transprincessvivian said:
steam community will probably blast you with bad reviews for being a ‘sjw’ game so id be careful about that tbh

Review brigading is a pretty huge problem on Steam that I would definitely worry about, but I’d honestly be more concerned about the game’s Steam community turning into a cesspool of hate speech that would be a nightmare to moderate. Like it gets BAD on Steam forums. I once saw people on the forums freaking out about Necrodancer turning into “SJW propaganda” because they added a girl with pink hair in the DLC

(Valve did recently say they’d give devs the option to let Valve mods deal with reported content on games’ forums, but we have yet to see if that works out)

Yeah, we’re many years past that mythical time when just being on Steam got indie games noticed. As much as it annoys me to see people selling prefab Unity games and crudely made “offensive” games, though, I don’t really think the problem with Steam is that kinda stuff, so much as the awful discoverability tools

I mean, itch.io is WAY more open as a storefront than Steam. There are currently 130,648 games listed on itch, compared to like 25,000 on Steam. itch is like Bandcamp–they have no quality control standards or up front fees whatsoever. There is no barrier to entry at all. You just can’t post intentionally malicious or illegal content. But itch has a way, way better layout that makes it much easier to browse for games you might like. It’s easy to see the latest staff recommendations and new releases right on the front page, or see the recent top sellers, or see what’s new or popular in a specific tag. You can even get recommendations for similar games on most game pages. It’s way better than Steam’s layout.

The only thing that makes me consider going to Steam is that some people are really, really stubborn about buying PC games anywhere other than Steam. It’s the place where everyone’s already been building up a game library for years, so a lot of folks are wary about buying things anywhere else, even when they DO want to buy your game. It sucks, but any minor inconvenience in the way of buying your game is going to turn some people away

It’ll be up for sale on itch.io, just like the demo! Steam is also a possibility but boy howdy is their community a nightmare and also they take a bigger cut than itch and i am poor

ponett:

the most emotionally gripping line of dialogue in the entirety of super lesbian animal rpg

ponett:

from my curiouscat: 

anon asked:
was there an inspiration for the star power system in slarpg?

it was actually mainly inspired by world of warcraft! in wow, most classes have some sort of “resource” (rage, holy power, etc.) they have to balance, where their standard abilities usually build up points that can then be spent to cast more powerful spells. it gives combat a sort of rhythm where you’re bouncing back and forth between different abilities based on whether you need to build or spend your class’s resource. you can’t just constantly use the same skill over and over–you have to mix it up

in wow your “rotation” gets pretty repetitive over the course of dozens or hundreds or THOUSANDS of hours, especially when you’re casting a spell like every second (if not more often). but it’s a neat concept, and i thought it might be interesting to implement something sort of like that in a slower paced turn-based rpg. as it turns out, people seem to really like it!

star power also solves a lot of combat balancing problems i had in the original incarnation of the game. players would often just spam their strongest spells as much as possible, not worrying about the mp costs because they could always just use an ether when they ran out. they’d also ignore some less powerful abilities (and, tragically, the kisses) because they didn’t have as dramatic an impact as the big attacks and the party-wide heals and buffs. now, having to build star power encourages players to use lower level abilities that they may otherwise ignore, and also ensures that players can only use their more powerful skills every so often. you can’t just charge in with claire and spam her highest level magic attacks five turns in a row if those attacks require you to build star power first

because the characters are so heavily defined by their roles in the party, the star power system also rewards you for playing characters the way they’re canonically supposed to behave. you can’t build star power with melody by having her attack–you have to make her heal

ponett:

all of my $1+ supporters on Patreon can now hear a preview of a song off of the Super Lesbian Animal RPG soundtrack by @bumblequinn​! this time it’s a romantic theme for Melody and Allison

check it out here! and if you aren’t currently a Patreon supporter but like my work, then hey! maybe consider throwing me a buck or two!

ponett:

hey so who wants to see a new NPC from Super Lesbian Animal RPG? this is Paula Cassidy! she’s a polar bear. she works as a woodcutter at the same place where Allison worked before the start of the game, and the two do not particularly get along

Paula was designed by lead NPC designer @exclamationpointman (that’s his sketch!), with her color scheme and some minor revisions from me. also, as you may remember, Paula’s name was voted on by the supporters of my Patreon!

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Work continues on the revamp of this blog! A couple informative new pages have been added: “What is Super Lesbian Animal RPG?” for a brief introduction to the game, and a brand new Characters page with profiles for Melody, Allison, Claire, Jodie, and a sampling of NPCs. Go take a look!

The official Super Lesbian Animal RPG blog has been given a much needed makeover! Goodbye default Tumblr theme, hello… well okay, this is a Redux edit. But still

On top of looking better, the new theme should be easier to navigate, with convenient links to all sorts of info on the game and the demo and whatnot right on the sidebar. Several of those links currently don’t lead to anything, but I’m working on adding some new pages with info on the characters and screenshots and that sort of stuff! It’s very professional

ponett:

i didn’t need to have this ready for the demo (since she’s not in the party at that point) so i’d been putting it off, but i finally went and slapped some jodie art up on the ui. she SHOULD be in her armor so this is still a placeholder, but it’s nice to see the whole party

ponett:

I neglected to mention this on Tumblr, BUT! yesterday I revealed a new character from Super Lesbian Animal RPG​ (she is a bear), and I’m having my Patrons decide on her name!

everyone who supports me at the $1 tier or higher on my Patreon is welcome to suggest names, and next weekend I’ll put all the suggestions I like (as well as a few ideas Anthony and I had) together in a big poll for all my supporters to decide on her final name

if you’re a Patron, you can actually see the character and learn more here

2019, if all goes according to plan

the party members are actually smaller than that! they’re all 28 x 55 or smaller (not counting the extra few pixels of height their shadows add)

most of the NPCs exceed that, though. Holly’s sprite, for instance, is 55 x 76, and Beverly is 36 x 61. Even Pepper, maybe the smallest NPC, has a sprite that’s 42 pixels wide

ponett:

work continues on Super Lesbian Animal RPG’s Amber Woods! the area now has new trees that aren’t just palette swaps of the old ones in Greenridge, wow

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