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@GamingNews Geoff showed a slide at the summer games fest this year highlighting the top 10 selling games on steam and most of them are developed by smaller teams. Balotro is up there and it was developed by a single developer in a cave with nothing but a box of scraps!
Seeing stuff like this fills me with determination to finish & publish my game. I have a boring day-job, but it pays the bills.
Thankfully, I can always switch to my game dev PC after work and do what I love. Phil can't stop me!

@GamingNews It is a trend in the VG industry and the tech industry in the USA (maybe all over the world too, I don't know). Hire a bunch of people, launch a bunch of products and fire them the same year. This makes your numbers look insanely inflated, then more people are willing to invest in your inflated company. Rinse and repeat. Or do all of that and cancel your huge multi-million dollar project and write it off on your taxes (WB, lookin at you).

@GamingNews "I have to run a sustainable business inside the company and grow," Spencer said. "And sometimes that means I have to make hard decisions, that, frankly, are not decisions I love, but decisions that somebody needs to go make."

A decision to make as much money as humanly possible, as quickly as possible. If MS was truly thinking long term, they would invest in studios that do good work.

I don't think Phil is dumb, I think he is just doing his dumb job. Make MS stockholders more 🤑

@Aut Thanks!

@danil doing it all with shaders =D

BRODUCE | WIP 🚧🏗️
#gamedev #lowpoly #godot #pixelart

AsFunAsFun. boosted:

Voxel Displacement Renderer — Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic by
Daniel Schroeder https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/

Check out RookRules
play maxjk0's excellent game, Graphical Limbo. https://youtube.com/watch?v=37jlxrNJtJg
#32bitjam #itchio #indiedev #dreamcast

@turbohermit

Here is my take on that formula:

Features * Content * (Unexplored Territory + 1) / (24 *365 / Avg. Hours Per Feature )

My game dev process is really fast because my game is so simple. So I tweaked the formula to better fit my process.

https://asfunasfun.newgrounds.com/
Anyone else on NG? Looking for gamedev moots!

#gamedev #indiedev

@turbohermit Good read!

AsFunAsFun. boosted:

Blog post time! This one is about estimating game scope. In the first of 2 parts, we talk about handy tricks to help calculate a project's size and viability.

https://newtonarrative.com/blog/game-scope-and-how-to-estimate-it/

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev

#indiedev in a nutshell...

@gingerbeardman insightful! 😀

AsFunAsFun. boosted:

Mark you calendars! June 29th - 32BitJam Team building event. Join and meet new people, team up and hang out. I will be online the entire day, starting at 10 am EST and ending at 10 pm EST.
#gamejam #gamedev #32bitJam

32Bit Jam Team Building Event.
June 29th, 2024
Meet New People & Team Up
10 AM - 10 PM EST

HOW IT WORKS:
During this event we want to highlight and celebrate the work everyone on our discord has already done. We are going to spend the day getting to know each other. Throughout the day we will be playing your games, checking your portfolios, and listening to your music. You can join us on Twitch or on the voice channel on the 32BitJam discord. If you cannot make it, you can send me links to your work and we will review it anyways. https://discord.gg/vbWBz9hJga

Mark you calendars! June 29th - 32BitJam Team building event. Join and meet new people, team up and hang out. I will be online the entire day, starting at 10 am EST and ending at 10 pm EST.
#gamejam #gamedev #32bitJam

Join the 32 Bit Summer Games Jam!
https://itch.io/jam/32bit-summer-games-2024
This game jam goes from July 5th to July 26th. It's ranked, has special challenges, themes and prizes!

#32bitSumerGamesJam #32BitJam #gamejam #gamedev