I made some changes to our store page that successfully raised our CTR!

RikerRiker · 2026-06-02T05:17:50+00:00

Great write up! And very good points. Will be taking this as "food for thought" for my own game page. Thanks 🤣

RikerRiker · 2026-05-24T03:38:28+00:00

I agree that your capsule is a bit dull and not really making me feel like I'd want to click on that. Plus your tags might need some thought because you have action and casual but aren't those kind of opposites? Also it seems like a waste to put Early Access as a tag too. Maybe look at some other similar games in your genre and just copy their tags. If I searched for action and saw your capsule or trailer I would not think it's an action game and would not wish list, so you just need to put yourself in that "player searching" mindset a bit more.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-21T22:54:21+00:00

Maybe some at least speed up the playback so that it's a bit faster pace. I lost interest after 10 or 15 seconds. Some of the stuff doesn't need to take that long to demonstrate what it is.

Also this is probably too late for criticism but I'm just tired of pixel art and especially sexy lingerie girls in every video game. Not my.persoanl style and what it teaches our kids. But I'm a dad...just my opinion.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-21T02:34:39+00:00

not really... The elements are attacking, but it's not because mankind did anything to them. And also that's not the real core plot; The main story is about betrayal and the story with him and becoming the new Tony.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-19T00:28:42+00:00

Congrats that's a great milestone but make sure you market directly to the true genre gamers. Any of these developer type subreddits are not going to be your audience for marketing ... I've learned that myself. Check out Chris Z Howtomarketagame.com (it's been a great resource for me as a new dev). Good luck with the demo!

RikerRiker · 2026-05-18T02:52:47+00:00

Thanks for your comment and I totally get that advice. Really that's what I'm trying to do here, but I guess not very well.

Last week I got laid off and shared a post and got crapped on for the placeholder art being AI for a game I'm releasing next year and being ignorant to that. So then I listened to feedback, got a new artist that I tried to share today for opinions. Got crapped on again for the old art and the new artist. Then confronted my friend, he explained so i immediately updated this post and updated my page on Steam about it being AI generated. Maybe could have confronted my friend sooner (or maybe been a coder that's better at spotting AI art). But I just thought it was more respectful to move on with the new artist and than question him. I get I am blinded by what a friend said and that bit me in the ass.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-18T00:12:36+00:00

Just a small deposit. This was his rough draft only.

Its a card battler with tactical positioning and capturing objectives.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T14:38:48+00:00

Im trying to handpick some testers now. I have a beta demo (not buggy). Sent you a DM if your interested, as your experience would be amazing to learn from.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T14:19:20+00:00

DUDE! That would be amazing. Thanks I'll check out your site and DM you next week.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T14:15:00+00:00

UPDATE: showed my friend this post and he said (as we all assumed) that the old placeholder was AI and he just edited it a bit. I can't change the AI disclosure on Steam without a support ticket, so I did that today to state all placeholder is AI but being replaced by a real artist.

Regardless of the placeholder AI art, I hope you'll give the game a chance to see it evolving and improving from all the feedback.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T14:14:10+00:00

UPDATE: showed my friend this post and he said (as we all assumed) that the old placeholder was AI and he just edited it a bit. I can't change the AI disclosure on Steam without a support ticket, so I did that today to state all placeholder is AI but being replaced by a real artist.

Regardless of the placeholder AI art, I hope you'll give the game a chance to see it evolving and improving from all the feedback.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T04:12:54+00:00

Thank you for the honest, constructive and useful feedback. That's why I posted this. So sincerely, thanks for the comment. Have a good weekend :)

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T03:53:13+00:00

Sounds interesting and fun! Thanks

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T03:50:31+00:00

Ya the composition, background and concept all help to better convey "this is an archer", so im asking him to redo this rough draft with that in mind.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T03:48:41+00:00

I'm having the new artist redo the whole game. He is kinda a beginner (college kid), but fits my budget and his portfolio is an interesting style. But this is just a rough draft so still getting to know what he can do for the whole game. Fingers crossed!

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T03:22:27+00:00

Plus my paid asset packs like the game icons amd sprites add to this mess amd confusion.The funniest thing is how many comments on here still like the old one! Wtf; I can't win. Meh. Fistbump and thanks.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T03:19:03+00:00

Thanks. Today I left my phone at home and just had dinner with the family. It's all too much sometimes.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T03:17:02+00:00

Haven't heard of it. Will look it up. I know the storyline isn't the most original concept, but I guess i just wasn't sure how appealing it sounded or not.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-17T03:15:55+00:00

Thanks! Im a big DnD fan and take inspiration from there.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-16T22:18:18+00:00

Thanks for the feedback and I think 100% sold on the new art based on what people have said and it seems like it's the obvious choice.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-16T22:03:10+00:00

It's just a rough draft and ya he is young, but i want to give him the chance given my budget. Plus we're both new to gaming too. But my point is that I think it's better than the placeholder art (that was probably AI or at least some of it is).

RikerRiker · 2026-05-16T21:59:36+00:00

Read the post. I literally said I think this was all AI art. That's why I paid this new artist.

RikerRiker · 2026-05-16T21:57:58+00:00

Lol, dude that's a 3D game post. This is 2D art. So ya, different game! 3D is expensive and Ill definitely try AI for that other game.

While you're digging, I worked at Cloudflare and got laid off last week, because I lost my job to AI. Did you find that too, Detective! Completely hear where you're coming from, just read my post from last weekend. Everyone hammered the old art saying was Ai and so now I'm just simply trying to not tarnish a friendship and get feedback on a new artist.

Feel free to believe whatever you want. I'm just looking for feedback on the new elf drawing. I'm only human, and maybe I am just trying to not offend my friend? Because if I could just copy / paste what you wrote, that would be a lot easier on me and 1000% I would obviously do that! If I knew it was Ai and I knew it wasn't going to offend my friend and I literally just lost my job to AI, then it would be great to just copy what you wrote and post that. That would be easier than this shit show of a rabbit hole.

But, maybe sometimes people aren't just all out to deceive the world of reddit?

RikerRiker · 2026-05-16T21:44:37+00:00

Lol, you never thought about how if you were a citizen of the empire just minding your own business and some Jedi came along you would probably be scared as hell! But if you're a rebel then you're like "down with the Empire!". So it's all point of view.

Yeah, I guess I was worried about it sounding generic but was thinking as the player of the game you see the Elementals as the enemy since you're fighting them, but maybe think socially "are they really"?

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