How Much Money My Game Raised On Kickstarter [Devlog 9]
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🔖 CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - The Night Stones Kickstarter campaign
3:48 - How you can play the game now
4:12 - Adding something that looks alot like combat
6:11 - Fixing all the bugs in the demo
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Night Stones is an open world game developed in Unity inspired by the likes of Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts. In this episode, I'm showing how the game ultimately became successful on Kickstarter and my progress on the game's demo.
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Ok for sure - the alpha tester feedback videos are the BEST entertainment ever and you should bring them back every video.
Hahaha. That’s a good idea. Just wait. The stuff these guys do is literally so funny and amazing. Their creativity to break the game is so freakin awesome.
@@advancenine Yes, please show more of that footage. It's amazing to see and really funny. :D
Totally. So funny to watch, and so funny to watch your reaction to them...
@@advancenine There's a whole channel dedicated to breaking games and playing them in unusual ways. Check out let's game it out the things he does in games is really funny
Agreed - this was the best bit of the video!
Alright... I've played the entire demo. The immersion in this universe is magical, audio and video are conversing very well. I'm so proud of what this project is becoming... I am following your devlogs since the first one and I'm very anxious to watch what it'll become.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeah! Thanks for playing the demo and I’m so glad you liked it. I promise the game only gets better from here!
Interestingly, I would've totally backed this campaign on Kickstarter IF I HAD KNOWN ABOUT IT. I've wishlisted the game on Steam, I've been following your videos, but somehow, the message of a KS campaign never reached me. Worth looking at!
Yo! Thanks for letting me know. I’m a terrible self promoter and, honestly, I felt like I had pushed the Kickstarter too hard through video mentions, shorts, and community posts. So it’s super helpful to hear that people still didn’t know about it and I should have increased its visibility. I’ll improve in the future thanks to your helpful insight. THANK YOU!
@@advancenine From my pov, I knew the kickstarter was happening eventually but I hadn't registered exactly when. Even if it was mentioned, it's tough to commit that to memory so most people I think need the reminder: "Hey, this is happening right now!"
I'm baffled about why you wouldn't have posted a video about the Kickstarter here - this channel has been my sole window into your development, and it seems like I'm far from the only one there.
Glad to hear it was funded though! Best of luck with the rest of your development!
he did a community post about it
@@godzillavr I miss community posts pretty much 90% of the time. Videos are still the best way to engage potentials on here
I gotta agree, I'm in the same position, that's strange!
@@godzillavr Community posts doesn't show up in the subscription feed on PC. Only on phones
Yeah I've been watching the videos as they release but totally missed the Kickstarter... felt like a massively missed opportunity.
Your collaboration on the zombie car driving game was what put you on my radar. You were the most "human" component of that video, and certainly the most relatable personality. Congrats on your Kickstarter campaign exceeding it's mark!
Unfortunate that I missed your Alpha tester phase, but I'm subscribed, watching, and hopeful your dream pans out to put smiles on faces the world over!
I love how open about your whole process of development you are!
I absolutely loved the devlog series for nightstones just like thousands of others and your journey has been super inspirational for a solo game dev like me.! In fact I started posting about my game on YT just after watching you.!
Wishing you all the best for the launch. Your success is well deserved. 💜
Text link?
I love the bugs
should have promoted the kickstarter on youtube
just finished the demo and very happy to see where this will go! I really love everything about it!
HECK YEAH! thanks so much for playing the demo and im SO PUMPED you liked it :)
Congrats on making next fest! Been watching your dev logs and you've done an incredible job!
So great to see you making another video!!.. love the trailer to Night Stones!.. Excited to play the demo!!
I know you! Forget the demo. Download your alpha key and find some bugs :)
8:05 Testing seems like such a fun job not gonna lie, I would be the guy that opens a door like 100 times super fast to see if it breaks anything...
Amazing to see how far it's come! 😄
Wow, I've been following you're journey since episode 1, i love this game and I am so happy that it will be coming to steam!!!
Awesome progress, love seeing you reacting to testing finding bugs, always funny how testers find all kinds of stuff that the developer never thought of trying 😆
Just watched the trailer - it is amazing! Congrats on the KickStarter campaign!
I've never seen you before, but you are very entertaining to watch and I hope your game succeeds. What I loved the most about this video is actually what happens at the end with the alpha testing showcase. I'm sure this was very useful not only to you but to every aspiring dev out there. Like i would have never thought about the consequences of picking up a box while standing on it before watching this.
