HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

Yeah, man, it's tough. There are a LOT of games out there, and all of them are competing for a finite amount of time. Creating a game that people find special is a major challenge, but actually getting them to notice it in the first place might be the biggest struggle as a dev, since none of us have a marketing degree or a budget. I was telling zDs the other day, the best thing I've found is just to send out keys like crazy, especially towards streamers/LPers/review sites that play games similar to the ones you make.

But, yeah, going the hobby dev route is alluring in its own ways. Part of me would love to just embrace the jank and shove a bunch of disparate graphical elements into something that focused more on my strengths, but I got way too tired with my day job.

Yeah, it's doing alright! Hope you enjoy it!

Yeah, no missables, but you won't be able to get back to that terminal for a long time, and it is possible to get it early game. I'm guessing you're already past that section, but one of your transformations could come in handy there.

Heyo, I tested it. It gets my coveted and until-now-non-existant seal of approval, so that's a pretty big deal. Cool to see this out!

I just encrypt it and then unpack it. You want Steam to point towards the game's unpacked executable file so that it runs from Steam. If you pointed it to the packed executable, it would just unpack every time (I assume--my guess is that Valve would alert you about this before you could launch).