Welcome to Priro.pro
This is an updated guide to Priro.pro, the ever-growing monster that is my website, game development studio, and general life work.
Priro.pro was started as a home for my art, commission information, hobbies, and most notably, my indie visual novel series Parfum Nostalgique.
As I spent countless hours working on my creative endeavors and posting about them online, I began to realize that my hard work was not as visible to others as I would have liked. No matter how consistently I followed guides on how to improve my online presence, I was never satisfied with the results.
I quickly gathered that this was not just a "me" problem. With its introduction of generative AI, censorship of queer/NSFW content, and over-reliance on algorithms to determine whose are is and isn't worthy of going viral, social media was and is becoming increasingly more antagonistic toward indie creators. Not only that, but the online marketplaces myself and my other game dev friends relied on for the distribution of our work now censor and suppress anything that payment processors deem to be in violation of their terms of service.
The state of the current Internet is, at best, unwelcoming. The state of the games industry is, in one word, predatory. But in these times where there is very little room for optimism, I have found it in communities of people who decide to create anyway, and know that their work is more important now than ever.
The goal of Priro.pro, in all its experimental glory, is not to be a comprehensive, all-encompassing solution to everything that's wrong with the indie scene. It is to be a place where you can watch one man surrounded by creators who care about each other throw ideas at the wall and see which ones stick, in the hopes that you might join him in your own way. It is a small room filled with wonderful people, a break from the barrage of firing synapses that is social media, made without consideration for what is marketable or clickable. It is full of unfinished lists, badly coded pages, random ads for indie creators, secret vaults, charming jank, and most importantly, love.
On Priro.pro, you'll find:
My flagship visual novel series Parfum Nostalgique, free to play in its entirety.
Project Menagerie, my traveling market dedicated to bringing digital indie games to physical form.
Free no-strings-attached ads for great indie creators everywhere I can shove them. Submit yours here!
Personal lists of works and websites from indie creators I believe in.
Resources for creating your own physical copies of your own indie games.
The Priroshop, where you can buy physical indie games and handmade apparel.
Horrible coding, just the worst. But if I can do it, so can you. The jank is there to encourage you to make your own site, with your own lists, your own resources, and your own personal charm!
Take it easy, enjoy your stay, and consider supporting my endeavors on ko-fi! Your money goes directly toward site development and Project Menagerie's efforts to make and spread physical indie games. You could be the reason a creator gets to see their work in physical form!
