What timconspicuous said. Make sure your instance hasn’t blocked bluesky as well
My perspective as someone who is mainly active in the anime/gaming fandom and gamedev space:
Overall, I think the main problems on Mastodon’s side are difficult onboarding and lack of actual community-building efforts. Also, the community just seems to be less welcoming for creators in general imo
Apparently I missed two whole otome game releases in the past month D:<
Anyway, I’m definitely gonna take a look at FFS, Another Northern Duke (which isn’t available in my region on steam for some reason)
The Demo for Eternal Glory also looks good, but seems to be machine translated 🤔
Besides continuing Love and Deepspace, I’ve played the demo for To Eat A God, an indie horror vn/dating sim! It has a very interesting (and fourth-wall breaking) premise, where you, the player, control a puppet and have to not get found out. The world building and love-interests are really fascinating so i cant wait for the full version!
Here’s my two cents
The plot suffered greatly by overly focusing on Wuk Lamat in the first half while not fleshing out the side characters. Her character development arc definitely took longer than it should have, and really the player’s enjoyment of the story in the first half of MSQ completely hinges on whether you like her as a character or not, since you are literally glued to her hip for most of it. (Some of my FC mates were dying to finally spend some time for Erenville, for example. It was more or less a running joke since whenever the group was about to split up, the WOL always went with Wuk Lamat)
Zoraal Ja had more or less zero build-up for his eventual villain-reveal, and you couldn’t really sympathize with him. All you knew beforehand was that his entire existence is extremely rare among Mamool Ja and that the people’s expectations were high. And, that for some reason, he wants to engulf the world in war which like, you must have some deep-seated resentment or something to want that, why? But later he drops that he was treated differently from his siblings by Gulool Ja Ja which, like, how were we supposed to know that? Until then, Gulool Ja Ja was presented to us as the perfect hero-turned-king and a pretty chill guy. Just…Zoraal Ja’s entire plot fell flat because we didn’t really get to know him before he became king. (Also, the whole Gulool Ja plot just doesn’t sit right with me)
Koana had his own little arc in the first half, but I wish we could have seen him interact with Wuk Lamat a bit more. We get told by Erenville that they tend to bicker with each other like proper siblings, but we never see it on-screen :/
Same thing with Krile, Erenville and the Scions. Krile had it worst, since she was hyped up as a main character in this expac, but basically did nothing except chime in with a question once or twice and eat ice cream with her parents.
The Scions took a complete backseat this time, only offering Koana and Wuk Lamat some advice here and there, I expected a little more of that supposed rivalry :/
On top of all that, the plot just…didn’t make sense a lot of the time. I’m surprised that Bakool Ja Ja got away with all the stuff he did. Sometimes, rules that were established before were ignored completely not long after. Hey, remember when we were told that contestants who attack or kill the judge for a challenge will be disqualified? Never mind, have BJJ kidnap and threaten one, whatever.
(; v ;) I get you, I get you so much…the Threadiverse and Fedi in general seem to lack female-oriented fandom-spaces. It really feels like we’re pioneers trying to build everything from the ground up. The good thing is that, since the general purpose-fandom communities are still small as well, we have the opportunity to help shape them! (I have been trying that with the more general visual novel communities, for example).
I personally have been too shy to promote my communities outside of fedi yet… (._.)
Thank you for the nice reply! ☺️
I think, out of the different approaches outlined in the post, I’d go with the main menu link. Larian’s pre-game launcher is honestly kind of annoying, since it takes one more step to start the actual game. And the in-game pop-up method I’d only use if the advertised game is a direct sequel imo 🤔
Achievement unlocked: “The void has shouted back”!
!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de got its first thread and comments by someone who is not me \o/
!gamejams@programming.dev has been chugging along nicely as well. There have been several new threads by other users since I took over as a mod 🎉
Thank you, for not focusing on my apparently unfortunate choice of an image and reading the post. 🙏 This has serious implications for indie game marketing. The author mentioned at the end that his next blog post is going to be about alternative techniques to cross-promote. I’m very curious what he’ll come up with!
While the rules regarding external links will be somewhat manageable to work with, Chris rightfully points out that indie developers will have a harder time promoting upcoming games, since they won’t be able to link them on the pages of their already published games. The latter tend to receive a lot more visibility on steam and were a valuable channel to gather wishlists. Welp :/
It has all the standard gacha features, you unlock more content/stories with a LI by collecting their cards and stuff. So far the UI is less annoying than in other gacha games, you get greeted by less pop-ups telling you to buy stuff and the notification symbols are less prominent (this is one point that really grinds my gears with most gachas, all the big red dots telling you to check 100 different menus). The production quality is very high! So high in fact, that my poor phone can barely play it on the lowest settings 🥲 .
What I like about the plot is that the MC (at least from what I’ve seen) is more of a strong-willed action heroine who fights side-by-side with the LIs.
I’m still at the very start so I’m still in the “honeymoon” phase where everything is easy and you don’t need to grind. I’ll report back later when I’ve seen more
I finally started playing Love and Deepspace after seeing lots of screenshots of it on the socmeds! I was hesitant at first since its a gacha game and the art style isn’t usually my cup of tea, but then I found out that it has actual action combat and a photo mode 👀 So far I’m pleasantly surprised by the writing
thank you 🙏
Subscribed! Let’s hope that this one will last longer 😅 Thank you for all the effort you put into building this community!
It’s definitely easy to talk there, even if people are missing the quote-retweet function. I personally love the CW-feature. Makes it easy to talk about spoilers and sensitive topics
Oh, this post actually isn’t from Mastodon 😅 I initially tried crossposting from Mastodon, but it didn’t federate, so I copied the text and made a post on my lemmy account instead. Usually, I can just tag an instance on a Mastodon post and it will boost it and create a thread on there, but it didnt work with this instance :/
Well im principally a fan of romance games and i’ve more or less outgrown typical otome games aimed at school girls. A more mature dark fantasy setting would totally be my jam.
That would be an option, yes! I thought about posting weekly tool/resource showcases as well. I think my approach will be to post from my mastodon account, tags and all, to additionally get the attention of the microblog-peeps and ensure that the post body doesnt get lost due to federation
Yeah, the biggest problem with this approach is different moderation philosophies. You would have to set up a vetted set of approved non-problematic instances. I’ve read several accounts of people who tried out fedi and left soon after, and nothing sours the newcomer experience more than unknowingly joining an instance with a toxic community/moderators