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361 - What's next...?
🕑 Added 2024-12-30 15:52:47 +0000 UTCHELLO THERE dear bros. How is everyone doing? Today is the 30th of December. Year 2024 is almost over, which means, year 2000 was almost 25 years ago. Really makes you think... 0_0
YAHOO! Anyhow, Yahoo just deleted all my emails. We are talking about 20 years worth of letters. That inbox contained all sorts of things, love letters from my teenage years, nudes from the very few fangirls I used to have back in the day... In other words extremely sentimental and absolutely irreplaceable stuff. And now it's all gone. All of it. My email address is still working, but they decided to permanently delete all my letters because I did not log in for a few months. Unbelievable. I constantly rumble on about how you don't really own any of your digital stuff unless it's stored on an offline HHD, and yet somehow I always though that my Yahoo inbox was and exception, and it will continue to exist forever. Well, another lesson learned I suppose. Crap... I say that, but even as I type these words I still can't believe all those letters are gone now. Just like that, years of my personal history has disappeared into thin air...
BEFORE I FORGET AGAIN, go support Lyk if you can, he proofreads and edits all my writing, shielding you all from immersion-breaking typos and grammatical mistakes. https://www.patreon.com/Lyk
THE AKABUR SHOP. Quite a few people has asked me for an option to purchase the game directly without having to subscribe to my Patreon. Technically you can always do it through my itch.io account, but their requests (along with some nudges from Mr.Lazare) prompted me to look into Patreon's shop feature. I put three items there for sale. The neat thing is that it can also be used as a gallery by the subscribers, meaning that people with Supporter PLUS tier and higher will have access to the content being sold there. If all goes well I plan to continue to add my old work there from week to week.
WT DIORAMA! Mr.Lazare sent me his Witch Trainer diorama as a Christmas present. Just like he said before, the pictures don't do this thing justice. It's absolutely glorious in person. You are allowed to feel jealous of me now XD
HALF AN HOUR OF SNOW IN AGRABAH. I uploaded a snowy Agrabah loop to YouTube along with some copyright-free music. Merry Christmas!!!
WHAT'S NEXT? I have received a few more bug reports over the week. Nothing too serious but still bugs that needed fixing. I think I will wait for another week and update Queen Trainer to version 1.05 and it will be the last one for now. I know taking a break for a bit would be the right thing to do, but for now I decided to stay in a working mode for a while longer. Last few weeks I have been doing some low-key planning but nothing concrete have been decided yet.
A "GAME" GAME. Queen Trainer was my most "gamey" game yet. I have put a lot of effort into making it feel as a proper game and not a visual novel. I am glad I did, but now that I got that out of my system, I want to keep things a bit simpler in the future, at least until I decide to bite the bullet and hire a couple of guys to work under me.
ANYWAY, I think since I don't have anything concrete to say, I should not say anything at all. The main takeaway should be that I decided not to go on a break just yet and am working on my next project already. And that is all really. Thank you for your support and I will see you all next Monday. Happy New Year!
-Aka-
A few links just in case:
buymeacoffee.com/akabur
subscribestar.adult/akabur
itch.io/profile/akabur
bitchute.com/akabur
https://boosty.to/akabur
Comments
niko niko
Star channel 34?
AKAMAN
No YOU are the best. :)
AKAMAN
^_^
AKAMAN
Thank you for doing your part citizen.
AKAMAN
Monday Post will never stop :)
AKAMAN
Yes, I know, there is a big chance that I would never even bother to check any of those emails again. But it was still my stuff. It is like if somebody burned my family photo album: even if I have no interest in the photos I would still prefer to stay in tact. Oh well, life goes on. Happy New Year! :)
AKAMAN
Happy New Year!!
AKAMAN
Smart man. I should have done the same. Never crossed my mind something like that could happen...
AKAMAN
You are definitely doing the right thing. My email was from a simpler era though, when you didn't have to submit your phone number, your credit history and your fucking DNI test just to create an email. And nobody was forcing you to update your password every other month. So I used this outdated mentality to manage my inbox: basically trusting the corporation. And I paid for it.
AKAMAN
I did play couple of take games back in the day. One on my PSOne and another one on my PSP. There are a lot of good games in the series I hear.
DJ Quinn
Oh hey, Tales of Rebirth in the banner. I recall that's the one with the furry race :P
Deonast
Sorry to hear about your email loss, tends to be the case you don't think about all the different ways of backing up until something gets lost. The first email service I used (besides an ISP one was yahoo back in the day, then hotmail, then gmail). One thing I'm glad I did many years ago was install thunderbird mail client and setup pop / imap to pull down email from these online services. Now I'm mainly gmail what I tend to do is when I finish reading my email, I pull the email down to thunderbird which automatically sends the email in gmail to the archive area so everything is nice a clean for more mail. Well it would if I wasn't months behind, catch up needed (including emails about your game release, congrats, I need to get to those too). So glad I did that as yes I think some time back I noticed yahoo get rid of all my old email there but I didn't care as I'd brought a lot of it into gmail (plus that thunderbird offline store).
Sic Coyote
Sorry to hear about the email it's the reason I took the effort to download an archive of my hotmail account I'd had since the 90s
Lyk
Happy new year, everybody.
Trevor Bond
Hope the new year treats you well! Sorry to hear about the email loss, but look at it this way... if you hadn't been there for months, MOST of it was probably stuff you didn't mind not seeing again. Onward to the future! I am interested in your next project!
TrapHunter69
Yay! If you ever decide to hire a programmer for your super-gamey game - I'm right here! Being your fan since 2015, working in gamedev as a programmer/technical artist/everything_else since around the same time 🫥
DMMelik
Yesssssssss! The Monday posts continue! I was worried they would stop after QT release, I look forward to these lol. Happy New Year
Miguel Silva
Merry christmas and happy new year akabur I would love to see a game about maid cafe from you, i have seen people build a very insteresting concept about it, but they failed terribly on the art and the adult content, i think you would crush them if u did something similar check BM Love Cafe on f95zone, i think the cafe part is fun enough of a game itself, but they failed so miserably on the adult content part once again, its just a sugestion, i bet whatever ideas u have or chose will be great aswell
Ace
The mail situation sucks, hope you have an awesome new years eve
Henrik
Time to give some good news: Lyk finally got me as a subscriber. Hoping your collab will continue for many more years
Alfred M
👋🥳
Kaiserlix
You are the best =D
Nikraria
Dude, that shit sucks at so many levels! I guess you can't talk with some yahoo-people to try to get back all of that, no? I saw in a quick search they have a "recover lost or deleted mails" but Idk if that could be a solution for your case... I wish you a better year than this in 2025, without news like the yahoo one, damn...
DeadMan
Hope you had a merry Christmas. I learned many years ago if you want to keep something you have to store it offline on two drives in case one fails. Also Mega is a good option, just don't lose the password or key they give for the account.
Rwede
Merry Christmas, BroWaifu o/
