Josh Ge's Blog
Josh Ge has been designing and creating games for over a decade, and working on them full time for the past four years.
His first commercial game is Cogmind, released to early access in May 2015 following years of open development and design blogging. Read in-depth coverage of the process at gridsagegames.com/blog/.
Follow Josh on Twitter @GridSageGames.
Expert Blogs
Exploring achievements in Cogmind, covering why and how they were selected and organized, the creation of 256 icons, and the underlying implementation including related UI features and Steam integration.
Explaining my Seven-Day Roguelike development process and the reasoning behind choices made along the way. An in-depth look at the planning, UI, mechanics, content and more that went into over 80 hours spent converting one game into another.
Examining Cogmind's traffic and rankings during Steam's biggest sale of the year, with additional focus on one day of being featured on the front page and its impact on exposure, wishlist activity, conversion rates, and revenue.
A comprehensive summary of Cogmind's first month on Steam, taking a look at reception, rankings, traffic, sales, and more.
A summary of Cogmind's second year of alpha (early access) sales data, including revenue, pricing effects, and a breakdown of development time.
An introduction to two full years of an ongoing discussion series aimed at sharing a multifaceted look at the numerous topics behind traditional roguelike code, design, and more.
Josh Ge's Comments
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[Blog - 07/03/2018 - 10:43]
Heh, yeah that 's understandable, ...
Heh, yeah that 's understandable, it sure is long xD. Just wanted to make sure I covered pretty much everything, and wrote it as a reference for myself as much as it is for others. I 'll be coming back to it as well when I need to do achievements ...
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[Blog - 05/04/2018 - 04:03]
Another great data-filled article, and ...
Another great data-filled article, and so soon : r n r nMy ratio came out to 39x, so at the low end, it would seem. Some relevant factors worth pointing out there, which may be relevant to other games as well: r n r n Mine 's still in EA, ...
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[Blog - 05/02/2018 - 05:52]
This is an excellent article ...
This is an excellent article with a lot of useful information, thanks for sharing and well done on both the writing and the game :D
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[Blog - 04/25/2018 - 03:55]
Ooh 50,000 wishlists suggested by ...
Ooh 50,000 wishlists suggested by Valve, that 's interesting to know r n r nAs another data point, my own Early Access launch last October converted about 48 of wishlists to sales in the first week, and those sales made up slightly over half of all sales that week. Not ...
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[Blog - 04/02/2018 - 09:47]
Thanks, was happy to finally ...
Thanks, was happy to finally have a chance to do a side project after years of focusing purely on my main work And it felt like a lost opportunity to share design details if I didn 't document the whole thing afterward :D I don 't get to do this ...
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[Blog - 02/05/2018 - 10:39]
Thanks r n r nIn ...
Thanks r n r nIn hindsight I probably could have written some more on what it takes to get featured. Not that I know for sure, but there is definitely a sort of performance cutoff relative to other games that could be determined by checking daily charts. Perhaps this information ...
