A collection of 11 posts
If you haven't heard me on twitter, Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants [http://gamejolt.com/games/thunder-gun-revenge-of-the-mutants/64527] hasn't been doing "well." At the end of 2 weeks after its release, I've sold 12 copies. Not an exaggeration, but an actual 12 copies. There are the obvious things; I
After the recent move to the new Ghost Blog [rottentater.com/new-site-launched], the old suteF blog is entirely gone! Not only is that a lousy shame, but I also found some really neat fan fiction and mythos discussions on the internet about suteF, and this inspired me to resurrect some
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 take its contents seriously? Those are
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 already swept the world of music, and we're
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 press release or built one with Press Kit.
"Wow," you say! "Amazing," you say! That's right; I love making progress updates [http://www.twitter.com/#Bulletromancer] and what better way than posting a video [http://youtu.be/RT9B3Q9VI5s] that even happens to contain a (albeit small) portion of gameplay! So What is This? In The Bulletromancer, Sir Kugal
So some of my long time followers may remember some tweets of mine where I explain some of suteF [http://www.rottentater.com/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
Introduction Hello. I am T. Lauterbach [https://twitter.com/rotten_tater], also known as rotten_tater, one of those so-called "independent game developers." You may remember me from such titles as: suteF [http://www.rottentater.com/sutef], Sutef [http://youtu.be/nPz7MkAhXtQ], and another called "sute F [http://indiegames.com/
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 person playing them, and shouldn't (and
I played Resident Evil 5 again for the first time in many months. I got my sister to play mercenaries with me, too.
Lately, I've been stuck in development purgatory.