mrhands

Mr. Hands

@mrhands

Sexy game(s) maker

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I do UI programming for AAA games and I have opinions about adult games

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MOOMANiBE
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MOOMANiBE
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man.. this happens a LOT but I feel deeply bad for the team behind We Are The Caretakers, who launched their afrofuturist-rts-xcomlike in early access and updated it consistently for almost 2 full years to an audience of only 23 total reviews after that whole time on steam. Genuinely how do you deal with that level of apathy after putting so much work in. Man. Like I've worked on flops before but this is more like "literally no one played the game". :X

mrhands
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I was going to buy the terrible Suicide Squad game (don't fuckin' judge me, it's for work), but now I feel my time and money is better spent elsewhere.

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garak
@garak

Saying "how have I not heard of this game?" both in the meaning that this is something I'm interested in, but also as a specific critique of the structural failings of the forces that impact the success and failure of indie game projects.

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antumbral
@antumbral

releasing a game now is either resigning yourself to nobody playing it or preparing to spend an ungodly amount of money paying shitty youtubers to make a video about it that nobody will watch

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SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

hm im not sure rts-jrpg-xcomlike is... exactly what im looking for right now but im annoyed that i haven't heard one single word about it before this or even recognized the name at all

because like that's fresh ideas in a world where the entire industry is dominated by incredibly unambitious sequels to sequels to sequels to sequels that only get greenlit if they're guaranteed to be a #1 best seller

sucks that the only coverage we get is for the AAA shit that already has billions of dollars of marketing spend and nothing to help highlight gems of the 10000 smaller releases with actually unique ideas

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SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

i dont even know who you'd read at this point to see anything interesting about this industry that isn't just a "AAA game with a rating from 75-100 out of 100" marketing piece

im sure the people doing that might still be around but the churn from site to site to site is so bad that i've lost track of where anyone is or whether entire publications even still exist

(suggestions welcome fwiw)

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revenger210
@revenger210

oh hell that is horrid( i recall coming across it on twitter years back, and i tried the demo when it came out. i was sadly let down, but i kept following it out of curiosity. ngl i hadnt received news about it and thought the game had been abandoned x_x

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NireBryce
@NireBryce

I feel like reviews also are intentionally friction-full in a lot of the storefronts because they don't consider it a key part of business. I do it when I remember, but there's so much in the way of "I finished this game" and "being reminded to write about it on the store page" that it slips my mind even with trying to be on top of it.

I wish there was better systems for it.

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UncreativeOpinions
@UncreativeOpinions

I've noticed this happening increasingly over the last few years.

Substantial games of all sizes/qualities that completely fail to gain any traction or receive any critical reception, let alone one big enough to be called good or bad. As if somebody has changed the settings on "Worst Case Scenario" to something way worse than previously.

I have a few pet theories about why. But mostly it just depresses me.

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