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YesterSol will be in Steam NextFest!

PS.  QUESTION: What do you think about the music? I made it in FL Studio with an AI assistant for melodies. Then I choose the instruments/layered/arranged and added little rifts here and there.  

Play it on Steam Here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3939220/YesterSol_Demo/ :D

After 5 years of learning GameDev from scratch, my dream is finally taking shape. The YesterSol Demo is now live on Steam! 🌿

Please give it a play! — even a short review helps so much 💛 🎮 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3939220/YesterSol_Demo/

Updated Trailer:

A glimpse at my life as an English teacher in Korea and an indie game dev hobbyist :D

Cool start to a life-sim game!

• Innovation – Feels like the start to a good farm-sim, nothing too unique that i noticed besides a darker story.
• Fun – I got lost a lot in the opening scene, I couldn't find my job, then I didn't know where to go after getting fired, took me forever to find the open bar step.  Needs to show the player where to go better.
• Graphics – Nice top down art!
• Audio – Not much, some ambience sound would help a lot.  City ambience at the start, and forest/wind ambience at the farm.
• Polish – Not much yet, but a great start to a game!

Great start on a cool game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

A cool card game prototype!

• Innovation – I think the idea of watching blimp battles is pretty unique!
• Fun – It was very fun watching the cards do their actions!
• Graphics – The way the blimps sway in the wind and the effects of the attacks is really nice! Plus the little planes in the background are a nice touch!
• Audio – Cool sounds, they do a good job
• Polish – It is pretty polished and the UI is set up well that I wasn't too overwhelmed

Seems like the project had some problems, but I do think it is a cool idea to maybe continue or redo in the future, great job and keep it up!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Nice start to a game, seems like it is very early in production

• Innovation – Feels like a top-down zelda-like
• Fun – The game starts up instantly with no tutorial or guidance, so I wasn't really sure what the goal or game loop is.  The controls felt smooth, but fighting was difficult on keyboard due to the position of the attack buttons and I couldn't tell the difference between the 3 different attacks.  I explored the 2 rooms, and couldn't figure out how to open the chests heh, and the collected items didn't seem to do anything?
• Graphics – Very nice pixel art
• Audio – Simple, but loud in my headphones.  My windows was at 50% volume, and had to turn it down to 10%
• Polish – No polishing done yet because it's an early WIP

Great job on starting the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

A great learning project for sure

• Innovation – a nice and simple idea
• Fun – i was trying to save the bunny as much as i could heh
• Graphics – nice pixel art
• Audio – simple and does the job
• Polish – it could use some more feedback, like i couldn't tell if i was successfully hiding in a hole, or if i was hit, etc.

Great job on the game, keep improving your skills!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

A cool Paper-Please type game indeed!

• Innovation – A cool twist on the genre
• Fun – it was fun figuring out who the person is you are talking to
• Graphics – Nice pixel art for sure! Could use some more animations and movement in the scenes.
• Audio – Nice music!  Perhaps some more sound effects would be nice, like a typing sound after every answer.
• Polish – Looks slick now! Just as mentioned before, some more sound and animations would help it feel more alive~

Great job on the awesome game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

What a cool game :D

• Innovation – Both the cardboard/paper style and scratch like coding are very unique and neat!!
• Fun – The balancing was fun figuring out opening the doors etc.
• Graphics – So cool! Perhaps a bit of defects in parts of the cardboard would make it look even more natural~
• Audio – Lot's of cool sounds~ You can definitely play around with real life sounds 
• Polish – Very polished! Some movement in the world might be nice, like paper cranes flying around or strings blowing in the wind + ambient wind sound

Great job on the awesome game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

I just uploaded a Mac version~

I have NEVER made one before haha.  Would love to hear if the game even works, had to fix some errors when building it.  Please let me know if you try it :D

Thanks for playing!  Yeah metroidvanias are a niche genre, that always gets new ones haha.  I did a bunch of research and most metroidvanias, if they reach the genre standards and are decently good, make 20k to 100k just because metroidvania fans like to try a bunch of them.  Only the top 5% make more.  I have a list of 5 metroidvanias by solo devs and I'm trying to match their scope/size/ratings and they all made over 50K :D (which is my goal heh)  I have a day job, so just trying to make some extra money from a hobby, but it would be nice to make more!

