What is Reddit's opinion of Retro Shooting - Pixel Space Shooter?

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You released a game. Congratulations.

You made some money from it, even better, yeah it was a dollar.

I'd offer some feedback.

• Maintain Scope: I would say further, maintain perspective. You need to keep a handle on the scope in order to complete the project, yes, but further you need to know what the goals of the project are. Realistically, your project isn't complete, writing the game is only a part of it, there's further steps to market research, managing your goals and expectations and evaluating your progress. Think of it this way: If your project is complete, then the objective of the project was to release a game, and you did that. Congratulations, you were successful.
• Market, market, market? I would say be careful on this one. Yes, you can market this, but keep perspective. Look at this game, look at it objectively, and look at how the most popular games similar to it have done. Are there a lot of popular games that use this format? That are great fun despite the art and visual design elements? Look at it critically, does this look like a great game even from the App store? It doesn't look great to me. It could be fun, but I would need a lot of coaxing to bother downloading it. Why would I download your game instead of: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livezen.retroshooting.free or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livezen.icarus.free.market or if I was really into the whole cat theme, something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eternalgame.catdefendershooter.hd ? I'm not trying to be a dick. I honestly don't know, but nothing about what you've already provided tells me why this game is more interesting. It could be great fun, I don't know, but it doesn't catch the eye. *Never get discouraged. This is good advice. You released a game. You learned something. I would recommend doing analysis of the project, and the results, and use that to make another game. Figure out what you could do better, and do that in the next game. Don't fuss too much with this one any more. Don't make an in-game shop for 50 users. Maybe 2% of free to play players even pay, and only 0.15% pay any significant amount. If you're lucky the in-game shop might net you $5 with 50 users, how much time do you want to spend on it?

It's great that you succeeded. It took you 8 months. You're at the point where another one would take you less, and would be better. You can apply lessons learned.

Here's my general review on a couple of games I've chanced upon this sub but I did not have a try at.

Retro Shooting: This reminded me of Space Impact on the old Nokia phones and boy was it a joy to relive it again. The game is about you guiding a spaceship shooting at enemy ships (duh) with bosses at the end of each stage. The tutorial was a bit confusing at first (with the two finger hold) but I caught on to it quite quickly. I loved the progression of difficulty and it wasn't a very steep one either with me being a big casual game fan. The boss fights were the most interesting part of the game as each had their own weak spots and techniques to be defeated. A deeper look into the devs showed that they've made more games like this so no wonder the quality was great. There are a hell lot of games similar to this genre that I found so I might sound biased. I'd rate it a 7/10, addictive.

Neko Atsume: This is as casual as it gets, it's you managing a cat cafe! Okay not actually a cat cafe, but more of setting up cute toys and food (basically traps) for cats that would chance upon and you can take pictures of them and keeping track of their habits and whatnot. This sounds creepy in different ways haha but it's the cutest game I've come upon. It's not a P2W game and there's no end goal. It's just you and some virtual cats chilling. I can't rate cuteness, it's not fair.

Superposition: This game is the complete opposite of that innocent cat game, you're a tester for a confidential AI program that questions its existence with you through a text-based interface. It's quite similar to the game Seen, but the only thing is that you need to keep the app running in the background or the AI program dies (literally). It goes offline after conversing with you for a while and comes back on with a re-defined set of questions (err..ways to trick you). I loved how it portrayed emotions by changing the colour of the interface, which is a nice quirk added by the developers. The AI will keep asking you to allow access to the internet but it's up to you to judge its intentions and it's human-ness. I haven't finished it yet because my phone keeps crashing the app but it has some good writing that keeps bringing me back to it. I guess it's nice to question my emotional quotient from time to time. I'd rate this 7/10 again, intriguing.

As you can see I love casual-ish games, so if you could recommend me some, I'd love to try them out!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livezen.retroshooting.free

A game by Shmup called Retro Shooting. One of the best games of its type that I've ever played.