"Do not install this patch If you are under the age of 18, or feel uncomfortable with the those themes. By installing this patch you agree to bare sole responsibility"
@tomgrochowiak They gave backers the demo build they'd made for investors at least, though I haven't looked at it yet. Maybe someday they'll find more funding...
@hanakogames I kinda appreciate the honesty of outright saying "this isn't enough, we quit" instead of dragging it on forever and hoping people forget about it. It's a difficult market out there.
re: people not wanting to wait for the next book in a trilogy
Some readers would actually prefer writers wrote more standalones and less trilogies, so "you're killing my series!" will not affect them. (This is not my feeling about books but it IS my feeling about a lot of video games. Episodic releases have a bad rep FOR A REASON.)
However, there's a more important factor, and that is how you balance the endings...
I highly doubt that your Chinese ... life sim? RPG? ... is yuri, but I'm at least vaguely interested trying to figure out what on earth it IS. #CurationWoes
for all that people love to say "they/them is never confusing!", a single chapter featuring this character is CONSTANTLY throwing me out of whack every time 'their' is used because the sentences change meaning drastically if it's a plural their or a singular one.
@chaucerburnt Haven't read them but a sentence where a generic they would fit sounds like less of a minefield. 😅
This was a cutaway chapter to a totally new setting with previously unintroduced characters and an NB viewpoint character (but still third-person narration) AND an action sequence with multiple people running around attacking each other, thus a ton of "Wait, who did what?" in every sentence (and my lack of certainty about whether people are siblings). Surprisingly exhausting.
Your male protagonist romancing four girls while plotting to kill a fantasy Emperor is not yuri. It's also not historical, WWI-based, or a platformer, unlike the tags you picked. #CurationWoes
@glennmagusharvey Predates the big chatGPT push iirc. THey have a limited set of tags and they have their own algorithm ideas of what tags most commonly go together and what might be related to the description you put on the game webpage, so they suggest ideas for you to pick from.
Some devs will just 'sure whatever' and take all of them. Or not even know what they MEAN. If you're not a genre expert in some of these tags you may not understand them.
@zarfeblong I knew him from online roleplaying on usenet, so totally OTHER relation, which made the coincidental connection there extra amusing. But the net seemed smaller in those days!
@hanakogames do they get a +2 bonus to Charisma so the devs can claim "separate but equal" or did they not even make the token effort?
Remembering one game where human males were baseline, women were something like +2 Sta / -2 Str, supposedly balanced. But stats capped at 20 before those adjustments, and reaching 20 post-adjustment earned major keystone bonuses. So males could still unlock any keystone they wanted but women could never get the Str keystone. But "equal".
@chaucerburnt They get an agility/speed boost and some extra in-camp abilities, I think, so you can use them for specific tasks. I think. Haven't played it.
@CarlMuckenhoupt@hanakogames "Cultivation" is a super popular genre in modern Chinese youth fiction in sort of the same way that isekai has been saturating the Japanese market.
From my very minimal understanding from having seen a few episodes of various shows, it seems like your standard superpower action fantasy genre except themed entirely around ancient Chinese philosophy and spirituality, making it utterly incomprehensible to those of us not immersed in that.
@squipo@CarlMuckenhoupt
It was listed in a section that looked like it might be about branching power upgrades so I guess this makes some sense. "Cultivate the meridians, nurture cinnabar fields and study the martial arts from various sects."