Make the Game with Matt Hackett

📝 Show Notes
Boy I sure do mention a lot of things in 42 minutes:
Pixel Washer
📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
Acclaim
Alessandro Marani
Charlie Dean
Geoff Blair
A free tip from Miyamoto: Make your first level last
Songs of Syx
Sequelitis - Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X
How to Market a Game
Indie Game Clinic
Obsidian
📈 The Steam Dev Cheat Sheet
⏱ How long should your game be?
How limitations set you free
🕯 This Is All That Matters About Games Marketing
Tiled (open source map editor)
🛑 Don't Stop Posting
Valadria Discord
[Redacted] The Safehouse (article, Steam page)
You were played out with music by Joshua Morse (new songs out!!)

🔗 Show Notes
Acclaim / Pixel Washer
Washlist Pixel Washer on Steam
🔥 Acclaim is publishing my game Pixel Washer
🕹️ How I got a publisher for my indie game
📺 Video: Publishing with Acclaim
Diggy, an open source JavaScript game engine (with example game)
Onslaught! Arena by Lost Decade Games
Onslaught! Arena
Bacon and Games
Game Dev Comics by Matt Hackett
Buffer (for scheduling posts)
Matt's Canon EOS M50 Guide
🛠️ Building a fulfilling creative career as a solo dev
Star Spark
Jonas Tyroller
Juniper Dev
🎶 Music by Joshua Morse

Links and more: https://www.valadria.com/sprint-planning-complexity-and-marketing/

🎬 Time Codes
0:00 Intro
0:23 Work schedules / time tracking / sprint planning
4:28 Game architecture complexity
8:50 Splitting time on indie game development / other stuff
14:09 Marketing / promotion
21:08 A challenge for you
23:40 Ramble on
34:06 Promoting games on social media
37:20 Outro

Links and more: https://www.valadria.com/how-to-get-back-into-game-development/

Article: https://www.valadria.com/robby-bisschop-piratepr/

🎬 TIMELINE
0:00 Intro
0:13 Marketing and PR
35:37 How to get wishlists
49:32 How long to market a game?
59:17 Marketing beats
1:07:05 Keyscammers
1:25:40 Outro

🏴‍☠️ Hire Robby: https://piratepr.com/
📙 Buy my book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/
🐷 Washlist Pixel Washer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/Pixel_Washer/

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