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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This has come up a few times lately: if you are someone who wants a studio to make your ideas, no studio I know of takes outside ideas.

If someone tells you they're with a platform & need a passport scan & some money to start the process: it's a scam. Do not send them anything.
As a reminder: games studios tend to reject outside ideas without reading them for legal reasons. There's not really such a thing as "letting a games studio make your game idea" and anyone claiming otherwise is probably trying to defraud you.
I am kind of shocked at how common this scam seems to be, but I've talked to several people via my free global dev consultancy over the past weeks that have been approached by people claiming to be with "Sony Japan" or certain major games studios - but clearly were not.
I'm digging into it a bit, but for now I just wanted to issue this warning.

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23 Mar
Any Muslim, Arab, or Middle Eastern person please reply & rate from 1-10 by how shocked you are seeing US military propaganda about the destruction of our people getting "analytical interviews" featuring only 3 US voices and massive promotion on the largest relevant US website.
Note the trope: the "analytical interview" about the "shoot Iraqis roguelike" and its merits is conducted exclusively by US voices. This always happens, our voices are systemically excluded, both for the real wars & real hurt and the entertainment based on it.
This is why I was so pissed off at every website going ahead running Tamte's words without our voices. I understand interviewing Tamte is easy, and getting our voices is hard. So hold back on publishing Tamte's words until you've done the work of getting counter-voices.
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23 Mar
I watched the Six Days in Fallujah gameplay trailer so nobody else has to.

Here's a quick video with live thoughts as I watched it, and more written out thoughts continue below:
- The trailer starts with a US soldier telling about how they lost 2/3rd of their unit in the 2nd Siege of Fallujah with a Back to the Future style fade of a photo? I waited for any mention of Iraqi deaths, but there's only ragdolls there.
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22 Mar
The worst thing about to race to the bottom is that most passionate young creatives already deeply undervalue their own work. So indies already wish to offer a low price for accessibility, but are then forced down into unsustainable prices by the market works.
For the other side of this equation, let me tell you about when I help indies budget, even the devs themselves are often shocked at how expensive their own game is to make. Let me try and illustrate the odds indie developers are working with for you.
I recently consulted for a self-described "shitty pixel game but it's an aesthetic" made in 4 months by a designer, two artists, and a programmer. The prototype was great, the art style funny. In today's market, I wager it could be a small hit. 4 people is a pretty standard team.
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I have had some shoulder pains so I invested in a very good but painfully expensive office-appropriate gaming chair

why is this box so large I'm going to wreck my shoulder getting this thing out of this box
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Do I dare do I not dare Image
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OK, we're going to go through this and explain why it sucks. polygon.com/2021/2/15/2227…
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