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Director @flippfly , making Whisker squadron: Survivor! Buy it! …

Madison, WI, USA

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Joined April 2011

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Aaron San Filippo

4 months

FINALLY big this update is live after months of hard work from the team. Updated trailer below! And SURPRISE: It's a Steam Daily Deal today with a 25% discount, with the lowest price for the next 6 months at least. Get it.

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Whisker Squadron: Survivor on Steam

A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a ragtag crew of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act...

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Flippfly

4 months

Our campaign mode update is now live on Steam during the game's early access period! Join Olivia and the Whisker Squadron crew on their quest to stop the swarm.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Adventures in procedural leg animation. I will add a leg for every 50 likes this gets.

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2 years

Lots of asteroids!

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

What people THINK it's like owning an indie games company: 1. Spend all day working on your game. 2. Put it up on the store and watch the money come in. Here's what's actually occupied my time for the last few weeks:

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3 years

The definition of an indie game developer is someone who says "This will definitely just take 3-6 months" and then spending 2-3 years on it instead, forever until you die

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Aaron San Filippo

6 years

Something I wished more gamers and indie game fans realized right now: A lot of the people who made your favorite games are honestly struggling to survive and keep making games in 2019.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

ANNOUNCEMENT: Whisker Squadron: Survivor will launch on Steam on August 21! Here's our launch trailer:

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1 year

"I am bethemotep, devourer of the sky. Who has awoken me from my slumber?" He seems very angry. What have we done.

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1 year

Also I regret to inform you that Bethemotep has started to reproduce 😬😬😬

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Someone actually changed their positive review for Whisker Squadron: Survivor to a negative one, because we added some optional accessibility options to the settings screen that included the option to reduce incoming damage a bit and/or slow the game down a tad. Sorry not sorry.

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1 year

This is my job now isn't it

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Also I regret to inform you that Bethemotep has started to reproduce 😬😬😬

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1 year

This is such a bizarre thing to take away from their employees. It costs them virtually nothing to provide, and encourages them to actively participate (from a consumer point of view!) in the ecosystem they're helping to develop.

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"Microsoft is removing the free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees and some aren’t happy about it." "The employee posts even prompted Xbox chief Phil Spencer to respond, noting that he wasn’t aware of the changes and is looking into the situation."

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1 year

I should probably not be allowed on the Steam forums for our game

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Aaron San Filippo

6 months

There are going to be SO MANY new indie games from AAA devs if this goes through.

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Bharat Ramamurti

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6 months

🚨The FTC is finalizing a rule banning noncompete clauses for *all workers* regardless of income or industry. It will increase pay, new business formation, innovation -- and cut health care costs. It's one of the most important things the Biden Administration has done.

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1 year

I finally started playing Tears of the Kingdom over the weekend and my thought after 60 minutes was: I can't believe the fucking audacity of the creators of this game.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

Gamedev secret: All of your favorite games have a line of code somewhere with an arbitrary magic number that's just fed into some formula because it feels right. The variable is called "fudge" and its value is always 0.65

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Aaron San Filippo

11 months

Cal me crazy, but I think $14.99 for 8 hours of fun isn't a bad deal actually.

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Aaron San Filippo

3 years

If you tweet at game developers with really bad advice and insults, you should know that even if they don't out you on blast, they're absolutely mocking you to all of their friends in private.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Bethemotep roams the ever more corrupted landscape, now with one hundred sixty legs. His guttural growls reach the furthest corners and striking terror in the ears of all who hear hear him. What does he want? It's not clear, but a whisper permeates the putrid air: "more legs"

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Aaron San Filippo

5 years

Simultaneously amazed, delighted, and horrified at the amount of work that must have gone into this detail.

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James Shields

5 years

Has there ever been a more satisfying environmental effect?! #Gears5 #XboxShare

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Funny story. I implemented this EXACT thing when I was a junior at Raven, for the X-Men legends II game, for the exact reason Delaney mentions - running against walls. The team hated it, and after days of arguing about it my lead made me remove it.

