Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Still can't really believe I survived shipping Kitsune Tails. Probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life
And "hard things I've done in my life" includes "move to Cyprus 6,000 miles away without ever having been there before, and spend 36 hours traveling during a plague with a cat without catching anything"
kb@eniko Sounds like an ancient greek story
🌈 Andrew ☄️@eniko to be fair though, you did do these concurrently
@bnut yeah but for kitsune tails the hard part i'm zeroing in on was definitely the 4 months of 7 days a week 14 hour days crunch at the end while being afraid of going bankrupt
John Kapri@eniko I’ve discovered you (and Kitsune Tails) only recently and don’t know your background, but why did you choose Cyprus if you don’t mind me asking?
@johnkapri we needed to get out of the US since it was becoming unsafe and Cyprus is in the EU and I'm European so immigration was supposed to be easy. I also wanted to live on a beautiful mediterranean island with stable weather (that one hasn't worked out so well) and low cost of living where English is widely spoken
Analog AI@eniko not even any mice?
Alexander 😷@eniko Are these the Kaizo levels I keep hearing about?
Irenes (many)@eniko it's an amazing achievement and an amazing game
Farbs@eniko Giving hope to the rest of us!
Hanneke
Sin Vega@eniko I always worry this sounds weird but I'm proud of you.
Seeing it land so well was such great news after all the shit you've had to go through for it
@sinvega I like people telling me that cause god knows my family never will
Sarah@eniko have you convinced yourself you can take a break now or still working?
@gaycodegal somewhere in between
Marmo
YURi MARiO BROS. 3 - Kitsune Tails (Act 1)
Kevin Granade has moved@eniko @marmofeels I believe the kids are saying "let's go". :D
@kevingranade @marmofeels the kids usually put a swearword in the middle there
Ravindra Kanodia@eniko said a brief prayer for Kitsune Tails at Kashoku Inari Shrine in Shinagawa Ward on Wednesday morning. I'm not sure that's uh what it's really for but I'm sure Inari will understand
@ravindra Inari is a deity of business so I'm pretty sure this is 100% acceptable
Also awww! 💜
@ravindra also this just happened so maybe it worked! https://mastodon.social/@marmofeels/112971012649349119
Mary 💛@eniko You did great!
Played a bit of it and it's amazing 
Zelda 👑
四@eniko My head used the wrong version of shipping and I was briefly very very confused :)
Hope this is the very last time you do this (this way) and any future games end up being a more fun and less stress experiences.
@yon i also sincerely hope this is the last time i have to do it this way XD
@eniko I think to a fair bunch of us you are “our” indie dev since a bunch of us ended up on the fediverse around the same time.
I understood the worry for those that built their livelihood around social media in one way or another, and jumping into something new still scares people.
Now after the game is out, how do you feel about begin active on the fediverse?
@yon i feel great about it. i honestly don't think the launch would've gone over nearly as well without the massive amount of support i got on fedi around launch. aside from people just being super supportive, the release post i made got 1.6k boosts which is phenomenal. i'd recommend fedi to any gamedev who is serious about using social media to help support their work
not just that fedi also played a big part in us even making it to launch. we were afraid we'd run out of money long before august and if it hadn't been for fedi buying our older titles and giving to my patreon and kofi i don't know what i would've done
Oblomov@eniko @yon time to update the KitsuneGames pages to include the Fedi profiles then finally ;-)
(Also not sure if this is intentional or just the result of how stressed out and tired you've been, the kitsunegames.com “Home” page has the last article from June 21 —I would have guessed the release of Kitsune Tails would deserve some kind of announcement article there ;-))
@eniko You did have a great advantage in being an earlier adopter and being part of a wave (and I don’t see another wave of that type happening to be honest). People like me (I have multiple account for anyone looking at when I joined:)) were looking for people to follow.
Now I’m trying to figure out how to cull my feed:)
Lots of us were/are rooting for you guys. I quipped the other day that I think I like indie devs more than indie games :) There’s a lot of us out there that are devs, loves games, but would never consider a job in the games industry. I think we are hoping to see indie game devs change things for the bigger in the long term.
@yon yeah. i posted and told many devs in private many times that that was the time to swap if they wanted to gain traction and it would only get harder over time and they didn't listen so that makes me very sad
@eniko What people don’t realize is that there’s often no joy in being right about something:(
Discovery on fedi isn’t great either, so they missed out. There might be a few more I’d like to follow, but I have to do a bit too much legwork for it:(
I swear I saw the people who made Cassette Beast on here, but I don’t know if I followed and they got quiet or if I forgot to and couldn’t find them again:(
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈@Susan_Larson_TN @eniko I think of the fediverse as the great experiment rather than some kind of end state. As you say what it can be.
It’s not exactly perfect, and I hope it evolves into new and exciting things. The important part is that we try to do it largely together.
Imho at least :)