Thanks a bunch for playing! Yeah, metroidvania are a smaller niche genre, glad you gave it a try :D 

Thanks! Glad to hear it feels polished already~ I think I'll work on it for 1 more year then release it :D (I work on it after work so it takes awhile heh)

Wow thanks for the awesome feedback! I just copy and pasted it all in my notes :D  I tried doing key re-binding last week actually and failed miserably haha.  But I'll get it done before release for sure! Thanks for the tutorial too~

Very cool game!!

• Innovation – It is very unique!  it is a fun combination of games~ kinda like pong + a survivors-like heh
• Fun – It was very fun!  You should keep working on it and add more variety of upgrades.  Would be cool if you got 3 choices per level up.  Some more upgrades that shoot projectiles would be cool!
• Graphics – Very simple and clear! The black and white works well and makes everything easy to see
• Audio – Simple and works well!  Might be cool if there was ambient monster sounds that got louder as their numbers increase + as the get closer
• Polish – It is looking good!

Great job completing a full and fun game loop!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Nice classic style game!

• Innovation – Uses the old formula but adds a lot more particles which is cool :D
• Fun – I'm always bad at Asteroid controls, but once I got the hang of it, it was fun to control the ship!
• Graphics – The black and white words perfectly and makes everything very clear.  I wonder if a little bit of bloom would look nice too.
• Audio – Simple and cool sounds, and a cool music track.  Some ship accelerate and decelerate sounds would be nice 
• Polish – It does look very clean!

Great job updating a classic game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Nice and simple platformer!

• Innovation – Basic gameplay, but still fun
• Fun – I wish the jump was smarter, like if you tap the jump button it is a small jump and if you hold it you jump higher~ also you should stop movement for a second after dying~ I ran into a spike like 3 times in a row hehe
• Graphics – Very nice and clear black and white art! I thought it was odd the main menu and thumbnail have color hehe, you should make those black and white too.  The star background looked and moved great!
• Audio – Simple and cool.  Ambient sounds would help it feel alive, make some wind sounds. Also foot step and landing sounds are always nice in a platformer
• Polish – Some particles could help it feel more alive~

Great job on the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Interesting detective story!

• Innovation – It's like a visual novel that you could do on your phone, that's pretty cool.
• Fun – It is a lot of reading, but was still pretty interesting.
• Graphics – The UI is clear and simple.  Some graphics with the text would be nice and help keep peoples attention.
• Audio – More sounds would be good, like UI clicks, and sounds for the story.
• Polish – More sounds and visuals would help it feel more like a game~

Great job on the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Cool natured inspired game!

• Innovation – The idea is very cool~
• Fun – The flying controls are nice! The text was kind of immersion breaking though heh
• Graphics – Cool pixel art!  And nice parallax background!
• Audio – Simple and cool.  Perhaps some ambient field sounds would help the world feel alive. Plus you NEED to add a bee buzzing sound.
• Polish – Some particles might be nice, like wind lines or falling leaves, flower pollen, etc.

Great job on the bee game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Nice ball dodging game haha

• Innovation – Unique idea for sure hah
• Fun – I was able to dodge for awhile than...
• Graphics – The smashed face was funny.  Could add a few more frames to the animations to give it more character.
• Audio – Good for what it is
• Polish – Has the MS paint charm heh

Great job on the silly game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

What a cool balancing game :D

• Innovation – Very cool and fun idea!
• Fun – The balancing was fun and all the different hazards made it intense and interesting to watch.
• Graphics – Very nice 3D models!
• Audio – Cool sounds, like then the orange gets chopped by the butcher knife heh
• Polish – Very polished! Not sure what else it would need.  Maybe some screen effects? Like when the water sprays towards the camera? Or when the food gets chopped?

