making video games

imagined: make fun little guys

actual: invoicing, doing contracts, writing taxes, having planning meetings, doing UI

legendary composer, Yoko Shimomura, made the MAIN THEME for our new upcoming game - Vampire Crawlers!! 😭🎉

we're still stunned and have had this track on repeat for DAYS 🤩

full version is on our YouTube, go give it a listen!! 🫵🤯

This is also marriage.

Word of mouth is huge for indie devs, plus you get to force your niche obsession onto your friends!

Oh yeah that's a lot! Yeah that feels like way too much

People do not buy stuff at full price, almost ever! If I had to guess, only 5-10% of our total sales are during non-discount times. Steam also encourages you to do this and probably for good reason

if you wanna know the types of bugs I gotta deal with the one I'm currently investigating is "non binary cats with dwarfism crash the game if playing in brazilian portugese"

Given wishlist number implications I'm pretty certain it will. I have a game that seems way less popular/interesting than yours that broke $100k, so I would be surprised if yours doesn't

Slay the Spire 2's concurrent Steam players just hit 179,456, the highest ever for any roguelike.

When StS1 first launched back in 2017, it had 193 concurrent players.

That's a 92,982% increase, meaning StS3 is on track to hit 166,861,777 concurrent players by 2035. 💪

I like the phrase "go whole hog" because it implies we are going pig mode, just greasy

*not have things be so predictable

As an indie roguelike dev it's a bit of:
a) yeah, kinda
b) it's a format that allows the dev to play the game and not have things be not predictable
c) players DEMAND infinite content. I know not everyone does, but a lot of people do the "$/hour" valuation of video games and we need them to buy lol

a hundred dollar video game? yeah, right So, a while back, I saw someone had the bright idea to say that a $100 video game was where games were headed. As someone who has done a…

New article time!!!

Ever wonder why a bunch of weirdoes keep telling us that Grand Theft Auto 6 is the most important event in history and video game prices have to go up?

Well, here's why these weirdoes are completely out of touch with reality!

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The video game industry decided to discontinue their product, the video game, in exchange for trying to make Fortnites. They have in recent years found out this doesn't work, so they have pivoted from making Fortnites to making ????????????????? nothing I guess

I talked recently to an indie developer who was given the consultation that they should carve out a part of their UI for Northerlion to put his face cam.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

I finally made it

Please wear this in a video

Smart Guy: I gave 44 rocks of OpenCrack to my Claudeswarm to regulate my breathing but Gurpsqrl pinged every 1.5s asking “is it time to inhale yet” and smoked all 44 rocks in 12 minutes, after which I started suffocating.

Me: I just breathe naturally.

Guy: lol enjoy using 2% of your brain Luddite

ok

Does game design school really not have "Number Go Up 101"??

You can put dollars into my bank account by giving me arts grants

You gotta balance it out with "to be unfair, ...."

You can put more dollars into my bank account by giving me arts grants

You can choose Canada by giving me arts grants

I hate this!! So much!!!

You should double your arts grants, to me (after you give me some in the first place)

You can build a stronger Canada by giving me arts grants

Welcome!

Do you recommend going 1 -> 2 -> 3 or 3 -> 1 -> 2 for these remakes?