Hey Boo,
This is a heavy one. It's been rough.

Two weeks ago, several games were retired from steam. It was brought to my attention when I was making my monthly update. I wrote my devlog July Firework Scaries. Later that day, I decided that I overreacted and I struck a line through much of that article. 

You can't read this article because after I posted that devlog, every game tagged NSFW was de-indexed from Itchio with no explanation. People freaked out on the microblog site. People freaked out in my dev servers. People freaked out in itchio's discord. For a while the only explanation we got was a saluting emoji from Leafo. A few hours later, it was replaced by an explanation that payment processors had spoken to them and swift action needed to be taken.

The next day people were organizing. 

https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net/post/3lus4fhmry22b

Ana Valens wrote a Vice article after the steam stuff happened and was ready with a counter. She had left Vice Magazine between the itch and Steam take-downs.

I encourage everyone to follow these steps in order to stop internet censorship. There are several campaigns with form letters and guides on what to say. Please, try to find one other campaign to follow before 4chan. What will I do?

This has wrecked havoc with my work process. I need some stability to keep myself focused and working.

They broke (de-indexed) searches for NSFW and a few other tags. Several games have been suspended, including Baskin All-In and my Demo Disk. Dragon of Calon Valley was taken down as well as Office Perks. If you'll remember, I just did a cross promotion with office perks. Neither of those games broke the existing or current TOS.

I am following the rules of every platform I am on. If Baskin All-In comes back on itch, it will be because itch reverses their decision.

The new itch TOS clearly outlines incest and pseudo-incest are not allowed. Pseudo-incest is UNRELATED PEOPLE IN A HOUSE with like the vibe hesitation about hooking up. So, I'm not fighting those rules.

I'm sorry to the people who were following and purchased Baskin All-In. I am continuing to make the game. I still have access to my game pages, my devlogs, and analytics. You can't see them because the game associated with them were suspended. Maybe there's a clever clogs way to see just my devlogs. This is why I'm posting this as a Candied Oblivion devlog. So, people can see it. Please follow me everywhere that you are comfortable. As far as I know, I can still release on Steam. I am committed to releasing on steam under whatever their rules allow.

I know and have a way to reach out to everyone who has purchased the game. I have several ideas on how to make up to you/thank you for supporting me and taking a chance purchasing my game.

FICTION isn't real. Fiction is true. There are real elements in fictions that reflect our world. The emotions writing stirs in you are real. Science Fiction isn't about the future, it's about today and our world. You are looking at actual words on the page/monitor.(I've decided I get to capitalize vocab words.) Fiction and writing is a funny thing. The actress from Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars was asked if she felt weird because her love interest in TFiOS was her brother in Divergent. SHE SAID NO because that's a fucking weird thought. The actor from those movies was not either of those things (idk if they dated). They don't have terminal cancer, genetic super powers, a love fated to end before the age of twenty. THE KISS IN THE ANN FRANK HOUSE WASN'T REAL HOW DARE SOMEONE WRITE THAT SCENE, NO ONE GETS AN OVATION FOR THEIR FIRST KISS IN A HISTORIC AND THEMATICALLY RELEVANT LOCATION. I'M STILL MAD ABOUT THIS.

None of my characters are related because like TV, MOVIES, PORN, and BOOKS none of my characters are real. They are pieces of me, impressions I have of other people that I know and have met, and they are my view of the world filtered and workshopped.

If I have to bend stuff to get it on steam. I can throw in a few steps. This is where mainstream porn is. Step brother or sister. In some cases Swap Brother. That could be fun. There are limits to what I want to do.

As you see and probably know. Top is the least acceptable relationship and the bottom is most acceptable. There are a few relationships that are not related but still not completely accepted. All the way at the bottom there are the completely unrelated relationships. Itchio has banned unrelated relationships, which are just people living in a house.

There are things I don't want to do. I already don't want to mess with minors.
I don't want to do the people in a house genre because I hate landlords. Imagine someone owning something that means they get to take a right away from you whenever they want. That's a landlord. They can just decide that you no longer have a home.

Baskin is no longer on itch but it is still on the internet. I can help people find the game on my discord or over email. Support on backer sites is appreciated.

Make calls and emails to stop internet censorship, check out the above infographics.

Here's my thought when all this started.

Rewards every third Wednesday.

Hey Boo, 

I'm better now. I kept digging and I think this is another overblown panic. I do have a plan, now. I won't be enacting it, as of now.

Things are bad and I feel terrible about it. 

I'm a wait and see kind of person. Some dev help forums are too quick to panic about censorship in a way that I don't think is helpful. There is a threshold of evidence I need before acting. 

STEAM

Steam has been using their big sale events to monitor their traffic and games. Steam uses traffic during big sale events to find low effort slop games.

I could be wrong. There are a few bigger games that I watch and take my queues from and they have held steady.

I apologize if I worried anyone. I myself was worried and happened to align with my monthly update obligations. 

There is a credible and generic threat of games being retired from steam for content. The pattern has been for games with rape or incest in the title.
Steam changed their TOS hours ago to exclude games with content their payment processors don't like. I'm guessing someone is scrubbing through the tags to find that content because it feels a little haphazard. 

Making a content patch has been on the list of things I could do. It's a thing I'd have to learn about and it was low on the priorities until now.
I'm more likely to add some fill in the blanks for people's relationships. 
Immediate changes will be changing the capsules and name on steam. It will match the name here on itch Baskin All-In.

I don't plan on changing the game and it's content on steam. Changing the code in the working build for steam might still take me a few days. The immediate stuff changing will be the logo on all the pictures. I'm doing this first because this is a set thing that happens every month.

Progress
I don't have a lot to report here. It's down the scenes that I put off for a reason and they don't happen fast. It's frustrating but it was always work.

Part of getting criticism is knowing what to do with it because people and stories are complicated. Sometimes, I'm in the wrong mood for a certain kind of story. Part of the ritual of the movie theatre, the stacks, the drink, the dark room and complete group silence prepares people to receive a story.

Books, phone games, and youtube videos don't have that luxury. Arguably, TikTok has a ritual of trial, error and an infinite feed.

It can take me a while to get into a game, so if an introduction is universally rough, I don't know it until I talk with some other people. It takes a lot of self awareness to know what is a subjective or less subjective problem. 

This genre of AVN is conversations with cute girls. I drape it in drama and jokes just because I'm not enamored with slice-of-life. It's also what I like most in visual novels. When I'm grinding out the RNG sandbox or staying at the BiDik party planning puzzle, I miss talking to the girls.

There's a few notable things. I have cute points with each other the sisters and the more of these points, the more they should say cute things and more dialogue. 

IRL, people can talk too much and sometimes about things I don't care about. I have zoned out of entire topics. I thought I could simulate this with Bryerly. I Gave her a huge couple of paragraphs, they wiz by, and they are full of unnecessary details. I tried to signal that it's just your brain and a thing that will happen. But people kept trying to read it and thought it was a bug.

Then there's the conversation off-ramps. Some topics of conversation felt a bit long to me and I could imagine someone not really caring and just paging through. Which is fine but I feel like starting a habit of paging through a story might be a habit that backfires. So, I put conversation off-ramps. Little choices with no penalties that will excuse the reader from more conversation. 

Both of these choices have been meant confusion and I think it's from me underestimating the genre asks. People are here to read some conversations with cute girls before those girls take off their clothes. 

It's not universal. There are plenty of people that talk about the "random" dialogue that either are not into genre rhythms or don't release they are reading jokes. (I'm sorry foreign readers.) We all know I'm not going to stop writing jokes. 

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Rewards every third Wednesday. Unless, I'm late, like this week.