Stilt Fella :D

[Nameless Voice]

I know some of my landings have looked pretty fatal.

[henke]

So of all the sites you sent the keys to. How many actually activated them?

I sent keys out to several review sites for Bipolar and CrossTrix and none of them were activated.

I actually hadn't thought to look, but I did just now. Seems only 2 reviewers have activated. :/ Welp, wasn't really expecting to get much coverage from the press on this, I'm placing my hopes more in the hands of streamers. A few of the ones I've emailed to streamers have been activated, and out of the 36 keys I've sent via Keymailer, 21 have been redeemed.

Good news is, out of the 4 streamers who have actually played the game(they're on the leaderboards) all 4 have uploaded videos on twitch or youtube.

[henke]

STILT FELLA
IS OUT ON STEAM!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1133590/Stilt_Fella/

BUY THE GAME!

SPREAD THE GOOD WORD!

GET ON DA LEADERBOARDS!

Me? I'm going for a nice walk to clear my head.

[demagogue]

Constiltulations!

[addink]

Congrats!
Bought!

[Renzatic]

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[Starker]

Looks kind of stilted.

[Brethren]

Congrats! You are officially a professional indie game dev, nice work there.

Hey, looks like it's on sale too...

[Al_B]

Oh bugger - I'd hoped this would come out after I'd reduced the number of unplayed games in my Steam library.

Congrats!

[Sulphur]

Congrats! Happy stiltday!

[henke]

Thank you! Thank you!

If you do pick it up and play it, please leave a review on Steam. It'd help me with the algorithm.

[henke]

Thanks for the review Al_B!

Stilt Fella now has 16 reviews (22 if you include free copies, but Steam doesn't count these) and nice big "Positive" rating! Only 2 negative reviews. I'm feeling good about these numbers. Doing updates every day as bug reports and feedback drop into the forums. One of my top players offered to do French translation, so that should be coming soon! A lot of French players, actually. Seems it's mostly Koreans and the French who are into the game currently. Last night Stilt Fella had ~19000 concurrent viewers on twitch. 8 streams, all Korean. It was a good choice to localize.

[Al_B]

No problem! I didn't play much of the original other than stumble around a little but decided to really give this a shot. At first I was making a complete hash of things getting the achievement for dying too often in what must be record time but it then just started to click (a little). Still very much a bumbling stilt walker who falls over more often than not but I feel that mistakes are my fault and not the game - for me that's a key difference between a game that I want to push on with and one that I just want to leave behind.

Is it correct that the first level leadboard time only uses the time from the last start position? i.e. because the start position moves forward on that level it's easy to get a quick time by failing just before the end and then completing the second attempt.

[henke]

Yes, that's correct about the first level. I don't even display the leaderboard at the end of that one tho, because I'd say it doesn't really count.

[Yakoob]

Opened up my Steam and - hello!

[smallfry]

Big congratulations henke! My girlfriend and I played for a while a couple nights ago, taking turns through the single player game. I like how the tiniest obstacle can seem impossible at first, but with perseverance you can overcome anything! Great job

[PigLick]

I wrote a review and also gifted the game to my son, this should be right up his alley.

[Shadowcat]

These days all I watch on youtube is this person getting high scores at Stilt Fella.

[henke]

Ah, that's the player with the highest score on the first few levels!

For less skilled, but more fun viewing, I recommend checking out the Stilt Fella section on twitch.

[Shadowcat]

The Rain Maker.

[henke]

This Aris fella is fun.

[Nameless Voice]

I've noticed a common theme of people being extremely confused for their first couple of minutes until they realise that the controls are inverted by default.
Sadly they never seem to realise that there's an option to invert them back to the way that makes sense.

(Yes, I'm opinionated!)

[Shadowcat]

I've been bewildered by the people who dive in with no attempt at instructions whatsoever (or the ones who pass the controller to someone else without giving them any opportunity to see the instructions). There really have been a lot of people who are 'surprised' to realise that the controls are 'inverted', despite the fact that the game visualises the controller with stilts sticking out of it and gets you to move them about.

That Aris chap picked it up faster than anyone else I've seen, and he was very logical about figuring out how to approach it -- establishing what he should be doing, even if his hands weren't quite up to speed yet.

[henke]

Yeah, but then again part of "the magic" is in watching people fumble around and be terrible at the game for the first few minutes, so even jumping in without instructions you're likely to be entertained. (or at least provide entertainment to anyone watching)

RE: Inverted

As with inverted mouse in FPSes there's no "right" way. Either you think of it as the controls being relative to the hands or to the feet, and depending on which you pick it's possible to train your brain to follow either. I did consider not even including an invert-option in order to force everyone to get on the same page, but I just know the Steam forums would be overflowing with "Invert option???" threads if I didn't.

[Nameless Voice]

I've never been able to follow the logic of the inverted-controls people.
Pushing your mouse up to look down has never made sense to me, hence why pushing your mouse backwards to move your stilt forwards also makes no sense to me.

I would assume that while there are some people who really love inverted controls in FPS games, the vast majority use them non-inverted, hence why I think so many get confused by Stilt Fella being inverted by default.

That's only me talking about mouse controls, though. Don't know about the recommended controller setup.