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Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by isaiahg »

akx wrote: post #20
isaiahg wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I definitely agree. I actually had a website up once but I had to let it go because I couldn't afford the domain and server costs. Currently living off of government assistance so it's rare to have more than a few dollars extra. I also tried to contact some publishers for a bigger version but I've never received a reply. It is how it is. I'm hoping the game is good enough to travel through word of mouth :)

You could use itch.io or Github pages.

Oh wow I've never heard of itch.io! I wonder if they allow games in beta.

Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by isaiahg »

mrnismo92 wrote: post #19

Very interesting! I have a few questions: 1) Is this your first time releasing your game to the public? 2) How were you able to focus on such a project for so long? 3) I've never made a game before, do you have any tips for me? (Comfortable with code + design)

1) Yes actually. And it's my second game XD

2) It was very painful. I actually lost the whole game once from a hard drive failure and had to remake it whole. I guess I had to learn to use version control sometime lol

3)

A: Focus on the fun.

B: Just start working, even if you're not in the mood. Sometimes you're not in the mood until you're actually doing it.

C: Accept that restarting from scratch is actually awesome because you can make it even better using everything new you learned. I actually have it part of my process now.

D: Learn some back stretches lol. Those long nights coding tear up your lower back D:

Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by Jhsto »

isaiahg wrote: post #18
nopslider wrote: post #11

Friendly advice: Getting a simple site up and running describing your game with a few screenshots or a gameplay vid and providing download links takes no more than 2 hours. Personally I hesitate to download anything from another person's dropbox. Since you've worked a lot on your project don't let it fail due to poor promotion :)

Yeah I definitely agree. I actually had a website up once but I had to let it go because I couldn't afford the domain and server costs. Currently living off of government assistance so it's rare to have more than a few dollars extra. I also tried to contact some publishers for a bigger version but I've never received a reply. It is how it is. I'm hoping the game is good enough to travel through word of mouth :)

Amazon S3 static sites are not that expensive either, but as far as I know you would be needing a credit or debit card.

Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by isaiahg »

chii wrote: post #14

It would be nice if you put the open source the game as well (seeing as it's free atm, so no profit loss from it). I'd like to see how you wrote it, and learn from it!

I might do that. I'm a little shy about it since I'm self taught. No one's actually looked at my code before haha

Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by notnownikki »

Hey :) Well done on reaching beta!

First bit of feedback - I'm running through the tutorial, and text boxes animate on to the screen, slowly, every single time. It's really annoying. Can they just appear there with the text? I just want to read them and find out how to play.

Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by notnownikki »

notnownikki wrote: post #25

Hey :) Well done on reaching beta! First bit of feedback - I'm running through the tutorial, and text boxes animate on to the screen, slowly, every single time. It's really annoying. Can they just appear there with the text? I just want to read them and find out how to play.

Second bit of feedback, same as the first, but this time on the options screen. I want to play! Don't make me wait to watch everything fade in :)

Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by notnownikki »

notnownikki wrote: post #27
notnownikki wrote: post #25

Hey :) Well done on reaching beta! First bit of feedback - I'm running through the tutorial, and text boxes animate on to the screen, slowly, every single time. It's really annoying. Can they just appear there with the text? I just want to read them and find out how to play.

Second bit of feedback, same as the first, but this time on the options screen. I want to play! Don't make me wait to watch everything fade in :)

And last bit of feedback - the keyboard controls don't work. Spacebar doesn't change the color, and the arrow keys don't make me move around. This is on the Linux build.

Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by isaiahg »

notnownikki wrote: post #25

Hey :) Well done on reaching beta! First bit of feedback - I'm running through the tutorial, and text boxes animate on to the screen, slowly, every single time. It's really annoying. Can they just appear there with the text? I just want to read them and find out how to play.

They shouldn't be animating slowly.

I wonder if I forgot to make them framerate independent :/

I'd really appreciate it if you could file an issue here: https://bitbucket.org/ZayWolfe/boxbyte-lyte/issues

Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

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Post by yitchelle »

throwaway13337 wrote: post #17
paraknight wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Also maybe the fact that it's a Unity game.

How is that relevant? If it's fun, it's fun.

It's analogous to downloading the Flash player to see some of the websites around. Once downloaded and used, it makes my system rather bloated and unstable. I rather avoid this if possible.
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