Exoptable Money & Presentable Liberty Dev Blog

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Streaming Zelda Wind Waker

Come along if you want to be winded from how much fun the stream is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasG_7A5dU4

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Streaming more Mario Galaxy in 11 Minutes

Go here if you really want to see but it’s debatable whether it’s a good idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdPpeYPQUc

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Streaming Mario Galaxy Right Now

Hello peoples I’m doing another stream they’re always amazing and super fun except most of the time. Come watch ! ! !  ! ! !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVKubNiI8lw

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Pointless Stream Today.

Last week, I made a spontaneous decision to do a livestream on my youtube channel, and it was quite a fun little thing, so I'll be doing the same thing again today. I don't really have any plans for it yet, but we'll see what happens. It's mostly a fun waste of time kinda thing. If you wanna be there, it'll be on in 5 hours, at 11am PST or whatever, right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1dBQFSpliwUh5lWBE3AEA?app=desktop

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'Why on earth would you remake Exoptable Money & Presentable Liberty?'

Hello people, I'm writing this blog post in response to a question that I've been asked time and time again. If you are wondering the same thing, then please let me try to explain.

The reason I want to remake the original games is because I want Menagerie 3 to be great, and the original games, especially Exoptable Money, are in the way of that. If you think Exoptable Money is a fantastic game that should never be changed then that's your call, but I have to severely disagree with that. I made that game in 3 days. It's not well thought out at all, it doesn't raise any interesting points, and it doesn't offer anything to build off of for the rest of the series. I agree that there's not much reason for me to remake Presentable Liberty, other than for completion's sake and the fact that no one would ever fund a remake for Exoptable Money exclusively. There is also no good reason not to.

I'm making a Kickstarter because I know that the games can be better than they were, and I know I need money to make them the way I want to. Of course, once they're done, I still won't give them away for free like the originals, because I believe they will warrant their asking price. Some people seem to think that putting a price on art lessens it, but I believe that it simply shows that the creator thinks it is worth it. I've never sold anything – Exoptable Money, Presentable Liberty and Menagerie: Archive were all free, because I don't feel like they justify a price tag. I made them with the intention of putting them out there for free, and I still think they should always be free. This is not the case with the remakes, though – I would spend months of my life focusing on just them, polishing them to shit to make sure they are worth their asking price. Making games is work. I can't be expected to make free games all my life. I could do that, of course – but it would also mean that I would never be able to make the games I actually want to make now. My vision for the Menagerie series simply isn't possible to make on a budget of zero anymore, and I don't feel sorry for wanting it to be great.

Bottom line, it offends me when people tell me I'm making the series only for profit now, when it couldn't be further from the truth. I want to make better games than I have been, I want to move forward, I don't want to be stuck making these small games that I don't feel have much value forever. I don't owe that to anyone either, I think. I want to make game development my profession, and if anyone thinks that that makes me a lesser developer or person, then I seriously question how they could justify ever liking any art that they didn't receive for free.

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Kickstarter for Presentable Liberty & Exoptable Money Remakes - 10 Days Left

Peoples.

I’m not sure if you’ve heard yet, but there’s a Kickstarter currently going on for Remakes of Exoptable Money and Presentable Liberty, the first 2 games in the Menagerie series. There’s 10 days left now, and only €3979/€12000 have been raised so far.

This is the third and final attempt at launching this Kickstarter, and if it doesn’t get funded in time, the games simply won’t happen. For promoting this third Kickstarter, I actually created a full new free spinoff game, Menagerie: Archive.

However, not nearly enough people are aware that this is happening, and I’ve been struggling to get the word out.

If you care about this happening but can’t support the Kickstarter directly, please just tell people about it. I created Menagerie: Archive to give you something to share alongside the Kickstarter, and so far, I feel like it has hardly reached a fraction of the people who would actually be interested in it.

The majority of the games’ audience came from the videos by Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, so I will tag the two here. I have been reluctant to do so because I can imagine that being somewhat annoying for them, but I’m running out of options and have no way to ask them for permission or help. So here goes:

@markiplier @therealjacksepticeye

Here’s the Kickstarter Page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1623766744/presentable-liberty-and-exoptable-money-menagerie/description And here’s a link to Menagerie: Archive: http://gamejolt.com/games/menageriearchive/249693

Bottom line, if you care about this series, please tell as many people about it as you can. I’ve never made anything else that resonated with people quite as much, and I really, really want this to happen.

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Thunderclap for the Remakes of Presentable Liberty & Exoptable Money

(For anyone who doesn’t know, this is about the third and final attempt at funding remakes for Exoptable Money and Presentable Liberty through Kickstarter)

I've set up a thunderclap page for the remakes, in the hopes that this will give anyone who can't give any money a way to still support the games with publicity. For anyone who doesn't know, Thunderclap is basically a way to spread the word about a project in a more coordinated way. All you do is give it permission to post a message about the remakes at a designated date and time on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr.

This way, instead of a bunch of people tweeting sporadically, it all happens at once, thus (hopefully) making it more visible and effective.

It's free, it's pretty effortless, and I hope we can get together enough people to make an impact.

Here's the thunderclap page: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/56812-menagerie-i-ii-remakes?locale=en

If you want to support the Kickstarter and don't coincidentally have 9000€ on hand, this is probably the best way right now.

