Submitted 4 days ago by Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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For context : have no idea how they found about it, but I love that they are illuminating indie games. And VICE.com has 12 million monthly readers. This is insane for me , because for a long time I was struggling for the game to be noticed. (If you want to follow how development of the game is going, a simple wishlist on Steam will be well appreciated.
The author is on BlueSky and thanked him and he responded. :)
Congratulations!
Thank you :))
Congratulations, I can only imagine how good this feels. Nice to have some payoff for all your hard work.
Yeah, and also I’m close to release - maybe next month : )
Added to my list!
You’re mostly here to self promote from what I can tell. It shows in your post history and the fact that you though it’d be more important to link to Steam and not the article itself.
That’s fine for me. The dev does not spam but gives me some insight in his development and his struggle to get people to play his stuff.
It becomes a problem once others see this is permissible. It’s not that much now but once everyone realises they can put ads here for free how do you imagine it goes from there?
And so they bloody well should be! How the fuck else are we going to find out about cool, unique indie projects instead of mass produced corporate slop?
Independent creators should absolutely be encouraged to self promote in communities like this, or else what the fuck are we doing here? Just shilling for Activision?
I want to learn about it either through an independent journalist or from a space dedicated for self promotion. Ads are poison, haven’t we all learnt?
Well, I post every few months when I have something new and interesting to show. This community in general has been very friendly and like being part of it.
And that’s fine!
Yeah I don’t want to find out about games in this game community.
Link to the Vice article: vice.com/…/illuminating-indie-games-v2-tense-clim…
Awesome! I played the demo way back when it came out and have been waiting since.
Thank you! Sorry it’s taking so long I’ve just uploaded first build to Steam for review : ) release date announcement coming soon : )
Congratulations! I’ve played your demo and had a blast. It’s been on my wishlist since then.
Thank you for the kind words and I’m sorry I’m taking so long. It’s 99% done and I’m looking at specific release dates : )
Congrats.
Thank you so much : )
Windows only - no interest.
Linux users: Gaming on Linux is great, with Proton we don’t even care if a game isn’t developed for Linux specifically!
Also Linux users: You’re not developing a Linux version, I don’t give a crap about your game.
My point is Windows is an ecosystem enabling totalitarian regimes and exposes all user privacy to corporations. Developing anything for Windows-only strengthens that ecosystem and is thereby anti-humanity, antidemocratic and just overall an awful decision.
Because of Proton and also how shit can just break on Linux (see the current glibc fiasco), it might be better to have just a Windows version.
I when I play a game, I don’t even notice if it’s Linux native unless the game specifically tells me it’s a Linux build.
Wow, it’s almost like there might be people with different opinions that use Linux and Linux users aren’t a single hivemind.
I played the demo on linux and it ran without any problems
I’ve been a Linux user for over a decade. Do you just not know that Proton and WINE exist?
see my other comment
If you do what you love and love doing it, people will notice. Best of luck to you in this, I wish you all the success in the world.
My friends and I loved your demo and can’t wait to play the whole release
Amazing! Thank you, game is coming soon : )
Congrats!
That’s probably why I saw it I’m my steam recs the other day then. So the publicity is working!
It’s been cool to see your posts/progress over time. Having thrown a couple of likes your way over that period, I do kind of feel I am ~90% responsible. If you ever get really famous, I will probably tell people, “I pretty much made that guy,” fyi.
Dremor@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Congratulations, you’ve earned it.
Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Reddit mods should learn a thing or two from you : )
“Posting about a game on game related sub? HOW DARE YOU?”
Speculater@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The blatant ads there were getting insane though. I love how you are sharing your well earned recognition, but many times on Reddit it was, “My daughter died of cancer three years ago and I quit my job and used coding as therapy, three years later, I have my parting gift inspired by her love of turtles ready to share with the world!”
Insert half-baked $5 game made in a few weeks
It was so obvious they were creating fictions to push shovelware.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I once saw a post about Oni, a 2001 Bungie game get deleted from the Bungie subreddit for not being Bungie related.
electric@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s cool you guys allow it. I find banning self-promotion is such a stupid rule for a games community. It’s cool seeing people make games, too!
Dremor@jlai.lu 3 days ago
Rule 3 is about “excessive self-promotion”. Self-promotion is allowed, spamming is not.
I understand it isn’t verry clear (I’m working on that), but as a mod, I usually do not remove if the following conditions are met :
All those implicit rules helps to keep this community free of advertisements for low-effort cash-grab games, and preserve everyone enjoyment of this community.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Yeah I mean it’s why I’m here. I’m much more interested in finding out about indie games then AAA games, if only because I probably already know about the AAA games. Especially because they’re apparently AAAA these days, and presumably some of that budget includes advertising.