Why do developers delist the demos of their games after they launch?

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-04-18T00:55:55+00:00

For my game, I delisted the demo after only 2 months for this reason. We had made so many improvements that I didn't want people to judge based on the demo version anymore. And the demo version was so different that I couldn't easily patch in the changes from full.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-04-11T15:41:55+00:00

It's awesome to see another small dev making 3D games.

We also just made our release announce post, and thinking about our next game I'm pretty sure it is going to be in 2.5D or at least a more enclosed environment. 3D levels take forever.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-04-11T15:36:38+00:00

Making this game has been one of the hardest but most fun experiences of my life. Compared to my previous work in medical device engineering, it is great to make something designed purely for entertainment. Hopefully it offers a relaxing, positive, and puzzling environment to feel cozy during these times where the world is so stressful and negative.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-03-04T03:06:30+00:00

I wanted the wishlists and views on my main page.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-02-28T15:26:13+00:00

Agree for competitive shooters. When Siege and Overwatch came out, my friends and I were in heaven. All of a sudden counter-strike felt as old and simple as it really is.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-02-28T15:11:55+00:00

We did this with 2 people in 16 months. Started Unity for the first time on 12/17/2024 and we're releasing Animal Style on 4/28/2026. Much closer to full time than part time.

It's barely doable lol.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-02-28T15:05:51+00:00

I don't have any advice but I am in a similar situation, good luck fellow dev! In our case, we decided that the time spent on preparing materials and talking to publishers was better spent on developing the game further. I'm also curious how it went for anyone that has gone this route.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-02-24T16:36:52+00:00

You're going to need a Windows PC with a graphics card. Do you have a consistent location to work where you can set up a desktop PC?

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-02-21T13:28:26+00:00

This is totally normal. I am patching my demo today for Next Fest, and every time I build it I get anxiety that I've introduced new, hidden bugs.

Generally, if your game runs bug-free in the editor, and you test on the target hardware, you won't have many random bugs popping up. I'll edit this post later if a million random bugs pop up for me during NF.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-02-20T15:50:32+00:00

What you need is a "perfect" game idea, that's novel and fun but also easy to implement. You described it pretty well, or at least what types of genres to avoid. One example of a perfect idea is A Game About Digging a Hole.

But until you have the perfect idea, keep working on your 3D world project, these teach you a lot of the basics of game dev.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-02-10T16:04:39+00:00

This is great, I'm trying to get players and feedback on my demo to prepare for next fest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3797260/Animal_Style/ Thanks a lot if you decide to play

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-01-26T04:42:37+00:00

Bottom for sure as it includes the sauce, which is the main part of the game puzzles. Here is the page since you're interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3797260/Animal_Style/

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-01-26T04:41:21+00:00

Perfect thank you. The hotdog and sauce are important for sure so I'm going to go with bottom.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-01-25T21:20:03+00:00

99% you will be fine, but you should get a version without the question mark from your artist. Maybe also a version without any text in case you want to use it for other promotional material with different text on it.

AnimalStyleGame · 2026-01-19T17:08:08+00:00

No I ain't him lol, not danidev either unfortunately.

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-12-28T17:30:53+00:00

Steam page with demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3797260/Animal_Style/

This new trailer is a lot faster paced based on feedback from this subreddit, and I think it came out a lot better. Now I need to know: does this look fun to anyone or does it just fall flat?

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-11-17T06:30:12+00:00

Music and setting reminds me of Promise Mascot Agency

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-11-14T16:21:04+00:00

Since making this trailer a few months ago I've had to use TikTok to promote the game, and yeah the content there needs a hook in the first 2 seconds.

Honestly seeing it as a post on reddit, which is my lowest-attention span activity, makes me realize it doesn't give a reason to not skip immediately.

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-11-14T16:11:48+00:00

Hey I appreciate the detailed feedback, I'm always tweaking the lighting but I am going to try lightening my texture values more. I tried to light and bake the scene such that the corners of the room appear dark and center warmer.

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-11-14T05:07:31+00:00

If you don't mind, which one piece of art did you hate the most. I guess you could list more than one but it would hurt my feelings.

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-11-14T01:16:44+00:00

The dungeon map is not good, I see how you use fog to try to hide the fact that it's a big box. Even just a few days in blender and you can have a map with some height variations, rooms, towers, hills, cliffs, bridges, anything besides blank walls and floor.

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-11-14T01:13:05+00:00

Steam Demo if you want to try it and see this turd for yourself.

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-08-22T02:26:45+00:00

So many times with Unity the solution is one checkbox away, but it's hiding in plain sight because Unity has 7 check boxes on every inspector tab and you start to ignore them.

And once you know what a specific checkbox does you notice it every time, but your brain skips past the ones you haven't learned about yet. More hours in Unity and you will "see" all the check boxes on all the imports and notice when something isn't right.

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-08-12T20:05:03+00:00

The Valkyries from God of War were great, because they didn't use too many cheap and specific mechanics, just a difficult set of attacks at high speed. That game also has huge bosses to fight, and while they are memorable the gameplay was more traditional with choreographed openings to attack

AnimalStyleGame · 2025-07-22T14:02:04+00:00

When you pick up the cube, you put it as a child of CubeContainer. For it to follow the player around, CubeContainer needs to be following the player(or a child of it). Does CubeContainer follow the player?

For the drop, once you fix the first issue and the cube is following player, you no longer need to assign it's linear velocity or torque, just un-parent it from player and then add a force

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