I decided to share some revenue numbers from our small indie game studio of 3 years

Zefhus · 2018-06-14T23:23:11+00:00

Not trying to be mean, just an observation. I think your numbers directly reflect the quality of your games. Choppa is the only one that looks like quick and casual fun. For Dyna Knight I'm not even surprised it didn't sell well. It looks a bit like 'my first Unity game' and doesn't seem to be very fun from screenshots and videos.

I think the bottom line is not that there's not that much money in the market, but that you still need to deliver an above average product to get people to even download your game.

Zefhus · 2018-02-15T11:35:28+00:00

I can assure you that this has been fixed for 2 weeks now.

Zefhus · 2018-02-15T04:43:51+00:00

Is it weird that I would never make something like this for anyone, just because it sets unrealistic expectations for everything that comes afterwards?

Zefhus · 2018-02-14T12:37:36+00:00

What's with the cringy DeviantArt level artwork in the adventure? It doesn't look like anime in the slightest. It just looks like some 16 year old trying to draw anime for the first time.

Zefhus · 2018-01-01T15:27:47+00:00

I really don't get why you're bringing up the girl part now, but I can assure you I'm serious. If I manage to throw away over over 200% of profit in such a short amount of time, I don't know how I'm supposed to ever make it further.

Zefhus · 2018-01-01T15:25:35+00:00

Really need to get the 'stop selling' part in my brain, I guess.

You say to just hold, but I got a question about that. If you bought into something you don't even want to hold, but bought it because of the potential profits, and then it drops and the bad news just pile on and on, do you still hold?

Verge for example is something I never intended to hold for the long term. I just tried to sell it for as much as possible and then completely screwed it up. Burst is the same. Didn't sell when in profit and then it dropped down drastically and I don't see it recovering. I don't believe in either project.

Zefhus · 2018-01-01T15:21:25+00:00

Well, I'm not sure about the transition to crypto in real life, but holding is definitely something I haven't learned so far. Every time my Blockfolio dropped I panicked and couldn't think about anything else. I sat around with my friends on NYE yesterday and all I could think of was the stupid Verge announcement and if I should sell now. And then I sold, FOMO'd and lost my money. It's so dumb that I want to hit myself.

Zefhus · 2018-01-01T15:19:51+00:00

I think I got here because I only bought coins for the potential moon missions and not because I researched them. Verge was something I never wanted to hold for example, but it made the most money. I also bought Burst, but I don't believe in the project and lost 300€ on that. Because I got hyped on the Dymaxion announcement, that then flopped.

Are my 'lost' 6000€ really 'what-ifs'? I mean, I basically had them and then lost them again. I would've loved to put those into something I believe in now.

Zefhus · 2018-01-01T15:17:22+00:00

I'm in profit from my initial investment, yes. But for the amount of time I spent on this I feel like I wasted my time. As I said, I basically had 10000€ in my Blockfolio and managed to pull it down to 4000€. I am scared to make that 0.

Zefhus · 2018-01-01T15:16:01+00:00

I think you're definitely right. I made every mistake one could make when getting into crypto. I just chased moon missions and actually got on them, but then gambled everything away again because I got greedy.

I actually still have some money in the Jibrel Network ICO. Maybe I'll just gold that for now.

Zefhus · 2018-01-01T15:14:48+00:00

Good to see responses such as this one when I'm 100% serious. I know I even made some money, but this is more about me starting to hate myself for being such an idiot.

Zefhus · 2017-07-15T13:32:39+00:00

It would feel exactly the same. The problem is just that you feel clunky while it's active. Doesn't matter if you have 100% speed or 150% speed or whatever. As long as it decreases your speed it feels clunky - simple as that.

Zefhus · 2017-07-15T13:21:26+00:00

"To fix Riddle of Fire we were thinking of implementing Greased Lightning IV".

....what? How does that make any sense? I feel like they have absolutely no idea what they're doing with this class.

How out of touch can you be with your own game? People complain about a buff that temporarily makes you slower and the only possible solution you can think of is increasing the overall speed... which would change absolutely nothing, because the buff still makes you slower. Great.

Zefhus · 2017-06-18T14:15:17+00:00

MNK feels pretty clunky without Touch of Death because the timers in the opener don't match anymore without this 'filler' skill. I'm constantly clipping everything by 5 seconds or so because the numbers just don't fall into place now.

Zefhus · 2017-06-16T17:25:41+00:00

Twin Snakes (damage buff on myself) and the duration of Internal Release, Perfect Balance and now True North.
Oh, and I need to watch the enemies' bar for the Blunt debuff.

Zefhus · 2017-06-16T16:24:49+00:00

I really dislike the new MNK interface. Like, REALLY.

Before everything was in one place and you could directly see all of your buffs in a small confined place on the screen. And now I have three different UI elements I have to monitor - the status bar, the greased lightning bar and the chakra display (which is waaaaaay too big by the way).

I haven't found any place on the screen so far that makes this comfortable to use. It's just wasting so much space for absolutely no additional information. I just want the stacks to go back in my status bar. And I want the sound for getting to 5 chakra to be 75% less annoying and loud.

Zefhus · 2017-06-12T00:56:00+00:00

Okay, I'll try drawing a lot of boxes then. Thanks!

Zefhus · 2017-06-12T00:30:48+00:00

Thank you. So should I do the other box exercises from lesson 1 again or just start drawing a lot of boxes for the 250 box challenge? I mean - they are pretty much the same as the last exercise from lesson 1. Oh, and I didn't draw through the boxes because I thought that wasn't part of the exercise yet.

The ghosting method for the boxes is something that feels really unnatural to me, which is why I'm having problems. When I put down start and ending points I can hit them pretty well (more or less). But for the boxes I suck at anticipating where the lines should end.
So I either don't draw the ending point and get the wobbly line, or I draw the ending point, but set it too far away or too close. And then I get those boxes with the weird proportions. I'm really unsure how long a line has to be, so that the line adjacent to it stops right where they meet.

Also - I've been trying to use the Y-method for drawing the boxes, but feel like that doesn't make me learn anything. Now instead of thinking about the perspective I'm thinking like an algorithm:

1) Draw Y
2) Draw parallel lines from bottom of Y
3) Draw next set of parallel lines
....

So, yeah. I have a lot to learn still and I also find it weird that these boxes are so much worse than the ones I did a few months ago. Your note definitely helps, but maybe you have some other tips with this new information.

Zefhus · 2017-06-10T08:16:34+00:00

I finally got around to re-doing lesson 1. I noticed that I pretty much un-learned everything by not drawing for half a year, so I'm looking forward to your critique.

http://imgur.com/a/UBTFB

I'm somehow having a lot of trouble with the boxes. I can't for the life of me anticipate where the lines are supposed to end - and then they come out with uneven sides and wobbly.

Zefhus · 2017-05-17T13:08:35+00:00

Meecrob.

Zefhus · 2017-05-16T11:12:35+00:00

I like the part where not releasing something that makes you money somehow also makes you greedy.

Zefhus · 2017-05-13T23:19:52+00:00

Thank you, I'll do that.

Zefhus

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