the ideas are only good to make simple and small projects . to earn some experencie in developer , like a training method . that wut i think

make the game simple . the idea need to be simple . and realistic , people cant make AAA game it no experience in simple mechanics and structure of a video game . iam not a programmer iam just a random guy .

This came just in time for me, who is currently making a steam page.

On Rail shooters, visuel novel, action adventure.

Day 4 of asking for Melon-Pan tier list.

You look like a Mormon.

I'm kinda glad we're moving away a bit from the 'launch Steam page immediately!' advice. You need something reasonable to show, and a basic trailer I think.

As english is not my native language i often get to see the translated steam pages. Those can be a disaster. Recently in the discord i saw a steampage linked that used the term "blast off for glory" which got translated into the german "Blasen für Ruhm" which is like "blowing for glory" and disappointingly the game is not about making your way to the top in the adult industry by sucking a lot of schlongs, it's about space. Other than these funny anecdotes, what's the impression about the game you, as a customer, get if the text reads like it's made by someone who lost half their brain in an accident? Well, it is not exactly convincing. There's a google sheet with common game related terms, that may help. Can't put links here but if you search for "Polyglot Gamedev common strings" you will find it.

Jifs?

04:50 wrong game description but i have no problems reading it.

Trailers are overrated, you need polished gameplay for a trailer. 1. Launch your page with varied screenshots 2. "Announce" your game with a trailer to 'shock' Steam alg. to start showing your game (that's actually an important step that Chris Z. talks about in his course, Steam won't show your game unless you bring the audience first)

hmmm so the guild architect is abig booba grill okeoke, now... imagine if there were a couple of japanese fountain girls on the steam thumbnail yo. INSTA SUCCESS LISTEN UP!!⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲⛲

Concerning the screenshots, Chris Zukowski recommended in a recent video that you shouldn't be afraid to "fake" variety in your screenshots. Obviously don't be misleading but if you know something is going to make into the final game and it just isn't ready yet, you can still make it look nice for a screenshot without actually implementing all of the mechanics.

but what about devlogs in the trailer section :D :D :D

Super useful video lol

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I'm a software developer, so this technical video was interesting for me

I'm watching this a second time... and re-writing my comment. The Free licenses are how many people "purchased" your demo. It doesn't necessarily mean they didn't play the game, it means Steam isn't aware of whether or not they downloaded the game, only that they pressed the button to accept the demo and now have the demo in their library. So you had 9 thousand people add the demo to their library, and around 1600 of them played it which would be 17%. That's what the Unique users means. Having only sold 104 copies of the game though, is almost exactly 10% of the people who played the demo. That's where your conversion data comes from.

Im just gonna say. Ive never seen a good game that didnt sell well.

A thing to add about controller support, it's not just controller. It's basically accessibility support. Many disabled gamers out there with their own controller setups which is what allows them to game at all

Kids and wives!? I've been doing it all wrong!

Nothing wrong with making an indie RPG... you just need to streamline the heck out of it. You can have a simple character follow a simple story and focus in on, say, ~one~ core game mechanic, like an ability system for ~one~ weapon. You dont need all these multiple classes, and weapons, and cities, and horse riding, and swimming, and merchants, and day night cycle, and open world, and yada yada. Just because you are progressing a character through a story doesn't mean you have to create a whole ass functioning world to set up a whole ass second life in.

omg gays unsub

Thank you for the video

Omg.. Guild Architect's UI looks soo cool 😮😮.. damn.. I understimated u guys 🎉🎉 good job

Thanks for this helpful and informative video! I attempted to do some marketing for my first Steam game and wasn't able to get much traction. I definitely did a lot of things wrong (like releasing in Early Access with no marketing/wishlists) and am trying to learn from my mistakes for my newest game. One of the biggest issues I ran into with emailing KZfaqrs was that I actually got blocked by Google for sending out too many emails. I think it's some sort of anti-bot tech and it went away eventually, but I was wondering if you've experienced something similar.

I’m currently in university and am using Phaser3 through a course. Simple description is it makes creating an HTML canvas game on the web slightly easier. You treat it like a frame work just import it in your JavaScript file and you get some useful methods to call upon that make stuff slightly easier. If you are wanting to learn core mechanics related specifically to the programming side of game development I would recommend it. Other than being a tool to help learn it’s doesn’t even belong on a list like this lol.

I made a game "Karina Katana", its on steam, and the first thing i did was the main menu hahahahah

Thanks for the vid, this was very informative!

Source engine?

37:35 has Spaceballs Lord Helmet playing with his "dolls" vibe🤣🤣

26:55 IMO it should have been "Developer" and "Testers"

I like Thomas. He keeps it real and doesn't sugar coat it.

That was really amusing until the Bingo card cut a bit too deep 😵

The thing about visual novels is by default youre limited to making dating sims and pornos and not much else

Legend, Thank you

How to kill all motivation for game development in one video

2D games are not harder to market. UGLY and/or BAREBONE games are harder to market. More and more people can spot asset flips too.

You guys better finish the cultivation game.

9:43 you should have tried with Construct 😂

Fuck this system, Code is awesome.

Geoff Keighly lore is here and it's hilarious kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNx3oZye0p_GhGQ.htmlsi=2_Mjcp7yxtT_0EE3

Respect to William and his self-documenting code, you will be grateful when you come back to the code some weeks or months after!