Over My Dead Body (For You)

Forgot to mention on here, but this game is now officially available on Steam!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/596390/Over_My_Dead_Body_For_You/


This was a huge collaboration (5-man team) for what is effectively a simple game, I've mainly served as an Art Director and Level Designer. It's been a lot of work putting this game together and there are a lot of things I wish got into the final build. But a lot of the level design I wanted to express in the extent of the game is largely intact. I'm happy with the game but the process has been exhausting. I'll probably do a post mortem on the game some day to air my thoughts completely, but that'll have to wait.

Honest thoughts about Early Access: It's highly recommended if you've never commercially released a game before regardless of what genre your game is. Think of it is a soft launch where ironing out the bugs while gaining a motivational push for that last 10% of content that needs to be made. It is not an alternative to funding from the ground up. Unless your game is able to spread word of mouth ala being a sandbox/roguelike game you're better off with better means of funding. As for sales, it seems relatively the same on official launch. But there is a bump from people that tend to go "ehhh I wait til the game is finished" instead of the early purchase. As a first time commercial release I'm glad we used it.

Personal thoughts: I'm mainly posting this to say that I'll likely be focusing a lot of my free time on a solo-made rm2k3 project. I've tried so many times to finish projects in the rpgmaker engine that weren't just game jam one offs, but I think recent events in my life have spurred me to get better at completing projects. The next task is ambitious one: An RPG. I'd like to complete one before I die. But you probably won't hear much about it til several years. Toodles.

In our first video installment of “OMDB Improvements (For You)” Alex discusses upgraded character movement.