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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.

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[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Congratulations, you've earned it.

As always, @Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world got the mods express authorization to promote his game as soon as his post are not meme and he does not excessively promote his game (aka spam it). One or two post a month are fine, as long as they are not direct link to his game with the text being copy-pasted from the Steam page.

Anyone wanting to do the same can DM the mods.

[-] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months 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 points 4 months 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 1 points 4 months 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 2 points 4 months 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 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 :

  • OP do not spam his game, once every 2 weeks is fine, once every two day is not.
  • OP post objective is to spark a constructive discussion around said game. Good post forms are :
    • A video trailer that accurently depict gameplay (to filter those low-effort games whose trailers are 100% cinematics)
    • A text post that talk about the game without being just a steam description.
  • OP ask for mods permission to advertise his game. @Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world (sorry for the ping ๐Ÿ˜‹) didn't at first, got removed, but was nice enough to ask the mod about it, thank to what we found this arrangement.
  • OP engages in the conversations. Those 1 day account that post their games, never to be seen again, will be removed without mercy.

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.

[-] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The author is on BlueSky and thanked him and he responded. :)

[-] filister@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago
[-] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you :))

[-] blomvik@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago
[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Congratulations, I can only imagine how good this feels. Nice to have some payoff for all your hard work.

[-] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, and also I'm close to release - maybe next month : )

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Added to my list!

[-] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Congratulations! I've played your demo and had a blast. It's been on my wishlist since then.

[-] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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 : )

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

My friends and I loved your demo and can't wait to play the whole release

[-] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Amazing! Thank you, game is coming soon : )

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago
[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago
[-] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you so much : )

[-] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

Awesome! I played the demo way back when it came out and have been waiting since.

[-] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Thank you! Sorry it's taking so long I've just uploaded first build to Steam for review : ) release date announcement coming soon : )

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 months ago

That's probably why I saw it I'm my steam recs the other day then. So the publicity is working!

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

Windows only - no interest.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've been a Linux user for over a decade. Do you just not know that Proton and WINE exist? They work extremely well nowadays. It's not like it was 10 years ago before DXVK released.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

see my other comment

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

I don't disagree with you. But don't you think there's a component of it that's like, "Hey I want to both 1) release a game and 2) put food on table"? Since 99% of players are on Windows, actually doing both kind of necessitates building for Windows first.

As Linux gamers I think we should keep going in the direction we've been and making it easier and easier for devs to port to Linux or run their games through Proton and so forth. It's been amazing and my time as a player has been so good in the last couple years. If we keep showing that, more players will come over and the userbase will grow. I've heard from plenty of others who have ditched Windows, because gaming was their last holdout.

The big AAA publishers aren't struggling for basic needs. We can make demands of them. But the small inside devs? Help 'em out where you can.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

It used to be a legitimate choice to publish for Windows. Even when Microsoft started trying to force every private file into the cloud, I wouldn't have chosen such drastic words. But with the fall of the divided states of america to an authoritarian regime of rapist / pedo billionaires, if you still develop for Windows, where do you draw the line? Gas chambers? And my objection to Windows is not because of Microsoft. It's because of being the government system, that the totalitarian government has its hands on all kinds of backdoors and will use them to sabotage democracies whereever they can.

[-] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

(fuck nazis, but) bro you are 10000% too deep into this. It's just an operating system. You might as well boycott paper because they use a lot of that in the white house too

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

I played the demo on linux and it ran without any problems

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

see my other comment

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