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Desecration of Wings Prerelease Thread

Hey guys! As you might know, the commercial release of DoW should be happening this month. This is my post to reflect on stuff and get feedback - let me know if you have thoughts, and definitely report if you see any typos. I also need testers, but that will come at the end.

The barriers to release are decreasing. I'm still awaiting one scene asset, but the artist for it is reliable and I'm sure he'll come through in time. Steam has finally approved the store page:

store.steampowered.com/app/793450/Desecration_of_Wings

You can't see it on the preview page, but I'm selling this one for $15. I hope that will be seen as reasonable, as some other RPGM titles like Skyborn use that price point. This is all academic to you if you're reading this, though - everybody on this tier will get a free copy of the game regardless. ^-^

I'm not sure how this is going to go. DoW will be, again, the most expensive game I've ever produced. At minimum, it will provide useful data about the market. I'll still be going forward with another very expensive game (Once Ever After), but in the future I may need to experiment with some smaller, simpler games too.

There's one major unknown about the release: Nutaku. Their store is generally not that valuable unless they give you serious marketing, so I'm thinking I won't give them an exclusive period, unlike my previous two games. I've put the question to them, though. If they agreed to give me more marketing, I'd do a soft launch earlier in the month, then the Steam launch when planned later in the month.

Anyway, one of the last things I need is beta testers, to be sure that more errors didn't slip into the process. Post if you'd like to volunteer. However, I do need people who have time to finish the game fairly quickly, and who have done some bugtesting or at least commenting in the past. This will be a version with (nearly) full art assets. 

Bonus points if anyone wants to capture video of interesting parts of the game for potential use in a trailer. This isn't critical, I can get this done myself, but I figured I'd ask just in case.

Anyway! Comment if you have feedback, notice any errors on the store page, or want to be a tester. With any luck, DoW can release smoothly later in the month without the whole process taking up too much of my time. I like creating games more than releasing them. XP

Desecration of Wings Prerelease Thread

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