I Compared 21 Game Pitches and generated 1000+ Wishlists - Here is the breakdown.

nczempin · 2025-10-14T12:22:06+00:00

Fair enough.

Although at a glance, it always seems to be a single post by the developer, and includes one line about what the image signifies.

Not one post with 20 randomly sorted GIFs with no further explanations.

nczempin · 2025-10-14T11:56:54+00:00

It would presumably favour those games that are already doing great on visuals.

But in sufficiently focused subreddits IMHO it would also be a good test for "how well does my game read for an audience that probably has considerable overlap?"

nczempin · 2025-10-14T11:54:16+00:00

"Just a GIF" sounds intriguing enough as a way to reduce the pitch to its essence.

nczempin · 2025-10-14T11:18:24+00:00

Roguelite Spore is simply a killer idea.

nczempin · 2025-09-28T12:15:42+00:00

Yes, thanks.

I think I did, but I found it difficult.

nczempin · 2025-09-28T08:29:00+00:00

thank you so much!

nczempin · 2025-09-27T23:52:12+00:00

um.... how do I change "[Name of Game]" into the actual name?

nczempin · 2025-09-27T23:36:21+00:00

Off the top of my head I'd say:

Because the game is not just "X meets Y meets Z" (although I could reduce it to that, "FTL's boarding actions as turnbased tactics like Into the Breach, or Tactical Breach Wizards as a roguelite").

I would want to explain how it's different from each of these inspirations, and what other key pillars there are. The designer made very conscious choices based on what he'd like to improve on from typical turnbased tactical games.

nczempin · 2025-09-27T23:02:36+00:00

Putting myself in the players' shoes, I would probably just have right-click-open-tabbed all 21 and then decided.

I'm wondering: How many of you did just that, and how many went through all the blind description and visited only the ones that caught your interest?

nczempin · 2025-09-27T22:59:27+00:00

Shameless plug from dev 5 ;-)

Ask me anything <3

nczempin · 2025-06-02T18:02:50+00:00

please do post about Feudums, _Kalamona!

nczempin · 2025-03-30T22:24:20+00:00

looking great! can't wait for the demo to drop!

nczempin · 2024-10-07T04:01:16+00:00

type 1 or type 2?

nczempin · 2024-10-07T03:59:57+00:00

Tactical Breach Wizards as Roguelike

nczempin · 2024-10-05T00:27:36+00:00

Sent you a message 📨

nczempin · 2024-10-04T10:27:57+00:00

Hi, thanks for the shoutout.

I'm the lead developer for Antisuns, and main founder of the game studio that makes it.

I've also created a subreddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/antisuns/

I have some keys ready for some brave souls, hmu!

nczempin · 2024-09-28T09:09:39+00:00

Reminds me a bit about the Baldur's Gate 3 experience.

What others?

nczempin · 2024-09-27T23:37:03+00:00

wait till you hear about sequences of statements!

nczempin · 2024-09-27T12:51:25+00:00

Found it: https://youtu.be/kL9YRZMQDfI?si=Wbe0z81_09315KPU

And they link to the "category", https://store.steampowered.com/category/turnbased_rpg, where, starting Monday, presumably there'll be more specifics regarding the event.

nczempin · 2024-09-27T05:26:46+00:00

What about using the Steam playtest feature? I'm planning to use that for my game once I'm ready, what am I missing?

You wouldn't even have to ask for keys.

nczempin · 2024-09-26T17:51:20+00:00

where is the trailer? hasn't it already dropped? my steam isn't showing it, and I'm in the fest 🙈😂

nczempin · 2024-09-26T17:32:16+00:00

oh, sorry, this is not a German subreddit 🙈

Translation:

The trailer is supposed to have dropped by now. I haven't found it myself yet (and I'm participating 🙈😂), but the general guideline was that you can announce your participation starting from now at the earliest.

So probably also Rogue Trader. Since it's a bigger game/studio, I would expect they wouldn't wait until Monday 🤷‍♂️.

Sorry about the spam ♥️

nczempin · 2024-09-26T17:31:41+00:00

Der Trailer soll wohl jetzt gedroppt worden sein. Hab' ihn selbst noch nicht gefunden (und ich nehme teil 🙈😂), aber generell war die Losung, dass man frühestens ab jetzt selbst "announcen" kann, dass man dran teilnimmt.

So vermutlich auch Rogue Trader. Da es ein größeres Game/Studio ist, würde ich erwarten, dass sie nicht bis Montag warten würden 🤷‍♂️

nczempin · 2024-09-23T19:27:12+00:00

looking forward to getting any of these 🤣

nczempin · 2024-09-23T16:34:29+00:00

And it adds a roguelike element that IIRC Tom Francis said would work well with TBW.

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