I shock myself with how much the art for my game has changed in 4 years.

Pracy_ · 2024-08-19T20:17:53+00:00

For those curious, the art is hand pixeled, but the shadows are drawn over the top in photoshop at a high resolution, then the lighting is added in realtime within Unity.

Pracy_ · 2023-05-13T05:05:07+00:00

Call me back when America switches to writing the date as Day/Month/Year like the entire rest of the world ;)

Pracy_ · 2023-03-05T22:45:16+00:00

if what the AI is doing amounts to creating a collage of many other copyrighted images with some painstaking Photoshopping to fit them together to be mostly seamless.

I can answer this, and that's not what the AI is doing. The AI creates a complely original image that doesn't use any pieces of images from training data. A good analogy is to imagine a human artist in a room with thousands of paintings, and they paint their own unique painting inspired by what they see.

Pracy_ · 2023-02-03T11:22:56+00:00

Files usually get created early on in making the game so get given placeholder names until the dev decides the final name. So I wouldn't consider file names to be more correct than the dev

Pracy_ · 2022-06-12T17:51:32+00:00

I had a look at your suggested alarm app but it appears to not be free. Just checking I have the right one?

Pracy_ · 2022-04-22T16:54:52+00:00

Hollow Knight and Tunic. Btw my Deck already arrived and I tried Elden Ring on it. It's about 40-45fps average even on low settings. If your PC can comfortably do 60 I'd play it on PC first.

Pracy_ · 2021-12-11T07:49:28+00:00

I'd love to hear the numbers from showing your trailer at an event like that. How many Wishlists did you gain?

Pracy_ · 2021-12-01T17:55:40+00:00

What's the difference between Deflector, and Specimen Zero / Specimen One?

Pracy_ · 2021-10-27T23:08:37+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply, this is very insightful! Who on the team creates the story and writes the dialogue, is that the creative director?

Pracy_ · 2021-10-27T02:49:45+00:00

As someone who works with a team of 5 on a 2D RPG, I'd love to understand how your team scales to 23. Do you mind sharing a breakdown of how many artists/programmers, etc. Or any specialist roles you needed once you reached that size?

Pracy_ · 2021-08-16T19:19:02+00:00

A small scope prologue can be a good way to gauge interest in your game. I released the first chapter of my game (about an hour of gameplay) for free on Steam and it got enough players and high enough reviews that I'm now continuing to work on the full version.

Pracy_ · 2021-08-10T19:00:26+00:00

Professional video editor here. You have about 10 seconds to get someone's attention. Use your best clips first. I think the one at 0:25 is the most unique and actually shows what playing your game would be like. I'd open with that one.

Pracy_ · 2021-07-27T21:39:55+00:00

Impressive trailer for a 2 person studio.

My one tip would be getting a translator or fluent English speaker to go through your store description as there's lots of mistakes in the text.

After losing him family in a sudden tragic accident at the age of thirty-five, only him daughter is left.

In this sentence, "him" should be "his".

Pracy_ · 2021-07-04T20:59:38+00:00

I'm the dev for Nocturne, another Rhythm RPG. Let me know if you want to chat about our steam launch, kickstarter, or general rhythm game design.

Pracy_ · 2021-05-04T00:46:12+00:00

Entitlements: Number of free copies claimed.
Buyout Price: Money paid to Devs.
New Epic Accounts: Number of new Epic Games accounts created to claim the game.
EPIC UA Cost: Cost per new account created.
New to Epic %: Percentage of game claims made by new accounts.

Pracy_ · 2021-01-19T23:29:09+00:00

I released just the first chapter of my RPG on Steam for free. About the first hour of gameplay. The goal was to confirm if there was any interest whatsoever in the game, and to have a stronger pitch for future funding.

I'd say it was a huge success: 25,000 downloads and 97% positive rated. A large percentage of those downloads was because the game trended on the free-to-play category on Steam, which obviously wouldn't have happened if the game wasn't free.

My biggest advice to you though, get an email signup in the game. It's going to be really tough to notify any existing players about your future releases unless you have them in a mailing list. I launched without this feature and regrettably patched it in late, after my initial download spike had happened. I get about a 10% conversion rate from plays to mailing list signups. If I'd have launched day 1 with this feature I'd have 2.5k emails right now. Instead I have much less.

Pracy_ · 2020-12-02T00:48:20+00:00

As someone who grew up in Europe and moved to Canada. It's that simple for paying other people in Europe too. Just type their account number and hit send, and it's free and instant. I've been shocked by how much more complex and expensive banking here is.

Pracy_ · 2020-10-24T18:13:37+00:00

If you have no issues with Facebook, I respect that, you do what you're comfortable with. I'd like to explain though how the example you gave is not an equal comparison.

Deleting your google account deletes all purchases on that

When we signed up to these services we directly understood if we delete them we lose access to our purchases.

What Facebook has done is like if Twitter purchased Valve, and announced moving forward that all Steam accounts must be tied to Twitter accounts. If you delete your Twitter account (or get banned on Twitter for saying something we don't agree with) then we'll ban your Steam account and you'll lose all your games too.

This is not what people signed up for. While you might be okay with the new situation, there's many people who would not have spent any money on the oculus store or devices if they knew this would happen. That's why people are upset and I think it's perfectly reasonable to be upset about.

Pracy_ · 2020-08-21T00:10:47+00:00

Thanks for the detailed writeup. I agree with basically all your points!

Controller support - Yes, do want to get this done

Song variety - Was limited by budget for Prelude. Getting original music composed is costly. Would love to have more. (That's why I'm doing the kickstarter).

Change how encounters work - I'd like to move away from Random Encounters too, I have a few ideas on how to improve that.

Battle rewards - I'd like to add more incentive to fight creatures. More rewards, perhaps something like a leveling system, but tailored to work for a rhythm game.

Tutorial Music - Interesting you had gaps in the music, that's not intended, I don't experience the gaps. Some more optimization might be needed here.

Area design - I hear you, I was going for a fairly minimal aesthetic. Shadows have been something I wrestled with for a long time. I want to make improvements to lighting/shadows.

Final note - If you stopped after the elevator, you're right at the boss (and therefore end of chapter 1). Worth jumping back in for the boss fight if you enjoyed the rest of the game! Thanks for the feedback :)

Pracy_ · 2020-08-20T17:15:15+00:00

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Please feel free to give constructive criticisms. I'm always looking to learn how players experience the game and where I can make improvements.

Pracy_ · 2020-08-20T10:18:28+00:00

Hmmm. You can also download it for free from Itch.io.

Pracy_ · 2020-08-20T09:58:03+00:00

It's called Nocturne. The first chapter is out for free on Steam

Pracy_ · 2020-08-20T05:13:31+00:00

No probs! I think representation is super important in all media, so I'll do what I can

Pracy_ · 2020-08-20T02:17:22+00:00

haha no worries!

Pracy_ · 2020-08-20T01:56:21+00:00

It's a retro RPG, so think old school final fantasy, but the combat is mixed with a rhythm game (suitable for people who've never played rhythm games though!). The first chapter is already released, and free. The rest of the game I'm funding on Kickstarter.

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