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@Anthony That's a good question and not neces...

2012-02-09T08:58:39.865Z

@Anthony

That's a good question and not necessarily a clear answer. The fine chaps at Mode 7 Games have an official account, but Paul Taylor mostly replies on the company account, and Ian Hardingham has his own Twitter presence.

It depends really on how closely you associate your identity with the brand of your company. Pushing your own identity might reduce the opportunities for exposing people to the company brand, but if you always present yourself as "Anthony from AcmeGames" then you're killing two birds with one stone.

I'd say that the 'official' Twitter feed would be best left for 'official' news that PR sorts will appreciate, and personal ones for dev banter.

so between this and your twitter post I am wonderi...

2012-02-09T04:16:05.696Z

so between this and your twitter post I am wondering if I should for what is now a two person company instead of having a twitter account representing the company just use my personal one instead? I'm fairly conversational with other devs on the company based twitter anyway thoguh.

what if you have a desire to maintain creative con...

2012-02-09T03:53:25.925Z

what if you have a desire to maintain creative control of your project though? Doesn't outside money kill that ability?

Thanks for commenting! I think it's telling t...

2012-01-20T19:59:46.515Z

Thanks for commenting!

I think it's telling that even big, XBLA-published studios follow this model.

Perhaps too many ambitious (and perhaps naive) new indies get seduced by the perceptions of what it is to be 'indie', and lose sight of the practicalities of paying the bills. Is that a symptom of the media portraying indies in a certain way?

This is exactly what the studio I'm in now doe...

2012-01-20T19:24:35.647Z

This is exactly what the studio I'm in now does. :D

Wahoo Studios/Ninjabee.

It's not even terrible to "sell out." You are still doing what you love, you just have to be creative within a different set of bounds.

Glad to be of help! I don't have much time for...

2012-01-05T19:53:58.079Z

Glad to be of help! I don't have much time for making games now, so I'm trying to help other people out with everything I've seen and learned.

I'm glad you found it interesting! Being able ...

2012-01-05T19:47:43.204Z

I'm glad you found it interesting! Being able to incrementally build your way to success is a much more realistic goal. I'd even suggest planning on making two games in the same genre, so you can re-use the same engine and spend more time improving the game second time round, after nailing the tech on the first game.

Good luck, and let us know how you get on!

Cool. It's interesting to read your thoughts o...

2012-01-05T19:30:03.632Z

Cool. It's interesting to read your thoughts on indie game dev. I'm hoping to make one or two small indie games myself after I know more about c++. Like you said, your first games probably won't be a huge success but I would like to have something to add into my portfolio.

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2011-12-27T21:31:01.714Z

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2011-12-11T19:52:34.059Z

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

It's good point you raise about the 'Top' lists.

Arguably its a good thing for most developers that they're gone. Top 10 lists create a self-fulfilling prophecy of popularity that snowballs over time.

It's bad for consumers that they're gone, but I like the idea that games need to rely on word-of-mouth.

I agree with you when you say good games will be e...

2011-12-11T19:45:34.112Z

I agree with you when you say good games will be easier to find through word of mouth with the new search functions. I do disagree with you when you say bad games will be forgotten and get no sales. Look at the related games of any game you own and chances are there is some old, random XBLIG. These games are normally not on the top rated or top downloaded list. Those games will get picked up more now.

Since the top rated and top downloaded are so hard to find, people will not download games as much off of that list. Therefore good games will have to rely on word of mouth from a friend or two as well as the related games section. I have already heard from devs with games on the top lists that sales have dropped for those games, but raised for older games due to the related lists. That means a lot of discovery is through the related games tab.

This means that some bad games will still get a lot of publicity by being a random choice for a related game. The top lists being hidden is a terrible thing that does need fixing.

Oh yeah I know, I've met people at events only...

2011-12-06T09:42:23.253Z

Oh yeah I know, I've met people at events only to later be looking through Twitter and THEN recognise them, even though I've RTd or replied to them countless times before.

oh, and I paste my emails up everywhere lol.. but my spam filters do a good job of keeping out the crap :)

Dude, I hope you realise how many spambots are goi...

2011-12-05T18:47:00.795Z

Dude, I hope you realise how many spambots are going to pick up those email addresses :)

Talking to Alexander Sliwinski, Mike Rose, Christian Nutt and Dave at GDCE really made it clear how hard it can be for journalists to keep track of people.

I struggle to keep track of people I actually know and have met, but then that could be because I follow about 1,000 people on Twitter.

Good advice, and something I try to do myself alre...

2011-12-05T17:14:03.228Z

Good advice, and something I try to do myself already:
martincaine.com
martin@martincaine.com
twitter.com/martincaine
facebook.com/martin.caine
linkedin.com/in/martincaine

Though I go by my own name and also the alias Retroburn Game Studios:
http://retroburngames.com
martin.caine@retroburngames.com
twitter.com/retroburngames
facebook.com/retroburngames
linkedin.com/company/retroburn-games-studios

About as consistent as I could get it :-p

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2011-11-09T03:25:42.606Z

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Yep, I certainly agree with you regarding the cost...

2011-11-05T21:22:56.391Z

Yep, I certainly agree with you regarding the costs of development time. I'd be interested to see how many 'low budget' indie games break even - I suspect from reading the XBLIG sales numbers thread that not many of those do.

There is the other side of the equation to conside...

2011-11-05T17:43:53.864Z

There is the other side of the equation to consider as well. Development time isn't free. It has an opportunity cost associated with it that must be accounted for. I think that's why we see so many space invadery games. The monetary prospects of the game are low but maybe the development costs are too. Still I agree with a lot of what you say. Developers do need to make the decision early on about what their objective is beyond "I'm making a game."

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so between this and your twitter post I am wonderi...

what if you have a desire to maintain creative con...

Thanks for commenting! I think it's telling t...

This is exactly what the studio I'm in now doe...

Glad to be of help! I don't have much time for...

I'm glad you found it interesting! Being able ...

Cool. It's interesting to read your thoughts o...

Thank you very much for the advice, they are most ...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It's good p...

I agree with you when you say good games will be e...

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