Chris McFarland

Ah nice, should be easy then

so 4 > 5 > 2019

👍 @Almo I'd probably recommend upgrading in a couple steps, from 5.x to 2019 (rather than 4.6 to 2019)

T1 has gone through Unity 4.6 > 5.x > 2019.2 now since 2015

Yeah, long as they don't break too much between big versions

not too hard with Unity usually, often just needs a newer engine version for whatever OS-breaking changes have come about

I'll probably continue to maintain T1 / ensure it still works on Steam and mobile

so for T2, plan is to add more and more -- which is what I wanted to do for T1, but I was too new to game development 😂 was not structured great internally

and I look at Tallowmere 1 and even though it hasn't had any content updates in years, people still buy and play it

I think I will stick with Tallowmere 2 for a long while, it's been such a huge effort so far

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What's cookin'

Hello there

@BlueBug Hey Blue! Thanks. Yep still got Tallowmere on Google Play Store... and iOS, Steam, and Nintendo Switch. Working on Tallowmere 2 still as well

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Creating a Game with Blender Game Engine

Okay, thanks :)

wat

It does sound like Steam is no longer the automatic golden ticket from yesteryears though

that's okay :) tbh, I don't hear stories of gore-filled roguelike platformers failing lol. I mean I'm not making enough to establish a studio, rent some office space and start hiring employees, but it pays my own bills, and that's good enough for me

yeah, doom and gloom stories are pretty common

so like, I no longer feel this huge pressure to have a "successful" launch, or need giant press coverage or youtubers or fanfare and whatnot

I've also learned that, while having a huge launch can be fun, long-tail playerbase (with sales and updates later on) is fine for me

mobile and console can be a nightmare

PC is also the easiest to debug for

Yeah... For my sequel I've coded things well enough that I think backward compatibility should be fine, but you never know

whereas EA, I can just say, "yep savefiles are wiped this patch, big changes happened under the hood"

but even stuff like potentially breaking savefiles.... doing that to a "final" product is pretty risky. almost need to go through beta branches for customers willing to test

life goes on ¯_(ツ)_/¯

but at the same time, the new stuff that was added post-launch is now just the base game as far as new customers are aware

new weapons and things that actually helped the player were welcomed though lol

my biggest one was adding an enemy, the Feeler, which could pull you across the room with its tongue if you failed to have your shield raised

I'm 99% sure I'll do Steam Early Access, possibly even Google Play BETA in tandem. I expect lots of networking bugs lol. Also want to gradually add new items too... but really just want user feedback and be able to tweak stuff without annoying too many customers with the "you changed the final product! /rage" mentality

I was selling alpha versions on my own website throughout 2014, was on indiegamestand.com (now defuct) for a bit too, but then thought eh I'm done, let's just do Steam full release. This was back in the Greenlight days too, where not everyone could just publish on a whim, had to get approved first

Yeah, Steam was first release in 2015, did iOS and Google Play a few months after

so then down the line, we got to talking about the Switch

Well, they approached me for a Wii U version for Japan

@Pikalek Teyon approached me

yeah can talk game development here

yea. good advice I've read is, "don't hire until it hurts"

til then, I just treat it like a job

one day I might form of a company if it's worth hiring a programmer

exactly. there's too much technical knowledge to keep up to date with things to keep receiving income. And not quite at JK Rowling nor JRR Tolkien estate levels yet either when it comes to paying someone to administer and manage this stuff lol

probably easiest to write something in a contract with a publisher lol

and for my case, probably needing something in my will to transfer copyrights and trademarks, I mean things can go to my "estate" but bleh

someone in the know, eg an existing Unity developer, could probably figure it out though, but I would not expect it easy enough to write out every damn step for a non-Unity-based programmer

it's somewhat a liability writing this stuff down, unless you put it into a safe deposit box with a bank

really like, in the land of needing to install new Unity versions when an OS update breaks stuff, let alone verifying email stuff, renewing contracts, sometimes manually writing out invoices to receive royalties, two-factor passwords requiring phone access...