Solastia — Feelings of development

Hello, itch.

This is not my first experience in game development, but this is the first release.

All previous projects eventually became too ambitious, and then suddenly the time/mood/desire disappeared. A common problem among beginners when you want to do EVERYTHING with the game. Therefore, I firmly decided to make the game as simple as possible in order to finally have at least some progress. Throughout the time, I still did not leave the desire to add a bunch of things to the game. What did I end up adding?

Frustrated, I decided to write a post on reddit about looking for artists. Then I posted it on Twitter and asked Andrei Apanasik to repost it. I followed the statistics of views both on reddit and on twitter. The indicators went almost 1 to 1, but at some point there was a gap of more than 1k views. In the first 24 hours, 5 people wrote to me. In general, it turned out that I had 5 works in my hands that were ready to be in the game.

In the comments under the post on reddit, they gave a tip that paintings from the national art gallery can be used in the game. Thanks to this tip, I added a few more levels.

To summarize, I can say that I can not get rid of the feeling that I devoted more to many things than I needed to. This is despite the fact that the game uses standard UI elements, the art taken was ready-made, and there are no sounds in the game at all. I think the next project will have everything of its own.