Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now

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Award-winning game and narrative designer. Excessively inconsistent. Artistic Allrounder. Empathetic Entertainer. 🏳️‍🌈 | enby | he/they | 🚫A/I Wishlist Soulblaze: s.team/a/3505230 Presskit:

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Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· 29d

Soulblaze is part of the #NonbinaryCodedGames sale! Check it out and discover wonderful games by lovely people, starting now! This goes along with the release of the Nuzlocke-mode update and a DLC with variant art! Details: store.steampowered.com/news/app/350... #gamedev #indiedev #Godot #Steam

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 11

also added at least 3 fun to selecting cards #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #Godot #Soulblaze

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 11

the dice bag is more fun now 🎲🎒 #gamedev #indiedev #Godot #animation #Soulblaze

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 10

Delivery person made my day today. The weekend will sound ~sweeeet~

Photo of two vinyl covers. Cassette Beasts (12") and Steven Universe (10")

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 10

Are you using two lines to check if a dictionary entry exists before retrieving the value in #Godot? You can use .get to turn it into a single line! #GodotTips #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

screenshot of two units of code. First one commented with "2 lines". Code:
if dict.has("bar"):
foo = dict["bar"]

second unit commented with "1 line". Code:
foo = dict.get("bar", "")

an arrow points to the empty string and reads "define a fallback value"

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 9

They write honest reviews, guys!

snippet of an e-mail, text: (...), we write honest reviews, (...)

screenshot of the curator page that e-mail was send from, listing several reviews that all only contain one word, either "meow" or "purr"

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 7

The party screen got a little face-lift! #gamedev #indiedev #Godot #Soulblaze

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 5

cw: (mild) body horror 3rd #artfight attack! Nova by aznpear: artfight.net/attack/14520... #art

cute looking monster girl sitting outside on a flight of stairs. Her mouth is vertical and almost covering her entire right face, smiling. She has long half pink, half blonde hair. Her arms are resting on her knees. She's wearing a blue shirt, and blue jeans skirt, white loose kneesocks and pink crogs.

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 5

This ~only~ took me two days to make in #Bevy. I'm ready for an MMO now. #gamedev

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 4

Alright, here's my very first #artfight attack: Kroshy by uni-spanner! Hope I'm doing it right 🙈 artfight.net/attack/14173... #art #artsky

cartoony drawing of a 22-years old woman called Kroshy. She's wearing a wide, waist long mint-colored coat, red shorts and red/mint shoes. She has red hair that's spiking out to the side in two wild pig-tails. She's holding up mint-colored shades on her forehead and looks at the camera with a doubting look.

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 3

Everyone, Schmubert. Schmubert, everyone. (you can nickname your babies in the next update) #gamedev #indiedev #Gogot #Soulblaze #roguelike

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 3

Oh, hey, what's this? 👀 #gamedev #indiedev #Godot #Soulblaze #Nuzlocke

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 2

I made a poem out of Steam Curator spam e-mails

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 2

4 more reviews! #gamedev #indiedev #Godot #Soulblaze

part of Soulblaze store page. Text:

Catch Animons and roll some dice in this cute creature-collecting roguelite! Build your team, train them well, and fight your way through several regions. Can you defeat all bosses?
All Reviews:

6 user reviews

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jul 1

They are active players of computer games!

Screenshot of email. Text: Good afternoon! I want to ask for a moment of your attention. We are active players of computer games. Your project seems really interesting and promising.

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 30

Soulblaze just needs 5 more reviews to be listed as "Positive" which can help discoverability a lot. If you happen to have bought the game but not reviewed yet, could I persuade you to do so? 👉👈 #gamedev #indiedev #Godot #Steam #roguelike

Soulblaze Steam Store page, a line highlighted that says "All time 5 user reviews"

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 30

Well, isn't this fucking fantastic.

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 30

I generally don't trust people who refer to games as "products" (or to players as "customers"). Even less I trust people who use the word "products" and "games industry" in the same sentence 😀

screenshot of e-mail body. Text: [cut off] subscribers. We are actively reviewing new products and trends in the gaming industry.

