I've personally released DEMON DUST on steam and have access to revenue reports for another game I worked on, Vernal Edge. Both of them have performed in entirely different brackets of revenue, but I would not describe either of those brackets as "viral success" or "bad day at a garage sale" 1/2

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 4d ago

people need to understand that games on steam largely do not ‘underpeform,’ they either hit the algorithmic tipping points and become viral successes or they do not exist. they sell bad day at a garage sale numbers. this is a reality constructed and encouraged by valve

wonder if fighting game autocombos could benefit from being a bit more complex than 1 button pressed 6 times. i feel like we skipped making comboing easier and went straight to making it trivial with a lot of these systems. let novice players have a little fun instead of mashing light.

I’m going to take this several steps further and say stop letting people use the mouse to look around with whatever sensitivity they want in kf-likes

GP@mousefountain.bsky.social · 5d ago

pklease stop adding parrying to kingsfield-likes

I genuinely forgot that I drew this. I was just reminded of this piece because of a Deltarune-tree meme post

Damn it's Pseudoregalia's 3rd birthday today! I have a lot I could say about this game. Working on it, the reception, the metric ton of fan art, and the games/demos that have come out inspired by the game. The most important thing is that I'm really grateful to everyone, this game changed my life!

kriselle devilman 2

LEO@hellspawnmotel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

kriselle devilman

the gundam from rouge orbit is sooooo fucking ugly the new anime one is fine but holy shit the game one is just pure ass

what happened to mech design. why did all the robots stop being cool

im gonna be ready to show my new thing pretty soon but in the meantime. remember prototype for xbox? it doesnt have anything to do with my project but i was just thinkin about it. remember that one?

you tell someone that you feel like something you like is losing its identity to appeal to a broader audience and they start talking to you like a shareholder

theres something so beautiful about something only happening one time in a game. just something that clearly took effort to implement but it just happens randomly once and never again

This is how it feels sometimes making a game in a genre *you're* passionate about but the market isn't.

mattrified@mattrified.bsky.social · 3w ago

youtu.be/zkKU7Vj5Syc I have mixed feeling about this video. I agree with a lot of it; resent some of "that's how things are now" aspect of it. I also don't like making a game cause that's what's popular now. Trend might end by the time you want; what if you don't like the popular trends now?

video game nostalgia is a constant battle between "you felt that way because you were twelve" and "the video game industry liked video games back then"

i am speaking my truth. sonic 06 is a good game.

Who else yelled and screamed and cheered #deltarunespoilers #deltarune #deltarunechapter5

i have a theory that the current meta for youtube thumbnails is more influenced by scrolling than clicking. that is to say, i think people are being algorithmically incentivized to make thumbnails ill look at for a second but WONT click

another day closer to providing a purchase path where I send people a thumbdrive in a ziploc bag labeled in sharpie

clearly. to save the games industry. i will have to make a physical edition of demon dust

its greatslop you only like it because its wonderful

well would u look at that

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remains endlessly funny to me that toby fox named her toriel as a pun on "tutorial" and then from there decided she should be dressed like sariel from touhou 1. what a type of guy

if ive learned one thing from gunpla its that you should always build the accessories first so you can play with them while you build the rest

*video essay voice* and how could i not talk about the music

Got some Gunbot mobility going

she might actually be pretty good

kinda bounced off of mina unfortunately. too often it felt like the point of the game was to find secrets that trivialize a challenge or completely subvert a mechanic. i like that stuff to take a backseat to the skill based action gameplay usually, but the ideal balance is different for everyone.