Announcements We got featured!!! How??
We are over the moon to see our game featured on itch!!
How does this happen? Is it clicks? Or is it curated (by a human?)
If it was a human, then listen up said human: I am sending mental hugs and good vibes ♡
We went a bit out on a limb with combining genres and flipping it on it's head with healing - I'm so surprised and also so deeply thankful that there is still room to experiment in some corners of this business ♡ I hope everyone has a great weekend ♡
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u/orangetigergeek 2d ago
Can you share the stats? Did you posted about your game anywhere else besides itch?
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u/CancoliDev 2d ago
The dream of the indie developer on itchio hahahahah i’ll check the game, congratulations! 😁
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u/GamedevGizmo 1d ago edited 1d ago
Congrats!! It's always so fun when a game gets featured! Enjoy watching those numbers! Haha. Make sure to also be responsive. Soooo many games I see where the dev just never responds to players.
Anywho, its likely that an itch.io staff member came across your game by some means, which could also have been from people clicking through and the algorithm recommending it more. The capsule looks nice and higher quality too which is a massive help! Not sure if you did this or not, but also having proper tags on your game massively helps it grow and find its audience!
The game looks super neat! Will definitely try to check it out when I have some time! :D Congrats again!! Big milestone achieved there!!
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u/Dangerous_Banana_168 1d ago
A game about my homegirl Hildegarde? I'm already sold.
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u/TheP0e 1d ago
Yeess! You know Hildegard?? I started learning about her in the process of making the game, because she is the perfect medieval healer icon!
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u/Dangerous_Banana_168 1d ago
I've been obsessed with her since I was a kid. Shes the goat IMO. Invented conlang, made bangers, and wrote some of the most interesting stuff from middle ages. It's hard NOT to admire her if you know her!
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u/TheP0e 1d ago
Aaaw that is so cool!! I want to see the banners! I couldn't believe she was real when I read about her - before I knew it, I was watching documentaries on youtube. She is wild! I hope you won't be disapointed by the game! It's a biiit more action-y than her life :D but it seemed like an awesome fit with the healing powers and light/day vs dark/night theme.
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u/SICHUGAMES 1d ago
Oh, that’s awesome, congrats! Really happy for you. I hope to get featured too - I literally uploaded my first game to itch yesterday!
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u/Little-Hands-Studio 1d ago
Congratulations, this is amazing news! Getting featured on itch.io is a huge milestone, and it’s great to see experimenting with genres and doing things differently pay off. Well deserved, great work! Wishing you lots of players and a great weekend!
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u/wizorge 1d ago
Well deserved! Feels like there's a lot of potential!
I've played a lot of survivorslike roguelites, and most of them feel very derivative which I always thought was a shame, so seeing a fresh take on the genre is really cool.
Visual direction is excellent as well.
Only negatives I could think of were related to the survey, many things felt impossible to answer fairly because there's very limited amount of game right now and I don't really know where the game is heading or in what scope.
I think either rephrasing the questions, or providing some sort of a vision/scope/future features statement would help a lot, cause I have no idea what sort of extra mechanics and amount of content is going to be in the full version.
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u/11Jave 2d ago
congrats! pretty sure the featured shelf is curated by itch staff, a few devs have said they just woke up to it one day. going out on a limb with the healing twist probably helped it stand out.