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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 came home in a hurry because he had to play a match of 5-a-side soccer [...]

Sep 29th, 2005 | Filed under general

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 how easy is to waste whole morning or afternoons for “trivial tasks” like [...]

Sep 28th, 2005 | Filed under general

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 game affiliated, using all the best SEO systems. So for example for a search like [...]

Sep 26th, 2005 | Filed under general

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 a site, claiming they had 10.000 daily visitors, for one month. Well I had less [...]

Sep 22nd, 2005 | Filed under general

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! It’s one of my favourite avatar in the game because of his special attack, the [...]

Sep 17th, 2005 | Filed under general