JOSEPHSERAPH'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ
I try to stay away from depicting romance in my games because I have little to no experience with it in real life. Or, I guess more accurately, I stay away from it in my games for the same reason I stay away from it in real life - I find the very idea of it dull and obnoxious. Unless you're writing porn, I feel like romance itself is unlikely to be a drive for any interesting action. If anything it's usually presented as a drive to settle down and enjoy what you already have, which makes for a terrible story.

Weeeeeeell you really did say you have little experience with it which makes that last phrase a bit less funny and understandable. LOL

Also, "heroes and villains"? Boooo-ring. Heroes are, imo, dull. Villains even moreso! People, people that ain't villains nor heroes are much more fun. Maybe that's why I like horror games that pit you not as a hero but as some dude, fighting not a villain but the circumstances. (even if it often just circles down to a villain by the end of said games)


Regardless, love as a motivator to settle down? Have you ever talked to a teenager LOL these beasties will literally do anything to satiate their petit hormones, and im not even talking about sex. Love, romance, passion, fuzzy feelings, all that are extremely powerful motivators. Moreover, the way people see romance can often shape the way they see life and themselves, so a rejected person who finds comfort in a loved one will have a link of vulnerability that can serve to kickstart a really interesting story. Conversely, the feelings of unwillingly bonding with someone you antagonize are another fantastic setup for a plot and so on, all with numerous intensities and variations.
All in all, romance is a powerful tool and rarely ever it leads to settling down, like how it rarely ever does irl

But no, other than writing about how I met my ex, I've never written romance.
Then again, I haven't written much of anything to be honest.

ppst if these were done by yourself: you should have done them on half the resolution then 2x scaled them so they match the rest of the graphics.
Still, neat project overall~

right!

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Exactly, poopy kids will still upload their shitty parody game if it costs 5000USD to do so, they can just ask their daddies ;u;)
butttttttttttttttttttttttttttt serious devs who happen to not be as fortunate or are creating niche content to small audiences will be completely fucked over
that sounds counterproductive, but then again, having valve invest the manpower to actually assess entry into the steam store a bit more rigidly would incur costs that would not justify passing a game that makes 2000USD in their lifetime maybe?
Steam stays with 30% of that I think, so that's 600USD valve gets. Out of that they'd have to pay salaries for the curators for all games, so that would too prevent niche / stuff with low profitability but good quality from happening I think

idk im dum nd not smert so but yea /;-;)\