Episode 2 Sneak Peek/Marketing Update
In this sequence, Finn's dad activates a robotic replacement of him. We'll see how that goes!
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I messed up pretty big-time by dismissing Valve's message about Visual Novel Fest. When they sent that private announcement, I didn't have a trailer or a Steam page for FFF, so it wasn't eligible for the fest. When I lost my contract job and hurried up the release schedule, I didn't realize that it meant the Steam page would be ready in time to submit to the festival for extra exposure. So I missed the window to submit, a giant marketing flub as I'm getting so close to beta testing and initial release at this point. Self-publishing and self-marketing are hard. Valve support wouldn't make an exception for my late submission, even though I was totally convincing in my appeal:
I felt a huge loss of morale over this oversight, and really can't think of any silver linings. Unless the initial response is very poor and I have to scramble to update and fix a bunch of problems, in which case a "stealth launch" might be nice. But I don't want a marketing worst-case-scenario to be followed by a launch worst-case-scenario. So that thought doesn't make me feel better.
So I've been brute-forcing my way past the discouragement and just narrowed in on developing the damn thing real good. Guess that's life.
PS If you read this far and pity me, you could wishlist FFF and I'd feel a lot better
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