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FRTL

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Fertile Realm of Timeless Life https://frtl.dev/ A creature collector entertainment platform involving mini-games and AI generated eggs and creatures.

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Registration simply requires an email address and username, with a link sent to your email to log in. No personal data is saved or shared with any other entity. Users will always maintain the right to completely delete their account at any time. Crawler bots do not have the right to scrape the website at all. No real money is involved in the system, pax and scrolls are free to earn by playing games, and 7 days of membership can be purchased for 1000 pax.

https://frtl.dev/

If you have any questions please feel free to ask! 🥚

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[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I clearly didn’t grok that no real money is involved looking at the website and watching your demo video on YouTube. The website design “read” as I commented as a very web3.0 developery thing and not “game”.

I think because it’s missing a quick statement about the game / elevator pitch. And says “begin journey” instead of “play now” or similar.

“Platform features” should be renamed “Features” as platform doesn’t suggest fun.

Perhaps a clear “early access / in development” label at the top too - makes sense about the TLD choice.

Try some user testing. Find people who haven’t played your game before, jump on a screen share and set them the task of “Register for the game and hatch a creature egg”. Record the session and sit back and watch. Don’t tell or teach them, don’t control things for them. Just observe.

You’ve built a lot of platform tech (which is super fun to make) but I think you’d do well to focus more on the gameplay loop. Snake etc are decent mini games to earn currencies but, to me at least, they’re not compelling enough to register for the image generator. Creature collectors typically go for a battle mechanism or something that gives motive to want to engage with the other mechanics.

Keep pushing and keep user testing! Good luck :)

[–] jaykrown@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Thanks again for the feedback. I'll update that information on the homepage, it makes sense to include more info at a glance. It understandable that snake/2048/match may not be enough for a lot of people to keep coming back, but I made it modular, and will be adding more games. I'm going to be making the hexort game give a daily first time play reward as well.