Congrats on the event! That's quite a big feat to showcase your game at one of the biggest gaming events. Thanks for sharing your tips on running a booth like this. Excited to hear the new music!
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Beautiful. Big pet peeve of mine is when people comment on a person's small personal game with a critical "review" like it needs to be a AAA hyper polished experience and must follow a capital G game formula. It's like going up to a persons sand castle on the beach and telling them it would look better if the castle was taller and had straight lines. I much prefer hearing about personal reflections rather than graded reviews.
Incredibly beautiful experience. So many fun little playful interactions and animations. I grew up in a snowy city and I have fond memories of long winter walks. This brought up some warm memories. Loved the atmosphere and you really captured the sense of exhaustion and relief that a winter stroll feels like. Nice little visual surprise for those that explore fully.
I know itch.io has a very small team. I think it would be nice to address the comments here. I personally think a system like Bandcamp is nice. I like the developer having control of their page. There are a lot of mean reviews and comments I've seen people make. Let us choose reviews to highlight on the page. Or just let us turn off reviews. Some people don't want to be scored by strangers and just want to share art for the joy of it.
Edit - Just realized you can turn off ratings. That's great.
Agreed. There are sooooo many free to use resources, many of which are even public domain. I made a blog post curating a list.
https://itch.io/blog/478317/life-as-a-creative-commons-indie-game-developer
If you have 5 minutes and you're awake between 12am and 5am, try out my experience:
https://infinitetears.itch.io/i-promise
Headphones, playing in the dark, and lighting a candle recommended
You can read the in my itch.io blog post.
https://itch.io/blog/478317/life-as-a-creative-commons-indie-game-developer
It's full of 3D assets, 2D assets, sound libraries, music resources and all of it is either public domain or under a fair creative commons license. Hopefully others find it useful.