There’s been a lot of controversy over a recent Steam statement that they can no longer sell games that are against the rules with Visa and or Mastercard. This was the result of an Australian censorship group Collective Shout.
This morning itch-io posted their own statement that they are making changes too.
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You can now get Hopepunk City on Steam, at this address. You may need to sign in to Steam ad do the age check thing to see it. The price is $9, a dollar less than my other games, and for the first week it’s 15% off. It coincides with the Steam Visual Novel fest, which only Something’s in the Air Redux qualifies, so it will be on sale that week too. Date Ariane Remastered and Ariane in Paradise will be part of the Steam Spring Festival sale later this month.
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This is my third essay on the subject of creativity as an unbreakable grand narrative because it is tied to human nature. These are the enemies that are trying to stop it.
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This month I went to a funeral for an artist. Not necessarily a great artist, or a well remembered name. But one that entertained with their art, and one that will be remembered by the works that they did.
I won’t name them, don’t need to because this applies to any of the millions of artists that won’t appear in “In Memoriams” on award shows when they die. The anonymous lounge singers, the home decorators whose masterpiece is their own home. The community theater acting troupe or the rock cover band that does regular shows at the local dive bar. There are millions of artists around the world many very talented, but unrecognized outside their local group.
The unrecognized artists that make your life better in subtle ways you may not even notice. This essay is dedicated to them.
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There is a deeper meaning to life, and that meaning is to be creative and curious. We are most happy when we are engaged in either. Much focus is placed on learning, but in this essay I want to focus on the creative side.
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In less than a year, AI went from a promised new future to an industry with no real future, at least not as everyone envisioned it.
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Metamodernism is the latest movement in art and philosophy after a century of modernism and postmodernism.
I know, it sounds complicated, and no way am I going to be able to present thorough definitions for all these in a single essay. But here is a general explanation.
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Hidden deep in the bowels of Something’s In The Air Redux is what I think is an important essay called “The Philosophy of Video Games”. Reading it requires doing the “Centerfold” path 3 times after “Dark Rachel” has been activated.
If you don’t understand those instructions, don’t worry because I put the entire essay on a single page with links to sources RIGHT HERE.
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Time to try out this AI Art thing for myself. Artist like myself are going to need to learn this stuff, or at least be familiar with it. Also, I want to know what the fuss is all about.
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In the past year AI Art generation has gone from non-existent, to threatening every aspect of art. Spending most of my life in computer related fields including studying how AI works and learns, but at the same time making a living generating game art, I can understand both sides of this issue.
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