Just like with physiognomy there seems to be a 'thing' with the sort of art styles that SJWs prefer you see it with google as well because apparently the stupid art they put up was all done by one person. Makes sense because they all go to the same schools and know each other but it's almost Ubisoft levels of standardising and I hate it. Mind you, it makes this sort of crap easier to identify at a glance so I shouldn't complain.
There's a depressingly large amount of this crap out there in the indie scene, clearly much more than there is demand. itch.io has a metric ton of them. The description will often say "This is a game about struggling through depression." Why would anyone want to play that, depressed or not?
Games like that are not made to be played by anyone. They're made to fish for awards and praise from critics/bloggers who are looking to virtue signal. Once they have a big enough profile as a "developer," they'll try to pivot into consulting "work."
But this particular one seems to at least have higher effort than those. It's just a bunch of horny SJWs who wanted to make a game where they can be horny. And even if it's objectively bad, that's as fair a premise as any.
That's fucking baffling because the steam back end is horrible compared to Itch they shouldn't have any trouble with it being Itch unless they're lazy and the person answering has nothing to do with the dev work. Two good things about itch you aren't having to pay money upfront just to upload and the upload process itself is name and upload your project.
Edit: Meanwhile on steam you have to click through a million tabs and put in tons of arbitrary 'required' information which Valve doesn't bother checking anyway.
My rant has nothing to do with you in particular m0r1arty my mind just gets absolutely blown by this level of dev incompetence. This seems to be a bit of a thing with itch as well where they simply don't bother re-uploading their latest project files to the site despite having it up there and are clearly happy taking peoples' money which is a bit of a scummy thing to do.
It shouldn't work any differently from steam, obviously, caveat, this depends on what publishing platform you're using but they don't really do traditional installers these days they just upload the game folder after they've compiled it from the engine so it runs like a proper program. It grates on me that this is something which realistically should take five seconds which is the wonderful thing about modern software these days yet they'd rather sit there gaslighting their real customers about steam than just fucking upload the latest version.
The only real difference with itch is, there's no DRM, so when you download off their site you're just getting their files like a normal site as opposed to having to download some third party software. They technically have that apparently, but I've never touched it and don't plan to when the DRM free option is still available.
It could be that they just don't want people to pirate the game.
Gimme a sec...well, I found it's existence - 1.90 GB in winrar format and with no current seeders or leeches, uploaded on 29th December 2022 so perhaps they were trying to prevent that means of distribution.
Either way the entire operation seems amateur, which is understandable, but perhaps they'll make good on the whole operation or maybe it will go the way of Kickstarted in the Butt: A Chuck Tingle Digital Adventure like other Kotaku favoured game ideas.
The very name implies that the purpose of romance is for you to enable the narcissism of your partner. Read my lips: every single person in this game will have a Cluster B personality disorder, and the player can only romance them by enabling their mental illness.
where is all that untapped customers via trannies and POC?? i thought all the consultants and market research suggests if they make their games queer and lame, it will get trillions of dollars?
Jlongbone a EFAP alumnus did a stream of this game with a few of her friends. It's the only fun way to see this game. Have a bunch of black YouTubers shit on it.
Yeah, there's a reason why these goblins would have no dates.
Apparently, they don't even want to date each other.
Just like the troons.
And apparently they're mad that the white Italian guy is the most popular hookup? And it wasn't even close?
That's even funnier since it seems like they went out of their way to make the one White guy seem unlikable based on the character descriptions:
"Future nepotism hire."
"Showers twice a month."
Got the image for you right here.
https://files.catbox.moe/n04a2i.png
Effeminate men, fat women, pronouns, races read like an AD&D multiclass...
Links (CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK):
https://validategame.itch.io/validate-struggling-singles-in-your-area - Game Site.
https://validategame.com/#cast - Cast list.
https://x.com/redcoast/status/1770592480410423714 - "On god fuck white people".
https://steamdb.info/app/1319850/charts/ - All-Time peak of 80 players on Steam.
https://files.catbox.moe/n04a2i.png - They're disappointed the White character is popular.
Just like with physiognomy there seems to be a 'thing' with the sort of art styles that SJWs prefer you see it with google as well because apparently the stupid art they put up was all done by one person. Makes sense because they all go to the same schools and know each other but it's almost Ubisoft levels of standardising and I hate it. Mind you, it makes this sort of crap easier to identify at a glance so I shouldn't complain.
They are all so fucking ugly.
Beauty is a capitalist myth, comrade.
If SteamDB is accurate, the all-time player peak is 80.
https://steamdb.info/app/1319850/charts/#max
How many of those were games' jounoïds given the ''I hate White and straight people game'' for free?
