#which i used for my branch of zampanio

[jadedresearcher]

I've made peace with the fact that I have no desire to attempt to make a living out of creating my games.

The "indie games for profit" industry has only gotten more predatory and bloated as you basically need an entire marketing and playtesting team (available for a fee from a PR firm that waits to find indie game competition winners) to "make it big".

To me, games are something I get to make as a hobby, when I have spoons. I think the worst thing our society ever did to people is infect them with this idea that if a skill isnt marketable, why do you bother having it. With the idea that your hobby is an "industry" with booms and busts.

Shitty corporations sing the siren song " if you love your job you'll never work a day in your life" and hey thats why we arent paying you very well or treating you very well, right? You'd do it for free if you didn't need to eat and they know it.

TLDR create art because it feeds your spirit, not because you expect capitalism to reward you for it. Bonus points if your art happens to give you the space to practice the boring but rare skills capitalism ACTUALLY rewards.

Unironically I think we might run into another video game crash like back in the day

[jadedresearcher]

Out of curiosity, how is the Steam game coming? I've been considering picking it up for my birthday so I always have a puzzle to work on, but I haven't been able to find any recent info on how development is coming

The pandemic (and many other things) sapped my will to fight steam (or make real 'games'), sadly. Narratively, the Void player of the games voided the session out and now you can only find its bits and pieces in the Universe their session bred. Which is to say. Inside my branch of Zampanio. Given all the bits of the game that exist are available for free in other places, steam's primary use is "backup in case the websites rot". Tho itch has some backups too, for free: https://jadedresearcher.itch.io/lohaesim

[typhros]

keeping some notes here for future reference:

@ask-togigageta appears to be an askblog for characters related to this universe. they've been posting for a few months but their only engagement has been from an account called @maoushoujoella. that account has very little content besides links to...

i am currently at work and can't watch this, which is driving me up the wall. the blog that posted that video is @offlinesequence. offlinesequence (raz/kralie) has been posting for a while but it's mostly normal tumblr stuff, this is their pinned post. if you go down the zampanio tag on their blog there's more.

@youcantreadtheworlds is also attached to this, though i haven't personally been able to delve into their account too much yet bc it's setting off my unreality issues crazy bad, sorry soldiers, but there are a few links there that i will follow when i am on my personal computer and not my work computer

and of course i found all of this through the pinned post on jadedresearcher's account, https://www.tumblr.com/jadedresearcher/686771369365651456/wait-whats-the-zampanio-retro-game?source=share. this appears to have the basics of the game/info

other links (found through the gender generator)

knucklessux.com/HydrationSim/ : this appears to be useful as a link for the zampanini website, and has a lot of seed codes that i'm unsure how to use

http://farragofiction.com/CatalystsBathroomSim/bathroom.html : sburb-esque game with branching paths

http://eyedolgames.com/Zampanini/index.html - doordash-esque website with a name obviously related to zampanio

i'm finding the name "martin" come up a lot so far

i will update this with further findings, feel free to rb with more info

GUYS. I THINK I FOUND A NEW ARG

today i saw a blazed post from @jadedresearcher on an infinite gender generator and there were some Funky Links so i've been going down various rabbit holes and all their connections are new blogs with stuff clearly attached to an arg

it's all surrounding a (presumably fictional) piece of lost media, a game called zampanio. there appears to be VERY little engagement with it so far and all the posts are new, so i'm posting this to put out a call for any fellow arg fans to get on this with meeee