Thank you and I appreciate it!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Oh Awesome! Well then I guess uploading to steam was basically free :)

Good luck in your journey! There will definitely be stressful moments

Appreciate it

The refunds aren't an issue and aren't something I am focused on fixing. The main purpose of the game was to learn and fully finish a project as a developer. There are also PLENTY PLENTY of $5-$10 games out there that only give about 1 hour of AMAZING GAMEPLAY playtime. I am 100% okay if someone refunds that has less than 2 hours of playtime, I expected this an am okay with it. Although I wouldn't say it's an content issue because some players have found 10-20 and some even have 30+ hours of playtime. The main story line is only about an hour. You can have a few hours of fun in freeplay unlocking everything. I think it's more of players beating the story and then wanting to refund before time runs out (based on the refund notes I get from players). Although in my next game this is something I will focus on and allow the player to have several hours of enjoyable content.

Honestly just starting, I'm not the best modeler but when I try to make higher quality models I can (choose not to cause I can't texture good) But really just learning whatever software you use, I use blender. Just spend time watching random tutorials and following along then try recreating the tutorial without following it. That is mainly what helped me a lot

okay thanks sm@@Hamunoo

I unfortunately didn't, I know a rough amount but I think it will be wayyy off

Good idea :)

Great question! That was after I made this video, although no. He played the video and I probably only got about 5 - 10 extra sales from his 150,000 views. I can't see the exact although from his video I could corelate the view dates with the sale dates and based on my daily average prior it was not much at all. I do believe this is because my game is a game where IF you watch it then it feels as if you played it as you have seen on the devices the game has to offer etc. Although I feel as if games like Among Us or Lehtal Company are the type of games that content creators help boost a lot.

@@Hamunoo Thank you for the answer. And yeah I understand what you mean about playthroughs having different impact depending on the genre of game. Btw big congrats on releasing your game!

I unfortunately didn't keep track, although that is something I might do on future projects.

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you clicked on it right?

​ @Hamunoo Just to comment that. It could lower your watchtime and get unwanted attention (like this). I don't want to come off as rude or mean, but using generative AI for thumbnail you will inevitably annoy some people who will lower your watchtime % ;p

I think it was well worth it! As I was able to get a game under my belt and that was only first months sales, if we account for the current sales I am at it was well over minimum wage at around $56/hour based on the 1 month of work at 40 hours a week which would be incorrect to say I put 40 hours a week.

@@Hamunoo usually working for yourself is not worth it because you are limited to the number hours in your day for labour. Take into account, tax, pension, savings, paid holiday, cost of living paid sic leave, health care and other expenses, time with family and work life balance, it usually doesn't turn out well.

@@TacBlades I can see where it won't turn out good for some people, although this is not my main job, I have a primary job IRL and do this as a hobby.

I was actually looking at lens, you can see my monitor is on my left when you look at my eyes you can see the reflection. Also if you go to 0:37 you can see me look towards my monitor. So I wasn't looking at myself haha so I am not sure what you mean, maybe something something is slightly off and it makes you uncomfortable? Idk haha.