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Delaney King

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1 year

Quick #Gamedev tip: drive the animation by a character's current speed rather than input speed or control stick magnitude. What this means is characters do not play their run animation loops when pushing into an obstacle like a wall.

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1 year

You know I love the highdef direction we've moved in for the Whisker Squadron games, but I'm always gonna have a soft spot for this blocky "test level" aesthetic. Very tempted to make a whole world out of this for Whisker Squadron: Survivor

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Aaron San Filippo

11 months

Oh boy, this thread from Mike (understandably) ruffled some feathers. It's interesting to see how expectations around game coverage have changed in the last decade... Mike's coming at this from the old-school point of view that paying for coverage is scummy...

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

ANNOUNCEMENT: Whisker Squadron: Survivor is now available worldwide on Steam Early Access for $12.99 (after 20% launch week discount). Here's the launch trailer, link is in the next tweet. Retweets are appreciated!

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Oh god. He got right to the edge and then got his look on his face. It seems like he's gone through some sort of transformation and resigned himself to his fate. I shudder to think what might happen if we doubled his legs (2000 likes) again. I think that's a bad, bad idea.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

It's definitely a weird time to be figuring out how to promote an indie game on social media. Will this Tweet even be seen by my followers, or anyone else? Please let me know! (This is the new 3D hangar for Whisker Squadron: Survivor)

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

This whole thread is interesting, but I think this tweet gets at the key issue: Unity as a software organization has made a series of choices that have got them in a spot where charging professional devs $150 per month per seat isn't enough to sustain their army of engineers.

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1 year

Unity's dilemma: It's extremely expensive to build/support an engine used by millions of devs, across 25+ platforms (+ multiple device generations), producing 100K+ games/yr across various art/render styles

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Aaron San Filippo

6 months

There's a variation on this that's a fun exercise in psychology. A short 🧵: You're making a console game where your bug can walk on the walls and ceilings. Player pushes the stick up, here's what's on screen. Obviously, you want the bug to towards the wall:

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Benji

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There are four enemies nearby. You press lock-on. Which enemy gets targeted and why? A) Closest distance, off-screen B) Second closest, behind player C) Third closest, in player's line of sight D) Farthest distance, but nearest center of camera

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1 year

Uncomfortable truth I think we need to grapple with: This sort of apology absolutely helps perpetuate entitlement among gamers that makes them feel empowered to harass devs when they don't like the latest patch or a design choice.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

The Kickstarter for Flippfly's new game Whisker Squadron is live! Check out our new trailer below, and then help us bring this project to life!

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Aaron San Filippo

10 months

Can we talk about how insanely creepy the Unreal Engine first person sample controller is

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Aaron San Filippo

5 years

I just spent a week making a Starfox-inspired prototype with the Race The Sun engine - here's some footage. If this is a thing you'd like to see exist as a real product, I need you to like or RT this. I can't make promises but genuinely want to know how much interest there is!

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

<1 week before gold > programmer, 3am on a Saturday: "Aha! I just realized we're spending .36 milliseconds every frame rendering pants on characters in cars, but you never see them! I can fix this..." Animator in next cubicle: "Ahh, looks like DriveCar2b_v2_temp isn't needed!"

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This is currently my favorite Cyberpunk bug. Driving around and seeing my characters bare ass t-posing through the car.

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1 year

So many people upset that I called out this review (with no name on it) on my own Twitter feed, as if it's out of line to "shame" a publicly posted review of a product that someone made with the sole purpose of warning others away from our game because of accessibility options.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Someone actually changed their positive review for Whisker Squadron: Survivor to a negative one, because we added some optional accessibility options to the settings screen that included the option to reduce incoming damage a bit and/or slow the game down a tad. Sorry not sorry.

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1 year

Gamedev protip: Did you know that if you move your objects too far from the origin, they'll start to wobble and shake? This is because there are demons that live on the perimeters of virtual space and they'll possess anything that encroaches their domain #madewithunity

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1 year

50 likes = 3 legs. Poor lil guy. He's imbalanced!

