Musquare: Vote now in Steam Greenlight!

Before the release of the second version Musquare There is not so much time left. Since the publication of the previous news, the game has increased content and remade again. In the next few days, this topic will be regularly supplemented with information about what happened, what has already been and what is planned in the future.

Day 1

Today will be devoted to summing up the intermediate results and the analysis of the current situation with the game.

For more than six months of the existence of the game (from the moment of the first release), the following occurred:
– YouTube published 10 videos;
– The official page of the game Viewed 3000 times, Pages in Desura and Indvedb – 4000 times;
– Maximum account in 10286 Pixels Installed a player with nickname G.Vek;
– In total, the game is honest Bought 20 people:

– Based on the https://nonukcasinosites.co.uk/ideal/ last paragraph, the total profit is a little less than 1000 rubles;
– From the appearance of Visa, My proceedings with the Liqpay service regarding the transfer of funds (from the first week of sales) finally moved from a dead point;

From this it follows that, despite my curvature in marketing (mainly due to the fact that the mechanism “pay as much as you think” is not very fond of digital distribution stores), the game can be considered successful. At least for the first time, I think the result is very, very good. In addition, work on another 2 projects is underway in parallel. But this is not about that.

In further plans, I have:
– Updating the entire game system in general;
– Appruv in Greenlight (Steam);
– After promotion – supplement the game with bosses;
– To pave the revealed mistakes and leave the game alone, perhaps, occasionally supplementing the mechanics with all kinds of fiscs and glasses (if they come to mind);

Even if the game does not receive “green light”, I will still fulfill the rest of the points, only motivation to do this in an accelerated mode will be less.
All due to the fact that I want to “finish” Musquare as soon as possible and fully begin to work on other, more impressive games. Such things.

Why Steam?

Counter question: Why not? ¯ \ _ (ツ) _/¯
In any case, this is a great way to study the work of the largest digital store from the inside with the eyes of the developer.
I immediately note that all issues regarding the price, additional features for promotion and just that will be indicated directly on the game page in Greenlight.
This is all I can tell you for this day.

Day 2

Today I will compare two versions of the game (existing and developed) and clarify the process of releasing the next version.

This is how 1.2.1 and 2.0 versions of Musquare (at the time of writing):
– In the old version, the screen resolution was 768×480 (the Super Hexagon game had the same resolution), in the new one it was increased to 1280×720;
– In the new version, in addition to OGG and WAV, support also appeared MP3 (support “Coxt”, but it seems to work);
– Now the game has several options for work: one for the service of the store + universal “pirate”;
– For the performance of the functions of the last paragraph, an authorization window appeared;
– In the previous version there were only 3 levels of complexity (win -win “Zen”, “classic” and complicated “hardcore”), in the new version you can independently regulate the complexity. Depending on its parameter, buns or restrictions will be applied;
– The gameplay in the new version has become more dynamic, thanks to parallax and other camera effects;
– Depending on the service to which you have connected, achievements may work;
– There were a few more bonuses (I am too lazy to count them, so let’s think that there are many of them, ok?);
– The new version will take into account the general (for all!) the number of losses, collected pixels and squares;

Here is a list of services where the game will appear:
– Toby3d.ru (Pirate-Version)
– Indvedb (Pirate-Version)
– Desura (Desura-Version + Pirate-Version)
– Humblebundle* (Humble-Version)
– Gamejolt* (Gamejolt-Version)
– GreenLight* (Steam-overSion)
* Part of the links will appear after the release!