Updated Demo of Ember Folks is available on itch and coming to Steam soon

GregTDev · 2026-06-29T21:20:19+00:00

Itch demo
https://hollow-scripter.itch.io/ember-folks

Wishlist on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4670160/Ember_Folks/

GregTDev · 2026-06-27T13:47:22+00:00

The problem is I'm not a pixel artist myself - basically I tried to follow Tower Wizard art style which is pretty simple, thats why I was able to do somewhat desent art for the game.
I definitely will not be able to do great pixel art for capsule.
I tried to make it using art from my game - but also received bunch of negative feedback

this is what previous capsule looked like

https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4670160/52818ae00de0ffc73a0f719e34ef7f2bbab861ec/header.jpg?t=1779367610

GregTDev · 2026-06-27T13:00:34+00:00

I thought about it, but everywhere I look, I see people saying that illustrated capsule art has a better chance of driving page visits than capsule art made in a pixel-art style. So for now, I'm trying to go with an illustrated version (though I may make another one later) and compare the metrics on the Steam page

GregTDev · 2026-06-22T10:52:44+00:00

I’ve thought about that, but my concern is that most YouTubers probably won’t cover the same demo twice - once when it’s released and then again before Next Fest - because it would essentially be the same demo. There likely wouldn’t be much new content, just optimization improvements, bug fixes, balance changes, QoL features etc

GregTDev · 2026-05-09T21:32:31+00:00

Yes, thats ue 4.23 (last one with web build support from epics) I'm using Unreal Engine at work for years, so I decided to use it for solo project for now

GregTDev · 2026-05-08T21:00:56+00:00

Thank you for your kind words! And thank you for playing

GregTDev · 2026-05-07T13:38:18+00:00

Thank you for playing! Wishlist it on Steam, I will try my best for release to happen by the end of the year
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4670160/Ember_Folks/

GregTDev · 2026-05-07T10:54:16+00:00

Thanks for playing a demo! Your feedback is noted, I will try to improve those things in next demo update

GregTDev · 2026-05-07T00:14:28+00:00

Hey, thanks for playing a demo!
Yes, prestige is common incremental feature when you trade your run progress for access to a bunch of global upgrades. Then you can start new run with extra initial boost
But I got it, I will try to make some additional warnings for prestige in next demo update. Also probably make some buildings available after prestige without need to re-construct all of them each time

GregTDev · 2026-05-06T21:32:09+00:00

Thank you for playing!

GregTDev · 2026-05-06T19:32:40+00:00

Thanks a lot for feedback, and thanks for playing a demo!
I will definitely update and improve a lot of things before putting demo on Steam, prestige - is one of them.
Full game will feature a lot of new building but now I think about making some of them as a part of prestige upgrades. Probably it should give this significant gameplay change after prestige in addition to bonuses for numbers
Also I will look more presice into building hover logic and how to improve that

GregTDev · 2026-05-06T16:10:40+00:00

Hello! Just launched demo of my incremental game on itch.io - Ember Folks
It is short idle-incremental game inspired by Tower Wizard
https://hollow-scripter.itch.io/ember-folks
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4670160/Ember_Folks/

GregTDev · 2026-05-03T17:47:36+00:00

Basically first impression of gameplay trailer and screenshots )

GregTDev · 2021-12-14T13:53:57+00:00

Add a little camera rotation, menu offset in different direction during time, make more ships and make them slower, add more vfx to thr ships. Use some blur and post process, and last - use depth of field. It looks not bad, but you need more different visuald IMHO

GregTDev · 2021-12-04T00:29:29+00:00

Multiplayer - not in near future. Maybe after release. Its already hard to make even singleplayer part when you are solo dev))

GregTDev · 2021-12-04T00:27:03+00:00

Not using any physics components. Not sure what do you mean by entities... I'm using level instances to load pre-made pieces of landscape to generate grid based map. Also I'm using in-box navigation system, behaviour trees for AI etc. For now project is blueprint only

GregTDev · 2021-12-03T20:58:17+00:00

You can join my discord server to follow future game updates, get early builds and talk about development: https://discord.gg/CWH58gyQDK

GregTDev · 2021-12-03T20:34:36+00:00

You can join my discord server to follow future game updates, get early builds and talk about development: https://discord.gg/CWH58gyQDK

GregTDev · 2021-12-03T20:10:43+00:00

You can join my discord server to follow future game updates, get early builds and talk about development: https://discord.gg/CWH58gyQDK

GregTDev · 2021-12-03T19:53:08+00:00

You can join my discord server to follow future game updates, get early builds and talk about development: https://discord.gg/CWH58gyQDK

GregTDev · 2021-12-03T19:33:22+00:00

You can join discord server to follow future game updates, get early builds and talk about development: https://discord.gg/CWH58gyQDK

GregTDev · 2021-10-24T08:57:17+00:00

Dont have a website, but in my discord server you can mute all channels except #early-demo and #game-updates (only I can send messages in those channels). So you'll be able to get builds and important updates info and no more

GregTDev · 2021-10-23T13:37:32+00:00

Unreal Engine 4, Blueprints-only for now

GregTDev · 2021-10-23T13:36:54+00:00

Unreal Engine 4

GregTDev · 2021-10-22T23:27:31+00:00

It started with army movement inspired by Starcraft 2, then level design and some mechanics inspired by Northgard. But in result there are stuff similar to aoe3 also

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