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joeyspacerocks

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About joeyspacerocks

Software engineer by day, indie game dev by night. Games blogged about at http://fistfulofsquid.com/ Twitter: @joeyspacerocks

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    The next game is called Spooky Pooky and is a 2D metroidvania platformer. No, seriously. "Horatio Bones is a curious lad. Working late one night at the Nefarious Science Corporatio…

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    I generally try and have tasks of different types available for different moods (eg bug fixes, graphics work, marketing, etc). It's important for me to keep the momentum going thou…

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    Hi - author of the post here. Just a quick note - don't believe a word of this. I wrote it in 2013 and am now 3 years into the dev of the next game. It's lies, all lies :) actually…

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    Thank you for your comments! Yes, that's the crux of it - you need a hook or something to nudge people into giving cash for it. I also suspect that I haven't done myself any favour…

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    Yes, ship it! I ended up shipping without Game Center integration and added it in the next version a few months later. It can be done!

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    Absolutely agree. As a developer you need to have frank talk with yourself both before and during development to figure out exactly what the motivation is. Are you writing a game t…

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    I did a similar thing. Only it took 2 years. http://pixelated.postagon.com/5g437329d I win!