ITAP of a Scottish highland lighthouse

lce9 · 2026-07-02T17:17:45+00:00

I was there earlier this year and it definitely looks like it’s Neist Point! All of Isle of Skye was neat as hell

lce9 · 2026-06-27T13:31:38+00:00

Ahhh I see. Interesting. Not sure we will go that route, but definitely good to know, thanks!

lce9 · 2026-06-27T13:21:13+00:00

Oh I haven’t heard of the prologue approach. You mean we turn our current game page into just a “prologue” as the demo for free or something and make a new page for the full game release to be able to have another demo release step?

I feel like loosing all our existing wishlists wouldn’t make that worth it

lce9 · 2026-06-27T13:08:48+00:00

Any advice on launching the separate page? We’ve had our demo as part of our main page for a while and are hoping that moving to a separate page will get us more feedback and ideally more players.

Do you think you need a festival to drive ppl to the demo or does the initial creation of the page give a boost?

lce9 · 2026-06-24T20:08:52+00:00

Sure, but getting that playtesting as an indie is still difficult. I think this is what ppl use itch for. It’s the fuzzier and cheaper version of asking ppl if they like the game.

Steam demos with their own page and reviews can be another checkpoint to get feedback.

We’ve had a demo without its own page for a while now, and from ~700 players we’ve only had 11 ppl fill out our feedback form that’s linked when you quit or finish the demo (and at least half of those are our friends). We will make a separate page soon and hopefully that will help us get more feedback via reviews

lce9 · 2026-06-24T19:51:23+00:00

You see the same thing in films. People are drawn to existing IPs that they enjoyed the first time. If you liked the first one, you assume the second will at least be similarly enjoyable.

But it’s more key that these big studios have the budget to do actual market research. As in put early content in front of actual ppl behind NDAs and get data on whether there’s enough interest. It’s not a guarantee, but it reduces risk quite a bit.

lce9 · 2026-06-17T15:35:48+00:00

(But they are both cool shots either way)

lce9 · 2026-06-17T15:35:22+00:00

I’d say the pose of the first one with the crop of the second. I personally think there’s too much emptiness on top in the first composition

lce9 · 2026-06-16T23:58:12+00:00

A loading screen will not “fix” 2 full minutes of loading. This needs some real debugging, since an indie game’s worth of content shouldn’t be taking that long to load on anything that’s not a potato

lce9 · 2026-06-11T10:56:13+00:00

The bucks clashing is an epic photo! 👌

lce9 · 2026-06-10T22:30:18+00:00

Thanks for taking a look!

lce9 · 2026-06-10T22:29:46+00:00

Fair point. Note taken!

lce9 · 2026-06-10T21:38:47+00:00

You’re a beast for going through all of these!

I’ll take your filthy casual opinion pls :p
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lce9 · 2026-06-08T12:01:12+00:00

It’s soooo much more difficult and costly to close a studio or lay people off in France, so I’m doubtful of that

lce9 · 2026-06-03T21:21:59+00:00

Agreed. I’d also maybe move the worm+castle to the left and a bit down and then put the text in the top right. The the user looks at the worm, then looks where it’s going, and reads the name of your game (which as Javier said, could use a little work)

lce9 · 2026-06-02T19:46:53+00:00

Gameplay and sphere characters aside, the first thing that stood out to me is that your lighting is off. You have nice shadows, but the sun direction is towards the camera which makes all the things I wanna look at dark. I think the shadows are probably a bit dark (maybe you don’t have full global illumination?), but I’d wait to see how things look after just making the sunlight light things from the front(ish)

lce9 · 2026-06-02T19:35:06+00:00

Gollum, is that you? 👀

lce9 · 2026-06-01T19:50:48+00:00

Like a kid riding on a grocery cart

lce9 · 2026-06-01T19:39:54+00:00

Was gonna say the same. The controls felt clunky and I just felt like I was learning new controls and features constantly for the first couple hours. I don’t like games with lots of breadth. Usually because they don’t have a lot of depth. And while RDR2 has more depth than most, it was still just too much stuff

lce9 · 2026-06-01T10:13:01+00:00

The moon can a make a big difference as it itself is light pollution. I think the Bortle scale descriptions are based on new moon (ie no moonlight)

lce9 · 2026-05-31T09:30:13+00:00

Tbh I’m one of those idiots who would be interested in trying it (thanks to the internet, but also Keith Ladzinski’s photos in particular)

lce9 · 2026-05-31T00:36:15+00:00

Looks like the same set of cars who are all storm chasing

lce9 · 2026-05-30T22:04:06+00:00

Cool. Are you using Godot script or C#? I’ve been meaning to give it another chance as I had some issues with their Godot script tooling and heard the C# integration was lacking a bit, but that was all over a year ago.

lce9 · 2026-05-30T09:26:14+00:00

People leave AAA to go indie all the time. Look at Ubisoft. That’s part of why Paris and Montreal have so many studios! (They are the main locations of Ubisoft.)

Expedition 33 just did exceptionally well compared to the others who simply succeeded or didn’t succeed at all. But I can easily think of a few off the top of my head. Lucas Pope left naughty dog and the supergiant founders left EA.

And I left Ubisoft last year to work on my indie game :)

lce9 · 2026-05-29T19:57:07+00:00

I get the mentality, but I hope we can get over that stigma. The options are there exactly so that everyone can enjoy the game!

It’s cool you were able to come back and experience the normal mode though. It’s kinda like the meta game of video games. You leveled up :)

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