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my advice to the younger generations. never make an app. you're better than this. you know in your heart this isn't you

i'm not even touching on the random app policy changes they introduce every few months that just break your app or de-list you if you're not keeping up. i just want to make games man

the other developer consoles i've dealt with are often rough, occasionally buggy, just a general "behind-the-scenes" lack of polish. Google's services on the other hand look for excuses to stab you while counting the money you're giving them

sharing revenue with service providers is fair. for the most part having our game on Steam has been a chill time. Google however does not, in our experience, work for its money. Google does not make the slightest effort to make you feel welcome. Google treats you like a parasite.

we've been helping these people make *a lot* of money for 9 years now yet are at the complete mercy of their buggy, stubborn automated systems and their weird little whims, with limited ways to counteract it or even know what's going on. horrid way to run a company (them and us)

at the time this reduced our ad revenue to a fraction of what we had; months later we're still not back up to our previous figures as, i'm assuming, we need to "build up rep" again after our "violation" before we can show up on more adslot bidders' radars

we also had a random AdSense violation on our website earlier this year because their system decided our new language selection screen meant we were serving "low-quality content". we asked a human to double-check. the human agreed with the system and made us change it -

am i going to get blacklisted for publicly criticizing them? i do not care. gonna play it safe and not post screenshots but with the revenue we're sharing with Google we've got to be paying for multiple of their kids' college funds by this point and i am Angry

hey so Google's appstore console is malware-levels of hostile to developers. it turns out our app's ad serving has been zero'd out for a week due to a ghost violation we can't see and therefore cannot fix. their own help button returns a 404 page. absolute shambles of a service

game design goals

there have been so few technological developments worth our while since the game boy advance

update: everything broke but then we fixed it it's cool it's chill. web development is built on blood and tears

we're updating some server stuff on DashNet real quick, let us know if anything breaks!

old people keep finding ways to send you the ugliest URLs you've ever seen

bit bored of monster design that boils down to "what if slenderman was in overwatch"

the best pirate movie music is actually the Warcraft II soundtrack

neural net pros: incredible technological development :) shedding new light on the mechanisms behind the creative process and human cognition :) challenging our preconceptions on the meaning of art and consciousness :) new accessible tools for self-expression :)

cons: capitalism

i'm gonna have to stop simping for ai art if yall don't stop acting so deeply embarrassing about it

yes this is about cult of the lamb

"isaac-like" isn't about gameplay it's about whether a game features poop and tarot cards