Here's How My Demo Launch Went On Steam!

hey guys I wanted to record a quick video before I end my day here and update you on how the Twisted Tower demo launch went that launch okay I I have good news but I want to start with the bad news and by the way if you haven't checked out the demo click the link below and if youve played the demo feel free to leave a review links below totally free all right shut up Thomas okay anyway that demo that demo was that was the hardest day of my life have I said that a lot recently well it just keeps getting harder and harder and harder because when I launched that demo and bear in mind guys this game is three years in development plenty of money was put into this game uh the demo sort of is proof that the game is good or at least if if you get if you can get your first 15 minutes of your demo really great and people enjoy it it means that the rest of the game will probably do well when you launch It Anyway launch that game and so many

complaints people were so confused they were they were complaining that they said How Could You release a first-person shooter and the mouse controls suck and I was sitting there thinking I was getting this feedback coming in right when I launched it and I thought where is this coming from because I've never I've never played the game because they were complaining that it was too smooth the mouse was smoothing it was like this and I thought I did not put that in the game I have no idea what they're talking about because for me it's fine so anyway long story short I found out that because of like a frame like frame rate dependency people who were getting like lower than let's say 60 FPS and they like their Mouse to be a little bit slower so they would slow down in the options menu they would they would bring this mouse speed down they were getting uh this really slow dragged movement and so I had to diagnos and figured out that the mouse movement was clamped it was clamped so I removed the

clamp re-uploaded people still complained about 4K support or I'm sorry Ultra wide support and I thought well nobody plays with ultra wide then I realized lots of people do and it's it may be a small and this is something you guys need to learn or it may be something you can learn from me in my mistakes just because 1% of players use ultrawide doesn't mean that you ignore them why well for selfish reasons you shouldn't ignore them because you you don't want those people showing up giving negative reviews on the steam page I also found out when you launch a demo on Steam if it has its own page it has public reviews so when you launch that demo you're going to get reviews immediately and so they're going to start coming in and coming in I didn't think this I thought I would just launch a demo and we would get wish lists no you get reviews people will review the demo and drum roll I'm here to announce that not only are we at like 180 reviews on Steam for the demo we're at

92% positive so it's very positive right now the negative ones are definitely probably because like majority of them are probably performance and look guys with a 3D game that has this double A vibe it's just me right now and so I'm doing my very very best to optimize this thing this is so uh encour it was so encouraging to me because I just had a conversation with David wayy the creator of the first tree and also we Harvest Shadows he said optimizing your game after you launch your demo it's just a Monumental task and you really just need help from a publisher and so fortunately I've got help with the publisher I've got a QA team that's helping me with 3D Realms all that said I'm doing my very very best guys I promise to get this thing optimized for you um wish lists are cranking up so that's good news like I said did I did I tell you this oh yeah we hit the we hit the new in trending did I tell you that we hit the uh the free trending um we're number four I'm I

say we it's just me now but number four on the trending tab the free trending tab on Steam so I just wanted to give you an update man what a it was such a hard first day and the reason why is because we had I I'll end with this impostor syndrome never ends okay and and and for me especially it's hard because I give advice and I teach and I I tell you guys about I I'm sort of just open about my whole Game Dev career on camera every week and so for me to fall in my face which I thought I was but I didn't um it was I was so scared because I was thinking my credibility is on the line blah blah blah blah blah it was like three or four hours into the demo launch and I think it was at 83% positive and I was think it was going down and I was like oh no Lord please please don't do this to me because I thought I I honestly I swear to I went to bed and I was like I'm

going to wake up with a 60% and I woke up I I woke up at 3:00 a.m. looked at the Steam Reviews and we were at 92% which is awesome the whole goal my whole goal has always been and I told my publisher this I said I don't really care about making a lot of money I care about a very positive score now some of you are probably thinking why not an overwhelmingly positive score Thomas because that's just not what I do I don't make games that get overwhelmingly positive and I think it's because this sounds pretentious but they're their Niche games they're like I'm making a shooter but it's like it's a horror shooter but it's not it's a story cozy story shooter as well it's simple it's pretty straightforward it's not very difficult but it's incredibly violent so there's like this weird Niche that it's filling um so it's not going to be everybody's cup of tea but if I can get very positive I am thrilled so I wanted to say a huge thank you to all of

you for showing up and playing the demo you've made my week I'm so so relieved that everyone seems to be enjoying it um click the link below to play I'm asking you to play um only if you want to play it if you think it looks cool okay but I'm also asking you to play so that we can keep it in the the freaking trending Tab and hopefully when next Fest starts wish lless baby and I will report to you how the this all goes okay so you guys are watching in real time how this is going and what a demo does and what steam nextfest does so that's coming up in like a week or two and so I'll let you know how that goes as well I love you cheers