It’s been a tough couple of weeks in my personal life as those who follow me more closely will know. I’m not going to be able to do a great deal of work for some time while I recover, but there’s at least one thing I wanted to talk to you about.
If you’re not already aware from other sources Paypal has decided (perhaps under pressure from credit card companies) to use its financial pressure to censor the publication of certain erotica.
This has not yet impacted on games and comics material, but it can only be a matter of time before it 
does. As a producer of games that include adult material and themes I am at risk of being censored.
This is already having an impact on many small press authors of erotic material and while you may not have a taste for such material it is setting a dangerous and disturbing precedent where you potentially can’t spend your own money on what you want.
This is now directly affecting me. One project I wanted to do this year (health permitting) was a Science Fiction/BDSM game which would touch on a lot of transhuman themes and the boundaries of human sexuality enhanced/perverted/changed by technology.
In this current environment, with margins being what they are and with the risk looming of being unable to sell this material I don’t think I can take the risk at this time.
This means:
- You don’t get your game.
- I don’t get to make an experimental game.
- The artist I was going to employ doesn’t get her money.
Needless to say, this all fucking sucks.
I’m looking into other ways to go about it, such as crowdsourcing funding and releasing it for free, but to do it justice and be worth the effort I’d need to get something like £2,000. So we’ll see if that’s remotely possible.
Meanwhile, the art in this post is taken from Satine Phoenix’s portfolio, give her some work, admire the pretties and here’s hoping this problem goes away in the near future and freedom of expression wins out.
Please support Satine and please think about getting involved in the fight against financial censorship.
Postmortem Studios 
Please do consider avenues such as Kickstarter for this project. I think you might be surprised at the support you would garner.
What Billzilla said, Kickstarter might be a good way to go. Either that or your own version with people pledging money toward.