Releasing My Roguelike Game to the World - Devlog 9
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
- Welcome to my final devlog for my roguelike game! As a solo game developer, I am excited to announce that I will be releasing my game to the world. Over the course of 9 devlogs, I shared my journey of creating this game on RUclips. In this final devlog, I will showcase the final polish and marketing efforts that went into finishing the game. Join me in this exciting milestone as I release my roguelike game for players to enjoy!
The game: www.newgrounds.com/portal/vie...
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💖Patreon: / helperwesley
Links To Where I Hang Out:
linktr.ee/helperwesley
Links To My Set Up:
linktr.ee/helperwesleysetup
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Time Stamps:
00:00 New Players
03:30 Updated Art
04:55 Crunch Time
07:29 Favor
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Devlog Playlists:
✅Sci-fi Mobile Game Devlog Series:
• Remaking The First Gam...
✅GMTK Game Jam 2022 series:
• Top 10 In Popularity -...
✅Binding Of Issac-like Devlog Series:
• Devlog 1: Making A Bin...
✅Ludum Dare 50 Game Jam Series:
• Making A Game In Under...
✅Vimlark Hosted Game Jam Series:
• Kicking Butt In A Game...
✅Village Clicker Mobile Game Devlog Series:
• Village Clicker: A New...
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Игры
Hope you enjoy the game! 🥳
www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/873184
THE TIME HAS COME
@HelperWesley poderia ensinar como fazer joystick?
I'd like to play it, sadly in France our keyboards are designed differently so WASD doesn't work (we'd use ZQSD) Game looks great
Man, I'm so proud of you! Like they say, time flies by. Hope everyone enjoyed this journey as I did!
It really does!
Hard to think that this project has been going on for 7 months. 👀
I sure did
brings a tear to my eye
Who's chopping onions? 🧅🔪
Dude, totally need to release this on Steam for the Steam Deck. Would definitely pay for this great game!
Congratulations!, nothing feels better than releasing a game!
I am very excited for this! I have watched all of the devlogs and will 100% download once it’s published 👍
Waiting bro 💥💥💥💥
I'm really excited too. The total work hours put in to this game aren't actually a lot, but I've been working on it in my spare time for 7 months now. That's a substantial chunk of my life. 😅
Really hope people enjoy it. 👍
Congratulations on the release. Awesome job and fabulous devlog series!
Thanks! Hopefully people like the next one as much. 😅
Congrats on releasing your game! I'm so excited to play it and see all the hard work you put into it!
Thanks! I'm excited to see how people react to it!
Good job👍🎉👍thanks for the vids and for sharing poregres.
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂😀😀😀😀😀👍👍👍👍👍🎊🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🤯
Congratulations on releasing your game! I really feel you with these HUD design problems, I'm living them too right now. 😅 You managed it brilliantly!
That's funny I just watched this GDC talk 2 days ago for my own game. ☺
Here are some of my notes about this talk if it can be useful:
Share good gifs
- Can you present your core gameplay loop in a GIF?
- Can you show the killer app of your game in a GIF?
- Can you teach someone to play you game in a GIF?
- Can I "get" you game in a single GIF?
Keep nurturing your games
- Content updates from you
- Content updates from your community
- Community scene / competition
-Community engagement
- Port the game to other platform
- a player on steam is an ad for its steam friends
Friction kill, gives your game a home.
Give player the option to play your game without a big commitment of stress of challenge. It should be relaxing and kinda easy but still relevant (daily quest for example). Game like stardew valley, animal crossing or minecraft are already "home" games.
Thanks!
And yeah, it's an excellent talk for game developers to watch. 👍
This is super exciting! Love seeing this progress from being on my yt recommendations to being a published game!
Been Following For A While. This Is Pretty Cool!
I've been waiting for this release, you are an inspiration.
Congrats
Thanks Wesley, very cool !
LOVE it! Great job!
Congrats on the release! It was so cool seeing the entire process, awesome work! Hyped to see what you’ll make next 🙌
Awesome stuff man, watched the whole series and I'm glad the game is out. Looking forward to whatever you do next!
Thanks! I'm excited for my next project, but I'm always curious to see if RUclips will like it as much as it did the roguelike game. 😅
Guess we'll find out. lol.
