Game, Develop, Repeat

 Game:

•  Soulframe alpha and feedback accessibility
•  Subnautica's beautiful feedback system
•  "Why Subnautica Owes Its Success to This Button"
•  Hades and roguelike early access
•  Project Zomboid and long Early Access times
•  Free vs Paid early access

 Develop:

•  Closed, short test run within a community
•  Putting feedback buttons within the game
•  Paid early access
•  Overwhelming feedback
•  Player isn't always right, but there's always value in listening.

 Repeat:

•  What is the role of feedback in your development process?

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Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
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 Game:

•  Brighter Shores and Runescape
•  Number goes up
•  I'm confused about why I don't enjoy these games

 Develop:

•  The idle to engaging gameplay spectrum
•  Infinite vs limited games
•  Distractions and Ethics
•  My evolving design philosophy

 Repeat:

•  What types of games do you want to make?

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
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 Game:

• Unplayable default hotkeys
• Mechwarrior 2 and 3
• Warcraft III hotkey optimization
• Gothic hotkey engineering
• Dustforce, Celeste
• The "First letter" hotkey scheme

 Develop:

• Default responses to challenges
• Bashing my head against walls vs learning tools
• Key rebinding and therapy

 Repeat:

• What is your default response to overwhelming challenges?

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
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 Game:

• Games without goals
• How games present goals
• Challenges, exploration, invitations

 Develop:

• Creating things
• Music, Game Dev, and Writing
• Coding feels like improvisation
• Not having a goal

 Repeat:

• What size of goal is useful for you?
• Are there times when you benefit from not having a goal?

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com
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• Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative community.

 Game:

•  Warcraft III ranked
•  Climbing the ladder
•  Blizzard's affinity for competitive games

 Develop:

•  Pro-competitive design
•  Marketplace competition
•  Skill development and rankings
•  Rankings are not the full picture

 Repeat:

•  Do you like competitive games? Favorite?
•  Do you find competition useful?

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com
Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GvYRtTQM9m

• Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative community.

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com
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• Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative community.

 Game:

•  Drowning in Sonic 
•  Time limits
•  If Skyrim had no quest log
•  Baldur's Gate and Morrowind

 Develop:

•  Work expands to fill time
•  Time pressure vs financial pressure
•  To-Do list vs Quest Log

 Repeat:

•  How does your life's quest log function?

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
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 Game:

•  Efficiency Chasing
•  Interconnected web of goals
•  Destroying the planet
•  Single-mindedness
•  Incredible aesthetic and voice-over
•  Overwhelming but manageable

 Develop:

•  Development at its best
•  Development at its worst
•  Deeply Satisfying
•  Tiny optimizations can waste time

 Repeat:

•  How can your development be more like Satisfactory?
•  What "efficiency traps" do you fall into?

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com
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• Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative community.

 Game:

•  JRPG Guides
•  Step by step, line by line
•  Official vs community guides
•  Skipping parts of the guide
•  Complex Mechanical Guides 
•  "Just trust me"
•  Terminology overload
•  Skill Based Guides

 Develop:

•  Every weakness, every strength
•  The need for tutorials
•  Ignoring and extracting information
•  The importance of context
•  A note about useless teachers/guides

 Repeat:

•  Best guide (or teacher) experiences?
•  Worst guide (or teacher) experiences?

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com
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• Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative community.

Game:

• Bad Design
• Incredible design
• Hidden good design
• The crazy, interconnected nature of game design

 Develop:

• Getting overwhelmed by big inspirations
• Locking in on the small inspirations
• Gradually realizing how much you can actually create

 Repeat:

• What game has incredible design, and what small element of it stands out to you?
• What game has some major flaws, and what design element would you pull inspiration from or redesign?

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/anxiousbuddhagames
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/anxiousbuddhagames
My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/
Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com
Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GvYRtTQM9m

• Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative community.