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Squeaky Wheel shares details of their publishing contract with Maccima Games to help guide devs on future contract negotiations.
More than chasing profits, we explore other reasons why Squeaky Wheel wanted to publish another local studio's game.
I respond to each of Cliffski's (Positech Games) points about improving your indie game development process without being a jerk about it!
I explore why Academia : School Simulator might not be doing well compared to other similar games. It turns out theme/genre fit might be our biggest problem.
I reflect on Squeaky Wheel's 2018, opining on conventions, keeping up motivation, and how the Steam algorithm changes affected us.
I talk about some of the productivity tools like Flock, Hacknplan, and Airtable that we use to make making games easier.
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[Blog - 06/29/2016 - 09:57]
As an indie dev honestly ...
As an indie dev honestly I would say the best advice is to get on woovit or keymailer because that saves us a load of time. Anecdotally I know a lot of devs that routinely ignore email because they 've been scammed so much. I tend to follow them these ...
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[Blog - 07/05/2019 - 11:06]
Hi Andy, you 're probably ...
Hi Andy, you 're probably right The point is that it IS an easy comparison to make, and I 've heard some other devs saying oh if you don 't get x views on your trailer don 't bother. I wanted to test that theory and share the results.
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[Blog - 12/10/2017 - 07:01]
While we did make an ...
While we did make an assumption that Academia 's likeness to Prison Architect would be something that works in its favor, I think it 's only in hindsight that one can make the assumption that it was going to be a surefire success. We certainly weren 't sure it would ...
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[News - 06/23/2017 - 06:38]
I think a lot of ...
I think a lot of people are looking back at Prison Architect with rose colored glasses. I would argue very strongly that when they launched Prison Architect as an Early Access title it too was in a relatively niche genre at the time and there was no expectation that they ...
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[Blog - 01/18/2017 - 10:46]
Hey Matthew, thanks for writing ...
Hey Matthew, thanks for writing this. We 're currently mulling Early Access/Kickstarter ourselves for our next project and this has given us a lot to chew on. r n r nWanted to ask about your example of a positive way of responding to player feedback. You said : r n ...
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[Blog - 11/21/2016 - 12:47]
Of course I try not ...
Of course I try not to think too much about that as without a publisher this game wouldn 't have been possible anyway. r n r nHaha I had a similar situation when we launched our game, looking at the numbers and thinking hm. If we didn 't have a ...
