Withdrawal availability. Patreon operates in more countries than Itch.io. We know this because someone donated to us via Itch.io - and we simply can’t withdraw that money. It’s just sitting there. And that’s the most critical issue.
Other reasons:
1) The platform’s popularity. A while back, we posted a banner asking for support via BuyMeACoffee.
Not a single donation. Zero. Meanwhile, Patreon is already performing quite well.
2) We’re not just game developers. We’re also artists. We have platforms on various websites where people already know what Patreon is (because they support other artists), but know nothing about Itch.io. By using Patreon, we can attract them as well - something we wouldn’t be able to do here. So yeah, gamers not our only target audience.
3) I’m not entirely sure about this one, but I think Patreon has lower fees?
4) Itch.io isn’t stable. More than once, I’ve wanted to share my game while chatting with people, but at that moment, Itch.io was down. And it was down for a long time - about 7 hours. As far as I know, that never happens with Patreon.
5) Itch.io imposes a shadow ban on games with 18+ content. As far as I know, unless you specifically search for our games by title, you won’t be able to find them.
The game wasn't designed for phones at the moment, but if you go to the settings and turn on “Text Auto-fill,” that should help. Once you enable this feature, you'll be able to tap an agent's call sign to open a laptop with information about them!
Yes, we had that idea early on in development, but we ran out of time, because the artist would have had to draw additional sprites for the different enemy types in the menu on the left
I'm gonna release PC version after voting period is over. Maybe this will help. But my friends tested the game on both Firefox and Chrome. That screenshot I sent is a walkthrough on Chrome
Here's my walkthrough. I was risky. I was playing aggressively. I have more plays from my friends. One of them beat the level in 3 minutes. I really can't understand what you're talking about. There's enough medkits and ammo around...
Oh yeah, we originally had the idea that you could capture any of the three types of enemies, which would change your starting health, but we wouldn’t have been able to implement that in a week because of the extra workload it would have placed on the artist
And yes, we also had the idea that when you’re losing at the start, you’d throw yourself off the enemy’s head, but again, we couldn’t implement it due to time constraints
Thanks for the review! Some of the issues you mentioned are indeed due to time constraints. I don’t think the game is particularly “difficult” to beat. Maybe it’s a matter of taste. I play a lot of boomershooters, so the game was very easy for me. I’m surprised that so many people find it difficult (My friends tested my game too, and they didn't really complain about the difficulty)
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. If you're curious about what happens later in the game, here's a walkthrough video Plus you can see here how I usually play for example
We're working hard on it and we certainly haven't forgotten about our projects that we consider quite successful. But unfortunately we don't have much time to work on them at the pace we would like
We are thinking in infinite mode to add bosses repeatedly, but it makes more sense for the story that they will still be once. For more variety I think it would be better to add more new regular enemies, but we don't plan to do that right now
Character upgrades are also planned, namely we planned that each boss will give us some kind of upgrade, but we didn't have time for that, so we limited ourselves to a large amount of gold.
