Guarded by the AI: Painted in Love is live for wishlists on the Steam Store!

Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.

Feast your eyes on this trailer (MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR GUARDED BY THE AI THO!)

What you’re peeping is the trailer to my Steam game!

This is actually the 2nd rev of it.

The first rev you can see the demo I made for my team here:

That one…was too hot for Steam.

Because the art was so tight it could’ve been deepfakes. (Which, makes sense, sad for being banned, but also, WTG ME for INCREDIBLY AWESOME ART.)

So — by the time Steam banned the older version, I’d already completed all the code, had all the MMC’s parts narrated, and had was juuuust about ready to go, because I wanted it to release at the same time as Guarded by the AI did, on the 19th.

(I was also up to 300 wishlists on Steam 😭😭😭.)

But, I pivoted — ‘cause you can’t say expressionistic painted-style art is deepfakes:

And had Nate, my PA, run all the existing art through with that new prompt in mind, name all the files as the exact same prior names (for ease of replacing) and now they just allowed the new version of the game on the storefront again last night! WOOHOO!

And we’re already up to 11 wishlists so far!

I went ahead and put the new release date out to 1/22, to avoid some pre-existing Steam stuff (like the winter sale — they’re nice, their back end includes a calendar so you can avoid events and what not) and yeah — the velocity for wishlists on this version isn’t as fast as the prior one (potentially bc the name isn’t as horny, lol) but I’m pretty confident this version will actually get to ship, so I’m OK with that!

I realized I haven’t chatted much in here lately, ‘cause at the time we were pivoting to Skool (we are unpivoting now, STAY HERE) and my deadlines were intense, etc but —

Novae wants to own the movies and TV space, and I do want to get there eventually….

But honestly I really love games.

Ever since I wrote The House as a CYOA erotica novel — I love the way choice paths make me think. They’re SO FUN and?

I’ve already got this vision in my head (which I’ve shared with a ton of peeps, so I’m’n’a share it here with you, too) of being the head of a game studio, which I’d have Nate run for me in the PHL. I’d get to write all the stories, and we’d automate most of the AI, and the coding (it’s so easy, y’all, if you wanna do a visual novel, just ask Gemini to help you w/Ren’Py script).

I can see it. I can imagine it so hard I can taste it. My futuristic is collapsing timelines this very millisecond bc I want it so badly.

So that’s where I’m going in a perfect world, in 2026.

In other news — Guarded by the AI is still hovering at 1400-some-odd in the store. I launched some paid ads that’ll get going tomorrow, and I’m excited to see what they do!

I’ll do another more official post here closer to year’s end about things accomplished and plans moving forward, but right now I just want to get into the habit of talking here again! <3

xo!

Cassie