Sophie Smart

Rather than going to bed early and waking up early to watch the Las Vegas Grand Prix, my wife and I have decided to pull an all nighter and I'm struggling already. 😴😴🥱 Carlos qualifying P3 is keeping the spirits alive though. 🏎 #LasVegasGP

How Will You Lead? The Critically Acclaimed Suzerain Awaits Your Decisions on Xbox | TheXboxHub The desk of the president is clear, the nation of Sordland is in turmoil, and every decision you make will shape its future as Suzerain comes to Xbox.

How Will You Lead? The Critically Acclaimed Suzerain Awaits Your Decisions on Xbox

#Suzerain #Xbox #XboxSeriesX 

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Happy Birthday Zach!!! 😀🎂

A picture with many chocolate cupcakes with the Blossom Arcade pink and green logo on the top of them, it is a circle logo with three leaves blooming together.

Big day! Reposts appreciated ✨

It’s my first day running Blossom Arcade full time! 🌸

If you’re an indie dev looking for help self-publishing, my DMs are open 💌 (11 years experience in production, marketing and publishing)

Also my wife and SIL made these Blossom Arcade cakes, how good are they! 🧁❤️

A picture with many chocolate cupcakes with the Blossom Arcade pink and green logo on the top of them, it is a circle logo with three leaves blooming together.

Big day! Reposts appreciated ✨

It’s my first day running Blossom Arcade full time! 🌸

If you’re an indie dev looking for help self-publishing, my DMs are open 💌 (11 years experience in production, marketing and publishing)

Also my wife and SIL made these Blossom Arcade cakes, how good are they! 🧁❤️

A graph that shows number of games released by different genres, along with a curve showing the mediam revenue for each genre.

1. Pick a viable genre

Chris Zukowski from How to Market a Game does a fantastic job of breaking down which genres are popular on Steam. It is not a coincidence that Little Rocket Lab is a simulation game and RPG, both of which rank high on median revenue, while low on number of games released.

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Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

I've learnt so much about paid marketing and how to get the most out of your budget. 💪

✨Pro tip - Work out how much your paying per view with influencers. Literally divide their rate by their lower end average view count and go with the people who have the lowest number, with the most reach.

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

Also eternally grateful that this game provided a huge amount of solice for my Mother whilst she was off work ill earlier this year. She racked up over 190 hours before the game launched and had never played a game on Steam prior to this. ❤️ she's now played stardew and my time at portia also.

After a rocky start with Steam going down as I was meant to push the launch button yesterday, things have been looking up!

Been working on Little Rocket Lab doing production and marketing since 2022 and it's so nice to see the fruits of our labour pay off.

Well done @kyleschmitz.bsky.social 👏

Earth Must Die on Steam These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday:

✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE
✅ Buy a game on sale
✅ Share these links where you can

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

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A fun one to have worked on and hard to have kept quiet about for a while! 👏👏🌍💀

Little Rocket Lab now has a release date: October 7th! Featured in Wholesome Snack last year, transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships. "Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!"

🚀🚀EXCITING NEWS!!🚀🚀

After four years of development, Little Rocket Lab finally launches on October 7!

Build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships

Coming to Steam and Xbox / PC Game Pass

RTs super appreciated❤️

littlerocketlab.com

Congrats and well deserved!! ✨👏

So very excited for this one! Congrats Zach and Lu! 😊👏

'Grow Wild' Catches Bugs, Discovers Plants, and Creates Biomes Grow Wild is a cozy sandbox style game where you can discover new plants, find bugs, and watch the world change around you.

I wrote about the cozy, plant-related game Grow Wild by @spectrum48.bsky.social for @indiegamesplus.bsky.social, after seeing it at @developconference.com: indiegamesplus.com/grow-wild-pr...

I'll be about from tues-thurs! 😁

Years ago I was at New York Pride and I remember running into this couple and they told me they drove like five hours to be at Pride and I was like, “Five hours? Why would you drive five hours?” And he said to me, “This is the one time a year and the only place where I can hold my partner’s hand and kiss my partner in the street without having to look around first. It’s the only place. I don’t have that anywhere else.” One time a year. One place. This is it. And that’s what Pride means. - bob the drag queen

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

Hey Lukas! This sounds awesome, it's been too long anyway. Send me a DM and let's find a time. :)

✨ I'm super excited to be heading to Develop Brighton in a couple of weeks. I’ll be speaking on the ‘Which Indie Game Genres are Hot in 2025?’ panel, so come and say hi if you’re around! 👋 ✨

I've also got a few meeting slots left for Blossom Arcade 🌸 - so if you want to talk self-publishing HMU!

🚨 Games marketing people 🚨

Here are 3 great and super helpful Chrome extensions for browsing Steam

ℹ️ Extra data and info on screen
💰 See the estimated revenue
📈 Useful CCU info
📉 Previous sales prices
🔎 Additional search filters
🕸️ Firefox & Edge versions
🔥 And more

🧵 Thread below 👇

Crescent County - a witch-tech delivery adventure Underground motorbroom street racing. Chaotic deliveries. Kissing on the mouth. A painterly, witch-tech, open world game.

GOOD MORNING!

Now that you’ve had the chance to sleep on it, we’d like to remind you that today is your LAST CHANCE to back the Crescent County kickstarter campaign. We don’t like being unnecessarily urgent but THIS IS NECESSARILY URGENT.

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Stylized Xbox logo in support of Pride including colorful trailing ribbons wrapping around the sphere on a pastel sky background.

Join us in celebrating Pride Month as we embrace and support LGBTQIA+ communities. 🏳️‍🌈 Xbox is a place where everyone is welcome to play, create, and connect. Thank you to the creators who share their stories with all of us so everyone feels at home 💚

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So happy for the Electric Saint team!!! ✨

Honestly been so excited for this one for so long!

Motorsport + cute aesthetic + queerness = my jam

👏🧹🧙‍♀️✨️🌸

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 17th May #IDAHOBIT The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, or IDAHOBIT, takes place on the 17th May with the date specifically chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization's decision in 1990 to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. Originally known as the International Day Against Homophobia when first celebrated in 2005, it expanded to cover transphobia in 2009 and biphobia in 2015. The day serves as an opportunity to raise awareness of the treatment of LGBTQ+ people worldwide, including the ongoing repression and discrimination, as well as a chance to come together to drive positive change going forward. outmaking.games

Today is #IDAHOBIT - International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

This year, acknowledging IDAHOBIT feels more urgent than ever as we have seen significant pushback against queer and especially trans rights here in the UK.

www.outmaking.games/news1/idahob...

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV?

Me, a games producer: That's added contingency time

A picture of a table with an iced matcha drink and a pink bowl of fruit with acai smoothie underneath. With a lotus biscoff biscuit on top.

I had the best acai bowl ever yesterday and it's all I've been able to think about since.

I'm now just living counting down to the next time I can go back and have another.