Great job on the awesome game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Cool swinging game!

• Innovation – Grabbing the sails and ropes. is a cool idea.
• Fun – The farthest I got was maybe 5 sails to the right heh. It is a cool mechanic, might be fun to add to a platforming game.  Run on the ship and then jump on the sails!
• Graphics – Very nice art! It looks really great, and the effects and parallax background make me wish it was a full metroidvania or something like that heh.
• Audio – Pretty good sound! I like the ambient pirates fighting sounds
• Polish – Looks great, but needs more gameplay and some control adjustments.

Great job making the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Looks like a great learning project!

• Innovation – The bouncing shield mechanic has been in other games, but it is done well here!
• Fun – It is fun bouncing away the bullets.  I wish the controls felt a bit more like a space ship with some acceleration and deceleration. 
• Graphics – Looks like Microsoft paint prototype art, but it is kind of charming hehe.  If your bad at art I would at least get some cc0 free sprite art and recolor it / edit it to make it your own or for reference practice.  A parallax star background would look great too.
• Audio –It is cool how the slow-mo changes the music too~
• Polish – Not much polish yet, but it is a good start.  Things need feedback too, example: the shield could scale up a little when bouncing a bullet, some movement particles on the ship, some trails on the bullets, some screen shake, etc.

Great job making the game, keep at it!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Very cool stealth game!

• Innovation – The concept of the stealth game is very unique and charming :D
• Fun – It took awhile to figure out how to get her to move, but it was fun!
• Graphics – Super awesome pixel art for sure!
• Audio – Nice retro sounds. Might be cool if there was some ambient office sounds and more employees about.
• Polish – Great polish so far.  Fun intro and funny ending if you get caught!

Great job completing a full and fun game loop!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Cool enemy wave spawning game!

• Innovation – The most unique idea I saw was the coin collecting drone.  That is a cool hook, your character should start with a drone and you get more as you play.
• Fun – Moving so slow made the ranged enemies kind of frustrating, I would up the base speed more or nerf the ranged enemies.  Everything else was quite fun.  Might be cool if she just auto-fired and we pointed with the mouse.  Holding down for so long made my hand hurt haha
• Graphics – Very simple asset pack stuff I think? Looks  good.  Needs more feedback and particles.
• Audio – Not great.  The gun needs a better sound and some random pitching so it doesn't get annoying.  The enemies need  some random grunts and roars.  Needs foot step sounds, etc.
• Polish – With some more juicy game feel I think people would really like it!

Great job completing a full and fun game loop!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Thanks for playing! I did most from scratch in Unity, I just have a few coding assets from the Unity store, ex: the text animator.

Cool little walk and shoot game

• Innovation – basic, but a great learning project for sure.
• Fun – Simple and fun. Once I got the multi shot upgrade I could just shoot straight and all enemies would die. Stopped once my hand got tired of clicking heh.  More enemy types would be cool.
• Graphics – The prototype art is not bad.  Needs more for sure.
• Audio – No sound, at least add a music track and shooting sounds heh
• Polish – Not polished  at all, but a great start

Great job on the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Great starter game!

• Innovation – A match 3, but it is cool how it fills up the whole screen
• Fun – I was kind of confused how it works... I would move a block to make a row of 3 colors and then they just would change colors, and sometimes the change effect didn't match the 3 I changed.  So I can't tell if I'm doing it right lol.
• Graphics – Very simple but cool,
• Audio – Simple and cool as well.  Needs more feedback sounds for sure.
• Polish – Great start, but not really polished yet. Needs more game juice / game feel.

Great job working on the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Cool game!

