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Dev Log 58
🕑 Added 2025-08-03 22:45:00 +0000 UTCHey guys, it's that time again!
I imagine many of you have already heard, as it's been all over the internet, but it's been a rough couple of weeks for adult game development! For those of you that haven't: a combination of activists and payment processors have been working together to purge adult games from itch.io and Steam, and have, unfortunately, had a certain measure of success.
For the rest of this post I'm going to focus on itch.io, as that's the main distribution platform for Cosy Cafe. To cut a long story short, all adult games were completely delisted from the site around 10 days ago, without any warning or communication with devs, and with no indication about when they would return.
As you can imagine, this caused quite a lot of anxiety for developers, myself included, as while my support predominantly comes from all of you generous souls on Patreon and Subscribestar, itch is a vital part of the ecosystem for getting new eyes on the project. Without it, support would inevitably start to wither over time as people's circumstances change, or they move on to other things.
Now, cutting to the end a little before I give you the impression that things are too dire: after 8 days of delisting, itch recently returned most free adult games to the site, Cosy Cafe included. The main target of their purge was incest and non-consensual content, which, as you all know, isn't what Cosy Cafe is about. So, for the moment at least, things are somewhat back to normal; however, there are further restrictions and rules coming down the pipeline that we haven't been given the details of at this point, so we're not fully out of the woods yet, either.
Throughout all of this, I've received a lot of messages from concerned players wondering what this means for the future development of Cosy Cafe, and the answer is actually: Not that much. As I said earlier, the main source of support for the game is you guys, and there are more than enough of you to keep me developing for a good few years, even if the game did get booted from itch. So, as long as Patreon and Subscribestar are still here, you don't have to worry about development being stopped by such things! (Although there were a few days where I didn't get much work done for focusing on all this crap!)
And that leads me into the (short) progress update for the dev log: rendering work has been proceeding largely as planned, with another 260 renders added to the pile! It's much too early to give an exact release date, and normally I don't at this point in development, but I have one in my head, so what the hell: I'm aiming for October 4th. That's a very preliminary prediction, though, so don't hold me to it!
And that about does it for this dev log. If you have any questions or concerns about the above, feel free to leave them in the replies here or on Discord.
As always, thank you all for your support, and I'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks!
- Cosy Creator
Comments
Clayton Kaduk
Is it October yet?lol
Lord Tony Ha
I think I know what the weekend story is going to be about in fact I'm pretty sure I know but I'm not going to say anything. I had my Google account jacked so I had to cancel my membership and renew it with a different email that's not Google, I must say that Google were very helpful and sympathetic and tried to convince me to keep my account, but I'm one of those people that don't trust in something that's been jacked.
