Hello fellow developers!

As i scan through all these messages i see a lot of views but no (much) replies...

While we all are looking for some honest reviews but we are all each other competitors  and there is so much new content coming out on an hourly base...

I am no different in that that i also  want some honest reviews to know if it is worth to continue with the project i recently uploaded.

So lets start a group of indie game developers who promise to review each other games and help each other really out.

I won't share my link to my game because i want this topic to be sincere (and not just another cheesy way to get more reviews)

So let me know (reaction or direct mail) what you think of the idea and if you are interested.

happy coding, and don't give up!!!!

Regards,

Namuh!

I'm 100% down with the colaborative > competitive culture. We get into orbit much faster if we build a rocket together than if we spend all our time knocking each others' down. imo Indie creators aught to be setting themselves apart from the cutthrough industry by forming bands that build each other up. Networking for testing, feedback, and promotion of each other's work would mutually benefit everyone involved.

In a way, that's kind of a part of what Itch.io is, in general, but it matters that people can enter into an agreement with likeminded creators, rather than setting up a public system and thinking that is good enough. I suspect there are already such groups out there who are happy with their membership and not making themselves visible to the rest of us. I don't have any work published yet, but when I do eventually get the chance to, participating in such a group would be ideal to me.

I'm competitive when it comes to games, but not income. My only concern about collaboration is being taken advantage of. I'd like to find honest people who are interested in having a good time. I don't know how to do that.

RE: Review of Typomania

I type when the stream of consciousness flows. I don't find joy in the mechanical process of typing.

When I started out on itch, I tried to review every game I played.  I mostly stopped doing that because of the vast number of games that I don't like at all.  Giving them all bad reviews seems mean-spirited, especially for obvious beginner projects that aren't really meant to compete with "real" games or for games that are competently done in genres that I hate, but I also can't honestly give them not-bad reviews.  So I just stopped giving reviews entirely, except when a game stands out as being worthy of a good review.

A feedback circle probably works for short-form games, but something like my last release, which is a long-form game in a niche genre, is still not really going to get the kind of feedback that it would most benefit from.  It requires too much engagement, and it would not be reasonable for me to expect that from people.