to the mix to pick between.

Why not have the medicine act differently depending on the pill? Such as one Red + One Blue come supresses 1 death or causes the Green Pill to cause death after taking it; basically having medicine have a good reaction or bad reaction with each other.

Fair Enough.

Well, so far, I'm a one man team... Which to be frank, not really far. I don't have any connections to any folks or teams to help plan something like this, but I got a small layout techthis first one. 

What I got so far is;

Setting up Discord and Revolt Channels.

Picking an MMORPG or virtual Space to host it(Looking at Webfishing, Animal Crossing or something with an easy setup to get in for the interaction like any other con)... Which, to be frank, this is kind of ridiculous, but unless this gains steam or I can get some proper help doing the rest: this is just my sad attempt to retain the human interaction that's part of any conference. 

Looking for folks willing to be on Stream to discuss topics like game design and a spotlight setup for indies to show off what they are doing.

So far, I got a discord/revolt channels and a poorly drawn Mascot. So the easy part is done, next hard step is setting up the literal platform for people to come join in and see and figuring out streaming... Which, feel free to laugh as I have never done it before or setup a method for Streaming a large group of folks wanting to partake.

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If you want to partake it what's so far and discuss a date; EDIT: I discovered there is no simple mail system on ITCH; I'll post an email you can send a request for this mess I am attempting if you WANT too.

There is not; though you have helped me a little in my argument for wanting to do something like my topic title presents.

What kind of game you got made mate?
Edit: FIXING MY SPELLING.

Dunno, the artist is working on another project to fund this one.

Other words, a Wysiwyg.

Which I don't blame or mind. Some games coming from these types on environments are huge; so long as the one who made them takes full advantage of what the environment can do or at least put a twist on it.

Shining Force 1 - 3 or Shining Force on the GBA.

Fire Emblem

Advanced Wars

Valkyria Chronicles

Turn based Dungeon Crawlers like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

Have fun.

Approach an Anime con or any type of Con. Claim you are a game dev, ask to setup your game at the convention, have fun, ???, Proft.

I have first hand, the filter's are VERY effective.

That and the jerk finally quit and deleted his account.

Have fun folks.

I would have let this go if it wasn't for the post making the complaint that the Adult filter does not work when it does: especially when new accounts are made, It's shut off intentionally.

Then the user who makes the topic posts pic's and claims it doesn't work; which tells me he's being a twit wanting to pick a fight, looking for special treatment or attention. That's what I'm pissed off about; I'm not pissed about the topic or the subject matter, I'm pissed that someone was trying to start a fight or looking for attention with a garbage claim that I know holds no water.

A lot of folks let this go by before; I don't care if folks wanna talk a out the NSFW in games, I agree it's a discussion worth talking about, but the way it was brought up was done in a manner to try and force changes and expect everyone and everything to conform to them, it's just trash and bad form.

Edit 1: Minor spelling fixes as Auto Spell Correct is trying to keep messing me up. 

Mate, he's looking for attention to pull folks off of Itch.

Just report the jerk and see if you can get a mod to lock the topic... Unless you are a mod, can you lock the topic?

.... Dude, you are looking for attention.

You haven't deleted your account yet, it still links to a creator's account page which gives a link to a website.

Get out, get off; If I find you or any of your project's elsewhere in the indie space, I will avoid you like a plague as this whole mess seems like a setup to try to push people to something you are trying to create and draw other creators to post on your setup.

Just leave. You are not important enough for everyone to leave Itch, Steam or Gog for and looking for attention.

That and I can attest to Itch's ability when they setup the ADULT censor in their catalogue; you are just posting pic's no video's.

Edit: Fixing Grammar Mistakes.