Discussion - Potato Interactive

Redefining Success or Ignoring Failure?

If you haven't heard me on twitter, Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants hasn't been doing "well." At the end of 2 weeks after its release, I've sold

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Pages from the Abyss

After the recent move to the new Ghost Blog, the old suteF blog is entirely gone! Not only is that a lousy shame, but I also found some really neat

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Podcast - Episode 1

Part of what is so fun about game development is being able to share stories and opinions with other game developers. It's only natural that when you love your vocation that you end up talking about some of it. Enter the good man Isaac

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Earning Your Players' Time

Developers often talk about this issue. How do I convince someone that my game is a game they should play? What makes it different or unique from all of the rest? Is it cheap enough to get more players but expensive enough that they

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The Digital Distribution Problem

No one will deny that we are entering a new age of distribution of games. Players are no longer expecting that their games be confined to a disk or cartridge that can only be run by a single proprietary device. "Digital" has

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2014

The Story So Far The way I handle marketing is widely considered to be wrong, if not nonexistent; I feel a good game "sells itself," I have never emailed the press, I don't regularly write blog posts, and I've never written a

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The Bulletromancer - Building a Scene

"Wow," you say! "Amazing," you say! That's right; I love making progress updates and what better way than posting a video that even happens to contain a (albeit small) portion of gameplay! So What is This? In The Bulletromancer, Sir

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Musical Influences

So some of my long time followers may remember some tweets of mine where I explain some of suteF's influences. Probably one of the biggest influences across all of my works is music — specifically Prog Rock. It should be said that I never really

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Game Universes

Introduction Hello. I am T. Lauterbach, also known as rotten_tater, one of those so-called "independent game developers." You may remember me from such titles as: suteF, Sutef, and another called "sute F." But before I was a surrealistic Fetus

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On Hype and Expectations

I've been ranting a lot lately to people about some of my design 'philosophies,' and where would it be better to spread it than here? My proposition: Games, much like art, are experiences or emotional rides that are only plainly understood by the

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Discovering Life Through Video Games

I played Resident Evil 5 again for the first time in many months. I got my sister to play mercenaries with me, too. We started out pretty rough; the last game we played a game together was Gears of War 3, and we were

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Make Games Like Your Other Ones

Lately, I've been stuck in a development dreamland. Since I released suteF close to ten months ago, I have completed exactly zero personal game projects. Compared to my ultra productive 6 game year (Fetus, Super Space Rogues, Vatn Squid, Hold Off Brownish Yellow, Chawp!