It’s fun because many people in the shareware games industry behave like old friends, always giving (wrong) advice. Surely there are some that are really helpful, and give true advice, but I’ve noticed an alarming increase of people simply telling “do this” and you then realize (1 month later, 1 year later) that it was obviously a lie (that is, was better if you do exactly the opposite).
\nOthers simply ignore you, if they believe that now they are “big developers” maybe only because they got lucky and had one game published by a portal. Was fun one time when I asked a “friend” if he knew a new portal, and his reply was obviously “no, never heard of it” (thinking that maybe I was so dumb that couldn’t use google). When I showed him the webpage of that portal with ONE OF HIS GAMES THERE, he just pretended to realize “ah you mean THAT PORTAL, isn’t really a portal, is just a small website…blabla” (yes a small website with google pagerank of 7?).
\nSo what I’m saying to new developers: shareware games is a business. And like in all kind of business there will always be honest people and others that aren’t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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