FUCK HUMANITY REPLOIDS 4EVA

First, will come the wave of Disco Successors. Some will faithfully mimic the aesthetics of Disco Elyisum, others will cling to mechanical and thematic mimicry. Many of them will lean too heavily into the "Skills as characters" conceit, we'll see a wide variety of protagonists, but each game will almost certainly feature a patient, professional NPC companion character that they expect you to imprint on like a baby bird. At least one will feature deckbuilding elements. Most will fail pretty horrendously, some will be actually pretty decent games, but fail because the standard for success is Disco Again, and you cannot do Disco Again. Next will come a wave of games that are NOT trying to be Disco Elysium, but will have learned some lessons from the first wave of imitators. A game can have it's primary loop be about walking around, talking to NPCs, and making skill checks without being Disco Elysium. There will be an intense and ongoing taxonomical debate about if these count as "Visual Novels". These games are not trying to be Disco Elysium again, to the point that they'll aggressively avoid resembling it in the same way the successor games attempted to invoke it. There will be unspoken rules about these games. No amnesiac detectives in ruined cities, skills can talk to you to provide exposition like a GM giving you details but they're not presented as standalone characters, all politics remain firmly grounded in the fictional and fantastical.

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I really really really really didn’t want to go back to doing this as regularly, but A.N.I.M. really needs money. The past few months for us have been pretty bad, and I’ve been making less than minimum wage with my cut of the profits for a while.

We make sure not to paywall the majority of our project so as not to bar them from people who can’t afford them, but that means we’re reliant on the good will of those who can afford them to choose to pay.

If you like what we do, want us to keep doing it, an want to keep a disabled game designer who can’t do other work able to pay their medical and food bills, please consider paying for one of our games on itchio, and/or subscribing to our patreon for more regularly updated versions of all our projects.

If you can’t do that, rating them 5-stars on itchio, downloading them, and playing them/talking about them/sharing them is a huge help too. Like, it really can’t be overstated how reliant we are on word-of-mouth.

I am going to have to reinstate the Income Goals to make sure we make an income of at least $2,000 every month across both itchio and patreon, gradually increasing that goal probably until we are making at least $3,000 every month.