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John | ATL native | I like games and make them too | helping indies with the business

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Current funding is way too SAAS coded. Should be more like movies or even construction models.

04.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I had to

03.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 2765 πŸ” 763 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 4

AAA usually catches this, but they really going for style over substance here I guess.

27.02.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll also add the font is very UNfriendly as a dyslexic. It takes me extra time to read and then you get killed while in a menu and feel bad πŸ˜•

27.02.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Damn, just downloaded 20 demos for Next Fest and they all look fire.
Gona be even harder for indies to stand out but so many great things!

25.02.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very much so! Idk what’s going on at the AAA level of finance but it can’t be anything good!

20.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeahhh can’t wait!

20.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love all these points. JR’s now also have the added detriment of not having enough experience for either. With any internships having limited spots while candidates rise. And indies not having enough money or time to train folks.

20.02.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s gota be a tough call. I fully understand why it wouldn’t and shouldn’t be shown but if people find any that are obviously AI would be great to have it updated. And if can’t find any more, hard to trust the AI as a source. Too many layers of AI fuckery here πŸ˜• this could go deeper…

20.02.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The AI’s are going rouge! This isn’t how Terminator was supposed to play out…

20.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

20.02.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 3144 πŸ” 1325 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 134
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Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen coming to Switch on Feb 27th ($19.99 each). Listed on Switch eShop in coming soon section

20.02.2026 06:27 πŸ‘ 1065 πŸ” 274 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 723

You can prob do the main story in… 60 hours πŸ˜…
It’s a big game and big world to take your time in. Gota think of it more as a single player MMO in many ways.

19.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mario Tennis Fever Is the Best Mario Sports Game Ever Made When the Field Shrinks

I love how @jakesteinberg.substack.com spends 95% of this review explaining, celebrating, and analyzing the game of tennis and all of its playful variations!

19.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I also think people can save money if they and/or the rest of the team works part time. The best funding you can get is sometimes working a day job right now.

18.02.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of great stuff here. In the end I always tell people it comes down to time. Time has a money value. If you make a game in 9 months those sales are pretty good! But are you able to put up a Steam page to get enough wishlist in that timeframe too…

18.02.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you survive off 10k sales for a $15 game? | Grey Alien Games Get more from Grey Alien Games on Patreon

Can you survive off 10k sales for a $15 game?

www.patreon.com/posts/can-yo...

17.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

And if they do tricks on the jumps they should get access to some kind of boost!

13.02.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll take that under. I’ve got them gone by 2028

23.01.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Miami lost three games this season and their last offensive play of each one of them was a Carson Beck interception

20.01.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 1026 πŸ” 170 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 33

IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO END ON A CARSON BECK INTERCEPTION

20.01.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 983 πŸ” 125 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 3

Horrible clock management, but couldn’t have it end any other way than a Beck interception

20.01.2026 04:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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7. Troublemaker, by El Lissitzky, 1913

20.01.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 1945 πŸ” 349 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 26

I’ll cheer on IU with you!

19.01.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Saw the first line and thought it was Kyle Bosman πŸ˜”

16.01.2026 04:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Luckily $BABY seems to be an open ticker πŸ‘€

15.01.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

08.01.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1845 πŸ” 577 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 65

Having β€œold” college football players seems to be a good strategy right now.
Not quite NFL caliber but good enough to get NIL money.

09.01.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’΅ MONEY for GAME? In 2026??? πŸ’΅

There have been more and more successful-game-devs-turned-game-funders popping up, so here's a lil' thread of some of the more recent ones I've seen.

Hopefully this helps you get some $$$! πŸ”½

08.01.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 600 πŸ” 159 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 7
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FOOL TIME, part 4 of 4
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now free to watch on youtube

youtu.be/_HGk0WQF_Z4?...

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