Wishlisted :) goodluck out there! I'll see you on the steam store!

So let me get this straight: you say its not generated with AI, yet you include the fucking Prompt of ChatGPT?

The translation:

Heres the Translation into German. I have chosen a clinical, depressing tone (spoiler: it didn't, its quite meta) to underline the tension and hard ethical content of your game.

Man I like Valve but I hate this shit about not paying you until it gets to $100.

They cite the cost of sending and receiving money, dude that is practically nothing for business I mean what like 3-5%.

Its a pretty shitty practice to be real.

On the other hand I suppose they do have a lot of games listed that probably never get past the $100 mark but still. They still got the 30% cut they take out of that fees and costs be damned!

And the funny thing is, the company isn't even doing bad. I found out from a friend who still works there that they are aiming for a sale at the end of the year, so effectively this is a way for them to pump up the stock. They will say their profits went up by 50-60%, but it didn't come from more clients, but from not paying wages. And this way stock go up. Also same friend said they are struggling a lot with AI. It can be helpful with coding, but It can't do everything, and they are literally asking it to do everything or at least hold long enough until the sale goes trough . Just greed... and hundreds of families put in a bad spot, so already rich people on top can make a lot of money fast instead of also a lot of money, but slower...

So many people's lives are damaged by corporate decisions.. Hope things look up, and that Steam excuse makes sense but damn that sucks.

As for the game I love explorations into real-life fucked-up experiments! Will definitely be playing aha

You may want to try to deliberately get away from the "unreal fivey" look.

I like the underlying style but the strong reflections and resulting high contrast image really hits that "unreal five" look in a bad way, which I suspect will turn a lot of people off.

It's unfortunate but "indie unreal five game" is the new "steam asset flip", in that it is something that makes people skip a game. It's easy to slap realistic lightning into games now, so it has stopped being an indicator of quality, and slowly become the opposite.

Try to find something that works with the games style that you can do to the shading or post processing that sets you apart.

I might mute reflections a bit and add at least some grime and imperfections to surfaces. The cleanliness of surfaces together with unreals realistic lighting is a big part of the "indie unreal five" look.

I got burned out developing business software and lost my job after 13 years. I'm lucky if my previous game makes $100 in a year at this point. So now I'm wondering at what point I'll need to give up on my dream of being a full time indie game dev and start looking for a new job.