Hi, it's Games.
I've ceased development on the game.
For some context, it's important to understand the series of events that led to this decision. It wasn't a simple decision either, so there's some detail involved.
I began development.....I want to say, around....a year and a half ago. I decided to make the game because the community was really cool and I wanted to contribute my own piece of art, as everyone else usually does. I wanted to make a genuinely good, well balanced and well developed game for the community (the subreddit) in return for being a cool group of people who enjoyed sharing in our common interest of Josh's exploits. I didn't wanna charge anything for it, I just wanted to share cool shit with cool people and hang out with my friends. For the first six months, I put in the bare bones for the game. It was rudimentary and it did not look good, man....but it was functional mechanically to some small degree.
I start to either make, edit, purchase, or have someone else make assets for the game. This game started to take up large parts of my free time and it started to cost me money, which was fine so long as I, at the very least, got a demo out. Everything was going pretty smoothly and it looked great. Hell, it sounded great. I was very specific about what I wanted and I think it paid off. I interacted with the community (the subreddit) in the mean time, trying to be informative to newer members or generally be polite about things. A lot of people are very gatekeepy about Josh. It serves the function of ejecting a-logs from your community but it also seems offputting to people who genuinely want to know about Josh, I've never been a fan of gatekeeping so I always wanted to help anyone who asked. There are enough people in that community who are the opposite, I didn't need to be like that.
It was between 2020-2021 that things started to change on the subreddit and.....you know, I couldn't point to a single culprit. Honestly, I don't know if it was Josh being placed on IP2's watchlist, or the cross-interaction with other communities like Cyraxx's or Genova's Pisstroopers, honestly it could be neither and something completely different.
I couldn't tell you what caused this shift but I know what happened; It went from being a placed filled with reasonably nice and civil trolls who just wanted to watch Josh unfold as a long-form story....to a place filled with very angry a-logs who, instead of laughing at the stupidity of it all and being good sports about it, became incensed by whatever dumb shit he did that week and if Josh wasn't there to throw tomatoes at, trust me, they'd find someone else to shit on. It's understandable to be upset about Josh, too. He does some pretty dumb things but, I mean, come on.
Sometimes, that target was me. That became progressively worse every 3-4 months, I wanna say. Which was fine. It's just some internet shit, I can turn off my phone and you can disappear, but I had to question why I was putting in all this hard work only to get treated like a dickhead by some of the people I'm making it for, as a gift for a subreddit that really didn't exist anymore. At that point, there was really no point or any incentive to continue, especially when I could focus on making something else that isn't based on the subject of an obscure internet dumb-dumb. I could actually make something that wasn't essentially a glorified and professionally made meme, something that couldn't reflect poorly on me in the future should he pass away (Which is probably sooner rather than later.) I don't need that on my conscience and I don't need the ire of subreddit users when I've already got enough shit to worry about and tolerate.
So, there it is. I didn't want to end the project, I had a lot of fun doing it and I was really excited to share it with people. The truth is that the shitty people ruined and they know who they are. I don't wanna say "That's why you can't have nice things" but that's why you can't have nice things. There's some cool people on the subreddit, and they know who they are too. This kinda stuff doesn't really apply to them either.
Shocking to anyone outside of KiwiFarms, but this is probably the last place where you can have genuinely nice conversations with people about Josh, that isn't infected with a-logs and angry spergs who don't know when to take a break. You guys have always been really supportive of my endeavors and you have no idea how much I appreciate that. Even though I've been called a sperg on this thread (That's probably true depending on the context lol), I want you to know that I sincerely want to thank you for that and any helpful criticism you've given me.
As a show of thanks (and maybe a confirmation that it's me too) below are some screenshots that I haven't released to the public. I'm sorry I didn't finish it, and I'm sorry I let some of you down.
Sincerely,
- Games
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