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

These are literally videogames. Gamers have invested virtually nothing in them aside from that $30-$60, and they can just get that refund and move on with their lives. Please, can we stop normalizing this idea that we have WRONGED people by making something disappointing.

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1 year

We did this to him and we all share in this responsibility now. He's clearly very distressed and I think he's trying to find the edge of the map to put himself out of his misery.

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1 year

100 likes = 4 legs! Look how happy he is, he just did this lil dance! Next stop, 6 legs at 200 likes. Just imagine how strong that would make him??

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1 year

I had the audacity to say that we as game companies should stop apologizing for missed dates and mediocre launches, and gamers absolutely lost their shit over it. After 700+ replies and 800 QRTs, being added to a list of "gamedev cucks" and being told to die, I muted the thread.

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1 year

We just set our "Gold master" early access builds live on Steam and I'm about to hit Send on the press/influencer keys email. Launch is in 10 days! Here we gooooooo

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Indie publishers these days be like: "Sure, we'll put this game you've spend $400k making on our label! We'll even cross promote it from our other games. That'll be 50% forever please. Sorry we can't help with funding."

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

He totally did it with 6 legs! great job team. He seems pretty happy. I wonder if he could carry that flower pot on his back with 8 legs (300 likes)

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Aaron San Filippo

10 months

Gamers having a totally normal one here on Twitter today

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Aaron San Filippo

8 months

Turns out people would pay a lot more than $2.99 for this, and also it's all we've been working on for a year and a half now and it's no longer a :"tie-in game"🤣

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Aaron San Filippo

2 years

Would you buy a $2.99 Whisker Squadron tie-in game that was basically like "Starfoxs-meets-Vampire Survivors"? i.e. endless on-rails action where you constantly upgrade your ship and survive as long as you can?

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

This flowerpot is in his way. I wonder if he could get past it with 6 legs?

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Aaron San Filippo

3 years

For the love of god, please don't announce your game and put a Steam page up as soon as you commit to development, a thread:

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Sure enough! With 8 legs, carrying that pot was no problem at all, and he's definitely super happy 😃 I wonder what he'd be able to do with 10 legs (400 likes)? Let's find out!

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

This is Whisker Squadron: Survivor, built with the Unity engine. We launched it about a month ago in Steam Early Access. Sales have slowed a bit, but we'll be working on major updates for the next few months at least, hopefully beyond! I'd appreciate your support with a RT 🙏

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Ok but hear me out, what if your ship had legs

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Aaron San Filippo

2 years

People on Tiktok keep telling us we need to smooth out the roll. I dunno what the problem is.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Ok yeah, he's definitely a little scared at these drastic and sudden changes in his body, and he seems to be struggling under his own weight with 14 legs. I guess we've come to far to stop now though! Should we go for 22 legs at 1000 likes?

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Aaron San Filippo

6 years

I'd like to tell you a little story about what it's like to actually run an indie game company. We've been working on this Limited Run release for Race The Sun for some time now. We thought we were on the home stretch around June with getting everything finished...

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Well this is a little awkward and unexpected! He got two more legs for a total of 10, but one is sticking out his front. He seems a little unsettled. I'm sure he'll be fine! Next stop, 14 legs at 600 likes!

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

1. Getting a new accountant and working through a bunch of tax issues, including amending past years to take advantage of some tax credits we missed. 2. Resizing a bunch of images in photoshop for various websites.

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Aaron San Filippo

11 months

Just a perfectly genuine and normal outreach requesting a Steam key for our game. Glad to hear they really love the “captivating story” in our game, which currently consists entirely of a few 1-paragraph character bios.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

I wanted to see if I could make procedurally-generated bosses, for Whisker Squadron. Yep, I think this is gonna work.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

I'll never understand people getting angry over games having options that they don't want to use that don't affect them at all.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

Look at this brilliant sleight of hand a god of war developer pulled off to save animation you see it?

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

I'm so proud of this project. It looks like it has (thankfully) slowed down, the odds of getting to 50k likes seem low, so it looks like Bethemotep will wander off into the sunset.

