Yes do as you like. You are free to share it with me in my guestbook if you want

No. The game industry is really bad. It requires secrecy because it's full of developers who can be fired at any moment. All some developers have in that industry is the ability to program things that are difficult to make from scratch- to have their code be readily available would not benefit them in an industry that is so cut throat. 

I think it would be nice if more indie devs did, but even then, that mindset trickles down. So many indies will never make a living wage on their games and to release their code would allow people with a lot more resources to profit off of their work. We know companies with more money wouldn't hesitate to use a devs' code in the worst way possible. This is an unnerving feeling.

It's unfortunate and a reason I actually struggle with getting into Godot and things. So much code just isn't readily available like in other engines I like. Much must be built from scratch or using plugins that may have issues that you can't figure out how to solve while in RPG maker, there's often a million plugins for one different thing.

It's why I asked Basicbean's help with the dollmaker template. I think Godot is really convenient but there's just not many resources for it and most artists Aren't programmers and don't have time or patience to be programmers. And I love games by people who lean more towards the art side/writing than the developer side.. It's why engines like RPG Maker are everlasting too.. Works for artists in a way many game engines don't. 

I don't think the above is good or anything. The game industry is a beast and artists (and programmers in art industries) have to try hard to protect their jobs due to constantly being abused by people in power, especially with all the cases of developers being fired right after a game releases only for the project / base code to be handed other people who are less skilled. So many of my favorite games have been ruined by this practice too because a good skeleton still requires meat.

It's worse because now the game industry and other art industries are benefitting off the work of artists they refuse to hire or even acknowledge the existance of with giant AI things that scrape every little thing on the internet. Things have the potential to change but.. smiles, I think a lot of AAA corporations have to die and more avenues need to exist for game developers to earn revenue (IE Itchio being really the only place for poor Western indie developers without publishers is terrible while having the moderation team be the way that it is not helping anything). I really do think so many problems are the result of AAA industries snuffing out everyone they can.

That is to say, I do think indies are doing well in recent years but even then, a lot of the indies in high regard (ie Hollow Knight) may not be AAA but they still have so many resources me and my dev peers don't have so I consider them to be seperate from the problems we are experiencing, even if they have other struggles. Tap tap, I've had conversations with larger indie people in the industry who don't even KNOW the situation on Itchio right now.. They are not my kin. 

TLDR: When art is made for the sake of profits over the sake of creating, people are less likely to help each other and the game industry loves when developers feel like they are going to starve. To help others is a luxury developers typically don't have the luxury of doing.

Identity and things are hard for me to deal with. To claim to be something is a difficult action... but I like being a girl who likes girls. It is an easy thing to slide into, and acceptance from other girls knowing this is a fact about me feels good.

Girlhood was traumatizing to me but something I had to go through. To identify as a girl despite my detachment and struggles at being one feels nice. I still do feel much comradery with nonbinary people though, but that experience is not one I want to claim as my own.

i get why you're sending me this, and i appreciate the thought, but i was talking about 2d girls. because i read yuri. i added real girls because i added my girlfriend, who is a real living girl, onto the page. This is obvious.

people have sent me weird things like this for a long time. i feel like so much of it ties to me being a lesbian who mainly talks about girls and aims content at girls. as such, every word i use is to capture diversity of womanhood. what one person may find affirming may be upsetting to another, especially when you begin to befriend girls who experience intersexuality (or even just hormonal differences) who have womanhood stripped from them all the time.

to add on, all of my experiences about womanhood are explored in my works, like my games and artwork. i know plenty of people engage with me and don't play my games, but even this site has a bunch of things that make my thoughts and feelings obvious. 

I'll also add last thing.  this isn't just me saying this as random cis girl. it's me saying it as a black girl, as black person who's blackness goes beyond the scope of my gender or sexuality or any other identity. i don't believe anyone when they just say 'they care about black women' or mention them in passing for the name of inclusivity or have some BLM blinkie because a lot of the time the people who do that are racist. notable people who do this are racist actually.

people who aren't in that minority don't realize because the person will just go "i care about black people." it's shallow to me. i raise my eyebrow at how people word things all the time but i don't ask them "How do you feel about black people?" 

If I really care, I explore their works and writings to see how they feel. And some people might raise an eyebrow at this because a lot of people never mention black people or consume their work or care about any sort of media with black people, and yeah, that is true. but i don't talk about that on my site. i talk about it with other black girls, including black trans women, in private, because it is something white people cannot understand.

I really don't like talking about blackness in spaces with lots of white people which is basically most queer spaces online, but I realize I should get this out of the way eventually.

TLDR: It is still offensive to me to see I am a lesbian, see a random word I use, devoid it of context when it has context in the original text, and then ask me about it when my site has the answers if you just read or control f search. And as a black person, I find it more offensive because of my own lived experiences being a minority in queer spaces.