Development diary of Celso Riva

Archive for September, 2005

Feeling at home

Thursday, September 29th, 2005 Posted in general | 1 Comment »

Some days are really strange. Today I came back home (to my parents home) after 2 weeks in my new house (about 2h of driving). I was just arrived, eating some delicious "Lasagne" made by my mother, when my brother ...

Best time/situation to start…?

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 Posted in general | 3 Comments »

Many newbies ask this question: my answer is "as soon as you can". Seriously, there's absolutely no reason to delay. If you're still living with your parents, that's the best situation ever. Later if you go living on your own, you'll realize ...

Affiliates or… ?

Monday, September 26th, 2005 Posted in general | No Comments »

I talked with another dev and he was very pissed by yet another affiliate using the infamous "steal google queries" tecnique :) What is that? easy, you search for the best keywords for a game and make a webpage with the ...

Lies don't pay

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 Posted in general | No Comments »

A thing not many indie devs notice is that some (not going to make names) tend to "inflate" their figures a bit :) Like saying they got 5.000 daily visitors, 50 sales/day and so on. I remember getting a banner on ...

The ents revolt!

Saturday, September 17th, 2005 Posted in general | No Comments »

The summer has ended and I've seen with disappointment that even this year many woods were burned by men (not accidentally). This really sucks. The world is lucky that the might Ent exist only in my upcoming Magic Stones game! ...