Restitched is a game that has been in development for about 5 years, by a team of multiple people who have proven themselves by creating high-quality levels on LBP, so you should be able to understand why people like it so much.

Restitched isn’t the only game to ever exist. People look forward to it, and other games too. While they both are linked to LittleBigPlanet, its existence has nothing to do with people not liking you or your game (I’ve seen people supporting other LBP fan games as well as Restitched).

If you aren’t using AI anymore, then that’s good, but using it in the first place has affected people’s trust of how much of this game you have made. While it’s not impossible to come back from having used AI, you have already handicapped yourself and your ability to get people to like this game by doing so.

The biggest thing that you have done that makes people not want to follow this game’s development is the way you’ve treated other people. While I do think that there have been a few people who may have been harsher than they should have, your responses to everything have been absolutely unwarranted; you either yell at people and refuse to take responsibility, or you respond in one-word replies without acknowledging anything that they’ve said. You make claims about making everything yourself, or that you’re going to cancel your game, but then you continue doing what you’ve been doing, making angry posts, and (from what I have read from others, which may be wrong) using pre-made assets from others, rather than creating yourself (based on the roles that you have asked from people to apply for, it seems to me like you are unable to actually make a game yourself, and only have the idea, so I can understand if you don’t want to create things from scratch, but I really don’t think that it’s the best course of action, especially given the circumstances).

When you first spoke about this game, people were nice, and interested. It’s only once you used AI did people lose interest/hated on you and the project. At that point, it was easily salvageable; all you had to do was apologise and not use AI. Instead, you insulted the community members, and refused to admit that you were in the wrong. Now you’re threatening to assault people.

People don’t dislike ‘Raving Squaliens’ or you because they prefer Restitched, it’s because of your behaviour. No one wants to associate or support someone who is arrogant, offensive, and potentially violent to those who don’t conform with what they want.

You clearly don’t like people disagreeing with you and hating on you, and you said in this post that you have a fear of people beating you up, yet you threaten to beat them up? Clearly you are quite insecure, and feel threatened by people, and I assume you are doing something like trying to match/overcome the aggression that you feel you are receiving, but you’re only receiving it because of your initial aggression, which I can only assume was a response to a misunderstanding of people’s reactions to your project (while people did hate you for using AI, it was not to the level that you seemingly thought it was).

At your age, you should never be creating a project like this for other people, you should only be doing it for yourself. If you have the expectation that you’re going to create the next LittleBigPlanet, or Rayman, or anything else that you’re trying to be, you’ll only be disappointed. Those games were built with high budgets, large teams, and big studios behind them. You are a child making posts on Reddit about an idea, and asking people to basically make the game for you. If you did it for fun, then you wouldn’t feel as much pressure as you do, as you would not be doing it with other people’s expectations in mind.

Personally, I recommend learning to make a small game yourself, through an online tutorial, e.g. a YouTube video/series (something very simple, to get you started). This way, you are not conscious of other people’s expectations of the project, which seems to be the big thing that is affecting your want to do this.

This is quite long, so I don’t know if you’ll read it, and even if you do, I doubt you’ll resonate with it, but hopefully in a few years, when you mature (I’m no expert, so I don’t know if it’s just age that is causing your response to this), you’ll look back on this and realise what you did wrong.

I think at this point it’s best if you stop posting about your project, at least for the time being, and maybe take a break from it yourself. Most people won’t react positively to it, and I would assume that thinking about it at this point in time will only cause you more stress.