I just love how chill u are about the bugs they found anyhow :D
As a solo indie developer first and foremost congratulations on meeting your goals. As I am working on my first game and it is far larger than I anticipated your quest gives me hope that someday I could find similar success with my project. Game under my channel.
Something that I notice is that I CONSTANTLY see communiry posts when watching CZcams on my phone, but hardly see them when in my PC. I don't know why this is, but this may be a reason why there's many people saying they found the kickstarter via YT and people saying they had never heard of it. Gosh, online platforms are weird. Anyways, I was so excited to see it funded! Congrats!!
i didn't know that demo is out!!
i will definitely going to play it in weekend!!
honestly, im happy for you! its dream of mine to make a game. your videos are inspiring.
the parts towards the end where you go through the game without a narration/script is pretty cool! I think you could sprinkle stuff like that in future videos.
I love to see my faults and issues you have missed from the testers, it helps showing other people what to check in their own game
Dude awesome update and so happy to see that alpha testing is catching those crazy bugs 🐜 lol congrats on the kickstarter!
Love it!
Keep up the good work, old man!
Been following along for a little while, keeps looking great! Good luck :)
Amazing update, keep it up mate!!
Great video! Thanks for sharing your insights on the KS campaign, as a fellow dev doing through one right now, it's great insight! And hope you have fun with that yatch you definitely bought 😂
I've been following along since the beginning and never heard about the Kickstarter. I think you sadly missed out on a lot of funding. I would have definitely supported it.
With that said, I'm really loving how the game is looking and playing. It keeps getting better and better. I noticed when your stamina runs out while flying you plummet a huge distance to the ground. Have you thought about the glider turning into a parachute somehow?
Awesome work mate!
Dude, this alpha tester content is really fun. I think you should make more of it if you can
YOOOO! I just finished the demo and its quite cozy, thou I'm thirsty for more
This is my first time watching your channel and just wanted to say this devlog was awesome
Love that you posted the alpha footage.
Thanks game dev's funny funky stuff to fix!
Also thanks for sharing how much it's costing you up front to do this stuff. My Dad and I are trying to publish his book and the upfront advertising is costing us about that same amount so far.
Definitely going to wishlist!!!
Missed the kickstarter but, planning on buying day 1! Already Wishlisted!
Congrats!
I look forward to the next develog too
I’d like to watch more of you showing what the alpha testers came up with. That’s great to see!
Love the bugs, most fun part seeing bug reports like that. Fixing them, sometimes less fun
As always, amazing content... I'm so happy that the campaign got the funding you were looking for! you should setup a kofi or paetron though so we can support you monthly as well... it will be nice for you and the project to have another source of income
I like seeing your stuff, it gives me hope lol
every dev makes kickstarter looks like a dream come true, but it turn out to be really hard and require you to be very focused on it. congrat man. well deserved.
The reality is he's gonna end up with like $18,000 after taxes so it's a far cry from the $30k he wanted. This situation really just hurts the developer since now they have to finish and deliver the game to backers while being underfunded.
@@Konitama i don't understand taxes ( i really don't ) but it feels so unfair. i would understand if he had to pay when the game launch. but tax on a funding money is absurd. contradict the intended goal of funding
@@wafi5576 Yeah, best you can do is report with accrual method. Then you don't pay taxes until you deliver the game/KS merch. So at least you have the funds to make the game, but then you run the risk of the game flopping and now you owe the KS taxes and have no income.
@@Konitama i don't know if this is worse than before, but it's definitely not better. i hope all of this move towards a successful launch
well done dude :)
as a game dev, this game looks gorgeous. Incredible work man
Sweet another vid!
🥳 finally another update!
I really enjoy watching your videos here. Keep doing it please it really inspire us to keep going as well. You re really good. I hope someday I can also do my own game thank you
Congrats on the successful Kickstarter! Really interesting to see the Alpha testers go ham on the game. That's some next level play testing haha
There is finally a new video❤🎉🎉😮
Can't wait to try this game
Finally, an update! ❤
i cant wait for the release im so hyped
woah would love a short video which you react to certain bug tester found and debugging them⛄☃
Wow 8k in advertising for a 30k campaign is wild. Congrats on reaching the goal!
