- Release Date Soon™️ - 23 July 2026
It's a beautiful day outsideFlowers are blooming, birds are singing... and yet, even on days like these, I am stuck in a room.And why is that? Why not take some time off and go to the beach? Eat some ice cream? Maybe touch some grass?It's really simple...I have set a release date for Do Not Buy This GameYes! Finally! Years in the making but it's finally happening! I've sat down in my big corporate building which I own with all the important shareholders of Kingblade Games Corporation (over 20,000 people arrived, so we used the small meeting room) and had this important meeting. We yelled at each other for hours, arguing when the best time to release it is.I'm glad you weren't there. It got ugly. Your delicate heart couldn't have taken it.But now that I have a release date, it's time to announce it right?WRONGListen, I fought for you with upper management. And the release date is... Not…
- Regarding The Stolen Money - 26 May 2026
So about one month ago...I received a comment recently that stopped me dead in my tracks.Julikaiba, you really have caught me by surprise. In six years of development, across hundreds of comments, nobody has ever asked to give the money back. I didn't even know that was an option. I didn't plan for it.There is no money return button in the demo. I looked. It's not there.The game could really have used that money. There are a lot of places where a little cha-ching would allow me to hire freelancers to create WAAAY better art, sfx, and assets than I could ever create on my own.And so, Julikaiba's comment haunted me. It kept me up at night. And after much deliberation, soul searching, and a conversation with my lawyer (my friend Reginald, who is in his 2nd year of law school and extremely confident about this), I've found the answer. That's right. I opened a Patreon. It is, as far as Regin…
- Maybe A Devlog #14 - 3 February 2026
Hello and welcome to edition 14 of 'Maybe A Devlog!', where I'm here to talk to you about parts of the development of the game that you currently cannot buy.In today's edition, I'm going to talk a bit about myself, how I started this journey, and where we are at right now.Wait, where are editions 1 through 13?What a silly question. They obviously don't exist. Everyone knows the numbers 1 through 13 were invented by big corporation to control us, the small game-devs. To conform us to their 'reasonable counting methods'.I resist thier notion that devlogs should start at #1.Fine, just start the devlogThank you for supporting my cause.Once upon a time, around 5 years ago, I embarked on a journey to create an absurd comedy about the hardships of creating games. "It's only a small project, I can do it solo", I foolishly said to myself.Since then, I've wrote the entire story for the game multi…
- What's to come in 2026? - 1 January 2026
Happy 2026!!!!No no no. Too generic. Everyone is saying happy 2026 these days.Let's start again.The Year Of The FIRE HORSE!🔥🐎YES! This is so much better!!Chinese years has such a better ring to them, don't you think?It's so lucky that they happen at the same time as the christian new year...Oh... Umm...My bad I guess.Happy 2026!!!!Welcome to 2026 everyone!! I know there wasn't a whole lot of news over the years about Do Not Buy This Game, but I think it's time for us to change that little by little.So let's start with a new year promise.Sometime this year, 2026, I - the developer of Do Not Buy This Game promise you to drop a release date trailer for the game. Now, I know what you're thinking:"There is an easy loophole here, he can easily make the release date announcement say it will come out in 2030 for all we know" You were always such a negative fellow. So let's make another promis…
- This one is for Strider - 21 October 2025
Dear Strider,I must be quick. I fear others might be able to join in on our private Steam Announcement, but I cannot leave you hanging. First things first - the game is still very much in active development.I know you never doubted me Strider, but some people have been worried. Skeptic even. "Game development isn't that hard", they've said. But I don't blame them my dear Strider. No. When I began this solo game development journey, I never imagined making this game will take this long. "I'm an experienced programmer, I've created tons of small games", I thought FOOLISHLY. Apparently even though I've been working on it every day, it still takes a lot of time. But things are being built. The game WILL be ready. I swear it to you Strider. The day will come where you will be able to actually have the choice of buying this game, and you won't do it because your soul is too pure to disobey th…
