SurvivorsGate⚔️

My goals for this year are crazy ambitious: 1. Get my game into the top 100 wishlisted games on steam 2. Release my game this year All of this while handling a full time job, father duties and having a social life. Very ambitious but this motivates me like hell!

Sure. It started with a few control variables for validation and then the participants (gamers) had to complete a PANAS test to determine their emotional state. After that they were shown various screenshots from different games one after another. They were asked to rate their interest in each game based solely on the screenshot. Interestingly, the intensity of the emotions correlated with interest while love or hate had no influence at all. Only the intensity. But when you think about it, it makes sense. Both fans and haters can be extremely interested in something even though their feelings are completely opposite. Whether you can turn a hater into a buyer I dont know. But this certainly plays a bigger role in marketing. Haters will also view your content, which is why such polarizing topics go viral more easily.

That's very interesting! Can you provide more context about how people with a negative emotion for a game interact with it? My assumption was just that negative emotion meant that it's probably got something - but meant for other people. I hadn't thought that folks with a negative emotion might also be a valid customer base.

Gamedevs, here's how to actually validate if your game prototype is worth putting serious time and/or money into: 1. As soon as it's playable at all, play it yourself and be honest with yourself if you're having fun. 2. If it is fun, show it to family or friends and see how long they play it (important: do not pay attention to if they say it's fun, but how long they play it). 3. If your friends and/or family play it for longer than you were expecting, then give it to strangers to playtest. When you do this have a survey in the game to try to tease apart what makes it fun, why, and what doesn't feel good (where the friction is). By the end of this process, you've validated that it's fun and found out what your next steps are.

@onlypancak3s_ Ohh thats a really good idea and solves many things at once! Could also be a screensaver looking at it😂👌 well done

Cheating at my own game made it 1000x better

@jogamedev @onlypancak3s_ THIS. When I did my bachelor's degree I wrote a thesis with an experiment about how emotions affect your interest in a game. And actually it did not matter if you love or hate it. As long as you have strong emotions it was the same. The middle is where interest is dead.

@onlypancak3s_ haha so maybe it's strong emotions of any kind that validate :D

Choose who you want to be😏 #screenshotsaturaday #gamedev #indiedev

@PondsideGames Yes builds can become quite crazy right now😂 I will have make sure that you can still see shit after a certain point lol

@WhyEmBeDev Great idea to turn a parody into a full fledged game! I'm assuming the total chaos in the late game stages is intentional? It gets so intense that you can barely see anything.

Hereee birdy birdy... #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #games

This also has a marketing effect on the game, but Joe benefits the most, as he reuses other people's viral content to boost his account. And what I find disgusting about it is that he sells it differently even though it's so obvious.

1) scrape the internet for gameplay footage that went viral 2) scrape related dev account 3) create short description in "this" template 4) post link to dev/steam 5) opt: attach marketing for something Joe does

Hey!👋 I am looking for someone to create music for my game Survivors Gate🔊 Below you see some footage! It's basically an endless runner that turns into absolute chaos! Please share if you know someone that could be interested :) DM me❤️ #gamedev #indiedev

#lowpoly #pixelart #GameAsset

@BecomingCaptain 😂👌

@WhyEmBeDev You took a game from Temu and made it better 🤣 That's quite a feat.

@chan_oro @omuhi_ Love it! Well done

This is probably the most detailed animation I have ever created! 🔥 This artwork is called The Bridge - for Anomaly - a game which me and my friend @omuhi_ were making together a while ago! I will put the full version with better quality below the comment section #pixelart

Pacing starts slower but increases over time⚔️

been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype is this anything

@MrMorrisGames actually really nice :)

We announced our new game recently and we received some feedback about the design We’ve been coming up with some new ideas and one of them is this zoomed in view of a handheld with stickers stuck on the side (wip) We’d love to add color customization and a keychain on the side!

You can try the demo right now! store.steampowered.com/app/4051770/Su…

Which gate do you choose?😏 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames