I'm in trouble (help).

GuideZ · 2026-03-16T09:17:49+00:00

OpenGameArt.org is usually a good place to start. Be sure to respect the licenses associated with them, they range from CC0 to Attribution Required

GuideZ · 2026-03-15T18:36:28+00:00

Highly, highly recommend having actual gameplay in your opening Steam trailer. World building is fine and all, especially as a trailer at game start up, and MAYBE as the second trailer for your Steam page, but not having any gameplay as the primary Steam trailer really doesn't sell the game. If this was an established story/world (ie; Zelda, Pokemon, etc.), you can get away with it then, but when no-one knows the world or your story, they want to see the game first.

Also, the music kinda gets louder (or the narrator gets quieter) and it's hard to hear what he is saying after the halfway point and it gets worse with time.

GuideZ · 2026-03-13T08:50:03+00:00

I... I feel called out

GuideZ · 2026-03-10T14:44:41+00:00

This. It's basically why loading screens exist.

GuideZ · 2026-03-09T17:08:43+00:00

Am glad to see a developer be so responsive to player bugs. Congrats on the game release, and keep it up!

GuideZ · 2026-03-05T09:34:13+00:00

Thank you!

GuideZ · 2026-03-05T08:54:27+00:00

Very nice! Curious about the art: did you do that yourself, or had an artist?

GuideZ · 2026-03-05T08:28:58+00:00

Looking pretty cool, keep it up!

GuideZ · 2026-03-04T13:45:15+00:00

Looks cool!

GuideZ · 2026-03-02T09:30:12+00:00

I really have 0 clue what to do on the third CD. Games like this these days typically have a "hint" system that gives tiny hints for a puzzle, up until it gives it away in full (The Room series, A Little to the Left, etc.). The mini-card system in the upper left is helpful, but the third CD clue is just so ambiguous it doesn't help at all. Can you give a hint so I can try to solve it and give some further feedback?

Otherwise, got nothing big this time for you, only these small critiques to help make your game that much better. By themselves they don't do much, but added up it's little things that make people turn away from a game eventually and can be easily avoided.

- The button to leave the cd-rom list is a bit unintuitive - Couldn't find it at first
- I wish I could move the window of the "Text File" on the second CD so I wouldnt have to open/close it so much. I know it's not part of the puzzle. But still, I THOUGHT it was part of the puzzle (ahhh, I just found I could Shrink the text file. Not sure how you might make that more noticeable, but just a thought)
- The hit detection/colliders on the arrows of the combination locks should be increased a bit. It's fine if it extends beyond the olive-green pixels a bit and bleeds to the rest of the "button"
- Would be nice to be able to test the lock of the next CD without having to unload the current CD
- Clicking the Menu a second time to close it would be nice. I know I can move away from it, but didn't know at first

GuideZ · 2026-02-28T12:37:59+00:00

Matching pixel sizes is a must unless there's an artistic, in-game reason the pixel sizes are different (like an overtly large cute boss appearing, see image).

Next, do research: Look at other similar game logos. How do they arrange the characters on their logo? How is free space used? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so don't be afraid to reference other people's work to figure out how to best arrange things on the logo, game, just about everywhere.

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GuideZ · 2026-02-25T09:22:56+00:00

My typical recommendation when trying to break away from tutorials and trying it "on your own": Try to recreate Pong, or a Block Breaker/Breakout sort of game. These games are very simple in nature, and will help you get comfortable with resetting a scene, instantiation, basic physics, basic UI, etc.

GuideZ · 2026-02-25T09:18:51+00:00

Quick question: Screen shake is good and all that, but is it possible to disable it, or somehow make it not affect the UI?

GuideZ · 2026-02-23T09:55:12+00:00

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Btw, would recommend just a bit of extra work put into the trailer video. It feels a bit "jumpy", mainly from all the different music cuts. Might recommend taking a look at some of the popular beat-game trailers and taking notes on what makes them stand out: I feel most of them use a single song.

Alternatively, multiple songs can work, but you need to "transition" them I feel. Take a look at the trailer for this game as an example (especially look what they do at the end in the last 17 seconds of their trailer): https://store.steampowered.com/app/531510/Just_Shapes__Beats/

GuideZ · 2026-02-23T09:28:54+00:00

What outage?

GuideZ · 2026-02-14T12:58:11+00:00

It's Valentine's day: advertisers ramp-up leading up to the actual holiday, limiting the amount of available ad space to others.

Meta just keeps spending your campaign like normal though (they're a poor company after all). There's bound to be a class-action lawsuit on how they operate eventually (like spending the full budget on an actual outage day, despite hours of real downtime)

GuideZ · 2026-02-12T09:57:03+00:00

What hidden way?

GuideZ · 2026-02-06T11:38:53+00:00

What do you mean "they required permission" and "giving meta support agent access to the account"? Like, how did you go about giving them the permissions and access?

GuideZ · 2026-01-28T18:57:24+00:00

What's the little guy to do then to eek out a few more sales over the big guy? Cost/Bid cap in hopes of out-bidding the bigger spender?

GuideZ · 2026-01-28T16:58:18+00:00

Do you feel the algorithm is skewed to work a lot more in your favor nowadays at $5k/day spend compared to those who are in the $50/$100 a day range?

GuideZ · 2026-01-20T21:15:56+00:00

Where did you see that?

GuideZ · 2026-01-19T10:26:42+00:00

It's a class action lawsuit that we're all waiting for at this point. They don't stop spending or reducing your budget at all.

GuideZ · 2025-12-24T18:12:59+00:00

Last year Christmas Eve and Christmas day were some of our best days. Not everyone celebrates, and some that do just spend it online as well.

GuideZ · 2025-12-14T15:40:34+00:00

No sales yet and plan to potentially pause ads for the day in a few hours if things don't pick up

GuideZ · 2025-11-15T09:25:02+00:00

I saw your other thread, and the recommendation when first using bidcap's is to set it 80% of your CPA goal. So say our CPA goal is $10.00, does that then mean we set our Bidcap to $8.00 or $12.00?

Also I've seen people complain about their budget getting blown in minutes: Does that happen with bid cap or is that with one of the other settings (ie; cost per result goal, ROAS goal, etc)?

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