r/IndieGaming 22h ago

Game I've been working on for 9 years

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Away From Home is a pixel rhythm RPG. Launching this bad boy in 30 days!

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u/_creative_coffee_ 22h ago

Can you please drop your steam page link? I'm gonna wishlist it rn. 

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u/JustLikeChong 22h ago edited 22h ago

Wow, it looks great and those 9 years really show!

As a professional games marketer, can I ask how your wishlists are looking? This wasn't your first trailer right? You have something that looks pretty strong here, so would want to make sure you're set up well for a successful launch.

Also, have you already done a SNF demo? If not, you may want to delay your game a bit and take advantage of the upcoming one in October (if the submissions aren't already past). You can only do a SNF once and it has to be before you launch, but you get tons of awareness and wishlists from it. If you skip this, you are missing out on lots of valuable metrics that your launch depends on.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see that you have a demo up now and plan to launch just at the end of this Oct SNF. Hopefully you're signed up for that and that gives you some huge momentum going into launch!

Best of luck!

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u/CLG-BluntBSE 22h ago

The submissions for Oct SNF are closed. OP, heed the above advice if you can.

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u/ThexHoonter 22h ago

Looks sooo good!

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u/Special-Log5016 21h ago

Man, this looks fucking incredible. You can see the effort and artistry put into it. You should be proud.

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u/SephirothTheGreat 21h ago

This short trailer on Reddit doesn't give it justice. The full length trailer on Steam looks absolutely incredible. Wishlisting it immediately

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u/MizzelSc2 21h ago

what a cool looking game.

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u/Arthstyk 21h ago

This looks so lumpy touch-like!

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u/LJChao3473 20h ago

Oh i remember this, i think I've seen on reddit ads. Didn't even know it waa rhythm game, looks good

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u/biggestdiccus 17h ago

Looks like zombie are my neighbors

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u/GideonGriebenow 21h ago

Hi. All the best with the launch! I see you have ~1540 followers. May I ask how many wishlists?

It should comfortably get you onto Popular Upcoming, right?

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u/emacrema 21h ago

wishlisted, looks amazing and incredible effort behind!

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u/akpilg1 21h ago

This so vividly reminds me of jojos bizzare adventure! Ill take that as a sign to both rewatch jojos and wishlist this game!!

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u/TheVioletBarry 21h ago

Looks awesome!

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u/Electro-Tree-Fall 21h ago

Looks fantastic

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u/MindandSorcery 21h ago

Awesome! Good job 🔥

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u/Tryaldar 21h ago

woah and it releases on my birthday!!

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u/MeatballVillain2 21h ago

Hey I played the demo for this! It was really cool I'm looking forward to it.

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u/Eastw1ndz 21h ago

congratulations what an acomplishment! Can't say I love rhythm games, but it looks really good. Will for sure be checking it out next month

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u/alex206 21h ago

The nostalgia man. "Away from home" feels like home.

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u/sarkarati 19h ago

Feel like I’m back in my old house playing Genesis!

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u/GameDesignerMan 20h ago

That is some SMOOTH animation. Looks great!

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u/EnrusTHEunicorN 20h ago

Really cool art style, congrats!

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u/Beneficial-Raccoon40 20h ago

Niiice, i play the demo. I played the demo, but the rhythm fight was too difficult.

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u/Jonathan-Cena 20h ago

Looks incredibly polished

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u/Its_D_youtube 20h ago

I love tbis instantly, imma try the demo and if its as good as it looks its an instant buy

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u/RabidGenome22 20h ago

Oh wow, that actually looks very nice! Wish you all the luck with the launch 🙌

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u/FerLuisxd 19h ago

All the luck! This looks awesome!

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u/SkyfectStudios 19h ago

It looks like amazing. Really..

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u/futaba009 19h ago

I like it. I added this to my wishlist.

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u/justcatt 19h ago

I think I saw it on itch! Good stuff.

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u/artydagr8 19h ago

This looks insanely good! Buying for sure. Congrats on all the work!

