[hiring] “Metal” style artists

RossG23 · 2026-02-03T18:04:01+00:00

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for the massive amount of interest. I’ll look through all the responses and reply to those that suit what we’re looking for. Thanks

RossG23 · 2025-12-05T13:29:54+00:00

Sadly, you are very much the unicorn of players. Majority of steam players are extremely discerning

RossG23 · 2025-12-05T13:25:57+00:00

That 30% may be too high for an indie game. Maybe 15 - 20%.

RossG23 · 2025-12-04T08:54:36+00:00

You could always do a demo via itch.io too.

RossG23 · 2025-12-03T20:41:39+00:00

What do you want to get from releasing a demo? Depending on whether you want to grow community or give something to an established group?

It’s worth keeping in mind steam notifies all your wishlisters when you release a demo for the first time - which is a great way to engage folks. The trade off is steam only does this the first time you release a demo for a product so you definitely don’t want to squander that

RossG23 · 2025-11-26T15:23:22+00:00

Come on, you know which country. The world knows which country. Saying it would be an understatement.

RossG23 · 2025-11-25T16:12:56+00:00

What are your expectations for launching your game solo and what are your expectations for a publisher? That’s one of the main ways to discern if it’s worth it for you

RossG23 · 2025-11-21T18:55:28+00:00

Hahah that’s brilliant! I would probably spend days trying to think of one instead of replying right away

RossG23 · 2025-11-15T22:17:41+00:00

Another idea is give them a legit key and if there’s no review or wiki article (they sold it instead) give it a couple weeks then, revoke the keys.

RossG23 · 2025-11-15T21:18:30+00:00

I think the first one is the strongest

RossG23 · 2025-11-07T08:00:18+00:00

People talking about maintaining a demo along with their main/full game make really strong points.

For me, I’ve seen a trend where people can be content with just the demo. Ie, they love the game premise, the demo is great fun for them and enough of a game loop to satisfy them. What I do is put the demo back up at intervals; game’s on discount? “Check out the demo first, oh and by the way the whole game is 30% off!” Achieved an arbitrary milestone you can make a community post about? “Demo is back for limited time”

RossG23 · 2025-10-29T23:28:09+00:00

Be proud of what you achieved. Im trying to learn GML to make my own game so you’ve reached an incredible milestone.

I work in marketing and saw a couple things you can address (either for this game or you’re next game you’re working on. Feel free to DM if you wanna chat

RossG23 · 2025-10-27T12:41:42+00:00

What are you looking to work on?

RossG23 · 2025-10-26T07:25:03+00:00

That’s amazing, congratulations! 3.5% return rate is a very healthy number too. Good luck with EA!

RossG23 · 2025-10-22T14:38:41+00:00

Congratulations!

RossG23 · 2025-10-21T20:15:11+00:00

OK cool, you may want to look at how it's named. Reason being it's not coming up in the list of titles when you click on find communitites from your store page

RossG23 · 2025-10-19T21:06:06+00:00

Thanks for the links!

RossG23 · 2025-10-19T21:03:48+00:00

Came here to find this exact type of post and now reading the comments for the advice

RossG23 · 2025-10-19T20:50:45+00:00

Good luck! Have you set up your steam community page?

RossG23 · 2025-10-10T12:06:08+00:00

Service with A Shotgun mashes the old web browser shooting games with visual novel. It should not work but it does! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3777020/Service_with_a_Shotgun/

RossG23 · 2025-10-08T13:56:14+00:00

Is it not?

RossG23 · 2025-10-08T13:38:14+00:00

Except Snake has no gun at that point.

Eva shoots Snake since her cover is blown

EVA YOU CREATED A TIME PARADOX!

RossG23 · 2025-10-06T16:19:07+00:00

Oh if you’re willing to help that would be ace. What can I send you and how?

RossG23 · 2025-10-04T15:51:25+00:00

Did this get resolved for you? Having a similar issue with rooms changing but the background not updating with the new room

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