The war for image hosting is over (Patreon)
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I finally, finally, have a website of my own. Ouuhghhhhhh
For the almost four years I've been game-making, I've had to use third-party hosting platforms to link my images into Twine. It was Discord at first, which disabled their permanent sharing links, then it was Dropbox, which ended up being not reliable or easy to use, then it was finally Imgur, which I was using for a while until just now when it decided to give a ton of dumb errors that I didn't understand.
Plus Imgur sucks because they're pro-censorship and AI, so fuck them.
One of my lovely writers, Twaininduo, suggested I look into AWS, and so I have, and after sifting through a frankly horrendous amount of triple/quadruple letter acronyms (lets see. SSL, AWS, ARN, ETAG, IAM, HTTP, CDN, WAF, DDoS, DNS, API, TLS, ACM. Are there seriously people who know this shit off the top of their head.) I finally figured out how to buy a domain in order to host images on, and it works!
No more needing to worry about hosting on imgur and worrying about it being taken down or it being censored in the UK. My games finally have a place to rest easy.
As a celebration for this, if you go to the website now, you can play SL1 for free. I wanted to eventually make the game free for everyone, I was just kinda waiting for a good celebratory excuse for it.
TL;DR:
Going forwards, users in the UK will not be fucked by censorship in my games through Imgur
You can play SL1 for free at https://defied-realities.com
Of course, SL4 chapter 2 is well on its way and we're making great progress. If you haven't seen the last progress update, we've finished the skeleton now, and we're nearly finished TF planning.
Thank you for everyone's patience!