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Howard Tsao's Blog   Expert Blogs

 

I'm Howard, and I lead an indie game studio in NYC called Muse Games.  We are the team behind Guns of Icarus, a multiplayer airship combat game in a Steampunk post-apocalyptic world on Steam.  We're current working on Guns of Icarus Alliance and Hamsterdam.  We develop our games using the Unity game engine.  My posts will focus on my experiences as an indie dev as well as business and market related topics.

 

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Bridging PC & PS4 - The Guns of Icarus Alliance Cross-platform Journey
Posted by Howard Tsao on Thu, 08 Mar 2018 09:19:00 EST in Business/Marketing, Design, Programming, Production, Art, Console/PC, Serious, Indie, Social/Online
The process and challenges of taking Guns of Icarus from PC and Steam to PS4 and making seamless cross-platform play with voice chat a reality.

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Rise of Taiwan’s Indie Scene
Posted by Howard Tsao on Fri, 10 Jun 2016 06:50:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Production, Serious, Indie
A look at the state and growth of the Taiwanese indie scene and how it came to be.

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3 Years of Managing the Guns of Icarus Community
Posted by Howard Tsao on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:45:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Production, Console/PC, Serious, Indie, Social/Online
From having no clue about how to manage and server our players to sustaining an online indie community for the last 3 years, this post is about the lessons we learned along the way.

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Making of Guns of Icarus Main Theme Music
Posted by Howard Tsao on Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:13:00 EST in Audio, Production, Console/PC, Indie
A Journey from Conception to Live Instrumentation - Guns of Icarus Main Theme 2 Years in the Making

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A Game Jam Diary
Posted by Howard Tsao on Mon, 22 Sep 2014 05:36:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Production, Console/PC, Indie
Chronicling an alternative team game jam format we tried that helped us be better focused and brought us closer together.

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Guns of Icarus Online Post-Mortem - Epilogue: How Youtube, Steam, and Our Players Got Us This Far
Posted by Howard Tsao on Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:36:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Console/PC, Serious, Indie
Response to Call for Blogs on youtube - about how youtube, Steam, and our players have helped gotten Guns of Icarus Online to this point.

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Charting the course of a multiplayer game's fall from grace
[News - 04/13/2016 - 04:02]

Thanks for the post Alex ...

Thanks for the post Alex Yeah growing and sustain a multiplayer game is definitely not easy, and it 's pretty incredible that you would compare us to the other games you listed. It 's an honor to be ranked with games of that size, especially as an indie developer. Our ...

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3 Years of Managing the Guns of Icarus Community
[Blog - 03/24/2016 - 01:45]

Thanks a lot Steven. Yeah ...

Thanks a lot Steven. Yeah definitely :

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Guns of Icarus Online Post-Mortem - Epilogue: How Youtube, Steam, and Our Players Got Us This Far
[Blog - 06/26/2014 - 06:36]

Hi Anders thanks you so ...

Hi Anders thanks you so much And congrats Working with youtubers have been a blessing for us. And we love to work with anyone really. Sometimes people ask us for keys or to get on stream with them, and we basically always oblige :D Whether someone has 3 views or ...

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Guns of Icarus Online Post-Mortem – Part IV: Through the Storm
[Blog - 05/30/2014 - 03:16]

Thanks a lot Amir ...

Thanks a lot Amir

Comment In:
Guns of Icarus Online Post-Mortem - Part II: Starting Over
[Blog - 05/14/2014 - 07:00]

Hi Greg, thanks so much ...

Hi Greg, thanks so much I 'll just give you a key for the game :D That 's the beauty of Steam, free keys :

Comment In:
Bringing Warmth to Deep Space in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
[Blog - 05/15/2014 - 01:13]

Great post ...

Great post

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