So, I flagged this review on my game a few months ago.
Valve unflagged it, which means it's valid criticism to them.
If you're making an indie game in 2024, you NEED to add sex.
Missing Hiker just reached 1500 reviews on Steam.
It has been played by ~176.000 people.
Crazy to think how many people experienced something that just started out as a neat idea in my brain.
Game dev is fun, but boy is it slow 😅
For example Westwich Castle took me around 180 hours to make. The average playtime is just 25 minutes.
But the game turned out well, so worth it 👀
What I've learned using twitter for a year: People like shiny things.
If you want your game to get more traction, add volumetric lighting, bloom, fog etc.
I launched Missing Hiker back then with just 350 wishlists. That's basically nothing.
But it still got 280k downloads and 2280 reviews.
How tf did that happen? Still can't wrap my head around it.
Have game idea.
Refine it in your brain.
Craft game design document.
Start coding, design levels.
Make UI, fix bugs.
Playtest, market.
Polish. Release.
Guy on Steam review:
@FreyaHolmer
I can't believe that it's legal. Especially because there's so many ways to abuse it and also edge cases. Like what will happen with betas, demos, refunds or just groups of people that want to shit on a developer by reinstalling constantly
Mimic Search is now released on Steam.
It's a game set in an alternate universe, in which entities exist that mimic humans.
Thanks to everyone for the support ❤️
Steam page is below ⬇️
Development on my next horror game is going well.
The game is called Entity Room. It's about working in an underground lab and your job is to make sure 'the entity' is being fed.
Easily my creepiest game so far 👀
#indiegames
#gamedev
#indiedev
#horrorgame
I released Missing Hiker exactly one year ago.
It has been played by 297k people on Steam (+60k on ItchIO).
Weird to think how many people got scared by something that started out in the depths of my brain.
So, I released Mimic Search exactly 2 weeks ago.
It has 186 reviews and was downloaded 37k times so far (+10k on Itch).
Crazy to think how many people that actually is. That's like a small city 😵💫
I really like Unreal so far:
- Easy real-time global illumination (Lumen)
- First-person controller out of the box
- Terrain tool doesn't suck ass
- Don't have to pay 0.20$ per install
Mimic Search is releasing tomorrow on Steam.
I feel pretty relaxed about it. The beta went pretty well and people enjoyed the game.
Also this has like 20x more wishlists than Missing Hiker, so it has to do well I think 😅
@TKsMantis
I mean Valve says you can flag reviews if they're "Off-Topic" so I did that to see if they take it down. I don't really care about it though. It's just funny to me
So, my Steam page is up for around 2 months and it already got ~4000 wishlists.
This is way more than I anticipated.
My last game Missing Hiker only had like 350 wishlists at launch.
Missing Hiker just reached 2000 reviews on Steam.
It has been played by ~243.000 people.
Scaring that many people hopefully won't negatively affect my karma.
Since my game is open-world, I had to add a map so players wouldn't get lost.
Having some kind of artificial UI would break immersion, which is especially bad for horror games.
So I made it diegetic:
My game reached the magic 7000 wishlists mark today.
It only took 4.5 months, which is pretty fast.
I had it kind of easy though, since a lot of traffic came from my other game.
I'm trying something that's kind of rare in indie horror.
A horror game that doesn't force the player into a certain path.
Instead the player has a goal and needs to figure it out.
Most people seriously underestimate how much work goes into making a game.
My first horror game took me around 2 months to make.
Even though it's just ~10 minutes long.
So, yeah the launch went pretty well.
Currently at 44 reviews of which 93% are positive.
I wonder if this will ever overtake Missing Hiker which has 2672 reviews and still growing (don't ask me how) 😅
I'm working on a small side project called ██████ Invasion.
It's a game where you have to try to fall asleep, even though you're getting harassed by ██████.
@zaric
Valve let's you decide between three reasons when you flag a review: "Off-Topic", "Abusive" and "Violates Community Guidelines". In my opinion it's the first. I'm not mad though, I just think it's funny that they decided it is "On-Topic"
Here's a list of a few indie horror games which are really well made. Most are free + on ItchIO.
Play them:
The Witch of Sherdorne Forest
Cozy
Horror Record
Jungle Dungeon
Day 178
Cave Crawler
Vessel Blue
Erobos Heaven
Incident at Grove Lake
The Lancaster Leak