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A collection of valuable #gamedev threads curated by @richtaur valadria.com Joined July 2022

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Logan Plant @LoganJPlant

a year ago

🚨Are you a game developer/publisher/PR that wants YOUR game to get a game page on @IGN?🚨 As the person who manages 1000s of additions to our IGN/@IGNPlaylist database, here are some tips to make sure your game doesn’t slip through the cracks! (Please RT for visibility!) 🧵

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Teddy Dief @TeddyDief

12 months ago

16x9 screens in game design either solve or create problems, depending on your genre! We learned this the hard way making Hyper Light Drifter 🧵

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Matt Hackett 📙 @richtaur

a year ago

Steam game devs, demos have changed a LOT: 🔥 You can now EMAIL wishlisters (this is huge) 📈 Demos can now appear in NEW & TRENDING! ✅ You can give your demo its own page (if you want) Here's a quick cheat sheet, links below:

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Victoria Vigaray @middock

a year ago

been wanting to write this thread for a while: a list of curated resources that have made me a better game designer

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Daniel Stegersaurus @StegerGames

a year ago

Steam Next Fest is great. A chance to try new upcoming games without investment and a chance for smaller devs to get those needed wishlists, communities, and feedback. That said, the event has been running long enough that its value to devs IS beginning to taper... 🧵(1/10)

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt

a year ago

one thing a lot of solo + small team game developers deal with is interest + morale management over the long arc of a project. i thought it might be nice to share insights and techniques. i'll start by sharing a few things i have worked out, and i'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Matt Goode @WhatsGoode1

a year ago

in one week, my first ever game releases. i've spent about 7 months on this project, learning coding, art, and design from scratch. i would like to share a few things i learned about Godot, game design, and self-teaching in general 🧵

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Liana Ruppert @DirtyEffinHippy

a year ago

🧵 Why You Should Wishlist Indie Games on Steam: A Thread 1/8 🌟 Increased Visibility Wishlisting boosts a game's visibility within Steam's algorithms. More wishlists = higher chance of being featured in discovery queues, recommendations, and sales events. 📈

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localthunk @LocalThunk

a year ago

I wanted to talk a bit about signposting in Balatro - basically the methods by which players are guided by the game to actually understand the game. To some degree this is the whole point of game design, but there were a lot of fun strategies I was able to use with Balatro

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Callum UwUnderwood @DevRelCallum

6 years ago

So you take project funding from a publisher of $150k. The amount of recoup, and the rate of recoup are two extremely important questions you should ask yourself. I've massively simplified it here. (thread?)

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Matthew Ball @ballmatthew

a year ago

1/ After only 5.5 months, the video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs (10,900 versus the prior record of 10,500 in 2023, and the record before that, 8,500 in 2022). These layoffs span games that were canceled and scaled back, as well as studios that…

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Wetterschneider @Stretchedwiener

a year ago

There sure are a lot of people who don't understand what creatives actually do for clients. I'm receiving many comments that today's crappy AI image/3d generation software will one day replace me. It makes sense that they don't know what I do - it's not just 3d modeling.

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Mattias Gustavsson 💖 @Mattias_G

2 years ago

I’m going to do a 🧵 about making retro-style games in C/C++, and also about getting them to run in a browser.

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🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨ @leighalexander

a year ago

thinking in verbs is such a basic and overlooked game design component. so many exhausting meetings on What The Game Should Be, where nobody can answer the simpler question: What Does the Player Do

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Jacky Martin @TheJackyMartin

a year ago

Getting your game noticed can be tough, even for big companies. 🧵 That's why you want to boost your marketing success with thorough market research first. Why? Because then you create a game you AND your audience will love.

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Stray Fawn Studio @StrayFawnStudio

a year ago

Got asked by fellow #indiedev @CodeRed_dev how we market a game, so I wanted to share some insights into the Dungeon Clawler announcement. Within 2 weeks, the game has reached 30'000 wishlists on Steam. a thread 🧵 #screenshotsaturday

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meredith 🍒 @merryh

4 years ago

I want to talk a little about the danger of false positives in game development. This isn't meant to be a downer thread, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot and noticing in terms of trends from 2021 and heading into 2022, but spans back a few years.

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Lightsoul @Lightsoul_fx

2 years ago

Thread with fire demos for students There are a lot of ways to stylize fire. You can simplify it with rising masses, you can track holes and edges #2dfx #animation