Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang)

HAPPENING NOW: Oregon asks Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) to block the Trump admin's federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to deploy to Portland. 🧵

Merch photo of six colorful clay figures shaped like cicadas! They are having a meeting...

Merch photo of an enamel pin and sticker set featuring a pink cat creature gently holding a knife as big as itself

Merch photo of 10 Pokemon-themed mini-pins layed out on an artist palette. Pins feature a Pokeball, Great ball, Ultra ball, Love ball, Premier ball, Potion, Pokedoll, Max Revive, Moomoo Milk, and Substitute Doll.

Product photo of a vinyl sticker design with a horned, winged, many legged cat thing with a stinger with the word "WEIRDO" written underneath with hearts.

My very first Physical Merch Drop is now LIVE!!! 🎉

I have lotsa fun stuff leftover from old zines and collaborations, as well as handmade clay trinkets!!!

Hope they're cute enough to check out and share 💕
ko-fi.com/mattibeearts...

Somewhere out there is an indie dev who just delayed their game after Silksong's launch just to immediately get hit by Hades 2.

why the fuck would you shoot Charlie Kirk of all people

I was able to get my COVID vaccine yesterday, but they're now demanding my wife show up with a prescription today after "a message from headquarters."

Schedule your shots ASAP.

Every morning some new bullshit.

You can get away with architecting kind of shitty when it comes to coding but you absolutely cannot when it comes to narrative writing and it always cooks me at the start of every project.

IG will learn about your profile from the people who follow you and like your stuff, so if it's substantially mixed you can end up delivering stuff to the wrong cohort.

Doesn't apply if all your art fans are also game fans!

My biggest lesson learned is to just wait on the marketing until I'm way closer to launch. I started with Doomsday when I was ~2 years out, and I think it would have been better to wait until I was ~6 months out.

I gave your IG a look - make a new account for your game. It will help.

I like Reddit for city builders, survival games, etc., that might do well on r/gaming, but you have to put in a lot of time to get past the mod team and they absolutely play favorites.

Otherwise the time investment vs payoff is a bit awkward.

IG's poor with discoverability- they seed videos towards your following list and an algorithm change there can be pretty difficult to overcome.

I had decent results seeding it with a small ad buy first.

TikTok might be easier- their discoverability is much better and you can reuse videos.

Playmat of the Doomsday Paradise splash art

New playmat who dis

Playmat of the Doomsday Paradise splash art

New playmat who dis

My game just dropped and 10% of all profits will go to the Godot Foundation! #godot #gamedev #indiegames

store.steampowered.com/app/1712700/...

I wouldn't want some far right religious nuts from another country to be able to pull things from my storefront either- seems like kind of an easy political win.

The US government is captured by the worst, dumbest people imaginable for now- but this is an issue that expands beyond just the United States and regulation by other large players like Europe can and has been effective with similar issues.

Withholding payouts and deleting games from user's libraries is simply unacceptable.

Payment processors also look like they're in dire need of a political check on their influence.

Thanks everybody who messaged me! I'm going to start filtering through the portfolios I've received some time tomorrow. 💪

I'm very early in development and prioritizing assets as I need them- so even though I'm only looking for 2 more people right now I'm still very much assembling a mental list for future work too.

Thanks everybody who messaged me! I'm going to start filtering through the portfolios I've received some time tomorrow. 💪

Yes. I'm the only person who works for free on my projects.

Do you want to draw evil little creatures?

Looking for some freelancers for an upcoming project. Experience with Spine / puppet animation is a big plus.

DM me your portfolio if interested.

I am stupid and had them closed. They are open now!

Do you want to draw evil little creatures?

Looking for some freelancers for an upcoming project. Experience with Spine / puppet animation is a big plus.

DM me your portfolio if interested.

Want to work on a cutscene instead? Jokes on you, spreadsheet.

Is an upgrade system a good idea? Great question, let's do 1000 sudokus about it.

Games only grow when playtested but you have to do hundreds of hours of spreadsheet tasks first.

If it's an audition for a role rather than a demo, I do encourage you to always take the shot. You have to practice auditioning by auditioning after all!

Demo creation's a bit of a different skill set than voice acting- so it's no surprise there's some common blind spots.

Glad it was helpful! I do think demo creation isn't really the same skill as voice acting, so it's not uncommon for good VA's to sometimes fumble the demo and hopefully this helps close that gap a little.

I have finally finished reviewing all 500 auditions to the voice roster!

I don't have the time or resources for individual feedback, but figured I'd catalogue some of my thoughts here for those it might help.