@Kelly @gamedev Chris went through the numbers in this blog post and the one before and apparently, yeah.
https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/08/21/valve-just-took-away-a-valuable-visibility-tool/
According to one developer quoted in that post, about 75% of trackable wishlists of their sequel were achieved through crosspromotion from the first game’s page.

@savvywolf @gamedev That doesn’t really serve the purpose these cross promotion methods were devised for. These are meant to help you gather wishlists for your upcoming games, which is supposed to ensure a successful launch by getting you into steam’s promotional algorithms (e.g. Popular Upcoming) as quickly as possible.
I agree that most of these techniques are too intrusive from a player perspective, though. I’d add a link in the main menu and heavily discount old games at most 🤔

@gamejams I would love to participate in Spooktober this year but I’ll be too busy with my other projects to start a new one 😩

@Boomkop3 Yeah I guess 🤔 I wish they could provide an optional image-button UI for the socials widgets so theyre easier to see at least…

Chris also wrote that his next blog post will be about alternative strategies to cross-promote games. I’m curious what he’ll come up with

@renpy If you want to try out the new audio filters, RenPyTom released the “AudioFilterTest” project in his March developer update, which lets you test them in real-time:

https://patreon.renpy.org/dev-2024-03.html#audiofiltertest
#RenPy

@vsitante @renpy Did you pick the correct update channel?

@cevn I’m happy that they could go all out with the CGI this time around but I didn’t agree with the art direction and some of the characterization. Reinhard and Kircheis’ designs I especially dislike, where are their luscious locks… they look like run-of-the-mill ikemen now :BlobhajSadReach: And since they decided to continue the plot with a movie series I kind of lost track of it

@literalgrill @anime

The last 100+ episodes anime I’ve watched must’ve been all of the original Legend of The Galactic Heroes! It’s a classic :blobcatcoffee:

Apart from that, Hunter x Hunter and Naruto

@renpy I’ve been using the tasks in the Ren’Py VSCode template to do some of these things until now. This is interesting 👀

https://github.com/tiliv/renpy-vscode-template

@yuri Synopsis:

Magical girls are a specific class of worker that has spent years mastering the drawing of magic from their planet’s five moons. They use this magic to fight creatures of darkness that congregate in the no-man’s-land between cities. Kotori, a plucky new magical girl, hopes to find a job in one of the famous guilds of Larimar City. During a test for a guild, she and her familiar Brie Butternuggets will meet Kaida and Gigi, who are on a mission of their own for the Songbird Guild.

@renpy

Some of these templates would look right at home in a VN for the upcoming spooktober jam 👀

Skolaztika also has a bunch of other high-quality templates, so taking a look at their profile is worth it

@gamejams Would you like to participate in the next one? Follow @32bitjam to get the latest news!

@gamejams

I am personally looking forward to the Josei After Dark Jam though *cough* 👀 (August 1st - November 1st)

https://itch.io/jam/josei-after-dark