Craig Stern, the guy behind Sinister Design, is currently working on remaking his most recent game, Telepath Tactics, in a new engine. It's the game I'm currently playing and I follow the guy on Twitter, so I know a thing or two about the development process.
He had Kickstarted the game in 2013 I believe, and actually raised $40,000, and released it in 2015, though the game had a lot of weird engine-related bugs such as inventory issues and slowdown. Most have been patched out of the game since, but the slowdown still happens if battles take long enough, I actually ran into the problem myself earlier today during a 90-minute long battle.
Hence why he's remaking the game in a new engine, though re-using a lot of the assets. He actually posted an update three days ago, so it's still ongoing. I'll link the Kickstarter here just in case. [LINK]
He also Kickstarted a separate board game based on post-apocalyptic cult warfare, though I don't know too much about it myself since I'm not really a board gamer.
It's interesting to hear he did reach out to you! I think it would be a good idea to reach out to him some time, he seems to be pretty deeply into the game dev scene and he definitely knows a thing or two about running a Kickstarter campaign, he could have all sorts of interesting insights. You two also seem to have similar ideas about wanting to express statements and say things with games as well as push boundaries.
I'm happy to hear you like the blog! Don't worry about not commenting, it's very rare I get comments on there anyway, just hearing someone say they like it already makes it feel worth it! Don't sell yourself short on your humour though, you're funny when you try to be! I laughed at the way you described the holidays during your Christmas and New Year's Eve blogs!
The purple and yellow colour scheme is the scheme I used way back in the old days of Fig Hunter back when you could still manually edit text message colours using tags! I mostly go by purple on sites that let me pick colours these days, but in my heart I am purple and yellow.
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That sounds like a VERY good place to start, so I'm glad you've mentioned this! If he's already aware of me, and he's had clear success at Kickstarter and has links to communities, then I feel that contacting him should maybe be my next step forward if I hope to break out of the cocoon I've trapped myself in. It's all about connections, after all...
That Kickstarter page seems so intimidating though! The sheer amount of information on it, I mean. Do people really want that much to read? Maybe they do; there's definitely a lot I need to learn about all that.
I haven't read it all - though I probably will later when I can devote time to it - so does it mention what he's making this in? He used to use Flash, didn't he?
I'm glad to hear he's still actively creating. It sounds like all my contemporaries from the Flash/MARDEK days have stuck with their courses and done well with it though; I feel like I'm the only one who didn't!
FOR NOW! BUT JUST YOU WAIT!!
I feel like I need to start following more people in general; I don't think I follow anyone on Twitter or anything, largely because comparing my life to others' just gets me down and impairs productivity. But I should start following people and blogs and communities and things...
I remember your purple and yellow comments from the good old days!
He had Kickstarted the game in 2013 I believe, and actually raised $40,000, and released it in 2015, though the game had a lot of weird engine-related bugs such as inventory issues and slowdown. Most have been patched out of the game since, but the slowdown still happens if battles take long enough, I actually ran into the problem myself earlier today during a 90-minute long battle.
Hence why he's remaking the game in a new engine, though re-using a lot of the assets. He actually posted an update three days ago, so it's still ongoing. I'll link the Kickstarter here just in case. [LINK]
He also Kickstarted a separate board game based on post-apocalyptic cult warfare, though I don't know too much about it myself since I'm not really a board gamer.
It's interesting to hear he did reach out to you! I think it would be a good idea to reach out to him some time, he seems to be pretty deeply into the game dev scene and he definitely knows a thing or two about running a Kickstarter campaign, he could have all sorts of interesting insights. You two also seem to have similar ideas about wanting to express statements and say things with games as well as push boundaries.
I'm happy to hear you like the blog! Don't worry about not commenting, it's very rare I get comments on there anyway, just hearing someone say they like it already makes it feel worth it! Don't sell yourself short on your humour though, you're funny when you try to be! I laughed at the way you described the holidays during your Christmas and New Year's Eve blogs!
The purple and yellow colour scheme is the scheme I used way back in the old days of Fig Hunter back when you could still manually edit text message colours using tags! I mostly go by purple on sites that let me pick colours these days, but in my heart I am purple and yellow.
That Kickstarter page seems so intimidating though! The sheer amount of information on it, I mean. Do people really want that much to read? Maybe they do; there's definitely a lot I need to learn about all that.
I haven't read it all - though I probably will later when I can devote time to it - so does it mention what he's making this in? He used to use Flash, didn't he?
I'm glad to hear he's still actively creating. It sounds like all my contemporaries from the Flash/MARDEK days have stuck with their courses and done well with it though; I feel like I'm the only one who didn't!
FOR NOW! BUT JUST YOU WAIT!!
I feel like I need to start following more people in general; I don't think I follow anyone on Twitter or anything, largely because comparing my life to others' just gets me down and impairs productivity. But I should start following people and blogs and communities and things...
I remember your purple and yellow comments from the good old days!