PROGRAMANCER

@AlexandreMTH Yup! It's just to entice the cash cows by dangling keys of currently popular and successful games and saying you're making the next one, whereas the actual audience has a bit more understanding and time to figure out what a game is trying to do

@Programancer It's usually just a quick way for investors to know which buckets to put your game in, marketing like that towards your core audience can even be detrimental in my opinion

I genuinely feel like this notion that you have to elevator pitch everything as "it's like X and Y game!" is just pure brain rot. If you have to market your game as being like another game, you're already misstepping. People who would care would already see what inspired it.

@ShoulderWinter As soon as I can make it, anyway haha

@Programancer Coming real soon? 👀

If you like games, you might like my game If you like when I don't market my game with "it's like these other games!", you might like my game If you like parodies and lots of little nods and homages, you might like my game. Or you might not, who knows

The game is The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest, btw store.steampowered.com/app/2749920/Th…

@LeeorV Except it's not even close to a classicvania on anything other than the surface, and I'm giving people the agency to figure that out vs your assertation that players are assumed stupid. I could just say "It's more like a Zelda", but the reality is it's just an adventure game.

@Programancer is it really that hard for you to say that you're building a Classicvania? give some details. platform, price, release date, etc'. We players are not stupid you know...

@TheRealRazzAce I mean, someone definitely did when they said "if you go to GDC and see someone important tell them your game is like 2 other popular games in 30 seconds and they'll give you buckets of money" and they thought that'd be great to do for everything always.

@Programancer I'm convinced you can just make up game dev advice at this point

@Neroshade @Retroware The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest, not out yet but targeting all modern platforms + Steam store.steampowered.com/app/2749920/Th…

@Programancer @Retroware Is your games name called programancer and what is it available on

@rainbowbayo @maxbrando76 @josejuarezjajr store.steampowered.com/app/2749920/Th…

@maxbrando76 @josejuarezjajr @Programancer What is the name omg

@JustySilverman Uh

@Programancer ??????????????? store.steampowered.com/app/4491210/FU…

@RoboticSteve @JustySilverman Yes! Plenty of Nox(ious odors)

@Programancer @JustySilverman Transylvania huh? Is Nox in it?

@Programancer Quite the Playstation wizard ya got there

@JustySilverman You look like Wawa slop. This is from the Polish Market BAYBEEE

@Programancer Looks like Wawa slop

Why… why is my pretzel so veiny

My game doesn't have any really good comparisons and is inspired by obscure, criminally underrated, lesser-known gems from 30+ years ago. It makes references to equally obscure underground cult films and manga that only the most niche of hipsters would get. You might like it.

@GameOverlordV This one is The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest- not out yet (Prison City released in 2023 and just had a physical release)

@Programancer What’s the game?? “Prison City”? Or one of the other ones? Is it OUT??

@RIDDICKbRICH 😅 These cart segments are a lot more forgiving, imo

@Programancer Me Realizing I'm going to have to relive DK mine kart levels

@somewheredense Not really. The only thing it does is devalue a game's own merits and gives the expectation they're playing more of another game, instead of a new game. Any deviation from the "blueprint" is then overshadowed because of the other titles. Its lazy marketing meant for investors lol

@Programancer But isn't that kinda the same thing? When a gamer looks at footage, he gives it like 10 Seconds to tell him what he needs to know. And what he needs to know is... "Oh, so this is a building Sim but with deep ressource management?!".

@cibryll There are!

@Programancer Are there cats? :3 (I. Don't remember if I already asked that or not lmao)

@somewheredense Nah, people should get used to seeing games marketed on their own merits and like things for those reasons. Elevator pitches exist for investors. Gameplay footage can speak for itself, and I personally don’t like hearing “if you like that you’ll really like this!”

@Programancer It just means people will quickly give it a second look if they are at all interested in any of that and the Screenshots seem nice.

@graysonZ80 YUP- I remember seeing you be pretty vocal about it. Tired of people normalizing enjoying a game as if it's another game vs enjoying the game for what it is.

@Programancer I sometimes see people say ANTONBLAST was exclusively marketed as this, and it always blows my mind as someone vehemently against that : D

btw the game I RT'd looks really good and I wanna play it, I just hate comparative trends haha