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40wattstudio1 year ago(+1)

I think your own words on that game's comment section answers your question: ". . . the game is simply a platformer." 

If it's "simply a platformer" then what's the appeal? The vast majority of people who come to Itch.io have played a platformer of some kind, so unless your game offers something special to that genre, there's not much incentive to try it out.  

That being said, adding a gif of the gameplay would 1) make the game page more interesting  and 2) show people what it looks like in action.

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HouseRule1 year ago

I play a lot of platformers from itch. Are you saying I'm in a minority, and the silent majority is passing up my game because I don't have unique mechanisms? If so, I definitely don't belong here. I crafted the game to meet my desires.

I don't think the game needs a gif. It's a platformer. I would be stating the obvious with a distracting display that some players might consider a spoiler.

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40wattstudio1 year ago

If the game you made makes you happy everything after that is just extra icing on the cake. This is the exact same philosophy I've taken with my own game in the over-saturated shmup genre.  I want to make a game that pleases me, and if it pleases others, cool. 

Even though the basic idea behind a platformer is well-known, a gif is still useful because it shows how the character is animated and how realistic (or exaggerated) the physics are. I don't play many platformers, but one I downloaded recently from Steam was "Ori and the Will of the Wisps". Besides the cool art style, what sold me on it was seeing how the character moved and interacted with the environment.

Not having a gif for your game is like a musician not releasing samples of their latest song or a blockbuster movie without a movie trailer. Heck, even books sometimes use trailers to attract readers.

The human eye is drawn to movement. Use Gifs. 

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HouseRule1 year ago

Each room has a certain way to pass through. Posting action would be a spoiler. Did you not download the game because you thought the animation might be terrible?

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HouseRule1 year ago (1 edit)

I also don't want to be the 1st person to post a speedrun of my own game. I made it. I make it look easy.

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