I've finished a game, but how do I get constructive criticism and feedback?

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Hey all,

So I’ve actually finished and polished a game to the point that I’ve decided to release it on itch.io (The Attraction Distraction by MadManMike).

It’s a smaller game as I just wanted to prove to myself that I could completely finish a game to (what I feel is) an acceptable standard, do all the polish AND release it. But I want to get feedback.

I’ve posted links on my personal social media for friends and family, but not many of them are gamers, so the feedback has been minimal (plus I kept pestering them all to play the different development builds, I think they’re sick of it and me by now, lol).

Where else can I get constructive feedback and criticism from?

As always, many thanks to all who even read this :wink:

P.S. It’s available on Linux and OSX… but I have no way to test those two platforms - ANY feedback would be awesome!

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Post it in the Made with Unity forum.

Ideal is if you can make a WebGL version, so folks down have to download & run an untrusted executable. But if that’s impossible, post it anyway!

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Wait… web… WebGL? Oh man, not even looked into that yet… but look into that I shall!!!

Many thanks for the pointer JoeStrout, will make that alteration and upload that too… if I can, lol. Expect more noob question posts on this subject soon, lol.

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WebGl is the BOSS… I mean, I was surprised how well downloading the SDK, importing it, and making a WebGl version of my build went soo smoothly…

now, my Question is… where can I post/host my Webgl game files?

any suggestions/instructions on how to go about acquiring webspace for my WebGl tests and any suggestions of FREE webhost sites?

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these SEEMS to work, hosting WebGl… attempting it now with the test build I made ast night…

actualy it works great… not perfect… I could upload a zip file of my games webgl folder… when click on the download link, it gives me the option to open the zip file, I click on “index” and viola, the game starts up in my Webbrowser…

so… I gotta say once again how impressed I am with Unity… God, I only wish Dani Bunion could have seen Unity.

https://derrickmoore.itch.io/test

my mind is blown, once again

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Well, asking people to download the zip file and open it in their web browser isn’t much better than asking them to download and run an executable.

You want to find a free/cheap web host where you can actually host your files. I use DreamHost — it isn’t free, but it’s darned cheap. Everybody should have their own website anyway, right? (I actually have about a couple dozen, all told.)

But I bet there are still places you can host for free if non-free is out of the question.

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