My Short-Term Decision


So, it's been several days since news broke about an Australian AVN developer's arrest. I've had some time to think about how I should react to this and I've come to a short-term decision. I am going to put Our Island on an indefinite hold. I'm not deleting anything. I'm not going to pull what's already out there (as if I really could). I'm just putting it on the back burner for now.

What that means is, I'll be working 100% on Back 2 School. B2S is still planned to be ~5 releases. That might change now. I had been thinking about extending the game into the weekend (each release is a single day), and maybe this is a good reason to do that. I actually went back to work on B2S today and made several images before stopping to proofread/playtest the new release of Young Again (it's really good!). The issue with B2S is, it isn't written with Alpha releases in mind, because I was never intending to release Alphas. I'll take a look at it and see how best to break it up so Blackest Black and Lucky 13 can get that early content.

After B2S is finished, I'll revisit Our Island. I'll see how I feel about returning to the island. I had contemplated trying to "fix" the game, so it's a little safer. Aging the models younger than Kavya, removing content, etc., but none of that seemed like the right thing to do for the game.

Hopefully I'll feel better about working with those non-human, digital, ageless actors, but you never know when some politician or religious group is going to decide to make AVNs their next big thing. Even though none of this is currently illegal where I live, that can always change. The Supreme Court is a lot different today than the one which struck down the computer-generated image provision of the CPPA in 2002.

Anyway... I'm back to work.

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Thank God we have got the Australian government out here fighting the good fight and protecting all those poor helpless pixels. 07

well said sir! damn well said

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It's such a shame. I was really enjoying the story. And the irony is, I was interested in the grandma the most.

As far as what to do going forward, I won't tell you what to do but don't be afraid to interact with your community. You can't please everybody, but it'd be nice to be involved by Patreon/Discord polls or whatever else. At least that way, we can all push forward with a game we're happy with. But a finished product YOU'RE happy with is the most important.

Best wishes.

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"Between a government that does evil and the people that consent to it, there is a certain shameful complicity"

Vitor Hugo

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I hate caviar communists

They are always the "politically correct" but behind the curtains are the biggest thieves, corrupt and perverted.

This is a fucking game, fucking game.

By the logic of these perverted leftists, one day it will be forbidden to see an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or any other movie of the same type because according to their fucked up mind, we will go to the streets to kill people.

While people are "sleeping"; we are slowly moving towards a future where even a simple trip to the toilet will be controlled.

The signs are very visible

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Hense why there is a warning to all players at the beginning if games saying "all characters are 18 or older and any resemblance to real people is a coincidence"

Probably didn't even have that in his or he was making realllllly bad games. Anyone know the user handle of the creator?

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I dont know if 13 wants anyone to mention who he was discussing, but his games weren't that bad, similar to this one, but you could change names and ages. I do believe he had a warning in at the beginning too, Australia apparently disregards this. Also, he is on itch, but you can't find him very easily. He's blocked by searches, has been for a while. 

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If thats the case thats fine, just didnt want to have a game i might get in trouble for having, had to prune my list of sus games after seeing that post

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Can you link to the news story or something?

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Here

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Australia really IS upside down, wtf

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Meanwhile, the actual predators upon real children go unpunished - which is understandable because that would impact the Elites, like JE's client list.

We live in a Clown World, with Pennywise as the Head Clown.