Gamedev Feedback

Our goal is to provide meaningful honest feedback to games that are still being developed so that devs can find UI/UX things to improve and change as well as new potential features. If we get stuck, we get stuck, I can't say we'll figure out everything, but if we do get lost it might help you figure out how to make your game easier to understand for n00b players like us!

We also hope to showcase your game so it becomes a hit! Currently we can only cover PC/iOS games without VR. Sorry. This is a public repo for future Gamedev Feedback segments where future segements are listed in the "issues" section.

Use https://github.com/Silverware-Games/Gamedev-Feedback/issues to submit a game for us to do feedback, please link to the game as well as how we can reach you to get a key for the game. DO NOT POST THE GAME KEY PUBLICLY. You should be signed into GitHub.

Or you can always email michael@silverwaregames.com

Rules:

• We make the final decision to cover a game or not.
• We are always willing to show you a video before we post it live in case you don't want it to be public.
• Respectful criticue is the goal here, feel free to comment on our videos in a meaningful and constructive way, and we will do the same.
• No game is perfect. If you think your game is perfect, then don't show it to us, we will have no feedback.
• We may get to a point where we cannot cover all the games that come in, we hope to explain why we didn't cover something rather than just writing you off. Please reach out if you have questions.

Discord: https://discord.silverwaregames.com (#gamedev-feedback)

Titles, Thumbnails, and Viewership

We want these videos to get seen. These are videos made by small indie creators with love and we want their games to get an audience. Also we want our channel to get viewers, everyone wins. In order to get this to work, we are using ... dun dun duhh ... "Best Practices." That means we are creating thumbnails with AI that have big faces with open mouths and text on them, as well as using AI to generate titles that will get people to click on the videos. If you have suggestions on how to beat the algorithm let us know.

Completed videos:

• Lindwyrm\ Well made ARPG.
• Odyssey of Dremid’ir\ Great visual style for a JRPG about bringing back the gods to a forsaken land. We did a lot more video color correcting and audio processing for this one.
• CatCatMan (REMASTERED):\ Better framing and audio in this version! First game of a strange "cat" game designer. Doesn't use text because "cats can't talk"
• Anima Flux\ First experiment with highly edited footage. 2D action game where you fight hoards of monsters. - Learning how to seperate our voices from the BGM of the game during recording.
• Dwarven Realms:\ Our longest GDF so far, game is like WoW or Diablo mowing down mobs. - Trying to get the audio levels better, more focus on our voices.
• I Am The Darkness:\ Visual novel about waking up from some kind of VR prison. - OBS froze on one screen, so I had to re-record this, also the ending was sort of weird because a menu popped up.
• Potato Mash (Round2):\ Boss fight involving a bunch of different stages and bad guys. - Game loaded some progress I wasn't expecting.
• Another Fishing Game:\ Early prototype of a fun, chill fishing sim.
• Potato Mash:\ Different kind of game where you control a potato and mash it into walls and bad guys to move around.
• CatCatMan:\ NOW UNLISTED First game of a strange "cat" game designer. Doesn't use text because "cats can't talk" - May re-upload with better thumbnail and zoom in on game window. Needs Thumbnail.
• Running Riot:\ Mob control third person game where you mow down baddies.
• Passing Into Fantasy:\ Anime Shmup where the main character starts off naked. - Youtube struck me for nudity even though the game had only pixelated nudity.
• Monster Factory:\ 'Katamari' style game where you eat and grow and eat bigger things.
• Uraine:\ Early prototype of a survival sim where the music was horrible. - Needs thumbnail.
• Betty and Earl:\ Lovely minimal sokoban box pushing puzzler. - Needs Thumbnail.
• Dust: The Battle Beneath:\ Rougelike where you dig deeper and deeper each time you play. Sort of like 'spelunky.' - Needs Thumbnail.
• You Are Now Possesed:\ Rythm puzzler where you aren't fully in control of the main character. - Didn't crop to the window properly/Audio level trouble. Needs Thumbnail.
• WarGroove:\ Very polished turn based tactics game. - Professional envy: How did I not make this game? Needs Thumbnail.
• Havendock:\ Cozy ocean base builder. - Window Clipping. Needs Thumbnail.
• Azzurrina:\ Early prototype of a game about a colorful character. - Needs Thumbnail.
• Rolling Rouges:\ Pre-alpha version of a rougelike involving spherical critters.
• A Short Hike:\ Short adventure with a Legend of Zelda style puzzle/gating system. - Professional envy as well as getting stuck.
• Le Grand Mestere:\ Text based adventure into a french mansion.
• Ayre:\ Most realistic dragon flying game ever made.
• The Last Gnomourai:\ Prototype of a game about a blind Gnome who has to use ecolocation to see. - Should have turned off the music mid way and started my own music.
• To all living things bring water:\ Twist on sokoban block pushing. - Needs thumbnail.
• Rune Master:\ Tile matching game for kids. - Needs thumbnail and title update.
• Moonquest:\ Rougelike with a ton of stuff to explore and a lot of depth. - Needs title update.
• Casual42:\ Variety of games by one designer. - Didn't understand some basic concepts.
• Cat Powered UFO:\ Funny RPG sort of like Earthbound, walk around and look for cats to power your UFO.
• My Nuclear Octopus:\ Old style arcade game with tons of flashing lights and crazy graphics. - Needs Thumbnail and Video Title Update.
• Universal Theif:\ Body swapping game where you can be any game item. - Game glitched at the end. Needs Title Update.
• Bleeding Moons:\ Visual novel with different paths about war and love. - Needs Title Update.
• Death Drives a Bus:\ Clever puzzle about pathing a bus to different locations.
• Sonic 3d in 2d:\ Demake of a 3d sonic level into a 2d game. - There was a bug in the physics code that made my playthrough an issue.
• Voidship:\ Space adventure where you have to manage your ship and fight battles, sort of like FTL. - Needs title update.
• Raven's Path:\ Clever army building tactics game. - Needs title update.
• Round About:\ Simple timing skill based mobile game. - Needs title update.
• Blockey Dungeon:\ Coimbination of Tetris and dungeon crawler. - Needs title update.
• Terror Squid:\ Twist on a SHMUP where your bullets wrap around a globe. - Needs title update.
• Kitty and the Sea:\ Text based game. - Not a great choice for video.
• Devader:\ Tower defense with super cool bad guys. - Window clipping, needs title update.
• GraPhoMaTa:\ Computer Science game about abstract coding challenges. - Needs title update.