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1 year

Adventures in procedural leg animation. I will add a leg for every 50 likes this gets.

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Aaron San Filippo

2 years

So.... Hiring my 15 year old daughter to run the Flippfly TikTok account is turning out to be an extremely good move! This is basically the period where she started posting regularly, and that build up is basically *entirely* from Tiktok:

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Aaron San Filippo

7 years

Had "the talk" with my 10yo girl today. You know, the one where they ask if they can get a job making videogames as the "idea person."

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Me: I think these constant corporate apologies are perpetuating a bad relationship between devs and gamers. 100s of Gamers in the replies: shut up and kill yourself you literally work for us as our servants and we decide when you deserve to eat Y’all are proving my point

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

So far: - 3 ppl have told me that yes, devs role is to serve gamers - Someone compared bad games to vehicle manufacturers shipping cars with missing parts. - Someone compared bad games to restaurants food poisoning customers - 2 homophobic slurs Gamers having a normal one here

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

Anyway thanks for listening and since this has gotten a bunch of traction, here's my SoundCloud - I mean my Kickstarter

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Whisker Squadron

Forward scrolling aerial combat with feline heroes in a procedurally-generated world, from the creators of RACE THE SUN

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4 years

3. Capturing footage and recording myself narrating it until 11pm because I found out at the last minute about an event the game was going to in.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

But the ideas that a company has *wronged you* if they make a thing that doesn't live up to your expectations, or that they somehow work for you? Sorry, those are ideas that frankly need to die. Some of the replies and QRTs are absolutely proving my point about entitlement.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

Since I'm confident we'll NEVER get to 2k likes on that tweet (🤞), let me just plug my team's game which also uses procedural generation! Whisker Squadron: Survivor is like "Starfox with some vampire survivors thrown in" and is in Early Access:

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Whisker Squadron: Survivor on Steam

A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a ragtag crew of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act...

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4 years

4. Negotiating contracts with potential collaborators. 5. Spending lots of time in spreadsheets and planning software trying to make sure we'll have money and time to get the project done.

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Aaron San Filippo

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6. Trying to figure out Quickbooks' "cashflow" tool and giving up after 3 hours. 7. Securing a domain name, making a wordpress page, trying to get a video to render in the center for 2 hours.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

I've spent a total of about 5 hours actually doing game development in the last month. Not that I am complaining AT ALL! This has actually been one of the most creatively and professionally fulfilling months I've had in a long time.

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Aaron San Filippo

10 months

My favorite complaints in the "return notes" on Steam for our game so far: 1. We didn't add any achievements that unlock as soon as you open the game. "Please fix"

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Aaron San Filippo

2 years

Hey quick announcement! We just updated the public demo for Whisker Squadron: Survivor with a new level, along with a slew of other updates you can read about here: Give it a try and send us some feedback please!

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

But just consider this when thinking about getting into indie games - if you're doing it for a living, a big part of your time will be spent on things other than making your game.

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Aaron San Filippo

3 years

A thought about crunch: I remember at time at my last studio game job, being in a meeting where we were discussing an ambitious new direction for a game feature late in development. One guy was super excited about the idea (I think it was his idea).

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

I've been working on Whisker Squadron since around May of 2020. Here's a little thread about the design evolution, with progress pictures. On the left, the original prototype, 2 days in. On the right, the current state of the game (which is now 2 games! More on that below)

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1 year

Whisker Squadron: 3 weeks in vs 3 years in:

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

The ironic thing about this particular review: the achievement they’re upset about jumped from ~1% to 10% not because people are using accessibility options, but because we fixed a bug in how the achievement was counted.

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1 year

Finally he manages to stand and proceed on his mysterious journey. Does it make sense to refer to this legion as "he"? What does he want? We still don't know. But the whisper from the putrid air gasps out: "I require Fifty Thousand"

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Aaron San Filippo

6 years

Let me tell you about this thing that happened at a game convention this weekend (Midwest Gaming Classic). This little girl was probably 5 or 6, and she was immediately drawn to our game, Cats Fly Helicopters...

