WIP Paper Mario: The Star Princess

[PaperMarioLover]

I find it hard to believe for me that a human wrote all of this as well as the story. You won't get far with this. You’re posting hollow devlogs and you're constantly making excuses about using ai. Nice "game" you got here

Then it would be best for you to not play it!  I'm not here to make sure you're happy.  This is just for fun, it's really not that serious.  I'm not here to make any money, I'm not here to win someone over.  I had an idea for many years that I could not properly execute.  If you are a game developer and this is what you do to get food on the table then that's wonderful.  This is just a hobby.  And really, I don't want people like you to play my game.  Cause all you would do is find flaw after flaw after flaw, and it wouldn't do anything for you.  And that's fine, my game isn't for everyone and that's ok.  That's the beauty of being hueman, you're not obligated to make anyone happy, cause at the end of the day the only person you need to worry about is yourself.  When I first started making this game, I'm not going to lie, I was a little hesistant.  I even remember talking to a friend about it and my friend made a good point.  He said "There's always going to be someone out there who's going to find fault with anything you do.  Don't worry about those people.  It's a hobby, it's something you like to do."

Right now, I'm trying to get my car fixed while at the same time trying to juggle responsibilities here at home.  And I agree, the devlogs have become very hollow.  But once again, this is just a hobby.  If I was serious about making this more than a hobby, then I would do things differently.  I have a wonderful job that I get to go to that pays me to basically do what I want to do and get paid for it.  It's like owning your own business without the strain of the responsibilities that come with owning your own business.  And no, my job has nothing to do with A.I.  I'm a manager where I work, and there is no A.I. being used.

However, thanks for the feedback, I do honor any and all feedback, even if it is negative.  Right now I have a lot on my plate, and there are some things that I'd rather not share, not because I don't want to, but the whole point of playing a videogame is for some things to be a surprise.  And this next town and level is somewhat vital to the storyline and I'd rather not share too much.  This is just a hobby, hence why these devlogs aren't interesting.  I have a life outside of making this game, and right now I don't have time to make anything "interesting" at the moment.  Development is going to be slow, and that's just the way it is.  I will say you are not the first one who has made it known to me that my game is going to bomb, but again...this is for fun.  I'm sorry, my life does not revolve around videogames and making videogames.  I have a j-o-b that I go to to make my money, and I work hard for my money.  And it is not up to you, nor is it up to anyone else how I decide to spend my money.  I am one person, making a game that has all sorts of things that I'm not good at doing, and I have absolutely no problem admitting that.  I don't know how to animate, I don't know how to code, I don't know how to make pretty sprites, I don't know how to do a lot of these things.  The one thing I know how to do, and be somewhat good at, is Photoshop.  That's about it.  

And, I have just one more thing to say.  I have been a part of many artistic endeavors.  In high school, I was involved in being an actor in many plays.  I was involved in my high school's chamber choir.  I took an art class at one point.  I've sung for a very well-renowned group that travels all around the U.S. every year and have sung at some very prestigious venues.  When I was growing up, all I wanted to do for the rest of my life is be a singer.  I wanted to sing about anything and everything.  But realistically, there's like a 1 in 1,000th chance that I'd be successful at it.  So, the next thing I thought about was going in for Graphic Design.  I was somewhat handy with Photoshop, so I thought why not?  And due to certain circumstances, not even that was going to work out.  Every single time I have been surrounded by other artists, whether it's a group of people who are good at painting, or good at drawing, or good at singing, or good at acting, or whatever the case may be, it is not only so cliquey but these people are some of the most toxic groups of people I have ever hung around with.  And I say hung around with very loosely, because I only hung around these people when we would sing or when we would act or draw, etc...  But any form of contact outside of what it was I was involved in, I always made sure to never hang around those people and get close to those people.  It always seemed like to me that these people have no actual people skills, and some of these people were so unhinged that I would actively avoid these people as much as I could.  Yeah, I might have to sing next to them, I might have to draw next to them, I might have to act next to them, but I kept to myself most of the time.

And the funniest part is, I wasn't really surprised.  I was born with a certain condition, and because I was born with this particular condition, I learned from a very young age, that there's a lot of superficial people out there.  I'd rather not air all my dirty laundry online, but let's just say this condition I have is noticeable.  There's also a lot of people who have no problem going up to you and say "You realize you have this condition right?"  It's gotten so bad that, at the age of 37 9.99 times out of 10, I can literally peg down if someone is worth approaching or getting to know.  Because of this condition I have, I have learned to simply observe people, and sadly people have become predictable.  It's so bad that it takes hardly nothing to know how a person is going to act.  I blame some of this on the system we live in.  In this system, especially in America, the system tends to appeal to ego.  Yes, here in America we have a lot of freedoms, and unfortunately since the system appeals to ego, and because we are constantly being exposed to, what I call, hyper-individuality, ego tends to be most people's default way of being.  And because that has become the norm, whenever something doesn't go someone else's way, because of the way the system works and that the collective has bought into "The customer is always right," you have a bunch of people using and abusing that phrase.  People on this part of the planet literally cannot stand any sort of inconvenience, even if it is minor.  We're basically raising a bunch of people who operate solely on ego, and ego is all about dividing and conquering.  It's about self-satisfaction.  People here wouldn't know what an ego death actually is, nor does that appeal to anyone anyways, because it would entail holding yourself accountable to every decision you make, and people on this part of the planet don't want to be held self-accountable.  They want to be able to fit-in, they want to be able to be friends with supermodels and superficiality as a way of life.  And, in the big grand scheme of things, none of that actually matters.  None of it.  It's nothing but a temporary thing.

So again, thank you for the feedback, and don't worry.  I will make sure to spare you of this A.I. slop of a game.  All I have to do is mess with the privacy settings.  No problem!  Thank you for your time.

You should check out my game when you get the chance.  Updates every week, and sometimes more than one update per week:  Paper Mario:  The Star Princess