spncryn
Hi, my name's Spencer. I live in New Jersey.
All of my projects hosted on this site (itch.io) are (or will be on release) and will remain pay-what-you-can. While I do not condone piracy, and have a strong personal distaste for those who inflate what should remain at best a practical decision into some kind of moral stance, I recognise and am sympathetic to the fact that the traditional pricing scheme for games renders them more difficult to access that what I consider to be reasonable for certain prospective players, for whom their individual purchasing power (or lack thereof) is subject to forces far greater than any one person's control.
My compromise is to offer a two-pronged approach to release.
- The price of my games on Steam (and other comparable marketplaces, if I ever get there) will always be set to a baseline price that I think all games should start at. Right now, at the time of writing, that's $20, but it's subject to increase as greater factors dictate.
- Those same titles will share, as much as possible, a dual release here on itch.io, with no baseline price. They are not demo versions (unless explicitly labelled as such prior to full release), or curtailed in any way: they are the full releases, virtually identical to the ones on Steam, except obviously missing any platform-specific integration or features, like achievements. There is no limit to how much or how little you pay, and I will not ask you why you've chosen to pay whatever amount you do.
This is as best as I can come up with to demonstrate my good will towards, and faith in you as the player. While I have no doubt that there'll be a handful of less-than-benevolent actors who may abuse my trust in this matter, truthfully, I don't particularly care; and more importantly, I want to believe that most people are in fact reasonable, and will be able to respect the spirit of this in their own approach. That's really all there is to it.
GAMES