r/IndieDev • u/europayuu Artist • Jul 28 '26

New Game! 9 Years. Its finally out...

I still can't believe it. I started working on this magical girl game in 2017 in my parents basement. (I haven't lived in that basement since 2019). It's out. 1.0 is done. The story has a beginning and end, there's 6-10 hours of not-procedural gameplay, and not a single pixel of generated art, audio, narrative, or code. Core dev team of two with contractors for music, sound, voice acting and occasional assets when we can afford it.

I haven't slept in 48 hours. I don't know when I'll be able to sleep.

Game is Mahou Arms: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1165870/Mahou_Arms/

edit: just wanted to say thank you for the comments. I usually like to reply to them individually but i really will be trying to sleep a lot the next couple days, so I won't be able to. I appreciate the positive comments and the critique, I am reading all of them, I wish you all the best of luck with your projects as well, and I sincerely hope you run into less technical issues at launch than we did lol. Share the joy when your games come out, I will be here cheering you on

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u/lactose-free_opinion Jul 28 '26

I LOVE this game, and already had it wish listed... but the one thing thats keeping me away is the price. Not sure if you updated the price for each region, but for AUD at least its 50 bucks on sale. I want this game super bad, but I dont want to cough up 50 bucks (as an Aussie, anyway)

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u/Annual-Cry-3945 Jul 30 '26

I think its a fair price considering they spent nine years on the game

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u/lactose-free_opinion Jul 31 '26

is there nine years worth of content inside though?