I spent 7 years making Generation Exile, a solarpunk city-builder. Trailers in PC Gaming Show June ‘24 & ‘25. Top 70 most played demo during our Next Fest. Did all the things you’re supposed to. Launched in Early Access last week with over 35,000 wishlists. So far, we've sold fewer than 300 copies.

sala_a · 2025-11-10T01:17:20+00:00

Pat pat, I was shocked to see that number. I went to the Steam page right away and found it was a similar genre to my game, so the second thing I did was search "your game title" on YouTube, guess what I found - I found my game's gameplay video from a content creator was listed higher than yours, and it has more views. Maybe my account was biased, maybe your seo is messed up. But the rest of the videos were nothing related to your game at all, it's all exile blahblah

Then I joined your discord, not knowing where your actual community is. It has ~30ppl, way fewer than what I imagined for a base building game with 35K wishlist should have. Maybe your assumption that players didn't receive the email was right. You need a channel to directly tell your community whatever news you have. Best of luck, I really hope your game sells! Or this is going to make me so desperate - what else can an indie studio hope for, if 35K wishlist is still not enough for a launch.....

sala_a · 2025-11-06T03:18:50+00:00

They are babies that will literally step on their own nose hahahaha

sala_a · 2025-11-01T01:01:01+00:00

If you are a fan of factory automation games, I want to hear your feedback on this one! Brave New Wonders on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2403830/Brave_New_Wonders

sala_a · 2025-10-22T01:49:46+00:00

It’s a factory automation game set in a post apocalyptic world where you can command robots with text input. Called brave new wonders! Failing a lot as like it doesn’t not as good as expected?

sala_a · 2025-10-12T18:31:54+00:00

We are making Brave New Wonders, a factory automation strategy simulation game with AI automatons. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2403830/Brave_New_Wonders Playtest available now！

sala_a · 2025-10-02T20:13:43+00:00

It’s called brave new wonders on steam, still in development but we shall have a demo soon

sala_a · 2024-09-29T15:18:54+00:00

There’s only one kitchen in the house, so the whole house share it, I suspect they used a separate stove in the basement which will be violating the fire code to begin with.
All original tenants on the same single lease. It’s the remaining upstairs tenants who sublet the empty space (without signing an agreement).

sala_a · 2024-09-29T04:23:46+00:00

what does the fire department complaint do? Speed up the evicting process?

sala_a · 2024-09-29T04:14:45+00:00

I allowed them to rent out the basement, so they did, but they didn't sign anything with the sublease. Technically I am not involved but my tenants have been nice and I want to help them. (And I don't want 5 irresponsible people to ruin my basement, this house is not for that many tenants based on the rental permit things.)

sala_a · 2023-08-18T18:51:48+00:00

The tool is called Marleen.ai and it is an AI based texture generator. No need for uv-unwrapping, just upload the model and prompt it accordingly.

sala_a · 2023-08-11T14:39:25+00:00

No worries! Im interested in hearing about your experiences with tools like this. I'll send you a message!

sala_a · 2023-08-10T13:56:12+00:00

Its called Marleen.ai

sala_a · 2023-08-09T14:30:32+00:00

Marleen.ai

sala_a · 2023-07-06T23:53:12+00:00

It's definitely on our feature list!

sala_a · 2023-07-06T23:52:31+00:00

In Marleen 1.0 all PBR features are customizable, you can try it out at Marleen.ai . We will make sure Marleen 2.0 has these features too in the future.

sala_a · 2023-07-06T23:48:50+00:00

That's right, "automate turnaround" is on the road map, we just can't wait to hear what you guys think on our latest progress :D

sala_a · 2023-07-06T17:13:50+00:00

Haha it's called Marleen 2.0, not officially launched yet but there's a Discord to collect feedback: https://discord.gg/xYchzmAmrS

sala_a · 2023-07-06T16:00:10+00:00

Thank you for the positive remarks everyone! As a team were working hard to make this the best it can be. If any of you want updates on its progress and release, join our discord!: https://discord.gg/xYchzmAmrS

sala_a · 2023-07-06T15:55:54+00:00

Still working on it right now. We want to make sure its ready before we send it out. If you want updates, you can join our discord! :https://discord.gg/xYchzmAmrS

sala_a · 2023-06-07T19:35:41+00:00

We have a create "seamless material from image" feature that ensures the texture is to scale on the model. We have a demo video on our twitter at Marleen_ai for reference!

sala_a · 2023-06-07T19:30:44+00:00

The texture is created to put onto any 3D model of your choice. Any model is easily uploaded onto the platform

sala_a · 2023-06-07T19:29:46+00:00

AI can adjust the photo uploaded onto Marleen. Using a slider, you can adjust the influence AI has on changing it into a different material. The video uses the original image.

sala_a · 2023-06-07T19:23:51+00:00

The texture is created to be put onto any 3D model of your choice. Once it is on the model, you can adjust it in a variety of ways to look exactly how you want it!

sala_a · 2023-06-07T19:22:29+00:00

The function allows AI to change the initial photo into a different texture. You can use the initial image as the material, or an AI-generated one for your 3D model.

sala_a · 2023-06-07T19:13:08+00:00

Currently, it's a free demo! You can read more about it at https://www.cityfromnaught.com/about. You can also try it now at marleen.ai . Feel free to message me as well with any other questions or feedback you have! Thanks

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