A good place to spread the word about my game that in early stages of development?

[KiaAzad]

As you might have guessed this is a shameless plug about a project I'm working on. there's no way to hide the fact, but past that I have a valid question:
Where can I spread the word about our project, direct some traffic to our

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, and rally mobs to our

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?
Note: the majority of our patreon posts are public, and the game will be released completely free.

I've been working on the code and the story for a while now, We're looking for artists, but if you're interested, the development is at the point that you can participate in shaping the game, things like creating quests, items, side characters and letting me pick your brains for ideas. so, don't hesitate to contact or comment.

 

[polywog]

 

[KiaAzad]

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not sure if this is a comment on the appearance of our patron page or something else, but I feel I should explain that we don't have an artist on board yet, and my partner decided to fill the header with an image he commissioned for his website.
I know it's not related to the game and doesn't look that good either, but it's better than nothing for the time being ^_^.

 

[fitgirlbestgirl]

We're Studio Danza, developing a series of point and click adult games starting with a trainer game featuring Disney's princess Jasmine.

"A trainer game featuring Disney's princess Jasmine" sounds a little "been there, done that." But I guess straight up wanting to compete with Akabur is a bold choice at least.

 

[polywog]

"A trainer game featuring Disney's princess Jasmine" sounds a little "been there, done that." But I guess straight up wanting to compete with Akabur is a bold choice at least.

 

[KiaAzad]

"A trainer game featuring Disney's princess Jasmine" sounds a little "been there, done that." But I guess straight up wanting to compete with Akabur is a bold choice at least.

I know the trainer game concept is ragged and overdone, but I never seen one that has good gameplay. I'm trying to achieve that.
Akabur's games have good art, but when it comes to storytelling, programming and game development, he's no competition.

 

[KiaAzad]

I've been looking for an artist to start us with some line art, It is hard to find non-anime artists these days but we're going to find an artist with the right art style for our game.

here's the artist guide I've put together our artist needs to follow:

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If you're an artist interested in this position, contact me on skype: kiaazad

 

[desmosome]

I know the trainer game concept is ragged and overdone, but I never seen one that has good gameplay. I'm trying to achieve that.
Akabur's games have good art, but when it comes to storytelling, programming and game development, he's no competition.

Princess trainer is arguably the only good Akubar game honestly. And its a really good one. I'm not a porn game historian or anything but from what I gather, this is the one that really pushed trainer type games on the map?

Its just that he never evolved from that. Witch trainer and everything after it was the same old gameplay loop with increasingly uninspired writing.

 

[tomcire]

Suggestion: Before asking for money you should have something to offer, right now in your patreon I can only see some concept and some blog developing post.
It is not much.
If you want to make money, you should invest on it. Go and find yourself an artist and hire him. Do some commissions, at least for the concept artist and build a demo BEFORE spreading your game.
Many people started doing games without art and without asking for money, after they build an audience and after they made something they started asking.

 

[KiaAzad]

Princess trainer is arguably the only good Akubar game honestly. And its a really good one. I'm not a porn game historian or anything but from what I gather, this is the one that really pushed trainer type games on the map?

Its just that he never evolved from that. Witch trainer and everything after it was the same old gameplay loop with increasingly uninspired writing.

That is true, I've found out about the renpy game engine after playing the princess trainer.
but after only two weeks fiddling with renpy, I was making better gameplay mechanics than Akabur, I even offered him my help for free to make the next princess trainer game, but he politely rejected my offer.
long story short, After years, I'm back on the topic to give you a second chance with your favorite Disney princesses, that's right, I wouldn't stop at Jasmine.

Suggestion: Before asking for money you should have something to offer, right now in your patreon I can only see some concept and some blog developing post.
It is not much.
If you want to make money, you should invest on it. Go and find yourself an artist and hire him. Do some commissions, at least for the concept artist and build a demo BEFORE spreading your game.
Many people started doing games without art and without asking for money, after they build an audience and after they made something they started asking.

I'm aware of this problem, that's why we have put together an initial budget to spend on the art. however, finding a reliable and affordable artist that can draw in the style we want is much harder than you think.
We are constantly reaching out to artists to commission our art, but all we got till now was high prices, rejections and people who traced drawings by other artists, trying to pass them as their own and make some quick money.
At the mean time I'm developing the game features and putting together the story, even if we don't find a good artist anytime soon, we will have a developers demo with my drawings as placeholder.

 

[tomcire]

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We are constantly reaching out to artists to commission our art, but all we got till now was high prices, rejections and people who traced drawings by other artists, trying to pass them as their own and make some quick money.
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Well, good luck then.
The only suggestions I can give to find an artist that may be comfortable working with you, then, are the section of this forum:
https://f95zone.to/forums/programming-development-art.73/
Write a request with a comprehensible title ("looking for artist" and stuff like that)
Renpy forum:

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Deviantart forum, demand/offer (an employer/commissioner DEMAND work, doesn't offer, even if neoliberism teach people the opposite, workers OFFER their work):

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I am from a country filled with very skilled artists with cheap price, still, a skilled one even if is young will not ask for less than 100€ for a full cgi (expecially if naked). Good art costs, it requires time and people doesn't like to work for free.
If you want to spend less you may search people from countries with a lower cost of life but with a good art tradition, if you want naked bodies you need artist with a good traditional art formation, like Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia and South American countries.
Consider that right now the main trend for comic-like artist is the Japanese style, a Disney-like artist will probably ask you for more money.
I don't know forum/sites from those countries.

 

[KiaAzad]

The only suggestions I can give to find an artist that may be comfortable working with you, then, are the section of this forum:

thank you, this is the first response that actually addressed my question, I was thinking about postining here and on lemmasoft about hiring artists once I have some free time, the deviantart forums links where a big help, I didn't even know such thing as deviantart forum exist, and I've been using the website for years.

 

[tomcire]

Forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.
Joking aside, many users don't like developers asking for money without having already something to show, this is one of the reason of the bad attitude.
Second, most users don't draw nor are interested in developing, just in consuming games, they don't have the means to help

Edit: good luck

 

[KiaAzad]

Forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.
Joking aside, many users don't like developers asking for money without having already something to show, this is one of the reason of the bad attitude.
Second, most users don't draw nor are interested in developing, just in consuming games, they don't have the means to help

Edit: good luck

I've finally got around to write a recruitment post, thought you might be interested to see it, there's also a very very early demo of the game you can try.