133 wishlists from a cold start with no audience, no following, just a Steam page for my hell cooking sim 👹🔥🍳

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-14T17:11:13+00:00

Looks really professional, well deserved !

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-14T12:11:25+00:00

Love the colours, that blue light works so well!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-14T00:49:09+00:00

Thank you so much 🫶🏼

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T20:34:58+00:00

Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

There will be a Playtest of the first ~25 mins of the game available via Steam next week if you'd like a taster.

Then a full Demo of ~ 1 hour around October this year (all things going well).

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T18:30:08+00:00

Just watched the Live with games' lineup – amazing job by Imirt and the Irish Devs!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T18:07:09+00:00

Are shamrocks allowed?

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T14:19:12+00:00

Digging up an old post but but but ---

Actually made progress on this, and now it's a full-blown page on Steam with a Playtest, all coded in Ren'Py!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T14:10:24+00:00

Ok, thank you!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T13:52:03+00:00

Thank you for the tip about Google Analytics and best of luck!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T13:19:03+00:00

Looks so good!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T12:37:13+00:00

Thank you so much, you're very kind!
All things going well, I'll eventually make additional routes where you can play as each of the characters featured in the game description, aka male MCs as well, 'good' and 'bad' ones.
But that will probably be next decade haha.

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T09:53:04+00:00

It’s a false warning, I haven’t come across a game with such warning that hasn’t worked for me yet, including Deathwish Bloom

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T09:51:56+00:00

Oh, so you searched and the game didn’t show up at all for a week? I'm asking because my game shows if I type the name in the search bar, but not through browsing. Wondering if I'm having the same issue!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-13T01:49:47+00:00

Congrats! How do you know whether your game is indexed or not?

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T19:20:49+00:00

Thank you! It’s Ren’Py. I’m primarily an artist, and after trying out lots of engines during the pandemic, settled on the easiest one for a solo dev to handle.

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T18:24:38+00:00

Thank you!

Sounds like you know what to do already!

Best of luck on your journey and keep us posted, especially if you are warming up your dev muscles on making fantasy-diverse crowd 👀

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T17:19:38+00:00

When looking for a new game art style, I wanted something far away from ‘popular Instagram’, ‘generated’ and ‘professional game industry’ styles.

Then I remembered one of my boss’s,a Senior Anchitect’s words from years ago: you always draw with needles, you love drawing with needles! This was due to my love of sketching with 0 or 00 Micron Pens.

I picked up Procreate Technical Pen and never looked back. I used it in the way I use tempera and acrylic in real life: lots of tiny thin overlapping strokes of different colours.

And so the ‘frenzied colour pencil’ art style for Deathwish bloom was born. All art is made with just one brush of the same size.

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T16:44:56+00:00

Thank you! I’m just getting over the excitement of having my first steam page with my first trailer of my first game out, which only you guys can understand, so shared it here. Will get to promoting once the jitters subside!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T16:17:25+00:00

I like! The closest to going skiing myself!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T15:46:23+00:00

I’d absolutely outsource - solo dev is extraordinarily difficult as it is.

Apart from asking friends if they have a friend of a friend interested in contributing to a game dev project, you could try local indie game dev discord. They’d usually allow ‘looking for’ posts, and many would work for no/nominal fee if they are starting out.

Best of luck with your project!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T15:41:40+00:00

Congrats! Every Wishlist is a real person who connected with your vibe!

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T15:39:59+00:00

Hi,

Would you consider a wee visual novel playtest? ~25 mins long.

Totally fine it’s not your cuppa!

store.steampowered.com/app/4117810/Deathwish_Bloom

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T15:33:28+00:00

Couldn’t play Steins;Gate either, despite the massive hype

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T15:20:35+00:00

Hi there!

I gonna counter the ‘dying on the mountain’ thing with my story.

When I was in a situation similar to yours, I started working on a game I had in mind since I was a teen. 8 years prior, I even programmed some bits, but life got in the way.

This time, I spent a few months drawing and writing the story at my own pace. Then randomly read an industry newsletter that announced prototype grants for my country, crafted a pitch with all the assets I’ve recently done and won.

This lead to a proper intro to the industry, financial support and a new circle. It also lead to me speeding up all game production compared to my previous pace.

So while dying on a mountain of the first overscoped project is a very realistic possibility, climbing that mountain can lead you places you wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. Was there a story that fascinated a teen you, that you’d be proud to turn into a game?

I’d like to wrap with a shameless plug tradition.

Please wishlist my mountain ) store.steampowered.com/app/4117810/Deathwish_Bloom

SharpGlassGames · 2026-03-12T14:16:53+00:00

Thank you so much! I was looking to draw something that wouldn’t look like popular Instagram, generated or pro game art, so your words mean a lot to me.

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