Sometimes you’ve just gotta take a leap of faith… I’ve heard a lot over the years of how important it is to have mentors and people you look up to. Over time I’ve begun to realise how important that can be for many reasons. Mentors are essential not just in business endeavours but in everyday …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? So today I’ve been looking a lot into contacting the press. Good ways to do it, timing etc. If I want to make a sustainable business in indie dev then I know I’m going to need have a good strategy for publicising my games. I think most game devs would …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? So last week I set out a bunch of things I wanted to acomplish over the week: Fix an ongoing bug in the collision detection for Eo’s Adventure Create the next episode of Making An Indie Game Further mature the prototype for Glow Begin creation of a contacts list Overall …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? Hope you all had a great weekend! This weekend I decided to put a bit more structure to my mornings in order to help me develop a long term plan towards becoming a full time indie dev. I decided to treat the mornings like a normal weekday and get up …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? So I was busy doing family stuff last night so I didn’t get round to my evening post, but I didn’t really have much to anyway. So it was payday today and I splashed out on the PC licence for GameMaker, I paid for a year’s hosting (I’m going to …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? So quick update on this week’s tasks. I still haven’t figured out the bug in Eo’s Adventure, I’m making good progress on my press list (I’ve now started collecting YouTuber emails), I haven’t posted my next episode yet (I still want to do a little bit of editing before it …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? So yesterday I talked about a plan for this week to try and get back on track with some of my tasks other than working on my new prototype. So I can report today that progress is going pretty well so far. I’ve already made a decent start on my …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? So I had a really nice weekend. I hope you all did too! We had four family birthdays (parents and brothers so pretty important!) in the space of five days so it was a very busy weekend, but the weather was lovely and we had lots of nice food and …
Hey everyone, how’s it going? Today I’ve been reading up a lot on the history of Steam and marketing games. I came across a lot of talk about indie game crashes, pessimistic opinions on why anyone in their right mind would want to get into game dev etc. It actually started to get pretty depressing …
Hey everyone! How’s it going? On my drive to and from work (an hour each way) one of my favourite things to do is listening to podcasts. I primarily enjoy listening about keeping fit and healthy (The Industrial Strength Show by Joe Defranco) and obviously indie game dev (lostcast by the Lost Decade Games guys). …
