Congrats on the launch!

Congratulations! My team of 3 was in the same boat in February, with a lot of similar feelings about the results. Pretty good for our first release which is great! But not making enough money to keep three people afloat. First video from you I've seen, I really like this sort of thing and am gonna go look at your other videos now :D

This video motivated me to continue learning programming and complete one of my dreams, which is to make a game and publish it. Thank you for this wonderful video. I will try your game soon and Good luck in your projects💪

Amazing video, Im launching in July and bit anxious myself. I neglected the marketing thing for far too long and don't got the best amount of wish lists or followers, but like you, just like making games. This video was what I needed, thanks dude

Wow man, this video is great. I love the new shot, the editing, cadence and cuts. Great work. Glad launch went so well! Keep it up my dude.

very cool! congrats on the launch and it's success!

I just released my first game, Zeta Leporis RTS, on Feb. 26th, with coincidentally the same number of pre-launch wishlists. However, with a much more limited social media presence (no meaningful following anywhere, but running a very focused reddit ad campaign with a $100 budget), and no nice event tie-in, I had a bit fewer sales, and just hit 50 sales now. Days 2-5 averaged 5 sales, discovery queue exposure is dropping, and I'm stuck on 2 reviews so I can't get the visibility boost; I was at only just over 45,000 post-launch impressions on Steam last I checked. Small pittance compared to the 1 million impressions steam used to give every game at launch a decade ago - though supposedly impressions are much more targeted now. Silver lining, though; more than a thousand demo downloads post-launch. Hopefully a few of those convert to sales -and reviews- over time.

Congratulations! Great to hear about the community you have created with this game. Can’t wait to see how it goes!

Thanks for sharing! Love this kind of format after a game launch ;)!

Congratulations man. I was looking forward to this video. And I really look forward to seeing what happens when you launch on console. I bought the game right when it launched (really just for support). I think the knowledge gained from the whole experience is priceless. What’s your next game gonna be?

Really cool to see. Congrats!

Congratulations on releasing the game! Thank you for sharing your experience with it, and I hope you continue to make sales. Good luck with the console ports!

Congratulations on your release , you will reach new heights man keep going

Congrats on the launch! You covered my thoughts I've had about an eventual launch day. I really think when I get there, I'll do what I need to do early in the day and then check briefly to make sure nothing's wrong, and then go out for the day and try to take my mind off it as much as possible.

Congrats on the launch!! It's been a fun game to play around with on the Steam Deck before bed 😊

Been following for a while and picked up the game at launch. Great to see how your launch week went. I am looking forward to more updates and the process of getting the game on consoles! Cheers!

Hey congrats! You got way more than I did with Heir Obscure and have more than I currently have from Heir Obscure 2 years later! The game is super visually cohesive - looking forward to seeing what you'll do in the future.

Congrats to finishing and launching what appears to be a cool game! i would love to make a couch coop game too, i didn’t know Steam was bad for this.. I’ve played Stick Fight so much with my kids and might pick up yours as well! Good luck in the future! Greetings from Space Chef 😀

Congrats on the launch!! im also learning on solo developing for 3-4 months now and really looking forward to start my journey as game dev too. Also i have the fear like you described. I am very unsure what to do after finishing the game building. the marketing, the launch process. the steam page building so many things i dont know where to start. I really wish to know how all these things work and cant find any source on that. do you have any suggestions where i can get help or guide on building these post-game creation things? your game launch motivated me very much, congrats to you again and good luck for your further journey!!

Good job man. I cant wait until I'm at this point

Thanks for the honest video and information!

Well done for launching! And great to hear your experiences of it too. As you say, I'm sure you will have learnt a TON of stuff through the experience that is at least as valuable as the income itself

Congratulations on the release! Im currently working on my first release, couch coop as well. Did you look into steam remote at all? I have resigned myself to this game not selling alot of copies, I honestly just want to release a finished product to say I did it haha.

My first video of yours. Liked it. Entertaining. Transparency came across genuine. Delivered well polished. Nice job. I’m off to check out a vid or two from your back catalogue. Actually, I’m going to download the game just for a look. Consider it a donation to your project 😜 Well wishes from Down Under 🇦🇺

Thanks for sharing these findings, I can't wait to see how the console launches go.

Congrats on your launch. I can see this doing much more strongly on console for sure. Ganbatte!

Congrats! amazing and so motivating, We been struggling to finish games just because of the thought that it is not going to perform.

Nice to see you happy about feedback not about money I also want to make a game 🎮

This is great that your game launched not horribly! I hope long tail will be plentiful!

rad stuff

It's pretty incredible how mirrored our launches were. My stats were almost the same for Attack of the Karens! Congrats on launching your game!

Wow I actually saw this game on my steam page and I remember Thinking that I loved the name!

Good job Thomas Strangart

Congrats on the game launch! I do have a question. I am just starting as a game dev (who also is not in it for the money), but I want to ask, why if your game didn't get a lot of traction/'success', would you want to continue to develop it for consoles? I would think you would be looking to the next project, but I look forward to your response!

Congrats on releasing the game and that it went well. My two cents on video style, the conversation narrative style is absolutely adequate. You can spend ages editing fancy videos but it's all time taken away from work on the game in the end.

I'm curious. Why 6h15 am ? Was it to have some time to post stuff all around social media before people are more active in the morning ? Do you feel it was the right hour to do so ? Do the "time since release" have any impact of visibility ? (meaning that releasing at midnight but still waiting till the morning for posting on social media would be a bad thing ?) Also not asking you to dox yourself, but what timezone was it ? Was your sells mostly North America ?

GG mate!

Im very close to finishing my single player Mahjong game, 99 on wishlist atm. Already had the objective c code from Apple version, so just converted it to c#.

wait so my uni made me make a game for a graphic design assessment, can I just like, publish it? I don't even play games but it's been sitting in my computer.

good job looks fun i'll be buying it, steam does live game streams of games not sure how do able it is but maybe see if you can't take advantage of that i really think more will buy once more see it

Congrats on the launch! A scary moment that I am looking forward to as well with my game. Also thanks for the honesty and presenting your numbers, it reveals what to expect as an unkown Indie Dev. Good luck, and I hope it has a long tail.

Just a quick comment based only on this video and not knowing much about the game - the price point might have been too high considering the relatively simplistic look of the game. The style reminds me of awesome web games from the past, so I would have put the initial price tag around $3-5, and then a launch discount on top of that. Or possibly keeping the price as it is, but having a much more aggressive launch sale (60% discount or so). Might have converted more views into sales, but of course it's just speculation. Great job nevertheless and congratulations!

I watched the whole vid and still dont know what your game's name is :( remember to put that out there whenever you can! (I know I can find it in the description, but featuring it in the video more often can make a big impact)

You bet!

its funny how different marketing strats work different for other people. Most traffic I get it from reddit probly cuz I hate interacting with it.

Your game is probably a lot of fun but doesn't even look close to a bullet hell game. Why did you add that tag? Anyway, thanks for sharing the numbers!

How do you make a living with the revenue you published?

I want to launch my very first game too for free, with no ads, nothing Pay to Win, just a couple of skins people can pay for. What would you surgery I do?

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I m the 1k th like u enter 4 digits now 🙌

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You'd think you'd at least show some screenshots or clips of your game in this video.

Hey Thomas Stringert. It would be good if you showed the game you made too. Better luck next time