Here's a full thorough and probably overly personal rundown of what's going on with pokeich development and yeah it's basically "shit sucks"
Yes pokeich still being made. It's just that the scope is large for a solo dev who also cant really make money off of the game or I could lose it and everything I've worked on. So I said this in the discord before but I have been taking pokeich off the patreon and making it generic while still making pokeich closer to the chest and sharing its development in the non subscriber discord channels and here maybe whenever I remember too. I put the discord link on patreon only due to me not wanting to spend all day moderating every person who joins. I might not make it public again though and just keep pokeich on the downlow outside of releases to keep it extra safe and just keep it a patreon follower and sub thing only.
I've been flip flopping on what to do for my patreon since I cant have pokeich on it to keep the game safe. Pokémon? yes I can have Pokémon stuff there safely. Nintendo has never themselves taken down art online. Only games. But pokeich? No, I cant.
So now I have to find something to supplement its development as my work outside of my patreon has also completely dried up. Maybe a smaller scale game? A comic? 3D modeled Sex toys? idfk. But the looming stress and anxiety of losing years of work for payoff that wont be even double digit % of the game's length is just not worth it and is making the game a stressor than my favourite thing I get to do every day. I'm still doing all of the donor rewards cause of course I will, they paid for it and for me to make the game so I'm not going to leave anyone empty handed.
All I truly know is pokeich cant stay around safely on patreon so I have to bite the bullet and risk my small amount of income for original works and comics/illustrations that can still be fan-art. But just not games based on copyrighted work. That people might not want. So I just have to do it and get it over with and just hope it works out somehow to let me focus again and work out for me somehow. I at least need to do a project that's my own to calm my mind as I'm getting creatively stir crazy working on an overly complicated Pokémon pornographic au fanfic game nonstop that people could disagree with in characterization and the like. While with something I make I at least have some ownership over that. Again my main focus is still pokeich I just can't only have it or I'll grow to resent it at this rate.
On the game's development status itself. I haven't uploaded any art in a while cause I've become worried and probably teetering on paranoia about if people would like the art style switch I've made or not and that posting non pokeich art would make people mad so I've keeping it close to the chest. But I'll get over that somehow, the patreon change might just do it. Also, because I decided to first to make a full Godot alternative of Pokémon essentials with a copyright free version on top to make the game. It too my time away from art due to me making and planning tutorials and docs and shit for it and making it have all generations, custom generations and rulesets multiplayer blah blah blah. It turns out games are hard to make. Who knew.
So I've been working primarily on my art for the past 2 months, mostly to start uploading again. Doing animations and the works as I cook up the engine in the background which will release before pokeich as since its the base of the game it needs to be finished and uploaded before I release pokeich or I could break a lot of the game in updates and content I've made. The scope of the game is now in full control and development is at a level I'd be comfortable with personally. If it weren't for self imposed expectations, financial problems and health problems compounding that. It's still going to take a while to release, as the game's quite large now with the engine and requires a lot of playtesting. Not to mention that I now have to do other work to make money to fund pokeich. Which is now my passion project pretty much. I now get why stardew valley took 8 years to make lets just say.
My main worry is just that people wont think what I'll release as the engine change as "enough" for the time spent but thats probably just more paranoia on my end. I'm trying to make a type of game that usually takes 50 people 4 years and millions of dollars to make by myself and am putting way to much fear on what others will think probably.
Sorry for lack of updates here. I haven't been using f95 as it was ruining my mental state reading the game forums. While pokeich's game forum here has generally been really nice and understanding. The other forums are just full of people who have no idea what they're talking about and a dev forum that's somehow even worse. I just want to actually talk about porn games and game development man. So I chose not to post here to focus better. Instead of worrying about updating once a month for a tag or whatever and waste time I could be using better.
Yes pokeich still being made. It's just that the scope is large for a solo dev who also cant really make money off of the game or I could lose it and everything I've worked on. So I said this in the discord before but I have been taking pokeich off the patreon and making it generic while still making pokeich closer to the chest and sharing its development in the non subscriber discord channels and here maybe whenever I remember too. I put the discord link on patreon only due to me not wanting to spend all day moderating every person who joins. I might not make it public again though and just keep pokeich on the downlow outside of releases to keep it extra safe and just keep it a patreon follower and sub thing only.
I've been flip flopping on what to do for my patreon since I cant have pokeich on it to keep the game safe. Pokémon? yes I can have Pokémon stuff there safely. Nintendo has never themselves taken down art online. Only games. But pokeich? No, I cant.
So now I have to find something to supplement its development as my work outside of my patreon has also completely dried up. Maybe a smaller scale game? A comic? 3D modeled Sex toys? idfk. But the looming stress and anxiety of losing years of work for payoff that wont be even double digit % of the game's length is just not worth it and is making the game a stressor than my favourite thing I get to do every day. I'm still doing all of the donor rewards cause of course I will, they paid for it and for me to make the game so I'm not going to leave anyone empty handed.
All I truly know is pokeich cant stay around safely on patreon so I have to bite the bullet and risk my small amount of income for original works and comics/illustrations that can still be fan-art. But just not games based on copyrighted work. That people might not want. So I just have to do it and get it over with and just hope it works out somehow to let me focus again and work out for me somehow. I at least need to do a project that's my own to calm my mind as I'm getting creatively stir crazy working on an overly complicated Pokémon pornographic au fanfic game nonstop that people could disagree with in characterization and the like. While with something I make I at least have some ownership over that. Again my main focus is still pokeich I just can't only have it or I'll grow to resent it at this rate.
On the game's development status itself. I haven't uploaded any art in a while cause I've become worried and probably teetering on paranoia about if people would like the art style switch I've made or not and that posting non pokeich art would make people mad so I've keeping it close to the chest. But I'll get over that somehow, the patreon change might just do it. Also, because I decided to first to make a full Godot alternative of Pokémon essentials with a copyright free version on top to make the game. It too my time away from art due to me making and planning tutorials and docs and shit for it and making it have all generations, custom generations and rulesets multiplayer blah blah blah. It turns out games are hard to make. Who knew.
So I've been working primarily on my art for the past 2 months, mostly to start uploading again. Doing animations and the works as I cook up the engine in the background which will release before pokeich as since its the base of the game it needs to be finished and uploaded before I release pokeich or I could break a lot of the game in updates and content I've made. The scope of the game is now in full control and development is at a level I'd be comfortable with personally. If it weren't for self imposed expectations, financial problems and health problems compounding that. It's still going to take a while to release, as the game's quite large now with the engine and requires a lot of playtesting. Not to mention that I now have to do other work to make money to fund pokeich. Which is now my passion project pretty much. I now get why stardew valley took 8 years to make lets just say.
My main worry is just that people wont think what I'll release as the engine change as "enough" for the time spent but thats probably just more paranoia on my end. I'm trying to make a type of game that usually takes 50 people 4 years and millions of dollars to make by myself and am putting way to much fear on what others will think probably.
Sorry for lack of updates here. I haven't been using f95 as it was ruining my mental state reading the game forums. While pokeich's game forum here has generally been really nice and understanding. The other forums are just full of people who have no idea what they're talking about and a dev forum that's somehow even worse. I just want to actually talk about porn games and game development man. So I chose not to post here to focus better. Instead of worrying about updating once a month for a tag or whatever and waste time I could be using better.
