I love it!
Response from developer
Hi fuzzybugbear! Thank you so much for the review and for the kind words. It's great to hear that you've been loving the passivity of Little Wings. That was one of my main concerns when designing the gameplay, to make it always enhance and never take away from walking and life! I've actually been heads down working on a huge add-on to the Little Wings gameplay and am excited to be releasing it in the next week. So definitely stay tuned for that! And it'll only keep growing from there too :) If you have any feedback or ideas, please don't hesitate to reach out and email support@gnomesteadcollective.com. I would love to hear from you! Best, Kevin
AI ART
Response from developer
Hi jajnsnsjsnsn, Thank you for downloading Little Wings and leaving a review. When I started working on Little Wings, I wanted to build a game that I personally would enjoy opening after walking all day and also motivate me to get out and walk more. I've played a few idle games, and wanted to incorporate the best parts of it but also make sure I left out all the parts I did not like (like ads and forcing users to pay in order to make any progress). I am a solo developer; Little Wings and The Gnomestead Collective is a passion project for me that I work on outside of my full-time job. This is also my first time building a game. Since there aren't many games like Little Wings out there (where progress is measured by your steps), it's been a huge learning experience. I spent half a year just changing up the main gameplay of Little Wings before settling on the current one of spotting critters (seems so obvious now, but my oh my did I have to try a bunch of different mechanics before settling on this!). One of the parts I struggled immensely with was the artwork. I spent about a month learning to draw (first time using Procreate!) and also trying to create the artwork for Little Wings. However, I could never get it to feel high quality enough to feel like I personally wanted to play Little Wings. I wanted to hire an artist to do the artwork, but it is quite expensive to do so but it still remains the end goal. I decided to release Little Wings with the current artwork because: 1) it can hopefully pay for all the new artwork quicker (the quality of art that I want Little Wings to have is expensive). 2) I believe Little Wings can help people walk more as it currently is, which I think is a wonderful reason for it to exist. 3) I wanted to validate that people like the game mechanic that I had built out before sinking even more money on it (artwork aside, there are other development & general costs). The reality of it is that free games usually struggle to break even unless you force users to watch hundreds of ads, which I absolutely did not want to do. I also never want the free experience to be so horrible that people feel like they have to pay just to play Little Wings. I've worked with a few artists already to see who would be able to create Little Wings art to the level of quality that I would like, and have settled on an artist whose artwork I really enjoy and think will be perfect for Little Wings! I'm currently working with her right now to slowly update the artwork, so users should start seeing these changes these next couple months. If you want to see what Little Wings will look like, please definitely check out her instagram! Artist's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cute_miuu/ I'm a software engineer by experience and always strive for a high level of quality for my apps. I do hope that the care taken to create Little Wings does show in every aspect of the game. Even though I used AI for the art, I hope that everyone can feel that Little Wings is far from being slop. If you do try out Little Wings now, all the progress you make will continue to be there as the artwork gets updated. If you have any other questions and concerns, or would like to be notified when the artwork has been replaced, please don't hesitate to reach out to support@gnomesteadcollective.com! Again, thank you for checking out Little Wings. Best, Kevin
AI Art
Response from developer
Hi rhuuubarb, Thank you for trying out Little Wings and for leaving your review. I understand where you're coming from. I used AI art so I could create the app to never force users to pay. Primary goal is to allow everyone, regardless of disposable income, to enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Now that Little Wings is live, all current proceeds are going towards paying artists to replace all AI art! I'm excited to get these updated and hope you'll give Little Wings another chance. If you email support@gnomesteadcollective.com, I'd love to share more on where we're at with the art updates too.
This is it guys. This is the game.
Response from developer
Hi Allie! Thank you so much for your review, for playing Little Wings, and for being a Patron! There's definitely a lot to dive into and also so many exciting places we can take the game. We have a subreddit r/GnomesteadCollective that you can join to ask questions/post feedback about the game. There's a handful of other Little Wingers there :) If you have any feedback or questions that I can help answer in the meantime, please don't hesitate to reach out to support@gnomesteadcollective.com any time.
Good app for step tracking
Response from developer
Thank you so much for your kind words! Happy collecting!
