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[Ramos]

May I put you under a humble interrogation? Case-study wise 


How many wishlists and followers you had before release?
In how long time period you got the WLs and FLs?
How many of them got converted after release?

[marcgfx]

Sure, but I don't know much...
Wishlists: ~2k
Followers: is this a Steam thing? I don't know. Twitter: ~450?
Converted: No idea where to find out

[Ramos]

Sure, but I don't know much...
Wishlists: ~2k
Followers: is this a Steam thing? I don't know. Twitter: ~450?
Converted: No idea where to find out

Thank you!
On followers, these are people more interested in your game and they not only want to get notified on release(like wishlist people do) but also want to get notified of all updates and posts regarding the game.
You can use this link to check FL from games but it does not say how many they were before release:
https://steamcommunity.com/search/groups/#text=devader
Currently, you have 591 fl.

About Wishlist, you had 2k before release or you have 2k now?

To see the conversion rate you need to go to Steamworks -> Financial Info -> and here you can view much information about wishlist and sales.

Overall are you satisfied with the work involved in the project in balance with the money made so far from sales?

[marcgfx]

@Ramos:
satisfied... not even a tiny bit
but I hope I can make the game good enough for it to be less easy to ignore . This might be a fools approach, but

2k wishlist before release, currently 4.4k and activations at 450.

Does this just look like big black lump of nothing or is it in any way impressive? Asking for a friend.

[vdapps]

TBH, to me it looks like buggy rendering ? Mainly this black part.

[marcgfx]

Thank you for your honest opinion I don't quite know what to make of it myself. It's a bit better in motion, but not good.

[marcgfx]

I just gave it another 20 minutes, I think the "smoke" gives it some depth. I've made the branches connect at a lower position, so there is no gap.

I then spent about 30 minutes trying to convert my mp4 into a webp of sufficiently small size until I eventually gave up and present to you this screenshot:

[vdapps]

Ok, now that's better, it looks like some alienish bluueaah thing. This time black part looks better (as it's more shaded) and pink part is lacking depth (as it's almost everything pink monocolor).

I can imagine that in motion is totally different story as motion can also add depth, which I can't see in static image.

[JobLeonard]

Yeah the new version is a big improvement

[marcgfx]

I somehow managed to achieve the look I was going for all the time, by simply layering two "paintbrushes". I was not expecting it to work this well

Now I have to rework the actual gameplay of the boss, it's kind of lame.

[vdapps]

So now that's perfect. But ufff, that's one disgusting monster or what is it.

[Alain]

Neat! It is cool to see how the look of the enemy developed over the three screenshots.

[JobLeonard]

I see a giant head of a possessed snowman in the last screenshot. Which is fitting for the season (if you live in the Northern hemisphere, and I do), even if it's probably a coincidence

[marcgfx]

@vdapps & Alain : Thank you for the motivation

@JobLeonard: The boss is partly random-generated so that possessed snow man is a once in a lifetime fluke, next time it could be a possessed vampire.

A recently added feature propels the weapon power-up away from the Devader when it dies. You then have a chance to collect it within 8 seconds, before it disappears forever. I liked the idea and decided to expand on it. Whenever you pick up an armor-container at full health you gain 1 additional permanent HP. This additional HP is lost when the Devader is destroyed. Not any more! It is now also blasted away to be collected within 8 seconds.


A new beastie is in town, the one with legs and a cute little turret. It can place force fields that enemies can shoot through, but the player cannot...

[marcgfx]

I made these spiky things a while ago. They still just roll around, but I've decided that's fine. I've added dust and destruction and am really happy with how it turned out. The particles are propelled using my guestimated physics.

[vdapps]

Looks super cool. And this destruction it's cherry on top.

[marcgfx]

Thanks vdapps
Another critter has been updated. So far it was just hanging out in my database chilling.

[JobLeonard]

I second that death animation, the way it turns to dust looks great!

[vdapps]

Where you got inspiration for bosses? It's just, let's have some lines with procedural movement and it makes this snaky thingy like looking monsters?

Just database of your bosses assets can make for 10 good sci-fi horror movies.

[marcgfx]

It's a bit enforced by my engine, which does not support texture-swapping. Everything is on a single texture atlas. The main question for me usually is: How do I make something cool without using many images. Most creatures start out as experiments and I tend to work on them until they fit. There is no other outside inspiration really, well maybe bugs/spiders stuff with tentacles But nothing concrete. I want to make stuff that does not exist so far. I have about 40 critters in alpha state some of which I have pretty much forgotten by the time I check in on them again.