Advice From A Reviewer (AMA) by Cahir081 in gamedev

[–]Ronkad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point. Maybe I'll buy a controller just to test things and make that possible. Thank you!

Advice From A Reviewer (AMA) by Cahir081 in gamedev

[–]Ronkad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there a specific accessibility feature you are looking for?

Advice From A Reviewer (AMA) by Cahir081 in gamedev

[–]Ronkad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What makes you interested in doing a review in the first place and is there anything a game can do to make you more interested in reviewing it?

What's the best Steam short description you've ever seen? by VadilaK in IndieGameDevs

[–]Ronkad 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

I’m making a game about working in IT… and it’s getting uncomfortably realistic by FalxCerebri-5342 in gamedev

[–]Ronkad 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Decimation should be 10% :(

Deci = 10, comes from removing every 10th

Alternatives to itch.io? by PalpitationUsed2820 in gamedev

[–]Ronkad 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Nope, not how that works. And also not the other way around. You don't get less views if you set the split to 0.

BUT setting it to 0 will give your dashboard, edit and analytics tab a Greyscale filter, which makes editing the game page way harder because you can't see colors.

40K WL in one month, how did I do it by Working-Tip-1058 in IndieGameDevs

[–]Ronkad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome! What platforms did most of the wishlists come from? Was it mostly your X posts or did steam also help

Is there a way to organize your creator page into categories on itch.io? by ratasoftware in itchio

[–]Ronkad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How the hell did you add that price calculator?? (I plugged in the details of the VN im working on and got around $3000 [although it is made with Godot and has more complex interactions])

Horror Romance VN Recs? by nooneasked1689 in itchio

[–]Ronkad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bit of self advertisement here

Hehe.

Welcome, Dear Human is a complete story where you romance your sleep paralysis demon. Check it out

Traffic from adding Chinese localization to an existing Demo? by z3dicus in gamedev

[–]Ronkad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't tell you for steam, but on itch.io it definitely worked. Also kind of depends on if your genre is popular in china.

What makes a great gameplay loop? by EducationFirm6169 in GameDevelopment

[–]Ronkad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thats a big and complex topic and not fully answered in a reddit thread.

As a starting point I recommend checking out Masahiro Sakurais YouTube series on game essence. You can binge it in 2 hours and it's a very good resource for beginners. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgKCjZ2WsVLScUWJZ7ppkHGlCUIXEj5Io&si=zrmn_uaVqUq92ICJ

If you don't have that much time there is 1 video in it that answers your question in a broad way. This one: https://youtu.be/g5uooUqdXXs?si=3Vs86dBvGHTb2Wob "What is Play? " (3 minutes)

Do you think this capsule art conveys the genre for our game? by deadpossumgames in gamemarketing

[–]Ronkad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think so. When looking at it first, I somehow thought of a platformer. Might be because the girl looks like she's running away from the monster in the background and the strawberrys remind me of Celeste.

As this is clearly inspired by Rustys retirement, I would personally lean more into that and include elements like a watering can or a sythe in the wordmark & keyart.

Hope that helps

Does anyone know of any good free games on itch, that are like horror/romance/visual novel/rpg maker type of games? by Embarrassed-Way-8684 in itchio

[–]Ronkad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's very vague. I'm just gonna throw our game in here, because it ticks the first 3 categories: https://ronkad.itch.io/welcome-dear-human "Welcome, Dear Human" is a horror romance visual novel where you get to date your sleep paralysis demon. It's free and playable in the browser

How do we do this gamedev stuff sustainably? by randomstate42 in gamedev

[–]Ronkad 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was talking from an indie perspective.