Not sure if this really counts as "niche", but The Protomen.

A multi-part Rock Opera based on Mega Man. Act III has been in limbo for over a decade now but it finally comes out next month.

theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...

A Chubby British man pulled this off in 2006 on Windows Movie Maker and created an entire genre that briefly took over the entire internet. AI is not needed to do this.

Horse

I need this. Is it on the marketplace? What is the code?

Power through it. Justice For All contains the single worst case in the franchise followed immediately by the best.

Thankfully the script kiddy decided to deliver an ultimatum before actually doing much and I disconnected the computer from the internet immediately (physically pulled the cord out) and wiped the drive before it got into anything, but I had to go dispute a bunch of google play microtransactions.

Even knowing this, and literally thinking "Odd that it's a blogspot page instead of Itch. I should let them know that this makes the game look like a scam"

I still clicked on it. I thought TFS was branching into game development and that you might have been messaging me for more freelance work 😔

This is a common scam among game development discords. People who post on those regularly get plenty of legitimate "I need help with this game" DMs out of the blue and quite a few people have had their accounts stolen.

I have screenshots of their email exchange so you can see what sort of lines they took to get the bot to cooperate, no idea if it's still gonna be the same way, this was a while ago (before the AI-slop era) but it might still help? They got theirs back in about a week.

A friend of mine had the exact same scam happen to them. They emailed support@discord.com and dealt with what was probably a chatbot, but they disabled the account right away and got access back after providing a Nitro receipt as proof.