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You were exiled to an old castle in the desert. Command people, monitor their condition, explore, improve the castle, and make tough decisions - all to survive! And while you're struggling with the hottest summer, the temperature is only rising, and the storms won't subside.

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Dev. Diary №3: A (not really) long way to release

2 Nov, 2019

Steampage. What should i do?

Early August i started to thinking about steam page. Spoiler: i would make it only at late September. Do you know what I’m thinking about it now? Make steam page as soon as possible! Fill it with description and some gifs (if you can, not neccesary). Release date is an optinal thing. But with steampage on the pocket you can share it during the development. It is kind of obvious things but there are a lot of beginners have doubts about how fast should they pay to steam. My point is asap. If you making your game and thinking about steampage right now, do it. There is only one thing that can stop you. You are not sure that you will finish your game.

My first gif.

Better yes than no.

That time i wasn't sure this game ever be complete. And i decided to wait. Don't do that. You will lose potential wishlists that is your buyers. All my mistakes, as i said in first devlog, came from a lack of planning.

When you read, someone writes something like that, you might think that with all the information on the Internet it is impossible to make such a simple mistakes. You are right in some way. When you start to make something huge, that takes all your spare time and attention, mistakes wiil come. Especially when you do it by yourself.

Second gif.

Not everything should be perfect.

At the beginning of August i started to post gifs from the game on russian social network. Only on screenshotsaturday, just to see the reaction. i even didn't have a group or something like that (another obvious mistake). Don't be shy. Feedback is very important, especially at the begining of develompent. As i had started to post gifs it's became my obsession. I tried to post something new every saturday. Which was pretty cool, but this led to an endless posting race. It was nonstop visual brainstorming. Good for visual, bad for progtamming. Add here well known perfectionism of all developers and you'll get hell of a develompent.

You need to prioritize your goals, and don't try to make everything perfect. Trust me, you'll have time to make everithing right later .

Third one.

August past by, i tried to make the game asap because i was well-read about years of soloindie development. I didn’t want this story become about me.

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Partnership with the publisher

Hello Pavel Smushkovich. My name is Yuriy. I'm interested in your game BIGHARDSUN, and I'd like to discuss cooperation opportunities with you. If that sounds interesting to you, then please tell me, how may I contact you? Thanks. by the way, do you speak Russian?...

2 Nov, 2019 @ 6:23am

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BIGHARDSUN will be released November 22.

25 Oct, 2019

Hi, my name is Paul and i'm making BIGHARDSUN,

BIGHARDSUN is not a small game. And i want to make everithing right. So, Im taking some additional time.

Game develompent is fine, but there are couple of mechanics, that i want to be really smooth. Plus there are really good OST is writing right now by a great composer. So, i'm asking you to wait a bit longer.

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Dev. Diary №2: A (not really) long way to release

21 Oct, 2019

It's not with joy that a July start.

New month, new troubles. After jam's failure i understood that i really wanna make it to the end. At first i planned to make a small game within a month but in early July it started to grow into something bigger. And that's where the troubles came.

See, there was an expedition feature.

Equip a caravan
Send them to a desert
Be a wise comander and don't let them die
???
PROFIT

Yeah, it was pretty fun to explore the world, gather resources, take quests, etc. You could camp, could manage caravan's resources, oh god, there were a whole bunch of random events... which needed to be translated.
As you might have guessed english is not my native language. I had calculated traslation cost for expedition events (which just a part of game) and it turned to be too expensive for solo indie developer.

Expeditions were a huge part of a game. Besides the game was designed around them. The goal of the game was to reach the southernmost point of the desert. No expeditions, no core gameplay loop, no game at all. I couldn't just cut it off or even reduce. That's how i thought but something has had to be done anyway.

Events map. 1.5k $ for translation.

Reinvent the game.

«How can i change events to reduce translation cost? Or maybe doesn't make a translation at all?» — i spent couple of days delaying the inevitable decision. I didn't want to rethinking game loop, I wasn't sure that I could make everything right. These were difficult days. Suddenly it felt much easier for me to accept the idea of reinventing the game.

I started with a new core game loop. It was not so hard as i thought. Actually it was pretty easy.

At first i changed game goal. Now you have to survive a 100 turns (hottest summer).
Since my game is a management strategy i added some new global variables to control. That's how tech tree, workers tools, workers food, storms appeared.
Then I connected the game mechanics with each other. For example: locust will eat half of your food supplies. What should you do? You can upgrade food storage in tech tree, stop food production to reduce their amount naturally, send food away in trade caravan or take corn (food) and make bread from it.

And this is only a small part of what i made. In fact, game began to look better after the redesign. Now there are branched tech tree, market to trade, seven types of storms, dozens random events, dialog tree, etc. Sometimes you have to make hard decisions beacuse there is no other way.

July came to an end and i started to think about steam.

Steampage.

BIGHARDSUN

Is it dead?

The last dev diary is from almost 1 year ago. No news whatsoever

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22 Aug, 2020 @ 1:30am

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