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📝 Show Notes Boy I sure do mention a lot of things in 42 minutes: Pixel Washer 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself Acclaim Alessandro Marani Charlie Dean Geoff Blair A free tip from Miyamoto: Make your first lev

Hosted by Valadria · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 48 episodes
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Learn to make and sell indie games with Matt Hackett, author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself.
Valadria hosts Make the Game with Matt Hackett, a leisure show with 48 episodes published.

📝 Show Notes Boy I sure do mention a lot of things in 42 minutes: Pixel Washer 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself Acclaim Alessandro Marani Charlie Dean Geoff Blair A free tip from Miyamoto: Make your first lev

🔗 Show Notes Acclaim / Pixel Washer Washlist Pixel Washer on Steam 🔥 Acclaim is publishing my game Pixel Washer 🕹️ How I got a publisher for my indie game 📺 Video: Publishing with Acclaim Diggy, an open source JavaSc

Links and more: https://www.valadria.com/sprint-planning-complexity-and-marketing/ 🎬 Time Codes 0:00 Intro 0:23 Work schedules / time tracking / sprint planning 4:28 Game architecture complexity 8:50 Splitting time on i

Links and more: https://www.valadria.com/how-to-get-back-into-game-development/

Article: https://www.valadria.com/robby-bisschop-piratepr/ 🎬 TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 0:13 Marketing and PR 35:37 How to get wishlists 49:32 How long to market a game? 59:17 Marketing beats 1:07:05 Keyscammers 1:25:40 Outro

See valadria.com for more info! 📋 Show Notes A Wizard's Lizard From Quake mods to game director with Jon Hackett 🐷 Pixel Washer PowerWash Simulator Dr Wahwee Tiled (map editor)

https://www.valadria.com/playtests-prototypes-permission-games/ Show Notes 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself ( Gumroad , Itch , signed copies ) Pixel Washer How to make a good Steam page Pixel Washer: 3-day dev

🔗 Show Notes Bacon and Games How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself Steam Dev Cheat Sheet How to Find a Video Game Publisher (Tips for Indie Devs) Armor Games Valadria Discord 10 Godot Features Hidden in Plain Sight �

https://www.valadria.com/the-best-thing-you-ever-made/ 0:00 Intro 0:23 What's the best thing you ever made? 3:28 You didn't miss the boat 5:11 Three hours is all you need 9:48 Breaking down hard problems 19:37 Outro 📙 h

We're talking about: Preparing for GDC Getting a badge (or not) Lodging around GDC A tour of Moscone Center Navigating GDC parties General tips & advice 🔗 Show Notes Game Developers Conference Making a mobile video for

We cover a lot in this episode! Look at all these links : Amazon wishlist (thanks!) 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself Game Marketing GOLD with Chris Zukowski Twitter: @richtaur Podcast: Make the Game 📺 YouTube

More info: https://www.valadria.com/no-stacking/ 🔗 LINKS Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/ Coaching: https://www.valadria.com/game-dev-coaching-consulting/ 🎬 TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 1

Links galore: https://www.valadria.com/seeing-things-steam-next-fest-greg-love/ 🎬 TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 4:14 Story Machine 11:50 Seeing Things 19:26 Steam Next Fest 36:30 Live streams 42:20 What's next? 45:59 Release afte

Links & more: https://www.valadria.com/the-money-episode/ 🎬 Timeline 0:00 Intro 1:36 User Interface (UI) 10:32 Configurable input 21:10 Climbing the wall 26:40 A "game shell" 37:48 The Money Part 43:02 Kickstarter(s) 50

Article : https://www.valadria.com/my-2-year-indie-postmortem/ 🎹 Music https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879 https://stevenmelin.itch.io/lo-fi-atmospheres-music-pack https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1601

Show Notes The Early Days of id Software How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself 🐷 Pixel Washer ( Steam page ) Silver, a font for games by Poppy Works Jeremy Jackson Performative Game Development: The Design and Market

Pixel Washer: http://www.pixelwasher.com/ 0:00 Intro 0:17 What's Pixel Washer? 1:44 Why's Pixel Washer? 5:22 What's cool about it? 7:11 State of the game 8:57 Outro #gamedev #devlog #solodev

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4 main topics in this fun chat with Heart Beast (Ben Anderson): 📙 Ben's solo developer book Production Point 🛠 When to pivot projects? 🚒 GameMaker VS Godot 🎮 Ben's new game WASarD BOOKS! 🛠 Ben's book Production Poin

Unity, owning your tools, JS GameDev Summit, Pixel Washer, & Game music: https://valadria.com/the-unity-debacle/ 📝 Show Notes Unity Leadership Unity and ironSource’s $4.4B merger is now complete Game developers are furi
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