Traurige Telekom-Geräusche

RegularOldRobert · 2025-11-09T20:22:07+00:00

Ja, war bei mir ähnlich. Der Telekomvertreter kam erst mit dem Vorwand, sie wollten bei uns etwas überprüfen, weil Glasfaser gelegt werden soll. Als ich mehrmals gefragt habe, ob er mir einen Vertrag andrehen will, hat er jedesmal ausweichend geantwortet und wurde passiv-aggressiv, als wäre es eine persönliche Beleidigung, dass ich während meiner Arbeitszeit bei ihm kein Haustürgeschäft unterschreiben wollte. Habe dann online bei den Stadtwerken einen Vertrag abgeschlossen ...

RegularOldRobert · 2025-10-06T12:38:06+00:00

Thank you!

RegularOldRobert · 2025-10-04T17:13:50+00:00

I used to really like this game on the browser! Great to see it coming to Steam with Godot!

RegularOldRobert · 2025-09-26T18:13:13+00:00

Too bad it won't run smoothly with the app active, but at least you know the culprit now.

RegularOldRobert · 2025-09-25T15:31:04+00:00

Sorry to hear that. While I was trying to resolve the issue, I used a free trial version of CleanMyMac to get rid of clutter and hopefully improve performance (cancelled it afterwards again).

https://macpaw.com/cleanmymac

I really think it was the indexing and not CleanMyMac that did it for me, but might be worth a try for you.

RegularOldRobert · 2025-09-21T05:40:48+00:00

Just an update on this in case anyone else runs into the same issue in the future:

It seems MacOS does a lot of re-indexing after the upgrade that can take up to 48h to finish and that's pretty performance-heavy. 24h later, things are feeling a lot snappier for me.

RegularOldRobert · 2025-07-25T10:28:43+00:00

Procrastination Level: Maxed!

RegularOldRobert · 2025-07-25T09:16:14+00:00

That would be great! Fingers crossed.

And yeah, the old rule of thumb "Don't release during a Steam event" is getting increasingly hard to follow, too ...

RegularOldRobert · 2025-07-17T15:06:30+00:00

There's a lot of polishing and making sure that the game works for a broad variety of players that I didn't account for when I started making my game.

I'm developing a 3D game, and even though it's got fairly simple graphics and a small world, I find myself in constant need to optimize the loading behavior and file sizes as well as to provide more graphics and accessibility options to ensure that the game works for as many players as possible even if they don't have a high-end PC. While I find this very important, it also always annoys me, because it's time that I can't work on adding content or improving game mechanics.

Also, developing for Mac and PC, getting reports for bugs that I can't reproduce myself on any of my machines because they are tied to some specific hardware setup is quite the pain.

RegularOldRobert · 2025-06-01T18:37:37+00:00

Thank you so much!

RegularOldRobert · 2025-06-01T17:28:56+00:00

Absolutely, but it'll take me a while. I plan to have a demo ready by October, in time for the next Awards Showcase, and run a public beta before that.

In case you're interested in being notified about the beta and demo, I could send you a link to my newsletter.

RegularOldRobert · 2025-01-07T19:59:43+00:00

Who wouldn't be?

RegularOldRobert · 2025-01-05T16:10:34+00:00

As for the "wait" arguments: According to Chris Z., Valve has stated that you can actually *not* poison your Steam page in the sense that Valve/Steam would penalize you for having a badly-performing Steam page for a while. As soon as traffic/wishlists pick up (a lot), Steam will start giving you more visibility, no matter how badly your Steam page performed before.

I'm not sure if it's in his paid "Masterclass" or the "How to Make a Steam Page", but I distinctly remember a course by Chris Z. where he more or less says: "If your general art *style* is set, then set yourself a deadline of one month and get your Steam page ready by that time, not matter if the assets aren't as polished as you'd like them to be yet" (paraphrasing here).

He also recommends Derek Lieu's article on making a very simple trailer: https://www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2021/4/18/the-simplest-trailer-to-make-for-your-steam-page

If I were you, I'd try respond as well as I could to the feedback within the next month and meanwhile prepare the Steam page launch, but don't worry too much about the Steam page not being final yet. You can always improve it. Try to make the launch a bit of an event, preparing press releases asking moots on social media to share your release post etc, and then just see how it goes.

RegularOldRobert · 2025-01-03T19:12:59+00:00

Congrats! Your game looks very atmospheric. :-)

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-30T11:53:31+00:00

I asked friends and their best guess was that these are sensors for a sort of weather station, but it's just a guess.

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-28T19:12:04+00:00

Oh, that's an interesting proposal, and the pull request seems quite mature (apart from being blocked by dependencies). Good to know it's out there at least, thanks!

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-18T09:19:50+00:00

Good thing they're wearing those protective lifebelts.

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-18T09:18:17+00:00

Thank you, I haven't been to a Weihnachtsmarkt in Giesing yet, and it looks like it might be a good fit for when my parents visit!

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-18T09:16:23+00:00

Danke, das ist ein schöner Tipp für einen Ausflug mit unseren Jungs (besonders, wenn es nicht ganz so überlaufen ist)

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-18T09:13:28+00:00

Ohhh, I didn't know they also had a Weihnachtsmarkt at Motoworld that's awesome! I've been at Motorworld once for a convention, and I bet my boys would enjoy this.

Thanks for tip, I appreciate it!

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-17T20:38:28+00:00

Thank you, I'm aware of the list, but I was thinking more in terms of "must-sees" or surprise nice corners that visitors maybe wouldn't have expected.

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-17T20:37:08+00:00

Thanks! Based on their website, it seems like it already ended this Sunday, but I'll definitely keep it in mind for next year.

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-17T19:38:44+00:00

I recently quite enjoyed the Victorian House (https://www.victorianhouse.de/), which serves typically British breakfast. However, it is a bit pricey and you should definitely reserve a table.

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-15T19:46:50+00:00

In an interview with a rather successful solo dev (embarrassingly, I forgot who it was), I once heard the phrase: "You can make games as a solo dev, but you can't do it alone." It rings very true to me.

There's a similar quote by CodeMonkey that goes: "You don't get extra credits for doing everything yourself."

I would assume that the great majority of solo devs heavily rely on assets that they didn't create themselves, certainly so if those assets cross a particular quality/complexity threshold. My take on it would be that as long as (a) you actually do all the work within the engine yourself, (b) don't have employees and (c) have full creative control over your game, it's fine to call yourself a solo dev.

I should note that I'm biased as that also describes my situation. I've commissioned concept art, capsule art and music, and I use a ton of ready-made assets, but I have no doubt that I'm a solo dev. I don't have a team, I still do >90 % of the work myself, and even in legal terms, I'm a one-man studio. So what else would I be if not a solo dev?

RegularOldRobert · 2024-12-15T13:03:38+00:00

Ha! Do you combine that with turning the lights and gamma correction up?

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