I had good fun with Waffles haha! Are you planning on continuing this? :) I really liked the art style for it, reminded me of a PC-9801 game! Dam I wanted to play the greedy one though haha!
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Thank you so much for making that relation with PC-9801 games! I adore that era and the framing around the screen, I was definitely inspired on it! I alove to see youtube videos about them XD And lol Waffles fit's him so perfectly made me chuckle! I am definitly planning on expanding it and adding more playable characters, I had to stop due to the time constraints, but there is another jam that is about visual novels, and they are allowing to bring unfinished projects, So im thinking of expanding this one and investing a bit more into it to see how it comes works out! I was sad I could not bring the complete vision for the jam. But alas it is what it is.
Awee you shouldn't be sad what you have is a really nice jumping off point! :) I love their style so can definitely spot it in yours! Its got some really good hidden gems just got to wade through all the cheap hentai games to find them haha! Although I will have to check it out when you do it! Although what jam is it? I have a unfinished visual novel I may want to get finished haha!
I know exactly what you mean! So much of it is just hentai you are right, but sometimes there are some good ones, That is why I wanted to go down more of the scif-fi route instead, I dont like the cheap boob girl game, although of course they sell well, is not what im interesting in.
The jam is called SuNoFes https://itch.io/jam/sunofes22 here is the link for it if you want to participate! It gave quite a bit of time for creators to work on their games!
If you have not already play Rusty it's a good one.... It's pretty much a castlevania knock off with awesome level design but crossed with a boob game xD
And you have more higher standards than I do haha! The shower scene in my game was 50% typical anime so i needed it, 50% I wonder if this will help to actually drive traffic to my game haha! Any promotion tips I can ask politely for you seem to be getting pretty good views and comments yourself!
And thanks for the link :) Wow that is a long jam time xD I'll see if I am less burnt out from this jam after a week.. too many 3am bed times the last fortnight...
OOof tell me about it, that last 3am night left me dead, I think im still recuperating lol!
I think is pretty normal now a days specially in the anime circles to include fan service in some way or another, I think most anime i've watched had those tropes lol. Is not necessary but we all know it sells specially among young people. That is why Shonen jump has beautiful women in all their manga's usually. I know steam has tons of echii games lol.
As for promoting the game, I usually try to make sure all the tags are set right, the description is clear and concise, having a decent arrival page for the player, being consistent in quality and execution of the stories. Making contacts in Discord and posting your game in a lot of discord channels that allow promotion. Oh and having an active twitter has also helped.
I also realized since my games Clicker V and Fear Me got a lot of good hype form those last two competitions, they give me spots on their fresh games sections so people see them sometimes. I think having a présense all over really helps with visibility.
Also I realized the tactic of using red lettering or red's on the covers helps a lot to call attention, since people dont have a lot of time to go through all the entries, they go for the most eye attracting ones. Also having animated gif on your description showing off what you have.
You poor thing it's over now at least haha xD
Oh many the amount of mech anime openings I watched for this project its ridiculous the amounts of fanservice in them haha like constantly floating naked silhouettes and stuff like that. And yeah shonen knows exactly what its marketing though but I would say that's a industry wide thing more so... Its rare you get ugly main characters unless they are meant to be comic relief.
Omg thank you so much for the advice! Starting to apply it to my own pages now thank you! Just found GifCam, geez its a handy little program. Will have to go and fix up some of my tags though for sure :3
But thank you so much it means a lot :) If you ever need any 3D stuff done don't be afraid to reach out I would be happy to help!