Yeah I had to acquire more players through advertising than I anticipated. But I was also surprised how profitable the ads were so it worked out. In retrospect, I wish I had spent more on advertising as the ad campaign scaled really well. Live and learn…
I would've backed your Kickstarter had you mentioned it here.
Love your reactions to alpha testers breaking your game in multiple ways xD Gotta love these people, showing us cracks in our system that we didnt even imagine were there!
i want to cross the gate to talk with twilight hollow 😭😭😭 what a great Devlog and great Demo, somehow the first thing i did when the game started i jumped into the campfire and stuck there for like 10 sec but eventually manage to escape, not a big deal but something could be wrong with the collision, or just my bad luck 😅Love your work
Yo! Thanks for playing the demo. Why the heck are you jumping on fire though!? lol. Honestly that bug used to exist very heavily but I thought I had completely fixed it. Looks like there is more work to be done on my collision detection and i really appreciate you letting me know.
Dude that's awesome! Congrats! I have a hard time making CZcams videos and social media posts about my game. It feels like not making progress to the game is really bad even though it would me more useful to grow a bigger audience
Omg I totally agree. As an engineer, marketing feels so wasteful to spend time on. But I’ve learned the hard way it’s literally just as important… if not more so.
@@advanceninefor mobile games it’s where 60% of the budget goes and 70% of the cut stays.
Self publishing is an adventure and your type of game and your style of developing is a good fit.
@@advancenine Yeah you are right!
Watching the reaction to those "darn alpha testers" 😂 Priceless, even worse cause I feel your pain man! Why would you swim up a waterfall?! 🤣🤣🤣
You've actually inspired me to make an open world rpg maker mv game. It probably won't be commercial but still
The end was super funny hahahaa
What a lovely game! Played the demo and I was hooked from the get go. Not sure what's in the full game, but the tall grass in the demo kind of made me wish I could hide in there from some big baddy patrolling the area. Perhaps more efficiently so during the night ;)
Also, the wings made me wish I had some sort of map, to plan my flight a bit more efficiently.
I am so happy that I funded this game because every video I see of it it looks more and more fun.
I would love to see a compilation of bugs and your reactions to them.
Oof sad to find out I missed out on the kickstarter! I know others have said it but def not enough promotion on yt. I see now the last video mentioned it in the middle, but tbh I did skip that last video. The devlogs have been the mainline content, so if anything I would have done the announcement inside one of these instead of a side video. Devlog 8 mentions it will be coming, and devlog 9 says it's over, so I bet a bunch of people are confused. I know some community posts were made, but I (and seemingly a bunch of others) don't see these in my feed often. best way to reach your core audience is probably through your core content. Doesn't hurt to do the rest (and I'm glad it was still enough!), but definitely wouldn't skip a plug in the devlogs for future projects.
Also would love to see more of the alpha footage and your thoughts watching it. As a game dev or engineer it's so much fun (and/or painful lol, I've def experienced both) to watch people interact with what you've built. Love that kind of content.
I didn't know about the Kickstarter campaign!
Yessir im excited
I think a video announcing the kickstarter may have helped boost awareness that it was happening; checking the thumbnails/titles of your videos there's no sign of it. Gentle mentions in videos/community posts are great for building up interest for existing fans ahead of time, but a 'Hey, here's my game, and here's the kickstarter for it, link in description' video would likely garner far more eyes, both old and new. I'm glad it succeeded regardless, though, congrats on both that success and the shape of the game so far, it's coming along wonderfully!
It might be more fun if the fangweeds can move back and forth so you have to catch them when theyre at some point in their walking sequence
OMG your game looks so cute!
I love your reaction to the alpha testers lmao. I had to do alpha testing for a software company even though I'm a product designer. You definitely have to adapt a certain mindset to do it. I don't think it'd be too hard to get in that mindset if you already have the knowledge of how things are built though. Something worth thinking about for future projects, since you could potentially lower the amount of alpha testing needed by catching things earlier.
That was hilarious 😂
I'm a bit late to the party, but contrary to what other Creators showcase, launching a Kickstarter Campaign is not an easy task
Building a community of people willing to support your project is the defining detail behind a successful launch
And I'm peaking from a failed campaign, conversations I've had with other Creators and the ongoing development of my comic series
I encourage you to give a shot next time around but solely woring with your audience and making them part of the process
Nonetheless congrats! Raising $25K it's not an easy task and you still learned something from the experience 🎉
Nice video
Alpha tester always wild and fun to watch
This game is going to be soooo good
Those Alpha testers are amazing!