Oh, also, if you didn’t know, I’ve recently made a new spinoff game set in the same world as Presentable Liberty, called Menagerie: Archive. Check it out if you want: http://gamejolt.com/games/menageriearchive/249693

Thanks everyone!

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Kickstarter Update

Hello peoples.

I just posted this on Kickstarter, I don’t see why I shouldn’t post it here too.

First of all, thanks to all the people who have backed so far. We've reached more than either of the other attempts, in only a third of the time.

However, this sounds better than it really is. This is the graph of the amount of money raised so far over the last 10 days:

As you can see, the majority of the money came in at the very start of the Kickstarter. This is to be expected, it happens with all things like this, the problem is that it will surely not be good enough to raise 12K before May 22nd.

The problem here is obviously my ineptitude to run a Kickstarter campaign or spread the word and direct the people who'd be interested in this here... only about 160 people have seen this page. 71 of those people actually backed though, so I doubt this is happening due to lack of interest.

So yeah... I figured I'd just ask here if anyone has any ideas...? The main suggestion I get is to try and contact Markiplier or Jacksepticeye and to let them know Menagerie Archive exists, but that really is easier said than done. I've tried basically every legal way I can think of to do this, and at this point I'm not sure I can tell whether they haven't noticed still or simply aren't interested. I don't want to rally people to spam them either, since I don't want to 'force' anyone into playing them, and that is just a somewhat obnoxious way of doing things.

I don't know. I just really want this to happen, and there's still 20 days left to fund it, so really, anything is possible. Any ideas, people?

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Menagerie: Archive - Out now

Hello people, Menagerie: Archive, the new spinoff game set in the same world as Presentable Liberty, is out now.

Alongside it, we’ve launched the third and final attempt at the Kickstarter for remakes of the two original games, Exoptable Money and Presentable Liberty.

Here’s a link to the new game: Menagerie: Archive

Here’s a link to the Kickstarter page: Exoptable Money & Presentable Liberty Remakes

I really hope you enjoy the new game, it was more work than the other two original games combined.

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The game is essentially finished, now to set up another Kickstarter page...

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Will Archive be playable on Mac?

Nope, I don’t have a mac to test it on, and wouldn’t want to release something that isn’t tested.

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Menagerie: Archive almost complete

Hello peoples.

Menagerie is now finally fully playable from start to finish, all that’s left now is some menu stuff, some audio stuff and some bugfixing stuff.

This doesn’t mean it’ll be released super soon, since the plan is kind of to launch it alongside another attempt at the kickstarter and that has to be set up again and everything, so yeh.

We’ll see. Soon, maybe.

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On Menagerie: Archive

Alright, hello again. I know I haven’t posted in a while.

I’ve recently picked up work on Menagerie: Archive again. It’s getting somewhat close to being done, though I’m not sure if it’s going to be good enough to put out there anymore.

I’ve been thinking about it so much that it’s somewhat hard to tell how good it actually is which is quite annoying. The same thing happened while I was working on Presentable Liberty and was convinced that few people would play and all of those would hate it upon release.

Right now, I feel like Archive had a good idea, but a bad execution. I will probably be looking for playtesters soon to see what they think. Either way, none of this really matters, I just wanted to post something here because I’m way too inactive.

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Final Kickstarter Update

Alright, so the kickstarter is over, and failed again at 3188€/12000€.

I don’t really have much to say about it anymore, it was pretty clear it was going to fail again from pretty much the day we launched it, which is why I also continuously lost more motivation to post about anything relating it while it was going on.

If anyone hasn’t heard, I was working on a spinoff title called Menagerie: Archive in order to try and bring more attention to the kickstarter, but it turned out to be too much work to finish it in time, and it wasn’t shaping up the way I would have liked in the end.

As it stands, I haven’t worked on it at all for about a week, and really don’t know what’s going to happen with it. I never really even wanted a spinoff game to exist, I was just going to make it out of necessity and because I think it could have been pretty good, but I won’t lose sleep over it not happening either.

So I guess, currently, it’s ‘on hold’, possibly cancelled, I don’t know. I really don’t feel like thinking about any of this much more.

Thanks for backing/sharing/supporting if you did.

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Menagerie: Archive

Citizens!

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but I’ve been working on a spinoff thing in the same vein as Exoptable Money & Presentable Liberty the past couple of days, and it’s shaping up reasonably well.

It’s called Menagerie: Archive, and this is what it currently looks like, after about 50 hours of development:

There’s many things that aren’t yet obvious in that screenshot obviously, but yeah, the main gameplay will be sorting files into these shelves. Sounds riveting, right? It’s an old idea for Menagerie 3 that I abandoned because I ended up wanting to make something bigger, but I think it can work well as a smaller spinoff title.

I think I’ve come up with a pretty interesting story for it too, so I hope that’ll work out. Also I hope I can finish it in time before the Kickstarter ends.

Here’s another link to that: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1623766744/presentable-libery-and-exoptable-money-remakes

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Kickstarter Update #3

-2246€/12000€ raised-

I’m now working on a new spin-off game to try to promote the Kickstarter. It’s called Menagerie: Archive. More infos: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1623766744/presentable-libery-and-exoptable-money-remakes/posts/1789109

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Kickstarter Update #2

-926€/12000€ raised-

I just posted the second update on Kickstarter. This one is about some fanart that I loved.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1623766744/presentable-libery-and-exoptable-money-remakes/posts/1789006