Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie

Anyone else's wishlists not updated today yet?

Either that or we got 0 :D

:D

"The lore and the mechanics need to smooch in ways that enhance believability" - Majuular

Steam sale page screenshots for this year's #TurnBasedThursdayFest -- "Celebrating everyone who makes, plays, and loves turn-based video games!"

🚨 #TurnBasedThursdayFest's Steam Sale is LIVE! 🚨

store.steampowered.com/sale/TurnBas...

🎮 450+ featured games
💎 Hand-curated selections & hidden gems
🤑 Great deals up to 90%-off!

RPGs, sims, grand strategy, deckbuilders, 4X, roguelikes, puzzlers, city builders… find your next favorite!

I'd like to announce I have a new(ish) Podcast! It's called GameDev Unsung Heroes, and it's basically interviewing all the names in games you don't know about what they do, their career path, a few stories along the way. All free.

Here's the link gamedevunsungheroes.com

I could use re-posting :)

I have a loop that tries to load it 5 times (same for saving) with a pause in between in case it is locked by One Drive or a virus killer, or some other random crap. But yeah if it's corrupted also, it generates an error message.

lol

What’s that got to do with the fence in the park at GDC?

Thankfully it was not that.

New scandal dropped: GDC fence gate.

Yes exactly

(this is a reference to the GDC park fence fiasco in case it wasn't obvious)

I think you may have yeah...

And a 4x CD-ROM drive

Hey that's great!

I remember my German GCSE teacher rushing into our class to tell us that the Berlin Wall was down!

Just sayin' ...

By the late 80s software houses had in-house programmers and artists and they knew how to make better games, though budgets and time-constraints were definitely a thing!

Great to hear thanks!

Helen and I are not at GDC but @slicknicklives.bsky.social and
@davidjohnsen.bsky.social are! Yesterday they were repping our game at Day of the Devs, yay!

haha

Good to know, thanks!

Yeah back in the day there were some good arcade games for sure. It's just that home computers were a wild west with teenagers who just learned to code getting their games published by budget labels. Also in the early 80s people hadn't learned how to get the most out of the limited machines.

(I mean so I gain 1 extra wishlist. This is orthogonal marketing in action!)

haha! Yeah, hopefully the person who checks the form isn't a bot.

#TurnBasedThursdayFest is live!

Take a look at the titles in the event ~ and don't forget to check out Forbidden Solitaire: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

Our Forbidden Solitaire demo is 20-30 mins long so we figured that would be OK for Day of the Devs. We also added in some code so when you quit the game screen it completely resets the whole game. Important for ours due to the pretext of having a fake OS at the start.

Finishing with: VIDEOGAMEEEEEEEEES!

Aha, yeah another field did have 5 as a minimum.

What if your business is "cats" though?

haha

A tall image in purple hues featuring Grey Alien Games' characters such as Regency Bella, the Ancient Enemy Mage and Shadowhand. Various boxes depict game art and trailers from all of the company's 50+ published titles.

Anyone else been trying the new Steam creator / publisher homepage stuff out?

Here's Grey Alien Games

store.steampowered.com/developer/Gr...