Great job! Excited to see what the next project is!
I really enjoy playing this game! Good luck with the future plans for this amazing project!
Congrats on the release!
One of my favouritethings about this game engine is that it can be integrated into a website since it is basically just a playable web page
Dont harey to start the new project, take yore time😁
Congrats on the release really fun game. :)
Great job on releasing the game! It's been great watching you from the beginning, and I'm excited for whatever you make next.
Ir's going to be a lot different, so I'm a little worried people won't find it as interesting. But it means a lot to me, so I'm going to try anyway.
If people don't like it, I'll try to wrap up development quickly, or I'll drag it out and add more features and polish if they do like it. 🤔
Finally! Going to play it in a moment:)
I am și happy right now 😆🎉
Same! 🥳
I’m about to go to work and hopefully I’ll be done by the time it’s premiers
Subscribed love how the game looks
can't wait tell the game is out! So excited!!!
It's in the description now! 🥳
This looks great, good job 👍
Congrats!
Hey, congrats on releasing the game. I know too many people who stop mid-project or never get to this phase of things. Hope all goes well.
Thanks!
I think it really helped this time to start from a "finished" game. So I felt like I could stop at any point and still have a complete game. Trying to make something huge, and not having an end in sight is when I typically give up on projects. 😅
I got a glitch where the table grew after I killed all the enemies. Idk what it is but it screwed up my run lol. Great job, im so proud of you!
That bug was caught in playtesting and I honestly thought I'd fixed it.
If the game is paused during a specific frame of the table or box shaking it'll grow until the pause ends. Hopefully it doesn't ruin too many runs. 😬
Can't wait for the premiere ✨️ 😁
Same! 🌟
Time to play
Heh. A list of lists of things that need done. I know that well!
I played a little, neat, sadly i'am at work and can't play that much LOL, very polished product, i hope my project get at that stage too... for now i felt something wrong, i see what you did about bee attacks and though well, that could be used for me as well... i'am doing a bird attack and not know exactly how to do it, in my mind, i though about make a colider in the bird itself and move it together, modifying animation... i guess will be close to your bee move, but invisible triangle... that is the charm, the triangle will fit perfectly on my idea, thanks!!!
Congrats on the release 💪
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Good game so far you inspired me to make games in gdevelop thank you
the day has come 😁
It's here! 🥳
Very big congratulations on releasing your game. There is a lot to like there, plays well, has progression, and I think the graphics look good. I also don't think it was "too easy" or "too hard" and I think given the scope of the game you did a great job of balancing. Only played a couple of runs and look forward to going back and maybe trying some of the other characters. The one thing I thought was jarring which I didn't get from the devlog's is room generation/progression. Leaving a room, killing the enemies, and then going "back" through the door I came I expected to see an empty room. Or even just enemies respawn or something. But it is a new generation of a room same as if you walked through a new door. I got in the habit of going back of forth through the same door and still seemed to "progress" to the boss all the same. I realize that generating a "map" would change things more and probably is not worth it, but I also felt like seeing a boss door might be cool or help. One instance I had was I took a hit and was down a little health, then walked through a door and it was the boss. Had I known the situation and been able to go to an unused room to get some health I might have felt more in control. Even if it was just linear like Hades I think the feeling would be closer to video game progression, where currently once you beat a room my impression is "pick any door, they all function the same to generate a new room". Still, thank you so much for making this game and sharing the experience.
The "shifting" dungeon concept was originally to avoid having to generate proper levels, because back then I had no idea how to do it. I know how to now, but it kind of grew on me and built the game around the idea.
What I wanted to do, but it got cut before of time, was add random special doors. So it would still be randomized, but you could find special doors that would take you to more challenging rooms or that had some special theme or bonus in it. At least then you'd have some agency when picking a door to go through. 🤔
Maybe if the game does well, I'll go back and add that mechanic to the game.(along with a other things people have suggested)
Love this so much! Little thing for future games tho, the bright red exclamations ,to me at least, look like something that you shouldn't be touching, kind of like something that maybe is coming soon, so i think maybe a arrow pointing on either side or just a less aggressive color would work better as to not feel so dangerous. Other than that tho, Love IT! Im so proud of you!!
