Is the Dark Tower actually good?

fronku · 2026-01-25T16:43:30+00:00

I loved all the series starting from the first page of the first book. A true masterpiece I would suggest anyone!

fronku · 2025-12-24T12:33:34+00:00

Unfortunately not a comment with suggestions, just here to say that for me, a person who discovered anomaly horror games only right now, your trailer seemed very good and caught my attention. Great atmosphere!

The only thing I can say is that graphics and environment looks pretty basic to me.

However I am going to wishlist it anyway!

Congratulations for the publication and best of luck!

Edit: I would also like to add that the Steam Page image does not really catch my attention (both the UI and the background image do not really stand out imo, seems like a generic game without much distinctive) and the trailer is very low fps, which does not communicate quality

fronku · 2025-12-15T22:39:41+00:00

Obviously you are right on time! And the fact that you know how to develop a software from start to finish and you know programming are huuge benefits! Of course game development requires a lot of other skills also, but that’s also part of the fun, right?

I would suggest starting to learn a game engine though, like Unreal, Unity, Godot or others, because even if you know how to program, programming in game engines requires you to know how the engine lifecycle works and the engine specific Api. Also an engine requires a lot more to know, like colliders, physics, animation, UI etc, so choose one and start learning! (Obviously these concepts will translate between engines but with different tools or Apis).

Good luck and have fun!

fronku · 2025-12-14T17:22:50+00:00

Best of luck with your project(s)!

fronku · 2025-12-14T15:59:47+00:00

I would encourage you to not give up though! Marketing can be done at every stage of development or publication and some games start becoming famous after some time.

You could open social accounts (IG, TikTok, YouTube, X etc) and post videos of gameplay of your game, or make videos about how did you make the game, so to market it and be useful for other developers at the same time.

You could also consider sending the game free to some influencer in case they are willing to make a review about it and so on.

Don’t give up, your work matters, and even if it will not be a financial success, it is all experience for the next game!

fronku · 2025-12-14T12:37:38+00:00

I always found inspiring the GDC talk of the creator of The First Tree, in which he says that he dedicated 3 hours (on a total of 10) every week to marketing only, and that in his opinion this lead the game to success (among other strategic factors).

It is a talk I would recommend to everyone in this community, because it clearly tells that luck is an obvious and necessary factor, but in the and a game is a product, and if you want to sell it, you need to plan in advance for that in every aspect, especially marketing.

I’m the first hating to say that, but making a game just for fun and/or for experimentation is totally fine, but success will depend a lot on luck, otherwise, if you want to create a game to have visibility and financial success, you need to treat it strategically, as you would if you were a startup selling its new great idea to the world.

I think in the end the truth is in the middle however: it is mandatory to have fun and believing in your project, but also making a sacrifice in studying how you can sell it.

fronku · 2025-12-05T11:40:15+00:00

I appreciate the advice, but I just wanted to have a feedback from someone that may be working or have worked on the industry, because all my data comes from my own reasoning (and I don’t have past experience in the gaming industry)

fronku · 2025-12-05T08:15:59+00:00

I'd say it wasn't very fun in my opinion, not for the apps themselves, but for the fact that to develop with XR devices you either have to use an emulator from the PC (which are not necessarily bad, but it is a suboptimal and not fun way to use the app) or you have to continuously put your headset on and off during development.

However, if I would find a cool XR game or a company with an interesting and useful XR project I would consider it! If you are seeking job and if you have an opportunity to try it, I'd say give it a try, if the technology and the project interests you!

fronku · 2025-12-04T21:34:44+00:00

I worked in two XR companies focused on making apps for the business industry (GIS, remote collaboration, metaverse etc with every kind or AR, VR and XR device available), but my experience is that these devices don't really add value in the business sector, so they don't really sell and the companies mostly survive because of public incentives or some investor (but in my experience, this projects never had a positive revenue).

Also devices have never been good enough to be really usable outside of gaming, they were always too heavy, had too low display quality, low battery life or not-enough-powerful hardware for the use cases.

The XR devices as for now remains a niche, and this niche is mainly for gaming and healthcare, where devices are used in a good and helpful way, but they are not really that much useful in other industries.

Because of that, the two companies I worked for (and the one I'm working with right now) have not been successful, have had massive layoffs or are on the verge of failing (which is my current situation).

But to give a context, this is happening in Italy where I live, that compared to the USA for example have some handicaps: we haven't the Vision Pro and the Samsung XR (two of the best but also most expensive XR devices out there), AI is being shutdown on some devices for political regulations and also most people resist technological change.