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 30

Oh my, this one reviews the popular PC games, not just any... -the- popular PC games!

screenshot from e-mail body. Text: Hello!
We're a team of journalists that reviews the popular PC games

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 29

Itch was a bit shocking to be honest. In the entire month, I made 1 sale, despite being listed on New & Popular on one day. I added a browser-based demo after around two weeks so people can check out the game with as little effort as possible (no download, install, etc.) Did not lead to sales

Itch.io graphs showing views in the last month, downloads, browser plays, payments. Views peak a little at the beginning and have sporadic ups while payments just have one blip in the beginning and remain flat for the rest

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 29

I sold 86 units for a total of $1,169 My marketing was mostly Bluesky, gamescom and Indie Games Fest Cologne last year, audiogames forum, some Twitch streaming last year. I wrote a bunch of streamers and press but none of them responded. Out of 17 contacted Curators, only 3 have reviewed the game.

Column titles Most recent 31 days, daily average

Total revenue $1,169 $38
Steam revenue $1,169 $38
In-game sales $0 $0
Total units 93 3
Steam units 86 3
Retail activations 7

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 29

It's been a month since the #Soulblaze early access release so here are some numbers for those who are interested. At the time of launch, I had around 2950 Wishlists vs now 3093 (there were 331 new, and 137 deletions, and 59 conversions during the launch month) #gamedev #indiedev #Godot

Screenshot from Steam data. First part labelled "Launch Month":

Colums from left to right, date, daily average, change vs. previous period, previous 31 days, previous daily average
Wishlist Additions, 331, 10, +31%, 251, 8
Wishlist Deletions, (137), (4), +426%, (26), (1)
Wishlist Purchases & Activations, (59), (2), 0, 0
Wishlist Gifts, 0, 0, 0, 0
Period Wishlist Balance, 135, -40%, 225

Second half labelled All Time
Wishlist Additions 3,665

Wishlist Deletions (509)
Wishlist Purchases & Activations (63)
Wishlist Gifts 0
Period Wishlist Balance 3,093

an arrow points to a high peak in wishlist additions, reading "Steam Next Fest"

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 27

Did a little animation test for Minjaluna and now I kinda want all Animons to be animated. But it would be so much work... 🥲 but it's so cool... 🥲 #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #godot #animation #Soublaze

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 25

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! I'm making Soulblaze a creature-collecting roguelite with TTRPG-inspired dice rolling. All hand-drawn and currently in early access. I'm also doing a charity sale right now during the Itch summer sale! There's also a free demo! swordandquill.itch.io/soulblaze

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 24

✨Charity Summer Sale✨ My game Soulblaze, a creature-collecting and dice-rolling roguelite, is 25% off during the Itch summer sale and I will donate 50% of the earnings to gaming-aid.de/en/ There's also a free demo: swordandquill.itch.io/soulblaze #gamedev #indiedev #sale #SummerSale #Godot

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 23

It's too hot to finish this piece about being too hot... Stay hydrated! #art

female presenting person wearing a white tank top, blue jeans shorts and green flip flops, walking. Their head is bent backwards with an expression that shows they're pretty miserable. They've pulled part of the top down to blow wind on their chest with an electric hand fan.

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 23

Finally gotten around to finishing Difdagua's Soulblaze form. My little frog grew up so fast 🥹 #gamedev #indiedev #Soulblaze #roguelike #Godot #gameArt

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 23

One for your list

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Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 23

Working on the first secret Animon 👀 #gamedev #indiedev #Godot #Art #GameArt

heavily blurred snippet of a creature drawing. It's hard to tell what we're looking at. There seems to be a head that has three segments or one segments and two horns or ears. Each of them seem to have a single green eye. There are shapes forming a body but it's too blurred to tell details. There seems to be a red scarf though.

Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein· Jun 22

Totally love the believable phrases the totally legit curator requests come up with. I'm truly blessed that they found MY game among ALL the games from the ENTIRE industry 🥹