Returning to my roots...
The games industry is a quarter pound of ass with American cheese on top and those dreadful soggy pickles every burger maker puts on your burger...
I was watching Stephanie Sterling and their talking about ass video game publishers being ass. They started discussing Bomb Jack, a game I had zero idea even existed before this video… But it got me thinking, what are my video game roots?
Duck Hunt, yes. A game that makes you want to “shoot” a dog for laughing at you. Super Baseball 2020 was a game that dug me out of a dark time in my life. It also began a turn for me, video games are ART. They are art meant to admired an loved for the amazing thing they are. Art you are passionate about is 100000 times better than art made by AI, do you hear that?
You can even point out the sad state of the ADULT GAMING space too with AI being too heavily relied upon for development by some. The overwhelming amount of games within the space that cause good developers to be left behind and Visa and Mastercard constantly pressuring Patreon to get tighter on their ToS, but you can also point out (and I am not meaning to puff myself up here), that I, Asia, have brought together a collection of developers willing to help one another improve and bring about positive change to the game space… In fact I notice a big spirit of collaboration amongst game developers as a whole. Adult game reviewers are undergoing growth.
Shady Corner, a growing adult games publisher (another collaborator), has been sending me games and their line-up is growing and growing. In fact, its the easiest time to find an adult game ever.
Even with these dark days in mainstream gaming, you have Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 proving RPGs with a deep experience with passionate developers still sell. MiSide and Mouthwashing are viral hits. It appears we are in a shift for gaming large and small. Smaller development teams are finding success. Larger corporate developers are trying to grow endlessly and are meeting hard times being unable to do so, leading to layoffs and more smaller studios being created.
So in these dark times… I am just going to try my best to think of my roots…
In these times, it’s all we got…
Asia