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[Ark]

ENDESGA is does seem to be very active on social media, indeed. I hesitate to speculate on how that may have affected their success

If no money was spent on PR, then the only reason the campaign was successful is their social media activities. It can't be anything else. Sorry, I don't have any romantic feelings about crowd-funding anymore.

The project here lacks a lot of social media investment and imo, a failed crowfunding gives a negative image to your product , how successful it is afterwards.

I agree. You need to plan these things very carefully.

By the way I have some very good news for myself . I've finally received some funding from the publisher. Not much but it should be enough - I even have some extra time now to add the optional things like "achievements" and a hidden secret boss battle.

Switching to the "full-time mode" soon.  

[darrenagar]

By the way I have some very good news for myself . I've finally received some funding from the publisher. Not much but it should be enough - I even have some extra time now to add the optional things like "achievements" and a hidden secret boss battle.

Switching to the "full-time mode" soon.    

Great news! Can't wait for a tasty look at gameplay someday

Where kickstarter is concerned. I'm not going to let negative press dissuade me from backing projects worthy of support. Now that the crazyness around it has died off, we have to view it much more realistically.   

[Thaumaturge]

If no money was spent on PR, then the only reason the campaign was successful is their social media activities. It can't be anything else.

Even if so, that's far from marking successful crowdfunding as the province of only the rich or famous.

Sorry, I don't have any romantic feelings about crowd-funding anymore.

Again, I'm sorry to read it. :/

By the way I have some very good news for myself . I've finally received some funding from the publisher. Not much but it should be enough - I even have some extra time now to add the optional things like "achievements" and a hidden secret boss battle.

Switching to the "full-time mode" soon.    

Conversely, I'm glad to read that! Congratulations! ^_^

[uuav]

That art-style is gorgeous!!!

[Ark]

That art-style is gorgeous!!!

Thanks. Doing my best.

Even if so, that's far from marking successful crowdfunding as the province of only the rich or famous.

I agree. You invest time if you can't invest money. Personally, I have neither. So a much easier (and may be the only) way for me is working with a publisher, which is going nice so far.

Conversely, I'm glad to read that! Congratulations! ^_^

Thanks! 

Great news! Can't wait for a tasty look at gameplay someday

Thanks. I can make a video right now, but I'm going to follow my original plan. The process seems very slow when you are doing everything yourself... but it isn't.


This entire month I have been working on the level design. Building platforms and such... I think I have about 20% of the world done - that's not much at all, but the rest should be faster to make. Also re-designing some of the older stuff.


Upgraded cover art (still not final, I think):



Always wanted to do something like this - a room of patterns! :


Another dragon sub-form (still in progress! I might change everything):

[Thaumaturge]

So a much easier (and may be the only) way for me is working with a publisher, which is going nice so far.

Hey, if it's working for you, I won't gainsay it. ^_^

Building platforms and such...

This gave me the amusing mental image of you standing in a level with a screwdriver, attaching walkways to the walls.

It reads as though things are progressing fairly well; I hope that they continue to do so. ^_^

[Ark]

I'm still alive and I'm back . Mirage of Dragon is finished and will be released on Steam next month. Yay. (I've uploaded the trailer - you can find the link in the first post if you're interested.)

I know it was a boring blog, but at least that 100% mark was reached. I'll write something else here next month . I hope to have a thing or two to say here then. Working on a new game already - may be I'll start another boring blog about it...

P.S. Happy X-Mas!   

[Thaumaturge]

Happy Christmas to you too! ^_^

Well done on having that release-day set! I hope that it goes well for you! ^_^

(For some reason the trailer doesn't show up for me--although the post seems to be spaced as though it should. I do seem to have managed to get to it by extracting the URL from the page-source, however.)

[Ark]

Well done on having that release-day set! I hope that it goes well for you!

Thanks! I doubt it will go well though - I wasn't expecting any kind of success to begin with.

(For some reason the trailer doesn't show up for me--although the post seems to be spaced as though it should. I do seem to have managed to get to it by extracting the URL from the page-source, however.)

That is rather strange. Anyway, this is my last post here - nothing will be added. Here's the link to the game on Steam:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/782380/Mirage_of_Dragon/

Personally, I'm satisfied with the game I have made. Regardless of what people may think about it, I love it. And that's all I have to say for now. Consider playing it if you like surreal mazes and easy platformers.

I think I already have a lot to say about my next project, so I'm thinking about starting a new dev-log on the forum. This will be my best game so far.

[Thaumaturge]

Congratulations on the release, and I'm glad that you're so pleased with what you made. I hope that the next project goes well for you! ^_^