justdaveisfine
@justdaveisfine@piefed.social
- Comment on Dragon Eye Water Bottle... 5 days ago:
Dang I need one of those spinner things…
- Comment on 6 days ago:
An unfortunate ‘secret’ for most indie titles is that the vast majority of their sales are on discount, usually during launch or one of the big week long sales. Not a lot of people buy indie games at full sticker price unless its a pretty high quality title.
So your $200K net revenue would be at absolute max, but is realistically ~50-80% of that.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
As I recall, its around 5%-20% of players leave a review, usually closer to 5% unless something about the game makes people want to talk about it, for both good and bad.
- Comment on ideas for deadspace behind fridge 1 week ago:
You could build some shelving and use it as a baking tray holder, with the trays facing vertical. They would be easy to slide in/out.
- Comment on Change my Mind 1 week ago:
I’m not so sure - I’m in the world of indie game dev and silently publishing a game without any advertising is usually a death sentence for a game. Especially in a busy market where finding anything decent is a chore.
Granted, the more effective advertising is usually getting streamers or reviewers to check a game out. Traditional ads, in my experience, have not been valuable.
- Comment on Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment 2 weeks ago:
It most definitely takes a toll. Most devs don’t even talk about the weird sadness you get after finally getting something out the door either.
I don’t mean to make it all sound bad though, there is some genuine joy in making something and seeing it come together. Anyways good luck on your game dev projects.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 2 weeks ago:
I shop at small businesses if its an option. I prefer my money supporting the community than someone’s fourth yacht.
That being said there is a particular type of small business whose customers are largely old retired people. They’re usually open 8-5, have higher than normal prices, and are in no rush as they usually like to chat - Which their customer base likes.
There are other types of course but sometimes you got to do hunting because they likely don’t have big advertising bucks.
Its very very difficult for small businesses to compete with big box stores. They can’t out price Walmart or outship Amazon. So they usually try to find a niche to focus on… Or wither on the vine.
- Comment on how does it happen every time 2 weeks ago:
They’re referring to these kind of dogs:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/small-white-dogs-with-crusty-eyes
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 2 weeks ago:
I am unfortunately aware about how predatory microtransactions are - This is a ragebait thread so the broad (and mostly incorrect) blaming was the intent.
- Comment on Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment 2 weeks ago:
As far as I understand it, the vast majority of ‘successful’ indie studios are in the same boat. You need to continual decent hits to keep afloat in an ever turbulent and flooding market. Even if the next title is successful, they already mentioned the other looming problem, burnout. You might be able to push yourself through one game, two is a struggle, and very few make it to three.
To me, and maybe I’m being a bit cynical, but this feels like a very foreboding article.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 2 weeks ago:
No, every elephant I’ve ever met doesn’t use Lemmy.
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 2 weeks ago:
They complain about it all the time, but gamers deserve the microtransaction and slop hell the AAA industry has created, as those same gamers pump billions into these soulless corporate behemoths and keep the system rolling.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 weeks ago:
Oh that’s true, I did forget about that one.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 145 comments
- Comment on A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game. 2 weeks ago:
Looks glorious.
That’s pretty good for a first attempt, most people’s first games are barely functional, if at all, so I’d consider this a win.
- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
You mean ‘ram’ it?
- Comment on Crosslinking posts from Mastodon -> PieFed or Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
My aim was to take an existing Mastodon post and basically repost it somewhere else here on Lemmy, but then have the discussion attached.
For example, John Mastodon makes a post about XYZ, then I crosspost it to the Open Source community, and if you open that post you can see the Mastodon comments and such, and commenting here on Lemmy would add to that conversation.
- Comment on Crosslinking posts from Mastodon -> PieFed or Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Ok this ‘appears’ to work. Each community is viewable as a group in Mastodon, so you can tag it as you post and this creates a PieFed/Lemmy post.
- Comment on Crosslinking posts from Mastodon -> PieFed or Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Oh most definitely, here’s this post on Mastodon:
Still unsure of how to do the reverse though.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Those were actually versions of you from parallel universes, each saving you in the manner that the prophecies foretold.
- Comment on You ever felt like THIS 3 weeks ago:
I’m actually going to be ignorant here but I don’t really know what’s up with the bunny ears and maid dresses. I presumed it was a fetish but I never really looked into it.
- Comment on Regulations restricting pay disclosure? 3 weeks ago:
NAL but I don’t think this is illegal, though it is a pretty large red flag that you’re going to get lowballed.
- Comment on NaNoWriMo2 1 month ago:
Maybe I need another coffee but I’m a little confused.
So this site (named after a previous writing practice workshop that shut down after a series of scandals) is trying to do the same thing but isn’t actually hosting anything and is more or less pointing to a Reddit megathread with like over a dozen other writing practice workshops?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
This is a weirdo complaint but one thing I don’t like that some modern games keep doing is adding a lot of visual/texture noise by having a lot of details.
Sometimes its OK, but sometimes it gets difficult to tell what’s going on in the chaos of a fight. Combined with particle effects, reflections, and the DLSS or FSR or whatever and it gets to be a bit of an eye strainer.
Halos usually pretty good about strong enemy colors and easy to read room layouts but a few glimpses of this have me raising an eyebrow.
- Comment on bingo 1 month ago:
I really enjoyed the Sims 2 on the Xbox because it was co-op and I was eager to see how they handled co-op in future games.
Then I found out that they just never did co-op again and I was incredibly disappointed.
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 1 month ago:
I quite liked Fields of Mistria though its still early access.
KB/M is a little easier for placing things but its not at all bad with a gamepad.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 month ago:
I got several, I’ve found that some people really think about what I like in a game and nail a recommendation and some people just recommend things they liked, regardless how I feel on them.
The big ones would be Breath of the Wild and Helldivers 2.
