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Hello my friends!
"Mai: Child of Ages" our adventure game, coming soon for Steam and all Consoles!
Add to your wishlist here on Steam!
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Chubby Pixel
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Chubby Pixel
@ChubbyPixel
Independent game studio based in Italy by @MalboMX. Working hard on bringing to you the best games!
Milan Katılım Temmuz 2012
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@georgebsocial Private steam playtests over friends and family every time. Honest feedback is non negotiable
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I think (and maybe people do) more indiedevs should do private playtests on Steam? Testing with friends and family is not ideal. It's fine, early on, but you almost never get real/honest/blunt feedback there. Very few ppl are brutally honest with friends.
But before a public demo, do a private Steam playtest? Seems putting your game in front of total strangers (even small batches) is the best way to find out what people really think of your game before release. But even then, people volunteer to enter the test so there's already some bias toward them liking you.
So in order:
- private friends and family testing
- private steam playtest
- maybe a public demo, or not. can go either way.
- game release
Every tier above can help you weed out design issues and make your game better.
How many of you do Steam playtests with total strangers?
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@CultureCrave Lies of P 2 in full production. Solo dev to studio success done right
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'Lies of P 2' has officially entered full-scale development 🎮
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@SpecterM91 Either inventing new genres or slop factory. No in between according to game twitter
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Being an indie dev seems annoying as fuck. If you aren't trying to invent entirely new gameplay concepts and genres you're a slop factory and if you are you're reddit.
Mr. Smiley@MrUnsmileyyy
THE SAME FIVE GAMES THE SAME FIVE GAMES. THE INDIE GAME DEVS MAKE THE SAME FIVE GAMES. THE INDIE DEVS MAKE THE SAME FUCKING GAME
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@hollowmetric Making launch decisions based on vibes instead of math is how most indie games fail
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I built Hollow Metric because I was tired of making game launch decisions based on vibes.
Budget in.
Price tested.
Copies needed.
Break-even shown clearly.
You can try it for free.
hollowmetric.com
#indiedev #gamedev #solodev #buildinpublic
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@Riftwalkergame Got laid off built the game anyway. Zero budget 15K wishlists. That arc is real
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Got laid off.
Built a game instead.
Solo dev.
$0 budget.
15,000+ wishlists!
If you like The Mandalorian, Dune, and Max Payne…
this is for you.
Wishlist on Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/4109980/Ri…
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@kathyjstark Meetings all day then opening the prototype to create problems recreationally. Feels familiar
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had meetings all day and now i’m rewarding myself by opening the prototype and creating problems recreationally
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@gamearttales Incremental extraction dungeon but the dice just keep stacking. Chaotic game design energy
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Incremental + Extraction + Dungeon + Dices + Dices + Dices + Dices + Dices+ Dices ...
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@evilentity Watching someone play your game and seeing 100 problems is the most painful loop
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Every time I watch someone play my game, there are 100 new things to improve...
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@PlayRumbral Creative studio learning everything from scratch to ship a game. That takes real guts
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Before Rumbral, we were a creative studio focused on graphic design, branding, motion graphics and commercial work. ❤️
Making a game felt huge, and we had to learn everything from scratch.
#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame
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@gamearttales Just make it exist first. Best advice in gamedev and nobody says it enough
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@igdmag Days chasing a bug only to find one misplaced semicolon. Classic and painful every time
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How many times have you spent days chasing a bug, only to find out it was something painfully simple?
#indiegamedev
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@Team_CosmicTofu Peoples reactions in those dark tunnel moments are literally what keep devs going
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Making an indie game really feels like walking through a tunnel with no light in sight.
But every now and then, people’s reactions give you just enough reason to keep going and not give up.
Let’s not quit. Let’s make it to the end together. #indiedev
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@dungeonpunk Make the smallest game your customer will buy and emphasize what makes it cool
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Make the game as little as your customer will buy.
Build that game and only that game.
Emphasize what makes it cool.
Forget everything else.
You'll probably still fail.
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack
My reply to someone considering starting a video game company: The distribution of possible rewards for starting a video game company are generally not very good today. The market is well served, and gaining a foothold requires strong execution on both business and product issues, along with a substantial amount of luck. Plan to burn through seven figures with a not-great chance of making it back. If you do go for it, some bits of advice: Identify your customers clearly before you start. Not just a broad community, but specific people, and imagine them as you make decisions. Initially, build the smallest, most concise game you can imagine anyone paying for. It will still take much longer than you expect. Once something exists, hill-climb the value. Hopefully you will have some elements that clearly bring joy to people, which you can magnify. There will inevitably be tons of things that people find confusing, frustrating, or just boring that you will need to fix.
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@headwaregames Creative decisions after a successful game are lowkey the hardest part of being a dev
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@E2aGames Lore dump in first 5 seconds loses half your players before gameplay even starts
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#IndieGameDev Most indie games lose players before the gameplay even starts.
Why?
Because the first 5–10 seconds are: • lore dumps
• text walls
• logos
• slow cinematic shots
Players don’t want to study your game first.
They want to understand it instantly.
The best-performing indie trailers usually show gameplay almost immediately.
Clarity > exposition. #GameDev #Optimization #Unity3D #Marketing #Gaming
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@scoutfreak Review bombing by wrong audience is easily the cruellest thing in indie dev
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Being a game dev is funny because you can make a passion project, and a crowd that is not your target audience can review bomb your game and doom your studio
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@winstonoftang Twelve years in and harder than ever. That honesty about indie dev is rare
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12 years doing indie games, and shit is harder than ever. Sit down friends, as I regale you a story of pain, suffering and hope. Can we turn this around?
#indiegame #gamedev #steam #wishlist #marketing
Winston Tang (Making ACTING OUT)@winstonoftang
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@IndieGameJoe Everyone thinks game dev is easy until they actually try to ship something
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Remember, game dev is easy to everyone who has never attempted to make a game.
If you're struggling right now, you're already doing what most people only ever talk about. Keep going, keep learning. ❤️
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@EracuStudios Artist designer programmer marketer writer all at once. And it still might fail
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@BeanJuiceStudio Solo you move fast but carry everything. Studio you share the load move slower
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Game dev question of the day
Would you rather be a solo dev or own a studio with employees?
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