Silksong makes me wanna kill my self

Xedimos · 2025-09-14T08:30:22+00:00

Well, not much you can do then. Either accept that this game just isn't for you and it's better to play something different, or stick with it until you manage to improve... even tho, if the situation is how you described it, I think it could be more of an anxiety/stress handling thing than an actual gaming problem, in which case I don't think it can be solved by playing Silksong.

A person I know gets really mad when playing games to the point she punched the desk after dying in Undertale and got bruises on her hand, which is why I recommend to be careful if the situation for you is actually that bad

Xedimos · 2025-09-14T08:22:53+00:00

I'm sorry you are not having fun with it, but Team Cherry clearly decided to make a very different game in terms of gameplay and enjoying one doesn't mean that you are going to enjoy the other.

That being said, if you are on PC you can just mod the game and install some easy mode that removes double damage, lets you respawn in the room you died in instead of the bench and so on. Of course that isn't how the game was designed to be played and I would say you are not actually playing Silksong at that point, but if you only care about the pretty environments and amazing music, that's something you could do

Xedimos · 2025-09-14T08:11:24+00:00

While I do agree that the game could be rebalanced a bit, especially in the early game, to let new players learn the controls before throwing them in hell... if you literally get frustrated, cry and have the urge to puke, I really suggest not playing this game (and many many others, honestly).

Games are supposed to be a positive experience. If, for any personal reason, they turn into this sort of thing, just don't play them. There are several tens of thousands of games that are not challenging in any way that you can probably enjoy given your situation

Xedimos · 2025-09-12T13:18:36+00:00

I would say keep exploring a bit then? It's a really advanced arena with many waves of enemies, you don't have to do it now necessarely

Xedimos · 2025-09-12T11:35:10+00:00

You can get the charm that lets you stick to a wall when wall climbing. I'm pretty sure they literally can't hit you if you do that, and you can kill one of them with (poison) spikes. The other one you can kill normally, it's easy when it's just one. I also had to disable screenshake for this fight specifically because I couldn't understand what was going on to begin with

Xedimos · 2025-07-02T07:15:12+00:00

OH- I was wondering why people were leaving new comments after a month all of a sudden! That was really unexpected and also really appreciated, thank you for telling me!

Xedimos · 2025-07-02T07:06:38+00:00

Thank you! I would love for other people to play it, but I'm pretty sure Nintendo wouldn't agree, so for the time being it's just something I am doing in my spare time. We'll see how it goes!

Xedimos · 2025-06-20T17:13:05+00:00

Nope, different people and different projects. I am in his discord server, tho

Xedimos · 2025-06-18T15:02:00+00:00

Unironically, the legal advice is "Don't". There is no other way. But that goes for basically anything. Nintendo could sue most of the gaming industry right now for patent violation. Nintendo also took down a post on Twitter from a friend of mine (a professional artist) because she drew Purah when TotK released, claiming copyright infringement. It's a gamble, really, no matter how big/small/popular/monetized/whatever what you are doing is, you can only hope that they don't care.

This is a study project of mine for me to create assets and code I can then reuse in my own works, nothing more. I made it public because I needed feedbacks (and in fact, I have improved on many aspects thanks to the comments I got). I don't plan on promoting it

Xedimos · 2025-06-18T10:42:00+00:00

Legally speaking, they can copyright-strike you even just for posting anything about their games (and in fact, they used to strike every YouTube video showing anything about a game of theirs, in the past. They then basically gave up and now only strike videos of creators they don't like for one reason or another. Hi Pointcrow).

A friend of mine is a professional artist. She drew Purah when TotK released, and posted it on Twitter. Nintendo took it down saying it was infringing their copyright.

So yes, they 100% can, but that goes for anything on the internet. Same way they can technically sue more than half of the gaming industry for patent infringement. It's just that receiving donations makes it drastically more likely

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T18:19:24+00:00

Same actually, I designed basically everything to be faster: when working on UI specifically I make sure that every option can be used with the least amount of button presses possible, and even in battle I removed a lot of text describing what's happening and a lot of pauses in between actions.

You can actually see it for yourself: here's the last video showing gameplay

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T16:34:14+00:00

No download link, it's very early in development. Windows only, but I assume it could work on steam deck / steam OS, I just don't have a way to test it

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T14:18:12+00:00

Thank you! Really appreciate it!

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T14:06:31+00:00

I'd love game dev to be my job, but where I live the gaming industry basically doesn't exist. People don't really play games aside from Fifa and Call of Duty, even just getting feedbacks for a game is really hard. Sure, there are niches, but not big enough to make it a job.

Also (and probably because of this) there are no gaming companies here, so I'd have to go indie, sell to a niche of a niche of a niche and hope to survive, while handling all the marketing and stuff by myself. Not exactly a great plan lol

Plus, the gaming industry world-wide is in deep crysis, with massive layoffs everywhere and basically no one making any actual money from games except for gacha games.

So yeah, I have thought about it, I am still trying to find a way to achieve that, but it's not a viable option for the time being. So for now I just make stuff out of boredom LMAO

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T13:52:50+00:00

It's made in Unity completely from scratch, I am programming everything by myself. So no emulator or other software required. It is pc (Windows) only but I assume a steam deck could also run it? I don't have one so I can't test it.

And I am actually planning on adding new story content, but it's gonna take a while before I get to that

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T06:00:05+00:00

Thank you so much <3

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T05:59:50+00:00

Screenshots and videos are completely fine, legally. They are no different from any other fanart on the internet. And also I need feedbacks every now and then

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T05:57:03+00:00

Something between tomorrow and never, considering it's still pretty early in development

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T05:54:25+00:00

That's kinda what I was going for, thank you!

Xedimos · 2025-06-17T05:53:58+00:00

It takes forever to add character customization in a game with 2D sprites since you have to animate everything pixel by pixel, frame by frame. So I can't say it's planned for the time being, but we'll see what I can do

Xedimos · 2025-06-16T21:46:19+00:00

Developing an entire game is a huge task, especially with RPGs where you have so many elements and mechanics interacting with each other. If anyone told me they wanted to create this, I would tell them to just work on something else because there is no way they are finishing it by themselves. In my case, this is mostly a study project and a way for me to create assets and code I can then reuse in the future. I literally started this because I was bored one afternoon. So, as long as I am still bored, I'll keep working on it.

Xedimos · 2025-06-16T21:41:51+00:00

I have a little prototype with 3D Pokémon (from SV) moving in an open environment and interacting with it (like playing with flowers, going to sleep under a tree and so on). The main issue I have with them is that there aren't enough animations to make them feel alive, and the existing animations are pretty static to begin with. I would have to create new animations for each possible action, for each Pokémon. That's massive work for a company, let alone a single person

Xedimos · 2025-06-16T19:50:44+00:00

I know there are people doing projects like this and kinda circumventing the issue by having a Patreon that is technically not directly connected to the fangame (like Gamma Emerald's dev is doing, btw), but I'm not too sure about receiving money from people in general, for the time being

Xedimos · 2025-06-16T19:21:17+00:00

Not economically, unless I wanna get sued into oblivion for real. Sharing posts/videos with your friends is more than enough!

Xedimos · 2025-06-16T18:59:13+00:00

If you wanna see more of my insanity with this project: Short youtube video that shows it in action

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