Playable - if that's real enough :-) Come on, really? Why do people think it's not real? We gahered a team of enthusiastic pros for a project we thought was difficult but super-cool, spent crazy amount of time and effort to make it real - not perfectly optimised, but playable - and all we get is "fake"? We connected all the systems into one compact project, implemented game mechanisms, designed a sci-fi world. Our plans develop through time as we encouner difficulities, but the main one was that 1 in 1000 downloads sent us a coin or an opinion. Sorry, but server alone costs any times more. We are about to change something, but so far it's hard to say what :)
you dont seem to know that gaming comunity is really suspiscous since the "the day before" incident. ... The People are tired of Devs that Promise so much but not meeting the promised features. i dont think its a Personal take from @sillyanongames.
Hello, it looks like a problem with DX11 - Lumen technoloy. Could I know what graphic card you use? My advice would be to get an actual graphic card drivers. Unfortunatelly I can't tell more
From the little I played, looks like a good start.
Unfortunately my old 3770k isn't enough CPU to handle this. (yep it's very old, but can handle most newer games including Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3.) You might want to put some recommended specs on the main page and your website.
Ouch .. unfortunatelly the CPU is tight bottleneck for performance so far. The good news is that when we get to draw-call-optimisations, it will go very fluent.. Sorry about that!
And thanks for info, added to download instructions.
Frankly, we have no idea why we got absolute zero support from the community so far. We are pure techs, with proudly no marketing
I shall rise to the challenge and give you some feedback. I might not be marketing nor pure tech, but I do be a gamer. That plays lewd indie games, that is.
Wall of text incoming. But I have time while waiting for download to finish.......
People do not understand what you created and your game pitch reads like a scam pitch. Too good to be true. And too much stuff that will not even fly with AAA non porn games released on major platforms. Also, itch is not a platform to gain a fellowship out of nothing. That takes years. You have an adult game and would need word of mouth and there ain't such a thing on itch. You will not get promoted on page 1 or things like that. They do not do that with adult games. You can be found via tags, and your tags are not good. You can be found with related games, but that will take three months or so, to activate. You can be found via google from outside. But with your tech garble, people looking for lewd games might not be directed to that game.
If you wanna do zero effort marketing, post some gameplay naughties on actual porn sites.
I only found you, because I specifically looked for the combination of unreal and adult games. You might have heard about the unity situation.
Further deterring is system requirements and file size. Most indie games here run on a toaster. Also, you used a bad word in the beginning paragraph. AI is hated here. And people are stupid and do not understand, that you probably might have meant a different kind of AI stuff. Or maybe you didn't.
Did I mention your tags are lacking? You are on itch. Tagging indie is like tagging game. Adult and Erotic is the same. True multiplayer adult games on itch (and in generall) are so rare, that singleplayer is no information, also your pitch dreams of multiplayer. You could also tag straight, that would be just as helpful. And I suspect that mind-bending does not mean in the adult context, what you maybe thought it meant. Or maybe it does and it is the content of the game, if you meant that with those "favors".
You talk lots about what the game is supposed to be, but not what it is. Like, story, protagonist, type of game play and such. If there is character customization, brag about it. The tiny fluff about that corp is hidden in the uninteresting promises what you might want to do with the game. Nice. But that overwhelms players, if you lead with it. Maybe start at the beginning and leave the hopes for the future to end of the description, after you lured the players to read into the fluff and wanting to see what is there already. Otherwise, they might think, cool, I shall have a look in a few years when there is actually something to play.
I hope there is something to see, the download is finished soon.
If I remember correctly, there are some real adult multiplayer games on itch. Or at least a plug for them. Those games that advertise everywhere and have microtransactions. To me they are a bit shady, so that might also be a reason, why people shy away from your pitch. Plus the download size - for a demo.
I know the engines can do real time nude stuff, but games around this, are rather rare. So there is a nieche. But if you can't play it on a phone or a cheap tablet, you lose those players. But on the other hand, I suspect those are the players that would not support the game anyways.
Finally. Oh, how nice, the cute indie game made by people I do not know want's to install system files. Yeah. Not going to happen anytime soon. Sigh. This is user level stuff, why thinks Windows it has to restart, just because some libraries have been installed? And it does only think that. Game runs, after installing redist from official source. I wonder why no app in the last years has demanded higher redist versions of c++ sooner.
