Btw also the graphics in your game are nuts! Very, very impressive great job

Thank you! Yeah I’m not expecting much when it comes to reaching out, but only takes one to get a big jump (hopefully, will see what the wishlists end up at after this!). Good luck!

Thank you! I haven’t reached out to any streamers yet so to get anybody at all at this point feels insane. German localisation just shot up the priority list!

At an old pub job I had, my boss once told me that when customers are being difficult to ‘Kill them with kindness’. Depends on the context obviously but generally being polite and friendly rarely causes anything to escalate

#TinyTeams2025 unite! 😄 thank you, I’ve had my eye on Diecast ever since, all the best for release can’t wait to play the full game!

I guess so, but it feels like gate-crashing a party where you don’t know anyone. And you’re selling stuff. And I hate parties.

I’m not an expert by any means but have worked on a few releases, and the ones that had pre-built modules for things like saving, input, console support and others were the ones that had the least amount of crunch/panic at the end. Btw you’ve done an amazing job, I’m sure this is going to be huge!

Yeah that’s v clever. I think about trying to maybe court the traditional pinball audience a bit, but was worried they’d say ‘what have you done to our beautiful game, GTFO’

In short, don’t rush it if you can avoid it - future you will be very grateful!

I had this exact scenario years ago, and ended up making a modular system that has been one of the first things I add to any project ever since. One class for saving/loading with built in encryption, another for serializing game-wide progress and a 3rd for mid-run progress. JsonConvert is a beast.

That’s really good to know actually, I was wondering if it was a post-successs approach so that’s great to hear! Thank you for the suggestion and thanks x1000 for that message of support - I don’t got this yet but I WILL!!

Ha, I did do a double take at the name when I first read it ;) Great suggestion, although I also think he could pocket-tweet and there would still be 12 articles in the gaming press about what it meant the next day. Passion is one thing I absolutely have - the words to portray that however, are not!

To expand on this a bit: teams can separate themselves somewhat from the content they post, which massively limits the cringe-effect and there’s loads of awesome examples of this. I just can’t seem to find a voice that represents me as a solo dev that doesn’t also make me sound like a total asshat.

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