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Reece R.
@reecerose.bsky.social

Sharing this here to hopefully get more eyes on it, and because it's relevant: If you, like me, develop eroge, 18+ games, and/or visual novels with mature themes (a.k.a. the kind of games that the arbiters at Steam don't seem to like), plz link to your projects/studio in the quoted!

Reece R.@reecerose.bsky.social

Apropos of an article that's been making the rounds: I've realized I want to support and be surrounded by more visual novel devs—especially VN devs who specialize in 18+/eroge. If that sounds like you, please drop a link to your game/s below. We're stronger together, so let's get a chain going!

hiero medão 🎃
@lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social

good article! recently my buddy @thepensword.bsky.social got slapped with a sexual content label on steam despite not having anything explicit and all he heard back was basically "you know what you put in your game buddy" www.tumblr.com/sirenscallga...

tumblr.comPost by @sirenscallgamedevhell · 5 images💬 12  🔁 129  ❤️ 220 · Steam Rejected My Upcoming Visual Novel for Having “Adult Content” That Doesn’t Even Exist · Banning random eroge from the platform wasn’t enough, apparently. Hey, ya’ll. My…
Mate Sršen
@matesrsen.bsky.social

I'm more and more convinced that there actually *is* One Specific Guy at Valve who firmly believes that all visual novels with an anime or anime-adjacent art style are by definition pornography.

DrDoorknob
@drdoorknob.bsky.social

The conversation on censorship reminds me of “A Man’s Skin” - a very progressive graphic novel using nudity in meaningful ways for the story. I feel like some people could learn something about prudish feelings from it, yet I’m sure many venues would censor it.