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Couple of recent dev chats

December 25, 2022 - Cheeseness | 0 Comments

Hi people!

Here's a heads up on a couple of video dev chats/interviews that I recorded over the past couple of months!

First up is a conversation with the person behind the in-development abandoned library crawler The Owl, The Thief, and The Strawberries. In it, we discuss game development, and adopting F/OSS tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkXu8Cijgj8

Secondly is a double-feature looking at both Turbo Fat (wishlist now \o/) and Frog Finder, with their creator Poobslag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAuC_x4PhmQ
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2213410/Turbo_Fat/

I've been focused on development activities for the past couple of years and haven't had much time for articles and interviews (I shipped a new game called Bat Egg[bategg.twolofbees.com], shipped some updates for Hive Time[hivetime.twolofbees.com] and FLAT[flat.jbushproductions.com], I've been doing contract work on Capes, and did a tiny bit of contract work on Summer Daze, but my primary focus at the moment is Bonesweeper[bonesweeper.jbushproductions.com]). Hoping that I'll be able to rebalance things in the future - there's still plenty I'd like to write.

I hope the tail end of 2022 has been kind to you all!

Cheese Talks About Hive Time Finances And Pay-What-You-Want Pricing

October 24, 2020 - Cheeseness | 0 Comments

It's been a while, but I'm proud to present the newest Cheese Talks article, a deep dive[cheesetalks.net] into the budget, costs, marketing, and revenue of Hive Time[hivetime.twolofbees.com], a bee themed management sim that I released last year under a pay-what-you-want model.

Read on for a whole bunch of words on a topic I despise: money. It's got numbers, fancy charts, and a brief description of a pair of cursed jorts.

http://cheesetalks.net/hive-time-finances.php

Enjoy!

P.S. It appears that I didn't post the previous Cheese Talks article[cheesetalks.net] here, which presents the past 15 years of Linux gaming as a way of contextualising the potential positives and negatives of Proton (Valve's Wine fork that's integrated with the Steam client).