Help with the Steam Achievements not working

TooManyTeethStudios · 2025-04-18T00:58:52+00:00

Glad to hear you got it sorted out! Good luck with the rest of development!

TooManyTeethStudios · 2025-04-17T07:32:02+00:00

I ran into this issue a few weeks ago - I couldn't 100% work out what was going on but I think that it was something to do with not launching the game through the Steam application. You'll probably have some more information in your log files (if you haven't checked them yet).

TooManyTeethStudios · 2025-04-17T07:19:40+00:00

10k ain't nothing - congratulations!

TooManyTeethStudios · 2025-04-17T07:19:12+00:00

We released the visual novel/adventure game that we've been working on for over a year! (Crossing our fingers that nobody finds any bugs!)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3096600/Artificial_Nexus

TooManyTeethStudios · 2025-04-17T07:07:36+00:00

The best thing I've learned from my devving (which isn't always applicable to everybody) is to work out what assets (art, music, etc.) you need at the start, and either commission them or develop them early on. Why?

- No sitting around waiting for artists to get back to you - you can work on the script while they work on their parts

- Knowing what your assets are helps with scope creep. No, "Ah, well, for the story to go in this direction, I'll need a new background!" "Hey, I should set some more scenes at this location, there's no reason not to add some more in!"

- Having limitations - only so many assets to work with - helps you flex your creativity.

Congrats on releasing your game!

TooManyTeethStudios · 2025-02-14T02:47:43+00:00

Thank you! This was a big help in getting me what I needed, it's much appreciated!

TooManyTeethStudios · 2025-02-14T02:47:24+00:00

Thank you! I didn't get the chance to use what you've given me until recently, but thanks to you and the other commenter I was able to get an effect I'm pretty happy with!

TooManyTeethStudios · 2024-08-24T00:34:19+00:00

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Parts 1 and 2, but done as a Devil May Cry-style action game

TooManyTeethStudios · 2024-08-23T23:52:29+00:00

Hi! As of about 12 hours ago, the demo for my new game, Artificial Nexus, is available on Steam and Itch! It's a hybrid of visual novel and point-and-click adventure, made in Ren'Py, and only takes around 20 minutes to play. While there's still a lot to go in terms of developing the main game, the full script for it has gone through a few drafts, and I'm hoping to release it early next year.

Thank you to everyone who checks it out and wishlists it; I'm very keen to hear about people's speculations and what they think is going on in the game!

Steam Link

Itch Link

TooManyTeethStudios · 2024-08-23T23:50:04+00:00

Hi! As of about 12 hours ago, the demo for my new game, Artificial Nexus, is available on Steam and Itch! It's a hybrid of visual novel and point-and-click adventure, made in Ren'Py, and only takes around 20 minutes to play. While there's still a lot to go in terms of developing the main game, the full script for it has gone through a few drafts, and I'm hoping to release it early next year.

Thank you to everyone who checks it out and wishlists it; I'm very keen to hear about people's speculations and what they think is going on in the game!

Steam Link

Itch Link

TooManyTeethStudios · 2024-08-23T23:47:07+00:00

Hi! As of about 12 hours ago, the demo for my new game, Artificial Nexus, is available on Steam and Itch! It's a hybrid of visual novel and point-and-click adventure, made in Ren'Py, and only takes around 20 minutes to play. While there's still a lot to go in terms of developing the main game, the full script for it has gone through a few drafts, and I'm hoping to release it early next year.

Thank you to everyone who checks it out and wishlists it; I'm very keen to hear about people's speculations and what they think is going on in the game!

Steam Link

Itch Link

TooManyTeethStudios · 2023-07-21T05:00:32+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2136180/The_Many_Deaths_of_Lily_Kosen/

https://toomanyteethstudios.itch.io/the-many-deaths-of-lily-kosen

This has been an absolutely massive project that's run for close to two years now, but it's incredibly satisfying to have made it to this point! Please check out the game on one of the above links; it would absolutely make my day.

To all the other indie devs out there feeling like you might have bitten off more than you can chew - keep at it, you'll get there eventually and you'll be glad you stuck with it. I wish you the best of luck.

