Help Origin Story

Hey all!

I need your help in the run up to the Chapter 8 release to get Origin Story out there and to help drive those Steam wishlists higher. Though the initial 24 hours was awesome for watching them roll in, it plateaued way quicker than I was hoping for and now they're barely trickling in. For a great Steam release, I still need a SIGNIFICANT amount of wishlists before I can even work towards it getting it on there. A great Steam release means I may be able to cut my full-time job's hours. That means I have more time to work on the game. And that means, more updates, quicker.

I am working my ass off to make this game as quick as I can while working a full time job and being a husband and father at the same time. I sleep significantly less than I should be doing because I'm working on it until late, and even when I'm in bed I'm often not sleeping because I'm thinking about it. It prevents me from spending time with my wife. It takes time away from me from simple things like enjoying movies, TV shows, books and other games that a few years ago I had way more time for. But don't get me wrong, I LOVE making it... it's just very disheartening when I give so much of myself to it and then see other games that have significantly larger communities than Origin Story has, some worthy of it... many, IMO, not.

So... I need to get the game out there more... for all the obvious promotional reasons, but also to incentivize all those who ignore it for whatever reason. They ignore it because they can only see it as a "silly superhero game". They stay clear because they believe the vocal minority angry at one scene and are now peddling that the game is for fans of NTR, lesbian cucks, "sissification" (yep, an actual thing I saw on a review yesterday... can anyone show me anything that remotely resembles that in OS?) and that all the girls in the game are whores -even the numerous virgins apparently!. You have all the played the game, so you know none of this to be true, and I need your voices out there more to drown out theirs.

What can you do?

Reviews/Ratings:

Please, if you have not already, leave genuine reviews wherever you can. I'm not asking you to write a fake five star review. Even if you only think Origin Story is worthy of a three star, I will welcome that more than a troll 1 star review that trashes the game because of content that's not even in it and drags that average score down. Don't bash other reviews, just leave a genuine review of what you think of the game and the content that is actually in it.

Naturally, a good place to leave reviews is on GameStoryLog, a place to discover AVNs, catalogue the ones you play, track your progress and keep yourself aware of updates. It's well worth checking out if you haven't already. Even if you can't leave a review, please just give it a rating and hit the love button. Everything helps.

You can even leave reviews at that other zoney place that I can't mention here. I can't deny that place gets a lot of eyes on Origin Story, and many of those eyes come to support it. But that's also the place where a lot of the aforementioned BS is peddled, so it could certainly use being balanced out.

And you can leave ratings on the Itch page though the reviews are not visible to the public there, so it is not worth spending your time on that, but the ratings help.

Naturally, when the steam version goes live, leaving reviews on there will be the biggest help of all, but that time will come later.

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Word of mouth/recommendations:

Whenever the opportunity arises, talk about Origin Story wherever you can. Discord, reddit, forums, youtube comments on AVN reviews etc... Word of mouth is ultimately the best tool to get eyes on the game. When I stumble into other AVN discord servers and I see people talking about my game or recommending it to others, it means the world to me.

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WISHLIST!!!:

If I were to assume that all of the wishlists that I have received so far are from members who follow me here (which is absolutely not the case), then there are still 1000 of you who have not wishlisted. I know not everyone uses Steam for AVNs or even at all, but if you have the ability to do so, and have not already, please wishlist the game on steam. Please! I BEG YOU!

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Ok, that's it. For all those that actively try and get the word out there already for me, I appreciate you more than my words can express. And I still appreciate the rest of you just for playing the game and supporting me.

Now, if you're a paid supporter, come over to the art channel in the discord to find out what Evelyn is doing in the rest of that image!

Take care! Enjoy Chapter 8 and... naturally... the series of special renders to celebrate its release starting Monday.