- Whoops I Forgot To Update Didn't I? - 16 October 2024
Hey! Long time huh? I know, I know... I didn't update this place in a while and you must be worried sick: "How is that 'Do Not Buy This Game' guy doing these days? Is he taking care of himself? Does he eat properly?" So let's put your worries to rest - YES, I'M ALIVE. And while I don't find the time to update, and while there is still a time until the game will be ready, I have been working hard on the game every day. Things are progressing well, and I'm always excited to think about your reactions when you'll get to experience the weird journey I'm creating for you. Let's talk about the demo update First things first - I'm an idiot. Apparently I forgot to add Traditional Chinese even though it's been ready for a LONG while now. So HUGE thanks to John HY Au for this translation (and I AM SO SORRY AHH-) Also, some wonderful people in my discord decided to translate the demo to Polish! Th…
- Bitsummit + Japanese Translation! - 5 August 2022
So let's get right to it - If you're going to Bitsummit in Kyoto tomorrow, go ahead and check out the booth for Do Not Buy This Game 😊 So to make sure the demo was ready for Bitsummit, I partnered up with PrismaLoc again to translate the demo to Japanese 🙌 Thank you very much to Rie Nogawa and Soichiro Arai for working so hard on the translation!! And for those of you that do not speak Japanese, I've taken some extra time to try and optimize the demo a bit, so it hopefully should run a bit smoother 🏄♀️ The full game is still very much in development, but good things are happening behind the scenes. Look forward to it. So until next time, have an amazing day everyone!
- The demo is now available in Italian and Brazilian-Portuguese! - 8 May 2022
Yup, the demo is now even more accessible for people all over the world! 🌎 So let's praise the wonderful volunteers from PrismaLoc that worked very hard on localizing the demo and steam page: Jessica Amoruso, and Federica Crepaz for their Italian translations! Erin London, Christian Mäder, Heloísa Dalcy, Jean Trindade Pereira for their Brazilian-Portuguese translations! They are all great at their job, and I look forward to working with them again to make this game truly globally accessible 😊 And on that note, I'll go back to programming the game so it will actually come out one day in the future. Wish me luck 🍀
- French, Spanish and Turkish Support! - 27 January 2022
Thanks to an amazing group of volunteer translators the game is getting translated to 3 more languages! French, Spanish (Spain), and Turkish! I want to take a moment to thank all the amazing translators that worked on translating both the demo and the Steam page. Most of them are from a lovely translation group called PrismaLoc which I've been working with for a while now 😊 So I'd like to thank: Alexis Barroso, Maude Nantel and Kariane Lacharité for their French translations! Sara Barbosa Gutiérrez and Manuel Quiñones for their Spanish translations! Musa Kaan Durmuş and Sarp Varol for their Turkish translations! It's been a pleasure working with them, and I look forward to working with them in the future and making this game as global as possible 🙌
- Participating In The Big Adventure Event! - 19 January 2022
Hello again! I'm glad to say that I'd be joining the Big Adventure Event that's happening on Steam on Jan 20-24! As always I plan to stream the gameplay from the game's demo, but this time around I'm also participating in a special AMA for the event on reddit! Go to the event page right here (will update on January 20th) to check out all the games and play more than 100 demo's... Which I was told is, in fact, a lot of demos! Also, feel free to join the reddit AMA on January 21 @ 10 AM Central, on the r/games subreddit! I'll be there with some amazing developers that also participate in the event and will be glad to answer all you questions about indie games development 😁 See you soon!
