having played it and watched a streamer play it, it definetly evokes a response in people (in other words good art), so I do think it has an audience, although how to find it is the hard part!

ahh rip. "Poised & Coined Gaming" playthrough has a good facecam, if you could get that and replace the game footage. maybe some Steam comments as well.
idk, there's seems to be a really close relationship between game concept, and how easy/hard a game is to market.

Maybe the mystery of how a game could be unplayable is the hook. Like non-spoiler reviews or Streamer reacts overlayed over pre-revelation gameplay

ahhh, yea Godot has some animation blending features that I'm not using (animation tree node). I'll add that to the list!

Ahh right that makes a lot of sense, and a fade out/in tool is on my todo list anyways to hide loading pop-in.

Gamedev is such a mental battle, this stuff is super important. and I will say from outside perspective it seems like your flying! Like you've already gone through the whole process start to finish of publishing a game, and are well into the next (few?). That's not easy!!

Ok following up on this for anyone who may find this. The specific issue I was hunting had to do with a third party plugin dynamically creating fat textures that was inflating the size of my .tscn and .materials.

Right six seconds is great, it was ~14-20 seconds before I squashed these bugs, and also would cause my fans to spin every time I booted the game lol.
And I just thought that was normal for developing, like I’ll never run into this again because I have context for what good/bad performance means.

Happy birthday! Hope it’s a good one

Thank you so much!! It’s been awesome getting to know everyone. Happy to be here.

I think everyone should be entitled to a little bit of both. Like everyone should have a living wage, and have a right to be happy through self-determination. But chasing large personal wealth in current system will corrupt anyone along the way. I guess it’s a balance 🤷‍♂️