Pushing Holey Suit to the finish line!
I thought I'd put a final post on this dev blog: Holey Suit 1.0 is now out!
Holey Suit has been my background project for nearly six months now. Originally started around the GMTK Jam (although never published then) it's been a hell of a ride. Couple of things I am very happy about:
- This is the first project I complete, ever! So big pat on the shoulder to myself for polishing and closing off the game.
- Since its original pre-alpha release it accumulated over 2000 downloads across Gamejolt & Itch.io.
Overall, a great experience. Really happy to have published on both itch.io & Gamejolt - both platforms are different but the communities on either are great and the people behind them have done an amazing job and make life for little dev guys like me very easy.
Here's the latest stats, FYI:
Note: amongst the 1571 figure, not all the downloads are for the game executable. Some are for the manual and the music and account for around 300 of the total. Still pretty happy by the number of peeps liking and downloading the music, which was made with GarageBand on my iPad :)
Some explanations: I believe the spikes in downloads are down to people having installed the game with the itch.io app, as these correlate with me pushing an updated version of the game, which I imagine triggers an auto download. It would also explains why spikes in views (the November spike for example, down to a post of Reddit) doesn't necessarily translate in downloads.
Either way, despite being the game no longer being on the front page (you can see in previous blog post that this translated in a serious downloads spree) it still gets a few downloads a day. It also got a review (and 70/100 score!) on a Czech game magazine website!
So what next for the future? I'll probably still do bits and bobs on Holey Suit, but for now I'd like to move to the next project! I have several ideas I'd like to toy with, so stay tuned!
Until then... Go try the game if you haven't yet, and feel free to leave a comment ;)