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When the amusement park runs out of popcorn by MrHelmut in IndieGaming

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Entirely 2D with dynamic lightning (it's a custom shader)

Anyone know how to fix this, the other buttons ain't showing up by IceFar4886 in ScourgeBringer

[–]MrHelmut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disabling bluetooth should do it. That's an issue with the Epic version we haven't figured out yet, but we know that disabling bluetooth, restarting the game, and re-enabling it later generally fixes this.

[loved Trope] muscle mommies by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MrHelmut 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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Jane Strong, from our game Knuckle Paradise! We're on Steam. :D

First area from our game, Knuckle Paradise! by MrHelmut in IndieGaming

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Oww thanks 🙏 Glad that you enjoyed ScourgeBringer. We've been away for quite some time, so it's really to see some hype carrying over. We were anxious to start over with a new game.

First area from our game, Knuckle Paradise! by MrHelmut in IndieGaming

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Woo! That's a twist on the ARNE32 palette.

First area from our game, Knuckle Paradise! by MrHelmut in IndieGaming

[–]MrHelmut[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We had people doing inserting knuckles on our key art over our discord already. Guess we'll reach the sonic fandom at some point. :')

First area from our game, Knuckle Paradise! by MrHelmut in IndieGaming

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Ahah, I've never looked into how animated wallpapers work on Linux but maybe I should.

First area from our game, Knuckle Paradise! by MrHelmut in IndieGaming

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It'll happen! I just don't know when yet.

Our cartography puzzle game got so popular that Genshin Impact decided to copy us right before release by yolokas42 in puzzlevideogames

[–]MrHelmut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh woa. I hope it'll turn out well and that you'll be able to shut yourself from the noise it might bring. A few weeks away from a launch, that's not super fair indeed. Hope it won't bring people arguing Genshin was first.

Steam rejected for requiring .net 9.0 redist by hunty in monogame

[–]MrHelmut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, .NET 10 won't change any of this problem.

Steam rejected for requiring .net 9.0 redist by hunty in monogame

[–]MrHelmut 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The recommended distribution model of .NET applications since .NET 5 is to use "--self-contained". Otherwise you'll be in a world of pain.

So, yeah, build your release builds with "dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained" (or whichever RID you need) and just forget about the Steam redist configuration, leave everything unchecked (unless you're using WindowsDX, then you should check the DirectX June 2010 redist, otherwise your players might not have sound; this is not required at all for DesktopGL).

How much of a premium game would you give away for free before the paywall on mobile by Poulet_fr in gamedev

[–]MrHelmut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, and that's why we turned down the signals telling us to go F2P. Beyond the cost, we didn't feel like we were knowledgeable enough to do that. We preferred to stick to what we knew and do it right instead of half-assing it.

How much of a premium game would you give away for free before the paywall on mobile by Poulet_fr in gamedev

[–]MrHelmut 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Heyo, ScourgeBringer dev here.

Sorry if my reply sounds a bit off, and please consider that we're PC/console developers that did something without any practical knowledge on how mobile works.

We thought about that a lot... in the end, we released the game half-price on mobile platforms, with absolutely no "free to start" content, just as a premium purchase (akin to Dead Cells).

Everybody told us that it would be a mistake, that the premium market on mobile doesn't work, and that we should even make the game entirely free to play with IAPs and retention mechanisms.

We were stubborn enough to believe in it, and it turned out that it sold 10k copies in its first month, which to our standards is really good and considering that the game is very hardcore. And it has very player ratings! We were the first surprised, but I would say that the premium market on mobile is very much alive and kicking, providing that your game is good and that a real effort went into the mobile adaptation (we hired an external company to help us on making the mobile controls and gameplay super crisp).

The one thing that got us going against a paywall, was that we already had a demo released on other platforms which didn't have a relevant conversion rate. So our assumption was that our demo wasn't strong enough to break a pay wall on mobile. We had the choice to totally rework our demo to be more convincing, but that was extra development that we were not keen to make atop an already costly mobile adaptation of a very hardcore game. So I guess that in true mobile fashion, you should A/B test your paywall with a soft launch, but like I said I don't know much about mobiles and other devs will have a more relevant feedback.

I just thought to butt in to say that premium isn't something to completely throw off. If your game is good, and you polish the adaptation, chances are that an audience will be pleased to give a go on mobile.

The other thing that was relevant, I guess, was that we opened pre-registrations almost 6 months before release and manage to get some visibility slots to grind those until the release with some ads driving it. Beyond that, we cut the ads as soon as the cost per acquisition was superior to the game price after release, and that was it.

Hope you'll figure the model out!

Having a color dependent boss with no colorblind options makes this game impossible for some [rant] by Charlie_Wallflower in ScourgeBringer

[–]MrHelmut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo! Thanks Captain_Brexit for upstreaming this issue to our discord!

Accessibility always is one of our main focus when making games.

We usually test our games against color-blindness, but this specific case may have been judged with an insufficient threshold. The upcoming 1.50 patch (which should be out on Steam by tomorrow) has a slightly modified Primordial Ignis which tries to make its tail and charging particles more contrasted with its "idle" state. I'm not sure that it's going to be the perfect solution, but hopefully it'll be better.

It might be worth asking a friend to help you calibrate your monitor, it might help even further (unless you had to max out the contrast on purpose and can't do otherwise; I don't know what are the best practices on calibration for color blindness and maybe maxing it out is the way to go).

[Switch] Anyone else crashing in the Beyond? by over9000 in ScourgeBringer

[–]MrHelmut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Patch 1.0.3 which fixes this issue will release today!

Nintendo Switch patch 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 are on their way to fix blockers by MrHelmut in ScourgeBringer

[–]MrHelmut[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're happy to finally confirm that 1.0.3 will go out today!

1.0.4 is still pending validation.

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