Comments - Toolkitz

This profile about to be 10 years old, and it's still on the IndieDB top 10 list.

Hello and apologies for the late reply. For some reason, I didn't get a notification about it.

You are correct, this game comes from a period of time where I was just making games on a whim. "Just follow your passion", that was the postulation I was going under. Now I know better, but unfortunately it's too late. I'm so deep into the project that it can't change. I must go through with this in this state and yes, I'm aware it is a flawed plan. I made my bed and I have to lie on it now.

But thankfully this is merely part one. Part two, for sure, will finally do things right. I just got to be patient now and see things through.

Sure is.

Speak for yourself. I thought it was awesome.

I was playing your game but had to stop because pressing S on the keyboard crashes the game. I'm more used to using A and S rather than Z and X so I would accidentally press S only for the game to crash.

Oh heck yeah! I love this game! Glad to see it here on IndieDB!

Sorry for the late reply but thank you so much. That means so much, especially with my life being hectic right now. But the project continues on.

Thank you for checking out the demo. Glad you enjoyed it.

Unfortunately, the game is being designed with this split screen format in-mind due to the artist drawing only half of each screen. This is to save time when drawing the backgrounds. I hope to one day actually implemented a single screen option when there is enough support for the project, so it is not out of the question.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

Wow, that's quite rude. Not that I find her attractive myself, but that's going a bit over board.

There's a simple fix to that:

"Ergastulum: The Art of Blood"

A bit of a suggestions, but maybe you should add the subtitle because the name is hard to pronounce, and thus hard to remember. Art of Blood is pretty simple and catchy.

For a minute, I thought the game was called "The Art of Blood", not the article. lol.

But it looks really good. Nice job.

Well, I'm going to be nicer and say that, yes, the scenery and the models clash. Something about the aesthetic just doesn't look right. Maybe it has to do with the texture used, or that black outline, or maybe the background has to be much more simple.

I'm sorry I can't provide any good feedback but I do like the actual designs. I really think that a more simple and flat style would suit this game. Instead of adding textures, maybe you can try just leaving them flat single colors?

EDIT:
I took a look at your screenshots and saw this one:
Indiedb.com

That one is actually not bad. It looks really nice. Maybe you can learn from this screenshot. From my perspective, I see the characters being more or less aligned with the aesthetic of the background. Nothing stands out and they seem to fit really well from this angle and distance. If the game can look like this, I think it will look really good. Hope that helps.

Oh, thank you very much. I wasn't expecting that compliment, lol.

This game is looking beautiful. Awesome job on it.

I'm a simple man. I see froggy girl on the thumbnail, I instantly click!

Did you make this game just for me!? XD

Excellent work. It's looking good, and yes, Froggy Girl gameplay. I know she's not the main thing about the video, but I'm so happy you included a bit of her gameplay.

So that's how you get one of those on YouTube. Interesting.

You giving away the OST for free? I would've paid for that alone. That trailer music, WOW!

EDIT:
Never mind. I realized this is free public music. Still, this Arcidus guy, I'm gonna check out more of his stuff. That trailer music is beautiful.

Yes. It is where all the trolls and SJWs come from.

This hits hard for me. I once spent 2 and a half years working on a game, and just as you said, no marketing. Spent 2 years toiling on a game and it only got 8 downloads. By that point, that was 5 years of constant failure so I was used to it, but a lesson was learned: development alone is not enough. You can work on a game for decades on end and nobody could possibly know of it, especially now when the market is over saturated.

Though I am still a solo developer, I'm going to set aside my game come this summer and promote the heck out of it. I can't do both develop and market at the same time, it's so time consuming, but my best bet is to dedicate a period to development and another to promote it.

If you want my advice, try searching for a free consultation with a PR agent or marketer. I did just that, got a free consultation, and it opened my eyes. I know have a better understanding of what I did wrong and even though the advice was more or less vague, it gave me a starting point of where to start. If you do need a starting point, I would suggest you do that.

Oh! I'm going to have to do promotion come this summer too. I would love to hear how you went about it so I can get some advice.

Good luck on your ambition. It looks like a great game.

Nereids, huh? Over a decade ago, back when I was in high school, I was super interested in mythological creatures, but I never came across nereids. I might look them up for nostalgic reasons.

Other than that, just discovered this game. Looks promising. I'm not into these sim type of games but this one sounds really good.

Why thank you. Props goes to the artist, Art of Imagi Studios. They are great to work with.

I always look forward to a new update on this game. Keep up the great work.

Umm... is this some kind of test?

Looks good but the pilot profile pic is a tad too big. Looks like you want to use these as cutscenes but I feel like during gameplay, it should be smaller or just not there.

Is it just me or do those two kids look like they have a condescending look about them?