How it is going

I have very little experience releasing games, on itch or elsewhere and these are some things I have noticed, some that were written under my nose, but just now that I understand it:

• Itch will show your game on “latest released” in multiple tags
• Your Capsule Art will be important in capturing people’s attention and increasing your CTR
• So, choose well your art, description and screenshots
• After this initial launch promotion your views will drop quickly

I focused too much in “making the game” and “learning to create”, that I neglected things like the art, description, etc.

I don’t know if there is room for a second wind of views from updating the game and posting devlogs.

I will update the game once, and then move to making Harmonic Clash, as I think I have more to gain by going through the development/release cycle again and again rather than putting a lot of effort in improving Quacktory. As I don’t think the game will be able to call a lot of attention to it anymore.

This is my analytics dashboard for Quacktory atm:

ok… now what am I going to update in Quacktory?

Update

The major complaints I had for the game were:

• Character controls felt bad, the character was sliding too much
• What should I do?
• How to craft?
• I spawned at sea
• How can I save the game?
• Belt snapping range is too large

So these are the changes:

• No player sliding while moving
• Title screen showing a factory running (as a hint on what to do)
• Better UI for items in crafting range
• Fixed spawning bug
• Save/load game
• Reduced belt snapping range

I am also adding a few more things for content:

• Belt tunnel, for crossing two belts
• Belt merger,
• Belt splitter / filter
• Automatically outputting items from storage unit to connected output belts

I am removing a thing too:

• Sword, as it serves no purpose atm

If you have suggestions or critics, this is the time to tell me as it may enter the update!

Have a good day! marcel0ll