Just made my let’s play on your game as a regular player (so it’s without voice comments). I hope it will be useful for you to see how fresh players might start your game for the first time :) I’ll provide text comments later, probably after finishing the videos for the other projects :)
2 years ago (+1)
You are welcome!
Can you please answer a couple of questions? :)
If you agree, the first one is - as I see u mentioned your game is released at the 1st of April, 2021
But I suppose it’s about the Demo only, right? Because here stays the game isn’t ready yet:
I’m asking that because I think Steam uses that date for the complete game version to appear, not for Demo. Thus “No user reviews” and “the game was ready 1 year ago” are probably not looking good together for many Steam visitors (the amount of reviews comparing with the time the game being launched is crucial for all analysts). Though I understand your logic here, but I’m not sure the most of Steam users will think and read this information the same as you :)
The second question - I played two pages of the story and saw it has so many left. What is the limit for the Demo? And when the Full version is going to be released? :)
The third one - have u translated everything into English from Chinese or vice versa? Have u done it yourself or hire somebody? :)
And the fourth - can I ask you to play our game as well and leave some feedback? :D You may do this after Fest, if you want, it’s not necessary to play it asap, record any videos, give some big analysis - nothing like that. We just need to know your opinion, coz our game is metaphorically about the childhood period as well :) So we’d appreciate you play it and give us your overall opinion!
2 years ago (+1)
Thank you so much for the feedback, you are very careful, I think many people may have the same question.
-Why is the game's release date on Steam showing April 1, 2021
It's a long story about why the game's release date on Steam showing April 1, 2021, but in short, because I didn’t plan to publish this game myself before, instead, I gave the game to a publishing company (my friend’s company), and in early 2021, the publishing company created this page in order to participate in a festival event on Steam at that time. and we just offer a demo for a week in the Fest. I think my friend set a release date in order to pass the festival's request, after that, the plan of their publishing this game on Steam changed, so you see the “April 1, 2021, Release” shown on the current page, but so far, I have never released a full version.
-What is the limit for the Demo?
You will play the first 9 chapters in the Demo. I think there is no limit for the Demo.
-When to release the full version?
This year, I just took back the publishing rights of this game from my friend's company because I don't think they're doing a good job of promoting my game. I may learn to publish it myself or search for a better publisher (the previous one is more likely). I did have an option to publish the full version on June 1st， but I feel like I need to get some things done and free up my energy to focus on releasing my game. I'm still undecided, but I think I'll make the decision very soon.
-Have u translated everything into English from Chinese or vice versa? Have u done it yourself or hired somebody?
Yes, I translated it myself. （I'm still improving my English, so please let me know if you think the translation is inaccurate， I will be very grateful)
-Can I ask you to play our game as well and leave some feedback?
Sure， I will go to have a try.
2 years ago (+1)
Oh I see now, great thanks for answering my questions! As for me your game looks quite completed and thus I was wondering when the Demo should end, and why aren’t you selling the full version of the game yet :) It’s cry and shame some publishers (or even worse - friend) didn’t at least make an opportunity for the game to be bought! But I suppose many of them publishers may be not very enthusiastic about promoting our indie-games in the end :) That’s why we also trying to promote our game relying mostly on our’s strength, at least at the start.
And about your English, I suppose it’s very decent even in informal conversation! While playing your game I hadn’t found out anything too weird in the texts as well ) But maybe it’s due to the whole bizarre style of the art during the story - it’s probably looked even better when the text’s a bit strange itself :D Nevertheless I definitely may try to have a closer look and probably improve texts somehow if you really need this :)
Above all I myself think it’s crucial to divide the Demo and the Full version now. If I were you, I’d block the further content in Demo approximately after the 9-10th episode - somewhere near the episode I stopped playing the game for recording. And then upload the separate Full paid version in Steam. As I see you have about 100 Wishlisted players now, so you will probably get some purchases and the feedback from the full version asap.
Anyway if you need any help or want more feedback or other explanations - you can also write me directly in Discord app: NNDanko (Nirmita RPG)#5719 - coz the Fest is over now, you see )))
Btw I still have some more questions for you, well, we can discuss ’em personally as well (if you want ofc).
2 years ago(+1)
Thank you so much for your valuable suggestions, they are very helpful. Yeah, maybe you are right, I need to release the full version asap and I'm preparing for the release too. let's discuss more in Discord.