I set a deadline for myself this time, and it was hell. But it did force me to work on it every single day for the last month and the last day I did 11am => 2am next day to finally get it out.

The deadline was the submission date for this [feedback quest jam](https://itch.io/jam/feedback-quest-9-indiegames-x-indie-streamers) and when I went to it to finally submit my game, I couldn't find the submit button: because I was one hour late.

So at that point I was pretty fried and bummed out, I still put a post on r/playmygame and called it a day.

Hopefully, I still asked in their Discord if they could maybe submit it manually, and the next day they did.

Ultimately, what mattered more is that I had a deadline, I don't know if participating in the event will bring that much feedback or traffic to my game but it got me to finish my rework and not extend it forever.

On the flipside, there are many days where the most optimal thing to work on or the most enjoyable thing to work on, would not have been my game and I really disliked not having the freedom to make that choice. But that's also why I was able to focus and finish instead of spreading myself thin on the million different shiny things I want to do.

So deadlines are awful but they do help you get shit done, I guess?

The demo is live, free and direct play in browser, right here: [https://roguewolfgames.itch.io/crimson-skyline-preview](https://roguewolfgames.itch.io/crimson-skyline-preview)

I'm looking for as much feedback as I head towards a Steam playtest of the full game and a Steam demo release in the coming months.

The big questions for me right now are about the game's difficulty curve and what content should be in the demo, what content is expected in the release version.

I finally released my demo on itch after a full month of reworking my game