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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 45m

If there's tension between a developer and a publisher (feels like that might be the case here), it's not a good idea to recklessly force paying customers into the middle of that tension.

If you *have* to do it, spend a lot of time thinking through your messaging, don't just lash out at players.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 45m

It's great to support a game/dev by paying full price at launch. It's also great to find an interesting looking game that's on sale, and give it a shot.

Players who buy your game on sale could turn out to be your number one fan and biggest supporters in future. Don't be needlessly hostile to them.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 45m

If you are no longer seeing eye to eye with your publisher, and are not happy at the level of discounting they are doing on your game, that's a perfectly reasonable thing to feel.

It's not reasonable to shame a paying customer over that. It reflects worse on you than the publisher or the customer.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 45m

I shan't be naming the dev, but here's some general advice for folk in the games industry:
If a player comes to you and says that they bought your game in the latest Steam sale because they saw it and thought it looked cool, please don't respond by shaming them for not having bought it at full price

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 1d

Now I want a Kirby game where he retires after passing the torch to a new generation hero.

LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 1d

Makes sense. There is a school of thought that it's also worth getting playtesting from people who are not pre-disposed to be interested in the game in the first place, but I kinda think that folk in your existing community should be the bigger priority.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 1d

How did you execute on playtesting? I know there are a variety of commercial services you can outsource this to, and there's a lot of Steam functionality for doing it yourself.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 1d

It did get a digital release on PS3, but nothing beyond that.

LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 2d

Feels like it's been a while since we had one of these, right?

Sektori trailer
youtu.be/VWr9XhWHjYY

Looks banging. I'm in.

store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...

Sektori - Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by Kimmo Lahtinen

youtu.be

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 3d

How deep does this rabbit hole go?

Scientific diagram of a flower, showing male and female organs.

A red Pikmin with a flower sprouting from it's head.

LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 3d

I'm gonna go with:
If as part of a culture war, you find yourself transvestigating Pikmin (who are canonically genderless or perhaps monoecious) you need to take a good look at yourself.

Is it a pattern you are noticing, or are you projecting onto random inkblots in a rorschach test?

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 3d

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 3d

I barely ever covered it on SavyGamer because most of the games deals were either not that competitive, things that had been cheaper previously, or even cheaper elsewhere.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 4d

I'll bring the Chupa Chups, see you in the nth dimension.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 4d

Video is almost 4 minutes long.

It's almost time for Mother 4.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 4d

Eat a shit load of Pastéis de nata. Get them freshly cooked if you can, they're all over the place, just keep an eye out for any trays of them being presented for sale.

Francesinha is pretty nice but a bit indulgent, I'd go for it at least once.

Drink a load of Port.

LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 4d

"I know writers who use text, subtext and explicitly overt themes, and they're all cowards".

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 4d

And announced plans to use a charitable donation to shield themselves criticism, and inexplicably backtracked on that when they decided the criticism was somehow invalid. Baffling decision.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 4d

Wow I'm hearing that there's a really interesting scene in Tron Ares where Jared Leto does some cool acting whilst a Nine Inch Nails song plays.

You can find out more about this by Googling:
Jared Leto Nine

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 4d

🤡🤡🤡

Danny Page @danny.page · 4d

<butterfly meme> this is contrition?

Moses Norton, the Well-Red Mage
WE DID IT. WE BEAT CANCEL CULTURE.
You had my back and Bitmap has my back.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
Buy the book the mob tried to cancel today!

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 5d

www.imdb.com/title/tt0102...

Scissors (1991) ⭐ 5.1 | Horror, Thriller

1h 45m | R

www.imdb.com

LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 6d

Would have been perfect time for an activation in Mindseye.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 9d

www.ign.com/articles/199...

'Outrageous' UK N64 Price Dropped - IGN

After a hugely successful launch of the Nintendo 64 in Britain last…

www.ign.com

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 11d

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 11d

Ah. A retro game.

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LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 12d

Love to see a remaster of a Dreamcast game that never existed.

POLYGON BIRD Games @polygonbird.games · 12d

The WORLD-EGG has begun its descent!

Our sword action shooting game BIRDCAGE, launches on PC; Tuesday November 18th.

Play our new DEMO on Steam, right now!
store.steampowered.com/app/2618150/...

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