Die LINKE-Spitzenkandidatin am Wahlabend: "Heute hat die Liebe über den Hass gewonnen." Nein. Der Hass hat gewonnen. Hass auf Vermieter. Hass auf Rechte. Hass auf Deutsche. Hass auf Israel. Hass auf Reiche.

So, you wanna make videogames? You can't worry about things like crowds, competition or discovery. A million 'experts' online will tell you all the ways you will fail. In many ways the world was simpler and easier without the internet. You just made things. You focused on making your game. You were never going to compete with EA or Origin so who cares? There is a never ending hunger for good games. If this wasn't true the indie games wouldn't be huge today and shareware in the early 90s never would have been a thing. Turns out people everywhere just want good games - at all sizes, scopes and price points. Don't worry yourself out of making a game. Don't listen to internet experts telling you all the negatives. Ignore everything and focus on skills and making a good game. Get in there. Always room for one more game.

I'm really sick of these Ex-Rioter "indie" studios who pay themselves 200k salaries and grift 15 million dollars from venture capital just to do it again. Tarnishing indie funding confidence for everyone else. Investors see "Rioter" or "Ex-Blizzard" and dump money on them.

Machine Party is out now. Thank you for the continued support :)!

Machine Party, a collection of violent party games, releases on July 30!

Steam just made a change that's really gonna hurt future indie games. The Popular Upcoming page used to list games chronologically by release time. As long as you had enough wishlists to make the cut (~6k to 7k), you'd get some time at the top of the list for people to discover your game. Now it's listed algorithmically, with far more large games from major companies and publishers on the list, even those releasing two weeks away. The lowest wishlist count on there right now is 80k, when before it would've been 10 indie games as low as 6k wishlists. Feeling very lucky our game's early access release barely made it out before this changed. It was worth probably 1k wishlists for us, and we had some really unfortunate timing/positioning too. It can be worth thousands of wishlists and sales for smaller games. Steam is more heavily prioritizing larger games, with the budget and time to grow to enormous wishlist totals, or the rare indie viral hit. The small to mid-sized games just lost a way to find players. Steam players lost a tool to discover cool smaller games.

Our new game Machine Party is a collection of violent party games for 2-4 players, that all have lethal consequences. Releasing late this summer. Run across minefields, assemble firearms, smoke cigs as fast as possible, dodge trains, eat peas, and try to survive! Link below :)