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From the video the game…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"2873851","b14ck","I love games like this, brings back fond memories. Congratulations on your launch! I just purchased a copy :) I'm looking forward to playing it!",{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"5 euros","maker",[63],{"id":64,"by":11,"text":65},"2872212","Yeah I will add one in the coming weeks. Didn't think a 5 euros game needed a demo, but apparently it does.",[67,73,79],{"value":68,"source":61,"evidence":69},"HaXe",[70],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"2872229","HaXe mostly.",{"value":74,"source":61,"evidence":75},"NME",[76],{"id":77,"by":11,"text":78},"2872512","For example some of the flash API is still missing from NME (a lib for the c++ target) & the performance (and more importantly bottlenecks) is quite different on different…",{"value":80,"source":81,"evidence":82},"Canvas (HTML5)","commenter",[83],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"2872372","Andrex","No no, canvas yo!","paid","launched","solo",{"praise":91,"objections":115,"requests":156,"questions":177,"alternatives":196},[92,103,108],{"value":93,"source":81,"evidence":94},"Streamlined gameplay with auto-sell and auto-equip",[95,99],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"2872575","moconnor","Cute, I like it. My feedback: * I love the streamlined nature - auto-sell duplicate items, auto-equip. There's a couple of little niggles that go against this when moving, such…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"2874448","acavailhez","I just spent one hour playing your game, love it ! (will play again) The casual fast-paced rogue-like style is very neat ! I've never seen something quite similar Not having to…",{"value":104,"source":81,"evidence":105},"Retro aesthetic and sound",[106,107],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"value":109,"source":81,"evidence":110},"Clean one-page website",[111],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"2873050","grannyg00se","Great website. You have a one pager with all the information required including a video and screenshots and two BUY NOW links. Nothing more is needed, and nothing less would do.…",[116,125,134,149],{"value":117,"source":81,"evidence":118},"No save or resume option",[119,120,121],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"2872812","Udo","Thanks for making this, it's awesome to play! :-) One major thing, though: it sucks that there is no way to save or at least resume a game.",{"value":126,"source":81,"evidence":127},"PayPal payments failing at checkout",[128,131],{"id":129,"by":97,"text":130},"2872523","Paypal payments just aren't working, I tried twice. Might want to look into that. Do you deliberately hide the price on the front page?",{"id":132,"by":97,"text":133},"2881823","Couldn't purchase with paypal - first time the paypal site showed a generic \"we don't know\" error (didn't note it, sorry), the next time after signing in to paypal I got further,…",{"value":135,"source":81,"evidence":136},"Website design and fonts look dated",[137,141,145],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"2872196","LukeFitz","Looks pretty good to me! The only thing I would say is that whatever font you're using on the front page (Times New Roman?) looks a little tacky.",{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"2872826","3pt14159","You need a web designer asap. I actually had to read around to find out how to buy the game, that is terrible.",{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"2872311","ck2","Why do I have to horizontal scroll on a 1024px wide browser window? Need some margin: 0 auto; somewhere. 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I am guilty of just having a demo video myself, and I think that it really cuts into my sales in a ton of…",{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},{"value":166,"source":81,"evidence":167},"Add save and resume",[168,169],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},{"value":171,"source":81,"evidence":172},"Stable Linux version",[173],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"2872573","felixhummel","A \"Send me a mail as soon as the Linux version is stable\" would be nice.",[178,185],{"value":179,"source":81,"evidence":180},"What tools were used to develop it",[181],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"2872227","amourgh","Looks pretty.What tools you used to develop it?",{"value":186,"source":81,"evidence":187},"Can the HaXe code target other platforms",[188,192],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"2872279","StavrosK","Wait, so can you now generate JS, Flash and C++ versiond of the game automatically (or, at least, easily?).",{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"2872429","aparadja","Could you go into a bit more details? I'd find it very interesting to hear about a fresh real-world experience with converting a HaXe game to another platform. Are there many…",[197,204],{"value":198,"source":81,"evidence":199},"Humble Bundle",[200],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"2872255","MicahWedemeyer","Congrats! I don't know exactly how it works, but maybe you might want to contact the Humble Bundle people and see if you could get in on that somehow?",{"value":205,"source":81,"evidence":206},"Flash game portals",[207],{"id":208,"by":209,"text":210},"2872261","benologist","Do a version in Flash! Flash games can spread all over the internet and do insane traffic which you can use to promote the full\u002Fpaid version.",{"comments":212,"answered":18,"key":213},19,[214,217,220],{"id":215,"text":216},"2872277","You are right - will be adding a demo in the next few weeks. Still so much to do!",{"id":218,"text":219},"2872619","The problem is that I'm not sure it's even possible to get it running properly (e.g. with hardware acceleration) on every flavor of linux out there. It's a real can of worms that…",{"id":221,"text":222},"2873404","Hrm, might do that. 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