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[Xilef]

I really can't give details right now and I don't want to until things actually progress further than conversations. Part of my personal requirements are; no move and needs to be financially worth it (and I have no information on the latter right now).
It would be a senior role salary job, so my company will be put on ice and any projects - such as GBA RPG and client work - will become weekend endeavours (or late evening endeavours for very critical stuff).

If nothing comes of this then it's back to business as usual.

 

[Ellie]

I wanna make a game but I can't dedicate enough time to it.

 

[Fayte]

Fayte: What's your website? How did you build it? I use both Photoshop and GIMP by the way. I just hate how Photoshop exports png files. If the alpha is 0, then it overwrites your RGB information on that texel to 1,1,1. Infuriating. That makes it useless for texture packing for a video game. Photoshop also won't deign to compress a jpg file to a useful size. If the file size won't allow for stunning beauty, Photoshop won't export it. I discovered that recently while trying to make a logo for my game on Twitch. Photoshop wouldn't make the file any smaller than 1.5 MB, which was 50% bigger than the maximum size allowed. GIMP meanwhile very cheerily compressed the jpg to any size I wanted. Out of curiosity I wanted to see what a 10 kB version of my file looked like. It looked like 8-color garbage from 1989, but it worked.

I've only ever used Gimp but I just figured that since photoshop is very highly used and cost a butt load of money it was automatically better. Also coming from MS Paint (lol) for a number of years getting used to having to do multiple steps to do one simple thing (like using the select tool and then using the move tool. WHY.), it was quite the learning curve for me.

Anyway. My website isn't anything crazy. It's just a simple wordpress "news" blog of sorts based around sneakers and clothing. If you want to check it out by all means, enjoy.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

The site looks great, but it looks like all the news is the availability and pricing of shoes. Do you have something set up to get the news automatically? Or you do you have to input every post manually? Any idea what the revenue is on something like this? Have you done any SEO work for your site?

 

[Fayte]

The site looks great, but it looks like all the news is the availability and pricing of shoes. Do you have something set up to get the news automatically? Or you do you have to input every post manually? Any idea what the revenue is on something like this? Have you done any SEO work for your site?

Thanks, man. No I manually write all of the articles and everything that's on the site. I just went live with the site this passed monday so I'm not sure about the revenue. And yeah I'm in the process of setting up the SEO stuff. the whole process is actually quite simple depending on what you wanna do.

 

[Byron]

I did Global Game Jam. My team did most of the work but I got some nice practice in with Unity.

I'm also trying to convince my uni to allow me to use an arduino flame sensor for my controller project.

 

[Mega Flare]

Hey what's up guys what did I miss

New Smashing Pumpkins album

 

[Hybrida]

There's two types of members, those who say hi and nothing else every few months. And those you have to literally ban to get rid of...

(Even though you can't really ban anyone, you can't even stop bots from spamming stupid shit. A relentless human would be a nightmare to any dead site.)

 

[Hybrida]

I wanna make a game but I can't dedicate enough time to it.

This, but with a comic book is my situation. Imagine being stuck/distracted for 14 years. Real life just gets in the way. Having multiple bratty children and a few teens to look after doesn't help.

Just completing one full page is a moment for celebration.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Hey what's up guys what did I miss

New Smashing Pumpkins album

I haven't listened to Smashing Pumpkins since Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness [edit: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness]. I remember it being a good album. (A double CD set, wasn't it?) But now I think there were probably 3-4 good songs on the album, and in the pre-iTunes days, getting 3 or 4 good songs was great because usually I would buy a CD for one song and the rest of the CD sucked.

 

[coyotecraft]

Been dealing with control freaks who are compelled to involve themselves with shit they know nothing about. They have no social conscious. Just bulldozing their way through everything instead of working around it because "well, I don't know what this is so it doesn't belong here"
And I'm like, "Did you considered that's because YOU don't belong here?"

