Thank you for your cooperation. Because of your relentless feedback and helpful ideas, we could find what needs to be changed or added to the game. The playtests allowed us to find and identify many problems and mistakes found in the current version of the game. When we implemented those, the demo seemed to run fine… Most of the time. This did not mean that everything was perfectly fine.
This run of the demo has brought much-needed feedback and taught us to the following:
- the mystery of a disappearing cursor - it just went missing in various moments of the game. After sending multiple search parties and looking into the code, we found most problems that caused this. Turns out, the cursor needed a moment to itself.
- sometimes even buying glasses does not help - we are going through a list of texts, widgets and other in-game buttons that are too small sometimes. This also touches on the importance of the correct font. We looked into it and hopefully, now everything is more readable.
- you can read, we can write, we promise - the game is long and there is a lot of text that needs to go through major proofreading sessions. We can see the typos and we groan sometimes when we notice the dumb mistakes.
- journalists need to calm down - the reporters were either too fast or too slow, so our presidents were left there on the podium in front of a disinterested crowd of fancy-dressed people. We hope to have calmed them down and given them a more reasonable timeframe of work.
- the map needs some polishing - there are a few problems with readability and sometimes it turns out that North Korea was in the EU all along. It’s news to us too, but it’s something that can easily be fixed, a few documents here and there, so we can kick them out. North Korean version of Brexit can happen.
We noticed many people felt unsatisfied with the amount of content in the demo. Please remember that this was supposed to be a short demonstration for the Steam Next Fest. After release, the game will have much more content and after that, we are planning to work on a story editor, which will allow players to change many aspects of the game.
The demo is still available if you want to hop in and play yourself.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/844980/I_Am_Your_President/
We’re still looking for feedback and ideas! So feel free to join our discord or share your thoughts on our social media!
