Hythrain streaming now: 

https://www.twitch.tv/hythrain

His other scheduled stream time (EST): 

September 10, 2023 5:00 PM for 3 to 5 hours. 

September 11, 2023 6:00 PM for 6 to 8 hours. 

September 12, 2023 10:30 PM for 3 hours.

  September 13, 2023 7:00 PM for 5 to 6 hours. 

September 14, 2023 6:00 PM for 5 to 6 hours. 

September 15, 2023 9:00 PM for 4 to 5 hours. 

September 16, 2023 6:00 PM for 5 to 7 hours. 

September 17, 2023 5:00 PM for 3 to 4 hours. 

September 18, 2023 6:00 PM for 5 to 6 hours. 

September 20, 2023 8:00 PM for 5 to 6 hours. 

September 21, 2023 6:00 PM for 5 to 6 hours. 

September 22, 2023 9:00 PM for 3 hours. 

September 23, 2023 9:00 PM for 4 hours.

yep. these. 👍

For a free game it is understandable you want to keep the cost under control. I would say if you want more people to play your game however, commissioning for title art, commissioning for key character portraits will be very important,, you can leave the pixel art alone and use default, and use default GUI and everything else, but character icons should be changed.  You can pick an artist that can adapt this style but take it their own way to make it seem less out of the template, people can tell the templates easily because RPG maker is well known, to set yourself apart from other games to stand out you must have customized art.  Another way is have your artist do a template of your own, so you can mix and match yourself, but that might be more expensive than just straight up character portraits, it could help your future games though.

I get that you would want to do everything yourself,  it is the long way, but respectable, if you want to, post your title art on my discord "art leveling" channel and I will give you a very detailed critique. I don't want to do that here since it's very involved and specific.  https://discord.gg/wYKghA7

As for taking further look outside of Fest, probably not at this moment since I am spending most of my current time outside of fest to finish my own game and productions. I will revisit in the future when I have free time to stream indiegames regularly again. 

thank you so much, I am glad you are anticipating it. :) 

Can you at least take a few screenshot of your game and share with us? Without image we are really unsure what kind of game we are looking at.

sounds good. Such a polished learning project, impressive. 

This is one trippy, no, the trippiest FPS shooter I have ever seen. I meant that in a good way, might be too rainbowlike for some other streamers but I like it. 

To echo Paladin, I did have a bit of trouble to gauge between my attack, attack distance, and the enemy, I also fell into some cracks on the map that may need an escape button to get out of instead of restarting,  music got repetitive very, very quickly, I ended up supplementing my own, I suggest investing on that area as well and spend time to find good stock music tracks, but overall pretty fun, I think I was looking for more options in the menu as well, hope to see updates on that when you can. 

playthru: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1917168351

Playthru cut a bit short by my child raiding me. A really thoughtful game, I love the presentation and how it all come together, great art, memorable style,  a lot of info to take in as well, the lockpicking took me alittle try but I was able to understand the mechanic without much explaination on the third attempt, the characters personalities are vivid, I do look forward to learning more about it, hope to revisit later. 

This is a really well made RPG maker game, great pacing and tutorials, fun storytelling, 2 hours in and I am still at the beginning of it. I can already feel the scale of the game, then again if I wasn't reading everything outloud, maybe it could have been a 30 min to 1 hr play. It has a pretty in depth card game within the rpg game, impressive dedication. I had fun voicing the characters with vivid personalities. 

I do suggest, once you are able to, get professional level customized art, at least customized icons and character arts, the rest you can save on budget as they already look fine, so your massive amount of actual work in game design can shine. Right now they are either defaults from RPG maker or not professional enough for it to attract players outside of indie community, you want to strengthen those. 

oh great to hear! That's testament and a milestone of your popularity as a dev. :D 

I love the take on holographic arcade games from old times, I enjoyed it. Found some bugs, honestly its the same bugs Paladin met. I told him the frog one which was a funny bug, it would be fun as a hidden feature. XD There are a few others, as for this game, unless this is a learning project, you might want to change it up to parody arcades with same mechanics instead of straight up, if you want to stay safe on the copyright side, as the original games are still owned and resold by their owners. But if it's a learning or non-profit project that stays off commercial radars, its okay but still, better to be cautious. 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1917197528

Just finished reviewing more indiegames: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1917190325

titles total:  8 

Kakushi Kamen, 

Emerald Wasp, 

Verloren, 

Valerosa.

Stream starting, some art redeem first then getting to games.

https://www.twitch.tv/mayshing_vtuber

It's a really nicely done game, fun world, I enjoy the character, he has a very strong hot headed shonen vibe, I am just having some issues getting pass certain platform due to my lack of platforming skill I guess. I personally find switching commands a taaaag slow/janky due to animation not being able to cancel half way and switch via new input? It is also the same with enemy engagement, I could be wrong... I have played other platformers where controls felt more responsive to me then I know it's just me. 

