axlegear99

Quick Update - Business, and the Rusty Seas Public Demo

Added 2022-05-08 08:35:47 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone! Wanted to drop a quick line on what I've been working on for the past week, and will likely be working on for the next couple weeks.

I'm trying to get things geared up for the public demo of Rusty Seas, including a kickstarter and a steam page. However, all this was a bit more involved than I expected, and I already expected it to be kind of complicated. A lot of this hinges on me setting up a business, since I don't want to publish under my real name, and it seems like a good move before I pull the trigger on something as potentially big as this.

After that, the kickstarter SEEMS easy enough, aside from producing a teaser/hype video for the game and learning how to market. Getting into steamworks seems like another matter - there's a lot of moving parts, and frankly I'm wondering if there's such a thing as a kind of rep who can help handle a lot of these things. Once I get both things set up, I'll still have to wait for approval even if things go swimmingly. So... hurry up and wait, I guess?

Not gonna lie, I'm quite nervous. This is easily going to be the biggest, most public thing I've done in my life, AND it's a low-key lifelong dream being realized. It's a bit daunting, really. Come Monday, I'm going to be making some calls to get the ball rolling on starting my own company, and we'll see what follows from there...