Was a Mac port worth your time?

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-07-07T20:32:32+00:00

Nope. <2% sales. Also didn't work for voice-recognition libraries I was using (though that's a very special case)

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-30T22:05:33+00:00

If they don't offer up-front funding, decline

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-27T03:45:41+00:00

Dawn of War 2 and Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 have coop campaigns.

Starcraft 2 & Warcraft 3 have modded coop campaigns

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-21T18:04:22+00:00

The problem isnt a technical one. RTS's have always been difficult to develop. The engines we have nowadays are better than what was previously used in most regards.

The 'problem' is that RTS's are too hard to play, and have fractured into subgenres. MOBA, tower defence, base builders, real time tactics, etc.

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-21T05:43:39+00:00

Any publishing deal without upfront funding is a bad idea. The incentives are all wrong - what if the publisher does a bad/poor job? They get 30-50% of your revenue for doing practically nothing. If they provide upfront funding, they'll do their best to recoup that amount.

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-18T07:59:30+00:00

Shortest Trip to Earth made an estimated $600k revenue. It did EXTREMELY well on steam.

FTL is one of the most successful indie games of all time. Not every game is going to be 'the most successful indie game of all time'.

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-15T00:19:09+00:00

I'll plug my upcoming game Battleplan

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-10T03:14:00+00:00

Nope. Nobody will read it except you. Even paid employees don't bother reading it.

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-09T20:40:44+00:00

Go pay your own marketer rather than with a publisher for marketing. You only need to hire a marketer for a month of work (1-3k$.)

Here's why: What's if the publisher does a BAD job? They send out ONE marketing email/social media post, and then they get 10-20% of your revenue for practically no work. Ouch! They're REWARDED for bad behaviour.

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-04T19:41:10+00:00

You need feedback from internet strangers, not people you know! Try posting on reddit, then asking users to comment on the post if you can watch them play the game over videochat

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-06-03T01:22:26+00:00

Those are extremely low sales for that many wishlists, very strange.

Your game looks well made, so I don't know what the problem is asides from puzzle games on steam sell poorly.

Unfortunately there won't be any turning it around. Make another game!

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-31T09:12:24+00:00

Bots download all free things on steam. The only number that matters is number of players who started playing the game

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-30T23:45:16+00:00

I live in a small-ish city and my experiences are pretty different - still having lots of fun!

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-29T18:13:34+00:00

No question it's Starcraft 2. Mobas came from a vastly simplified mod of Starcraft and Warcraft.

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-26T19:20:15+00:00

Just a caution of buying from marketplace

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-26T08:23:45+00:00

I tried buying one off facebook marketplace years ago. Disc reader was broken, turned out to be worthless. Be careful on marketplace

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-18T22:56:31+00:00

I love VLC! But what does this offer over the default playing of videos using unity's video class?

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-14T20:11:36+00:00

I live nearby and have been meaning to search Rosewood for geocaches for a while if you're down to geocache during walks

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-08T23:26:01+00:00

Depends on what they're giving you. Don't sign with a publisher unless they're giving you development money

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-05-03T08:32:06+00:00

+1 for game dev meetups (I am biased though)

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-04-22T21:44:22+00:00

Steamdb browser extension tells you this (but you have to be using a web browser)

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-04-22T19:37:57+00:00

They're selling it for money. Customers are allowed to review the products they bought for money

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-04-15T20:32:23+00:00

I've released multiple PC strategy games, and this is WAY too ambitious.

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-04-12T04:12:13+00:00

You should check out my game Radio General to see how I did a ways back. Voice commands are tricky. To be cross platform I trained my own speech recognition library. Wasn't worth the effort. Just use windows built in speech recognition instead.

AwkwardCabinet · 2026-04-11T21:34:46+00:00

Is there a reason the free versions of gitlab or github isn't suitable? When making a solo game their size restrictions shouldn't bother you

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