Text too small to read. How do I leave the keybinding menu. Do I really need to restart my system, or is this a bug. Do not see a button and escape does not work.
You really should brag about character-customization and gender selection. The customization should be a tag even.
Ahh. In the game there is return button in key binding. Below the bindings. In start screen that one was missing or out of frame.
There is dress up elements. Camera swiveling immedatly disturbs view of character. And now it does not swivel anymore. No idea what I did. Seems to be tied to the location. Very odd and confusing.
Tube elevators! Put those in an animated screenshot and brag about the customized character swooshing up and down in one of those. Those are cool.
Ohhh. You have to actually select a quest, to get those nav arrows. Now that is valuable starting information.
I am gonna call it quits for now. Current verdict, there is enough framework for questing and doing adventure stuff. I am not sure, where the game is headed on the lewd side, as I did not encounter any yet. I was promised an orgy by the cultists, though. But just running around doing silly things, questing and having lewd stuff happen would be a good start. Lewd sandbox games are fun, for those seeking game play. There are enough linear visual novels.
tl;dr the game description does not do justice to the actual game. from the description i expect vapor ware. the game i downloaded had a solid sandbox basis and i did not even encounter the lewd stuff yet, besides my custom character being able to undress.
Ohh, and I though for a moment I missed the elevator, because it is in the text and not on the side, like not seeing the trees in a forest kinda thing. You updated. The short scene clarifies much visually, like that it is 3rd person walking simulator and you can play a female. Maybe brag about how you can also zoom to 1st person view. If you put another shot beside it with a male being the protagonist, that should clear up things further.
Basically look how popular games do it. It is about presentation. You are not selling to investors, but to customers. Horny customers with short attention spans and a browse catalogue of over 10k adult games on itch and unhelpful features to find stuff. If you are popular it is self fulfilling because you get sorted higher in browse.
If you want to further optimse, there is this hover stuff, when you did not already visit the game page. When the mouse is over the game thumbnail. You have three pictures for that, including your thumbnail. Some can even be animated, but not sure how as is your second screen already. You might include an action shot, like the elevator or the couch scene. Your first screen is not very good, because one can not see what is going on there. The first two screenshots on the game pages are displayed when moving the mouse over the thumbnail. If you use a female protagonist in those, you should make it clear in one of the two descriptions or the other screenshot, that you can chose your gender. While some search out lewd games where you can play females, others avoid it.
And the text currently reads ""and when you return f r om the gate - it's not you, nevermore.." ｡˚ ✧ ˚⋆｡ ✧˚ ｡★⋆ ˚｡ The last - lust - lost Gate - Noire ! You may seen "
I do not know if this is always taken from the game description or if it can be edited separatly, to allow for short description.
The text that is seen without hovering is "Brutal porn-comedy world in a dystopian corporeli" (Huh. That gets arbitrarily cut off, depending on zoom level and other influence. On your creator page, it is displayed in full. In browse, it is not. Not for me at least, no matter how I zoom.)
I am not sure if brutal will apply, but there were those foot prints. I was actually concerened that this would be some gore game. Maybe it will even have this elements, but it does not fit with the claims of comedy. Maybe this is translation issue, what brutal can mean. (cruel, bloody, merciless, violent etc)
Will be a while till I get to continue playing. Wish you luck, the unity situation might be benefitial for you.
Man, that is golden. I mean like an actual response from user cheered us up :-) thanks. We will now totally slowly gradually apply some things you write!
Fun thing you wrote about the AI (it is really only in story as a friend that guides and misleades you at the same time) - We wanted to realise an unspoiled metawerse the right way and realised its way too toxic word already :D - that's what "way too meta" and world-domination company "Mega" in the story still refers to.
Cool. It's on the plan! Just after finishing alfa, see Milestones> https://www.gatenoire.com/ We would like to reflect users and Patreon opinions as VR parts are sure to be veery personal.
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Public alpha release link is broken in patreon and discord link is also invalid : (
I'm super stoked to see where this goes, godspeed!
