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[Eric Blank]

Holy fuck thats a lot

[EnigmaticHat]

Saw The Last Jedi before work.  Writjng this on my phone on the train ride over, so I can’t go into any detail, but...

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it was perfect.  The red herrings, the character arcs, the callbacks to the original trilogy.  It managed at once to have higher themes + commentary on the force and even on movies, yet at the same time be a fun adventure flick like A New Hope was.  All my complaints were either quibbles, or inherited problems from VII.  I’d put Luke’s characterization in the latter category.  Cool character, not Luke.

In my book: better than VI, Rogue One, and prequels.  Doesn’t top IV or V, never expected it to.

[Rolan7]

New Years Eve with dad & [Aquaria] (and my friends via futuristic nonsense) was really nice, despite sobriety and politics!
Walking the ol' city, near enough my hometown (college, most of high school) in the frigid weather was grand.  There's something special about walking in bitter cold with a proper coat, and a fuzzy "russian" hat!  You feel the cold, it even nips, but it can't reach your core, haha!

Cold and me have a history, heh.  I've always preferred it to summer heat.  You can at least hide from cold.

They set up a ferris wheel right in the core street!  And the food trucks, oh man.  I still almost regret not trying the fried cheese curds, even if they were $8 and I was stuffed from family dinner with gma.  Cheese curds!  I picture them as rubbery lumps, hehe!

And home and safe/warm, we saw the [local not-apple] drop along with the Big Apple.  And (pheheh) Brittany Spears, and later some Korean band which my dad actually really liked, I should try to dig them up actually.  He occasionally likes J-pop, and K-pop too I guess sometimes!

Anyway, being sober for new years eve was pretty great, lots of great memories (:
What I hope to remember from *today* is that Travelers (new from Netflix) seems very solid so far, episode 3.  And I drove someone around, and ate good food - but mainly I played a video game and relaxed, hehe.
Salve, 2018!

[SalmonGod]

I am so goddamn hooked on Plague Inc (Steam version).  It's all I've wanted to do since I got it a couple days ago.  Beaten all the main plague types on Single Player / Normal.  Moving on to scenarios.

[scourge728]

I am so goddamn hooked on Plague Inc (Steam version).  It's all I've wanted to do since I got it a couple days ago.  Beaten all the main plague types on Single Player / Normal.  Moving on to scenarios.

The scoring system for those is brutal

[SalmonGod]

I am so goddamn hooked on Plague Inc (Steam version).  It's all I've wanted to do since I got it a couple days ago.  Beaten all the main plague types on Single Player / Normal.  Moving on to scenarios.

The scoring system for those is brutal

I don't even care about scores right now.  I just want to beat them.

[Xantalos]

I learned a lesson, or rather realized something that seems obvious now in hindsight. Took me longer than it probably should’ve, but I got it. I hope, at least.

[redwallzyl]

I stumbled across a book called "Indigenous African Institutions" by George B. N. Ayittey  while doing research. Its way more interesting then it sounds I promise. Whats more it presents realistic solutions to Africa's problem. What makes me happy is that I really like reading it and am glad I found it.

[Tomasque]

Cheese curds!  I picture them as rubbery lumps, hehe!

Hah! They remind me of them, too!

 I hung out with my friends at Denny's today, then got to go up to one of their houses and played some Super Hot VR. Great day, and I hope tomorrow is just as good.

[EnigmaticHat]

A while back, someone here linked to a terribad steam game called "Zombie Zoeds".  Somehow I found it again and it now has 884 reviews, almost all of them negative.

This makes me feel... hopeful, that if I ever make a game people will play it.  Presumably not everyone who bought the game wrote a review, and most of the reviews seem unironic.  If thousands of people played that, there must still be room for more developers out there.

[Descan]

And yet I hear tell that about a third of games on the Steam store have literally never been played. :v

[Arx]

Apparently something like 70 games are released on Steam per day. Most of them nonentities that never get played because no-one hears of them, or no-one in their right mind would play them.

[Egan_BW]

Assuming nobody knows your game exists the moment that you put the game on steam, probably a few people will see it on a list, and if your game is eye catching and cheap, maybe a few of those will look at your game's page, and if the information on THERE is enticing enough, maybe somebody will buy it, at which point the steam store algorithm thingy might notice that your game apparently isn't hot trash that nobody wants and will put it in front of a few more people to see if they'll buy it too...
It will probably help chances a lot if you email some journalists and ask them to check out your game and maybe write a little about it. Then you're more likely to have at least a small audience who know you exist.

[Reelya]

You have to be careful with the game journalism thing, I've heard about more than one game where when it was greenlit, they managed to get a bunch of articles about it, but then when it was finally for sale, zero interest in writing about it again - because you know, novelty sells views and there are a new bunch of greenlit things by then, and you have an uphill battle getting writers to fit another story in about it.

It's best to get grass-roots word of mouth happening soonest, with a small core of fans of that specific genre, possibly on your own low-key website/forum that serves as a dev blog and bugfix feedback, and only push it to pro-journalists around the time that people can start shelling out actual dollars to play it. "Early Access" through Steam etc can backfire in the same way too, since plenty of people will play your half-made version of the game, and never be enticed to see it again (since they've either seen a crap version of the game, or gotten their fill of the core game mechanics anyway). I'm not 100% on the tactics that work well in Early Access, but I have a feeling it's when you have a solid core of gameplay, but with entire systems deliberately missing. you want the players going "wow this is cool! but I wish I could do X,Y, and Z!" with those features being dribbled out, only when they're good. Basically, don't put half-finished placeholder systems in, omit those future systems completely from the gameplay, and just promise them, or show mock-ups of the feature in non-playable demo videos.

You really don't want the novelty peak hitting too early, before you can actually deliver.

[Putnam]

Northernlion did a talk on using youtubers to market your game, which is probably more likely to be successful.