Tales From Yeoldeburg
Tales From Yeoldeburg will be leaving Steam
I'm going to keep this as brief as possible. I poured my soul into Tales From Yeoldeburg for 3 years but now, I've finally decided to remove it from Steam. It's not because of the bad reviews, no. It's because I'm disappointed in it, and quite frankly, I have been ever since it launched on Steam
Tales From Yeoldeburg by all means was a disappointment to me and to I'm sure many of you and while initially I did defend it from critics, admittedly egotistically, I haven't played it since March, in fact, it's not even installed on my new PC, In fact, I don't even have the game files for it on this PC.
The saddest truth however was a side project I was working on for Halloween, I placed barely any effort into it, making it a meme horror game and it was unironically terrifying, even though the jumpscares weren't loud or scary and there was no music or even background sound, it even had the exact same sound for every step you take on every surface.
The fact that I am so much prouder of a meme game I made in less than 48 hours than I am in a game that took me 3 years, is sad to me. What's more, I discovered a newer passion. For those who don't know, earlier in this year I helped a friend of mine with a YouTube Poop and I discovered I'm actually pretty good at random chaotic humour and video editing and while my skills leave stuff to be desired I still think my jokes hold up most of the time and the only thing I would change of that video is try to reword some of the dialogue and replace some of the visuals.
So what went wrong with Tales From Yeoldeburg?
I think user, The Traveler, summed it up best, "It's basically The Room of video games but instead of the terrible charm that movie gives this only gives that terrible part. Yeah, you can carry the excuse its from a first timer and its free, so I'll give it that, but no. Even to those standards it does not hold up"
It's very correct, Tales From Yeoldeburg is the result of me mashing things together, ignoring advice and getting annoyed when players complained about getting stuck. My skill is in storytelling, but definitely not coding, or subtly. This lead to a game that appeared glitchy because it was.
Futhermore, I had planned everything out midway through development, this lead to severe oversights in the story and direction, Voice actors were given confusing lines which I had to figure out a way into the game. The music was awful and the only thing good about the game I'd say was the fact it identifies if your computer is named something specific and gives you a unique response which I made for YouTubers. (Big ego is big)
While I know it doesn't mean I deserve being attacked by spam mail, (Thanks for that mister 'Eatmy Ass") it was admittedly a bad game by all means and I regret a lot of it. From the start, the game was doomed to be a disaster, I was trying to build a game better than FNaF, DDLC and so on, but I had no skill in game development, nor coding and my writing isn't that good if I don't read over it.
So what will happen to Tales From Yeoldeburg?
I believe the best course of action is to follow in Scott Cawthons footsteps with what he did with FNaF World and quarantine it off of steam and onto GameJolt, I'll probably attempt to remake the story as a video one day since that is something I'm pretty good at. But, I paid $150 for this slot on Steam and I don't want to waste it or just throw it away. So, I'm probably going to replace Yeoldeburg with the beforementioned game I'm actually very proud of.
If you're one of the like, 3 people who've played it then you already know what it is, I just need to put a little more thought into it. All you need to know is it's glitchy but the glitches are actually scary, it's goofy but not cheesy and it's unpolished but has some charm.
If I do decide to replace Yeoldeburg with this game I'll need to do some work, namely because some of the Assets are copyrighted and I could get into trouble with it. So I'll need to recreate them.
Anyways, thanks for listening to me ramble on why Tales From Yeoldeburg failed and what I plan to do. I don't know what else to add so I'm going to end it here, awkwardly...
Yeah...
Minor Tales From Yeoldeburg Update
Fullscreen mode has been disabled so you no longer have to use the windows key to escape the game.
Volcano easier to escape from
save and load changes
Achievement updates
secret message for vlad
added numerous things just for fun