This account, @dogacyavuz.bsky.social, is where I'll post about games and gamedev stuff (and some other curiosities) mostly in English. Follow if you're interested!

I also have a private account (@dogacyz.bsky.social) for friendos and socializing. Come along if you like :)

So let's establish some things here on Bsky now that the world seems to have decided this is the next Twitter.

I had a joke about gamedev but the creative director played a new game over the weekend and we're changing our pillars

I mean, I spent the last few years doing consulting work for all kinds of teams, and I love doing it - let's me learn about all types of struggle and solutions to all kinds of problems. But there's something to be said about working on your own vision rather than someone else's.

some say that piracy is a threat to video games
*takes a drag off a liquorice pipe*
thing is, the threat is dwarfed by people who once upon a time started to play sims 2, and then never stopped playing sims 2

Got some good news about one of the teams I'm working with today - turns out our revamp of the game is extremely popular, got much more downloads than we expected, and it's even charting in top100-top50-top10 in some countries.

This is with just a team of 5.

Currently mainly doing external & consultant work, helping out in design and product work as well as help set up teams and production pipelines.

Reach out if you have anything in mind!

How about game designers/product people? bsky.app/profile/doga...

Intro time: Been doing game design and production for 15 years for fun, 10 years for money. Stuff I've done include mobile, PC, web, F2P, board games and more. Mostly interested in doing the thing and the fundamentals of it. #GameDev

Is there anything new around that lets me do this without wrangling a bunch of tabs and a thousand formulas?

I don't see Machinations being good for this but I'm open to the idea that there's a way to use it for this that I haven't figured out.

Building yet another collection/progression system of a large number of playable characters that can be gained and upgraded in exchange of resources earned by playing the game.

Open question for anyone that sees this (which may be no one but we'll see): Is Excel/Sheets still the best tool for this?

Just moved in.