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I will try to answer all 6 of them

1. There is a discord server, linked to my Patreon page, but you need to be a patron.

2. I don't know if there is private messaging on itch, but you can contact me in private on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/Exoterra - no need to pay to send a private message.

3. When starting a race or by pressing Esc when exploring with the MC in the menu you have an option called Graphics, there you can set the game to low, medium, high or epic and adjust the resolution scaling.

4. Both should be able to run it, but you also need a gpu and some ram in the computer.

5. Pregnancy is doable sometime in the future.

6. Don't know

Ponydragon358 days ago(+1)

What's with those pregancy questions on so many games. It is a rather specific fetish and in my opinion should not be in most games for several reasons. Also, people asking for that and other things, usually do that on many, many games, overinflating the apparant popularity for such things.

You could do it in a visual novel that spans over long periods of time or as an ending scene.

But in normal game play it is immersive breaking. Doubly so.

Pregnancy lasts 9 months and unless you have a significant amount of time skips or magic explanation, this is not gonna happen in most games by ingame time constraints alone.

But it gets better. If you allow for pregnancy in the game world, you also should have all the surrounding real world consequences of having unprotected sex. Foremost, that most people would not do it, because they know unwanted pregnancy can happen. They would use condoms. They would have to manage birth control, and have that time of the month days. And then finally there is a baby to care for.

It is such a huge impact on any scenario that it completely changes the game. You might attract some players for the fetish, and alienate a whole bunch of others.

For me, adult games happen in the magical world of suspension of disbelief where people do not use condoms, can have anal intercourse without preparation, women do not have periods, men can always get a boner, and so on. Adding pregnancy breaks this.

That being said, if one wants to add "pregnancy" to an adult game, that would easiest be done by adding an already pregnant character. Having it involve the mc is making the game revolve about the pregnancy in some way. And that is a bad thing, if the game was not set out to be a procreation simulator in the first place.

ZombieBunnyGames358 days ago

Or there could be a character customizer, where you have a toggle for "pregnant", and bamm, you play with a character with a big belly that might poke through nearly everything in the way. The player who wants pregnancy, can get a pregnant character, but who doesn't care about it, can simply ignore it.

Ponydragon358 days ago

Ahh, but that would be visuals. Not consequences. No problems there. Like allowing beards on female characters in customization.

The requests for "pregnancy" I saw and see in comments are usually not asking for visuals of a customizeable character alone ;-)

I do not know about Steam, but Patreon might kick you for having certain pregnancy content. I remember a game where the creator made the female mc lay eggs instead of babies for that very reason. It was also a magical pregnancy that lasted for ingame days, not months.

ZombieBunnyGames358 days ago (1 edit) (+2)

Honestly, it never even crossed my mind to add a full process of that sort, also including children or babies in this type of game just feels wrong to me.

Although, laying an egg and keeping it as an in-game collectable might be funny.

I will definitely double check the rules in case I add character customization that includes a pregnant option, so thanks for the heads up on that part.

Ponydragon357 days ago

Concerning patreon, they have this halfassed phrase in their tos that means anything and nothing. Especially since it contradicts itself.

"We also do not allow other fringe sexual fetish creations"

They cite incest as the first "example". Only, if one goes to a real adult site with real humans and sorts the content by US viewers, since patreon is US based, one will find that the top categories will include things like "step" and "family". They can think about this however they like, but claiming it is a fringe fetish is wishfull thinking.

Anyways, certain pregnancy content will be viewed by them as "other fringe", since they try to push their own views, for artificial pixels no less. To me, feet worshipping is fringe. But it is not offensive. So apart from whatever patreon uses as their makebelieve normal fetish range, I guess it depends how many "offended" people complain. So no showing the birth, might be enough to be safe. And no showing of x-ray penetration.

The situation is quite mind boggling for many things. Murder is illegal. Incest is illegal in most parts of the world and has a variable definition. It is possible to marry your cousin in many parts, yet you are still related by blood, and hence technically having incest. But then you add fiction and show a movie with murder in it. All is well. Then you show a movie, with actors and try to show incest and suddenly you are banned from the platform. And even the added layer of abstraction of not only using actors, but artificial pixels is not enough. I wonder if they ban text stories as well. Hmm. Seems not. I checked an adult site with a story section.

Sorry for ranting.

ZombieBunnyGames357 days ago(+1)

This seems overwhelmingly complicated. But I assume if you are generating high enough revenue, they will be more forgiving.

Also, if you think about it, shooter games are just filled with murder.

Text stories could also be banned, considering there are banned books around the world.

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