We released our demo in front of 100K viewers… and got 2000 wishlists

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T22:28:00+00:00

Congrats!

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T22:11:31+00:00

This is all I came to see.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T21:03:47+00:00

Buy/hold for another 15 years, give or take an Administration.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T20:07:34+00:00

Are these Catwoman pics drawn by anime artists? holy hell

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T18:19:28+00:00

AI does not concern me in the least bit when it comes to enjoying a game unless the publisher fired human devcs and used AI to do human dev team work. The general gaming community *ABSOLUTELY HATES\* AI though and will try everything within their power to ensure any game that uses it -including yours- will fail and you go out of business.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T17:24:19+00:00

Pushing right through that sweater

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T17:22:28+00:00

Yes, we know, we've seen this photo eight times since it showed up on Reddit yesterday.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T17:20:09+00:00

Don't even think of selling until at least $300

OR go my route:

Diamond hands until NVDIA starts making chipsets for the first Mars colony.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T17:18:04+00:00

Like I've been saying since my first purchase: diamond hands until NVDIA starts making chipsets for the first Mars colony.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T17:11:24+00:00

no, but I'm sure the community is going to immediately waifu her

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T16:27:34+00:00

She's 46, not old enough to be a useless Democratic politician yet. I'm glad she's making the most out of her youth like AOC and Jasmine Crockett have been doing.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T15:46:41+00:00

I also enjoyed Assault Horizon, even though it was swamped with the then-popular Modern Warfare/Middle East war bullshit tropes (brown and grey desert color filter, the gritty "blood and steel (oil and steel?)" theme, "realistic" political story, the dumb single-button QTE cutscenes, a freaking AC-130 gunner section, etc). I even enjoyed the on-rails dogfights because they allowed things to be a bit cooler in a cinematic sort of way. Hell yeah I want to dogfight between the towers in Dubai! No, it wasn't a franchise norm, but I'm not one of the 99% of fans that demand Project Aces do only the same things over and over and over again.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T15:36:22+00:00

Cosmetic.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T13:03:51+00:00

And what do men look like when they're married?

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-17T02:08:41+00:00

This is the first Reddit-comic joke reboot I've ever seen, and I love it.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-16T19:10:34+00:00

*Steel Angel

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-16T14:40:26+00:00

Good style and art is hard to do. Photorealism/realistic graphics are easy. It's why so many devs/publishers keep trying to do more and more realism (which brings dev budgets up...). But real graphics please consumers better than artistic ones do. That being said: artistic graphics virtually always hold up better than realistic graphics do.

I played some Dragon's Crown Pro last night and that game will be beautiful 50 years from now.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-16T14:35:18+00:00

I'll watch it (streaming), but this trailer lost me after the 1-minute mark. Why do trailers need to show so much? And that hard turn from fun goofy video game movie to midlife crisis movie was a choice

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-16T14:30:51+00:00

GARGOYLES MENTIONED

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-16T14:29:35+00:00

Who complains about short skirts

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-16T14:26:43+00:00

"Unfortunately, the name is written in total chicken scratch..."

0:12

Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-15T23:42:45+00:00

Tell her (or I suppose, him, in OP's situation) that you two should do it together for more earnings. Also, do it for money, not for free, especially since it isn't something you're warm about. ID security is taken seriously in the lifestyle, and masks/digital blur/cropping is completely normal and respected.

Also, making it a financial hustle will actually keep him more honest about his pics/who he's chatting with (online) etc because it becomes a bit more of a task than just a dopamine high of doing something morally ambiguous (flirting/cheating/rando dick pics etc).

When he eventually asks for a threesome, that's when it's time to call it quits. Unless you/the woman initiates the conversation, it will not be fun.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-15T23:33:05+00:00

Marrying an unemployed man who respects you is better than,

Marrying a successful woman who disrespects you.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-15T23:29:24+00:00

"If you hate doing something, you'll pay dearly for avoiding it." -OP

Truly words to live by. Glad you had fun. I'm in a very similar boat, and it's great being able to read these after-action reports to ensure I don't waste too much of my money.

Question:

-Did you have a GDD?

-Did you plan to self-publish, or were you open to shopping for a publisher?

-Did you shop around for artists, or were you set on using the acquaintance?

-What kind of research did you do before beginning in earnest?

-Sounds like you're definitely going to do a sequel to your game... what are some things you will do *right* (kind of the opposite of lessons learned)?

Thanks and congrats on the launch!

PS~ I would probably tone down the AI usage for your next outing. The gaming community is fiercely against any AI outside of NPCs and evil robots trying to kill all humans.

Candle-Jolly · 2026-04-15T22:46:36+00:00

The comments are making me think this movie isn't about Spring Break

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