u/dyrkabes

I have an autobattler. I started a simulation with equal enemies forces, recorded it in Unity and cut to 90 seconds to not inflate the binary too much. Video parameters and random thoughts:

• Use heavy blur
• 30 FPS is enough
• For my game, a bit of slowdown was very helpful
• 91 seconds MP4, codec HEVC (default in CapCut), 720p. In total 32.6 MB. Actually, a lower resolution would also work but 30 MB is ok. Maybe I supply a separate one/a very compressed one for web version
• Starting at a random point makes it way less repetitive. Just don't let it start closer than ~10 seconds before the clip ends otherwise it would go to fade out too fast
• Fade in and fade out made in CapCut with some effects I liked. You can see them on the video

Note, my menu was (and partially is) ugly due to buttons layout. I am still unhappy with the analytics and wishlist stickers. But now it looks way less amateurish I think

Added Referrer-Visits table + timeline of influential changes + my overall stats for the game

(I would put this info in a comment but it is not allowed to do so)

About the weird thing.

If I am not mistaken, around 1.05 I updated the page - changed the colors and uploaded the visual assets like background. I don't know if it was the exact date, cannot find any notes. But I remember that my views went reeeeeeally low after that. Maybe it is a coincidence and people were tired of seeing the game.

But I know that back in the day (end of April) I could find my game in the top charts. Like on the "top incrementals" list. I was not high, places around 120-150 but I did get constant traffic from there. I don't get any visits since that unfortunate update of mine.

So I will never update visual assets on the page after going live :D better have an ugly page then no visits haha. Capsule and screenshot updates did not have such an effect

Maybe it was just a glitch, no idea, was just very weird to suddenly disappear from everywhere

I pushed the new alpha on itch.io and there is a lot of organic views again. The spike in downloads is due to providing Mac OS and windows builds

Also I am getting 2-3x more wishlists on Steam daily. So always include wishlist CTA there :)

Btw, despite having UTM set up on all the buttons, Steam still shows almost nothing, no idea why. But I am 98% sure that all the extra wishlists are coming from itch, I was very inactive everywhere else lately and did not update tags and trailers

Note. Major updates don't work always. I don't know why. Ie last time I had my major update (with a ton of fixes, new mechanics, new in game upgrades) it brought me no traffic. This time, apart from having new mechanics, I also did a large redesign. Maybe it helped

Hi all!

My game Incremental RTS is now in a shape that I finally like and want to share here :D

Platforms: Web, MacOS and Windows (if you have Windows pls let me know how it runs. I only have potato-quality laptop)

Playable link: https://i-am-happy-to-see-you.itch.io/incremental-rts

The game is a mixture of Real Time Strategy (think Total Annihilation) and Idle/Incremental. You can expect ~25 levels, 100 upgrades and 16 different units. Total play time might be from 2 to 4 or even 6 hours if you don't rush.

I "work" as a solo dev, meaning I do everything on my own

Dunno what has happened but my itch CTR has been steadily growing in the last weeks and went from originally ~1.5% to 5.25%. It hasn't been so good since lunch

I am super happy about it but I wonder what was the reason. I did have the major update + new capsule on the 5.04 but it did not have any effect back then it seems. I think the capsule update did change the things as CTR slowly grew from ~1.5% at the lowest point to ~3.3% but the recent jump is interesting.

Still a way to go back to the original highs with hundreds of daily plays. But perhaps constantly making the game better does attract players.

Life is a kind of incremental game in the end