Yes I must admit that the newsletter signup trick that I read on indiegamer was right. Even asking other developers, their signup rate increased a lot.
The trick consist on placing on same download page a form to enter the email to signup for the newsletter. Some even put a button “download” just right to the inputtext field, so that the signup is always optional but it may mislead the user to think that he actually MUST put a valid email to get the download (like some portals are doing right now).
I just put the signup a bit below the server selection, because I want to clearly state that the signup is entirely optional. I don’t think that getting uninterested people signup can benefit anyway to get sales… maybe I’m wrong 🙂

I really like Goodsol blog, expecially when he posts cats pictures (yes I’m more a cat person, even if I like dogs too). Today I’ve decided to fight back and I post a picture taken from a kids game I made some years ago, Ignazio The Frog two nice cats I found on a trip in Austria.
No I didn’t took them with me, since they had someone nearby that was taking care of them pretty well 🙂

That’s the biggest bullshit I’ve ever heard 😀
A guy in forums, the one who made Motorama has 60Gb/day of downloads from warez sites. That will surely help him!
The PC market retail sales are going down like never before. Surely the fact that any game is easily available to download from BitTorrent, will help the market to survive.
In the meanwhile consoles are going up. But don’t be fooled – the fact that is much harder to pirate a console game, doesn’t have any impact!

Yes sure! 😀

Yes, it seems that for some people, everything is just an excuse for NOT working on your projects. Is really weird that for some reason I never read any of those “very useful” blogs or articles about personal motivation and still released quite some good titles in just 2 years.
Is just waste of time. Fire up Visual C, Photoshop or whatever. Do even some marketing looking for new links or ideas on internet, but don’t just post in forums or read stupid blogs that will promise you’ll become a living god in short time…
I really think that motivation should come spontaneously from within yourself. Is not reading bullshits like “earn 1 million in 30 seconds” that you’ll find motivation at all.
Many people are in indie business NOT for passion, but just for money. And curiously I think that those are the one who will earn less money in the end… 😀

Yes in the end I had to give up my goal to not buy anything more to heat my room!
I bought this ifrared stove, just 22 euros, it consumes 400W though.
Not very cheap, but is like having 4 normal lamps of 100W turned on… anyway I couldn’t work anymore here without at least 19-20°C!
This morning when I woke up I had 15°C LOL…!