Thanks! That makes sense. 😅
Hello! I'm playing the game and I changed the music when choosing a perk. For some reason, the music is being played twice with some delay. Just letting you know!
That got reported a few times during the playtesting phase, but I couldn't recreate it on my own computer... I'll add that to the new to-do list. 🤔
@@HelperWesley It happened on the first run and stopped when returning to the lobby. I changed it again and the bug did not occur. It was almost like another instance of the music being created on top of the current one because when changing the music again, I could hear two different songs at the same time.
Don't know if that extra information helps.
Anyway, congrats on the game! It's pretty fun and addictive.
I think the explanation points should be yellow not red. Red normally means danger, yellow normally means something curious. Just a thought!
Let’s go
Nice
Hey Wesley, first of all congratulations on publishing your game. I played for about 2 hours, had some fun with it. I really like the enemies design and the overall look of the game. If you ever read this, i'll leave some feedback based of adjustments:
Adjustments:
- There's a brief delay between the entrance of the room and the moment you can shoot, it feels too long after some runs. If you change this delay some miliseconds or even a second faster, the game definetly will look more fluid.
-Bosses should drop more HP, it feels really unfair losing 7 health to a single hit and only gaining 1 back.
-The guns need labels! If the name of the gun appears up when you get close, you could see what u're getting better, other than look at tiny differences.
-Speaking of guns, you could change the colors of the round to make them more unique visualy. Life green, blue and red.
-Some enemies spawn too close of the entrance, making the red ones spawning walls really a pain.
- Speaking of this enemy, you should consider the player being able to dodge to the other side of the wall. It can really kill a run if you get bad luck to be trapped at the entrance.
- The multiplier factor of damage/movement numbers are really confusing. You should consider making them add as flat, like defense.
- The same as labeling the weapons goes to characters when you already purchased them.
- Speaking of characters, it feels really weird teleporting to a spike with the engineer, if i even click a pixel into them. It makes it really unfair since you're moving your mouse fast in this bullet hell, there should be a marge when you click in the border of the spike you get teleported safely to it's side.
- Speaking of spikes, recoiling into them is really boring too.
-I've got the firerate timer issue when you go through doors written down already, I didn't catch that one in playtesting, just after release.
-The boss dropping more hp is a good idea. I've noted that. 👍
-The colors of bullets were chosen to help the players make better snap decisions. Red things bad, blue things good. I was thinking of changing the bullet size to make the gun bullets more varied. 🤔
-I've never personally been trapped behind the red wall before, the animation that plays before the wall goes up is longer than the dash by a little bit.
Thanks for giving the game a play through, and for the feedback. I'm writing it all down in to a brand new to-do list and we'll see what I can get to when/if I come back to this game. 👍
I think the game is still really easy but there is an improvement.
Can't wait can play online or download bro
I'll be adding the link to the video description after the video goes live. 👍
awesome!!! will play with i get back out of issac again please help
Alright. I gave it like 10 runs (some being hilariously short). It's pretty fun, and I think I found only 1 bug? If you shoot into a room you're going into, the bullets stick around. This could be intentional, because it does make sense if you think about it, but I don't know for certain.
I managed to get #5 leaderboard at the time of writing this, so here's some thoughts on 'The Meta.' Sniper gun + Brute Swing + Extra Bullet is very strong. It doesn't actually suffer an accuracy loss, in fact, it seems to make the second bullet stack on top of the first, meaning easy double damage! Defense and HP is good early on, but enemy damage easily outscales it, and then you miss out on DPS potential which seems much better. If you want to be tanky, the Robot guy is the better option (I think).
Bosses, I feel the spider poses a way bigger threat than the other two. The giant Imp is dangerous, but rather simple if you can burst him down. The Ghost is pretty fair and cool. The Spider though, feels way tankier and summons tiny spiders, which I'm assuming have the same damage scaling as the rest of the enemies.
Overall, it was fun, and I had a good time. Congratulations on finishing a relatively large scale project!
I'm really glad you liked it!
I'm interested to see what "meta" strategies come out of the game. I know I intentionally put 1 powerful combo in that I haven't seen anyone mention yet, but maybe it's draw backs actually make it less optimal than something tankier, like the robot.
