RPGWatch - Wave Of Darkness Interview

A sequel to Legends of Dawn? It's called Wave of Darkness, and I had the chance to interview Dreamatrix Game Studios about their new game.

Here is a small sample of one of my questions.

Couchpotato: Your most recent game Legends of Dawn was funded on Kickstarter, and released with a lot of negative feedback. Were you discouraged by the overwhelmingly negative reception of Legends of Dawn?

Dino: We also got tons of positive and constructive feedback. “Negative” feedback was deserved, and I don’t believe in negative feedback. It is a feedback, people telling you what they don’t like or want differently and when you strip emotional part the substance of feedback is very constructive as it points to solutions and learnings. When people care they are passionate and then some things may be taken too seriously. When expectations are set, a few disappointments are bound to happen. If you can’t handle that, don’t do games (or anything involving other people).

For those who may not know; due to some miscommunication LoD was released on Steam earlier than planned and backers got their keys a few hours after the release as we were rushing through the damage control. It was enough to set [the] stage on fire. A few backers were provoked and become extremely vocal. Those who were publicly supportive of us or our game were attacked and silenced as well. But hey, this is how this works nowadays. Behavior on internet and forums is still evolving from its “wild west” stage and exaggeration is the norm. Anyway 99% of our backers and new owners of Legends of Dawn were supportive and were happily playing the game.

Without the backers, supportive or at some point angry, we wouldn’t be on Steam, nor would we have a chance to develop our upcoming Wave of Darkness. We received so much helpful feedback and the whole experience was amazing. We’ll avoid repeating mistakes, [but] if you are doing anything new and ambitious, can you avoid them all?