So today is voting day here in the UK. Perfect time to play Politics before the content becomes dated haha. Its amazing to me that this game has had almost 20,000 views so far. So thanks to everyone who has supported it.
But if you've already played that or aren't a fan of political humour, maybe you'll be interested in my newest game Pumpkin's Sky Tea...
This is a simple game I made last week for Black Cat Jam, a new game jam where people have made games focused around black cats. I have my own black cat so figured it'd be a nice pallete cleanse project to make following the crude political humour displayed in Politics.
In the game you are tasked with buying and selling teas from other cat to turn a profit. You can then use your earnings to buy photos of cats. Its basically that old drug dealing game except with cats and family friendly content.
Theres also a horitizontal shooter segment where you fly between locations.
its a simple but chill game and its doing really well currently in the game jam it is competing in. Fingers crossed it might even win!
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In other news I've been invited to show off my work at Owls Interactive's Game Developers Expo in a couple of weeks. So you can expect to see some photos of my stand following the event. I'll be showcasing some of my previous games as well as some things I'm currently working on.
I'm very excited to be a part of the event. I'm told to expect a lot of students and indie game developers looking to make a name for themselves, so I hope that if they do jump on here to check out my work later they'll stick around and share their own projects themselves. I'm of the opinion that Newgrounds is the best platform for indie game devs and hobby developers, simply because the community here legitimately wants to interact with each other and grow together. To me its our greatest strength and a support network like this one is one of the most important things you can have with this hobby.
cacodayum
Looks great, man. Congrats on the expo invite! Also, I see you been on NG a long time & sorta migrated away and then came back. Thanks for coming back.
Chris
Glad to be back!
When I went off to University I ended up being too busy for Newgrounds and then after this I started a game development studio in an attempt to turn my hobby into a job. We did reasonably well for a couple of years but the thing I learned was that at the end of the day the money just isn't there in game dev. However I still came away with this mind set drilled into me that anything I make should be profitable which meant I never actually made anything because this sapped the fun right out of it.
Through most of my 20s I thought I'd never make a game again, it was too much hassle I thought. But then a couple of years ago I had this realisation that no, you don't need to make money with games or even make games that are marketable. You just need to make the games that you want to make personally and then even if noone else likes it at least you had fun making it. Of course I like when my games find an audience, but I'm in a place where if they don't I'm ok with that too.
I'm finding that this is actually an approach that results in games people actually enjoy playing because theres no temptation to chase tired trends with this approach, and whilst fads come and go what people really want are original games with care and passion put into them.
I'm considering making a commercial game soon as well, however I will never leave Newgrounds again, and this commercial game will still have some kind of presence for on Newgrounds either as a demo or some other kind of limitation. But even if I do this I will still post original content here hopefully at the rate I do currently.
Ultimately I am back for good and I will only stop posting stuff to this site when either the site goes offline or I die, whichever comes first.