Glad to hear the break down of the bosses. And it's interesting you found the spider the hardest, a lot of people find that one to be the hardest, but I honestly found the giant imp to be the hardest. I can never beat that boss without getting hit at least once. 😅
Played it and enjoyed it! Only got like 130 or so points but still
Nice! Didn't quite beat my score, but I've had 7 months worth of practice. 😅
(Though I'm sure I'll be pushed clear off the leaderboard soon. lol)
My greatest fear is inconsistent game art, even if it is mediocre I'd rather it be consistent. Look at my youtube guy its pretty bad but it is consistent.
1:10 - Do all of us indie game devs have ADHD? I'm procrastinating on my work as I'm righting this. 🤣
It is a good gamr
I thought I made a newgrounds extension, to save one from technical stuff and more game making stuff
I went looking for one, but I must have had my community extension toggle turned off for some reason. 🤔
Looks good :) but you wrote cloths and not clothes in the description, I don't know if you meant it.
Nope, didn't mean to, I was just typing in a hurry and missed it. 😅
If I get the highscore then you have to give me an autograph wes
The highest score on the leaderboard?
I'll probably do a social media shout out to show off the high scores, but my handwriting is terrible, so no autograph. 😅
@@HelperWesley excuses!!!!!
@@HelperWesley When exactly? You better do it right now while I'm still #1 XD
Also on the side note, are you planning on developing the game further? I have quite a lot of thoughts about the current state of the game, especially the balance system, so I would really like to see them addressed since I like the core gameplay a lot.
And the last thing, you might want to consider changing the name of the game a little, it appears some company has the exact same name and it's extremely difficult to search anything about your game. I can't even tell whether there isn't really any content about your game on RUclips, or I just can't find it.
@@DJFrytek If the game gets a lot of attention, I'll be coming back to work on it more based on the feedback I get from this wave of people playing the game.
But first I want to work on a quick mobile game I've been meaning to make.
And yeah, the name is a little generic. A lot of people/companies have the name on the internet. I should probably change it to something more searchable. 🤔
Deadlines... Pretty scary stuff, yh?
A little, but I think they're really important. No game is ever "finished", there's always more to add or tweak.
So a deadline forces you to finish up and ship it, rather than infinitely tinkering with the game.(At least for me.😅)
Yh, good point
There was a bug I discovered in this, if you click the music button too fast lots of music gets mixed up (on browser)
A few different people have brought that one up to me, but I couldn't replicate it on my own computer. 🤔
I tried putting in a fix, but still that bug keeps showing up some times. 🤔
@@HelperWesley I dont know about gdevelop but for my game engine I would change the path of the file instead of changing object.
@@skardev I'm honestly not sure what's causing the issue.....
But, just out of curiosity... Are you playing on an apple product? 🤔
@@HelperWesley no, it was windows. tried to play on brave browser.
Can you add keyboard mapping? my "w" button doesn't work :((
raelly nice. Tho this really looks like the mobile game Soul Knight
A few people have mentioned that. 😅
I've still yet to play it though. 🤔
When's the steam release 😆
All depends on how well the game does. Maaaayyybbbeeeee in the future. 😉
5:01 Bruh... Why would you do that lol
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Can I ask you why you released you your game on Newgrounds and not on itch? Just curious because I thought the community on itch is bigger than newgrounds. :o
Itch is terrible for discoverability, your game quickly gets drowned by all of the jam games being released.
I did release on itch later though.
@@HelperWesley Oh ok understood. Thank you for your fast answer
Bro i can't play the game web is banned in India 🇮🇳
I'll be posting the game on other sites soon. 👍
@@HelperWesley please soon
I tried playing the game but I lose fps and my pc goes brrrrrrr even tho I have the specs for a game like this
Add this to mobile please so people with only phones can play it
There s a version on poki that can be played on mobile devices.
But ultimately it'll come down to whether I can get this version of the finished game to run properly on mobile. It's going to be substantially bigger. 😅
I have played the game. I love it but one thing: It is way tooooo easy
It's really hard to balance for different skill levels. 😅
I might add different game modes or unlockable of some kind that'll ramp up the difficulty. But I'm not sure just yet how I'd tie that in to the leaderboard. 🤔
But that all depends on how the game does. If it does really well, then I'll be able to justify coming back and working on it.
thanks,how to make 2d minecraft
Work on your room design next time. It looks stale