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Matt Hackett
@richtaur.bsky.social
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Friendly neighborhood game dev (he/him) 📙 Wrote How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/ 🐷 Working on Pixel Washer: https://playacclaim.com/pixel-washer/
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 9d
[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 2h
thanks for joining 🍻
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 5h
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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 1d
I'm castpixel, a senior illustrator and art director with more than 20 years of experience (ok, it's 21 years). One of the best pixelartists working today. I'm looking for a project.

Clients: WB Games, Minecraft, SEGA, HASBRO

Hire me! I make your game look good.

[ #portfolioday ]
My cover illustration for the game Space Jam a New Legacy, which I also art directed and animated #art Character sheet #art Screenshot from a pitch for a TMNT point-and-click adventure game featuring April o Neil as a mystery investigator Isometric pixelart illustration for Minecraft, while I was working at Mojang. This is meant to show off the world and it's thrills. It lives in the how-to-play section in-game
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 2d
Nobody ever tells us, but this is like 99% of game programming:
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d
Just did hours of boring but necessary code. The game doesn't look any different yet! But it will tomorrow.
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 2d
Great picks! Yeah zircon's got some amazing original music now, really good stuff.
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 2d
Aww yeah it's got that classic ocremix sound/feel!

"14 years ago" oh my 💀
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 2d
It's challenging for sure. I sometimes hear about some games getting thousands of wishlists/day and I'm like howwwww 💀
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 2d
Some of these songs are so good that I've been listening to them steadily for most of my life:
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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · Nov 20
PLEASE SHARE!
Video game music fan???
PASS THIS ON! :-D
Every OC ReMix in one big RAR!
drive.google.com/open?id=1gEW...

• 26 GB
• 310+ hours of music
• 1,100+ games represented
• 1,600+ artists
• 4,500+ tracks

Keep what you like, toss what you don't, but TRY EVERYTHING.
Enjoy! :-)
OverClocked ReMix (ocremix.org) album cover - headphones surrounding 16-bit game controller
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 3d
So cool!
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 4d
New game dev podcast time! Thomas Stewart and I had a great chat, check it out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Ph... #indiegamedev
Building a Fulfilling Creative Career as a Solo Indie Developer | Matt Hackett
Check out @Valadria ➤ Valadria Website: https://www.valadria.com/ ➤ Pixel Washer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/Pixel_Washer/ ➤ Game Dev Book: https://amzn.to/4gYkiWR Follow me or buy…
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 5d
Fighting the good fight 💪 appreciate you
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 5d
Congrats 🎉
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 5d
Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🥂

LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game 🎮

#indiegamedev
STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas: STEAM CAPSULE (Your Game) The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most Clear Readable Game name Genre Hook(s) Hire on artist! THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10) The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic) WISHLISTS About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week. ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch. Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch. SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS One review represents about 20-55 soles. It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold. TRAILER (Viewers skip through trailers) Start strong Omit intro logos Direct to gameplay 60 seconds or less End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it Made in October 2023 From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself valadria.com
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 6d
Beautiful! I vote for Rydia 💚
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 8d
stunning 😍🦇💉
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 9d
[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 12d
brb I'm gonna go have these game dev youtubers duke it out
A YouTube playlist showing two videos: 1. GAMEPLAY LOOPS - Go from Ideas to Gameplay using Gameplay Loops 2. make games using CHAINS! - Game Loops Are Out, Chains Are In
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 13d
to me it defines an independent work that made it into popular culture. it's very common for indie stuff to fly under the radar, but when everyone keeps talking about it (and/or it makes a ton of money) it reaches that "darling" status
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 14d
it's gotta be may
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 14d
Here's how I got a publisher for my indie game:

www.valadria.com/how-i-got-a-... #indiegamedev
🕹️ How I got a publisher for my indie game
Pixel Washer and Acclaim: the story so far!
www.valadria.com
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 14d
Hell yeah these are amazing
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 14d
Challenge: Impossible
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 16d
Great picks
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 17d
In our household we hate them so much we call them hell pies
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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 17d
I experienced this just last night and it was beautiful
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