I am making a WG game and want your feedback! The link to Itch is here: Collage Game (WIP) by FatGames218
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I haven’t played through this yet, but wanted to give you a heads up about an bug. You have the game in an endless loop of prompting the player to verify they are 18+, then starting from the start which is the age verification question again.
You can make a new label to jump to the start of the actual story once the age verification question has been answered.
EDIT: I played the game and it’s a promising start. It definitely feels like a rough outline more than a full game at this point (hence WIP I suppose). What is your scope for the game? I think it has a interesting premise to start, but it does feel a bit rushed being in such an seemingly early state. I’d love to see more! With some polish on spelling, properly formatted images, and fleshing out the interactions between Sally and the player, this could be a really fun interactive story.
Best of luck as you continue development!
Hi, I updated the start and it works now. It is a bit rushed but more to come. Thanks for the feedback!
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Probably worth mentioning, Itch policy bans (not just delists like the other NSFW, but fully bans) naked/sexual images of real humans or AI generations that look like real humans.
You might want to look at an alternative hosting site. You could also just use anime loras or something, because according to Itch rules animated is fine (so long as it’s free, because of the credit card company situation).
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An option :
You can also try nudging in some low-weight prompts for non-photo-realistic rendering systems to push from photorealism to near-lifelike-but-clearly-not-real territory.
(Daz3d)0.2, (Blender)0.4, (porta-mate)–, that kind of thing. If you do an image-to-image rerender of what you already have, using the same prompts just with the rendering prompt added as a prefix (or suffix), you might be able to knock them out in short order. Worth a shot/consideration?
That’s a fair point as well. I think it’s relatively clear that the real goal of the rule was stopping people from just selling direct video of sex and deepfakes of celebrities, because both of those things open Itch up to legal action. Once you’ve altered the images just enough that it’s clear they’re not real to even a casual observer, you’re probably fine
Somewhat off-topic but given how recent it was, I think it’s important to clear up the reasoning behind the removals on Steam/itch and the whole saga has been well documented. An extremist activist group Collective Shout from Australia successfully petitioned payment processors through harassment (thousands of letters/calls) saying porn and adult games harmed their company’s image. Visa and Mastercard then sent ultimatums to Steam and itch and threatening to pull their payment infrastructure (which handles nearly 100% of the transactions).
The demands from the anti-porn group were never as limited as you state, they wanted any games with adult content or objectifying women to be removed. Visa and Mastercard never revealed what their scope was, but it was not limited to content that was simply illegal, since both platforms already had those rules in place.
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These are two separate topics - the recent delistings and removals from credit card companies are because of what you state. That was addressed in my original post. Itch won’t ban you for only having sexual content (unless it breaks another rule), but you won’t be able to monetize it because Stripe, Paypal, Mastercard, Visa, etc won’t let you.
The ban on direct sale of actual IRL sexual content has been there for years, whatever year all those countries passed anti-“revenge porn” laws. The ban on AI generated sexual content dates back to that controversy involving deepfakes of Taylor Swift, Pokimane, etc from… 2021? 2022? Something like that.
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