I got interviewed about my game "OfMiceAndMechs" and the video is done now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXFFMmgmf5Q
Check it out! I feel the interviewer did a pretty good to make sure my first interview didn't end up being a desater.
I did also watched some other videos in the series and i basically recommend checking out the whole series!
It's been a while, but I updated my wallpaper pack. I added a little giveaway to this dev log. More details in the Dev Log itself.
https://vantablack2000.itch.io/wallpaperpack/devlog/1455340/wallpaper-8-vantablackcliff
#Blender #itch_io #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday #noai #indie #art
I released a new version of OfMiceAndMechs with tile based rendering as default.
After adding the ability to change the rendering menu i felt confident enough to update the itch page with the new version:
https://marxmustermann.itch.io/ofmiceandmechs/devlog/1454099/tile-based-mode-released
Next up is making the game easier to use. That was the third big complaint from testplayers.
i'd be happy if you'd check it out!
An tbh i like the tiles better than pure ASCII by now, so another win for listening to testers.
Today a testplay failed, because the game didn't run on the testers device.
After some debugging (thx) it turned out that very important parts of the downloaded zip were missing.
I'm not sure if the tester deleted the files or an antivirus deleted them for some reason. I'm very sure that the files were there when the zip left the server.
This is the second time something went wrong with unzipping the archive.
We agreed to continue testing when steam is ready.
i pushed the new mausoleum satart as an update to itch. I was not 100% happy with it yet, but the old version was kind of very out of date, so here it is:
https://marxmustermann.itch.io/ofmiceandmechs/devlog/1452650/reworked-start-new-font
Today marks 100 days since my first wallpaper on my wallpaper pack. I will say other than finishing some details I think I am done with Wallpaper 8.
A break from giving myself deadlines has been good for my creativity and I feel good about this next wallpaper. It may not be the best, but it's something I think came out well.
Here's the link if anyone wants to check out the wallpaper project. https://vantablack2000.itch.io/wallpaperpack
#indie #art #noai #wallpaper #itch_io
If anyone is looking for a fun mobile game with no ads or micro-transactions I played a fun one on Itch.io recently.
https://nomnomnami.itch.io/charm-studies
It's a Visual Novel/Picross game. It's a relatively short game, but I had fun with it. Overall I would recommend it as a nice short experience especially if you are looking for some fun mobile games.
I just sold the first copy of my game!
This will be the last meta post for a while, but it is one of the big milestones in the live of a gamedev.
The game is not done, the demo is not yet done and i created an itchio page to find playtesters.
The goal was to get feeback on the demo release, build interest and then make a sale.
Somebody sidestepped all of that and bought a copy right away :-)
Now i am duty bound to actually release the game.
I updated my itch.io cover for my game, because the click trough rate (ctr) was 0.36%.
That means that 1387 people were shown my game in a list of games and only 5 people clicked on my game.
The players at that point only see the cover image, the name and a one sentence description.
My old cover was just the logo text, then i tried a scene from a room. And both looked very ugly between the other games, so i built more fancy one :-)
Itch.io ist sowas von "lost in translation"… 🤦
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