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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · 14d

Does Live still work on Xbox 360?

Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · 21d

I... what? I exist?
Yes, yes I do. And I've been cooking! If anyone would like to play a love letter to Grim Fandango, I whipped this up in Godot over the weekend. This is a Papers, Please-esque narrative experience where you sell travel packages to the recently deceased.

lantanagames.itch.io/dod

DOD: Department of Death by Lantana Games

Play in your browser

lantanagames.itch.io

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Aug 23

On September 17, I'll be giving my latest talk: “Open Sourcing Your Tech Stack – How I saved $5000 and Still Made A Game.” We'll be exploring FOSS alternatives to all the software you & your business use to bring your ideas to life. Follow @indiegamebusiness.bsky.social to catch the stream!

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Jul 11

This is something I'm giving some serious thought. Who would want one?
I'm thinking they'd include the game DRM-free on CD, a bonus Steam key on a business card, and I could even sign them.

Lantana Games @lantanagames.bsky.social · Jul 11

Gauging interest: do you like owning your games and not just a license to play it?
Would you buy our games on CD if you could?
Do you still have a CD/DVD player? Would you get one so we can all Stop Killing Games?
Right now these are just mockups but they could be real!

A mockup of a Mondrian - Plastic Reality jewel case.

A mockup of a Mondrian - Plastic Reality CD.

A mockup of a Mondrian - Plastic Reality jewel case and CD.

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Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social · May 12

More pics!

The Gamedev 'n' Chat event. A large crowd of people posing in a conference center room. They look excited!

The Game Audio Hang at BGW. Duncan Watt is gesturing at his work in Wwise on a projector to a seated audience.

The Boston community booth at PAX. The games on display are "Unsent", "The Midnight Exorcist", "Sincerely, Robin" and "Ghost Jukebox".

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Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social · May 12

That's a wrap on the very first Boston Gamedev Week! We were totally blown away by how many people showed up to every single event, wore our pins and embraced BGW enthusiastically. Thank you to everyone who took this leap with us, and to all of our incredible organizers. Let's do this again!

A table with several BGW pins, name tags, and a poster that says "this event is brought to you by Boston Game Dev!"

A photo from Made in MA. Manny Mallea is holding a frog plushie from the game Frogmageddon in front of a mounted camera. Its big frog face appears on the large screen behind Manny.

The Boston Indies Demo Night. A crowd of game devs socializing and playing demos outdoors in the evening.

Our Make Games Make Friends event. A crowd gathered indoors is chatting and ordering drinks.

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · May 7

Had an excellent time at Godotcon today! Thank you all for coming to my talk... Bit of a surprise since that was supposed to be tomorrow but I'm happy to trade spaces with Dome Keeper because holy crap Dome Keeper. See you all in the morning! I'll be the one in the white cap.

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · May 7

That's nothing One of em has a Genesis controller.

Us indies is wild.

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · May 2

We do this a lot. FPS's were once just "DOOM Clones." Nowadays we also have "Soulslike" to describe any third person action game with a particularly high difficulty ceiling (though not exclusively third person OR difficult... seriously you wanna hate on a frustrating genre name, this is the one).

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Apr 30

#Godotcon in a week! Who's going?

Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Apr 7

Excited to finally announce that my new talk, "Scratching the itchio" will be at Godotcon next month! This is a deep dive into all things itch & exporting your Godot projects for the site. I know I've been AWOL for a bit but I can't wait to see you all there!

talks.godotengine.org/godotcon-us-...

Scratching the itch.io – Godot Game Distribution Strategies GodotCon Boston 2025

Getting your game onto Steam used to be a thousand mile journey, but nowadays all it takes is $100. That said, if you lack the marketing prowess to stand out, you'll be left floundering. Ideally, you ...

talks.godotengine.org

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Stroggo @stroggo.bsky.social · Apr 2

random reminder that not only does a steam deck have an OLED screen standard now.. but you can also run games from anywhere.. like itch.io which are cheaper 𝗔𝗡𝗗 the devs get a bigger cut..

just a thought

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Apr 2

$80 for Mario Kart. GTA6 probably $100. Meanwhile indies still going for $1-$20, AA for $30.
Right now what's REALLY lacking is indie visibility. Media & creators gave up on covering indies a while ago, too overwhelming.
There are great games, players just dunno how to find them.

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Mar 28

No game coding tutorial will ever warn you that ladders are the most insane thing to program.

You just have to trust the wisdom of the gamedev sages. They warned you. Your hubris got the better of you.

YOU THOUGHT.

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Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social · Mar 24

Introducing BOSTON GAMEDEV WEEK - May 5-11! 🥳

Traveling to Boston for PAX East? Join us early for a week full of developer-focused events including meetups, roundtable chats, GodotCon, indies demo night and more!

Full schedule at gamedev.boston

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Mar 9

The frogurt is also cursed.

Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Feb 10

The amount of data that needs to get saved at checkpoints is absolutely mindboggling. Doubleboggle for loading it back in.

It's a miracle games work at all.

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Feb 1

Finally came up with a talk idea that felt worthy of submitting to #Godotcon.

Fingers crossed!

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Jan 28

Gat dayumn do I love Godot's AnimationPlayer. Nice work!

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Jan 27

It's even less-so that and more the, "what can we do with this tech that was already being done before but at 50% speed and at 50% lower quality for 400% the electricity" phase.

Like you'd think that alone would have been enough to put the tech back in the bottle for a couple more decades.

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · Jan 22

Up until now, we held all of our annual GodotCon events in Europe, but after the request of many of you and thanks to help from Boston Game Dev and Godot Users Group, we are finally able to bring the event to the US for the first time.

📣 Join us as a speaker!

godotengine.org/article/godo...

Our first GodotCon in the US - Save the date!

Want to join? Boston 5th - 7th of May. Call for speakers and sponsors open!

godotengine.org

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Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Jan 22

Currently coming up with some talk ideas for #PAXEast and #Godotcon. The Godotcon ones are easier to think up but will require more work ahead of time. The PAX ones... man idk. Anyone got some panels in the works? I have much experience in this area. See: profile picture.

Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Jan 22

I will be there!

Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Jan 22

Who else will I be seeing at Godotcon Boston? Looks like I'll have about a week straight of conventions in early May. Better come up with some panels.

Danny Silvers @lantanadan.bsky.social · Jan 14

Conversely, some high quality AA/AAA games have seen the way pricing is going and have pulled their pricing back, though much of the time in favor of some kind of mtx shop. Sea of Thieves, for instance, is $50 but often on sale for half off. The Soul Reaver remastered pack is 2 games for $15 apiece.

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