There's a depressingly large amount of this crap out there in the indie scene, clearly much more than there is demand. itch.io has a metric ton of them. The description will often say "This is a game about struggling through depression." Why would anyone want to play that, depressed or not?
Games like that are not made to be played by anyone. They're made to fish for awards and praise from critics/bloggers who are looking to virtue signal. Once they have a big enough profile as a "developer," they'll try to pivot into consulting "work."
But this particular one seems to at least have higher effort than those. It's just a bunch of horny SJWs who wanted to make a game where they can be horny. And even if it's objectively bad, that's as fair a premise as any.
"It is the most faggy goddammed thing that you can ever imagine. " -Richard Nixon, probably
I'm pretty sure it was: "The Russians wouldn't have tolerated this for a second."
Why not both?
People can play whatever they want to play, that's the Gamergate way. But the comments on their website is a goldmine for LULz, Steam message boards aren't as bad but they are far from good.
But, I suppose it at least works on Steam as oppose to directly on...wait for it...hold...Macs xD
Those comments seems to indicate the game is unable to transition to 100% and remains non-functional forever.
Kek.
"My game just goes along, seems to get worse and worse the more I play it, and then mysteriously shuts off and deletes all of the save data."
That's fucking baffling because the steam back end is horrible compared to Itch they shouldn't have any trouble with it being Itch unless they're lazy and the person answering has nothing to do with the dev work. Two good things about itch you aren't having to pay money upfront just to upload and the upload process itself is name and upload your project.
Edit: Meanwhile on steam you have to click through a million tabs and put in tons of arbitrary 'required' information which Valve doesn't bother checking anyway.
I don't know anything about compiling a working installer for a program but it seems that Steam is the solution they went for with that problem.
The Kotaku review (By a former writer nowadays) is pretty hilarious to try and make it seem that a game all about sex (Non-straight sex you understand) is a fun thing to play.
Between writing, voice-acting, coding, distribution and advertising this game deserves an award for being the little engine that couldn't.
Updates 2 and 3 are still to come out for the game so that players can access all the characters. I'm sure that will happen.
My rant has nothing to do with you in particular m0r1arty my mind just gets absolutely blown by this level of dev incompetence. This seems to be a bit of a thing with itch as well where they simply don't bother re-uploading their latest project files to the site despite having it up there and are clearly happy taking peoples' money which is a bit of a scummy thing to do.
It shouldn't work any differently from steam, obviously, caveat, this depends on what publishing platform you're using but they don't really do traditional installers these days they just upload the game folder after they've compiled it from the engine so it runs like a proper program. It grates on me that this is something which realistically should take five seconds which is the wonderful thing about modern software these days yet they'd rather sit there gaslighting their real customers about steam than just fucking upload the latest version.
The only real difference with itch is, there's no DRM, so when you download off their site you're just getting their files like a normal site as opposed to having to download some third party software. They technically have that apparently, but I've never touched it and don't plan to when the DRM free option is still available.
It could be that they just don't want people to pirate the game.
Gimme a sec...well, I found it's existence - 1.90 GB in winrar format and with no current seeders or leeches, uploaded on 29th December 2022 so perhaps they were trying to prevent that means of distribution.
Either way the entire operation seems amateur, which is understandable, but perhaps they'll make good on the whole operation or maybe it will go the way of Kickstarted in the Butt: A Chuck Tingle Digital Adventure like other Kotaku favoured game ideas.
E;R is streaming this right now for riffing purposes.
Leonardo DiCaprio should use this service and date 20-year-olds. They'll never make it to 25.
Oof, must be hard for you, incel. He's basically living your dream
Not everybody can be a succesful seamonkey spammer on a random forum like you, champ
When this shit first popped up, people noticed that the backgrounds were just filtered Google Image searchers.
The very name implies that the purpose of romance is for you to enable the narcissism of your partner. Read my lips: every single person in this game will have a Cluster B personality disorder, and the player can only romance them by enabling their mental illness.
Prove me wrong.
where is all that untapped customers via trannies and POC?? i thought all the consultants and market research suggests if they make their games queer and lame, it will get trillions of dollars?
Isn't it Gen Z people "hitting their 20's," now? I thought millennial were older?
Jlongbone a EFAP alumnus did a stream of this game with a few of her friends. It's the only fun way to see this game. Have a bunch of black YouTubers shit on it.
Yes, those freaks are struggling for dates. That’s why there are no normal people there.
So of course they took positive steps to make sure minors don't access this game, right?
I honestly thought this was a real dating app when I read the title of this post. That would be interesting if it was real.
Honestly, I don't give a shit.
Rather they make their own terrible games than ruin IPs I care about.
Good? It's like a containment forum for dating.
So u can actually post stories from Kotaku here, huh?