Dogs! I love that they can follow a blood trail and bark when they spot something, and that they need water too, so the wooden bowls actually matter. Being able to target body parts and inspect creatures based on your tracking skill is a cool touch as well. Ten updates in two weeks is wild, I don't know how you keep that pace.
Are you sharing the game anywhere outside itch, or is it mostly just here for now?
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy it. I'm prioritizing many small updates instead of rarer big updates. Besides, I'm marketing them to look like impressive features but in the back end it's all relatively simple :) I made a lot of tools to add content easily early on in development before releasing.
For now, the game is only on itch, here, free. I plan a Steam release some day when I'm satisfied with the game. I don't think I want to do early access on Steam.
Did you have other suggestions for platforms that can I run a free early access on?
That's a smart approach honestly, frequent small updates keep things feeling alive without the pressure of a big reveal every time, and clever that you built your own tools to make content additions easier early on, that's going to save you a lot of time long term.
For free early access platforms, itch is honestly already one of the strongest for that kind of iterative, community-driven approach. One other option worth considering though is YouTube Playables, it's a newer platform where browser games get embedded directly into YouTube and surfaced to a huge built-in audience without needing to drive traffic yourself. Since you're not doing Steam early access, that could actually be a great fit for getting more eyes on the game while you keep refining it. If that's something you're curious about, it's actually an area I can help with, happy to walk you through how it could work for your game specifically.
respect that, avoiding the mainstream algorithm chase definitely has its own charm, especially for something this niche and community driven.
Speaking of community though, do you have a Discord set up for the game yet? With how fast you're shipping updates, that could be a great space for players to track progress, report bugs, and feel more connected to development without needing any big platform push. I actually help with Discord setup specifically, structuring channels, roles, that kind of thing, and have an Upwork account for that if you'd ever want to go that route. Also wouldn't mind helping out with some content creation around these updates too, if that's ever something you're open to,
just enjoying following the progress here.
