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true true true!!

The only two words I need to hear to trigger a purchase are Daniel and Mullins

I’m the same way- I’ve been a Nidhogg fan for 10+ years and it’s immediately what got me to play both Wheel World and now Blood Dungeon. It’s why I’ve now interviewed Mark about both of those games! youtu.be/vuQQwipI-Tw?...

It's wild how "THE NUMBERS FORETOLD YOU LIKING THIS" is so much less effective than "oh hey I recognize this dev" I wonder if anyone wrote any longer blog posts on the subject, I'd read the hell out of those

You Found the Grappling Hook! always in my heart.....

Flywrench still the goat

!!!TRUTH!!!

I have yet to release a second big game, so Im missing that datapoint. it will be interesting to see if my previous fans show up for my next work

i followed the core Zachtronics team between studios even and I'm still loving their games

You probably know who said "imma let u finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time" But if you're in the game industry you probably also know who said "fuck the Oscars". It works for us too

Creators >>>> IP

I think aside from maybe one or two big companies, I am mostly loyal to 1-2-person indie devs who create lovingly made games and who I know from itch. Seeing the pure range and progress from their first game to their most recent masterpiece is chef's kiss.

It should be edited in the post only some people are so attached to IP and also It's IPs.

Bonus points if the genres are different. "What's that Daniel Mullins, now that you've done a cross genre multi PoV narrative meta game you're making a card game? I'm in!" "Why yes, I WILL play the voice-driven tactical squad shooter, Iridium studios, you made my favorite triple DDR RPG after all!"

1,000%. I constantly wish there was an IMDB style site to look up who did what on which games, but there's little consistency in job titles in games. "Developer" covers a lot of territory. It's often hard to tell which person is responsible for the awesome spaceship designs or the perfect UI icons.

I'll follow Derek Yu to the ends of the earth

Actually genuinely evergreen statement, Indie devs are so cool man

This is such a lovely take!

Completely agree with this. I've had indie games I've enjoyed a lot before, but they were usually part of a group that I couldn't really contact for one reason or another. Language barriers, primarily. When I played Decline's Drops and got to talk to Drazglb. personally, I'm 100% invested now.

Just because a developer made something that I like does not mean that I will like or be interested in anything else they make.

I trust the System Erasure team with my life at this point. Zero Ranger and Void Stranger are all timers and anything that small team puts out is a day one buy.

truth nuke

Same with musicians for the most part. New band but with members from fave band x? All in, immediately. Even with composers for games actually, at the very least I know I'll enjoy the ost (which for me personally has a lot of sway in my enjoyment of a game anyway)