@ustralien @adr granted, #Valve does own the #PCgaming #DigitalDistribution market to the point that without any big #exclusivity deals, no #developer nor #publisher can afford to not launch on #Steam.

Kiswe launches cloud platform for multi-destination streaming distribution: Streaming technology company Kiswe announced Kiswe Core on November 18, enabling content owners to distribute single-source feeds across multiple platforms automatically. https://ppc.land/kiswe-launches-cloud-platform-for-multi-destination-streaming-distribution/ #Streaming #CloudTechnology #DigitalDistribution #MediaTech #ContentProduction

Been considering this for quite some time now, but finally grabbed the founding supporter membership of Subvert.fm. Site launching early june, interesting to see where this goes!

#Subvert #SubvertFM #DigitalDistribution #Music #Coop

I'm going to the Frankfurter Buchmesse, the perfect place to meet my (e/a)bookish friends!
Feel free to make an appointment: koalendar.com/e/meet-icontact

#fbf24 #fbm24 #ebooks #epub #mp3 #audiobooks #ONIX #metadata #distribution #DigitalDistribution #watermarking #SocialDRM #Audiyence #BooXtream
@frankfurterbuchmesse

can companies choose to release software on Google play that's made for mouse and keyboard? Can companies choose to release what is essentially a Linux desktop program, but like, on Google play? So that chromebook users would get better programs than just android mini apps? Like for example, could Mozilla release a more fully featured Firefox browser on the Google play store for ChromeOS? Would google be against that? Can Microsoft release a more fully featured edge browser for ChromeOS on the Google play store?

#chromebook
#googleplay
#digitaldistribution
#desktopappsongoogleplay
#fullbrowsersongoogleplay
#microsoftedge
#firefox

We all know that growing up a weeb back in the early 2000s was just not a great time.

https://animevania.com/best-manga-scanlations-sites-online/

#Bilibili #ChineseManhua #ComicEnthusiasts #ComicWalker #Comixology #CommunityWebsites #Copyright #Crunchyroll #DigitalDistribution #GirlsLove #IndieComics #JapaneseManga #KoreanManhwa #LezhinComics #LineWebtoon #MangaDex #MangaLibrary #Mangakakalot #Manhwa #MobileReading #NaverWebtoon #ReadingExperience #Scanlation #ScanlationGroups #Shoujo #Shounen #Tapas #Translations #VIZ

Steam Breaks Concurrent Player Record - Continues Dominance in Digital Gaming Market: https://www.reviewspace.info/steam-breaks-concurrent-player-record-continues-dominance-in-digital-gaming-market

#Steam #PCGaming #DigitalDistribution #GamingIndustry #Valve #GamingNews

An excerpt from my BGG designer diary for #DrawnTogetherGame.

Feedback welcome.

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KS, marketing
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Sure, the quality of a game contributes to the sales. Better reviews. Word of mouth. Buying after trying.

But for a KS campaign, so much else also matters. The graphic design of the page. Your videos. Emails. The marketing.

And there's also a healthy dollop of luck.

I didn't maximise my chances of success (there is no KS video, for example, and I really could have written a designer diary weeks ago and told more folk about it). But I had also planned an emigration and sometimes it's important to not let 'great' be the enemy of 'done'.

It was a low-stakes KS with a negligible funding goal. I had sheets already done if there was minimal interest. The standard pledge level is low.

But what I am hopefully doing is creating a small community to help encourage me (and give me data) to keep making new sheets and improving older ones over the next year.

There will be no late pledge or anything like that for at least a year after this KS. That's why I made it last 60 days.

This is the 'early bird'.

Given digital distribution, I can make a new sheet and someone around the world might play it in the same day. I can take advantage of feedback and keep improving the game faster than I did In A Bind/Yogi.

Time will tell if it's a reasonable plan or not.

#playtesting #digitalDistribution #boardgames #tabletop #gameDesign #boardGameDesign

Busker 0.7.0 (my #django tool for creating and redeeming digital download codes) is out. The only new 'feature' per se is prettier error pages, but more significantly I also finally got around to trying out coverage.py and got a bit obsessed with its super-helpful reporting. As of 0.7.0, unit test coverage is technically at 100% (Signals still need tests and there's room for improvement, but this is the most diligent I've ever been with testing and I'm pretty pleased.)

https://github.com/tinpan-io/django-busker/

#djangobusker #coverage #python #foss #webapp #digitaldistribution #digitaldownloads #downloadcode

I've heard mixed things about DistroKid but seeing as this is more of a vanity project than a "I'm gonna be the hot new thing on Apple Music" endeavor, I'm going to give it a shot for a year... Especially since they gave me a 35% discount when I abandoned the signup process yesterday.

*immediate* stumbling block: They're very cagey about public domain music, which all of the songs on this project are, unambiguously (none more recent than 1886). They don't really have a solution, saying "call yourself the songwriter but use first name: Traditional and last name: Music" which is some dystopian bullshit, but at least they acknowledge it and provide a workaround.

In my 19th century niche I don't really anticipate any problems (other than, perhaps, their acoustic fingerprint matching algorithms flagging my stuff because it sounds exactly like somebody else's low-tuned solo fretless banjo recordings of the same tunes, which has happened to me on youtube at least once) #audio #music #recording #digitaldistribution #distrokid

Epic Store would end exclusives if Steam gave devs larger cut, CEO claims - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RockPaperShotgun/~3/5kOFr20it3M/ #digitaldistribution #EpicGamesStore #PCGameNews #TimSweeney #EpicGames #Steam

blog: Regarding that Epic store outrage -- https://benplaysgames.com/blog/2019/04/04/regarding-that-epic-store-outrage -- Everyone and their dog is currently outraged over Epic’s new gamestore, with Borderlands being the latest to fall victim to try and alienate their customers for a quick wad of cash. A lot of people are making points about why they don’t like to buy on Epic’s store and many of those points are entirely beside the point.
#Epic #Gaming #Digitaldistribution

GOG ending rebates for regional pricing differences - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RockPaperShotgun/~3/uqpppyt3uaM/ #digitaldistribution #PCGameNews #gog

Count me in! I'll do more than seven though, which seems ok.

"Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."

#squash
#OSR
#RPG
#comics
#shoegazing
#boardgames
#bmovies
#freesoftware
#gamingonlinux
#digitaldistribution
#altmusic
#cultmovies
#miniaturepainting

when it comes to uploading music to digital stores (like Apple, Spotify, JunoDownload, Google Play, etc) i'm constantly torn between reason pro and contra:
- PRO the music is distributed. it's free anyway (CC), so why not put it out there wherever are people who can listen and love it
- it's bad because it then supports exploitation, low margins, unfair practices... the dark side of music industry.

anyone have similar thoughts?

#music #digitaldistribution #spotify #itunes