Firstly mate, your art is fantastic and the game is giving some older LibraHeart vibes which I fucking love.
Unfortunately, there are a few things that tell me you’ve been developing in a vacuum for too long. Firstly is the difficulty, if this is supposed to be a quick vertical slice of your game in order to secure funding like you posted in your extras, then it needs to be a vertical slice that can widely be completed. Otherwise people are going to get an even smaller impression of your game and move on. I’ve been following your Youtube for a while since it’s the only social I share with you but I looked through your Tumblr and watched your posts, especially concerning past products being axed for lack of interest. With your artwork I don’t think interest in the game is the issue. You have to get out with your games in as many places as you can. Not just for customers, but so you can collect data on what’s working and what isn’t.
Which brings me to the next point, your art is fantastic, and the overall game design works incredibly well with the artwork. But the level design needs work, and that’s okay! EVERYONE sucks at making levels. Even people who have been making levels for years need to tweak them as time and more information is collected. This is a perfect time to do so, you’ve gone so far as to remove one of the enemies to make 1-3 a bit easier. However, it seems since that tweak, you’re coming off as a bit condescending and quite a bit dismissive to others complaining about 1-3. This is a killer for indies. It’s hard to see people not immediately love everything about our games, but you will not get to see those babies live long enough to be loved if you are not seeking every piece of data your customers are willing to share with you about their experiences. Good and Bad, you have to be willing to at least acknowledge the criticism, watch the trends and ask yourself questions about what is causing them to have these negative experiences. Please don’t take anything I said as a personal attack, I sincerely hope to see more of your work in the future.
The gameplay is exceptionally poor, however instead of taking the feedback in earnest, the developer seems more interested in convincing people that the reason they aren't having fun is because of their lack of skills, going so far as to post janky gameplay proving that it's in fact not a problem with the game because it's not unbeatable. Their responses to the feedback are also very defensive and dismissive.
Maybe the hentai art is great. But the game is bad, and since the developer is making it abundantly clearly that they're not ready to entertain that possibility, I don't see this ever improving.
It's your game, you know how everything works and i bet you have some experience playing these retro sidescrollers. But try to see it from a new player's perspective. The difficulty itself isn't even the problem, the problem is to have it this early in the game. I bet most of them havent gotten used to the controls yet. Your video tries to be a gotcha but even there, u the dev is struggling. You even reset the stage because you didnt have a good start lol.
People want easy stuffs on this days
I enjoy difficult games, but this is some ds2 level of bullshit.
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yea, the game is shit :|
Firstly mate, your art is fantastic and the game is giving some older LibraHeart vibes which I fucking love.
Unfortunately, there are a few things that tell me you’ve been developing in a vacuum for too long. Firstly is the difficulty, if this is supposed to be a quick vertical slice of your game in order to secure funding like you posted in your extras, then it needs to be a vertical slice that can widely be completed. Otherwise people are going to get an even smaller impression of your game and move on. I’ve been following your Youtube for a while since it’s the only social I share with you but I looked through your Tumblr and watched your posts, especially concerning past products being axed for lack of interest. With your artwork I don’t think interest in the game is the issue. You have to get out with your games in as many places as you can. Not just for customers, but so you can collect data on what’s working and what isn’t.
Which brings me to the next point, your art is fantastic, and the overall game design works incredibly well with the artwork. But the level design needs work, and that’s okay! EVERYONE sucks at making levels. Even people who have been making levels for years need to tweak them as time and more information is collected. This is a perfect time to do so, you’ve gone so far as to remove one of the enemies to make 1-3 a bit easier. However, it seems since that tweak, you’re coming off as a bit condescending and quite a bit dismissive to others complaining about 1-3. This is a killer for indies. It’s hard to see people not immediately love everything about our games, but you will not get to see those babies live long enough to be loved if you are not seeking every piece of data your customers are willing to share with you about their experiences. Good and Bad, you have to be willing to at least acknowledge the criticism, watch the trends and ask yourself questions about what is causing them to have these negative experiences. Please don’t take anything I said as a personal attack, I sincerely hope to see more of your work in the future.
The gameplay is exceptionally poor, however instead of taking the feedback in earnest, the developer seems more interested in convincing people that the reason they aren't having fun is because of their lack of skills, going so far as to post janky gameplay proving that it's in fact not a problem with the game because it's not unbeatable. Their responses to the feedback are also very defensive and dismissive.
Maybe the hentai art is great. But the game is bad, and since the developer is making it abundantly clearly that they're not ready to entertain that possibility, I don't see this ever improving.
The art is great but it's far too difficult. I couldn't be bothered to get past stage one, which is a shame because i'm sure i'd enjoy it otherwise.
I already low the dificulty. By the way, many users think stage 1-3 is hard ... Not really
The second stage (?) starts off way more intense than I'd like. Why two jumping enemies on top of a plant you have to jump in order to shoot at?
Is not so hard. Look, here i show you a way of how to pass that part. By the way, I already quit the bunny U_U...
So hard :(
I dont think so. In any case, I already quit one bunny o¬o
What about an option like easy, medium, hard. Maybe easy gets more health/checkpoints/less health enemies?
You definitely went overboard with the plant enemies. It's extremely annoying . You art rocks though
People want easy stuffs on this days U_U Here I show you a way to pass the stage. By the way, I already low the dificulty.
It's your game, you know how everything works and i bet you have some experience playing these retro sidescrollers. But try to see it from a new player's perspective. The difficulty itself isn't even the problem, the problem is to have it this early in the game. I bet most of them havent gotten used to the controls yet. Your video tries to be a gotcha but even there, u the dev is struggling. You even reset the stage because you didnt have a good start lol.
People want easy stuffs on this days
I enjoy difficult games, but this is some ds2 level of bullshit.
Oh well, the door is open : )
Just being honest and trying to help, but if that hurts your ego then sure.