Champagne Problems 2
I don't want to bore you with stories like we've tried so hard to deliver demos to the Steam festival. Everyone already knows the standard developer lament. The lament of a person who made every effort to deliver on time, but with heartache she/he had to make a difficult decision to postpone the premiere. But what else can I say? We're in this fucked up situation too.
We did three demos. Two working, one defective.
The latter is Mercyful Flames. Despite the fact that almost all the plans related to the development of the game have been completed, the final version is not satisfactory for us. Simply put, it sucks. We will only release versions of the games that we do not consider a waste of your time. Mercyful Flames still has annoying bugs, performance problems, lighting problems, translation problems, UX problems, sometimes very poor sound and a lot of other shortcomings. Of course, all of this will be eliminated. When? We will not provide any dates. The current festival was a deadline. The lesson we have for the future is that we do not operate on deadlines. We make the game until we can present it with a clear conscience.
The second demo we haven't released despite being made is Booze Master. The Booze Master was prepared in a very correct form. It's a correct game, with correct graphics, correct performance, correct sound, awesome music, awesome characters, decent UI blabla... But in gerneral, it's... just correct. At a time when a few good games are published every day, presenting the correct game is an ecological crime. We realized the demo plan, but the plan wasn't good enough. The game needs some polishing and we will keep polishing it until we say "okay, this is good".
That's what we could say about Priest Simulator. It's not perfect, but we did our best here. If you haven't heard about Priest and are waiting for Mercyful or Booze, I recommend checking out the demo. We released it. This is our benchmark.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1405690
I apologize we haven't brought you two demos this time. Shame as hell, but I'd be more embarrassed if we published it. Hope Priest Simulator will make it up to you.
Answering a question that has already arisen somewhere: Asmodev projects are being developed in parallel. Not by one person who works on a different project every day. It has no relation.
