Renzatic on 18/10/2017 at 23:02
Man, that's starting to look incredibly good.
henke on 19/10/2017 at 05:47
Yeah, holy shit, all that iterating is really paying off! :thumb: It looks very good, those stone pebble transitions add a lot.
Yakoob on 19/10/2017 at 23:41
Yea I'm digging it. Feels very unique compared to most top-down 2D strats!
Pyrian on 20/10/2017 at 03:58
Thanks, everyone, that's very reassuring. :)
Nameless Voice on 28/10/2017 at 02:32
I'm really not a fan of pirates desecrating your splash screen to advertise themselves.
That's just going too far.
More seriously, I'm surprised that the ratio is that high. €3 is not exactly any significant amount of money.
Pyrian on 28/10/2017 at 05:37
The irony is just dripping. Ugh.
That study, man... I mean, it's just a survey. Their methods are interesting, but there's literally no way to calibrate their effectiveness. I wouldn't put any stock in it at all, which is honestly about what the study says with its rather enormous error term. And really, I think the type of game and type of monetizations and even type of crack are important factors.
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I'm really not a fan of pirates desecrating your splash screen to advertise themselves.
That's just going too far.
I distinctly remember them doing that on Apple ][ games.
Glade Raid anecdote: I had a hell of a time actually getting that screenshot. I needed six spell effects on screen, two of which required prior spells to pull off. So I just set about creating all the effects with the Druid in-game while the Ranger provided covering fire, slowly dropping the enemy slingers. Then a couple Fell Badgers and a Knife Boggin got across the river (sped up by the handy ice) and everything went to hell. I tried to have the Berzerker use extra-dodge while the Kern and Ranger applied their missile weapons, but the Berzerker dodged onto the ice, slipped and fell over, whereupon the badgers tore him to shreds. Then the badgers confounded my counter-attack - one went on the defensive, and the other ate all my healing berries! With two undamaged Fell Badgers rampaging, I broke down and started throwing spells at them (instead of continuing to prepare the screenshot), specifically tremor. That bought me a breather - but it also knocked all the icicles off the bushes, and more enemies were arriving.
I ended up re-starting the level.
Nameless Voice on 28/10/2017 at 12:12
I don't think there's anything wrong with piracy if a) the person wasn't going to buy it anyway and b) it was acquired for free.
Copying digital data is a victimless crime, no one actually loses anything for it other than potential earnings, and if they weren't going to buy it anyway then I'd rather people were at least playing my (potential) games than not - plus, they might even decide that they like it and buy it later, or recommend it to someone else who will buy it.
Far worse is non-free piracy, like the people in that photo selling pirated games on disc, since those people are actually taking money from folks who are willing to pay for the game and not giving the actual developers anything.
Also not a fan of those key-selling sites that acquire keys in dodgy fashions and then undercut the developers. In you particular case, it doesn't look like they sell Headliner, though.
Starker on 28/10/2017 at 16:35
Nameless Voice is exactly right -- piracy is not a bunch of bad people set out to rob you, it's a bunch of essentially good people rationalising away not paying you three dollars so they wouldn't feel bad about it. Deep down they probably know that they are doing something wrong and that they are not entitled to play your game for free.
Here's a video on the topic of this type of dishonesty, with even a couple of suggestions on from what angle to tackle it (seems like guilt-tripping actually works):
[video=youtube;XBmJay_qdNc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBmJay_qdNc[/video]