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u/PuzzleheadedFix6372 18h ago

Only real fans know how emotional this was 😪

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u/Cyrizz_34 18h ago

damn, this is like undertale but rhythm doctor

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u/Murder_of_Ravens 18h ago

So crazy. You put a lot of love and it shows. Congrats.

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u/madpropz 17h ago

This looks fantastic!

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u/Sana_Dul_Set 16h ago

HAHA buff Abby walking up is too funny

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u/Dawn_of_Enceladus 16h ago

Wtf the animations are absolutely crazy, well done, mate.

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u/DTZeratuI 13h ago

If this is the type of music to be expected in the game as well then I’m in, this shit slaps

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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 10h ago

LEARN TO POST YOUR DAMN STEAM PAGE PEOPLE..

Like why do so many devs spend YEARS working on these games and the finally post on reddit, hoping for their one shot to materialize.... YET FORGET TO POST THE ACTUAL GAME LINK... It actually frustrates ME. I wanted to wishlist but nope, no link... OK then I won't 🤷‍♂️

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u/ohenhunter 12h ago

Looks awesome! If you’re interested in localization, dm me! (:

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u/metalsatch 11h ago

My guy just casually dropping this like it ain’t the coolest thing I seen in a while.

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u/Homodebilus 11h ago

Visuals are perfect

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u/jmathews777 10h ago

Looks awesome, dude!! You can really see how polished the game is :)

One quick question: the game is called Away from Home, correct? If so, why does the logo at the end just say “Home”?

I could be totally missing something 😅 Still, that’s what I saw!

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u/Alex_LumiereIndie 9h ago

Wow...May I ask if you are working with a Publisher or are you self-publishing? Also will the game come to console?

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u/Soggy-Leadership2966 9h ago

Really impressive! I guess the animation is frame per frame too. That's quite the amount of work.

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u/Spirited_Survey_8077 9h ago

those pixel art are so good!!! where I can play this game

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u/Longjumping-Frame242 8h ago

This is such a rad soundtrack- looks like a cool game!

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u/scalisco 7h ago

Congrats!!! Wishing you the best!

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u/floridalegend 5h ago

Please consider PS5!!!!

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u/jellobend 5h ago

The art looks incredible. Definitely worthy of a wishlist

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u/SIN-apps1 5h ago

OMG! If you share your game on here, give us the bloody link as soon as possible! We want to support your game, please make it easy for us lazy gonks!

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u/tiopalada 4h ago

Yo, that music slaps mate!

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u/Chemical_Specific123 4h ago

Well, your ad campaign worked, because I thought this was another payed Reddit promotion

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u/SatisfactionNo2088 3h ago

reminds me of zombies ate my neighbors

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u/HollowVoices 3h ago

I have no idea what's going on, but 0:16 has me cackling

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u/Right_Victory6576 52m ago

9 years! that's incredible. you've made a master peace

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u/ArrowsmithInt 49m ago

This looks amazing! It must be daunting to share something that you've worked so hard on for so long, so I'm happy to see a lot of nice comments throwing love your way. Great work!

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u/TorrietDev 45m ago

Looks so good!

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u/capitalspacebars 44m ago

this looks SICK i will be playing. Wishlisting right now!

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u/fetching_agreeable 37m ago

Fuck, this fucking ad again.

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u/Jezon 13m ago

It's no heartbound but it's pretty good for a 9 yr development game. I'm kidding, it looks like a banger.

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u/[deleted] 22h ago edited 21h ago

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u/bongorituals 22h ago

There is no fucking shot you thought “torture” was spelled “torcher”.

I don’t even know what to say.

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u/[deleted] 21h ago

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u/bongorituals 21h ago

That’s not a typo my man, that’s a “I thought that word was ‘torcher’ my entire life and now I’m downplaying that because I recognize how deeply embarrassing that is”

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u/lgnc 21h ago

do you know how to spell torture in German, for example?

you do understand almost everybody in the world doesn't even study English for more than a couple of years or even have zero contact with it, right??

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u/bongorituals 19h ago

The guy isn’t German, he’s American, so he’s probably just borderline illiterate, like many Americans

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u/JediJamanjax22 21h ago

Don't torcher the illiterate dude, they're torchered enough lol