- Languages Support Update (+Bug Fixes) - 16 December 2021
This new update fixes some of the well-known issues with the demo (such as the "jump" glitch and the notorious "I'm-only-seeing-a-black-screen-when-I-open-the-game-help-me-what's-going-on-I'm-scared" bug). Also, you can now play the game with Russian / Simplified-Chinese subtitles and menus! It's been a long time coming, but thanks to some lovely professional translators that volunteered to help translate the game it's finally here 😁 So thank you very much to Mikhail Fefilov (Px-Ch) and Nikolay Yelesin for their Russian translation! And Thank you so much to Yiyang Wang (DaisyComment) for her Simplified Chinese translation! The demo is now updated with both the bug fixes and the translations, and more languages should be coming in with time. I thank you all for all the support, and I'll see you soon 😊
- Some madman played the demo for 1000 hours...?! - 7 December 2021
I couldn't believe they would actually do it, but a few months ago a very nice user called "¿" came to the Steam forums and made a post asking me to release the game if they will play the demo for 100 hours. I had to respond accordingly, because no matter how hard you press the demos "Play" button, unfortunately the game won't magically be ready. That didn't stop "¿"! You have to understand, the demo is AT MOST 20 minutes long. It's linear, the experience doesn't repeat itself! But he joined my discord anyway, now known as "1911", and played the demo for these 100 hours, and at the end of this journey wrote down this message: This was genuinely heartwarming. He challenged himself and completed the challenge in order to help do something incredibly nice to me and the game! But he wasn't the only one. There came Kiwis (Omar Ajez) and came up with this redicoulus idea. I sat there from the…
- Do Not Buy This Game - Steam Next Fest! - 6 October 2021
Watch me play the demo and talk about development (:
- Do Not Buy This Game - Steam Next Fest! - 1 October 2021
Watch me play the demo and talk about development (:
- Do Not Buy This Game - Demo Broadcast On Gamescom! - 28 August 2021
The Indie Arena Booth and Gamescom are upon us! Join in to watch the demo of the game being played on the Steam page :)
- Do Not Buy This Game is on MGN! - 29 May 2021
Do Not Buy This Game is joining MGN indie game carnival online at May 31, 2021! Steam event link: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/mgn Event Stream: https://live.acfun.cn/live/934542 MGN is an online conference focus on indie games, hosted by @Steamparty and collaborated between STEAM and ACFUN. Event process (PST): May 31, 4:30 - Warm-up phase May 31, 5:00 - Online conference May 31. 7:00 – Demo showcase Hope you'll enjoy the show and check the games in the event link (:
- The 'Terrible Art™' Stream - 20 April 2021
Hello hello! Are you ready for some bad art? Join me on this stream where I casually try to make some art assets for the full game. This is the fourth and last event that I'll be doing for the LudoNarraCon Festival that is happening from April 23rd to April 26th. If you're thinking 'He's done this before, he should be ok' then you are MISTAKEN. My art skills are questionable at best, so let's have a laugh while I stumble my way to making it look good 🎨
- Developer Commentary On Other Festival Demos! - 20 April 2021
Let's do something different, shall we? LudoNarraCon is filled with amazing games, and this is a golden opportunity to try them out and see what's their approach for narrative! This is the third event of many that I'll be doing for the LudoNarracon Festival that is happening from April 23rd to April 26th. So come, join me in the chat while I give my thoughts as a developer on other amazing narrative games and see what we can learn 👨🎓
- Developer Q&A ❓❓❓ - 20 April 2021
Hey there again! This is the second event of many that I'll be doing for the LudoNarracon Festival, and this one is very exciting to me 🤩 I'll be hosting a Q&A on the LudoNarraCon Discord server! Please join in for an hour where you'll be able to ask me all sorts of weird questions about game development and whatever else you might want to know about! To participate, please join the festivals discord right here: https://discord.gg/DBrmtNMJcH But also, feel free to join the game's discord for future events and Q&A's here: http://discord.gg/MAEKSXY Talk to you all soon! 🤙
- The Developer Plays "Do Not Buy This Game"! - 20 April 2021
Hey everyone! Hope you're having a great day 😁 This is the first event of many that I'll be doing for the LudoNarracon Festival that is happening from April 23rd to April 26th. There are a lot of awesome games in this event, and I'm super honored to be a part of it!! So, if you'd like to watch me play the demo for the event while talking about the game and chatting with the steam chat - come and join in!
