NTC3'S PROFILE

Nice! What does bleach do, though? Is it also a drug thing, like Cocaine? Also, it would be cool if you could get addicted, since LISA The Painful apparently managed something of a kind.

Looks very nice. I really like those cerulean roofs.

Grimmault leaders seem to be quite greedy themselves, then, or just generally poor at inspiring loyalty then. Anyway, I'll reserve further judgement until the full version. :)

Well, I'm a bit on the fence with goal-completing stuff: I never bothered to get it up to 100% (or even anywhere close to it) in just about any game where it's a thing, but I do like to try doing about 20-30% of them just for the sake of it. Thus, it doesn't look bad here, especially since AFAIK Eling never claimed to be "retro", "old-school", etc.

However, I do want to say that the codes a really a thing a tiny minority of players uses, and seeing them put in when the game doesn't have enough maps to avoid reusing (a rather objective design shortcoming, one that affects everyone) can certainly be rather annoying. I remember Mercenary Kings got plenty of backlash for it: lots of players just went "OK, thanks for the crafting, but I don't need any of it, and active reload is useless. Can we instead not be sent to the same map 7 times already?"

In fact, they (and the Golden Edition) really seem to be the thing you've tried just to attempt to keep the interest (and the downloads) going over time. Here, Gibmaker is right: it really doesn't work that way with RPGMaker, and especially not with the platformers. The people who download them do so to have fun, beat them and MOVE ON, not to re-do the completed levels with some power-up they probably didn't need either way.

Nearly all the games that actually do inspire long-term attention on here are the story-driven ones, and I would say the thing that dampened download count the most was the "It almost doesn't have any story, there are no text boxes in this game and it's all about surviving and collecting." on the game page. Do you think it actually sounds attractive? To me, at least, it came off really generic and "So What?" at first, and I struggled to care until the first review got me to subscribe. Given that we know the download numbers are still quite sluggish, I would say most people reacted the same. If you want people to take interest, the game page description needs to sound sharp and distinct, and not largely interchangeable with lots of other platformers out there.

I know it might all sound really harsh, but it is really important to understand how the player might actually see their game for any creators, to avoid wasting any more effort futively and concentrate their development around their strengths.

@unity, Sooz: Yep, that makes sense. To get a bit more into the numerical side, how many enemies per type are you planning to have, on average?

@ZDS: I would also second unity's recommendations. Hope they get completed one day as the gems they're meant to be!