JonLim

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by JonLim 13y ago
That's awesome. I had no idea Toronto represented so well in the IGDF, but I probably should. :)
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by JonLim 13y ago
Consider it done. :)
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by JonLim 13y ago
Cool! You guys have an email I can reach out to? Might take us a bit to get some more game time under our belts. :)
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by JonLim 13y ago
Gave the tutorial a try and signed up. We're huge fans of tactical strategy games here in the office, so I've shot the link around to get a few people up and running. Small game studio based out of Toronto here, so if you'd l
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by JonLim 13y ago
In the games industry, especially with free-to-play, you can hate funnels all you want, but they're a necessity to understanding where your gameplay loops are doing well and doing poorly. I've taken the long view that making a rea
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by JonLim 13y ago
I am a regular reader of both r/gamedev and Gamasutra, but was wondering if there were any larger communities. :) Thank you for your response though!
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Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News type of website for game development?
1 points by JonLim 13y ago|2 comments
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by JonLim 13y ago
I was curious about the super lopsided iOS and Android numbers, as we were discussing these stats earlier in the office, and it seems like Android wouldn't be worth investing in based on these stats alone. However, the iOS version was
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by JonLim 13y ago
A bit confused, but curious: you guys are essentially curating board games to promote and sell, am I right? I'm just trying to figure out if you guys make them or just talk about them. :) Either way, a lot of great content on there.
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by JonLim 13y ago
As this is a rather one-sided story, I'm inclined to disagree based on my experience with them. Me and a buddy of mine are really big CAH fans, and we had been playing on a set of cards that he printed and cut at that point. We had also bee
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by JonLim 13y ago
I was mentioning this in the office and had someone show me their Pebble and tell me that they absolutely loved it, aside from the battery life. It seems convenient and well made, and I'm now considering getting one.
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by JonLim 14y ago
I think it would be incidentally helpful to hand you a list of these sites - in the act of helping speeder, I would be researching a list of these websites. Happy to share!
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by JonLim 14y ago
My email and my twitter are in my profile, feel free to shoot over a quick message and we'll talk shop! That's a tough market, but I would love to figure out some way to help you out.
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by JonLim 14y ago
That's an interesting issue. I think you can make a pretty significant dent in marketing without really spending a dime, and I'd love to chat with you about it. My background is marketing, but I'm currently in a producer role at a game comp
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by JonLim 14y ago
That's a part of the reasoning I used to get over my needless over-comparison. The movie trailer analogy is perfect, by the way. Thanks for that.
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by JonLim 14y ago
> Graphicly was struggling. Yet, I was spending hours and hours weekly talking to founders that all felt that they are doing better than me. My standard suicidal thoughts started to be tinged with questions about my ability to achieve.
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Ask HN: what resources would you recommend to Project Managers?
4 points by JonLim 14y ago|2 comments
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by JonLim 14y ago
> it's hard to work on the craft you love at night while doing your day job I was going to comment on this. As someone going through it now (working for money in the morning, and working on craft in the nights,) it seems that many of
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by JonLim 14y ago
I can't give you solid numbers (as it's almost been a year since I touched those projects) but they were far below 5%, typically bordering 1-2%. That's off the top of my head, so take it with a grain of salt. :)
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by JonLim 14y ago
Did not know that, thanks for the heads up.
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by JonLim 14y ago
Might be a personal bias here, but I would never use those buttons to share your website/product/blog with my friends. I'd just copy and paste the URL into Facebook/Twitter/whatever and go from there. Judging by its usage rate in previous p
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by JonLim 14y ago
+1 for Imgur. Hosted all of my images for our GitHub Game Off entry[1] README file there. Always a solid solution if you want any sort of image hosting. [1]: https://github.com/TARGS/game-off-2012
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by JonLim 14y ago
I believe there is a vicious cycle that is occurring in PC gaming with the AAA game developers and publishers (Ubisoft and Rockstar come to mind) where PC ports will often be available a significant amount of time after console, or be of sh
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by JonLim 14y ago
In case my code doesn't make it abundantly clear: I'm not a very experienced developer! This was a first crack at game development with my friend and I, and we are both relatively new to our respective roles. However, GitHub Game Off gave u
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Octocat Attacks: Our entry for the GitHub Game Off(jonlim.ca)
3 points by JonLim 14y ago|1 comments
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by JonLim 14y ago
> "Aren't there already a ton of providers for this type of service?" So many. However, it's a very large market that is still seeing plenty of growth, and being able to reach your captive audience reliably and consistently is still a
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by JonLim 14y ago
I came to make a similar comment, and am still reading my way through, but RPS seems to have a bias against updates only for backers. In my opinion, the games that are still far from being released are doing just fine by not marketing thems
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by JonLim 14y ago
To go along with this point, SEO is just another tool in your marketing toolkit. To claim that SEO is the sole reason you're going to grow would be a mistake in my opinion. What about the branding decisions made long before? Or the work put
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by JonLim 14y ago
Curious: given that you saved about $300 despite all the extra time abroad, aren't you just making up for it by spending more on accommodations and food? I mean, I'd do it in a heartbeat, but you aren't saving that much more, I gather. If a
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by JonLim 14y ago
Didn't realize this was posted higher than the other one. Anyhoo, I was initially unimpressed because I zoomed into Paris and the 3D view didn't work very well, but I discovered Toronto. http://i.imgur.com/ldgtc.jpg And you can view it yo

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