July Firework Scaries
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.
Underestimating the audience
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.
Promo Bundles
Adult Games Summer Bundle 2025 is live. Available from July 4th until July 25th. A bundle that became so massive, we had to split it into two.
We have so many games for you to play, we had to split it into two bundles! For even more freebies and premium paid content at a huge discount!
Rewards every third Wednesday. Unless, I'm late, like this week.