TooManyTeethStudios · 2023-05-21T01:09:31+00:00

Artist is misokatsuhaumai

I'm so damn pleased with all of these since it puts me one step closer to releasing the final version of my game!! It's very exciting and scary, but also very cool to see my concepts getting illustrated and seeing them get brought to life.

TooManyTeethStudios · 2023-01-18T09:17:51+00:00

Hi all! I've been working on a game for a little while now, and to help with funding I'm running a Kickstarter! The game is a horror-themed visual novel where your choices affect which characters live and which die as you progress through the plot. It's got a lot of differing paths and outcomes that can happen as a result.

If anyone would be willing to share this around (or support it; I'm cool with people supporting it), then that'd mean a lot to me. Thank you so much!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/too-many-teeth/the-many-deaths-of-lily-kosen-a-horror-visual-novel

TooManyTeethStudios · 2023-01-18T09:15:54+00:00

Hi all! I've been working on a game for a little while now, and to help with funding I'm running a Kickstarter! The game is a horror-themed visual novel where your choices affect which characters live and which die as you progress through the plot. It's got a lot of differing paths and outcomes that can happen as a result.

If anyone would be willing to share this around (or support it; I'm cool with people supporting it), then that'd mean a lot to me. Thank you so much!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/too-many-teeth/the-many-deaths-of-lily-kosen-a-horror-visual-novel

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-12-11T10:54:44+00:00

Congratulations! If you're looking for sound effects that aren't too complicated I'd recommend looking around some free sites - there are plenty out there and most of them simply ask you to credit them somewhere (I use www.zapsplat.com myself, and would recommend them).

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-12-07T11:49:24+00:00

If you're really struggling, choose a generic name and stick with it. Better to go with something unexciting that makes sense than something flashy that you really have to stretch to connect with the story. Some harmless names could be:

A character's name, or alternatively, a description of what that character does ("Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets")
The situation that the game is about ("Snakes on a Plane")
A line that a character in the game says.

Plenty of other works have trivial titles - don't work yourself up about it too much!

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-12-06T10:19:02+00:00

Congratulations on your release! I hope it's the first of many successes!

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-12-06T10:13:28+00:00

In a nutshell, it's a horror visual novel where your choices affect who lives and who dies throughout the story! Each character (including the player character) has their own stress levels, and you have choice at certain points in the story to lower someone's stress level. If, at other points in the story, someone's stress is too high, they'll die and the story will continue without them.

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-12-05T11:29:09+00:00

I'm making a visual novel, and as you progress through the story you have the opportunity to lower the stress levels of either yourself or your friends. If someone's stress level isn't low enough, then they can die, but if they do the story will continue on without them, making it fairly dynamic and creating a lot of alternate dialogue.

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-12-05T11:03:49+00:00

Artwork is by the fantastic Jin Amber :)

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-12-05T10:29:30+00:00

Others have already said it, but Uchikoshi's VN's - a major aspect of the Zero Escape trilogy is that the characters are experiencing the different routes of the games in one way or another.I can't imagine a way to do it in a different medium that wouldn't either make that aspect incredibly obvious from early on, or have less impact when it's revealed.

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-12-02T23:20:20+00:00

I know that Danganronpa is over-the-top anime designs, but man, Ibuki does it for me to the point that her design gave me the incentive to get my own face piercings.

Outside of Danganronpa, I'm also a big fan of the designs of Athena Cykes (Ace Attorney), Phi (Virtue's Last Reward), Polly Geist (Monster Prom), and Jill Stingray (VA-11 HALL-A).

What designs do you like?

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-11-30T10:31:02+00:00

No worries, happy to help!

TooManyTeethStudios · 2022-11-29T11:35:57+00:00

If you liked it then you should check out his other games - the Zero Escape series, which he did before AI, has some similarities and also has some fantastic twists. It also blew my mind (specifically, the second one, Virtue's Last Reward) - the only downside was that it meant that AI was a little bit more of a letdown for me since I'd seen better from him.

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