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Launching a browser game Beta with no save wipes and 2,000 free copies
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Launching a browser game Beta with no save wipes and 2,000 free copies

#gamedev #indiedev #webdev #javascript
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A social layer for a game nobody plays at the same time
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A social layer for a game nobody plays at the same time

#gamedev #gamedesign #idlegames #indiedev
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The cheapest fix for a wrong number in fiction is to delete it
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The cheapest fix for a wrong number in fiction is to delete it

#writing #testing #indiedev #gamedev
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Keeping score honestly: zero improved, four made worse
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Keeping score honestly: zero improved, four made worse

#testing #writing #indiedev #gamedev
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Linting a novel: what a continuity checker can honestly catch
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Linting a novel: what a continuity checker can honestly catch

#writing #gamedev #testing #indiedev
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Generating six hundred pages from game data without making slop
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Generating six hundred pages from game data without making slop

#gamedev #seo #writing #indiedev
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The dead feature: controls that render, respond and do nothing
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The dead feature: controls that render, respond and do nothing

#gamedev #ux #indiedev #testing
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How a fully translated game still shows English in fifty places
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How a fully translated game still shows English in fifty places

#i18n #gamedev #gamedesign #indiedev
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Auditing a world by walking it, not by checking things exist
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Auditing a world by walking it, not by checking things exist

#gamedev #testing #gamedesign #indiedev
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A minigame in an idle game has to be allowed to stop mattering
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A minigame in an idle game has to be allowed to stop mattering

#gamedev #gamedesign #idlegames #gamebalance
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Placing a continent: what geography taught me about scatter
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Placing a continent: what geography taught me about scatter

#gamedev #proceduralgeneration #worldbuilding #gamedesign
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A history the player can read: what an event log should record
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A history the player can read: what an event log should record

#gamedev #gamedesign #ux #indiedev
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The art was already there, and nothing was drawing it
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The art was already there, and nothing was drawing it

#gamedev #ux #indiedev #i18n
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Animating a character that has no animation frames
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Animating a character that has no animation frames

#gamedev #animation #gamedesign #indiedev
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Retiring a gate: when a breakthrough stopped being a checklist
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Retiring a gate: when a breakthrough stopped being a checklist

#gamedev #gamedesign #idlegames #indiedev
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The tap was on time: input buffering in a one-button minigame
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The tap was on time: input buffering in a one-button minigame

#gamedev #gamedesign #ux #indiedev
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Why the in-game market is eight rooms instead of one shop list
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Why the in-game market is eight rooms instead of one shop list

#gamedev #gamedesign #idlegames #worldbuilding
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Sight as a stat: designing fog of war around an attribute
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Sight as a stat: designing fog of war around an attribute

#gamedev #gamedesign #idlegames #xianxia
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Interrupting the player is a cost you choose
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Interrupting the player is a cost you choose

#gamedev #gamedesign #ux #idlegames
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Half-steps: what doubling a level ladder taught me about pacing
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Half-steps: what doubling a level ladder taught me about pacing

#gamedev #gamedesign #idlegames #xianxia
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Designing an idle RPG where idling can't give you everything
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Designing an idle RPG where idling can't give you everything

#gamedev #gamedesign #idlegames #xianxia
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