Aaron San Filippo's Blog
Aaron spent 7 years at Raven software in Middleton, WI, working on such titles as Singularity, Marvel:Ultimate Alliance, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
In April of 2012, he left the AAA scene to join his brother, Forest San Filippo in founding Flippfly, where they're creating games for PC and mobile. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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on Fri, 02 Oct 2015 01:08:00 EDT
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If you're an indie developer, your greatest challenge is probably just getting people to know about your game. There's no magic bullet solution to this problem, but here's what I've learned.
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on Fri, 10 Jan 2014 05:45:00 EST
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A discussion of the changing landscape in games, and what it means for Indie developers in 2014 and beyond.
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on Wed, 18 Sep 2013 04:21:00 EDT
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We launched Race The Sun one month ago via our website and the Humble sales Widget, and a professional PR campaign. Here is a summary of our experience. Spoiler: Distribution platforms like Steam seem critical for commercial success.
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on Wed, 15 May 2013 10:21:00 EDT
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Niche games are struggling on Greenlight. Here's an idea for giving them a fighting chance.
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on Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:55:00 EST
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In this series, I interview notable fellow game developers, in hope that we can glean lessons from their success.
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on Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:59:00 EST
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Presenting Two PR lessons we've learned, which can be boiled down to one thing: it's about the game.
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Hey Bruno, r nI think it 's great that you 're telling your story, and even better to solicit critique from the community. r nI agree with the comments from Philip, James, and Robert above Except for Robert 's point 3 - I think lowering your price is rarely a ...
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Re: Free Download/Try Before You Buy IAP Unlock r n r nWilliam: Can you name any major successes that used the shareware model on mobile r n r nBecause there are lots of failure stories with this model, and everything I 've heard and experienced suggests this is an almost ...
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Sure - so for reference, ...
Sure - so for reference, it was in 2012 when we launched on Kongregate, and times have changed a bit with their audience size. Additionally, the Unity web player was much more ubiquitously supported then - now your only real option is to use WebGL publishing with Unity, which is ...
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I feel you Here are ...
I feel you Here are some hopefully constructive thoughts for you, r n r nOur game Race the Sun was featured by Apple, despite us never having been featured before. We had launched one iOS children 's app into obscurity a couple years prior, and that was our own previous ...