 

[Mega Flare]

Hey what's up guys what did I miss

New Smashing Pumpkins album

I haven't listened to Smashing Pumpkins since Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness [edit: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness]. I remember it being a good album. (A double CD set, wasn't it?) But now I think there were probably 3-4 good songs on the album, and in the pre-iTunes days, getting 3 or 4 good songs was great because usually I would buy a CD for one song and the rest of the CD sucked.

Psh Mellon Collie was a master peice

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Hey everyone, so I launched my game into Steam Early Access not even 24 hours ago. I spent 15 hours straight refreshing Twitter, Steam, Reddit, Twitch, forums, and email. I had a very busy launch day, I got 5 hours of sleep, and I'm responding to feedback again. Now I know why people hire community managers. I need to go through all this feedback and start patching bugs.

 

[Fayte]

So how was the response? Tweet the deets! I need to find more ways to bring traffic to my site. My best day was 2 days ago with 212 views and my worst day was yesterday with 16 views.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

So how was the response? Tweet the deets!

I think the first couple of days have gone really well. About 200 sales, and I've probably sent out 200 free copies to streamers, reviewers, and Steam curators. I can't retire yet--that isn't even a month's salary at an average IT job and your first week is usually your biggest. Of course more sales and more money would be nice, but I can just barely keep up with the volume of feedback and bug reports as it is, so maybe it's better this way. Hopefully I can fix bugs and make improvements now and sell more copies later. Steam doesn't give Early Access titles a "visibility round" on the front page, so I have reason to believe that my full release could do a lot better.

As for reactions, the couple of reviews at Cliqist and SP Only haven't been great. But the streamers who have streamed the game so far have really liked it. The kinds of people who stream early access strategy RPGs are a very specific slice of the market though, and hopefully so long as I'm focusing my efforts on pleasing that group I think my game can find its place.

The most interesting thing about my early access release is probably what happened to my wishlists. Over 1000 wishlists added on day one and still going up. It's still yesterday in California, so the exact count and timing are going to be kind of screwy. Point is though that wishlist chart looks like a flat line connected to a vertical line. There are definitely people interested in the game, and maybe they're just waiting to see what improvements I make and what the reviews say.

I need to find more ways to bring traffic to my site. My best day was 2 days ago with 212 views and my worst day was yesterday with 16 views.

Wish I could help you there. A friend of mine made a lot of money doing "long tail SEO" where you stake your claim on a very specific search where there isn't a lot of competition. There are probably already a lot of shoe and clothing sites out there. Maybe it's better to not try to compete with them, but to find the part of the market they're not serving.

 

[Xilef]

Wish I could help you there. A friend of mine made a lot of money doing "long tail SEO" where you stake your claim on a very specific search where there isn't a lot of competition. There are probably already a lot of shoe and clothing sites out there. Maybe it's better to not try to compete with them, but to find the part of the market they're not serving.

From my observations and what I've been told for many, many years this is pretty much how anything on the internet succeeds. You first find a niche and attack that directly, rather than generalise in an attempt to capture a wide audience.

 

[Hybrida]

To everyone who talks shit about Florida, remember it when you're in -40 degree weather, or snowed in. (That's in Fahrenheit for all you 2nd and 3rd world countries)

Illinois was colder than some parts of Antarctica.

 

[Mega Flare]

To everyone who talks shit about Florida, remember it when you're in -40 degree weather, or snowed in. (That's in Fahrenheit for all you 2nd and 3rd world countries)

Illinois was colder than some parts of Antarctica.

Psh that's nothing. It was - 60f here for three days

 

[Nathaniel3W]

To everyone who talks shit about Florida, remember it when you're in -40 degree weather, or snowed in. (That's in Fahrenheit for all you 2nd and 3rd world countries)

Illinois was colder than some parts of Antarctica.

Do you know what -40 F is in Celsius?

 

[Hybrida]

If you don't know that, then that's on you. Just use Google or Wiki like everyone else except me for any type of knowledge, outside of dumb irrelevant crap -- that's not in anyway important to advancing the human race....

Thank you.