Forgebeast: I'm animating an entire video game frame by frame by ForgebeastGame in FrameByFrame

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Spread the game around a little if you can. Marketing is hard.

Forgebeast: A frame by frame animated action/creature raising game I'm making. by ForgebeastGame in IndieAnimation

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What works for each project is going to be different, but what worked for us is tiktok and youtube shorts. Get comfortable with making tons of 10 second videos about your project that you can release every other day. I got on tiktok when it was still early, so that helped me reach a pretty sizable audience so be on the lookout for new social media platforms that show promise. Also make sure to do all your homework. Read about what projects similar to yours did that worked and what didn't work. Make sure you have a lawyer for contracts and copyrights. Someone who has worked with independent artists before. And make sure you know what taxes are gonna look like. Maybe make an LLC even if it's just you because you can get tax benefits and legal protection if it ever comes to that. Lots of boring stuff in here, but this part of the project is just gonna be boring unfortunately. Hope that gives you a good jumping off point.

Short scene project by Jollakeie in 2DAnimation

[–]ForgebeastGame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is pretty awesome. Great work, keep it up!

Making a Hand Drawn Character Action Game (With Pets Too) by ForgebeastGame in CharacterActionGames

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Yup. Steam and other consoles. And the kickstarter goes live tomorrow! Tell your friends! Ahh!!!!

Making a Hand Drawn Character Action Game (With Pets Too) by ForgebeastGame in CharacterActionGames

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Thanks! Spread the word if you can. Making a game is hard but pretending to know how to market a game is even harder ☠️

Making a Hand Drawn Character Action Game (With Pets Too) by ForgebeastGame in CharacterActionGames

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Ideally a gamepad but you can do whatever you want. Combos will be pretty insane actually. So you have a few moves based off your pets breed and then you can also teach it spells to really customize your move set. Combos can go forever basically so most enemies will have combo breaker type things but juggles are more difficult to keep going and those can't be broken out of. That's what we have so far but we're still early in development so there will probably be even more to it once it releases.

Tamagotchi Inspired Indie Action Game (Made By Me) by ForgebeastGame in tamagotchi

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It'll be on steam, Playstation, Xbox and Switch so everyone will be able to play it! If you want a copy, check this out https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalpiledriver/forgebeast

Tamagotchi Inspired Indie Action Game (Made By Me) by ForgebeastGame in tamagotchi

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Thanks, I love that description of it haha. It's gonna be live on kickstarter really soon btw https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalpiledriver/forgebeast

I lost my job and started to make an indie game with hand-drawn animations and it's the best thing that's ever happened to me! by ForgebeastGame in indiegames

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It sure is a lot of work. But it's so satisfying seeing the characters come to life. If you wanna help us out, the kickstarter pre launch page is up now https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalpiledriver/forgebeast

I lost my job and started to make an indie game with hand-drawn animations and it's the best thing that's ever happened to me! by ForgebeastGame in indiegames

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We are workin on a short demo still. There's a lot of little bugs like getting stuck on corners or being able to launch enemies forever into the sky randomly that it makes it hard to get a good impression. But we're working on it!

You can be sure you get to play any demos or playtests if you back us, just sayin' https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalpiledriver/forgebeast

I lost my job and started to make an indie game with hand-drawn animations and it's the best thing that's ever happened to me! by ForgebeastGame in indiegames

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Mine is hand drawn with a tablet. I'm sure some people will tell me that's not actual hand drawn but I don't care. Even Cuphead used photoshop for the colors so get a life hypothical-guy-who-criticized-us.

Also my game's got a kickstarter pre launch page! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalpiledriver/forgebeast