I am kinda lost for words today.
I never expected that anyone would care about this game, but the launch and reception has exceeded all of my expectations.
After 16 months of solo development seeing this made it all worth it.
Hi!
For the past 14 months I've been developing my first horror game into something I'm super proud of. I’ve been a touring musician during most of my twenties, and just kinda slowly found myself falling out of love with music. Then one night I found a tutorial and my whole world changed.
Throughout all of development I felt so inspired, and worked 8-10 hour days, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot of these “how to market your game” and “my game failed” videos/posts pop up everywhere. My issue with those videos is that they all feel so disingenuous, and all of them seem to just be a shameless plug for you to go buy/wishlist their game.
With music I’ve always been used to just releasing stuff into the void, knowing that no one would probably ever listen to it. I think one of the reasons I feel weird is that I am starting to believe all of these different content creators' views and metrics of what success for a release is, which clashes a lot with how I used to create.
For me I just love creating and don’t really mind if 10.000 people buy and play my game, or if 0 people buy it. I think my frustration comes from all of these different creators telling you how to release your game and how to measure success, and me questioning my own belief in how I define success.
Maybe some of you feel the same way?