Should I Update My Indie Game? - Devlog 17 

Did you ever pick up reIterate(), out of interest? I won't hate you if you say no, I promise.

I find myself, even years after my release, watching a streamer play my game and going... "Oh... oh they are confused about something... I must fix that." It's like a never-ending battle with watching somebody struggle with a mechanic, fixing it up, still seeing struggles, fixing it, and figuring out what's actually my design choices or if it's just, you know, them? It's a fun battle. Anywho, this series honestly got me through the last years of my development of my first steam release, put my own mind at ease, and yadda yadda. It's been a great experience, and I thank you for everything you've done so far! I hope things go well for you going forward and best of luck with your new project!

You should know this quote and say it to yourself: "I'm 37! I'm not old."

Hey there, thank you so much for this series. I watched a few months ago, and it really changed the way I look at my own simple games. And now, I look back at the time I made my games watching your videos, and they all just feel right. Your insight on how these things are done, and your examples are all incredible. Thank you for your amazing content. And hopefully, I will see more of your games and content. Reach for the stars.

I'm pretty happy today. I used to watch the re-iterate dev log but then lost this channel somehow and couldn't find it. Today I was watching a video where there was a comment from LTGD which helped me find this place again. Damnit youtube. Turning on notifications so that don't happen again... Lol...

"There is no one right answer. There is a fair few wrong ones but hopefully we can avoid those." - This idea has now been added to my personal arsenal of arguments.

Very cool! I've been watching since like Episode 6, and it's been awesome to see your journey!

What an awesome thing to do for your birthday, hope it's a great one! Will try this out again when I am on Steam Deck! I did all of the things you requested in the video, followed and wishlisted Hangry Bear and I wish you the best luck with it, looks goofy AF in the most epic possible way! 💛

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday

Congratulations on the milestone. your game looks really good. Im new to being a game dev so wish me luck :D

The devlogs were fun to watch

Happy birthday

ReIterate is a great game, and definitely worth buying. I had a ton of fun (and rage) playing a precise platformer in a while, and I hope you'll continue making banger games and videos in the future! Happy birthday!

how has it been 2 years, i still think it came out in the last 6 months

I'm surprised to see you return to reiterate but a nice surprise. It's awesome how you made it compatible with the steam deck. That kind of accessibility feels missing in many game design discussions.

never thought id see this again!!

bro thats crazy i was just replaying reiterate the other day with my dad (he really liked it).

Happy Birthday.

Are you thinking about updating the existing Reiterate game? Or are you thinking about updating the Reiterate Cinematic Universe with a new game in that world?

If you are still enthusiastic about the world you've started to create in your Indie Game, I think you should update it. Keep going. If not, make a new one. I'd be excited to see you expand on the existing world, or to experience a brand new LTGD world. Both options sound great.

same birthday!

Happy birthday! Did you create actual Linux version or is the game just run through Proton? Interested to hear what is best option when using Construct.

Breaking the 4th wall, it is quite thematic to update Reiterate :D Just keep iterating. Maybe Reiterate 2 ??

At 5:16 are those two tall skinny platforms spaced apart exactly enough to just hold right and fall from one to the next? Props if so.

Btw how much did your game earn from itch

For a moment ther i thought you made heart and slash.

Is this game still running On the clickteam fusion?

I woud like to hear the sentence that I like about subscribing to see vídeos like the one i liked because Liked like it was in vídeos before that I also liked like this one that I liked but dinnt led a like like the others yet

I think the game did what it meant to do and doing anything else would be feature creep you've talked about. If you feel adding more, you probably have enough experience to make a sequel instead with more polish and technique.

I haven't watched the video yet, but yes, yes you should

Hey I'd like to know whether steam or itch is the best place for publishing my game as a newbie indie game developer. Where can i earn more?

Unreleated but I feel like the frame rate for the bear in the bear game is too high. Reducing it might make for a nicer more retro feeling effect.

I hate to write negative stuff to devs. I'm a dev myself, with a 17 years of experience in the industry. From art, to game design, to code. But here the criticism (instead of my own project's refactoring) goes: Instead of making a video on how flawless you are with your design processes, you could be generous and loving to your audience and fans and add some new content. Even if your (flawed in my opinion) creative vision and meme numbers ocd restricts you from adding 70th level, just make some new optional character art\animation or visual flavour. You've made a not minimalist but a barebones monochrome platformer with not only bad pixel art (yes, it's considered bad art direction to have different pixel size). Usually you do so to make something innovative in terms of gameplay. Nothing in the footage i've seen is. I would say sales \ review numbers reflect that. I would say it's generous. It all feels like lack of skill and stinginess in every way you spend way too much time to excuse with smugness and "know it all" posture. All you did is remove a couple annoyances for yourself for your birthday, make a smug video about how smart you are in order to stroke your ego about a couple new sales you made, providing virtually nothing new to potential buyer. Shure you have a right to do that. And i have a right to have an opinion about that. Love, generosity and going out of your way to make more for other people. This is what usually wins GOTY. Not "I'll make as little as possible and try to convince people it's genius".

still programmer ingame graphics and random backgrounds what changed in u as a game developer?just watched a 3 year old video and its still the same ugly prototype?! I think ur lazy and have wrong expectations..git gud.

Thanks for the videos, it helped me design my own game :) Gonna buy ReIterate and give it a go. Do you have a discord by the way?

Happy birthday!