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1 year

We’ve used Unity for 11 years now at Flippfly, and I’ve been teaching kids how to make games with it at a nonprofit for 3. After today’s egregious announcement, I’m actively planning how to move us all to an engine with less hostile business practices. So disappointing.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

8. Writing a newsletter and a Kickstarter update. 9. Talking to lots of people in Twitter DMs.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

10. Talking to a casual games publisher about getting a back-catalog game on store shelves, and reviewing their contract terms. 11. Making a new port of Race The Sun (a game we shipped in 2013) to extend our funding this year.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

I said what I meant. I run a game studio. My first responsibility is to my employees and my family. I make products, I hope people like them. If they don't I'll help them get a refund and accept negative reviews. I am not - and never will be - the "servant" of our fans.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

Would you watch a "5 minute gamedev" youtube series that had a super condensed lesson about some particular topic?

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Aaron San Filippo

10 months

@AnicaSeelie If I finished that puzzle without taking those two pieces apart I would 100% feel like my accomplishment was diminished, like I was a fraud even.

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Aaron San Filippo

4 years

As an indie dev with a game on GOG, this is extremely upsetting. I can't think of a worse message to send to gamers than to tell them they can get games literally cancelled from their store if they complain enough. This is setting a terrible precedent and perpetuating toxicity.

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4 years

Earlier today, it was announced that the game Devotion is coming to GOG. After receiving many messages from gamers, we have decided not to list the game in our store.

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Aaron San Filippo

5 years

Ok I probably shouldn't tempt myself like this, but is this a mashup you'd like to see? If I get 200 likes on this tweet, I will drop everything I'm doing and spend a few days making a StarFox-inspired prototype with the Race The Sun engine.

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Aaron San Filippo

10 months

I bought an old house a few years back and we tore the walls apart to convert a bathroom into a closet, and there were hundreds of razor blazes just sitting there between one of the walls. Who decided this was normal lol

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10 months

Hotels used to have slots in the wall for disposing of razor blades and people were like “where do they go??” and the answer was “in the wall”

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Aaron San Filippo

6 years

Yesterday I learned that in Finland, you can get a $100k speeding ticket if you're really rich. Also top earners pay 65% income tax. Yet the country has lots of millionaires (almost 2% of the population). You can tax the heck out of the rich and they won't flee your country.

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Aaron San Filippo

5 months

Someone made a lengthy negative review of our game, Whisker Squadron: Survivor, 3 days after our E.A. launch last August, saying we didn't understand how to make roguelites. They were... Not entirely wrong! It's our first roguelike/roguelite game. Here's what I've learned since:

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

One thing I've learned is that a lot of gamers have very strong, very misguided beliefs about what "accessibility" means. I'm still learning about this myself! But somehow, some players got this ridiculous idea that accessibility options aren't allowed to affect game difficulty.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

We just sent out beta access Steam keys to all of our Kickstarter backers for Whisker Squadron: Survivor! The game is still wrapping up, but we're looking forward to getting lots of feedback from our earliest supporters 😺

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Aaron San Filippo

2 years

Y'kno, if all us Unity devs paying hundreds of dollars in monthly subscription fees instead put that into a Godot development fund that was 100% spent on actually improving the engine for game developers, I bet we'd have a pretty sweet Unity alternative in short order.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

But I think the thing that impresses me more is that this design direction got greenlit at all. The Zelda series has always been super tight, with carefully designed puzzled that can be mostly solved in one way. The way they just decided to upend all of that is bonkers.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

@cesarle76883429 nooooo this is a very manual process haha

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

The children, meanwhile, have grown as well.

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Aaron San Filippo

1 year

In the 2nd Shrine, the game hinted that I should learn about Fusing objects in my inventory to solve a puzzle. Instead, I glued 3 rocks together and climbed them to get over a barrier. And the game is just like "cool".

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Aaron San Filippo

11 months

If there’s one thing I’ve picked up from twitter gamedev discourse this past week, it’s that different groups have VERY different ideas about game content creation and paid content:

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