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is this game actually real or fake
Playable - if that's real enough :-)
Come on, really? Why do people think it's not real? We gahered a team of enthusiastic pros for a project we thought was difficult but super-cool, spent crazy amount of time and effort to make it real - not perfectly optimised, but playable - and all we get is "fake"? We connected all the systems into one compact project, implemented game mechanisms, designed a sci-fi world. Our plans develop through time as we encouner difficulities, but the main one was that 1 in 1000 downloads sent us a coin or an opinion. Sorry, but server alone costs any times more. We are about to change something, but so far it's hard to say what :)
you dont seem to know that gaming comunity is really suspiscous since the "the day before" incident. ... The People are tired of Devs that Promise so much but not meeting the promised features. i dont think its a Personal take from @sillyanongames.
It appears a error mensage:
LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\PipelineStateCache.cpp] [Line: 348]
Shader compilation failures are Fatal.
Crash in runnable thread Background Worker #3
What is wrong about?
Hello, it looks like a problem with DX11 - Lumen technoloy. Could I know what graphic card you use?
My advice would be to get an actual graphic card drivers. Unfortunatelly I can't tell more
I use an RX 470, I'll try to find a newer version of drivers.
its a bit raw but playable and can get very good.
keep on working on it. :)
thanks! we really appreciate your feedback as we are now deciding on direction for further project development :)
From the little I played, looks like a good start.
Unfortunately my old 3770k isn't enough CPU to handle this. (yep it's very old, but can handle most newer games including Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3.) You might want to put some recommended specs on the main page and your website.
Good luck :)
Ouch .. unfortunatelly the CPU is tight bottleneck for performance so far. The good news is that when we get to draw-call-optimisations, it will go very fluent.. Sorry about that!
And thanks for info, added to download instructions.
I shall rise to the challenge and give you some feedback. I might not be marketing nor pure tech, but I do be a gamer. That plays lewd indie games, that is.
Wall of text incoming. But I have time while waiting for download to finish.......
People do not understand what you created and your game pitch reads like a scam pitch. Too good to be true. And too much stuff that will not even fly with AAA non porn games released on major platforms. Also, itch is not a platform to gain a fellowship out of nothing. That takes years. You have an adult game and would need word of mouth and there ain't such a thing on itch. You will not get promoted on page 1 or things like that. They do not do that with adult games. You can be found via tags, and your tags are not good. You can be found with related games, but that will take three months or so, to activate. You can be found via google from outside. But with your tech garble, people looking for lewd games might not be directed to that game.
If you wanna do zero effort marketing, post some gameplay naughties on actual porn sites.
I only found you, because I specifically looked for the combination of unreal and adult games. You might have heard about the unity situation.
Further deterring is system requirements and file size. Most indie games here run on a toaster. Also, you used a bad word in the beginning paragraph. AI is hated here. And people are stupid and do not understand, that you probably might have meant a different kind of AI stuff. Or maybe you didn't.
Did I mention your tags are lacking? You are on itch. Tagging indie is like tagging game. Adult and Erotic is the same. True multiplayer adult games on itch (and in generall) are so rare, that singleplayer is no information, also your pitch dreams of multiplayer. You could also tag straight, that would be just as helpful. And I suspect that mind-bending does not mean in the adult context, what you maybe thought it meant. Or maybe it does and it is the content of the game, if you meant that with those "favors".
You talk lots about what the game is supposed to be, but not what it is. Like, story, protagonist, type of game play and such. If there is character customization, brag about it. The tiny fluff about that corp is hidden in the uninteresting promises what you might want to do with the game. Nice. But that overwhelms players, if you lead with it. Maybe start at the beginning and leave the hopes for the future to end of the description, after you lured the players to read into the fluff and wanting to see what is there already. Otherwise, they might think, cool, I shall have a look in a few years when there is actually something to play.
I hope there is something to see, the download is finished soon.
If I remember correctly, there are some real adult multiplayer games on itch. Or at least a plug for them. Those games that advertise everywhere and have microtransactions. To me they are a bit shady, so that might also be a reason, why people shy away from your pitch. Plus the download size - for a demo.
I know the engines can do real time nude stuff, but games around this, are rather rare. So there is a nieche. But if you can't play it on a phone or a cheap tablet, you lose those players. But on the other hand, I suspect those are the players that would not support the game anyways.
