SURPRISE GAME: BAD WRITER

[pauljessup]

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Yup, it's being launched this weekend. I've been working on it for a bit, in secret. The basic idea? Emily is a short story writer trying to sell her short stories. You interact with the stuff in her house, try and get ideas, and try to stay happy. You get short story ideas, you try and submit and sell them, and you try to stay happy. You get rejections and sales in your email and...

You guessed it! Try to stay happy. If you get too sad you give up and quit. If you make it to 30 days, you win! It's a very roguelike experience.

Here's the itch page:
https://greybeardgames.itch.io/bad-writer

It's a fun and simple game.

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[Gunroar:Cannon()]

Woah! Nice. Writing roguelike.

[pauljessup]

Yeah! It's fun. Also, it's great that Love is so versatile that I could hammer this out in a few weeks without issue...that's awesome

[pauljessup]

My game released Saturday, and oh holy shit, it's on the Top Sellers page on itch.io now!

https://itch.io/games/top-sellers

[ReFreezed]

Congrats!

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

Woah, really Nice! What sort of marketing did you use?

[pauljessup]

Thanks! And it's in the top five now, number four.

I just used twitter. Every day I think "oh hey, that's going to be it, it was a good run and it's done selling now", someone with a big following retweets it. It's kind of nuts

[darkfrei]

Thanks! And it's in the top five now, number four.

Number two!

Does it has locales?

[pauljessup]

Ah sadly, no. No localizations, all English.

AND NOW IT'S NUMBER ONE! NUMBER ONE!

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[darkfrei]

AND NOW IT'S NUMBER ONE! NUMBER ONE!Screen Shot 2022-03-23 at 5.33.31 PM.png

Congrats!
Can you tell how you made it? Ideas, concepts etc.?