Another day, another Mastodon #gamedev thread!

Today, let's talk about getting press for your big announcement day.

Here's some tricks that we've learned along the way, that seem to heighten the chance that you'll get some press coverage on the day that you REVEAL YOUR VIDEO GAME TO THE WOOOORLD

THREAD:

Our creative director posted this image of our game.
I kid you not, I spent a solid minute trying to decipher whether it's a Blender render, or a Godot 3.x screenshot.
I then confidently said it must be a Blender render. Turns out: It's not.
I'm so damn proud of us.

#GameDev #GodotEngine

Chères nouvelles personnes venant de #Twitter, on est ravi de vous accueillir, c'est pas évident pour nous, on est pas des entreprises mais de simples personnes.

Derrière chaque instance Mastodon/Pleroma/etc il y a un serveur, qui a une certaine capacité, et nous vous rendons attentive au fait que vous avez débarqué par milliers en l'espace de quelques jours, ce qui augmente considérablement la charge côté serveur:
+ d'envois de mails
+ d'échanges entre instances
+ de timeline à calculer

🧵 ⤵️

#GodotSfxr for #GodotEngine 4 is now available 🎉 It is a plugin that lets you generate sound effects with the node SfxrStreamPlayer (really useful for game jams).

Read more about how to install and use at:
👉 https://tomeyro.itch.io/godot-sfxr

#MadeWithGodot #GameDev

If you're interested in my project to bring a highly approachable and extensible visual scripting language to #Godot (#GodotEngine), I'd really appreciate some financial support. I've got a Ko-Fi and right now I'm trying to raise enough to cover my living expenses for November. Anything helps!  
If I can live off of donations I can work on this project much faster and comfortably

(this will be re-posted on my twitter as well)
https://ko-fi.com/queenofsquiggles

I once implemented Streets of Rage 3 as a Lucasarts style point & click game. I’m kind of proud of how stupid it is, so I’m reuploading it here.

It’s exactly as frustrating to play as it looks.

#gamedev #godotengine #pointandclick

maybe a "trial account" for mastodon would be useful, so when you vitis the front page it says "try out mastodon", it would not bother you with selecting a server or trying to explain how the decentralized server works, just put you on a public one with a temporary account and show you highlights of interesting servers, then you may see that it is basically like twitter.

later on you can decide which server to join eventually.

2.000 followers already? Wow, that's truly wild! 🎉 I secretly hope to somehow get the same or a similar reach as I had on the bird site, would put my mind at ease for sure.

#gamedev #gameassets

So! Looks like this little instance is OVER 9000 users right now (close to 10k as we speak), which means it got as many users in the last 3 days as in the previous 5 years lol.

As of today, there are four extra moderators besides just me, so that should make it easier for us.

The site should be more responsive since yesterday (threw more hardware at the wall, always helps). If it starts to get slow again, will try throwing more :)

t00t!