UNITY'S PROFILE

author=Darken
I usually get a double double and Timbits. Grats on getting through it, progress isn't always linear. Here let me overwhelm you with Steam businessy advice.

As someone who just spent the last few weeks getting their first game ready for Steam, just want to say this is a bunch of really good advice! And he's not kidding about the varying sizes for images, they ask you for like at least eight of those XD

What he said about the trailer is 100% true as well, all advice I've found is to hook people quick with gameplay shots, even for RPGs, apparently that's the quickest way to get someone who's Steam windowshopping to go for the buy.

author=Darken
Steam doesn't let you get achievements until you hit a certain sales bracket now (same with trading cards) but when you do get it it's going to incentivize the completionism brain people to pick it up.

Not to stray off topic too much, but I was curious about this. The game I'm putting on is free, and they let me set up achievements, and I've seen other free RPG Maker games with achievements (Tho my game's not finished going thru the approval process, so I suppose they could reject the achievements?).

I wonder if it's different for free games, or if there's something I'm missing.

author=kentona
Let me check with the kids' lawyers

Haha, right, as usual I'm overthinking things XD

Your kids' art really brings me back! When I was little I'd also get index cards and draw monsters and equipment on them and give them stats and everything!

author=kentona
In the past 5 years I wish I practiced spriting...

I wish my spriting had improved in the last five years XD

Here's my rendering of Willantern! (Awesome name, BTW!)



Are your kids cool if we use the stuff we make in our games? :3 :D

I'm glad to hear you're back at Zosma! Those kind of problems can be daunting, I'm having some similar issues with Izrand, where I want the adventures to connect to the characters on a more personal and story-driven level, and it can be real hard for me to get there sometimes.

I'm glad you can still do this game at your own pace and put love and care into it, and I know it's going to be great! :DDD

author=iddalai
I'm glad you found your answer, but I admit I'm a bit miffed about this reply.

I know you didn't do it on purpose but it makes it sound like you just dismissed all the posts because you found the justification for your "white-mage-hate™" elsewhere :D

While at the same time justifying the death of old school forums in favor of discord, due to the ephemeral nature of its discussions.

Not a big deal though, just wanted to put this out there.

I dunno, I don't think Red needed to personally respond to everyone's posts individually. There was a lot of great discussion here, and a lot of food for thought. The ideas everyone brought to the table is the important stuff in my opinion.