I played it in private but I would love to stream it later, first feedback is that I took about 2 tries to beat the entire game, I grasp the concept quickly because these arguments are very familiar to me. Even if I don't know what happened in Argentina, the same battle has been fought in the USA.

However, I have to agree it feels a bit more like an animated quiz on the knowledge of the subject at this point of development, rather than a strategy game, since it's too heavily relied on personal knowledge of the subject to beat the game, rather than having the player collect the knowledge and be educated within the game itself, such as collecting each answers, learn the story behind it, then you would use them against opponents, then it would feel more like a general strategy game. 

I got the gist of picking the correct defense line to minimize the damage, but at one point the game is making me pick answers I would have never picked because it was the only one left??? (but it did damage anyway, the soap opera choice) lol

Here's my 2nd playthru:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1917176526

Paladin Ecko streaming now. 

https://www.youtube.com/live/DyaOwMJU4ts?si=uc2TWEqFu34pvqYU

Love the campaign mode and how all the characters have such fun personalities now. We will be getting this one because its my daughters daily game now. XD

haha love the bat update. XD Hope others have fun with this one.

09/02 streamed 4 games. VOD export coming later. 

https://www.twitch.tv/mayshing_vtuber/v/1915139488?sr=a&t=84s

back to arcade, 

feisty fauna, 

docile cry, 

sys killmirror.

Going to have a look at early submissions @IndieQuesting @feedbackquest games now, I only have 3 days before my big trip, lets see how many I can get thru.

🔴https://www.twitch.tv/mayshing_vtuber

Love your music quality overall. :D Thanks for sharing it with us.

What's your rate and how much do you charge per min of editing? 

Feel free to contact me cd.altabe@gmail.com or discord mayshing

We are looking for sound designer bec our old one is going to focus on bgm and music.

For Devs who have a Kickstarter/indigogo/fundraising during the fest, feel free to let us know by posting a comment in this community thread, I will update the listing here with the prizes. 

thank you for the support Az. 

1 game per team, please submit the one you would like the most critical feedback on to improve it, this is what our game fest is about. Otherwise you can submit one that you feel is the most ready for the market. 

Streamers, Content Creators, Devs, people who spent the most times to give quality feedback to others will get to claim gifts: 

To claim the gifts as content creator please have your archive ready for admins to review.

🥈Silver Feedbacker: A Content Creator who sign up and do 1-9 games, silver badge. - current game jam page shoutout. 

🥇Gold streamers: A Content Creator who reached 10-20 games or more go into gold badge. - game jam gold shout out, next game jam and indiequesting  twitter shoutout.  (Claim 1 free game key) 

💎Diamond Streamers: Streamers/content creator who commented and reviewed 20-30 games  - game jam diamond shoutout,   week long twitter shoutout, host invite for next feedback quest, site shoutout. (Claim 3 free game keys) 

💎Diamond  Kings/Queens: Streamers/content creators who reviewed every game entered. (A key of all games donated at request, first to pick) 

To claim the gifts as Devs and regular reviewer:  Review games with high quality review, no need to post archive media of reviews, just comment on entries. Review must have these points: 

• 1. Pros, what you like about it
• 2. Cons: what is not working
• 3. Wishes: features not present but would be good to have. 
• To be counted, you must report your reviews on https://www.indiequesting.com/ or on indiequesting discord.

🏆 Gold Reviewer: Review 10-20 games (1 game key)

⚔️ Knight Reviewer: Review 20-30 games (2 game keys)

🛡 Knight Captain Reviewer: Review every game (1 claim of all games donated at request, first to pick) 

Game keys donated for streamer reward count: 

#1 Aerostrike: (side scroller shooter) 8 keys donated. 

----

#2 Aeon's Past: (Fantasy RPG) 2 keys  donated.

----

#3. Candyland!  (casual strategy) 10 keys donated. 

----

#4 Dragon's Hoard (third person open world co-op RPG) 8 keys donated.

----

 #5 Step by Step Hero (adventure exploration) 8 keys donated. 

#6 Waythed 2: (puzzle) 20 keys donated 

#7 Holy Stick: (party game) 4 keys donated. (1 winner to claim for a party, multiplayer only) 

Submissions that have KS going right now: 

TBD

TBD

thank you again for commenting on multi-platforms regarding to this news. :) 

For the faithful followers of Edepth Angel the series, the manga series now officially wrap up online updates, all of Edepth cast will see you again in 2Masters and our Cante series. Now it's a good time to binge the web manga while we prepare for the volumes print run. 

