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Lage (Stig 🧩)

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🕹️🇸🇪 Gamedev in Gothenburg, Sweden 🧩 Creator of “Stig”: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2834830/Stig/ 👶 Dad 🍿🎬 Devlogs on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BergbergGames/

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · Jul 25

My chess game prototype is now playable in the browser over on itch! 🙌
Check it out: lageb.itch.io/bergberg-chess

Made a video about it too:
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Publishing My Game Prototype | Devlog

YouTube video by BergBerg Games

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 1d

Haha, yeah I was thinking of something like that! You get the immersion break still kind of, but it’s a little *wink wink*. Didn’t know Zelda did that!

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 1d

I’m unsure how I feel about having characters in a game tell me how to play in terms of keyboard buttons and stuff. It’s a bit of an immersion break, but it’s also cool to have the game explained by a character rather than a popup hmm..

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow I love Kingdomino! And it won Spiel des Jahres, so you know it’s quality!

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 5d

So neat! Size does matter when it comes to text boxes!

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 6d

With the autumn sale, Stig finally reached 500 units sold! 🙌

526 sold, 22 refunded.
28 positive reviews, 0 negative.

It’s nothing huge, but it’s a big milestone for us. And having no negative reviews makes me really happy!

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Save 20% on Stig on Steam

A sokoban-style puzzle game about finding a path through colors.

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

Yup, exactly like that. So right now it’s like 15% is the demo, and the rest is paid. But if we switched it around so like 50 or 80% is free, maybe we would get more players is what I’m saying. To me the fact that it’s two different apps doesn’t really change much

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

It’s an outdated reference, but streaming services is a whole other thing. Subscription models are the worst so I didn’t even want to go there

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah I see what you’re saying, and I think I agree. But if there’s no discount for getting the whole thing at once, then it’s like buying a season at a time rather than buying the whole dvd box at once because you don’t know if you’ll have the time later on.

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

And at that point we threw in a “get the full game to keep playing” message without thinking too much. Kind of went the mobile route on accident 😶

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

I get that. Makes sense! I think for Stig we just thought it would be weird for people to jump in anywhere but the beginning since they need the first levels to understand what to do.
And then we thought it was nice for people not to have to repeat the same levels again.

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

Is this a common business model already? I kind of like the idea of paying for how much of the game you feel like playing

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

Of course the dlc would have to be smaller than what you get for free. Otherwise it feels like cheating. But it could be worth it if it gets a lot of eyes on the game..

You could also do multiple smaller content packs, and a bundle for getting everything at once.

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

Saw an interesting reddit post from someone who made a free game with paid dlc. It’s basically the same as a demo that’s the first part of a game, if progress is transferred over between the demo and the full game (like it is for Stig). But saying the game is free might attract more players?

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks! Both are nice clubs to be in 😁

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 9d

Dude I totally should haha!

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 9d

Hahaha!

Uuuuh I’m just going to update it to Godot 109.3 first…

an older man sits at a desk in front of a computer monitor

ALT: an older man sits at a desk in front of a computer monitor

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks! Yeah it’s crazy. Before I was a guy. Now I’m a dad who’s made a video game 🤯

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 9d

If you want to wish happy birthday to the channel, watch one of the videos. Let me know what you think 🙏

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Two developers making games together

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 9d

Today marks the one year anniversary of my first YouTube video! 🎉

In the past year I’ve made 8 devlogs. During that time Miriam and I released our first game, and had our first kid. It’s been a busy year! 😄

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 9d

Added the possibility to display images with messages in my dialog system

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 9d

Are you using a library or plugin, or are you writing it yourself from scratch? I recently built my own so I would love to compare notes!

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ChumasGames 👑 PLAY PANIK 👑 @chumasgames.bsky.social · 9d

PANIK IS OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🎉

Thank you for your support! ♥️

#gamedev #indiegames #puzzle #gamemaker

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Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 13d

Haha yeah! Like they were these scruffy bandits when they took your stuff, but when you finally hunt them down they’re all sophisticated. They escaped poverty and now they run a business

Lage (Stig 🧩) @bergberggames.bsky.social · 14d

That’s cool! Then you could also get items that you can’t get from the regular shops, because the enemies have access to the underground black market

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14d

PSA: The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant application deadline is this Sunday at 23:59 PST.

The team and I may not be available over the weekend to answer any last minute questions, so please check out the FAQ and if there's any doubt - apply anyway!

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