Some of the exploits found by the alpha testers may need fixed in these locations, but seem like they might be fun mechanics to explore further in the game. Im thinking especially of the standing on the climbing guy, and some of the hop-and-jump parkour climbing. Maybe not for main content, but little easter eggs hidden away in remote corners?
the game is so beauty
I'd gladly watch more alpha test videos with your comments. :-) Same as when Devs watch their game being speedrun. Those emotions of Devs faces, like "WHUUUUU!?". :-D
I’ve been following from the start but recently I’ve seen you posting on the game dev subreddit, I’m interested to hear how that has influenced your decisions going forward and your opinion on the feedback you received
Please more videos 🙏
I already have it on my wishlist, and have been following you since the summer, but I never heard of the kickstarter :/
With Kickstarter campaigns, this is how it always goes. Your first 24 hours pull in the largest sum of money and within a few days the campaign funding drops to a few pledges per day. The last couple of days usually see a boost. This is the typical campaign funding curve.
I think you probably overpaid on the ads as $8000 to only end up with $35k is not super great. I'm not sure when or where you ran the ads but the best strategy is to run ads a couple of weeks *prior* to rhe launch, directing people to the pre-launch page. Then run ads for the first 48 hours of launch. After that you basically shouldn't bother running ads until the very last few days of launch. Running ads mid-campaign is a waste of money. You're not going to get many pledges for what you're spending.
Since the first 24 hours are the most critical, building your pre-launch as large as possible is key. If you launched with a small number of pre-launch followers, your first day funding will be weaker. It's worth it to even delay the KS launch by a month in order to really just build your pre-launch following up. All of those people get notified on the day of launch and are most likely to pledge right away.
You failed to notify your CZcams audience about the kickstarter. You might have succeeded in your kickstarter but fail to realize you didn't reach in every corner and failed to reach your true potential in the kickstarter. Next time, TELL EVERYONE!
He mentioned it in his last yt video doofus. How about PAY ATTENTION!
he did a community post about it
@@godzillavr Literally no one knows those exist.
I saw the post 😅
Is that one of those cards with links in your feed? And he did just the one? Not 9?
I have been watching you since day 1 your channel started for Night Stones. I'm sad to see that I cant try out your demo on steam cause I'm a Linux user. Not sure how but other Windows demos (not all but some) on steam lets me download it and all I have to do use Proton for the Steam Play for the game. Usually if my hardware meets the requirements and don't have insane proprietary requirements that is only for windows they run quite well. About 90% of my game library is "Windows only" games and very much playable!
I know most dev's now a days say there is "no market" or "not enough of gamers on Linux to make it worth while" but there is still loads of gamers on Linux (estimated of at least 2 million+) use Steam Play (Proton) to play games, as far as I know Steam Play registers as a "Windows user".
I ask and beg you with as much respect as possible please please please support Linux native or at least have the game work as best you can in Steam Play compatibility layer with Proton 8.0.
If you cant or don't want to or don't have the time I understand and will still wish you the best. Would love to stream your game one day though. 😄
nice
This is genuinely bonkers
Dude, how did you make you're game look so great?
Are you using only post processing stuff or maybe some custom shaders would do that to the visuals as well?
I'm a real beginner on gamedev and my games don't look that good even with post processing.
alpha testers are the best and worse at the same time! it's a shame when we're so proud of our baby, and start showing people what you have for minutes later they show us 50+ things you're not supposed to in the game! 😆gladly they also help us iimprove right? love this project man! amazing stuff!😁
4:48 What if you add a Stone golemn that acts as a guard, perhaps to a bridge or cave entrance(s), that dont just block your path but kills you when you dont satisfy some requirements.
Great content! And I second @JoshsBricks comment. It's great fun finding bugs and I'm glad my video made it in 7:56 :)
The alpha testers are doing good work
Yourre right. They. Are. AMAZING!
Hey this game looks really cool is there a way i can buy the art book?
Congrats! I was surprised at how much you had to spend on advertising. It was basically a quarter of your earnings! Were you able to see the direct ROI on the ads, or was it more general?
He definitely got burned on ad spend
For some reason I speedran the demo and beat it in 5:46.49! The demo never felt so small!
Managed to lower the time to 5:17.28
No way! Would be awesome to see a video of this :)@@averagememer57