There is a planet called Purmantee III where the crew is going on shore leave. At one point, Ortegas references a sandwich with the fries in it. ššš
Licensing Producer, TMNT: Tactical Takedown. Founder of F-Squared LLC (www.FSquared.biz), consultant, lover of indie devs. Co-host, @VirtualEconCast. Author, The GameDev Business and Budgeting Handbooks. Mike@fsquared.biz michaelfutter.com
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There is a planet called Purmantee III where the crew is going on shore leave. At one point, Ortegas references a sandwich with the fries in it. ššš
The latest episode of Strange New Worlds has a huge Pittsburgh joke that is cracking me up.
If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up
This sums up this payment NSFW fiasco pretty well.
We all need to take this seriously. Payment processors are serving as extrajudicial arbiters of speech. This cannot be allowed to continue.
this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are
www.polygon.com/steam-visa-m...
Dafuq
I am a Monkeyās Paw incarnate
Let's hope none of my other jokes manifest... XD
Let it be known that @futterish.fsquared.biz fully predicted a Golden Gun CE *hours ago*, as a joke
It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
We are in the upside-down.
That's where we are... yup. This kind of norm-busting is going to have long-reaching impact on the next generation.
If there isn't someone inside BOTH of these companies banging a wooden spoon against a pot, they are in for a world of hurt.
I would like to stop living in unprecedented times. I would like to trade these in for "boring and predictable."
So much winning that I'm exhausted.
Apparently this generation is going with the "less is less" approach to mid-gen refreshes. Yikes.
Thatās Video Game Show Business, baybeeeeeee.
I have been waving my arms like a crazy person about this.
That's right... PAX Pox, coffee, NyQuil and a double negative! LET'S GO BABY
I can neither endorse nor condemn this formatting, but the message is sound. As you were.
I am the fast food of reply guys. You get it cheap and fast, but itās never good.
PRAISE BE TO THE ELDER PLANE GOD, FOR WITHIN HIS BOSOM WE SOAR AND IN HIS WOMB OUR POSSESSIONS ARE PROTECTED.
It's also part of a transmedia project. Excited to chat again with Chase, the mind behind the project. If you're into card dueling games that break out of the "draw energy, play energy, expend energy to play more cards" loop, check it out.
We'll talk about this on the next podcast, but @amandafarough.ca and I had a chance to learn a relatively new CCG called Hadrai'da: Ascendant. It's a clever game that we picked up quickly. It's more of a first-person game (like @playvaria.bsky.social). worldofkylia.com/hadraida-asc...
I love you so much ššš
Thank yoooooou!
As soon as my butt connects with a seat inside the great airplane god, I will be very very asleep.
Yāall. The Fifth Wind is the one that heralds the coming of the old gods. This is why nature requires us to sleep.
I DID NOT SLEEP. I HAVE PREPARED MYSELF FOR THE COMING OF THE GREAT AIRPLANE GOD. HE SOARS SO THAT WE MAY REST INSIDE HIS BOSOM.
The Haunting of Joni Evers store.steampowered.com/app/2828590/...
I have a game participating in Scream Fest!
And my pro bono schedule will open back up toward the end of September. I want to make sure I keep that going.
Iāll have additional availability toward the end of September to take on new work. If you need business, strategy, ops, and/or marketing support, please get in touch. :)
In the past six weeks, Iāve worked with 10 pre-funding indie teams, locked down three contracts (not including the work Iām doing with Causeway Studios), launched a game on Xbox and Switch, had a GI feature, & connected a number of devs with potential funding opps. Feels good, man. Feels good.
Holy crap
Thatās a wrap on PAX West 2025! Heckin great weekend!
You love to see it. Click through for photos and videos.
Last day of PAX! @futterish.fsquared.biz and I are gonna go wander Summitās tabletop and then Iām gonna be helping out at the Terrible Lizards booth in the afternoon. Hope to see you!
I am extremely into this.
Best wishes to all future indie devs that want to launch above $19.99 for a while =/
The amount of people I saw jump out of their skin at other booths this weekendā¦ this idea wasnāt very cash money of them. Really triggering for a ton of folksā¦ especially those of us who grew up in THAT kind of loud household.
It is def on the list!
Good good!
Awwwwww. Love this. I think? Good tears? Cathartic tears??
SO. GOOD.
Excite!
Uh oh. @amandafarough.ca got me hooked on Frieren.
Really proud of this episode, and how raw it gets. Game development is filled with complicated stories! Iām glad weāre telling more of them!!
