Social media
@ross.grams now I can relate, you are absolutely right, this seems to be the best proportion, but it’s also extremely exhausting
It was an intensive month (and one day to be precise) since I posted for the first time on Twitter and in the moment of writing this I have exactly 500 followers and following exactly 1000 persons or companies. I learned a lot and I have a constant feedback which is awesome, I think people like what I’m doing and this is the biggest motivation
Newbie’s statistics but actually I’m impressed:
I have almost 3% engagement rate which is (as I read in the internet) quite good.
Discord
I made also a Discord server for the game, but it’s not so succesful and for now I don’t know much about Discord. Although, people I met there are extremely helpful and are sharing their personal experience which is priceless!
Itch io
All of that implicated a pretty constant number of daily visits on my itch.io page (with pretty outdated alpha demo - I need to change that!) and - it’s time to celebrate - my first and only 1$!
(I think someone’s misclicked for sure but anyway I’m feeling like it’s my number one dime!
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Ludum Dare 45
I needed to take a break and I made my second LD submission which is a very simple, minimalist game about a ghost floating in the void meeting his/her memories. It actually has not so good mechanics, but I like the impression so much that I wanted to create it Again I had a problem with actually designing something fitting to the theme - I know it could be anything where you just start without something and then reach it, but I brooded and brooded and it took a lot of time- I spent about 5 hours on the actual development and polishing. It is of course available to play on itch and the source code is available on github
Development
I did a lot of mess in my code because I wanted to show what is in my head and I need to tidy it up. But it was definitely worth it. I have several versions of spells systems now and some redundant files which I need to merge together. I’m still researching and developing a fire propagation system and I’m writing a devlog about it
I’ve also gathered togheter many useful shaders: Defragments - a library of Defold shaders!
Story
A lot of characters is being designed with my brother thoroughly including their past life, relations, believes, problems and temperament. Whole mythology of the world is being created and because there are many ideas we are confronting it and choosing what seems to be logical and convincing. It takes a lot of time, but it’s a pleasant and creative work