xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Looking back on it, I should've included "No Demo" as an option. The only reason I didn't create a demo was that my game is FOSS therefore, freely redistributable, so I felt that including a demo was pointless even though it's a paid product.

I should have also put "You used AI" as an option because I did use AI and that makes me worthy of crucifixion in the eyes of many people, but I only used AI for backgrounds for the title screen and cutscenes, along with the prologue and epilogue text. I promise to only use AI sparingly and to prefer AI enhancement over AI generation, but I know that's not enough for the anti-AI freaks.

Why won't you buy my game?

Fun Fact: This was originally supposed to be the background image of the game over screen for my game, but I felt like I was going to violate some content guideline on itch.io for featuring something like this in what would otherwise be E-rated content.

It turns out releasing my first commercial game was more stressful than I thought. I only got three people to purchase it so far. I can't get a Windows build made yet. And the worst part is that I just realized that I dynamically compiled the game and the version of SFML I used is outdated and the most recent version breaks compatibility (though the version I'm using is the one that is found in the repositories on most Debian based distros so it shouldn't be a problem if you are using the noob distros).

I'm just going to switch to SDL for my next project. SFML has too many quirks and a much smaller community and documentation. SDL is the cross-platform DirectX, while SFML is just some guy saying "what if we do what SDL does and add unnecessary object-oriented quirks and exclude basic shit like depth-buffering". I do not recommend SFML. If you want an alternative to SDL, maybe try Allegro.

Though I am honestly sick of tool-hopping, but I realize that it's better to use what is tried and true than to be different for the sake of being different.

To the three people who have bought my game so far (yes really), have you played it yet?