From: Dennis Payne <dulsi@identicalsoftware.com>
To: Ismael Luceno <ismael@iodev.co.uk>
Cc: Lista general FSFLA <discusion@fsfla.org>,
Michael McMahon <michael@fsf.org>,
discussion@lists.fsfe.org, libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org,
committee@freesoftware.org.au, kreyren@rixotstudio.cz
Subject: Re: [FSFLA] LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:03:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <afdf5ec711f3a2c84a1a0b7a1510c0b0bbd2a3ef.camel@identicalsoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YeGWDnFMcfgKHVzm@pirotess>
You did ask an actual indie game developer. I chose "We" in my
statement because I was including myself in the group of game
developers. I recently made Anagramarama available for sale on itch.io
to gain funds for free software game development. I also have a
merchandise shop where I've started trying to make money for free
software game development.
If you want commercial closed source game developers, I've done that
two. I worked on the game Devil's Whiskey. I enjoyed the experience
and made money from it but don't particular enjoy closed source
development so I haven't done it since.
If you want someone who has entered game jams, I've entered two. I
would like to enter more but haven't found the time unfortunately.
If you want more game developers, I've hung out on irc channels for
gamedev and godot and talked to other developers about game jams. I've
also gone to a few Game Developer Conferences and Boston Festival of
Indie Games. I've attended the Postmortem game developer group in
Boston.
If you want more free software game developers, I frequent the
freegamedev.net forum. I also modify a lot of free software games and
generally contact about developer about it.
Feel free to reach out to other game developers. I enjoy hearing about
why people make games.
On Fri, 2022-01-14 at 16:26 +0100, Ismael Luceno wrote:
> On 07/Jan/2022 18:23, Dennis Payne wrote:
> <...>
> > Most people developing games would love to make a living as game
> > developers. However I disagree that most people developing games
> > are
> > motivated by it. We are usually motivated by a game we want to
> > make. We
> > might think it could make money but usually it is the desire for
> > the
> > game first.
> >
> > People join National Novel Writing Month for the same reason. They
> > have
> > an idea for a novel and want to write it. Some will pursue
> > publishing
> > it. Some will self publish perhaps even knowing it won't be a giant
> > seller. Some will just give it away.
>
> Yes, it could be the case, but I wouldn't count on it.
>
> But instead of guessing, we could just ask actual indie game
> developers.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-29 6:07 LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament! Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-29 17:30 ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-29 18:07 ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30 4:28 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-30 7:13 ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30 16:53 ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-31 4:26 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-31 5:32 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-02 6:59 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-02 7:32 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-03 16:39 ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-04 8:43 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-05 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-05 5:06 ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-05 5:56 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-05 9:21 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-07 4:21 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-07 9:49 ` Florian Snow
2022-01-07 9:53 ` [FSFLA] " Ismael Luceno
2022-01-07 23:23 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-09 19:11 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-14 15:26 ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-18 23:03 ` Dennis Payne [this message]
2022-01-19 13:27 ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-20 3:12 ` Sebastian Silva
2022-02-14 16:11 ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-07 10:32 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-05 10:38 ` [FSFLA] " Ismael Luceno
2022-01-05 14:37 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-05 15:10 ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-05 19:48 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-06 15:11 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-06 17:22 ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-04 3:01 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-04 8:45 ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-31 5:33 ` Theodore Somers
2022-01-01 4:47 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-01 9:07 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-01 16:14 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-01 16:18 ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30 8:34 ` Yasuaki Kudo
2021-12-30 9:33 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2021-12-30 23:35 ` John Sullivan
2021-12-31 1:14 ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-30 9:00 ` Félicien Pillot
2021-12-31 4:26 ` Richard Stallman
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