Kitsune Tails has a release date! As just announced on Wholesome Direct, our Mario-like featuring queer fox girls will be coming to Steam and itch.io (Windows, Linux) on August 1st, 2024!
a friend of mine told their classmate about kitsune tails with "what if lesbian shork mario" and the classmate was like "holy shit send me the link" and it really just sells itself doesn't it?
"If you make your own engine you'll never ship a game"
I'm here to tell you this is BS. Kitsune Tails uses a custom engine built on a custom framework all made from the ground up by yours truly. Neither of these were even remotely the bottleneck for development duration. Turns out that the thing that takes the most time when you're developing a game is all the stuff that is hyper specific to that game and can't be generalized anyway
Not to mention all the, you know, actual content that sits on top of the engine. I can write a json parser and serializer from the ground up in a day or two, but all the cutscenes I had to script for KT took many weeks
Then there's the fact that if I'd used an out of the box physics solution for Kitsune Tails I'm fairly certain I'd never have been able to nail the game feel it has, which is the most core thing to the whole experience
You don't have to make an engine but quit pretending doing it is the hard part of making a game. It fucking ain't
"reddit CEO sold out reddit communities", come to fedi
"tumblr CEO is heading transphobic harassment campaign", come to fedi
idk man i just feel like shit like this is gonna keep happening. and shit will go down on fedi too. difference is on fedi you can move when some little tyrant gets their head too far stuck up their own ass