• Innovation – The turning cannon pushing thing is a unique idea.
• Fun – I like how things wrap around the screen to the other side.
• Graphics – Clean and simple.  Since you're using Unity you should add some more particles, screen shake, post processing, etc. to make it feel more premium~
• Audio – Simple and cool!
• Polish – Just needs more game feel / game juice

Great job on the game idea!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Nice idea for an items dropper game!

• Innovation – Basic gameplay, but a cool idea behind it.
• Fun – It was simple and fun.  I wish there was a Dash skill to catch things that were impossibly far away.
• Graphics – Cool pixel art!  And it was nice that the clouds in the background slowly moved.
• Audio – Simple and cool.  Perhaps some ambient ocean or wind sounds would be cool.
• Polish – It is pretty polished overall~

Great job on the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Very polished visual novel!

• Innovation – Cool idea and very unique/cool art style!
• Fun – All the animations, effects, transitions, and sounds make it very fun to go through.
• Graphics – Super good! I really like the crazy effects like how it pixelates and then fades into hand drawn art. And how items get red when you interact with them.
• Audio – Good sound throughout, maybe could use more ambient sounds?  Also the sound was a bit loud and I couldn't see any sound options.  My computer was at 50% volume, had to turn it down to 25%
• Polish – Very nice with unique polish!

Great job on the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Cool game idea!

• Innovation – having a shield and a gun feels cool :D
• Fun – The fighting controls are unique and took a bit of time to get used to, but was still fun.
• Graphics – Nice and simple low poly.  The camera movement is a bit jarring, perhaps it doesn't need to snap behind the player?
• Audio – Simple and does the job.
• Polish – Feels pretty good, definitely keep working on it!

Great job working on the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Cool Castle defense game!

• Innovation – The controls are really cool, I like how fire is hold, ice is double tap, and lighting is swipe down!
• Fun – It was simple, but fun!  I wish there was more enemy types from the start.
• Graphics – Very simple, the attack effects are really nice.  Like the ice effect and lightning.
• Audio – definitely needs some sound effects to help it feel better.
• Polish – It is a really cool idea, you should polish it up so it feels more professional.  Better art + sound effects + hordes of enemies instead of just 1 by 1 would make it much better. 

Great job completing a full and fun game loop!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Great game title :D

• Innovation – Cool spin on the classics, but pretty similar.  It is unique how the asteroids chase the ship too haha.  The ship must have very strong gravity.
• Fun – Smooth controls! Having the shield and warp skills is nice too.
• Graphics – Great art! The star background is really nice too.
• Audio – Simple and cool retro sounds.
• Polish – Very nice! The little tutorial with animated buttons for the controls is super slick~

Great job completing a full and fun game loop!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Cool Smash Bros with laser guns type of game!

• Innovation – Neat idea!
• Fun – The controls are a little floaty and it is hard to see where I am shooting sometimes, but it is still fun to play.
• Graphics – Very simple but cool, needs a lot of work
• Audio – Crazy loud audio! I had to rip my head phones off when the game started... my Windows is even at 50% audio.  I'd be deaf if it was at 100% lol
• Polish – With some level art that wasn't just black rectangles it would look a lot more polished.

Great job making the game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D

Neat idea that it's an educational platformer

• Innovation – The gameplay and art assets are very basic, but the idea is unique
• Fun – Cool and basic platforming.  The jump height seemed like it was BARELY enough to reach certain platforms, felt frustrating when I was like 1 pixel to short reaching a platform.
• Graphics – You should change all the graphics to be like you're in a computer world.  Instead of the "Unsafe Website" being an old man sprite, it could be an XXX popup with arms and legs.  The platforms could be webpage tabs etc.  Really go all in on the idea of an internet computer world (maybe even like Tron)
• Audio – Basic and works.  Could use more ambience, like forest sounds or wind in the trees.  (Or is you go full sci-fi the ambience sound could be like a cyber punk city)
• Polish – A great start!

Great job completing an educational game!  Please check out my game if you like Metroidvanias or platformers :D