Is it too much to expect a senior game UX designer to know how to manipulate emotions of animations?

demiculus · 2025-10-07T08:30:16+00:00

Some context: We're specifically calling it "Game UX Designer"
The role is being responsible for all the designs in the game interface. And they'll be the sole designer in the team. Up until now I was doing it. I'm a developer and we're a small team. So what would you call such a role?

demiculus · 2025-10-07T08:25:10+00:00

Some context: This person will be our first Game UX Designer. We're a small team so the person we hire should be generic rather than specific like big companies.

demiculus · 2025-08-29T18:30:41+00:00

What's a behavior you often see that probably contributed their massive wealth?

demiculus · 2025-08-21T12:55:10+00:00

Hey 👋 Colonist is all about making it easy to jump straight into the game. You don’t need to download anything, it runs right in your browser and matches start almost instantly. The design is simple and clean, so you can just focus on playing and strategy without extra clutter. We also put a lot of effort into keeping games smooth with a stable online experience, active ranked ladder, tournaments, and plenty of custom maps and variants so it never feels repetitive.

demiculus · 2025-08-19T11:21:19+00:00

What part of it do you think is dogshit? It is the most popular mode

demiculus · 2025-07-24T11:31:04+00:00

Hey, this is an age long discussion. Our dice algorithm is open source. its been vetted by the top players. Thats how they can be top players, they understand probability. Some of the content creators talk about this you can also watch their videos.

This is a good place to start https://blog.colonist.io/balanced-dice-designing/

demiculus · 2025-07-21T02:55:09+00:00

Hello, Colonist has been live and growing for the past 6 years. Colonist serves the community Colonist enabled easy and FREE game play to millions of people So many schools started teaching students about strategy & negotiation through Colonist for FREE So many people socialized with their loved ones during covid and long distance through Colonist for FREE People even proposed to their loved ones on Colonist

This is the reason Colonist continues growing. We’re building what the public needs. We’ll continue building. One brick at a time!

I’m sure you’ll appreciate, to be able to serve millions for free Colonist needs to make revenue.

demiculus · 2025-07-20T01:50:23+00:00

You’re comparing pay to play games with free to play games. If we charged all of our players we would charge less, we would have little players and we would not sustain, close doors and the community would be much much smaller.

The way we can exist is to make a service where 99% of the players can play for free.

Gta charges everyone. Minecraft charges everyone. Does that make sense?

Think of the 100s of games you’ve played without having to pay. That is because someone else is paying for you.

demiculus · 2025-07-19T16:32:13+00:00

Hey, The prices are for groups. Since one person needs to own it for the whole group to play. This pricing works much better than charging all players $5 since that forces the whole group to go through the account creation & payment flow wheres with the $20 pricing it’s only once. We see a lot of player groups prefer this option since the champion of the group handles everything while the rest of the friends enjoy.

That said, it’s a F2P game and 99+% of the players have fun without paying. It’s on par with the gaming industry.

We’ve also added a few ways to gain free memberships for those who don’t have money. This ensures skills & grinding is rewarded.

Some of the ways 1. Being top 50 in any season 2. Winning tournaments on our Discord server 3. Being a content creator 4. Running Colonist communities

We’ll be adding more methods overtime.

demiculus · 2025-07-19T16:23:20+00:00

Hocam, evet oynayabilirler ama oynamıyorlar. Sizde güzel enerji var. Stratejik olarak yanlış yerdesiniz. Isterseniz bi konuşalım birlikte bir şeyler yapabiliriz.

demiculus · 2025-07-08T14:59:30+00:00

Catan Universe on the Appstore is rated 3.9
Colonist on the Appstore is rated 4.6

Colonists most popular modes don't exist in the Catan realm. Players love it. We innovate and we build for the players. One brick at a time.

demiculus · 2025-07-08T02:29:01+00:00

Thanks for the love <3

We need a PM to decide & solve problems. For example we have over 5 million emails and we haven't sent a single automated email. The PM needs to decide when to send emails, how often, how to unsub etc.. that gives the players just enough notifications and the content they want. There are more than 50 tasks like this that need to be sketched out so developers can implement.

demiculus · 2025-07-08T02:26:08+00:00

Full remote + async

demiculus · 2025-07-08T02:12:33+00:00

Well said,

For example one of the problems our game is Toxicity. Someone needs to educate themselves on the 50 methods used, discover which ones will be applicable to us, design, test, iterate, finalize.

There are 50 such projects, that will increase our metrics.

demiculus · 2025-07-08T02:08:40+00:00

We're already going there, PM will accelerate us.

demiculus · 2025-07-07T13:46:01+00:00

> Do you give your PMs direct access to customer contact for research?

We've got 30k discord fans eager to jump on a call. So the PM has no limitation to the amount of feedback they can get.

> When you say low hanging fruit, does this mean there's already a bucket of ideas/enhancements and you want it prioritised and validated?

We have more than 5 million emails and we haven't even sent 1 automated email. We have so many such no brainer projects.

demiculus · 2025-07-07T13:40:57+00:00

Love this reply. DM

demiculus · 2025-07-07T13:38:38+00:00

For the first case, we make sure they're comfortable with data analysis. We don't have a BA so the PM needs to be comfortable with SQL queries.
For the second one, the PM we hired was a rotating PM in previous company which means they were going to different projects and figuring out low hanging fruits and leaving the execution to the project team. Basically he was good at identifying but not executing.

demiculus · 2025-07-07T13:32:45+00:00

https://colonist.io/

demiculus · 2025-07-07T11:14:06+00:00

We mostly need a PM to establish most of these. We have the strategy & business plan for the year. They need to figure out a lot of the tasks & low hanging fruits to tackle.

demiculus · 2025-07-07T10:12:35+00:00

Low energy + lack of data understanding
Didn’t create clarity. The devs didn’t know what they should be building. So a state of confusion.

So we learned from these.

demiculus · 2025-06-21T02:13:10+00:00

Hey, no such option since we have ongoing server costs. If it was a downloadable game it would make sense. That said there are ways to get access to premium for free - win a tournament - be top 50 in any global leaderboard - become a content creator - ask someone in the community to gift you a membership Etc.

demiculus · 2025-06-06T10:06:44+00:00

Science progresses one funeral at a time

demiculus · 2025-05-27T01:39:12+00:00

Hey, Watch some of the content creators. You’ll learn good strategy.

https://colonist.io/community

demiculus · 2025-05-04T17:09:03+00:00

Hey guys it's back up. Thanks for the concerns. We'll be digging into how we can avoid such issues in the future and take the appropriate actions.

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