HEY, INDIE GAME TUMBLR

so i want to let y'all know something-- unity has started a per-install fee for game developers. what this means is anytime someone installs a dev's game that they paid for, a fee comes out of the developers pockets.

yeah. you can guess how bad this is.

I don't have a very far reach but i urge y'all to reblog and research this stuff.

Many game devs, including Cult Of The Lamb and Rain World are talking about removing their games from install pages because of this, and a lot of games could be lost because of this. So many games could be lost from this.

Please spread the word and talk about this. Game developers are pissed and you should be too.

part 23748234182942932 of me spriting things for something that's never going to exist (i don't know how to code)

(more info under cut bc my thoughts were so long i didnt wanna bloat the tags)

so i had the stupid idea to write the "deltarune" and "undertale" logos in each others fonts, and then it spawned this whole other idea of an au game of deltarune characters in the undertale premise.

it would take place around the same time as the actual deltarune, just a couple years in the future (so still the 2000's) meaning humans don't have mages anymore, so rather than being sealed underground the monsters just seek refuge inside the mountain. though, this time the monsters do actually have magic, otherwise the battles wouldn't work :P.

since they were just living in a town, i imagine the monsters don't have a king, but since asgore was the police chief he'd probably be the "leader" of the underground since hes still an authority figure, and the royal guards would just be other characters on the force.

of course because this is DELTARUNE, there's going to be a ton of dark world stuff incorporated into it. i only sprited jevil and spamton (because i Love Them but i think everyone who's been seeing my art recently can tell that), but i plan on adding more darkners X) i just have to really consider who, i don't think ralsei will be here >_> i love him but i'm not sure how it would work since yknow... boss monsters. plus spade king and queen will probably be ruled out because there's no monarchy in this version of the underground.

actually going back to spamton, my idea was that he could take the place of mettaton, since mettaton doesn't have a robot form and alphys isn't a scientist, the idea was that he was a virus noelle accidentally "created" by clicking on a spam link that became self aware. she combined a chair with a monitor to give him a body, because he was trying to take over her home PC lol, but he doesn't have any of the features mettaton had in UT. also yeah he's gonna be in the spamton neo body, probably in genocide, or maybe for EX. idk yet. yeah this is all just a big reference to the fact that mettaton created the spamton neo body in deltarune LMAO. as for jevil... hes, uh... hes there! i don't know what i'm gonna do with him yet.

that's the most i'm willing to share at the moment X) don't get your hopes up though because the possibility of this becoming a real game is 0.0000001%. Coding is a nightmare and i genuinely can't wrap my head around it so that's never gonna happen! but to whoever is reading this i hope you find the concept at least a little bit interesting :]

Just letting you know that some of your posts have a lot of unnecessary tags, which Tumblr doesn't allow (i.e tagging your graffiti game as Splatoon and having a lot of versions of the word "gamedev"). Your stuff seems awesome and I'd feel bad if your posts about them got taken down. Hope you're having a nice day!

Hey - thank you for the concern, I appreciate it! Honestly I'm not super worried about it myself.

As far as I'm aware using lots of tags isn't against any Tumblr rules or guidelines, it's just not recommended practice since they tend to get filtered out after a certain amount of them (please correct me if there's something I'm overlooking but my Googling hasn't lead me to anything suggesting using a selection of tags isn't allowed and I've seen it done on other user's posts on the site). The only guideline I might possibly be considered violating is spam, but honestly I feel the tags I use are all pretty related to the content I'm posting. I do consciously aim to use tags relevant to my content and to keep tag numbers under ~15 so they're actually incorporated as part of Tumblr's tag feeds too, so I don't feel I'm really 'spamming' anything.

In terms of the fandom-specific tags they're mostly there since I feel my game is related in terms of style/aesthetic/gameplay/feel and relates it to those tags as well (that's also how I tend to discover new stuff on platforms so figured it'd be handy here too). I don't really see anything erroneous or malicious in doing this since in my eyes it's pretty related to the material, though I guess since Tumblr is fandom-culture-focused so I can see how they could be seen as annoying to people specifically looking for stuff [x] game in particular. Maybe I can cut back on those ones then.

As for the reason I use so many variations of similar tags on my posts (such as #indie games and #indiegames, or #game dev and #gamedev, even #game dev and #game development)....

...as far as I'm aware Tumblr has no standardized formats for tagging, and these are all technically considered different tags being used by different people for the same purpose (I follow all of them and see much cross-posting and people using just one or the other). Since there's likely to be people who are watching one tag and not the other and my content is related to every one of these tags, I don't feel it leaves me with many options but to tag each of these variations independently since they're all used by these communities. 😐 As far as I'm aware this also isn't violating any rules or guidelines since it's all still related to content I'm posting. (As an aside: This is also one of my least favourite Tumblr tag 'quirks' which leaves multiple tags fulfilling the same function and relies communities all autonomously coming to a consensus about which tags to use. Twitter sucks but to its credit at least it broke a tag when you added a space to it, so every tag was one long word and standardized between them no matter what).

TL;DR I can't find any mention of guidelines I might be violating by operating this way, and the fandom stuff seems more etiquette than actual rules to me but I can lay off those if it's going to bother people.

Thanks again for the heads up!