! http://edepthangel.com/

you are branching out your brand. XD 

I caught myself saying "homerun" on this game too. lol Great quality review as usual.

customized pronoun, that's something we might be able to implement but need to work on merging the existing tool to our game. I won't promise anything yet. Currently we have he, she, they, I will work with my queer friend on that hoping to get that into the game for best diversity fun possible. 

Report here to claim streamer awards and be counted for. If you have pledged and streamed the feedback fest games, post here your reviews, feedbacks, and so forth and give us a total count of how many games you did for us to give you proper shout outs and rewards by the end of the quest. 

----

Format sample from hythrain: 

14/03/2023 VOD: Link 

1. Da Fridge's Adventures 2 

 2. This Farm Life 

 3. King's Lai 

 4. Ghostunter 2 

 5. Aerostrike 

 6. BattleBall (attempted, but can't play) 

 7. Bildungsroman

----

Rewards: 

🥈Silver Feedbacker: A Content Creator who sign up and do 1-9 games, silver badge. - current game jam page shoutout. 

🥇Gold streamers: A Content Creator who reached 10-20 games or more go into gold badge. - game jam gold shout out, next game jam and indiequesting  twitter shoutout.  (Claim 1 free game key) 

💎Diamond Streamers: Streamers/content creator who commented and reviewed 20-30 games  - game jam diamond shoutout,   week long twitter shoutout, host invite for next feedback quest, site shoutout. (Claim 3 free game keys) 

💎Diamond  Kings/Queens: Streamers/content creators who reviewed every game entered. (A key of all games donated at request, first to pick) 

yeah it will help alot for ppl who legit has serious spider fears. I know a few. 

Glad you enjoyed the event, feel free to join the discord we have for further feedback requests, the devs and streamers hanging there will likely take a look again when we can.

https://discord.gg/QxaJZHFzBt

I am sort of a story driven, slow paced player, the main reason I don't like puzzle is due to my trauma with math class, puzzles remind me of that. There are many other players that like puzzle probably won't mind. 

You can lure me into doing puzzles as a player by NOT telling me it's a puzzle, and as long as the puzzle design is one problem at a time I should be okay, then providing hints on each step and reward me after solving it with a mini story or something light hearted, even a light hearted sound would help.

Two puzzle games in this jam tortured me but I enjoyed them, they were sliding hero and so to speak, So to speak I wasn't even aware its a puzzle game until the dev mentioned it, because I enjoyed learning about the information so much, and the whole "vacation trip" aspect covered that up, and of course the famous zelda series with its puzzle dungeons are all good references of games that got me into doing puzzles and by passed my fear. 

As for my habitual clicking on characters, maybe just make it partial screen instead of a full screen open that I have to click back from, that might work better visually? Then again disabling that would be easier. lol

This has to be the strangest title I have tried, but its definitely an interesting, well put together game. I am unsure what to do with my VOD because it's not the real title of your game, and the lack of cover suggest it's very much work in progress. I will keep it just on Twitch for now. 

Overall a very polished game, I enjoyed the animation, fun sounds and the world, tutorial was good, the only odd thing is... the UI seems very well done and polished, but something about it is uncomfortable to read, I am unsure about how to improve it advice wise, since it's pretty established and seems to work in its own way. if others have no issue, it would just be my preference.  It's largely a thinking game so I ended up being pretty quiet on the stream. 

A tiny suggestion on sound leveling default setting, make sure dialogue is the highest and others weaker, because our ears want voices and want to understand it if there's any human voice, a deep bass human voice would especially be easy to get overwhelmed by other sounds, so it needs a boost on volume while others support. I had to manually adjust it after starting the game. 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1828135521

The Feedback Quest 5 streaming period Sept 9th- Oct 1st.

• Share your streaming schedule to let everyone know when to visit your stream. :D 
• We now have Streamcord support on our discord for any twitch streamers, other platform streamers need to manually report still. 
• Sharing your schedule here is encouraged for devs who don't use discord to visit. 

• we just need to get at least 1 session and 1 game in to fulfill the pledge. 
• But if you plan to stream as many as possible to claim extra signal boosts, free game keys from the jam, please reporting to Streamer Report Thread.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• If you can't not schedule ahead, share your stream time RIGHT BEFORE your stream starts and post your LINK.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Post your channel link on stream schedule help us find you and support your stream faster.
• Feel free to change the channel link each time you stream if you have more than 1 channels.
• Be sure to include Feedbackquest in your stream title.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

! If you like supporting indiegames during critical times, check Kickstarter Support Thread for games that have KS during our event period.

Streamer rewards: 

https://itch.io/jam/feedback-quest-5/topic/3046786/best-feedbackers-champion-rew...

Streamers please make sure you report your effort to claim your rewards after each stream.