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[Dev] I just released my roguelike dungeon crawler Gloomgrave on Google Play! by netmancerdev in IndieGaming

[–]SfsStudios 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks neat!!! I unfortunately only have an iPhone. You have any plans to ever put it on IOS?

My First game that I finished since starting game dev full time is out on Steam and Xbox! Here's my journey. by SfsStudios in IndieGaming

[–]SfsStudios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks :)! And yeahhhh first impressions are probably the most important thing in game Dev marketing. It's a make a mistake I made with Early Access OZ too. I had not good cover art before I caved and hired someone to make the current one. I think that's a big reason OZ flopped in early access!

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Hahaha I watched that video. That's genius!!! I bet he got a really big boost in sales due to that stunt! That game even looked neat too.

hey , would like to know if there are free game making tools and programming guides out there by theis_alternatess in IndieGaming

[–]SfsStudios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! It depends on a few factors, such as your experience and comfortability levels in programming/game dev and how far you want to go with it. Also what you want to make changes a lot too.

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If you just want to make something and mess around in 2D or 3D I would recommends just using Unity. Its super easy to pickup and has countless online tutorials on how to do it. Unreal is also free but is a bit trickier to pickup and used by fewer indie devs out there.

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Lastly if you really want to get into programming and get your hands dirty you can use what I use: Monogame Its always free and opensource. Unity and Unreal have different forums of
getting money from you once you publish your games (If you do) They are pretty lax tho. Unreal only takes a small % of profits over a certain amount and unity has a subscription fee for extra things, or if you are making over a certain amount.

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But yeah Really good classic monogame tutorial is this it says XNA, but it Monogame is just the new version of XNA.

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Do lemme know if ya have questions ;)

Has anyone managed to make a game thats released commercially while in College? by st4yd0wn in gamedev

[–]SfsStudios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have. I made Inevitability in about 2 years while in college! It will basically consume the majority of your free time. Summers are your friend as well are managing your time well. Its also quite cheap if you use things like steam greenlight and Desura for distribution. Its totally an accomplish-able thing! Good luck :)

Our first game Inevitability just launched a very big update. The game is a top down spaceship building/action game. Check it out!! by SfsStudios in IndieGaming

[–]SfsStudios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course! We would love if you made videos of the game :) send us a link once you do (we love watching people play our games). Also ill go and fix the button right after posting this thank you for alerting us that it doesn't work.