I Drained My Bank Account To Release My Game 

Watching it was a hoot on my 3rd watch

I was so confused why I recognized the voice

Good job brother

thank you! Its a story we thought others might need to hear. A "fail" is only a fail if you end up giving up after it, but if you learn from it, it becomes a success story!

Thank you! Awesome seeing you reply

failing is when you give up, success is when you keep trying and trying. That is the biggest lesson we learned

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That's exactly why we made this video, we wanted to put it out there because we know there's a lot of folks like us out there. We also wanted to show people who might feel alone that they aren't so alone after all.

@@belowthestoneofficial1476 and that yous have succeeded! It is really motivational ^-^

Let us know what you think! if you got a chance, join our discord too, it's in the description

Dang right ❤

Thank you! Not quite fully done yet, we still got to get to finish Early Access. 😂 Hahaha

Our Discord is the best place! discord.com/invite/MW72QReXKh

VERY true. It's scary sometimes how much it takes, too

No concrete release dates yet, but we're looking at doing console release when we hit 1.0 on steam. Just makes the porting process more manageable.

Nup

@@DaysOfFunder Yep Nup thats USA for Yeah Nah

u mad bro?

Nobody would click on “authentic dev makes a game that is a game” Gotta make it fun and add some drama! You weren’t lied to and you watched a cool video, it’s a double win❤

@@Fairlii we were lied to. 1. Nobody "drained" their wallet. The company does really good, they got a deal with damn publisher, they are set. Of course they spent money on release, but was those money personal savings of one person like "I drained my bank account" suggests? Surely not. 2. From the very beginning the game was created by 2 people, so from whose perceptive can this title be? Who's one person that calls the game "MY" instead of "our". Nobody, the content guy just named it so it seems like a story is about a solo dev. The thing is there are many devs that are making great games and do drain their personal accounts, and for some reason this company decided to compete with them rather than with other companies on their real level. It's just a bad look.

@@ScottHost just a little, thanks for asking

@@kkrup5395 why

yes

😂😂😂

Below the Kidney Stone

Thank you . Still a long way to go, but making it happen!

Thank you. If you do buy it, let us know what you'd want to see us work on next!

i looked trough my history and yes i saw that it was andrews video, sorry for bothering, all the best!

It will be on PlayStation for 1.0, right now it is in early Access on Steam

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I demand elves. I will dig until I find one. ​@@belowthestoneofficial1476

gnome

Yes

@@belowthestoneofficial1476thanke

We personally didn't have a demo either time. We found out from a few people that did kickstarters that not a lot of users actually click on the demo links. I think I remember one person who had like 600 backers only had like a dozen people click the link to access their demo. Not that I disagree with a demo proving competency.

thats new for me, tho i never did a research into kickstarter since it spawned many disappointments over the years and i kinda lost faith in kickstarter games. But ye, if a video/presentation of an idea what game is supposed to be had a demo where i can make sure myself vs "trust me bro" But im not your standart model of a gamer anyway, what do i know what masses want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But i have seen Splattercat play your game andthats how i discovered you guys

I KNOW YOU!

@@belowthestoneofficial1476 going to awesomecon?

Yes! We have a demo on Steam. Its in Early Access, so let us know what ideas you might have! store.steampowered.com/app/1170230/Below_the_Stone/

@@belowthestoneofficial1476just played it ABSOLUTE BANGER!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH

sounds cool!

@@belowthestoneofficial1476 thanks ❤️🍻

dwarf

GIGI hi

Idk if you caught on or not but the devs spent all of their money to make a kickstarter, go to conventions, and develop their game for it to release. Also, this is THEIR channel lol

@@Fairlii I'd love to hear about that so I won't make the same mistakes. That would have been an interesting topic and should have been included in a video with this title. I'm sure the maker of the video will learn from this and choose better titles in the future.

@@ytmiva2 you act like the video was bad

@@Fairlii the video itself was good, I just had different expectations.

You obviously understand that indie games have a hard time from the other replies, you personally experienced it yourself, and its admirable that you were willing to share your side of things that happened. I'll copy paste my response from the other spot, just so people reading this comment don't miss it the context, and get a better idea at the story we've been through. We really did put this video out to help people starting their journey. It was hard for us to put the full story in an 8 minute video, but yes we did have to lose a lot of money before releasing a game. Publishers don't just give you free money to work on your game, they give a loan much like a bank that needs to be paid back. It's debt that we needed to pay back.

explain your thesis

@@belowthestoneofficial1476 1. Enemies DMG is unbalanced (Doing a melee on a funguy kills you in 4 hits which discourages the player to use melee) 2. The well is too hard to find, due to no hint being indicated and the map being randomly generated, it takes up to 30 minutes to 3 hours to find the next stage. Which is absolutely ridiculous and there should be a way to find it instantly if you have already gotten to the last stage of Ore in this area (Lead Iron) 3. The minimap is too small. Due to you not being able to view the full map, it makes backtracking to find a certain location extremely difficult and discourages the player to not quit and return to the lobby for better RNG 4. Movement is EXTREMELY limited. No dash, no sprint no nothing. And since most enemies are the same speed as you or double the speed, you often feel overwhelm by enemies and can get cornered by them. 5. Death is too punishing. Making you basically lose all progress since you lose your tools and equipement. If you didn't have a spare pickaxe or weapon, you have to start the game over. (It would feel more fair if it was just your Gold or if there was a set of difficulty when dying (Easy mode, Normal Mode, Hardmode)) 6. Game price is too high for a game that when bought, just feels like less than the demo. 7. Only one set of music, it even stays the same in the lobby. Would be far better if there was a music per zone 8. Refunded

@@Ralseee this helps us a lot more than "game bad". Now we have a list of things we can address and help improve the game, appreciate it.

If you got a chance, join the discord. We take notes of people's suggestions from there and are very proactive at try to address people's ideas/criticism at improving the game. Its still very Early Access, but the team ends up talking about a lot of this stuff in our meetings each week.