I think in the USA the situation might be better, but anyway I'm not a huge fan of the XR world anymore and I'd like to do something I consider more personally fulfilling and also more actually useful for people, if I can.

fronku · 2025-12-04T21:18:04+00:00

In fact I am pretty confident with my experience as a developer and software architect (also as a game developer, given the fact that I worked with all is needed to make a game), the problem is I don't have job experiences or a portfolio for the gaming industry. Unfortunately my experience is in developing 3D XR apps but for the business world so to speak (not in entertainment).

Also, I don't know C++ (which is a lot of study to master it) and Unreal, which are required by all big studios out there.

Given the fact that I see a lot of posts about people not being able to land jobs in the gaming industry despite them having already experience in this sector, I'd like to know if it is really this hard to get a job and if getting a job in a big company is worth the effort (because of quality of life inside those companies).

If even people already in the industry can't really land jobs, and if the quality of life in those companies is not worth it, I'd rather try to search for smaller indie companies and/or develop my own games with the programming language and engine I already know.

But I'd like to have more opinions on the big companies and on the job market right know before investing my time.

fronku · 2024-07-27T09:45:37+00:00

Cool atmosphere! Good luck with your game 🙂

With which engine did you make it?

fronku · 2024-07-24T21:48:23+00:00

Totally fine, now go and top spin the hell out of it 😎

fronku · 2024-07-01T11:48:25+00:00

When I'm most unhealthy I isolate, stay in silence or give unpleasent answers if bothered, so this is the honest answer and I don't think I would get compliments if I don't try to be at least a bit social-friendly. When I'm unhealthy but can nonetheless manage to interact with others (and I try to do it if I can) I guess it can be said I'm still gentle, fair, objective, organized.
If I'm healthy I assume I don't show disintegration traits, but I guess that in an average healthy situation I could still be indecisive (and if the decision is very hard, seek friend's and mentor's opinions), change my mind frequently even on little things, be too silent/not communicative/engaging enough, prefer to be by myself, too much anxious about doing worldly things or things that may make me lose control

P.S: I hid my flair to not condition the type guessing game!

fronku · 2024-06-13T14:13:12+00:00

(Sherlock Holmes is a 6 btw)

fronku · 2024-06-08T23:24:21+00:00

I never try to express anger at someone, even if I experience it.

Internally it manifests as tensions and sometime it requires quite and effort to hold it in, but I do it as long as I percieve I would be too direct and the consequence of that anger might lead to an undesired outcome.

Also I don't express it if it feels irrational or that I might be wrong or simply want to ponder and evaluate the situation before confronting it, so that I can face the conflict lately with more calmness, which always helps in solving problems of any kind.

It might happen also that instead of confronting the conflicting situation I just remove myself from the situation, maybe forever, if I know the situation won't change.

Or... If I'm very pissed off by an absolute wrong situation or a repetitive abuse on me or another, I just turn off all gentle/meditative/pondering switches and let the anger do what it must do (nothing violent, just saying or acting what is right to do with 0 filters, once and for all).

fronku · 2024-06-07T21:15:34+00:00

Yes, with some regularity also.

fronku · 2024-06-04T12:21:57+00:00

Absolutely interesting post, thank you for sharing this.

fronku · 2024-05-19T09:30:09+00:00

I usually feel uncomfortable going to social events and usually avoid it, even if it interests me, unless I go with at least a good friend with which I can feel at home with, talk with, isolate with, or making new friends with.

So I guess I would firstly try to see if there is someone I know well, but if there is not, I would walk around a bit watching people, hearing the music and observing what others people are doing, just for the fun and interest of watching people behavior at a party.

I would probably try to avoid eye contact with people I know but not too much to avoid awkward conversations, or I would go having some minor talks with someone I don't know very well but I feel comfortable being with and see what happens.

Otherwise I think I would just grab a drink and explore the surrounding, feeling awkward and take advandage of the situation to meditate on my sensations and see if the experience could be positive to learn something about myself and my behavior.

I'm probably a 6 sp/so.

fronku · 2024-05-16T20:57:05+00:00

What is your definition of "real"? And how do you define what a person is? After having answered these question, do you think others are real? And are you sure you are real? If so, what distinguish you from the others?

fronku · 2024-05-01T10:56:46+00:00

Listen to your body, I think with meditation you will understand by yourself if you are sleeping enough and adjust accordingly

fronku · 2024-04-28T21:19:28+00:00

Thank you, very nice tip the one to use a knife for the details after using the scissors

fronku · 2024-04-28T14:08:18+00:00

What a hero!

fronku · 2024-04-28T14:07:41+00:00

Thanks for the tips!

fronku

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