September is a strange month, all boys and girls going back to school, the wheater changes and in general I feel inspired to make new games 🙂
Just one year ago I was finishing my game “The Goalkeeper” and now I just received the new voiceovers to complete the interview section.
I don’t know where I’m heading to with that game: I want to add for sure more soccer related elements like new competition (cups, national teams etc) but also more “life simulation” elements.
For example I am thinking about adding the possibility to choose the goalkeeper living place, his car (you know those soccer guys have always luxurious cars!) and in general put some choices also for his private life.
This would let me add more strategy, talking about money. Now the goalkeeper salary doesn’t matter when changing team. If I add those new elements, the player could also watch for the team that makes the best offer, to be able to continue his luxurious life-style!

Just got the quote for the car repair cost… over 4000 euros!! 🙁
Crap, I now need to think if is better to repair that one or buy a new one… anyway can’t complain about Toyota at all . Their cars are of absolute quality, I wonder what would have happened with the accident if I was driving my old Fiat Punto instead… 😀

It’s fun when I see new developers who don’t even give a try to sell their games themselves, but just rely on a “online publisher”.
Sure there are advantages in using them: but why don’t you EVEN try ONE time to sell YOUR games yourself? it seems fun for me. For years developers complained about shark-publisher (of course not everyone is like that) and now that they have the possibility to sell independently, they don’t even try.
Is even more fun when they don’t make casual games but RPG/Strategy/Simulation titles. It is well known that you don’t really need a publisher in such cases because of the particular niche.
Good examples are Positech Games and their space/political simulations, Spidweb RPGs and well if I may, I could even include my small sport simulation 🙂
For me not even trying is absolutely silly. You can try and be a complete failure at marketing, Ok then you can give up. But how do you know if you don’t ever try??

After discussing it a bit in indiegamer forum, I’ve changed my anime game graphics a bit, to have less “sexy” pictures.
It is so fun for me to talk about sex when you just see a girl with sexy dress (NOT naked)… But I’m not american so I don’t know. I know for sure that here in europe is quite common to see full naked women/men during tv commercials…!
Also I think it matters a lot the texts that accompanies the image. My game will still contain glamour and romantic situation. Girls and boys kiss each other when they are in love, I think there’s nothing wrong talking about this.
I think I’ll put it in an ironic way, similarly to what happens in the popular Leisure Suit Larry series. Still I’ll rate it teen+, even if I’m sure that at least here in europe the game could be played by 12-13 years old without problems…!!

Damn 🙁
Sometimes life is really hard. Yesterday was driving in a dark road and a cat crossed it – I had just the reflexes to brake and avoid investing the poor creature, but then I lost control of the car! and I crashed on a guard-rail (those metallic plates nearby the roads).
We did nothing, not even a scratch: but the car…! Oh my god 🙁
Don’t know yet how much it will cost to repair it, but I am even considering to resell it and get a new one… I’m not really much lucky with cars 🙁