Browsing around the OUYA a couple of days ago, I played two games in a row that both needed deadzone on analogue sticks sorting. I 'm making the generous assume developers didn 't have an OUYA to test on
I tried demoing my game at a Comic convention a couple of weekends back. Even though my game was only a demo / not released, I got an overwhelmingly positive feedback. r n r nI think the problem though, is that even if everyone who saw or played my game ...
Ah, you 're just lacking imagination. Think about it. Each copy of Sim Street Cleaner costs 10,000 and is aimed exclusively at hedge fund managers and investment bankers niche. From time to time, they stare longingly out of the windows of their glass and steel tower block prisons at the ...
It makes sense no matter what scale you 're working at. An indie outfit can throw out a pilot / episode one then use that to drive traffic to kickstarter or get donations for future episodes or just plain sell it and use the funds to create future episodes . ...
Would you back a kickstarter project that had no rewards r n r nThe problem is the growing sense of entitlement from kickstarter backers. I 've contributed a dollar or two to about a half dozen games I had no intention of playing and claimed No Reward . The devs ...
I wonder whether for a lot of game developers, their social circle tends to include lots of other game devs, who a . keep getting asked to help with kickstarters, b . have a big stack of unplayed games already and c . are probably struggling to pay the bills ...
@William r nKickstarter is high risk because these days, you can 't just sell the idea, you have to have at least a working prototype, plus marketing material video etc , which takes time to make. Plus the campaign takes time itself. Then once it succeeds, you need to deal ...
I just played new Sim City for about 5 hours at an event run by gamecity in Nottingham. Nothing was said or mentioned to me about NDA 's, so here goes r n r nThey had a live Q A with the art director of the game and he said ...
To be honest, I don 't think Steam stores should be able to upload their own games, just sell what games get onto the store through the existing greenlight system
Not played Torchlight but it looks like it fits the bill, and Miasmata looks incredible for the work of just two people r n r nYou can have a tiny game with huge replayability and/or depth, but I actually want a game I can come home after work, play for ...
