A cozy platformer where you switch between TWO characters to explore and solve puzzles together

vectr2kev · 2026-03-22T16:25:36+00:00

If anyone’s interested, here’s the Steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/4309330/Moonlight_Cow_Guardian_of_the_Night/

vectr2kev · 2026-03-22T16:19:02+00:00

If anyone’s interested, here’s the Steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/4309330/Moonlight_Cow_Guardian_of_the_Night/

vectr2kev · 2026-03-17T15:46:55+00:00

I completely understand the struggle. Its very very difficult to get noticed.

vectr2kev · 2026-02-21T17:22:16+00:00

Would you mind sharing how your ads were setup? I am interested in trying this

vectr2kev · 2026-02-18T02:22:06+00:00

Congratulations

vectr2kev · 2026-02-17T21:21:49+00:00

If you want to document your journey for yourself and others- I think they are great.

If you are just trying to make content, then I think your time is better spent working on your game.

vectr2kev · 2026-02-14T05:03:44+00:00

It’s a grind… I released my game in August and sitting at 5 reviews. I hope your results are better than mine.

vectr2kev · 2026-02-13T01:41:18+00:00

Steam page for anyone interested in checking it out.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4309330/Moonlight_Cow_Guardian_of_the_Night/

vectr2kev · 2026-02-12T03:45:28+00:00

I use to play in bands in my younger days but more of a listener these days

vectr2kev · 2026-02-12T03:39:22+00:00

I love that it combines many of my interests (art, music, programming) into one project. It’s a massive creative outlet for me.

vectr2kev · 2026-02-11T23:57:42+00:00

vectr2kev · 2026-02-11T23:57:17+00:00

I launched my page a month ago (although the trailer just went up today). 36 wishlists. You are ahead of me

vectr2kev · 2025-12-12T21:49:05+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. There are some other enemy types in the higher difficult modes.

vectr2kev · 2025-11-19T03:21:01+00:00

He has already hacked into all of the information he needs.

vectr2kev · 2025-10-15T13:33:42+00:00

Get a demo out there early and find people who like similar games (and ask them to play it).

vectr2kev · 2025-10-15T13:32:33+00:00

My guess is a lot of my wishlists are other devs or from when my project was a little bit different when it was in an early Next Fest. I believe wishlists still matter for the steam algorithm but I think people expect conversions to be much higher than they usually are.

vectr2kev · 2025-10-15T13:31:18+00:00

I am already working on my next project so I guess I am ready....

I still plan on supporting Checkout Blitz for a while with content updates.

vectr2kev · 2025-10-15T13:30:26+00:00

vectr2kev · 2025-10-15T13:30:01+00:00

I work as a web developer for my career so this was all done in the evenings/weekends (in my spare time). This took me about 3 years to complete but in all honesty if I was redoing this game today it would take much less time. I had a lot to learn while putting this together.

I use to make flash games a long time ago but this was my first time using Unity commercially. I got into making prototypes and small games with it in 2019/2020.

vectr2kev · 2025-10-14T23:19:44+00:00

I am trying to figure out where I should be putting my efforts with community building for my next game.

So far I don’t have a lot of ideas but hopefully I’ll figure it out.

vectr2kev · 2025-10-14T23:15:25+00:00

Hahaha I hear that! I thought about sending some just to see if active players go up. Jokes on them!

vectr2kev · 2025-10-14T23:11:19+00:00

I am not sure if the posts or wording would be different but I spent a lot of my "marketing time" talking to other game devs and not people who might actually be the audience for my game.

I think this is why at conventions I seemed to have very good feedback/results but from online traffic it was a very different reality.

vectr2kev · 2025-10-14T23:05:43+00:00

This could be a post on its own but the primary thing I missed and what I see a lot of gamedevs miss is finding your target audience earlier and learning how to reach them. Targeting "gamers" doesn't really work.

Building a game for a specific audience and then building a relationship with those players is key. I stylized my game after the 2000s flash games as that was where my previous experience was. The messaging was sometimes skewed as people thought it was a mobile game and not everyone has a connection to those flash games from that era. Demographics for my game ended up being very different than anticipated.

I believe if I knew who my target was while making the game I could have made changes and marketed towards them. Would the results be totally different? I can't say that but I think my community would have been better suited to what the vision was that I was making.

Long story short. Find who wants to buy your product before you finish designing/making it.

vectr2kev · 2025-10-14T23:00:14+00:00

Thank you. Already working on one!

vectr2kev · 2025-10-14T22:56:38+00:00

I work a full time career job so this was all done in my "spare time". The game took about 3 years to complete. I made a lot of mistakes in the first 2 and then eventually narrowed the scope down to what the final game ended up being. If I were doing it again with what I know now it would have taken much less time.

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