100%!
Will do!!!
@dirtlord77.bsky.social hiiiiiii! Iām standing right next to you.
Game dev mom and dad @futterish.fsquared.biz reporting for PAX Day 2! Iāll be floating around at the Terrible Lizards booth (but DM/text if you are coming by so I can make sure Iām there) AND you can see the panel Iām on at 2pm at Leaf (about making friends on the internet!!)
PAX DAY 2!!!
Going to bed grateful for this industry, my friends and beloved colleagues, and the wonderful teams that I have the honour of being on. I love video games.
Yāall. YāALL. I think it was a bug. Crashing into an enemy should be a good thing. š
Thatās a full minute better than our team has ever done. What a kid.
Now come beat HIS time at our booth at PAX Rising ā you gonna let a kid show you up??? (I am, but heās MY kid so I get to sit back and just be proud.)
The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.
This game f$&@s
Okay, but youāre amazing.
Can indigenous people form their own ICE and evict these colonizers?
This is the bravery and the solidarity we need right now.
We have this in our living room. Itās great!
This man is projecting his own tragic struggles with narcotics onto an entire population of people whose lives are made better (or, in some cases, functional at all) through advanced pharmaceutical care. Again, this government is hellbent on committing murder. This is murder.
I havenāt seen my eldest this excited about a video game in ages. Canāt wait for her to dive back in.
Well well well
My personal fave is Schvingle.
I also never managed to get my hands on Spotlight and Blackout (white and black dragons) from Trap Team. They were released long after the game came out in a very short run. My kingdom for a re-release of these games that has in-game unlockable toy sets or IF THEY MUST... paid DLC (see: Starlink).
Just dug our entire Skylanders collection out of the attic for our eldest. She wants to go through them all with her boyfriend. Sadly, I don't think we ever got a lot of the Superchargers figures (we do have the Nintendo ones) or any of the Imaginators figures.
If we lived in a world that made any sense, this would be the definitive end of ChatGPT and everything like it
I already get angry at these careless tech brosā¦ whatās beyond āangry?ā
Turning this tech loose on the public with no equivalent of a drug trial is creating exactly the public health crisis anyone with a brain predicted.
I didnāt think I could be angrier at this garbage tech.
Never a good sign when a publisher starts deaccessioning IP.
Well lookie here. The latest print edition of @gameinformer.com showed up and here I am reading @futterish.fsquared.biz 's dive into the gaming market. Right there, on actual paper!
I look forward to it!
Thatās super kind of you to say! If you ever need to chat about business or marketing stuff, please let me know! Always glad to schedule a chat!
For some, itās a lot of data. For others itās being smart enough to get the hell out of the way when everyoneās attention is going to be elsewhere for a week plus because of one or more huge releases.
General media and creator attention (sucking oxygen out of the room) Beyond that: Player personas Wishlist numbers Genre tags Sentiment tracking (yes, even indies) A big part of what I do is work with studios on GTM planning, including choosing a release date for best chance at success.
Whether you end up working with me more in-depth or get everything you need from a 30-minute chat, my goal is to help you succeed. I'm always happy to point teams in the right direction. :)
Additionally, with this project (mostly) winding down, I'll have some additional time on my hands for pro bono, contract, and fractional work. Let's chat about your business, figure out where the pain points are, and make a plan together.
Iām not creative! Itās michaelsfutter š
Does it count if Iām just there to watch Chit videos?
If youāve never worked in a platformās back end (stop giggling), they are complex, convoluted, and confusing. Learning one of them requires patience and documentation. Learning multiple? Thatās a full-time job. Super grateful to the two people on our team who stepped up to get our game out!
Didnāt announce this yesterday, because we were ironing out some tiny details, butā¦ TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: TACTICAL TAKEDOWN IS OUT ON SWITCH IN EUROPE! Todayās a good day to give your release manager(s) a hug. This aspect of game development often has āunsung heroā status.
Forever and ever?
My banana reminds me that puns are a-peel-ing
The mainstream press has been complicit in this coup. About time someone in the Democratic party called it out.
They are trying to commit murder.
Itās a failure of leadership on both sides. While some of it has to do with the market, Bungie was at the forefront of Games as a Service. They had an early mover advantage. Destiny was the first shared world shooter. Success was theirs to lose.
And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
I canāt believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isnāt working www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More like vibrations... of the wooden roller coaster falling apart underneath the car.
"By far the biggest expense when making games is salaries." Whose salaries?