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was too fun reading a post in indiegamer forums made by the friends at Sakura Games they announced a sort of casual game name generator online! you can check it here if you want to have some fun:
http://www.sakuragames.com/casualgamenamegenerator.php

that one is better than the Kasual Kit joke…! 🙂

Was fun reading on indiegamer forums the usual newbie talking about the game made with RPG Maker XP, Aveyond, defining it as “easy money”.
I think that is one of the biggest offenses you can do to a developer. I know, before I was like him when first I saw the various casual games “bah crap games” I thought.
“I can make one in 1 month” and so on. I know because I was thinking that myself too.
THEN when I started trying seriously to make them… oh well! even if you use a middleware solution, is still quite HARD to come up with an interesting story, and bugs can be present even using a script system (like plot holes or worse blocks so you are stuck and can’t go on anymore).
So only because someone used a toolkit or a gamemaker tool, don’t think is “EASY”. Nothing is easy as it seems 🙂

I’ve recently replaced my old hosting for .net domain with a new (faster) european server, so all people from europe will be able to download faster!
I’m think of adding a ip detection on download page so it automatically download from this one if you come from a european country…

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 🙂