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Fall/Thanksgiving 2018 Sales

Fall/Thanksgiving 2018 Sales

American Thanksgiving and Black Friday are upon us. It can be a little difficult to figure out what's on sale where, so we're providing a per-storefront summary. All our video games come with Steam keys, even if if you aren't purchasing directly on Steam, and all discounts are 60% off. ...

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Remastered "The Majesty of Colors" Coming Soon

Remastered "The Majesty of Colors" Coming Soon

In 2008, Gregory created "(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors", a game about love, loss, and balloons where you embody a sinuous creature from beneath the ocean who discovers the beauty and hazards of the surface world.

Today we're excited to announce that we're bringing ...

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UX Updates Coming to Ossuary

Ossuary—which is currently 50% off on Steam, and will be 50% off next week on FireFlower—is getting an update soon to provide some user experience improvements.

One in particular that we noticed in watching folks play on YouTube is that colorblind players find the floor puzzles impossible to solve without brute forcing a solution through trial and error.

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Integrating the Indie Press Services

Integrating the Indie Press Services

As indie devs, we leverage a variety of services to keep track of keys we've given out, press we contact or want to contact, vendors we've talked to, customers we've interacted with, and fellow developers/artists/etc. we follow.

Here's our list:

  • Highrise: a free-for-small-setups Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) in which we store customer, press, and vendor contacts and email discussions. Highrise was originally developed by the makers of Basecamp and Campfire, and still has that clean UX.
  • Promoter: a free-for-tiny-setups system to track press mentions of your games.
  • presskit(): a free, self-hosted PHP tool to create a presskit for your company and its games — descriptions, screenshots, videos, press quotes, awards, etc.
  • distribute(): a free, centrally-hosted tool that houses game keys and provides an interface through which press can request them. Requests are vetted to ensure they aren't from randos, and shows the reach/audience size of the folks requesting keys.

All four of these services can talk to each other, but it's not always the clearest to figure out how.

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