It sucks that RPG maker can't export to the Switch, given that not only do indie games get more attention on the Switch, I /think/ the Switch community isn't nearly as hostile, along with how you can't even be directly hostile towards devs on the switch either.
I’d honestly love to put stuff out for Switch but yeah. That’s not really possible unless I wanted to rebuild the whole game from the ground up in Game Maker or something
I'm gonna be frank with you: Steam is an awful place for indie titles right now. The sheer saturation of awful games on the storefront due to Direct's lack of floodgates means that even if you got it on there, you likely wouldn't get noticed and this would have a direct impact on sales. As awesome as it would be to have your game on my steam library, it's just not the best move you could make.
Yeah, we’re many years past that mythical time when just being on Steam got indie games noticed. As much as it annoys me to see people selling prefab Unity games and crudely made “offensive” games, though, I don’t really think the problem with Steam is that kinda stuff, so much as the awful discoverability tools
I mean, itch.io is WAY more open as a storefront than Steam. There are currently 130,648 games listed on itch, compared to like 25,000 on Steam. itch is like Bandcamp–they have no quality control standards or up front fees whatsoever. There is no barrier to entry at all. You just can’t post intentionally malicious or illegal content. But itch has a way, way better layout that makes it much easier to browse for games you might like. It’s easy to see the latest staff recommendations and new releases right on the front page, or see the recent top sellers, or see what’s new or popular in a specific tag. You can even get recommendations for similar games on most game pages. It’s way better than Steam’s layout.
The only thing that makes me consider going to Steam is that some people are really, really stubborn about buying PC games anywhere other than Steam. It’s the place where everyone’s already been building up a game library for years, so a lot of folks are wary about buying things anywhere else, even when they DO want to buy your game. It sucks, but any minor inconvenience in the way of buying your game is going to turn some people away
so, when the game is finished, where will it be downloadable?
It’ll be up for sale on itch.io, just like the demo! Steam is also a possibility but boy howdy is their community a nightmare and also they take a bigger cut than itch and i am poor
the party members are actually smaller than that! they’re all 28 x 55 or smaller (not counting the extra few pixels of height their shadows add)
most of the NPCs exceed that, though. Holly’s sprite, for instance, is 55 x 76, and Beverly is 36 x 61. Even Pepper, maybe the smallest NPC, has a sprite that’s 42 pixels wide
In the skills menu, shouldn't the Mana cost be coloured pink to match the mana bar and Star Power cost be coloured yellow to match the typical colour of the star? Seems like odd inconsistency to me.
The demo’s a bit out of date, but this is what it looks like in the current build of the game
Mana-based skills have their costs displayed in pink, but I can’t really display Star Power costs in yellow because menu items flash yellow when they’re selected and it would be unreadable
I can't wait until the gamemakertoolkit's episode on SLARPG.
I don’t think I wanna have my fursona actually show up in the flesh, but I mean, she is canonically there as a random citizen of Greenridge, off-screen. The fortune teller (Anthony’s fursona) makes a reference to her in one of the tarot readings in the demo
Oh, and the disclaimer at the beginning of the demo looked like this for a while during development, but I knew opening my quirky RPG with a small fluffy white dog representing the creator would just invite some heavy comparisons to Undertale
I don’t want to rule it out entirely, but in my mind Melody is probably way too anxious about being a good partner for ONE person to really entertain the idea of dating someone else. At this point in her life, at least. She’s only been with Allison, her first partner ever, for like two months, and is still figuring out how to do this whole “dating” thing
That being said, if y’all want to ship the whole party together or whatever then by all means, be my guest. Give Melody as many girlfriends as you want. Much of my writing has its roots in transformative gay fanworks (that’s a more professional sounding way of saying “sappy shipping fanfics”), so I’m certainly not gonna stop folks from shipping non-canon stuff in SLARPG
I always read the title in Melee announcer voice. "SUPERR... LESBIAN ANIMAL ARRPEEGEE!" *dramatic sound effects*
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Howdy! I was wondering, is there any hope of seeing this on console? :D
It’s not impossible, but because I would probably either have to rebuild the game from scratch in a different engine or work with a publisher willing to do so, the chances are so infinitesimally small that it’s probably never going to happen
The official blog of the game of the same name, about exactly what it sounds like, by Bobby Schroeder, Beatrix Quinn, and friends. Available now for PC via Steam and itch.io!