Finally. Oh, how nice, the cute indie game made by people I do not know want's to install system files. Yeah. Not going to happen anytime soon. Sigh. This is user level stuff, why thinks Windows it has to restart, just because some libraries have been installed? And it does only think that. Game runs, after installing redist from official source. I wonder why no app in the last years has demanded higher redist versions of c++ sooner.
Text too small to read. How do I leave the keybinding menu. Do I really need to restart my system, or is this a bug. Do not see a button and escape does not work.
You really should brag about character-customization and gender selection. The customization should be a tag even.
Ahh. In the game there is return button in key binding. Below the bindings. In start screen that one was missing or out of frame.
There is dress up elements. Camera swiveling immedatly disturbs view of character. And now it does not swivel anymore. No idea what I did. Seems to be tied to the location. Very odd and confusing.
Tube elevators! Put those in an animated screenshot and brag about the customized character swooshing up and down in one of those. Those are cool.
Ohhh. You have to actually select a quest, to get those nav arrows. Now that is valuable starting information.
I am gonna call it quits for now. Current verdict, there is enough framework for questing and doing adventure stuff. I am not sure, where the game is headed on the lewd side, as I did not encounter any yet. I was promised an orgy by the cultists, though. But just running around doing silly things, questing and having lewd stuff happen would be a good start. Lewd sandbox games are fun, for those seeking game play. There are enough linear visual novels.
tl;dr the game description does not do justice to the actual game. from the description i expect vapor ware. the game i downloaded had a solid sandbox basis and i did not even encounter the lewd stuff yet, besides my custom character being able to undress.
Ohh, and I though for a moment I missed the elevator, because it is in the text and not on the side, like not seeing the trees in a forest kinda thing. You updated. The short scene clarifies much visually, like that it is 3rd person walking simulator and you can play a female. Maybe brag about how you can also zoom to 1st person view. If you put another shot beside it with a male being the protagonist, that should clear up things further.
Basically look how popular games do it. It is about presentation. You are not selling to investors, but to customers. Horny customers with short attention spans and a browse catalogue of over 10k adult games on itch and unhelpful features to find stuff. If you are popular it is self fulfilling because you get sorted higher in browse.
If you want to further optimse, there is this hover stuff, when you did not already visit the game page. When the mouse is over the game thumbnail. You have three pictures for that, including your thumbnail. Some can even be animated,
but not sure howas is your second screen already. You might include an action shot, like the elevator or the couch scene. Your first screen is not very good, because one can not see what is going on there. The first two screenshots on the game pages are displayed when moving the mouse over the thumbnail. If you use a female protagonist in those, you should make it clear in one of the two descriptions or the other screenshot, that you can chose your gender. While some search out lewd games where you can play females, others avoid it.And the text currently reads ""and when you return f r om the gate - it's not you, nevermore.." ｡˚ ✧ ˚⋆｡ ✧˚ ｡★⋆ ˚｡ The last - lust - lost Gate - Noire ! You may seen "
I do not know if this is always taken from the game description or if it can be edited separatly, to allow for short description.
The text that is seen without hovering is "Brutal porn-comedy world in a dystopian corporeli" (Huh. That gets arbitrarily cut off, depending on zoom level and other influence. On your creator page, it is displayed in full. In browse, it is not. Not for me at least, no matter how I zoom.)
I am not sure if brutal will apply, but there were those foot prints. I was actually concerened that this would be some gore game. Maybe it will even have this elements, but it does not fit with the claims of comedy. Maybe this is translation issue, what brutal can mean. (cruel, bloody, merciless, violent etc)
Will be a while till I get to continue playing. Wish you luck, the unity situation might be benefitial for you.
Man, that is golden. I mean like an actual response from user cheered us up :-) thanks. We will now totally slowly gradually apply some things you write!
Fun thing you wrote about the AI (it is really only in story as a friend that guides and misleades you at the same time) - We wanted to realise an unspoiled metawerse the right way and realised its way too toxic word already :D - that's what "way too meta" and world-domination company "Mega" in the story still refers to.
Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to VR support!
Cool. It's on the plan! Just after finishing alfa, see Milestones> https://www.gatenoire.com/
We would like to reflect users and Patreon opinions as VR parts are sure to be veery personal.