Reading List
I've written a bunch of stuff over the years, so here's an organized "reading list" of the most popular and important articles on this blog.
"So You Want To... " series
- So You Want to Compete with Roblox
- So You Want To Compete With Steam
- So You Want To Compete with Steam Part 2: Epic, Discord, Kartridge, and RobotCache
Popular
- Land Speculators will kill your game's growth
- The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past
- Wash your game's windows
- Oil it or Spoil it
- Optimizing Tower Defense for FOCUS and THINKING
- Piracy and the Four Currencies
- Bounds, Bottlenecks, and Digital Marketing
Various
- Game engines on Steam: The definitive breakdown
- The Evolution of Game Genres: NES, Gameboy, and SNES
- How Porting to the PSVita improved performance everywhere else
- Flash is Dead, long live OpenFL!
- The Stegosaurus Tail: when "The Long Tail" grows spikes
- On Procedural Death Labyrinths
- Tourette Quest 2.0
- Follow Your Dreams! ...or maybe don't
Business (tag)
- So You Want To Compete With Steam
- We don't actually know when many Steam games were first released
- "Four Currencies" series
- Follow Your Dreams!...Or Maybe don't
- Was Localizing Defender's Quest worth it?
- Freeloadable content - an alternative to paid DLC
- The Holy Grail of Digital Distribution
Design: (tag)
- Optimizing Tower Defense for FOCUS and THINKING
- On Procedural Death Labyrinths
- Making a videogame cover that doesn't suck
- Tourette Quest 2.0
- A Status Effect Stacking Algorithm
- RPG's, challenge, and grinding
- RPG's and Suckage
- Upgrades, Equipment, and Skill Trees
- Don't mess with RPG's
- Rebooting the RPG
"Doing an HD Remake the Right Way" series
- Doing an HD Remake the Right Way: Chrono Trigger Edition
- Doing an HD Remake the Right Way: FFVI Edition
- Doing an HD Remake the Right Way
"Four Currencies" series (tag)
- G2A, Piracy, and the Four Currencies
- Ad Blockers and the Four Currencies
- Piracy and the Four Currencies
- Piracy and the Four Currencies Part 2
- Pay What You Want and the Four Currencies
- Free 2 Play and the Four Currencies
DQ Sales stats: (tag)
(with # of total copies sold if mentioned in article)
- 230,000 -- Brave NewSteam World
- 195,000 -- Was Localizing Defender's Quest Worth it?
- The Stegosaurus Tail: when "The Long Tail" grows spikes
- Steam Linux Sale: Results
- 40,451 -- Defender's Quest: By the Numbers: Part 2
- 13,846 -- Defender's Quest: By the Numbers
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Happy Reading!