Chris Filip

I’ve seen small and new devs scared to show unfinished games because they might “spoil them.” If your audience is just your friends, then that might be true. But don’t you want your player base to be somewhat larger than that?

Playtesting is the secret weapon to making a good game!

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We also don't have a Best Horror or Best Action at the Oscars either. Genre is really getting the short of the stick

Oh god I mis-read that as "very artistic edible prestige editions" and was like 👀👀👀

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this.

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Don't let @popelady.bsky.social hear you otherwise she'll INDEX MATCH you up 🤣

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There's a good 10 min talk by @jtoresson.bsky.social at Games Talks Live about this: www.youtube.com/live/rOqEjRi... it's towards the middle of the video. "Act like you're going to self publish your game" and he debunks most publisher excuses

I REALLY wanted to play Magicka after seeing a trailer.

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I grew up on these streets

Who did you use?

itch is SO small and I have known the site long enough to trust that this isn't them acting maliciously, but itch is SO small and I can't really resent them acting defensively so much as be furious that like two US payment processors get to determine what gets to be made worldwide.

it's actually so cool that the entire global creative ecosystem is basically held hostage by freak reactionary american companies.

Something I didn’t speak to at the time, but should now — it’s not like itchio or Steam have a choice

If they don’t comply with payment processor requests, they lose access to the payment processor. Without the payment processor, the platform falls apart. It ceases to exist. They’re being bullied

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

Why is this a thing? Alternatively, why isn't there a separate thing targeting the clearly alt-right focused games on there?

Actually, it's the opposite. You'll never deploy solar panels across 100% of the surface, so if managed properly, you generate unlimited clean energy and lower the temp of the water, helping the biome 😅 nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/53...

Any chance you can share the sheet?

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And another one!

One example I can give you is that at least up until 14, you get "awards" at the end of each academic year that are only based on your school test performance. There's 1 First Prize, 1 Second Prize, 1 Third Prize. I know parents who bribed lecturers to ensure that their kid got good grades for these

That is a very good question - I don't know. I'm talking from my own experience both as an Eastern European and as a game developers who's worked there and with that scene for over a decade at this point. It's not super different from the Silicon Valley mentality, just affected by other factors

There's a lot culturally to be taken into consideration whenever looking at games made by Eastern European developers. So much of growing up in a post-fall-of-iron-curtain culture is about being self-made and pushing exceptional individualism, and designers and developers will take into their games

Such an amazing book

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However, see Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur, both made by studios who still exist and haven't fired their dev teams post-launch.

So there is hope for studios yet. I think what we're seeing now is a paradigm shift that's still shifting, and plenty can still influence the future. 6/6

Media loves underdogs; "solo devs" are just that - a single face that has "come up with the idea" and gets all the credit. We saw this since 2012 with Indie Game: The Movie. Film directors and writers and TV "show runners" are the same, easy shortcuts to hundreds of professionals and producers. 5/6

It will depend on trends, discourse and incentives.

In the UK, the UK Games Fund incentivises studios to make hires.

Trend-wise, Fortnite and Roblox are today's Facebook Games - a platform that not enough are using to at least prototype and find the fun.

The discourse is slightly different 4/6