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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
.... 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.
An RPG.
You can keep the RPG basic like Paper Mario, keep it short too to keep the job small; however, for multiple kids to join in the design step, they can design worlds, characters, quests, jobs and so on. Kids want to make Skibidi Toilet a quest in order to fight it with.... IDK, Mr.Beast bot? Let'em, as you might discover they will more than likely make jobs and quest's based on whatever their minds get hopped up on.
Everyone can also take part in the project making characters, drawing up small towns and cities, weapons, oddities, choice in music and choosing sound effects or making them.... Alternatively, you might need to have grab a sound pack with music from Humble Bundle when they start selling them in another bundle again.
Game's I would recommend:
If you can find it and don't care for a movie tie-in- Someone attempted and made a spot-on rendition of the Last Starfighter, movie about a kid playing an arcade game, beats the final level in it only to discover it was sent out to look for pilots to fly starships.
http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php
This guy also has some good arcade titles to work with.
Other's to somewhat consider-
Combo Postage:
https://kirklindsay.itch.io/combo-postage
Paamedicats:
https://theresnosuchthing.itch.io/paramedicats
GunHouse:
https://necrosoftgames.itch.io/gunhouse
SpookWare:
https://papercookies.itch.io/spookware-fullversion
CrashWave!:
https://flyover-games.itch.io/wavecrash
I am being quite genuine; I haven't even mentioned anything else in this post that involves politics in the rest of this topic aside from the one that started it. I used to watch the GDC for specific topics in game development, such as the approach to game emulation where most of the professional industry views at the topic as piracy (Nintendo, Sony, I don't think Microsoft cares, Sega defiantly stopped caring after the Sega Genesis and Sega Dreamcast as Piracy and Homebrew are giving new life TO those consoles to a point were we have new Dreamcast Games) and how it could be turned around to be used as not only another profit margin, but to stop players from pursuing this 'legally' gray area and buy the game legitimately, especially since Nintendo started doing the EXACT same thing selling the game's on the Virtual Console line and calling it the right way while shamming everyone else much like it seems like you are trying to shame me right now.
Which, the talk was actually a good arguement; I'll link it here.
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023470/-It-s-Just-Emulation
Next, I get that this forum already accomplishes this; but we could also argue this for anime, horror, movies and so on that already accomplish this and there are conferences that already discuss these topic's, outside the forum to other forums and even social media platforms, some fan panels while others are from professionals in the industry that come out to these to discuss either personal projects or where something is going; Such as the creator of Robotech coming to the USA over to Ohayocon to discuss the future of his Anime, competing against Gundam and the literal hell hole of a nightmare with Harmony Gold has left his creation and after from odd years and discussing it to fans on how to save his franchise from that hellhole.
Which brings me now, in a sense. I look at the GDC, I discover a few topics were not focused on game development, but a political angle in a lot of the panels and a literal section of time for developers to go out and scream in front of the hall. This is technically a free market, I went looking to see if there was an another conference that didn't touch on these topics since aside from Gen Con in the Tabletop scene as an example, there's also River City con, Origin and the GAMA Expo, the latter of which accomplishes what GDC did; but their entire conference is fenced in with a membership buy-in.
So, I do some googling; and there isn't really much else out there to be a free market in, for the USA to an extent, especially FOR Indies; there's the Indie game Utsav over in India and a few others that do 'VIRTUAL' conferences, though they have been more showcase's of other indie development project's than discussions and that's about as much as I could look for, there is even a conference for Cellphone Games which has been a rough mix between Showcase and Conference.
So, in short, I am genuinely asking if there is another alternative that does what the GDC does, especially for Indie and cuts back on the showcase's and becomes less of a expensive commercial you could attend in real life; no political axe to grind, no nefarious plot, nothing. Even more than likely willing to go through with the painful process of setting one up.
It is not entirely true.
Usually there is open space for folks to interact with the speaker; usually to clarify or get some idea about what's going on. This is also true for any conference or con outside of this scope, Anime Conventions typically have this type of dynamic between professional/speaker and the audience whether it's asking questions trying to find love at said con or the specific's about asking the bare bone basics on how to setup an object using the abstract constructor's of a class for a newly created engine someone is presenting from the ground up.
Even then, there's been a bit of a rise in new engine's; mostly because the monoculture of talent coming out of college are either use to using Unreal, Unity or Godot for their project's, not many of them or rather, non of them to an extent, have taken the time to understand the geometry and how to manipulate certain aspects of a mesh or model to both promote and show they understand animating a model beyond just rigging it to a skeleton frame and applying movement... But that's a different topic for something else.
There is typically a good guarantee there is a response from the audience than to have someone come onto the podium to speak, no matter the subject or the issue.