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by benzor 10y ago
I see where you're going with your rule: services that provide True Value™ would likely survive if they suddenly started charging a nominal fee right now. However, as a game developer with Free-To-Play development PTSD, I think this ru
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by benzor 10y ago
Game developer here: SteamSpy's data is actually very accurate. We have a game on Steam and the actual sales figures are well within the error margins specified on the site. And other local devs has said the same about their games as w
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by benzor 10y ago
Question for the more security-savvy among you: If the leak happened in 2012 and I've changed my password since then (it's listed in your account page [1]), do I need to change it again? Logic tells me I've got nothing to wor
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by benzor 10y ago
While I agree with your points about him debating more in sound bytes than in real answers... In fairness he's actually been doing reasonably well on his promises, as tracked by the TrudeauMetre[1]. Off the top of my head, unmuzzling s
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by benzor 11y ago
Honestly, you can make a horribly inefficient game using any engine. Unity just has a lower barrier to entry, as it's very hobbyist-friendly (as you rightly point out), so there's more games being made overall with it, more games
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by benzor 11y ago
I'm pretty sure it's not a sorted list...
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by benzor 11y ago
I think your post is a little misleading in that #1 implies working for BigCo on the first read-through, but then working for yourself on your own business stuck with a single major client on the second read-through. Perhaps some people wil
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by benzor 11y ago
I've also read this repeatedly, and cursory googling[1] seems to confirm it. [1] https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=fat+cells+constant
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by benzor 11y ago
Double Stallion Games - http://dblstallion.com/ - Montreal, QC, Canada We're a small independent games studio, currently comprised of a single dev team but looking to grow. Our last game is mobile (iOS, Android, etc.)
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by benzor 12y ago
Double Stallion Games - http://dblstallion.com/ - Montreal, QC, Canada We're a small independent games studio, currently comprised of a single dev team but looking to grow. Our last game is mobile (iOS, Android, etc.)
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by benzor 12y ago
This is a very serious hit to the appeal of Twitch.tv IMO. And it really feels like they were strongarmed into this, given the site was designed from day 1 for this kind of use.
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by benzor 12y ago
Excellent points all around! As an indie developer myself I've had to learn these lessons the hard way. I'd also like to throw in one additional point: Selling apps up front for $0.99 is a bad idea. It makes it look and feel cheap
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by benzor 13y ago
> F2P requires a lot of investment/luck and non-F2P on mobile is a steadily shrinking market. I've been an independent developer for a year now, and having just launched our first game I can really echo that this is how we fe
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by benzor 13y ago
Yes, and because we all know that no computer scientist has ever done anything unethical, obviously.
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by benzor 13y ago
Fellow (mobile) game developer here, congrats on the launch! Can you tell us about the development cycle for this game? Were you alone, did it take a year full-time, etc? I'm curious.
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by benzor 13y ago
Cocos2d-x handles the game engine side of things really well (scene graph, asset management, input handling, etc.) and all that runs cross-platform without any issues. But Marmalade comes in real handy for all the platform-specific stuff li
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by benzor 13y ago
The game was built with Cocos2d-x [1], a C++ port of the excellent Cocos2d game engine, and Marmalade [2], our cross-platform SDK/OS abstraction layer so we can port it quickly to other platforms like Android, WP8 and BB10. The main re
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by benzor 13y ago
Oh man I would love to get this game on Steam. Not sure it would be a great fit for the platform though, as such traditionally hardcore gamers can be rather hostile to freemium. Some day we might rebalance it to be a premium game if we get
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by benzor 13y ago
We actually have a full set of In-App Purchases (IAPs) ranging from $2 to $99, as well as the $5 coin doubler. That being said, we're not trying to monetize by being heavy-handed and squeezing players for money with paywalls and the li
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Show HN: Launching our first iOS game, BAMF
9 points by benzor 13y ago|8 comments
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by benzor 13y ago
Wow. Can't believe the almighty Google failed me. Apologies.
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Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
2 points by benzor 13y ago|3 comments
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by benzor 14y ago
I can certainly appreciate the precision of Lego pieces, as I too have mixed and matched incredibly old pieces from my parents's era (1970s) with more recent (2000s) stuff. And I think the OP did a decent job collecting precision data for t
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by benzor 14y ago
I have fond memories of spending entire weeks programming the old Mindstorms NXT kits for an infamous undergrad ECE course at McGill... It's strange that Lego markets this so heavily towards children when there's more than enough complexity
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by benzor 14y ago
Yeah, as I replied above, I'm a fan and I got overly defensive, so apologies again :)
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by benzor 14y ago
Right, sorry about that, I interpreted your post as being more snarky than it actually was in retrospect. I just love how quickly I get work done with C#, so apologies for getting defensive :) As for the var feature, you're absolutely rig
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by benzor 14y ago
Sorry, but you're really attacking a straw man here. Neither C# itself nor the OP's article sell C# as being a prime language for functional, dynamic, or systems programming. Rather, it has inherited some convenient little bits of each para
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by benzor 14y ago
Nicely done! Side note: for those of you inclined to try this, or make use of Java's Robot class in any way, a word of warning: Robot takes over your mouse and/or keyboard entirely, so if things go wrong (e.g. an infinite loop) you'll have
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by benzor 14y ago
I've always felt that picking a solid name is one of those things that will never happen while I'm thinking about it intently. Glad to hear it's the same for the big boys too...
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by benzor 14y ago
I think this app is excellent, both in its idea, its (brief) presentation and what it promises to become, but the execution could use some work for now... Random concerns that I have, assuming you want this to grow into a big, comprehensive

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