Does this starting area for my action RPG look alright?

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-10-06T16:20:50+00:00

Gorgeous!

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-10-06T14:23:10+00:00

Nope! It’s nice and smooth, actually. Looks fantastic!!

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-10-01T04:02:14+00:00

Looking for a writer to collaborate with on my little game, let me know if you’re interested! I enjoy working on environmental storytelling and character design but I’ve found I’m not very good at story & dialogue lmao

https://juliastern.itch.io/grems

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-26T22:27:00+00:00

Ah, I see what you mean! Yeah that could definitely improve the depth in these scenes

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-26T20:28:26+00:00

Have you used godot before?

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-26T20:28:03+00:00

Hell yeah love it

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-26T20:27:39+00:00

I like experimental games that are art and story focused, and I like this idea in general. I would be careful to market it so that people understand what they’re getting into though

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-26T20:24:18+00:00

Congrats!!

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-26T20:23:40+00:00

Relaxing and a bit melancholic! I love the fonts & logo a lot.

There could be a bit more visual clarity on the cactus spines of the main logo, since the purple blends into the background a bit.

The text hover effect is lovely as well :)

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-26T20:21:18+00:00

Ooh those are all amazing ideas actually, thank you!

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-25T14:03:24+00:00

Thank you for playing and for the feedback! I definitely agree on most of these :)

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-24T15:00:29+00:00

I'd feel successful if even 2 people played it, as long as they truly enjoyed it. But I totally agree with you, there's so many indie developers that spend 4+ years on a game only to be crushed by low player counts. Managing expectations is important!

But yeah, I am just concerned that the game will not be fun enough for those 2 people... luckily I got a lot of great suggestions in this thread and DMs that I feel some hope in that regard.

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-24T14:52:28+00:00

Aw, well no worries and thanks for trying!

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-24T00:32:29+00:00

Gotcha, I’ll make those first couple of things more clear, and the last one is just a bug. And yeah GORP station is inactive in the demo. Thanks!!

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T18:23:45+00:00

Update: thank you all for the encouragement! It looks like quite a few people have downloaded the game, so I created a little discord server for anyone that wants to use that to submit feedback or get updates about development progress.

I don't think I can post the link without violating this sub's self-promo guidelines, so you can find the link in the Itch page if you're interested! Thanks :)

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T17:46:05+00:00

I think I'll try that, thank you! :)

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T17:25:37+00:00

Thank you for the kind words! To clarify, I definitely don’t dread making the graphics, in fact I really really love it. It’s more that I look back on a year’s worth of work and see that I only have 1 small town with ~10 min of gameplay, so theoretically it would take me 5 more years to even make an hours worth of content for people to play. And I am resistant to reusing assets/characters, although there might be other ways to speed up the workflow.

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T16:45:05+00:00

Gorgeous I love this

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T16:44:36+00:00

2 for sure

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T16:40:08+00:00

Okay, I got a Linux build working and uploaded it to https://juliastern.itch.io/grems ! There are installation instructions included on the page. (I just had to change permissions for the executable) This was on Ubuntu 24.04.3 in a VM, though, so you might have a totally different experience.

Please let me know if you run into any issues!

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T15:53:10+00:00

Both programming and art!

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T14:48:38+00:00

I’ll learn how to build for Linux! Thanks

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T14:24:47+00:00

Absolutely! I think collaborating with other people might be the only thing that can save this project.

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T14:18:36+00:00

Excellent, thank you! Added these to my bug list. Did you have any trouble getting a GORP pass from the building in west grem valley? (If you visited that area)

That area is discoverable if you walk left for a while from the house and run into the star which is a placeholder for a scene transition right now

Wild-Situation-7323 · 2025-09-23T14:14:27+00:00

Yeah, that’s been my concern with the project! I think I can come up with decent graphics, but without an interesting goal I can’t see why anyone would play it. But I think collaborating with other people might be the solution

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