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[IMPORTANT] About Itchio shadowbans and game reachability
🕑 Added 2025-07-24 19:22:56 +0000 UTCHey guys, sorry for the lack of updates this past weeks, more about that later, first there's something else I need to talk about.
For those who don't know, last night Itchio unlisted all content tagged as adult, NSFW and similar, due to the pression of certain group, for more details check Itchio official communicate.
This is a big problem, while none of my content should fall under what this group says to fight against (child abuse, rape, incest), that doesn't change the fact that there are powerful individuals forcing Itchio to bend to their whims.
Also, since that one franchise my work mainly parody is primarily aimed to kids, and that some characters (Dawn, but that can be reached to others) that are clearly depicted as adults in my work are supposed to be minors in the original work, someone ill-intentioned can easily tag my content as child abuse adjacent.
And even if my content stay "safe", there's no way to know how Itchio search system might change in the future when it comes to adult content due to this issue.
I mainly rely on Itchio to get my work known, thanks to that I've been able to focus entirely on the game, but now I can't really trust in that anymore, so I need to find ways to increase my reachability outside of Itchio, right now all I can think about is posting it on social media, twitter, bluesky, maybe pixiv, and push them hard both here and on discord...
That would probably affect a little the speed in witch I work on the game, and my time management is already awful... but again, I'm trying to keep my work afloat.
Now, to end in a more positive note, why there hasn't been any post lately?
Well, mainly because I've been working on the Full HD version of the game (1080p, but Full HD sounds cooler); while making slow progress on the Mawile animation.
Now, a rundown of the Full HD version progress.
I fixed the black boxes seen in the last post.
The game kept crashing for a couple days.
Fixed the crash.
The dialogue text was misaligned.
Fixed the text misaligning, now it get croped on the textbox.
Somehow managed to make the game crash when trying to fix that.
Fixed the crash issue, now the text looks good, but the game crashes when opening the menu.
Fixed the menu crash, now the overworld is black for some reason.
Fixed the void issue, now the overworld charge, but certain maps crash because the tileset is too big and the game gets anxious trying to load it.
Right now working on new tilesets and combat UI.
Pending: finish tilesets, finish combat UI, new combat backgrounds, new menu UI (Main menu, in game menu, bag, team, poke info, save menu, trainer card, map, dex), fix or redraw the necessary combat sprites, and so on.
All that said, I hear your opinions
Comments
Lyner
The payment processor stuff is bullshit. Hang in there man and keep up the great work!
AshCoveredFluff
There is a petition out to stop this and get the payment processers to back off. https://chng.it/55yRVXHzxn. It's an attempt and gives us a chance to push back against this excessive overreach and blatant hypocrisy.
